Somewhat incredibly, Tony Blair has chosen the week that the UK's temperature record for May has been smashed by more than 2C to reiterate his hot take on net-zero Job done, though, as all the UK media is now leading with him saying "drill, baby, drill" rather than the exceptionally extreme weather

Go out! Look up! Enjoy the Moon! Watch how it changes from night to night (I've had a great view of the first quarter Moon from the garden the last couple of nights). Do not worry about 'special' events like a mini blue strawberry latte hedgehog Moon. Just go and look whenever you like! 🔭

Perhaps the fact that we are conducting an unprecedented experiment with the only home we have, by digging up and burning massive amounts of fossil fuels that is driving global change at rates 10X faster than the most recent warming of this magnitude that occurred oh about 55 million years ago? 🧐

A marvel of free markets

Every time we hear about how genAI has pushed another teenager to suicide, another person into committing a mass shooting, or generated CSAM of school girls used to blackmail their schools, remember we were told that what we'd be hearing about is a cure to every cancer, and global poverty itself

Whereas staying out of the EU is what, 'sensible politics'? Even when the economy is shit and most of the public want to rejoin? What else is '6th form politics' according to Lammy? A fully funded NHS? Free education? The minimum wage? Opposing genocide?

Love that people hate their AI shit. Cant collapse soon enough!

Oh look, the stupidest thing you could possibly do

Some wanted a white supremacist ethnostate. Others merely wanted to lynch the Prime Minister A wide range of views

I honestly think banning MPs' second jobs is the single most powerful immediate thing the Govt could do to dent Reform support. It's the right thing to do. It would be a strong move (and message) in cleaning up politics. And it would shine a light on the person hit hardest: Nigel Farage.

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

folx, I’ve been working on AI "ethics" for almost a decade now & hate to tell you there’s no such thing as "ethical AI" the only "ethical principle" that works is regulating the shit out of the industry & to take back control of our autonomy, fundamental rights, freedoms & right to exist w/out AI

👏 Hallucinated citations mean we can't trust anything in the paper! 🎯

wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖

Anyone not calling it a wesignation is a coward

Academic departments deserve to be saved, supported, resourced, allowed to grow even if they're not "best in the country," "first in the REF," "top-ranked," "at a Russell Group uni," or whatever other austerity-brained nonsense senior managers have been using to flimflam you out of solidarity

Well, that took less than 24 hours, lads. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

What is the purpose of the bond markets? If the bond markets decide who should be prime minister, why even have elections?

“Could you fucking NOT?!”

This is the end result of Shabana Mahmood’s nasty immigration policies… more votes for Reform and so, more racism scaring and dividing our communities. Not sure how Labour can justify this, politically or morally. It’s so far from what we’d all hoped. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

This is the University of Central Florida. So many people really have no idea how much kids hate this shit.

FWIW, I don’t think the major problem in my field, or related ones, is that people need to move faster & produce more. I read a lot of papers as part of the job, and I’m increasingly convinced we’d benefit from fewer papers and better ones, not more mediocre work produced ever more “efficiently.”

The “Blue Labour” strategy still being promoted by some on Labour right is premised on being able to win social conservatives while holding on to social liberals. Failure state for this strategy is failing to win social cons while alienating social liberals. Here is a map of that failure state:

Political nerds, I made a thing! How well do you know the UK electoral map? Could you find ten constituencies, picked at random? Test yourself! play.jmoxley.co.uk

I don't think people realise how much local councils do to maintain basic every day services. Reform are going to wreck the country at the local level and then blame the Government for it in 2029.

How can anyone expect me to vote Labour if Labour misrepresents me, a naturalised immigrant, as a problem that needs solving.

An authoritative note on the partitions that were put in place to protect different parts of STFC’s budget from volatility elsewhere in the portfolio written someone who was at the helm at the time. Thank you @johnwomersley.bsky.social for writing this letter (and making it open) 👏

To be fair they've been asked about Brexit... 🤷‍♂️

The British public should weigh in on the Hubble Tension next

Our aid cuts have been just as severe. It won't kill as many people because we spent less to start with, and focused a bit less on health/food programmes. But we've got nothing to be proud of here.

A Harvard study just published estimates Elon Musk's destruction of USAID has already caused 600,000 deaths 2/3 of them children. That is his legacy in this world.

Teachers: "Please help us get AI out of schools, it's ruining education!" Students: "Please don't make us use AI, it's ruining our lives!" Politicians: "We hear you and we want to help you harness the power of AI." #NihilismAndTechnology

Tommy's does amazing job helping people to have babies. Feel free to help them if you have a few spare quids 👇 www.tommys.org/donate

You know what would be a thousand times more inspiring? Keeping the Chandra X-ray Observatory alive & making sure we go back to explore Venus.

The difference between you and the billionaire class is greed. It's not hard work. It's not intelligence. It's not skill. It's not good ideas. It's just greed. Even if you had incredible luck, you would need greed at a level that is unfathomable to most of us to make it stick.

I’m not sure why we still have a monarch. It seems like a medieval anachronism to me; a demonstration of inherited status and the the pinnacle of an entrenched aristocracy. And I’m really not sure why our monarch has gone to the US to stand next to another man with too much power, land and money.

Calling all planetary scientists: The #BPSC26 abstract and early-bird registration deadline of May 9th is soon approaching! Email us your abstracts following the instructions at tinyurl.com/4x8tm6bu, and register for the conference at tinyurl.com/yvnxf6jw. Come share your science with us in June!

Can't they put serious people in charge of NASA?

“Feel free to adapt and reuse. No attribution needed (…) If you make an adaption that you also want to share, I’d love to know about it, too.” irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2026/04/08/r...

This is the thing, if "academia" wanted to stop this, we could easily tomorrow. Over 3 incorrect references? Rejected and forbidden to submit next year. The purpose of a system is what it does!

How likely is it to find a meteorite? The opening text for my new little meteorite blog called "Extremely Late Accretion"...

fuck sam altman forever for taking away the last places where we could engage in good faith: the creative arts, which should be a testament to human ingenuity. i am so mad that everything i read or listen to or admire is now tainted with doubt. do you understand? he is a thief of joy and i HATE HIM

Using LLMs makes you stupider.

I don’t think we talk nearly enough about the fact that corporations like Amazon, don’t pay a single cent to maintain the roads they use, the transportation system they use, the courts they use, they pay nothing for the infrastructure that is absolutely critical to their business. WE Pay for

literally letting robots compete while banning trans people 🙃

We already KNOW how to make super babies, you eugenicist creeps! And it's all the things you fucking fucks are fucking up! THREAD!

LLMS are: - Causing energy demands that commit us to a worse future - Eroding brainpower of children through adult humans - Making software and hardware less usable - Creating a massive economic risk But sure try to convince me they are worth infusing into every component of our lives.

Congrats on “opening” a strait that was open six weeks ago, and all it cost was at least 13 dead service members, thousands of dead Iranian civilians, tens of billions in taxpayer dollars, our loss in global standing, and the Iranian regime’s increase in power. Phenomenal work.

A HUGE, narrative-breaking moment for the UK car market New EVs are now cheaper than petrol cars on average, says Autotrader Last yr CCC said price parity was due by 2028 – and it's already here And EVs are already MUCH cheaper to run than petrol