Jeremy Clarkson mocking someone’s teeth is adorable coming from a man who’s spent decades looking like a sun-dried scrotum with a double chin that has its own postcode!

www.theunpopulist.net/p/even-by-a-... Just a thought, @royalsociety.org , Would you welcome Saruman FRS?

If there really is "an exodus of young Britons", who could blame them. If I were a newly qualified young engineer again, I would be off like a shot. A country that is in the thrall of hateful right wing media, shot itself in the foot by abandoning its biggest, closest trading partner -

💯 right. Especially the 2nd part abt the need to make migration easier, not harder. I wrote about it in the NYT during Trump1 to clear my name after getting criminally charged thanks to Denmark's insane anti-immigration policy (my crime was giving an invited lecture on my research to Parliament).

i think we have to get off the defensive on immigration it's not just necessary, it's good! - & the easier it is, the greater its benefits

I fully appreciate this is quite an open ended question, but what the actual f**k is wrong with the Home Office? How devoid of the most basic humanity do you have to be to do this? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Zac Polanski's interview on R4's PM today. Amazing clarity. Speaks for me. 100%

Today's migration stats illustrate the migration doom loop in action... (from my presentation at the IMF last week)

Heard today on R4 news: "Net migration falls sharply...Who should get the credit?" Whaaaat? Why should anyone think this is something to be proud about? We are making this place so unwelcome. Lower growth. Lower tax revenue. Lower income.

Migration policy is being driven by fear of Reform not by rational thought 'a fall in net migration of 300,000 a year would increase deficit by c. £20bn' We will all feel poorer and Reform will just find another group to blame this on Labour need to find the courage to take on the racist rhetoric

🛡️ INSIGHT 🛡️ "Barley powdery mildew effector CSEP0162 interacts with the endosome membrane-binding domain of barley MON1" - Deb et al. share an update relevant to their earlier work, Liao et al. (2022) 🌾 Insight 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... Research 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

Wow. Just wow. A decision in direct conflict with all the ideals of the Reith Lectures.

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

a useful @theguardian.com graphic

🌍 42.5m refugees Over 70% of them are hosted by low- and middle-income countries. 🇬🇧 548k refugees = 0.78% of the UK population. It is not refugees who tear our country apart, it is the mainstreaming of far right policies. And that’s a risk to all of us. My letter to my MP. #asylum #Mahmood 🧵

Look, for fuck’s sake, humans have been migrating continuously for our entire existence. Every single human in the world is the product of migration. It’s what humans do. There is nothing *more* human. That’s never going to change. Just grow up, get the fuck over it and plan accordingly.

Come on then, the rest of you cowards. Denounce this, or be party to it.

I was tagged and asked to take a look at this claim - cos, well just look at it!🙄 Does it seem plausible that THE Trocadero is going to be turned into a Mosque? It was pretty easy to debunk but I decided to do a deep dive into the reality AND the appalling press coverage 🧵 1/26

@davidpintod.bsky.social - you are my MP. So you want to reintroduce slavery back into the UK. Have you considered adding a swastika to your logo? It would save you having to explain what you stand for. cc. @labourlist.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Labour espousing inhumane policies. Will they ever feel an ounce of shame?

Pretty sure it’s racism which is tearing Britain apart

Deep breath, once more for those at the back, seeking asylum is not illegal. No matter route used, which considering Labour has closed pretty much all the last remaining alternatives means irregular ones. Anti-immigration sentiments are stoked by politicians like Mahmood, not people seeking safety.

Who would have imagined? Anyone listening to them since they were erected. These are evil words. No wonder the Yaxley guy is celebrating

Yesterday I made some fresh orange juice. I was about to put the peel in the compost... Then I had second thoughts. Steeping them in hot sugary water, put out to dry. A first go (of the year) at Xmas candy

That's exactly what is happening here. Piped through the tannoys of today's visit at the garden centre. It's toxic. I wonder how many gag at this

For Shabana Mahmood to attack some of the most cruelly treated people in the world as having won a "golden ticket" because they manage to get to and claim asylum in Britain is unforgiveable. A new, far right, low for which I can think of no precedent, by any UK Government.

