One of the many disturbing things about finding that you’re secretly watching Michael Portillo’s train journey shows is how much the incidental music sounds like Satisfied from Hamilton.

Of course the main takeaway from all of this is that autism is women’s fault.

Igor Stravinsky - Barry Manilow

Oh this is very cool #MathNerds

It’s ok everyone. Strictly starts on Saturday.

📢 Our latest newsletter is out! 📰 mailchi.mp/1af9dbb586dc... 🧁 Explaining research with cake ⁉️ ⛹️‍♀️ Empowering girls to take part in PE 💪 🥦 Tricking diners into choosing healthy food 🕵️ ...and much more! @nihr.bsky.social @bristolhealthp.bsky.social @capcbristol.bsky.social

This is MENTAL

It seems the Education Secretary, and the DfE, don’t understand anything about the causes of school non-attendance, and aren’t interested in finding out. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

12yo with the cat: “If god was real, why would he make some cats superior to others?”

Bro just walked in like he owned the place

Interesting follow up

We are keen to understand how equity, diversity, and inclusion are considered in early phase surgical studies: shorturl.at/dfjlM This will inform our work on generating incremental evidence, so that findings can be relevant to a wider populations. Such a complex but important area.

Normal semi-detached house, normal house, normal house, TERRIFYING STAIRS, MEDIEVAL CRYPT… www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/det...

Come and join me and our lovely team at Health Data Research UK! Recruiting now for a Programme Manager - this is an exciting role which provides a unique opportunity to work across both the HDRUK and Cancer Research UK data science communities. Apply here! 👇 www.hdruk.ac.uk/jobs/program...

Enjoying the entirely questionable Sydney geography in the Fall Guy

Very few people seem to understand university finances and, distressingly, this includes many academics and most policymakers. This is an attempt to condense the key points you need to know. open.substack.com/pub/profseri...

This is blatantly sour cream and chive but dressed up as aligot for the French market.

Is it because of patriarchy? theconversation.com/why-we-still...

Look at that really bad polar bear say the fam. Turns out it’s not a polar bear, it’s a tardigrade.

Aujourd’hui I learned that a Monaco is a shandy (un panaché) avec a shot of grenadine syrup. I chose not to indulge.

I am now half way through this and absolutely loving it. Strong rec.

Cafe gourmand slaps, as the children would (maybe) say. €8.

Catching up on the cricket from the top of the bastille in Grenoble. WTF?

Catching up on the cricket from the top of the bastille in Grenoble. WTF?

I’m partial to an unusual booze but I draw the line at goat milk liqueur

One of my daughters had about 3 weeks stuck on wrong combinations of the lines about cupboards and Mother Hubbard and Cinderella.

As it turns out I am quite interested in “ “ though sadly I am not a supply chain professional as should be reasonably obvious from my profile

einstein sent this to curie in 1911 when she was being harassed by tabloids. it contains everything you’d want in such a letter: (1) your haters are trash (2) you’re a baller, a true queen (3) i have determined the statistical law of motion of the diatomic molecule in planck’s radiation field 🧪⚛️

We have a 100% record of England Euro finals we watch in France. Let’s not mention the 0% of England world cup finals we actually go to in Australia.

No you’ve been helping your daughter do holiday hair

Last day

A piece by @jprosewriter.bsky.social on who gets to be a horse girl in books... justimagine.co.uk/2025/07/23/j... @nonthepratt.bsky.social #UKKidlit (I know Valerie and Georgina would be reading the crap out of these books if they existed in-world in the loki verse...maybe they should?)

Even now they are not making it easy for us

Oh god

The ARC West team has been devastated by the sudden death of Jon Banks last month. Jon was part of the ARC from its earliest days. Here we pay tribute to Jon, a much loved colleague and friend. “Everything he did, he did with kindness, generosity and warmth." arc-w.nihr.ac.uk/remembering-...

Over the weekend an old iPad charging cable has appeared on my desk. I have literally no idea where it came from. Do we have a tech poltergeist or am I losing my mind?!

Read the full research paper by Alice Porter, Elin Cawley, @laura-ann-chapman.bsky.social, Charlotte Crisp, Ruth Wadman, Sally Barber, Ian Penton-Voak, Angela Attwood, Russ Jago and Helen Bould in @bmj.com Open: bit.ly/4nUUuhd

🏆Top researchers have joined @teamgbofficial.bsky.social hockey player and #SportsInclusivity trailblazer Tess Howard to help teenage girls feel more comfortable in their school PE uniforms – and own bodies bristolbrc.nihr.ac.uk/university-e... #PhysicalActivity #PEkit #InclusiveSportswear

Nice for the PIMS study @bristolbrc.bsky.social and CRF and other partners to get a mention at #crfbrc25 conference

Look out for us at the joint @bristolbrc.bsky.social‬ CRF conference in Birmingham! Posters presenting how our qualitative research is providing valuable insights and learning for innovative surgical procedures as they are introduced into clinical practice. nihr.eventscase.com/EN/programme

In Birmingham for #crfbrc35 CRF and BRC conference.

Zelda is clearly a psychopath. Who abbreviates IPA as IA??!

Wondering if Queen make it through the difficult middle section of Bohemian Rhapsody at LiveAid with as much aplomb (!) as @gurtlushchoir.bsky.social

Crazy. Different numbers for different regions. Love that they’re nicking the Swapshop number. Also that they have to put a note to tell now viewers not to ring.

This is just awful for Dimitrov

Post show roasties were also ace @gurtlushchoir.bsky.social

We had a fantastic time at our summer concerts over the weekend 💚😎🌞💐🥀 thanks to everyone who came along!

Not for the first time, I find myself talking about squirrel milk online.

With this and Captain Tom, it's getting hard to trust people who go on really long walks.