Getting a run in before the heat sets in

Some lovely photos from our @sprockethub.bsky.social launch yesterday, including our parent and young person panel, our service provider/charity panel, our embedded artist and creative activity, and loads of hopeful conversations...

We made a short (3.5min) film introducing our @sprockethub.bsky.social innovation hub for improving the lives of children with complex health needs and those that care for them. Do have a watch! I think it really captures what SPROCKET is about. youtu.be/WIjhjciUfD4?...

Donald Trump on Thursday posted an AI-generated social media video portraying himself as a doctor who claims to have cured some of his most prominent celebrity critics – including Rosie O’Donnell – of the fictional condition “Trump derangement... TAT: [Controlling information | Suppressing dissent]

ICE arrested more than 10,000 people in the last 5 days, a surge that stems from an internal order to push arrests, especially of immigrants the agency wants to deport. Arrests have been made at check-ins with immigration authorities, during traffic stops and on the street. TAT: [Nationalism]

UK Bluesky is normally really easy to follow, except the one week a month it descends into incomprehensible screaming because someone from North Flobershire dared refer to themselves as a Galbrilander despite their nan having actually been born south of Brookingsmarch-on-the-Tarrowack.

Fantastic talk about making fantastic talks, plus a link to a great book about making R graphics. #RStats #StatsSky #Statistics

Amazing @sprockethub.bsky.social launch event! Such great insights from families, young people and service providers. So much energy and hope in the room!

My wife, Fiona Baxter, thought the event was excellent.

Amazing @sprockethub.bsky.social launch event! Such great insights from families, young people and service providers. So much energy and hope in the room!

One minute on the US recent moves to pay off wind farms while investing in fossil fuels youtube.com/shorts/HvoPC...

That's the UK Department for Culture, Media and Sport off X. Among other things, it oversees media ownership, press regulation, and broadcasting policies, as well as online platforms via Ofcom. That includes tech and internet sectors, and UK Online Media Literacy Strategy against disinformation. 💥👏🏼

Today, the final contact of a person exposed to #hantavirus on the cruise ship MV Hondius completed their quarantine period, tested negative and returned home. No further cases have been reported since the 25th of May. Therefore, @who.int considers the hantavirus outbreak over.

Tedros: WHO considers the outbreak of hantavirus over

Sarah Wynn-Williams, NZ-born author of Careless People, sues Meta over its attempts to silence her. The ex-director of public policy at Facebook claims the tech giant’s gagging order, which blocks her from speaking about the company or promoting her book, is “improper and unlawful”

The racist fucks are going to target pregnant women now...

Meanwhile...in the REAL World Trump’s vendetta fuels baseless charges against SPLC SPLC has fought racism & worked with law enforcement & others to bring violent white supremacists to justice since 1973 is drawing well-deserved support as it defends itself against Trump thehill.com/opinion/crim...

the former climate scientists at .gov have resurrected as climate.us in so making the data available to everyone

very pleased to say i managed to get tickets!

The Telegraph isn't funny any more. It's seriously grim.

Germany and the Netherlands right now

This list of what the public finds corrupt is basically a rundown of Trump’s governing philosophy. Poll: @brennancenter.org

Just come out of a meeting. I'm sure we're doing fine against Congo. No way we can be losing. Oh.

The Trump administration is moving religious freedom to the forefront of its health policies, a move that will likely affect reproductive health, LGBTQ+ healthcare and vaccine policy. “They are very much putting religious freedom front and center,” said Dorit Reiss,... TAT: [Weakening civil rights]

Donald Trump has raked in more than $1bn from his crypto businesses since returning to the White House, according to financial disclosures, ringing alarm bells over a conflict of interest. According to a 927-page document released on Tuesday by the US Office of Government Ethic... TAT: [Corruption]

By President Trump’s account, his desire to annex Greenland merely restores prewar borders, his trade policy returns Gilded Age fiscal policy and prosperity and his efforts to build a towering arch in Washington completes a 150-year-old architectural dream. Since r... TAT: [Controlling information]

The US commerce department accused California of ‘environmental terrorism’ and plans to evaluate the performance of the California Coastal Commission. This is the latest escalation of a dispute between the state’s Democratic leaders and the federal ... TAT: [Attacking science | Suppressing dissent]