I came to this country as a child refugee. No English, no certainty, no idea what my life could become. Britain gave me refuge. Not on a timer, not with conditions attached, but with a chance to grow roots. A thread 🧵 1/8 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Magritte in London 2025

Doc Marts pretending to be Birks... Is this Cultural Appropriation?

Look out for this later #histSTM (And on Franklin, about whom lots of myths are circulating today, read this: www.nature.com/articles/d41...)

Has anyone mentioned we are are talking about E Musk *FRS*? Come on, RS, when are you going to be defrocking him? Charles III has finally acted... so can you

Dear GOD if you want to save money in the asylum system 1. LET ASYLUM SEEKERS WORK 2. FAST TRACK STATUS FOR EVERYONE FROM CLEARLY UNDAFE COUNTRIES like Sudan, Syria, etc 3. Run an asylum accommodation system that is NOT FOR PROFIT #r4today

A fellow of the @royalsociety.org bragged about feeding USAID into the woodchipper. The RS says: "We draw on our Fellowship for inspiration to make a positive impact." I guess the @royalsociety.org now considers the deaths of hundreds of thousands to be a positive impact.

I think this constant push for immigrants to feel & act ‘grateful’ is so insidious. Let’s change the narrative. Migration is a normal part of human behaviour, not a charity case. If you’re doing your best to do your best, you don’t need to do even more to be accepted. It’s your right to be accepted.

Delighted to share the latest chapter in the mystery series on how septins sense membrane curvature. Grateful to reviewers for thoughtful critiques and @jcb.org for publishing our work! doi.org/10.1083/jcb....

Postdoc position in my lab in Cologne starting early next year or latest in spring to get this exciting project started. jobportal.uni-koeln.de/ausschreibun...

'Net migration will fall very sharply in future years... Any political benefit the government may gain from this fall in immigration could be jeopardised by the economic damage that it causes'. Some eye watering estimates here from @jamesbowes01.bsky.social ukandeu.ac.uk/the-coming-c...

National apoptosis

And that's just the £££. Scholarship is a lot more than that. It all adds up.

‘The CBI and Universities UK… said universities already subsidised research by £5.4 billion a year, largely through international student income. A levy would "accelerate contraction" in research and innovation, they warned.’ www.thetimes.com/article/95f2...

New Article: "A mobile DELLA controls Medicago truncatula root cortex patterning to host arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi" rdcu.be/eJO9O Mobile transcriptional regulators DELLA and SHORT-ROOT control the number of root inner cortex cell layers able to host symbiotic AMF.

It's mad how much people care about immigration when it is so proportionately unimportant compared to healthcare, cost of living, poverty, climate change, wealth inequality, war etc. How easily people are convinced to rage about the wrong things by charismatic manipulators and social media posts.

Heartfelt congratulations to @zackpolanski.bsky.social and all of the @greenparty.org.uk members that are working so hard 💚👏 - this is quite incredible.

@prczhaoyansong.bsky.social’s deep dive into the dark matter of compost communities is now out 🎉 Genomic islands hijack jumbo phages—whose capsids enable transfer of large tracts of DNA—shedding new light on the scale & scope of phage-mediated gene flow 😎 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Labour's changes to family reunification routes are pure, unmitigated, cruelty. They will trap people in unsafe countries, deny people the ability to be with spouses and children, and increase the use of irregular routes. An abhorrent policy by any reasonable measure. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

fish and chips, the native British dish invented by sephardic Jewish migrants in the 18th century using a vegetable no one on this island had encountered before the 16th

Well, Farrige will have achieved what he set out to do. Stop all those Turks coming here. Abetted by Johnson, May and co

The wind of fascist xenophobia is sweeping the world. It's evil miasma pollutes our humanity. Call it out whenever you smell its vile stink.