It’s true! I made a radio show with my friend and fellow science communicator. You can listen to the pilot episode on Mixcloud and hear our second show live at 5pm on Tuesday 28th October.

It's a basic point, but one that needs to be repeated: If right-wingers and their views were popular, they would not be so desperate to control mass media & social media nor to use government power to silence everyone else, and they wouldn't need oligarchs pumping billions into amplifying them.

‘I told my family, I’ll probably die’: US immigration sends Russian asylum seekers back to Moscow

Simply glorious

Israel Accuses Al Jazeera Of Being Mouthpiece For Journalism theonion.com/israel-...

“Americans should be able to drink their water & breathe their air without being poisoned. & if they aren’t, then our government is failing,” said Amelia H., an environmental protection specialist at the EPA on admin leave. Support her & brave #EPA employees here zurl.co/7A6RE zurl.co/8jUuu

🧪 In July's PubSci 🍺 blog I preview our event with @adamjkucharski.bsky.social on Weds 16th, share other science news and events, reflect on last month's talk, dip into the world of science poetry, and share an exclusive discount code for a talk this coming weekend. tinyurl.com/PubSci-Blog-...

#OtD 16 Jun 1531 Henry VIII modified vagrancy laws which were key in creating the working class. People kicked off communal land who were not in wage labour were designated as vagabonds and were to be whipped, then mutilated, then executed stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8796...

Fire! Glorious evening celebrating 200 years of science for the masses, with a spot of science in the pub. Thanks @pubsci.bsky.social as ever.

Henry VIII captivated by 500 million years of the universe trying to wipe Earth off the map. As were we. A cracking bit of cosmic snooker tonight with @pubsci.bsky.social.

Published posthumously in 2023, Pirate Enlightenment is a book by David Graeber. The book combines a lot of David Graeber's research on anthropology, history and ideas around democracy. Recommended to read next to a coffee and maybe a doughnut!

To Alaskans:

Fuerza responds to scenes where alleged ICE enforcement is reported. If officers are indeed with ICE, they hit record and spread the word. They also speak directly with those being detained. They are part of a growing scrappy network of volunteers protecting neighbors from ICE. bit.ly/4lgke5N

I love the Amnesty Bookshop in Kentish Town - they have a battle ahead - please support and share if you can

Thank you to everyone who is helping get the word out about Normally Weird - seems the media has grown bored of this sort of stuff - Gina Rippon’s excellent Lost Girls of Autism has seen similar silence - thank you to The Psychologist www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

The Trump admin has launched another assault on science, targeting over $30B of funding. This is a wide-sweeping crisis - a direct assault on Congress, the law, AND public science. This fight for science is just as much a fight for democracy. #StandUpForScience zurl.co/NA6BY

Read my recent interview with Richard Marshall, science communicator and current facilitator of an event series in London known as PubSci (@pubsci.bsky.social) or Science in the Pub, on how he runs the event and his views on public engagement with science. #SciComm ushashibasu.com/2025/05/18/f...

Another reason no decent human votes Tory

🚨 URGENT RESPONSE CALL 🚨 Trump’s Fool’s Gold Science EO is a dangerous sham. It gives his appointees the power to dismiss entire bodies of research and punish researchers who fail to fall in line with his agenda. We’ve launched an open letter. SIGN & SHARE NOW: actionnetwork.org/petitions/op...

Israel investigates use of Palestinians as human shields by its forces in Gaza

"AI giants' copyright theft plans are illegal, immoral, and incompatible with UK legal framework – we'll need to go back to t drawing board," is what massive arsehole Nick Clegg should have said.

They lynched Allen Brooks—and sold postcards of it. 10,000 watched. Kids cheered. No one was charged. They called it justice. We call it genocide. Now they’re banning books so you never find out. 📚 ERASED tells the truth they fear. Read it before they erase that too: stan.store/gxldsociety/...

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com Three Yale professors who have written extensively on authoritarianism are leaving the U.S. “We’re like people on the Titanic saying our ship can’t sink,” Marci Shore said. “And what you know as a historian is that there is no such thing as a ship that can’t sink.”

Trump let his followers evade $1 billion in fines and financial restitution after they committed gross fraud and embezzlement. Of course the corrupt are MAGA: Trump pardons your crimes and erases your fines if you pledge allegiance to the Führer. www.instagram.com/reel/DJHXBZZ...

X is *suing* the State of Minnesota for the "right" to post deep-fake political adverts influencing elections with lies. Minnesota banned AI deep-fake election ads. 👏 Musk cried "unfair" - 'lying with AI is "free speech" 🤦🏻‍♂️🤬🤡 www.reuters.com/business/med...

🧪 Our Terminated NSF Grant Tracker is live 🧪 🔴 114 NSF grants listed so far 🔴 Cancelled grants focused on → Training scientists → Misinformation → AI → Climate change Credit to @noamross.net for all the work to build this & to all PIs who submitted their info. Link: airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...

Trump tries to take direct government control of Harvard University piggybacked on antisemitism protection. If you can’t see that the USA is in the grip of a slow totalitarian coup, you are wilfully blind. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I see the radical left financial markets are colluding with China to undermine Trump. US government bonds are the BEST bonds EVER! Look at those HIGH interest rates! Bigly large. Bond dealers are clearly anti-success COMMUNISTS.

Another Brexit disaster threatens hammer small importers and exporters, killing busineses and driving up costs for those who survive. Higher import costs means higher prices for consumers - the complete opposite of what the Brexit propagandists promised. www.politico.eu/article/uk-b...

Is it all just a clever ruse to trick climate-change deniers into going electric…? 🤣

The world-hating, science-denying, life-endangering, anti-human madness of Trump continues as he demands international NGOs in receipt of US funding ensure no project includes elements of DEI or anything related to climate change.

STAND UP FOR SCIENCE SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT! ☀️ Gretchen Goldman, Ph.D., President of the Union of Concerned Scientists, will be speaking at the Stand Up for Science event in D.C. on March 7th! @gretchentg.bsky.social @ucsusa.bsky.social #standupforscience2025

Thanks to @nature.com for featuring Stand Up for Science! ☀️🧬🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Sorry to hear about the deaths of two very different people who tried to find ways to bring the best out of artists - Bill Dare and Johnny Green

We civil servants will cut UK aid if we are told to. But when people die, we’ll make sure everyone knows it | The civil servant

Cartoon by David Sipress.

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org

James Webb Satellite took a fantastic shot of the Planet Saturn with it's Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam) and the Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI). This is just an Amazing shot that shows the planet and the rings in brilliant detail.

‘We have nothing now’: Myanmar’s exiled media face existential crisis after Trump severs aid

‘I’ve never had a cinematic experience like it’: readers’ memories of Prince Charles Cinema

Hilarious. Far right push govt to order a review into two tier policing, the review reveals what everybody with basic sense already knows: Policing that punishes white people isn’t just non existent but the claim is linked to extremist views. The flagshaggers will love this.

Jeff Bezos has a hoarding problem. Won't somebody help him?

"We cannot continue to participate in the social network feed of a man who proclaims the death of the media and therefore of journalists... X is a platform that no longer serves the public interest at all, but the special ideological and financial interests of its owner and his political allies"