$0 for STEM really gives the game away. They absolutely hate science and truth at a fundamental level

I shocked i tell you shocked!!! 😱 (not). If space scientists and astronomers applaud programmes like #Artemis without thinking ahead about where this current Administration is heading in order to fund it then they are frogs simmering in the boiling water 🤔 #astronomy #space

This is the right hill to die on

Europe is the shield against imperialism. The US is gone.

So Israel commits war crime after war crime… Invades Targets civilians/aid workers Snipers children Land grabs Celebrates with champagne at hanging Palestinians …and the international community can’t even muster the most flaccid of responses. You have failed us all.

I hope they just leave the hole in the ground as-is forever

There seem to be some inconsistencies between what Patrick Vallance and Ian Chapman wrote about #STFC funded postdoc numbers in their letter to the Commons science committee and recent reports from the chairs of STFC's own grant panels 🧵

Trickle down economics

ESA gets fucked by NASA episode 63...

Afghan women have now been banned from applying to study in British universities by the Labour government www.gov.uk/government/s...

None of this trash is “inevitable.”

This. If the work has an AI statement and the statement includes that you used genAI I’m going to decline the review

FWIW absolutely no one I know who has expertise in spaceflight or planetary exploration thinks this is either remotely plausible or a good idea to attempt on such a timeline. The dominant reaction is somewhere on the spectrum between mockery and dismay. Real, important science was cancelled for this

Concentration camps. Use the term. Do not stop using the term until this current American regime falls and the camps are liberated. Then use the term in The Hague. This is Trumpism. This is white nationalism. This is he moral gutter into which America has fallen.

Trump is such an asshole he’s got the Irish guy defending the English guy

Overview of the STFC funding crisis. the cuts will also have significant detrimental effects on blue skies planetary science research (space mission data analysis, sample analysis, lab experiments, astrobiology) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

And on top of the #STFC cuts, for us space folk of the PPAN community @ukspaceagency.bsky.social has no funds to cover anything beyond the 'critical development, science, and operations of the Rosalind Frankling rover' so no new competitive grant funding for exploration science🫠

Wow. @pallabg.bsky.social has a obtained leaked document from STFC Council suggesting the origin of the STFC funding crisis was a deliberate decision (by?) 🧪🔭 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I don't want to ask the assistant a fucking question – why would I want to ask the fucking assistant a fucking question, I'm very obviously WhatsApping my fucking wife for fucks sake, when will this shit fucking END, get out of my fucking sight, sorry for swearing

"This is not straightforward... and the STFC thing is particularly difficult" Understatement 😬 A thread with quotes from Lord Vallance and his thoughts on the "STFC thing"

At some point, whether bayesian or frequentist, one wonders if Sir Ian, Michele and Lord Vallance might determine a significance from these observations that would lead them to claim discovery that their idea is bad. 11/n

Meanwhile there isn't a penny left for fundamental science..

Can we have a regime change in the US please?

Remember: There is nothing natural or inevitable about extreme inequality; it’s the result of an economic system that values wealth and power over human dignity and justice. It doesn't have to be this way.

At least it’s very clear who is benefiting from this war: www.theguardian.com/business/202...

The chair of the House of Commons science committee has described impending cuts to physics funding as “wholly unacceptable” and “a failure” in an excoriating letter to the science minister and the leader of UKRI. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-p...

Whoever allowed France to play in light blue jersey & white shorts and England in white jersey & shorts needs a stern talking to. Only way to really tell the teams apart are the socks. #LukasJudgesJerseys #FRAENG #SixNations

Not even the Nazis expressly announced they were committing war crimes. Indeed, at Nuremberg war crimes were denied. But here, openly, the US Secretary for Defense is explicitly admitting to committing war crimes.

This is the company the UK government has embedded in the nation’s services. Seriously, fuck everyone who is excusing this.

this fucking guy

Watching oil refineries/tankers burn and black out the sun for days as I take my little recycling bin to the curb to do my part to save the planet.

🔗 to full text of the letter, with 12 expertly worded questions that will hopefully, finally, get to the bottom of why we find ourselves in this dire situation. So impressed by Dame @chionwurah.bsky.social and her committee - politics actually in action ❤️ committees.parliament.uk/publications...

Because big computers and AI is all we need to do research... 😢

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War crime upon war crime upon war crime

Meanwhile, in nazi land..

The same technological pinpoint accuracy that was used to slaughter children in Gaza now being used to slaughter children in Iran.

Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

Schrödinger’s QR funding, which both is and isn’t funding research. 🙄 Basically the bucket is a label which allows the government to say it’s putting billions into “curiosity-driven research”, while most of that money isn’t actually funding research at all.

Definitely. Which is why the best academic AI policies I’ve seen make it clear to students that “submitting work that was produced by “AI” (chatbots, LLMs) *is* plagiarism and will be treated as such.”

Live tax-free in Dubai, until shit hits the fan and you ask to come back, funded by the tax-payer...

"To all influencers and other tax exiles in Dubai, the tax authorities wish you a safe return to France."

I wonder what she'll think, when she's out of government in a few months time. Was it worth it? Persecuting refugees in order to satisfy an electoral strategy even she probably doesn't believe in. Pissing away the last dregs of your integrity for a plan which has already been shown not to work.

Abysmal, immoral, cruel, small hearted, tiny minded, ineffective, undemocratic, and just generally utterly indecent. What a bitter godforesaken disappointment these people are. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Here is a copy of the open letter from the heads of physics departments across the UK- worth reading as it makes a lot of excellent points www.iop.org/about/news/o...

This is of course a trick question, nobody is safe here.

Israel, immediately after vaporizing a bunch of little girls:

In case you’re just waking up, the U.S. has teamed up with Israel overnight to start an illegal war of regime change, apparently on a presidential whim with no involvement of Congress, and they are already committing horrific atrocities.

The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive