6️⃣ The sixth entry on our 2025 Coming of Age list of the best British architecture now eligible for national heritage listing is the Tees Barrage in Stockton-on-Tees, by Napper Architects and Arup: a late Postmodern Pont des Arts of post-industrial regeneration. ➡️ c20society.org.uk/coming-of-ag...

Interesting update re: the US Strategic Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient Reserve. #API💊 "Drugmakers promise to stockpile certain drugs as part of new drug pricing deals" www.statnews.com/2025/12/19/d...

White House Begins Christmas Season With Ceremonial Lighting Of Cross

How is this surprising? AI vomits back at you whatever it has been trained on.

I look forward to being charged woman-sized prices (to match my woman-sized salary).

Novo Nordisk discontinues key insulin products in EU/EEA for commercial reasons: “Yet another unacceptable example of pharmaceutical corporations putting profits before people’s health.” msfaccess.org/msf-responds...

Confidential tip? Reach me on Signal: KatherineEban.45.

An addendum to today's post paulkrugman.substack.com/p/trump-pro-...

"True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.” —FDR, 1944

If you happen to live near Sutton Courtenay Churchyard in Oxfordshire and your house is shaking - don’t worry, it’s just Eric Blair spinning furiously in his grave as the total devaluation of the once prestigious prize in his (pen) name…. What a ridiculous thing to do!!

Hello @springernature.com - you’ve just published another bit of nonsense in Scientific Reports 🙁

Abstract deadline tomorrow if anyone is interested in joining us in Exeter in February to talk all things Social AI!

Are you a PhD student & interested in using museum collections in your teaching or research? We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections. Find out more: collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/

EVENT: Join C20 for a special curator talk and tour of the new exhibition, Theo Crosby: 100 Lives at Osh Gallery - celebrating the visionary architect, designer, curator and artist. 🗓️ Tue 9 Dec 2025 - 6:30-8PM 📍 Osh Gallery, 46 Essex Road, London 🎟️ Tickets: secure.c20society.org.uk/Default.aspx...

NEW The letter the BBC could send back to Trump A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim By me. Enjoy. emptycity.substack.com/p/the-letter...

It’s so great! And friendly for a fairly novice color worker! I’m not even done with my first and I just ordered yarn for 8 more🤣! ♥️♥️

Next up: No Pot Noodles anywhere.

Bukan main! Aku sudah beli buku Leila Choudori 2 kali dalam 2 hari, karena yang pertama (beli baru di toko buku di Pontianak) ternyata bajakan.

3 new posts on talkingaboutbookswomenstravel.review! Elizabeth Pisani on Indonesia, Gwen Maka on cycling from Seattle to Costa Rica, and Lina Boegli on travelling the world on her own in 1892. All intrepid travellers! #travelbooks #travelbooksbywomen @elizabethpisani.ternyata.org

“[The author] has extremely interesting sections on coinage, the make-up of the trade (tea replaced porcelain and silk as the most profitable product) and a deep-dive into the commercial organization of Batavia…. the wealth of data makes it palpable and the details bring out nuance...”

well when you put it like this it sounds bad

The Hippocratic License was just brought to my attention: https://firstdonoharm.dev/. I think it's a great idea, and I think we need a similar derivative license for Creative Commons. #opensource #ethics

President Prabowo appointed his brother, tycoon Hashim Djojohadikusumo, as leader of Indonesia’s delegation to the 30th UN Climate Change Conference in Brazil, as Indonessia misses the deadline to submit its latest climate pledge ahead of the summit www.thejakartapost.com/indonesia/20...

There are 40+ species of ladybird in the UK - they help maintain healthy ecosystems in gardens and green spaces. Ladybirds need safe places to shelter and hibernate over winter, so avoid cutting back hollow stems and seed heads like teasels & sedums. littlegreenspace.org.uk/features/lad...

The @WHO has issued a warning after detecting Diethylene Glycol (DEG) contamination in three oral liquid medicines, COLDRIF, Respifresh TR, and ReLife, linked to child fatalities in India. Read more: quamed.org/who-medical-...

