BRUNO CARVALHO @brunocarvalho.bsky.social THE INVENTION OF THE FUTURE - A Harvard professor presents a sprawling urban history - @jonturney.bsky.social is intrigued, and impressed by this tale of new cities @princetonupress.bsky.social www.theartsdesk.com/books/bruno-...

Six months' work here, and great to see it out in the world. And a real pleasure to work with @jonturney.bsky.social properly for the first time after 20-odd years of editing/proofing/discussing each other's work.

A thing launched yesterday that I and @eleanorturney.co.uk helped lick into shape about neurotechnology’s potential to help neurodiverse kids view.genially.com/699c69c3d6f8...

Taking a moment from the relief/delight of a thumping by-election win for the Greens to note that Tory candidate lost their deposit. Hurrah for that too!

ICYM In a year when the UK economy grew 1.1% the Low Carbon and Renewable Energy Economy grew 12 per cent. And yet somehow it remains received wisdom on much of the right of British politics that clean technologies are bad and must be stopped. www.businessgreen.com/news/4526135...

Israel is responsible for two in three journalist killings across the globe in 2024 and 2025. The Israeli military has committed more targeted killings of journalists than any other government’s military since CPJ began documentation in 1992. Read more in CPJ’s #2025KilledReport: cpj.org?p=553549

Care to comment on this @lucympowell.bsky.social?

For classy Eurojazz, Red Kite, who played a superb show in Bristol tonight, take some beating :) #jazzsky

Looking for somewhere to eat in an unfamiliar London neighbourhood. First few restaurant review sites that come up are obvious AI generated garbage. AI wastes so much of everyone’s time…

As if that's not going to happen.

I reviewed "What we inherit" for Undark. "If even two experts writing a book together don’t always see eye to eye about genetics research, then the public discussion is even more of a minefield." 🧪 undark.org/2026/02/20/b...

The government's immigration plans: a dog’s dinner of half-conceived policy, Reform rhetoric, mean-spirited sentiment, and profound intellectual muddle iandunt.substack.com/p/can-we-ext...

Nice spread in New Scientist about current RWA Bristol exhibition

I loved Otherlands, but the kids’ illustrated version is blowing my mind all over again

In utterly predictable but unconvincing opinions from legacy media stroking their readers today…

Okay, this is quite outstanding from Bedford Council.

Oh good - waiting for my second dose :)

Convincing explanation of why the “non-fiction books are in decline” story is bogus

Historian of medicine here. Yes. Yes, they did.

Meta banking on people willing to be pay to be haunted is end-times kitsch

Hey, my new book has a new name! It's now revelling in the title "35 Inventions That Changed Your World: How We Built Modern Life", and is about how humanity has reshaped the planet around itself by inventing the concepts of buildings, cities and infrastructure. www.waterstones.com/book/35%20In...

★★★★ 'If this briefer-than-normal statement leaves the listener wanting more, where’s the harm in that?':Maria Schneider's American Crow rewards close listening says Sebastian Scotney www.theartsdesk.com/new-music/am...

DIY low traffic neighbourhoods!

but surely they believed what they said about "sustainable aviation fuels"?

the thing the people (men) who express concern for the future of their rather repellant concept of White Britain is that, if they are representative, it would obviously be best for everyone if it did just fade away...

Surprising how often I encounter the "climate disasters have an upside in punishing feckless breeders and showing us how bad we've been" -- often from environmentalists. There's a streak of misanthropy running through environmentalism. (Obvs JE is extreme sociopath)

Heh

ideally, ranting on social media should be the exception, but this is an excellent rant :)

Another little bit from me on Birmingham Conservatoire’s mini jazz festival. Hope they do it again: they have a great set of venues all in one great building :) ukjazznews.com/eastside-jaz...

I have the 2 vols, but interested to see how they can be reduced…

Review of Chris Potter and Pablo Held in Birmingham the other day #jazzsky ukjazznews.com/chris-potter...

See also Virginia Heffernan’s piece fir The Nerve www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...

It’s Public Lending Right distribution time. This round’s on me! Well, maybe one drink, for me and a friend…

The inspiration and the poem Photo: Irena Buzarewicz

Bristol gig news worth noting... www.bristol247.com/culture/musi...

Tune in to @backlisted.bsky.social tomorrow everyone, the decade finale is magnificent.

Always good to be reminded that all the effort to improve science communication over the last few decades has borne fruit…

Worth your time. “fundamentally you are in love with a business product”

New CD review ukjazznews.com/the-tomeka-r...

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... The impacts of locking under 16 yos from their social media networks are now beginning to bite for those young people who relied on them for social connection

General impression is immunology is a bit like chemistry (used to be?) - take new observation, and consider which of many theories/effects might account for it.

Yes Starmer seems hapless, but how much of the ‘he’s bound to go’ stuff is there because political scribblers get bored now if we have same PM for a whole year?

Will be interesting to see comments on this from the still prominent academic who argued at book length not so long ago that autism = “extreme male brain” www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Household speculation: no wish here for a butler, or any general domestic help, but may we *please* have someone to keep our specs clean?

Review from the other night ukjazznews.com/alex-merritt...

A @bbclaurak.bsky.social piece that is slightly more than a casual assembly of statements of the obvious. Must have been inspired by the “in depth” slot :)

By-election latest: A Green Party source tells me the response in Gorton today has been so positive that they're reallocating resources to Denton. They claim ex-Labour voters say they can't vote for the party with Starmer as leader, so tactical voting doesn't come into it.

Donald MacKenzie on visions of infinite scaling in tech: "AI’s scale doesn’t matter just to specialists. The rest of us are being taken on a ride along the logarithmic curve too." (NB Mackenzie seems to have taken the hint from Shapin and is now writing essays for LRB, hurrah!) #sts #envhums #envsoc

US collapse into government by idiocy accelerates

A recent cartoon for @newscientist.com. p.s. my new book of science cartoons, ‘Physics for Cats’ is out now. Links at www.tomgauld.com