Trump suggested that he would use Congress to end birthright citizenship after the Supreme Court ruled against his order to restrict the policy. On Truth Social he wrote:"The Supreme Court upheld Birthright Citizenship, which is too bad for our Country... TAT: [Nationalism | Weakening civil rights]

President Donald Trump posted on social media on Thursday about the speech he gave the day prior to kick off the Great American State Fair in Washington, DC: “Everybody stayed right until the end of my Speech because they loved hearing about a truly successful Amer... TAT: [Controlling information]

The US Supreme Court (SCOTUS) ruled that Trump can fire leaders of independent agencies or commissions. This decision, which was focused around the case of the firing of the Federal Trade Commission member Rebecca Slaughter, en... TAT: [Suppressing dissent | Hollowing state | Undermining democracy]

Also now on @ucl.ac.uk @uclpolicylab.bsky.social webpage with links to the report and the website :-) www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n...

📢NEW RESOURCE: A new web resource and accompanying report to explore the vulnerabilities to political interference of 33 key UK scientific public bodies & 11 scientific advisory committees! unchecked.uk/public_body_... 1/7

Very sad to be sharing this news: Research Professional News to discontinue publication at end of 2026. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-o...

I'm really sorry to hear this news. The Research Professional team are excellent and have helped the HE and research sector keep up with what is happening. We will be less intelligent without it. Good luck to individual staff members affected, who are excellent writers and journos.

tl;dr Financial incentives for alcohol producers to reduce the alcohol content of their products can be incredibly effective. You need the right conditions for it (lots of products just above a potential tax break, consumer demand for lower-strength products/willingness to accept lower ABVs...

ICYMI, here's the most striking finding from our new paper on reformulation in the British off-trade alcohol market: This graph shows the proportion of beer sales which are below 3.5% ABV. The dashed line shows the date that duty rates for 2.8-3.4% beer was cut. 1/4 of beer sold in 2025 was <3.5%!

The thing is, of course, that a small increase in ocean temperatures is a *huuuge* amount of energy.

This is #censorship & an attack on the present & future state of #science and #research. We are fighting autocratic conditions--attend our next webinar to learn how to resist from @lewan.uk, co-author of wrote the "Anti-Autocracy Handbook" for folks in #HigherEd us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

I originally started filming Utrecht because of its cycling infrastructure. Looking back over seventeen years of footage, I realised I have documented something much bigger: the transformation of an entire city. Blog, video and playlist:

French keeper spiritually spent an hour and a half sitting on the grass chainsmoking and looking at the stars

#Hiring: We’re hiring a full-time Fact-Checker to join our US team and help lead a new rapid-response initiative countering misinformation, conspiracy theories, and other harmful narratives targeting vulnerable communities across social media.

Sweden trying to stop France

A glimpse, there, of how much fun it can be to watch football. Anyway: 5pm tomorrow, back to England.

Check out the poster presentation by our Research Fellow in Systems Thinking / System Dynamics, Dr Mehdi Hafezi, on a Systems Perspective on Access to EHCPs⬇️

Come and work with us @trusselluk.bsky.social! We're hiring a policy manager in our Social Security & Work programme. Help drive policy change to help ensure no one has to turn to a food bank to survive. Closing date 27th July. Please share with your networks. www.trussell.org.uk/jobs/policy-...

5-4 majority in US Supreme Court in favour of what the constitution expressly provides and was intended to provide re birthright citizenship. That is how deep and rotten the partisanship has become.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court in a 6-3 vote UPHOLDS birthright citizenship, affirming the default rule that all persons born in the United States (with narrow exceptions) are U.S. citizens at birth. A total LOSS for President Trump and the effort to rewrite the 14th Amendment.

ooh, i was on the first train affected! I was lucky - only 30 minute delayed and I did indeed see the sheepish cows (ho ho) standing by the tracks as we crawled past

3 minutes on how Trump adminstration has tried to skew the midterm elections over the last 2 weeks youtube.com/shorts/msPZB...

We need what's happening in American science to not happen in UK. Climate.gov previously NOAA's rich climate data site for example: not banned, just defunded, downsized and redirected until inconvenient climate data is effectively gone.