After 5 years work, TESSA HUNKIN'S HACKNEY MOSAIC PROJECT is now published. We are including a complimentary copy of 'A Hoxton Childhood' (cover price £20) with all orders to UK addresses: spitalfieldslife.bigcartel.com

Women Work Fewer Hours Than Men By me and @postcardsbybecky.bsky.social Read more cartoons! ---> #PoliCartoon Help us make more! ----> patreon.com/barry

“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.” ― Jane Goodall 💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero

L' @itmantwerp.bsky.social, en collaboration avec des partenaires européens, palestiniens et australiens, a mené une étude sur la disponibilité des #médicaments dans la bande de #Gaza: "La nouvelle recherche met en lumière l'ampleur d'une grave pénurie" www.rtbf.be/article/des-...

Propositioned outside my house at 8am by a guy who’d just left an all-night chemsex session. Dalston, you’ve still got it!

Successive Indonesian governments made vague promises that they failed to keep. Bedjo Untung of the 1965 Murder Victims Research Foundation said, “Not a single 1965 survivor or family could get a court decision to document what they had suffered” www.hrw.org/news/2025/09...

Most frameworks to assess #pharmaceutical #systems focus on national level, but many key functions, eg medicine distribution and use, are managed locally. We present a method to assess #local pharmaceutical systems & identify ways to improve their #performance. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

This only happens to you once

Jane Austen. Spike Lee. MrBeast. “Modern Family.” The Atlantic’s new AI Watchdog search tool lets you see which creative works tech companies may have used to train their generative-AI models: https://theatln.tc/vQSlfiyC

Peter Salama Refugee MPH Scholarship @johnshopkinssph.bsky.social hopkinshumanitarianhealth.org/sites/defaul...

The Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS) at the University of Michigan announced today that all of its federal funding has been cancelled. The announcement drips with disbelief and sadness, as you might imagine. The notion that the Center "doesn't advance American interests" is beyond inane.

Mary Robinson is a load-bearing human being. We barely deserve her. #latelateshow

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Send your US House Representative a message via @standupforscience.bsky.social - have a Rubber Ducky hand-delivered by someone dressed as a duck, calling on them to #ImpeachRFKJr Only $3 to hand deliver 1 duck! Follow @cdelawalla.bsky.social for more brilliant ideas bsky.app/profile/cdel...

🚨New @WHO #SubstandardMedicine Alert - linked to deaths in #Argentina. Six lots of injectable FENTANILO HLB (fentanyl citrate), used to manage severe pain, were linked to a fatal outbreak of drug-resistant bacterial infections. Read more🔗 bit.ly/47IpdZx #medswecantrust @celinecaillet.bsky.social

Dame Helen Mirren leads stars' pleas to Lords on assisted dying

L'université Clermont-Auvergne recrute un ou une chargée de projet pour conduire, assurer le déploiement et la mise en œuvre des activités du projet OSQuAR-UCA. Integrating Open Science into the Qualitative Research Assessment Reform at University Clermont – Auvergne, zenodo.org/records/1641..., p50

Este domingo día 7 llega un eclipse lunar total visible en España, con una luna llena conocida como Luna de Sangre www.eldiario.es/1_bfde36?utm...

Will do proper posts on this tomorrow, but when I said I bought as many records today as I could carry, I was not exaggerating. #musicsky #vinyl #nowspinning

*cracks knuckles* okay so you know how the media has a problem with taking snippets of scientific studies out of context and writing articles which mislead the public? now imagine a computer program is doing that when you ask it questions about scientific literature but also it makes stuff up.

WHO Medical Product Alert Substandard (contaminated) FENTANILO HLB (fentanyl citrate) has been detected in Argentina, linked to fatal bacterial infections. Read more: quamed.org/who-medical-...

People are melting down at a Tribune article about CHSD 230 considering adding Arabic to its language learning electives. I wasted time in the comments, which I normally avoid doing since it's useless and awful, but it led to possibly the funniest thing anybody's ever said to me about France.

Join us as Head of Data Engineering & Informatics and help shape the future of infectious disease research. Apply today 🔗 www.iddo.org/about-us/jobs Deadline Sep 17 at noon #recruitment @tropicalmedicine.ox.ac.uk @ox.ac.uk

Following the Jakarta protests, Gedung MPR/DPR (Parliament building) on G-Maps was labeled beban negara ("country's burden"), kantor pengangguran ("office of the unemployed"), pejabat kontol ("dick lawmakers"), markas penjahat ("villain's lair") and ornamen mmk tembem (yea I'm not translating that).