Wes Streeting might want to reflect on how our dependence upon the world's oil dealers is working for our nation's defence

I have a lot of respect for the Quakers.

🌈 At a time when progress can't be taken for granted, I 'm especially proud to share this @natcellbio.nature.com Q&A piece. I had the pleasure to discuss with @gunawanlab.bsky.social about his inspiring journey as an LGBTQIA+ immigrant. #PrideInSTEM 👉 rdcu.be/fnXQ6 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

What was it that first attracted the comically malicious far right crank Bari Weiss to (checks notes) the former head of the British national equality body, who (checks notes again) has been paid for years to tell people the far right are not racist and saying they are is divisive, is this correct

“The [Cass Review’s] insistence on hyper-specificity is a data-fudging technique known as ‘salami slicing’. It’s known to encourage malpractice and is warned against specifically in the Cochrane Handbook — the ‘gold standard’ guide for systematic reviews.” It was engineered to deny trans kids! 😣

Never underestimate the carnage and disruption a single inattentive driver can cause. I hope the driver and company's insurance will be picking up the bill for the repairs. It's not like the bridge was hiding. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

In completely unrelated news, my dear institution is now a Microsoft Frontier University and we now have copilot with everything.

Awful article by the BBC. Framing the wonderful WellBN as villains. Villains for making children happy and thrive. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I know Calvin’s dad is already having a moment, but every terrible “outsource precious and fleeting moments with your children to tech so that you can spend more time on your work” pitch makes me think of that one strip I never really cared about as a kid, but care a lot about as an adult.

www.sciencealert.com/major-study-... #medsky #heartattack #stroke Major Study Links 99% of Heart Attacks And Strokes With 4 Risk Factors

'“It’s a sad reflection on the sector as a whole when the Russell Group is unwilling to present a robust defence of UK higher education in response to a shoddy political hatchet job,” said Andrew McRae, a former dean of postgraduate research at the University of Exeter.' Well said. 1/3

Science types, while you’re all wetting yourself with excitement about the anniversary of the publication of “The Selfish Gene”, here is what your esteemed colleague is getting up to. Enjoy your fancy celebratory events with him though.

Wow! 🤯👇👇👇👇

I think as the teller you should absolutely assume that people will tell their partner and if you’re not comfortable with that you should be explicit about it

Several families have, in the face of immense personal tragedy, plead in public for their family members to not be the next Horst Wessel justifying fascist mobs committing race riots. Imagine how much moral courage it takes in a time of private grief to extend that care and love to others

It's time for immigrants to stop moving to Northern Ireland and oppressing the native population. by the Ulster Defence Association

How can one learn to investigate the #integrity of published #scientific papers? This Community Page by @cosig.net, @reeserichardson.bsky.social, @solalpirelli.bsky.social presents COSIG, a collection of guides enabling anyone to perform forensic peer review 🧪#AcademicSky plos.io/43uZsbC

I shall watch this with interest. There's no way to get 60% of kids actively travelling to school without disrupting current patterns of car-based mobility. This includes making all urban streets safer, not just those right outside schools www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Cobra meeting for 4 empty ambulances that got burned and no one was injured. Many homes burned with residents having to flee for their lives, hundreds injured, no Cobra meeting. What ridiculous priorities.

This women's group wanted to raise £1,000 to help the victims of last night's attacks in Belfast. It's already at £56,000. chuffed.org/project/1854...

The domestic abuse backgrounds of arrested rioters is even starker for Belfast

Elon Musk’s X not facing action from UK government over posts inciting violence in Belfast www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

'Ministers have rejected accusations that recent changes to student loans are unfair, arguing that they are so heavily subsidised that the government has the right to alter their terms.' Maybe revert to subsidising university teaching more so that students don't have to subsidise teaching so much?

The BBC 10 o’clock news says the right wing idea of ethnic minorities being given preferential treatment in criminal justice is likely to become a “growing fault line in our politics” WITHOUT POINTING OUT THAT IT IS SIMPLY NOT TRUE. What’s the point of the news if it doesn’t correct disinformation?

