According to the Office of Budget Responsibility, The UK public sector will pay just £70 per person per year for net zero. For comparison, the annual cost of a Spotify premium individual plan is £155.98. That's right, net zero will cost less than half as much as us all having Spotify without ads.

#CommunityEnergy initiatives will play a vital role in our future energy system, but access to funding can be a challenge. We're sharing our top tips and resources on how to fund your projects: 💰 Grants 📢 Crowdfunding 💸 Raising shares 🏦 Institutional investment Find out more 👇 #UpTheEnergy

At last week's @absw.bsky.social community assembly I was delighted to hear that @dhrutishah.bsky.social takes a takeaway box with her everywhere to put leftovers in. I do the same! Especially useful when at networking events when food doesn't get finished off. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

"As the public overestimate the costs of net zero by up to 14,000%, the idea that decarbonisation is an unaffordable luxury needs to be put to bed. It is an unavoidable investment in a safer future and it would be cheap at any price." - @charliejgardner.bsky.social

Why are climate activists protesting a climate conference? www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

NEW: Boris Johnson failed to declare to parliament a gift of private jet flights from the same cryptobillionaire, Christopher Harborne who gave £5m to Nigel Farage, leaked documents reveal. New #HarborneReceipts investigation from @thenerve.news. 🔗 below 1/

Reading @dereklowe.bsky.social's piece, I don't get why US industry-oriented science isn't fighting Trump's cuts to and politicisation of research. Can't they see the damage, now and in the future? www.science.org/content/blog... They, and anyone who can, must comment on the new regulations.

Intrigued by mining #hydrogen rather than making it from fossil fuels or splitting water but the first hard data from a big mine show it produces about a millionth of the 100 Mt current global demand. That's not sufficient. Is it worth mining, even? #chemistry cen.acs.org/articles/104...

It was inevitable, wasn't it🙄 Of course the Telegraph would run with something like this👇 So let's remove some of the rose-tinted spectacles and also look at some of that data comparing 1976 with modern heat waves Because the 1976 nostalgia porn is wearing a bit thin at this stage 🧵1/23

In the UK this paper title evokes the opposite meaning to that intended

Science writers and journalists are essential in revealing the truth that is getting ever more elusive today. As such I'm delighted that our community can propose sessions for next year's World Conference of Science Journalism, being held in London, here: registration.wcsj2027.org/wcsj27/call-...

‘In any catalysis problem, there are lots of variables, and it’s a case of seeing how you’re varying them,’ says Graham Hutchings from the University of Cardiff. @andyextance.bsky.social www.chemistryworld.com/features/ai-...

Understanding the molecular conformations involved in catalysis & building hypotheses to test experimentally has been ‘the privilege of the computational chemist’, says Varinia Bernales. @andyextance.bsky.social #ChemSky #catalysis #AI www.chemistryworld.com/features/ai-...

Please book by this Thursday June 11th for the July 2nd assembly - it's going to be an amazing event. We had our pre-event briefing with @wblau.bsky.social last week, and he's got lots of insightful things with which to inspire the broader discussion. I'm very excited! See you there hopefully!

The extent to which the public has been told to worry about the recycling of wind turbine blades intrigues me. The fossil fuel industry is leaving us with planetary wreckage.

Three months since the Iran War started, what have countries done to deal with fossil-fuel disruptions? We took a deep dive looking at policy changes made now and how deep shocks in history have led to profound changes in the energy mix. Please read and share! 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

This is a great talk by @thierryaaron.bsky.social. The questions are also great. youtu.be/nwyTO4rg-Os?... PS: The shoutout to my Tice interview was a pleasant surprise, thanks!

Seeing lots of headlines about the Iran/US situation ending soon, but it feels like so much gaslighting. If you feel similar, I recommend checking the daily @thestudyofwar.bsky.social analysis. In summary: don't get your hopes up. understandingwar.org/research/mid...

I wrote this a year ago. Seems quite relevant again. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The media and science's role in it has shifted several times in my career. I'm concerned this time is the worst - which is why I'm glad to be running an assembly to discuss the issues - see below. There are two things about the NPR situation that catch my attention: www.npr.org/2026/05/18/n... 1/3

Fascinating glimpse of a little considered chemical consequence the post-oil future here. Our economies rely on naphtha, essentially a byproduct of fuel production, constituting 5% of crude oil, but responsible for basically all the other useful chemicals. 🧪 1/2 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

#Climate criminals in your refrigerator: The police are chasing criminals selling shady chemicals – and those chemicals might be in your kitchen. I talk to Environment Investigation Agency, which is chasing them, in my new Chemical and Engineering News story. You can read it at bit.ly/hfccrime

Encouraging news from study where local communities and individuals in London test their own tap water, finding PFAS levels in the nanogram per litre (ng/L) range, ie one part per trillion. For context, 1 trillion seconds is roughly 31,700 years. pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... 🧪

With jobs going at the BBC and Wired UK closing down, this discussion is set to be essential. We've had a healthy number of bookings for this but do still have space for more - join us! #journalism 🧪

In my latest @chemistryworld.com World piece, I report on how science and global politics intertwine in the rivalry over the chemicals used as the cathode in the electric vehicle batteries. You can read more at bit.ly/Carcat. 🧪 1/3

