Hi I’m your local space scientist here to say that this is nonsense spun up as an investment scam

Musk's claim that putting 1 million SpaceX data centre satellites into space would be our first step to "becoming a Kardashev II-level civilisation" is absurd

Not to toot my own horn, but my quantitative Raman model is so robust that it's basically doing quality control for me, marking two mislabelled samples as sus. Giving them the correct labels immediately put both where they should be, right on the expected curve.

OpenAI just released Prism, a LaTeX editor with embedded ChatGPT for free. Writing a paper has never been easier. Clogging the scientific publishing pipeline has never been easier. It took me 54 seconds to write up an experiment I did not actually conduct. prism.openai.com

The entirety of David Suchet's Poirot series is on Netflix you say? Excuse me for one second. *is never seen again*

Makes you wonder just how dangerously invested the UK is into ai stock and companies if they’re pulling a move this desperate lmao

In April, #PrideinSTEM turns 10! We will have a celebration for it, and we would like to recognize individuals who have had a positive impact on LGBTQIA+ People in STEM, here in the UK! Do you know someone who fits that description? Nominate them here: prideinstem.org/2026/01/27/n... 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🧪🔭

The age old question: Opossums, wiry or soft? I had a chance to find out when I met Crabapple the bin possum in 2021 but didn't want to get bitten.

Our sustained & sincere focus is still needed and still owed. It still means survival. Now more than ever, as the world constructs new ways to force us to look away. Every ounce helps these six families, particularly with a number of medical emergencies! chuffed.org/project/hope...

The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions. It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.

NEW: Suella Braverman has defected to Reform UK, shocking the many people who were sure that she had already.

With Suella being the latest to slither off to Reform, do have a look at the top comments underneath this piece People aren't stupid As one commenter puts it: Jenrick says, “Britain is broken." Well, he should know, he helped break it. These guys have absolutely no self awareness.

New research maps the campaign to erase trans people from UK data 🔢 This peer-reviewed article offers the first detailed account of how UK campaign groups have sought to define sex as strictly biological across the census, policing, healthcare and digital ID. doi.org/10.1080/0958...

More group meetings should end with origami

Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.

I don’t understand how something so small and cute could kill a deer, but nature works in mysterious ways

Greenlandic politician Tillie Martinussen on the sovereignty of Greenlanders, the greed in the US, and how they view their land. Also comments on how the US treated Natives, as a very good reason to not want to be a part of the US. youtu.be/xs53IESxz80?...

The world isn’t exactly cheerful right now, but I did get to see some crows fighting over a Yorkshire pudding in the park this morning.

I can’t be the only one weirded out by the idea that world leaders just… text each other

Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.

My husband designed and knitted a moopsie from Star Trek Lower Decks. Watch out, it’ll drink your bones! Check out his Instagram www.instagram.com/mattermatteruk for more cool knits of his

In what sense is gender reassignment a protected characteristic if it gets disregarded the moment someone else complains about you existing near them?

The Thing is a film about cracking open a cold one with the boys

First bisexual captain in Star Trek history!

One of the all time greatest RPG characters I've played is Rhonda, a chain smoking chicken in the Root campaign @jobium.bsky.social runs She was a special guest star character, joining the party to help stage a coup and free a town from a tyrant. Now Rhonda is the mayor & has *posters*

We have an STFC-funded PhD project at the @nhm-london.bsky.social. Work with me, @joemcneil.bsky.social, @katie-h-joy.bsky.social, and Gareth Collins, and share in the fun of secondary impact craters and landing sites! tinyurl.com/nez8dzsy

They should call it the catamaran line because it has two Hulls

For what it's worth I think all of the following can all be true at the same time: -Detection of microplastics via analytical techniques can be really challenging due to detection limits -Some scientific papers out there are poor and lack rigour -Microplastics are bad for human health

How am I supposed to focus on work when *gestures at everything*

Saw a sci-fi short where the flag of a unified humanity was a Paleolithic hand stencil and it really stuck with me, like it's not neat or heraldic, but it's the oldest mark of ourselves

I’m sorry I cannot get over the new 28 days later film title. “The Bone Temple” sounds like what @beardynoise.bsky.social would call his pants

Some important new government policy that Native Americans might be interested in:

Here is a video of a frozen creek that had begun to thaw, and the water was flowing beneath the thin ice on top. I took this because it was soothing and wonderfully bloopy and I wanted to listen to it for hours. You are all welcome to enjoy it, too. Let your brain settle here and rest for a moment.

The new Congressional NASA budget does look way better, but we need to acknowledge that even if NASA "gets its budget back," it will not undo the massive amount of damage done across the country. It won't bring back the many scientists and engineers who've lost their jobs and had to move on!

Barnard’s Star go vroom

This week I started a new job as a Bioinformatician, working with @dwredding.bsky.social at the @nhm-london.bsky.social. I'll be joining the SCAPES project for a year, doing climate modelling and geospatial analysis for predicting rodent-born disease outbreaks. www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/...

It's snowing in London!

People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.

Lest anyone for a single moment thinks this latest coup is a somehow a dramatic breach of long-term US foreign policy.

One day I’ll check the news in the morning and it won’t cause me to go “oh for fucks sake”

hey remember when a bunch of middle-aged drunk korean lawmakers climbed the locked gates to the national assembly to hold an emergency session after the president gave illegal orders to the military, all of which ended with said president being sentenced to prison

Either Monstrous Regiment or Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

This is just such a damned disgrace. A crime against knowledge and humanity itself.

A Palestinian PhD student's devastating account of funeral marches, electricity rationing, and watching his father's dreams die at a computer screen each morning. mondoweiss.net/2025/12/i-di...

So that's #365Minerals over and done with. It's been eight(!) years since I did the first #365Minerals over on Twitter - it was inspired by #365Papers. I'm glad that this time around I could use my own photos of specimens on display in the NHM! Thanks for following! 🧪⚒️💎

If we lived in a just media landscape, this would now be a trilogy.

Ah, 28 December: 146th anniversary of the Tay Bridge disaster, which tragically took the lives of 59 people – and rather more happily gave the world ‘Sir’ William Topaz McGonagall’s most famous work