"Very stable genius". Who is in charge of over 3,000 nuclear warheads.

Same day.

A reminder than bacteria and viruses are always one step ahead of us and that we should never become complacent.

So what about people like Boris Johnson, who was born in New York and whose non-British ancestors include Ali Kemal Bey (Istanbul), Helen Tracy Lowe-Porter (Pennsylvania), Christian Hubert Theodor Marie Karl von Pfeffel (Munich), Hélène Arnous-Rivière (Nantes) and Elias Avery Loew (Moscow)?

The world before antibiotics. 👉🏻 www.superbugs.online

historian here! Yes

Absolutely disgusting. Yes I'm unsurprised but how has our country fallen to a level where naked racism can be broadcast like this?

Victoria Derbyshire allowing Zia Yusuf to tie himself in absolute knots by asking him simple questions about Reform policy. A masterclass in quality journalism.

So what about people like Boris Johnson, who was born in New York and whose non-British ancestors include Ali Kemal Bey (Istanbul), Helen Tracy Lowe-Porter (Pennsylvania), Christian Hubert Theodor Marie Karl von Pfeffel (Munich), Hélène Arnous-Rivière (Nantes) and Elias Avery Loew (Moscow)?

"No country has ever attempted to rip out its economic infrastructure and replace it with something more primitive" says person who co-founded a campaign for the UK to leave the largest trading bloc in the world, wreaking havoc on the country's economic infrastructure.

The Green Party's Caroline Lucas humiliates Reform UK's Zia Yusuf on #Newsnight "Your position is utterly incoherent" "You have provided no evidence that it's the Equalities Act that discriminates against white working class boys"

A reminder than bacteria and viruses are always one step ahead of us and that we should never become complacent.

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Bloody foreigners, walking on the wrong side and causing chaos at Heathrow.

A microbial horror show — an overview of some of the most devastating infectious diseases in history. Dare to be scared, and be inspired by the stunning advances in the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of life-threatening infections. Featuring cholera, measles and the plague, and many more.

Five million years ago #OTD we sundered ourselves from our fathers, replacing the serene dignity of flinging ourselves through trees with the catastrophic innovation of walking upright and lower back pain.

Nothing says peace like launching 400 drones and 29 missiles against a country you have been attacking non-stop for the past 4 years.

As Nigel Farage makes Robert Jenrick his Shadow Chancellor, here's a quick reminder of the sort of man Reform wants to put in charge of the nation's finances

"This man is a fraud. This man is not to be trusted." — Nigel Farage, August 2025

We are living in a world where we have safe and effective vaccines against some of the most detrimental diseases in history. And yet people choose not to give them to their children and protect them and others. Measles could have been eradicated by now.

"This man is a fraud. This man is not to be trusted." — Nigel Farage, August 2025

This is just blatant self soothing, it refers to global events like covid or the war in Ukraine as explanations for Britain's malaise, but then ignores them for other countries, the reality is the UK was hit worse and has recovered worse, in part due to brexit, in part because you were in government

Nothing says peace like launching 400 drones and 29 missiles against a country you have been attacking non-stop for the past 4 years.

Speaking about something more primitive.

A reminder that measles cannot be treated, it can only be prevented. It is one of the most contagious diseases in the world and can cause blindness, deafness and life-threatening lung and brain infections.

"Dad?" "Yes, son." "Is it true that it was possible to prevent these outbreaks?" "We used to call them 'vaccines', they protected people for their whole lives. And not only against measles." "I miss my friends."

HAVE YOU HEARD KID SO NOW I HAVE THE TWO BIGGEST PEACE PRIZES IN THE WORLD AND BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN HAS WRITTEN A SONG ABOUT ME DO YOU EVEN KNOW WHO HE IS HE'S THE GUY WHO SINGS ABOUT HOW GREAT IT IS TO BE BORN IN THE USA AND BY THE WAY WE HAVE DEPORTED YOUR MUM

Five million years ago #OTD we sundered ourselves from our fathers, replacing the serene dignity of flinging ourselves through trees with the catastrophic innovation of walking upright and lower back pain.

Speaking about something more primitive.

OpenAI ”acknowledged in its own research that LLMs will always produce hallucinations due to fundamental mathematical constraints that cannot be solved through better engineering, marking a significant admission from one of the AI industry’s leading companies.” You can’t trust chatbots.

"No country has ever attempted to rip out its economic infrastructure and replace it with something more primitive" says person who co-founded a campaign for the UK to leave the largest trading bloc in the world, wreaking havoc on the country's economic infrastructure.

"Dad?" "Yes, son." "Is it true that it was possible to prevent these outbreaks?" "We used to call them 'vaccines', they protected people for their whole lives. And not only against measles." "I miss my friends."

Meanwhile in other vaccine-preventable diseases news.

Enabling vaccine uptake: Strategies for the public health sector @bjhmoffice.bsky.social

A reminder that it's not a question if but when there will be another global pandemic. It can happen any moment, and we need to be prepared.

We are living in a world where we have safe and effective vaccines against some of the most detrimental diseases in history. And yet people choose not to give them to their children and protect them and others. Measles could have been eradicated by now.

A reminder that measles cannot be treated, it can only be prevented. It is one of the most contagious diseases in the world and can cause blindness, deafness and life-threatening lung and brain infections.

How can I like and repost this multiple times?

A reminder that a large proportion of politicians and public organisations continues to be present on Elon Musk's hellsite. If he ran a pub no respectable person or institution would ever go inside.

And this is why we teach science in school.

So many questions.

Just checking, it's now ok to flee your homeland, because you're afraid for your safety, and seek refuge in another Country? Glad we've cleared that up. Let's hear no more about immigration and refugees then.

When ministers defended Starmer over Mandelson’s links to Epstein this week, they rushed to X - a platform that lets users strip photos of women and girls. Is it surely time for the government to log off X? And is social media too toxic for all of us? My col: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

And this is why we teach science in school.

What fresh hell is this?