Abbott on fire here. Sir Keir Stormfront must be the only person in these Island that didn’t think Mandelson was extremely problematic & Epstein’s plaything.

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

Car is king for Scottish Labour - 🚗 Blocking congestion charges 🚗 Aiming to blow active travel budget on fixing potholes 🚗Freezing Glasgow airport parking charges 🚗Protests against introduction of parking permits (~£200 per year) Unbridled car use is stifling our economy & damaging public health

The Lancet: "The politicisation of women's bodies and choices is part of a wider attempt to roll back human rights and freedoms of women and marginalised groups. ...It is a fundamental right of a woman to decide whether and when she has children, and is central to gender justice."

Creating baby geniuses to thwart the AI threat? (Yes, really.) www.motherjones.com/politics/202... - smart people being really stupid about intelligence

I’ll never forget watching The Wicker Man with my outer Hebridean mum. “I just don’t know where there got all that wicker from”

🔥🇺🇦The 11th Separate Army Aviation Brigade "Kherson" demonstrated how the crew of a Yak-52 light aircraft destroys Russian Shahed/Geran drones.

Approx. 140 women per year are murdered by men in the UK, and there were more than 70,000 (reported) rapes in 2024, so maybe stop writing now, prick.

Baby elephant holds the caretakers hand while it falls asleep. 😴

<neutrinos passing through light-years of lead>

Gross.

"During her premiership as first minister, Sturgeon championed a “wellbeing economy” as she advocated for a shift in focus from traditional Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth towards “collective wellbeing”, including environmental sustainability, health, and equality."

The clearest evidence that the increase in atmospheric CO₂ is due to humans is in carbon isotopes. Fossil fuels have no ¹⁴C and are depleted in ¹³C. As we burn them, the ratio of ¹⁴C and ¹³C relative to ¹²C in the atmosphere drops (look up the Suess Effect).

Anti-amyloid Alzheimer’s drugs show no clinically meaningful effect www.cochrane.org/about-us/new...

Frank Herbert I apologize for ever doubting you

If you’re looking for something to watch this weekend, here it is! @gilesyeo.bsky.social gives the @britsciassoc.bsky.social Biological Section presidential address. Find out how new weight drugs work & spot @genotripe.bsky.social & @petergallivan.bsky.social cameos! www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHDk...

I get the sentiment - hospital staff do hugely demanding jobs and deserve better conditions - but the answer isn't free parking. "Free" parking has huge societal and environmental costs. [Alt text: Hospital staff should not have to pay hospital parking charges. Share if you agree.]

The stats here are horrific. 300,000 uninsured drivers on roads every day. 1 person affected every 20 minutes by an uninsured driver. 1 person a day left with life changing injuries every day by an uninsured driver. Yet successive govts have failed to tackle this www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

And the woman did speak unto the hound, saying, What do you mean, normal men, and the hound answered the woman, saying, We are just innocent men. And great was her emotion

Perfect name for something you use for your science and not give any credit

#C4News last night reported on the wholesale targeting of ambulances & paramedics in Lebanon by Israel, including the recent 'triple hit', when Israel attacked an ambulance, then attacked paramedics who went to help, and then attacked further paramedics also trying to help.

TRUMP, throwing insults at Pope Leo: “weak on crime” “terrible for foreign policy” “catering to the Radical Left” “owes his position to me” “sit down and mind your own business” POPE LEO, unbothered: “We are called to love.”

I am reassured on a weekly basis that cancelling my TV licence was the right decision

As a reminder, while there’s no Strasbourg case law on toilets, there are two on hospital wards and similar settings: the case of Goodwin, and the case of “I”. This is legally unachievable.

This is HUGE! 100,000 women have now signed the @nionwomen.bsky.social petition. It means conclusively that “gender-critical” transphobes, dishonest politicians, like Streeting and journalists claim that there is a “conflict of rights” between cis women and trans people they are lying. End of.

Oxford City Council's 1973 Balanced Transport Policy. wanderingdanny.com/oxford/docs/... This was hugely progressive, abandoning road building and looking to shift trips to public transport and cycling instead.

Today marks a year since the Supreme Court decision. We now know a revised version of the draft statutory guidance is due in May. We need to act fast to make sure it explains how trans people can still be included. Write to your MP to tell them what they need to do, using our quick and easy tool 👇

We should start removing the citizenship of weasels like this. If you don’t like paying your taxes and want to live in another country, fine, go, but you won’t be getting back in

Sign here to ask for the full suspension of the EU-Israel Association Agreement eci.ec.europa.eu/055/public/#...

Kicking off the Communicating Your Science workshop with an inspiring first session on storytelling by Alison Woollard. Alison reminds us “If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t know it well enough”. #scicomm

Sign today. It’s my birthday. 100 000 signatures would be a nice gift.

We’re excited to kick off our Communicating Your Science workshop! @genotripe.bsky.social welcomes this year’s cohort. We’re looking forward to share ideas, build skills and explore how to make research more engaging and accessible #scicomm

It feels like a long time ago, but was only 3-4 years, when the Gender Critical mob still pretended they had nothing against Trans people, but just wanted to protect women from bad actors taking advantage. That was a lie of course, it was always about punching down on trans people.

Beautiful Cinematic of the Artemis II mission by melodysheep. #Artemis www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGxz...

The same people who "not all men!" get really mad if survivors of sexual assault assumed that maybe not all men.

Our new album is out today! A sincere request to help spread the word!

My brain made me watch this entire video and you know what? I enjoyed myself.

ICYMI (because I certainly did), last week STFC published some numbers about where its cost pressures have come from Increasing costs of international subscriptions is the biggest driver www.ukri.org/publications...

Rather than its continued focus on demonising and dehumanising migrants, Labour would be better off taking a lesson from Spain. Regularisation policies which make it easier for people to gain status help: ✅Tackle exploitation ✅Improves people's lives ✅Boosts economy www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Streeting has adopted a very "Last Viceroy" approach to Scotland. It’s as if a plodding undergraduate saw a TikTok video about Machiavelli and decided they could rule the world. He’s a cross between Tigger and Hannibal Lecter: an endlessly gobby, high-energy, low-info menace to society.

Free public transport in the whole country! Luxembourg not the UK. This makes so much sense with fuel scarcity and rising prices. Luxembourg has had free transport for 6 years! Come on UK, do the right thing. #BeatTheFuelCrisis www.luxembourgexpats.lu/stories/educ...

🧵 UK Labour govt has not given up on its policy of persecuting trans ppl. UK & its Supreme Court are at odds with their requirements to the superior European Court of Human Rights. Official persecution leads to increased transphobia within society. Already 57%* of trans ppl avoid their own GP! [1]

Ugh - the Royal Marsden helped to save my wife’s life, and they’re trying to do so for many, many more people. And NIMBYs are trying to stop it because the lifesaving building is taller than they’d like?? Give me strength. (Via Looking For Growth)

Republicans must be kept from power. They are not intellectually equipped to use it. They operate essentially as adult children. Actually, they're far worse. Children at least have a natural curiosity and a desire to learn.

I was interviewed by @katiepickup.bsky.social recently for @dmmjournal.bsky.social. This has a little bit of my background, a little bit on science and mentoring, and a little bit (ok, more than a little bit) on funding in science. Check it out at: journals.biologists.com/dmm/article/...

Greens are actually paying attention. Worth remembering!

I hope this does the years of relentless hatred and unnecessary challenges that queer people in Hungary had to suffer. It’s early days but if he is saying this on day 0, then it’s headed in the right direction already.

How do nervous systems produce behaviors? A new MIT study provides a detailed mechanistic mapping of exactly what happens in the brains of C. elegans worms when they “follow their nose” to savor attractive odors or avoid unappealing ones. picower.mit.edu/news/navigat... #neuroscience

"If you were in charge of star trek, what would you do?" The Starfleet temporal department. Show is just every episode another classic time travel concept. All the classics. Ship is like the one from Year of Hell it exists outside the timestream. Department both always existed and yet to be founded