U can have a park for the people or park cars. The town of Tulln in Lower Austria made the choice for the people. They turned a concrete desert into a green paradise at the very heart of the city. We need more of these transformations. For families, seniors, teenagers…..

This system is monstrous and inhumane - we should be rubber-stamping such applications

The dispersal of domestic cats from North Africa to Europe around 2000 years ago | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

C. elegans researchers were early adopters of open science: "The development of common resources and the belief that research findings and mutant strains should be freely shared has propelled worm research to the forefront" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

"Postdoc in the job market"

This raises a very real question about how we talk about AI. To call this slop is to downplay the fact that it was published in an esteemed journal. We used to call such things fraud, but this suggests the publisher is innocent. AI has changed the terms of debate. We urgently need new norms.

"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se

Sally Rooney ‘almost certain’ UK ban could force her books off shelves Normal People author Sally Rooney’s books may have to be withdrawn from sale and none of her new works published in the UK due to “uncertainty” caused by the ban on Palestine Action, the High Court has been told.

Labour Together is a hate group mate.

Two studentships available, one with me and Sam Booker and the other with me and Paul Donlin-Asp- do apply! www.findaphd.com/phds/project... www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

This is why we need cycling infrastructure. The intensity and range of bad driving has gotten absolutely bananas in the last few years, and the only thing that helps curb it in a meaningful way is to create physical barriers to the fuckery. Still won't stop all of it, but nothing else comes close.

#RNAsky #RNAbiology

It is IMO not possible to operate any kind of meaningful democracy when your national press is a joke and a travesty, but your mileage on that may vary. I think it’s incontestable that it is impossible to govern well and effectively, while being in hock to these pantomime clowns.

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The remarkable wings of a 0.3mm long Alaptus minimus wasp of the Mymaridae. If you look closely toward the left end of the pair you can see the hamuli (hooks) that link the hindwing to the forewing. #wasps #entomology

“There were some cells in there that were very messed up” In a technological tour-de-force, researchers have sequenced the whole genomes of more than 100 individual cells from one 74-year-old man go.nature.com/44yj4MN

1/ The latest Femicide Census, a meticulous national record of women killed by men, revealed Knowsley has the highest femicide rate in the United Kingdom. Perhaps if the government and press started to focus on actual male based violence and not vilifying trans women who aren’t harming women

A good summary of many of the lies told by people like Wes Streeting and the rest of the political far right about puberty blockers. www.thepinknews.com/2025/11/26/p...

Interventions that promote healthy #aging differ in their effectiveness between individuals. This #Celegans study shows that the effect of a pro- #longevity intervention can be strongly influenced by early-life #splicing factor activity & metabolic landscape @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/49AxSOv

My mum’s response when I described the academic publishing system 😂 I mean, she’s not wrong!

"Here, we present a curated dataset of 332 high coverage (≥12-fold) whole genomes, including 198 chimpanzee, 16 bonobo, 77 gorilla and 41 orangutan individuals sequenced on the Illumina platform." www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This feels like a "face God and walk backwards into hell" kind of thing where you're convinced it's part of the foundational texts of the Catholic Church and not a comment on a thread about "Home Alone"

Why the two-child limit has to go, in a chart.

Hey. Wanna see what it looks like to fly past your home planet? THEN LOOK AT THIS This is the OSIRIS-APEX spacecraft's view as it swung by Earth on Tuesday, 23 September 2025 from an altitude of 3,500 km. Look how beautiful that big blue marble is ❤️

An interesting thought experiment is to replace every word “cycle” in the article with “car”, and every word “cyclist” with “driver” See how it reads. See the difference in the language used when we talk about the two modes? #MotorNormativity @ianwalker.bsky.social

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Imagine coming up with a proposal so stupid, so unworkable, so thoughtless, that it makes Robert Jenrick look sane by comparison. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

isaac chotiner came to my house and tricked me into admitting we weren’t out of ice cream in front of my five year old daughter

Finally, an Olympic sport I can get behind!

I keep saying, Google intentionally making its search worse is a world-historical fumble, and it's a huge opportunity for so many others across the internet, if they'll just seize it..

Norway’s Sovereign Wealth Fund stands at a whopping $2 Trillion because they invested in their future. We could’ve been in a similar position, but UK Govs squandered our oil wealth. Westminster never works for Scotland, it’s time for independence. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I vote this for Science Pun of the Year 2025

Scientists have a whole new understanding of how the overlooked lichen helped plants turn Earth's land green. Which means, ahem! Please lichen subscribe to our excellent news stories!!! 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/this...

Let people live their lives as they want and we'll have a better world

Hang on, I got this wrong (catching up with being off yesterday) Breakdown of UKRI budget from 2026 is: - £14bn curiosity-driven R&D - £8bn national priorities - £7bn business - £7bn skills and infrastructure So actually appears curiosity-driven will account for a smaller share than before

Welp given what I know of LSE finances I guess if anyone is looking to hire I may soon be in the need of employment! Fuck could I somehow link what I do to AI maybe?

Latest work out today in @currentbiology.bsky.social We find the fly development gene bicoid is much older than previously thought (~20 million yrs older!) 🪰🧬 To pinpoint its origins we tackled the Diptera phylogeny, providing some resolution (many open questions remain). 🔗 tinyurl.com/2vyuevpy

This is the kind of thing you would do if you had no idea how to achieve economic growth. It's a stunningly stupid move but only one of many that the government has been making over the last 10 months or so. All those years in opposition and they have no idea what to do while in office. Shameful

This government's relentless focus on growth has got out of hand.

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It really is just simple geometry. You cannot build a functional city if everyone brings a 2-ton living room on wheels with them.

Cis people, how many times have you been asked to describe how you masturbate, and what you think about when you do, to access healthcare on the NHS?

What Kenan Malik has failed to do here is distinguish between mundane bigotry (the "visceral") and programmatic racism. The language of "invasion" and "white decline" does not arise organically from working class anxiety or xenophobia but is imposed from above.

@aptshadow.bsky.social proven right to have chosen these guys as protagonists

Jumping spiders can recognise one another. This ability to learn, remember and represent images is quite surprising for such a tiny-brained animal! buff.ly/dCkwPr0

Well played, interview writer-upper. Well played.

A typical Dutch urban roundabout with full priority for people cycling and walking at all arms

Compare and contrast the Government language. £3,750 EV grant on a £35k car: ‘helping families’. Cycle to Work: ‘subsidising leisure’. And yet cycling delivers TEN TIMES the impact of electric cars for reaching net zero. It’s almost like narrative, not data, is driving policy.