Sorry but hate presenting this as “ooh this is the scary future under reform” like this isn’t the Scary Present under Labour. This is not Reform’s Britain, this is Labour’s Britain. Its here its now and laying responsibility explicitly outside of the Actual Current Gov is a major mistake

I've been a broken record on this for three years and I'll be a broken record for as long as that fucking website exists: X is a viciously racist far-right organising platform that ONLY WORKS because a huge number of centrists, lefties and progressivs cannot stop propping it up

When will people realize we’re now a cigarette paper away from this? Pregnant person: “That’s insane! Why won’t you let me have the abortion I desperately need?!” Doctor: “Some people object to others having abortions…” Open the door to politicization of healthcare & this is where it leads

Context for Belfast riots

I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️‍🌈💖

These are all great reasons for researchers to get started with an ORCID iD. 💫 Others include name disambiguation, name flexibility, and reduced administrative burden. Check out our page for researchers for more: info.orcid.org/researchers/ #ResearchSky

Trans and intersex athletes say the IOC’s decision to reinstate genetic testing for the 2028 Olympics will damage the livelihood and humanity of not just trans and intersex athletes, but all women. “This is largely a solution in search of a problem,” @thechrismosier.bsky.social said.

We did a really interesting story a few years ago about how different whale falls around the ocean might actually create a kind of web that deep-sea species can hop between hakaimagazine.com/news/how-dea...

Help us make sure MPs get eyes on what we have to say. Send them our video and ask them to stand up for their trans constituents, and urgently sign the EDM 240.” www.youtube.com/shorts/d0fO0...

Said a spokesperson for chimps and elephants, "Fuck you, we're not a problem to solve" www.npr.org/2026/06/07/n...

Posting on the race riot promotion and coordination platform to condemn the race riots it promoted and coordinated. The only post any MP or PM should be making on that platform is announcing they're leaving it and why. Disgustingly milquetoast bullshit.

I asked what would happen if the Code fails in practice. The EHRC said there would be situations where “people will have great difficulty working with this law and the Code may or may not help them get through it.” That is an extraordinary admission.

'The university has adopted the position that boycotting staff are in "breach of contract", will receive no pay, and are therefore not expected to work at all, leading to what some have described as a "lockout".' 1/3

Bullshit.

Schrödinger’s Immigrant So impoverished illegal immigrants are taking all the houses from US citizens while simultaneously applying for asylum from their destitute countries. 🤡

Update: Young people & families today received shocking & transphobic letters from NHS. These letters tell people that endocrine care (blockers / HRT) is being fully withdrawn in 7 weeks time (July 31st). Forced medical detransition. This country is a danger to trans children & young people.

I have signed the fatal motion on the code of practice. The answers to the questions I raised below - and to those from other committee members - fell far short of anything workable, just or fair.

How can they expect a bike to fit in it if the painted symbol is too wide? Read more on the road.cc live blog

Again and again and again researchers, activists and people who work to enable communities to live well and peacefully together had warned and offered clear, practical steps. *Last year* I spoke at length of this with @neilmackay.bsky.social It will get worse without action

Not only a lawyer, but one who ascribed a fundamental shift in his worldview to time spent in NI post-Good Friday Agreement, including the formation of the PSNI.

At moments of crisis, leaders have a responsibility to speak to, and for, their country. The PM should be on the airwaves, telling the stories of the children, teenagers and families who have been burned out of their homes; naming those responsible; and leading a national fightback against them.

This is what a pogrom looks like: men in masks coming to drive you from your home. This is a collective failure of our political and media class because we did not have the courage to say no, and because too many were allowed to embrace this without shame

@willnorman.co.uk just what is needed in London. @londoncycling.bsky.social - a motion I put forward at AGM and membership supported.

‘It is well past time to arrange a regional framework and defence pact that would become a fact on the ground, which neither Israel nor the latest occupant of the White House could ignore.’

How can we live in a system where a bunch of hateful freaks can write into law that trans women don't need breast cancer screening or gynecologists when it's literally a fact we do? I'm so angry about how observable reality and scientific fact is not remotely considered in any of this stupid process

My statement on the EHRC Code of Practice and why I have chosen to sign the Motion of Regret.