As someone whose late partner was under 50 when she died of cancer, and a science writer, for me the i has the best coverage I've seen on the new paper looking at the factors behind the rise in cancer in young people. 🧪inews.co.uk/news/health/cancer-rates-under-50s-rising-no-one-sure-why-4382878

Just two days to go until the launch of the Ethical Reporting Guidelines. Hosted by PJP co-ordinator and media justice & rights campaigner @lizpendleton.bsky.social the panel + Q&A covers how handling sensitive topics with ethical rigor means the difference between life or death. buff.ly/7rYlq67

#JournoRequest I am working on a story for @iflscience.com on the NASA cuts in Trump's budget proposal 🔭🧪 Is your mission directly affected, or will your research be affected if a mission is ended or cancelled? I want to hear from you; we will keep you anonymous. DM me or signal: DrCarpineti.59

After choking on fumes in a traffic jam, scientist Karim Zaghib suffered a life-threatening asthma attack. ‘From that day forward, I felt a strong conviction that I must help the world rid itself of fossil fuels,’ he says. @andyextance.bsky.social www.chemistryworld.com/features/the...

Huge congrats @sarahfinch.bsky.social - richly deserved! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A HUGE, narrative-breaking moment for the UK car market New EVs are now cheaper than petrol cars on average, says Autotrader Last yr CCC said price parity was due by 2028 – and it's already here And EVs are already MUCH cheaper to run than petrol

Great opportunity for scientists to remember, and perhaps for ‘sceptical scrollers’ and ‘dissenting disruptors’ to learn, that scepticism is arguably more important to science than trust! Would learning the importance of scepticism increase trust? 😜 www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-c... 🧪

The impact is roughly a month of ageing every two years. Assuming I live another 30 years, I would effectively be something like 1.25 years younger. Over the same period I would have spent £2400 on multivitamins. Would be more compelled if they looked at mortality. news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor... 🧪

That Iran "coal comeback" in full

🎵🎸Despite all my rage, it's hard to be a crab in a caaaage. 🎶Even though I'm alive & well, It's hard to thrive as a pet in a shell! 🐚 First thought when I read the print headline. Call me old school, but there's magic in seeing my name in print. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/m... 🧪🌎

One of the reasons the world is heating faster than models suggest it should be, probably... phys.org/news/2026-04... 🧪

Injecting chemotherapy into people's eyes sounds nightmarish, even delivering drugs into their eyes with particles from pig semen instead is a huge improvement! www.livescience.com/health/medic... Doesn't look like @evaamsen.com posted her article when it published, that doesn se(e)m(en) right?!🧪

What do you think the science writing and journalism profession will look like in 2030 and beyond? Join @wblau.bsky.social and I and many others to discuss this, and decide how we respond, in an innovative 'community assembly' format either in London or online in July www.absw.org.uk/events/what-...

"[T]here’s no evidence that anyone is earning a return" on AI, says @nextwavef.bsky.social. Companies are planning big bets on building data centres - but half of them are cancelled or delayed, *because they have no path to profitability*! Madness! thenextwavefutures.wordpress.com/2026/04/09/a...

I'm really enjoying The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See, nearly finished listening to it. Really great story about an ethnic Chinese woman and the modernisation of China. Very much enjoying how it weaves in a powerful personal story with everything from global economics to chemistry!

This is about how to detect these fake citations, but I'm trying to wrap my head around *how* fake citations end up in papers. (thread) www.nature.com/articles/d41...

NEW ANALYSIS: Record wind and solar generation saved UK from gas imports worth £1bn in March 2026 📈Wind+solar were up 22% year-on-year in March to a record high for the month ⛴️This avoided the need for gas imports worth £1bn at current high prices www.carbonbrief.org/...

Policy proposal: such donations should be taxed at 40% and the funds used to invest in parts of the beneficiary sector where financial support is lacking. #levellingup www.theguardian.com/education/20...

After YouGov retracted their poll on young people going to church more, I wrote about why polling young people, especially young men, has become increasingly challenging. It's a growing problem, and the market research industry needs to respond. chriscurtismk.substack.com/p/young-men-...

Everything Elise says here resonates... and also: "science curiosity promotes open-minded engagement with information that is contrary to individuals’ political predispositions" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... which is a good reason to try to trigger that curiosity in different groups

This paper by @hanachronism.bsky.social et al is full of useful tips for science storytelling, well worth the reading time for anyone who does this kind of thing for a living. 🧪 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Something extraordinary – yet predictable – has happened over recent days on Facebook. Fake accounts that usually post anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim content generated using AI to fuel division and hate in UK are now pushing out AI-gen content asking: "Should the UK produce its own fuel again?"

In a sea of opinions about the role of LLMs in academics I offer my own. Apart from being harmful, exploitive plagiarism machines, LLMs rob us of the opportunity to experience the gift of friction in writing, which changes how we think. We must not give away that gift. doi.org/10.1002/fee....

In my latest @chemistryworld.com piece, I report that the low-emissions hydrogen industry either committed to final investment decisions or started building around a million tonnes per year of production capacity in 2025, but cancelled over 4.9 million tonnes’ worth. Read more at bit.ly/Hbubble 🧪

Only 7 days left to enter the Young Science Writer Award 2026 Are you aged 14 to 16 and curious about the world around you? Do you love asking questions, exploring ideas, and communicating science in a way that informs and inspires? This is your chance to get involved.