While scientists have long braced for climate change, the growing severity of its impacts is shocking them. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Ocean surface temperatures hit record high as world enters ‘uncharted territory,’ scientists warn “The planet is warming because we’re emitting vast quantities of greenhouse gasses, primarily from fossil fuel burning,” one expert said. www.nbcnews.com/science/clim...

"A journal" was @biologyopen.bsky.social from the @biologists.bsky.social

1000 evaluators given identical resumes & told candidate used AI. Only difference on resumes was candidate’s name: Emily vs James. Study found women using AI are evaluated as less competent than men who use AI...To evaluators, women’s AI use signaled inability, while men’s AI use signaled initiative

Shameful.

Terrible game. Appalling referee

Sometimes even paying the referee off isn’t enough 💰

1. A bit of evolutionary biology. I'm really intrigued by a new perspective piece from Steve Frank that explores connections between how natural selection creates systems that generalize and recent work in machine learning about the surprising capabilities of massively overparameterized systems.

This is important, as it validates what has been long suspected but rarely proven with hard facts: media monopolies are being used shape and change political sentiment to suit their owners’ and paymasters’ objectives.

Which we've written about here. www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

9.11 million new TB cases and 1.22 million deaths in 2023 -- this is not good enough. MDR-TB and TB+HIV eroding progress. Latest GBD TB data 👇

The finding has researchers rethinking how antibiotics and their metabolites behave in our waterways. www.chemistryworld.com/news/metabol...

Troubling unjustified deletion of the historic scientific record apparently by algorithm www.science.org/content/arti... from Science

I’m not saying the debate in the U.K. has moved to the right, but Ed Miliband is basically seen as Pol Pot for aiming for a climate target first agreed to by…I think Theresa May’s government? Definitely Johnson’s. And this chat is going on during the middle of a record-breaking heatwave

Ten years on, what’s your favourite Brexit lie?

While we cook in Europe, it's worth remembering that this isn't just a European story. Across the Arctic and other high-latitude regions, temperature anomalies are reaching extraordinary levels, with some areas forecast to be >10–20°C above historical averages. The climate signal is global.

Come join the new Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Design as a group leader Cool science in a great scientific environment in wonderful and very family friendly Copenhagen There are two positions that can either be at TT assistant or associate prof level employment.ku.dk/tenure-track...

Opportunity for computational chemist at Boehringer Ingelheim (Biberach Germany) ref: 35002 | closing: 26-Jul-2026 #CompChem #cheminformatics #EUChemJobs #ChemJobs #chemsky 🧪 jobs.boehringer-ingelheim.com/job/Biberach...

It's the 10th anniversary of the dumbest moment in modern British history so let's celebrate some of the idiots who made it happen. First up ... Jacob Rees-Mogg and his promise of cheap food and wine... In fact food prices have increased some 12% as a direct result of Brexit (LSE) 1/5

1/ Mitochondrial Na⁺ links metabolism, Ca2+ signaling and disease. We know how it gets in, how it gets out, and proteins that use it. But: we've never actually seen Na⁺ in single mitochondria in live cells. We started with an unusual observation, went down a rabbit hole & found some cool biology .

Every stripe tells a story. Of changing seasons. Of rising temperatures. Of a warming world that is already affecting our landscapes, our food & our future. But this story isn't finished. The choices we make today will shape the world inherited by the next generations. #ShowYourStripes

AI has started blocking the Wayback Machine from chronicling the web. Considering that nearly 40% of websites disappear after 10 years, this will enforce a giant loss in collective memory.

People can make all the arguments they like but Brexit has proved very unpopular. In the only area that counts in a democracy — the court of public opinion — Brexit is conclusively and overwhelmingly considered a failure. There’s no arguing with that. new-app.spectator.co.uk/article/6703...

Surprising result: Temperate local extinctions from climate change are outpacing tropical extinctions. Across 39,157 sites, climate-related local extinctions affected 49% of temperate species compared with 33% of tropical spp. Biodiversity loss is a global crisis. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Oh. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Vaccines work. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Does it change our perception of our society to know that a fair chunk of extremist behaviour is in fact a Russian sabotage campaign? www.ft.com/content/8fa3...

Scientists seeking to understand the biological mechanisms behind coral stress have shown how rising temperatures affect tiny structures called cilia that coat the surface of cells found in the outer layer of coral tissue. www.chemistryworld.com/news/warming...

Lessons from Hungary for science's battle against authoritarianism: my column for @thenewworldmag.bsky.social www.thenewworld.co.uk/philip-ball-...

Why is the universities crisis being ignored? Essential piece by @gsoh31.bsky.social for Arguably on the “grim dribbling away of one of Britain's great triumphs and economic advantages” – and why so few politicians seem to care. www.arguably.uk/p/the-quiet-...

May 2026,accordig to NASA,had a temperature anomaly of +0.54C vs 1991/2020 baseline and was the 2nd hottest on record as follows: 2024: +0.58C 2026: +0.54C 2025: +0.50C

Precise genome editing of human embryos triggers praise and alarm www.nature.com/articles/d41... ... I have some thoughts...

Registration for the 2nd Symposium on Protein Design and Engineering (RosettaCon Brazil), hosted by CNPEM, closes on June 15. Join the discussion on AI for protein design in Campinas, Brazil on October 5-8. A travel grant for a postdoctoral researcher is also available, learn more: zurl.co/dsjlS

NEW: A serious staffing shortage — of the Trump admin's own making — is delaying the agency's ability to send billions to universities around the country, leaving labs reeling in the meantime. “I thought we were at rock bottom”, a senior NIH official said. “We are below rock bottom now.”

It’s a tragic tale – a once-confident nation making such a fearful, self-harming decision. Our economy, our politics, our daily lives in 2026 – all of it bears the imprint of that calamitous error. But this story is not over. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

WOW: “Several diabetes experts were escorted out of an influential medical conference… The incident took place Friday morning at a meeting of the American Diabetes Association in New Orleans, shortly before Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, director of the National Institutes of Health, was scheduled to speak.”

Science named the seemingly unstoppable growth of renewable energy worldwide as the 2025 Breakthrough of the Year. Learn more about last year's #BOTY on #WorldEnvironmentDay: https://scim.ag/4pbMoAv

This is so wrong. And I hesitate to write this just because of this.

Hi all - we are looking for a head of a new Department within Royal Holloway that comprises of Computer Science, Mathematics and Information Security. I am looking for a good boss who can lead us into doing even better! jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Three Ebola vaccines in development amid growing outbreak fears www.bbc.com/news/article...

Are you interested in understanding protein dynamics and allostery in biomedically relevant "loopy" enzymes? We are looking for postdocs to join our group at GT for both applied and method development work. If you are interested, please email me your CV, cover letter, and details of 2-3 referees.

Can’t come soon enough www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...