Going to be a hundred years of hurt at this rate.

RIP Wally Funk. In her youth, she was an accomplished pilot and part of a group of women tested for space flight but never allowed to become an astronaut. Six decades later, she finally made it into space at age 82. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/09/s...

Quite a lot of people lost someone, maybe an elderly relative, during the heatwave. My Aunt Barbara, very ill with advanced dementia, died yesterday aged 91. She was unmarried, no kids and I had been taking care of her affairs for the past few years. That’s the least interesting thing about her. 1

Amazing news! Cervical cancer deaths in younger women have plummeted in England following the rollout of the HPV vaccine, according to new research, published today in The Lancet. Read more: cruk.ink/4ozraO5

Somewhere in Birmingham a scary looking spider is enjoying the sunshine!

Birmingham local elections are bringing out the worst in the vying parties. No caller from any party has delivered anything other than angry, divisive rhetoric. There has been no attempt to address issues or to listen. Distrust and disrespect are in the driving seat ☹️

Look at all that DEI sending astronauts around the moon.

This is the ultimate test for a constitutional order. Either constitutional mechanisms are used to check and balance this, and remove him from office, or they are not. For there can be no greater test for any constitution.

Today’s poem is about trying to get around the UK by train. It’s called ‘The Poet Now Standing at Platform 3A’. brianbilston.com/2026/03/31/a...

So, about those Eid prayers in London... "What's the highest thing in Trafalgar Square?" "Nelson's column, innit?" "And the highest thing on the column?" "Nelson." "And on Nelson?" "His hat." "And the highest thing on his hat?" "That bit that sticks up." 1/8

So here we are one year on. Every single word of this article speaks to me and for me. yorkshirebylines.co.uk/society/talk...

If NATO is simply a vehicle for the USA’s whims then we have no sovereignty. I believe we are witnessing the end of the western alliance. Even the USA needs friends and they cannot be acquired by bullying. When will the citizens of the USA act to end this folly?

Excellent news. It was always a nonsense born of self delusion and geopolitical anxiety. It has led us to dependency on a precarious country rapidly shedding the pretence of democracy. I hope this is the beginning of the end of this posturing.

#hemesky 🩸great panel line up.

P2X7 antagonists showing promise for suppression of neuroinflammatory responses. Our paper out in Brain now. #ionchannels academic.oup.com/brain/advanc...

Wow.

Trump's utterance that force would not be used against Greenland has no more weight than any other of his utterances, and it certainly does not amount to him "ruling out" the use of force in any meaningful way. Disappointing to see so many news outlets place that construction on what he said.

Speeches still matter. This one was superb and deeply consequential if others follow his lead in the face of the corrupt mindless bullying and BS From USA. New ep @therestpolitics.bsky.social recorded just before he spoke. All themes covered!!!

Europe is working on a package to support Arctic security. And at the heart of this will be the fundamental principle: it is for sovereign people to decide their own future.

This has to be the way forward. UK, EU standing up to a bully.

1. The tariffs are paid by US consumers 2. Greenland isn't for sale 3. Go f**k yourself

Give him Rockall and tell him it is Greenland.

Starmer’s US policy lies in tatters. Trump is now punishing the UK and NATO allies just for doing the right thing. Time for the PM to stand firm against the bully in the White House, and work with European and Commonwealth allies to make him back down from this reckless plan.

Our study on microplastics in donated blood has been published in B.J.Haematology 🩸 This preliminary study developed the methodology for looking at microplastics in blood and shows that processing reduces their levels in the transfusable component. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Remember: what Trump and his administration are doing is only possible because Congress and the Supreme Court have abdicated their proper constitutional functions of check and balance.

Trump’s obsession with Canada and Greenland is probably just because of the Mercator projection

Keir Starmer should condemn Trump’s illegal action in Venezuela. Maduro is a brutal and illegitimate dictator, but unlawful attacks like this make us all less safe. Trump is giving a green light to the likes of Putin and Xi to attack other countries with impunity.

Freedom of speech is the foundation of our strong and vibrant European democracy. We are proud of it. We will protect it. Because the @ec.europa.eu is the guardian of our values.

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Keir Starmer needs to stand up for the BBC against Trump's outrageous $5bn lawsuit and protect licence fee payers from being hit in the pocket. Trump wants to interfere in our democracy and undermine our national broadcaster. We cannot let him.

🩸 Cryopreserved platelets did not meet noninferiority versus RTP. But given the shelf life of 2 years versus 7 days, is there room for CSP as a contingency component? #hemesky #platelets

It’s with deepest sorrow that I pass on the news that @profcelentyx.bsky.social John Gordon died on Wednesday 12th November. John was a superb immunologist, prolific punner, incredibly funny, warm and kind person. We will miss him terribly. #immunosky

Right. Hitler's DNA. Brace yourselves for a deluge of misinformation and bad science. I'm in Australia, so do get in touch if you want some expert debunking.

NEW The letter the BBC could send back to Trump A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim By me. Enjoy. emptycity.substack.com/p/the-letter...

Do we as licence payers get much return from the huge investment in US correspondents? Some rebalancing away from breathless reporting of the nonsense over there would be welcomed by many of us.

The BBC isn't perfect, but it belongs to Britain not Trump. Political leaders across the UK must unite in defending its independence from the White House.

Absolutely thrilled for John. Reflects a lifetime’s commitment to ethical and human centred research.

A small primer on the #NobelPrize awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi today. This prize was for combining two separate fields of immunology research - genetic research on IPEX and immunology research of regulatory T cells (#Tregs), with enormous impact on biology/medicine

This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.

I’m sad to hear the news that the wonderful Jane Goodall is no longer in the world. Her work with chimpanzees at Gombe in Tanzania taught us to look at other apes - and ourselves - differently. I was privileged to meet her later in life and tell her what an inspiration she was to me.

First Trump slashed funding for vaccines research now he's peddling dangerous nonsense about paracetamol. The UK should take on Trump’s anti-science agenda and open our doors to US researchers.

LIMERICK It was the Medical Council’s belief, That as a form of effective relief, Paracetamol would Be next to no good From the pain of the Satsuma-in-Chief.

Elon Musk is no friend of our United Kingdom. He should be held to account for allowing truly vile and illegal child abuse content on his platform.

Right wing activist is shot - who’s to blame?

This is the leadership we desperately need.

Our democracy is too precious to be a plaything for foreign tech barons. Elon Musk doesn’t care about the British people or our rights. He only cares about himself and his ego.

A secretive legal rabbit live tweeting a lesson on English law through the medium of an American movie. It’s absolute genius and hilariously British 😁 You owe it to yourself to read the whole thread!

Today’s poem is called ‘How Much I Dislike the Daily Mail’.

If we don’t make a stand now about the over platforming of Reform and the lack of coverage of our other parties, we’ll regret it for decades. The damage will be done and it will be too late. Sign now and please pass on. We have 6 weeks to get to 10k petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...

"Current patterns of plastic production, use, and disposal cause disease, disability, and death at every stage of the plastic lifecycle." @thelancet.com www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...