I won’t be voting Labour again unless my MP challenges Mahmood’s brutal and extremist settlement policy.

It was clear for all to see 2 years ago. The Canary was the attitude towards BXT. All the rest, matches expectations.

We are hiring! We’re excited to recruit a postdoc to our lab at UC Davis to work on plant immune engineering and single-cell analyses of plant pathogen interactions. Apply by June 1. Please repost. www.coakerlab.org/postdoctoral...

Liberty's Husband?

We should be learning from other countries...

I am genuinely thrilled to see this, and if it feels like no big deal to you, I would refer you to five years ago, when people in Westminster hyped the Turing scheme& argued that Erasmus was pointless anyway since British students did not like to go abroad.

“To rebuild relations with Europe in a dangerous world, the prime minister needs to win big arguments, not hide behind outdated red lines” Well said @rafaelbehr.bsky.social - Every word! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Britain’s top private school to close after Labour’s VAT raid share.google/p97U9zw0qUOb... Good. The consequences may be unintended, but they are good nevertheless. I dream of a UK when money doesn't mean educational privilege

Brexit: the gift that keeps giving. (Also: all borders made to limit the fundamental human right of movement across this earth are the source of many evils) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A brilliant preprint here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Modelling the MLO proteins as Ca2+ channels. Somehow they facilitate powdery mildew infection. Still wondering how they may do that.

One of my cartoons in Monday's Metro

By the way...(For those in the UK).. This was the headline in last night's News at 10 (BBC). Why?

Congratulations Dr. Bala Chaudhary!

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... ”This is who he is, but this is not who we are." In your dreams, Mr Schumer. In our nightmares, this is exactly what you are: Violent Murderous Imperial Greedy Self-righteous Unhinged DJT is not alone. He has a country behind him who shares...

And I thought it was just me...

Please read this by @warghetti.bsky.social themarkaz.org/dear-souseh-...

"A government spokesperson said: “Our mission is to break the link between background and success" A simple way to start this: work towards abolishing private/fee paying education

“When mayors in other cities ask me how #Copenhagen afforded to invest in its cycling networks, I ask them how on earth they have been able to afford highway projects. We invested in bike lanes because that was the cheapest option.” What the world can learn from Copenhagen’s cycling revolution.

Source: Reading Chronicle share.google/BqNsH3jfNLgD... 🎉🎉🎉🎉 Vain hope: looking forward to when NO private school operates this divisive and iniquitous system. Finland teaches the good lesson. One day we will wake up to: "why did we ever do this?"

Ours: www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... Not ours: just google scholar search the title above

I will be doing the miniatures on the side margins. Definitely NOT using BioRender

Cell-surface receptors play key roles across many biological processes. In plants, these receptor families have undergone remarkable expansion. Here, we systematically review these receptors in @theplantjournal.bsky.social Happy to see this out! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

📢New paper alert: 🍄 Friendly #fungi hijack #plant regulator to promote #symbiosis - study uncovers #mechanism that helps fungi to colonize plant #roots 👉 Link: www.nature.com/articles/s41... @an-pocheng.bsky.social @carogutj.bsky.social

If plant-based foods must be more honest, let’s do the same for meat – fancy some ‘cow muscle’? | Deirdra Barr www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Some good points here. But I would then expect/demand that all food be labelled as Genetically Modified. Because of practically ALL* FOOD we eat

Great. Can we now move on to the monarchy?

Our dependency on fossil fuels makes us vulnerable. Wars across the world are pushing up prices for households in the UK. Why keep waiting for the next crisis? We need to transition to clean power as fast as we can to protect people and our economy. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

New Dispatch article on the multitude of fungal symbionts now being reported in lichens, led by @puginiercamille.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A Sunday afternoon walk.... These are some fungi we found. Yellow Rust on wheat

We need safe and legal routes for refugees. George Monbiot explains what’s often missing in the debate about asylum seekers and refugees: "My worry is that we end up talking about what's good for us and forget about what's good for people."

This just keeps on coming back around forever doesn't it (and then we have to point out all the issues with grammars yet again) - selecting by "ability" often means selecting by wealth, and outcomes are worse for the kids outside of grammars - we should care about them too.

Damn right they shouldn't. The small boats are dangerous, and a way for criminals to make money out of people's misery. I suggest they should be giving them a voucher to use on a ferry, or Eurostar. Together with a work permit, if they are old enough to work

"Critical shortage of micro violins prevents national orchestra from playing"

Envy? I long for the days where most will disdain parents who choose a private education for their children. A failure: that they have to buy success, because if their insecurities. I also long for the time when private education is outlawed, as a divisive socially malign institution.

Genuine question: why do we (ie the UK) "have" Akrotiri. Don't give me the history. I mean, why are we still there as a military base? (Same goes for Diego Garcia)

Looks like we have solved the demographic problems caused by too little migration at a stroke...

How long before she defects to Reform? That seems like her real home

Another dinosaur here reposting this

Ok. It is now clear: Mahmood must go.

So, there are still some Lab politicians with their head screwed on the right way up. Labour must cease taking progressive voters for granted, says Sadiq Khan www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

"The levels of illegal migration are putting immense strain on our country". A simple solution: make it legal. Let migrants work and contribute to our society, as the majority of them probably do. Like the rest of us...

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026... I am not Muslim. This alienates me too. It's the whole cabinet who needs to review and repent. They are trashing all the good they may be trying to do on other fronts.

Why should communication involving the royals be exempt from Freedom of Information requests? It really is one rule for the rich and powerful, and one rule for the rest of us. I intend to work with other MPs to close this outrageous royal transparency loophole.

'You can’t really fix student loans without also changing something structural about higher education – and any structural change to HE requires a comprehensive funding review.' Ultimately, this is the inescapable bottom line. 1/2

... Be more Brown - Gordon or Tina ….

This reveals the root of the rot: The idea that university (or other education) is a privilege or service to be paid for by the student. This is the foundation fallacy. Whoever started this, and continued it (I am looking at you, Con Lab Lib) are responsible for this rot.

This is causing despair in academe. (1) We were forced to close during Covid. We had no choice! (2) We're not service providers like a restaurant, we are institutions of state. (3) We did everything we could. (4) This will cripple current students' education. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The Good Old Days. When even lab equipment was crafted in precious hardwood, like antique furniture. Exhibit #1

A specialized ARGONAUTE enables trans-species RNA interference in plant immunity https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.18.706620v1

Good news - but let’s hope the professionals at the FDA will be allowed to do their work without interference.