If the @royalsociety.org won’t stand up for scientific values like truth, evidence & the importance of not spreading misinformation on an industrial scale, then who will? www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

Following coverage over the weekend of Sir Paul Nurse's comments that suggested that the only reason that a Fellow should be expelled from @royalsociety.org is scientific misconduct, I have written to him to explain the risks such an attitude poses of increasing sexual harassment in STEM.

When I was a freelance BBC science presenter, I wrote in support of Professor Dorothy Bishop and was then told I should not be critical of the Royal Society. Now I’ve resigned, so I can say I think @profrachelgan.bsky.social is making an important point here.

I was 20 when HS2 was announced. Great to know i’ll probably be in my late 60s when the Birmingham-Manchester section starts work let alone finishes. Seems like a country doing things the right way!

Worrying to see this, and the power of the reductive narrative that focuses primarily/only on screens as the cause of the "anxious generation"; it permits an avoidance of bigger debates about the decline of spaces for children & young people, the impacts of austerity & inequality, and so much more:

And you can bet that Streeting won’t be inviting all the people who have criticised Haidt’s work along. I have a bad feeling about this. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...

Bill Watterson is my favorite cartoonist. I adored the relationship btw Calvin and Hobbes as a child. But as I've gotten older, these strips feel even more tender and insightful. My respect for him grew when I learned of his stance against merchandising. Such principles are almost unheard of today.

There's hardly a meaningful distinction between ICE and the Gestapo at this point and we might as well confront that. No reforming an institution which became the gestapo. It must be destroyed.

Abolish ICE

Scott Adams is dead. Without excusing or condoning anything he said, I think it was very hard for a lot of creative people, including him, to watch their entire art form collapse as newspapers stopped running comics, and that resentment was fertile soil for the reaction that he'll be remembered for.

I love her! #winemomantifa

Rest In Whatever, Scott Adams 2/2

Leftists address this constantly. We advocate for universal health care and child care, guaranteed pensions, decommodified housing, and all kinds of other things that would directly address these issues. What we don't do is say "more white babies" which is what is really being asked here

AAAAAAH WHAT THE FUCK

My brother, who lives in the poor, water-stressed deserts of tunbridge wells, still has no water for drinking or sanitation. Schools closed again, so kids home. He dreams of a flushing toilet and education for his children…

A number of people on this platform have been claiming that it's not up to government to shorten people's time on remand, however far beyond the statutory limit that time extends. Well, take it from a very eminent retired judge. It is. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Kemi, this is just a population density map

“Is there a time difference with America?” “Aye, these days it’s about 150 years.” #TrumpsAmerica

It's not all bad

Great work here by @sholtodavid.bsky.social www.thetimes.com/article/3113...

Properly funding the court system would clear the backlog even more quickly. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

This person analyzes american politics for a living writing.yaschamounk.com/p/help-me-un...

Great things still happen all around us. Each your UNC Biology's Bob Goldstein and Art's Beth Grabowski co-teach ARTS/BIOL 409, that brings together artists and scientists to explore an intersection of two disciplines. It culminated this year with a remarkable show Friday 1/n

become ungovernable

& it's working, the british right is now getting on board with a vision of essentially partitioning the country this is straight fascism, well to the right of where they were a year ago even www.thebulwark.com/p/tories-con...

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The Virgin Democratic Party Establishment Candidate: "ICE isn't coordinating with local police. This is no way to bring down prices!" The Chad Episcopalian Bishop: "I have instructed my priests to prepare for martyrdom."

Let alone their future driving permissions… Why is road crime treated differently to other crime? IMO complacency and acceptance of road danger as inevitable have dulled accountability. Strategy isn’t enough — we need a fundamental root & branch cultural reset. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Just remember the rhyme, boys and girls: "If it's Naomi Klein - you'll be fine, "If it's Naomi Wolf - what the fuck were you thinking, are you having a stroke, do you need me to call someone, for God's sake take your meds."

Here's some numbers Rory might not want to discuss.

What would David Lammy in opposition have said about secretary of Justice refusing to meet with hunger strikers? or what would former human rights lawyer Sir Kier Starmer have thought then? beliefs before power and after power, just not when in power . www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...

In the grand scheme of things €300m is nothing. Wandsworth Council is spending £4MILLION on beautifying 100metres of a bridge underpass and the Labour government is spending £9BILLION on just 12-miles of new road

Read this earnest, respectful call for the United States Congress to grow a damn backbone.

Starting to feel like it's an explicit job requirement for political pundits not to admit the most consequential trend in American politics of the last 40 years.

BIG FIGHT AT POLAND’S WROCLAW ZOO!!!

Three Members of Congress showed up to inspect the actions of federal officers in their state and the federal officers drew their weapons?

4K Review: “Dogma” 25th Anniversary Special Edition brings a lost classic home again www.sliceofscifi.com/2025/12/16/4...

no he's just saying who he will and will not work with you 'centrists' need to figure out that your recycled thatcherism is dead and nobody wants you anymore replace starmer with another 'centrist' and labour will continue to tank in the polls. it's been 40 years and we're wise to your bullshit

Today, we will be starting off 2026 by attending what might be the first protest for trans rights of the year. GATE (Guiders Against Trans Exclusion)'s Birmingham protest against Girlguiding's ban on trans girls will begin at 12:00 noon. Come back to the thread closer to the time for updates.

The Dutch will double intercity bike routes in the next 5 years, from 1100 to 2300km. Every city has local routes: Utrecht, for example, has 420km of separated bike lanes & bike streets. 𝘿𝙤𝙤𝙧𝙛𝙞𝙚𝙩𝙨𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙩𝙚𝙨 allow people to safety go by bike throughout NL. More info: www.fietsersbond.nl/nieuws/doorf...

When all protest becomes ‘terror’, we have imprisoned ourselves as well as the demonstrators @natashawalter.bsky.social on Palestine Action how language has been used to strip the Palestine Action hunger strikers of humanity. www.thenerve.news/p/palestine-...

What would a fellow have to do, to be in contravention of the @royalsociety.org Code of Conduct if Musk's behaviour *doesn't* constitute "acting in a personal or professional capacity in such a manner as is likely to bring the Society into disrepute"? royalsociety.org/-/media/abou...

This is now overt UK state terror enforced at the behest of genocide defenders and enablers in the Cabinet. Release all the on-remand Palestine Action activists on bail with tags. They are not going anywhere. If she dies no one will vote Labour again. news.sky.com/story/palest...

Astonishing both-sidesing in The Times

Rules say very little about an institution. Almost nothing, really. It's what they enforce that does. That says everything.

The code of conduct rarely applies to white rich men. Other white rich men make sure of that 🫠

It IS bloopy! #Nature

I am coming to BELFAST - tickets here cqaf.com/robin-ince-t...

This morning my husband and I sat down and had the “packed bag by the door” chat for the unfortunately increasing likelihood that Reform will get in here or that parties pulled even further to the right will do to us what’s being done in America. We made a medium-term contingency plan.