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Reform MP says they will negotiate with the Taliban.

Conservative or Labour, both dodge the truth about migration: we need it. Refusing to admit it is political cowardice. Read The Bear's fact-packed and refreshing read on how immigration has long benefited this country. @eastangliabylines.co.uk @bearlypolitics.co.uk

People convicted and imprisoned for saying or writing things that stir up racial hatred. • Abu Hamza • Abdullah el-Faisal • Lucy Connolly Guess which conviction made the right wing suddenly decide writing or saying things that stir up hatred is okay, actually.

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Immigration has dropped dramatically in the last two years – small boat crossings are a small part of the overall picture, but have come to dominate the story (in part because the government has let it)

It is very nearly the tenth anniversary of that brief moment when, for 2 or 3 days, British newspapers remembered refugees are desperate human beings who need our help, rather than scum that it's okay to threaten with violence.

Russia just sanctioned six @bylinetimes.bsky.social journalists and contributors. Proof that the work they and Byline does is hitting the target and really matters. bylinetimes.com/2025/08/21/r...

Concerned locals. Ordinary mums and dads. Just members of.. checks notes... Combat 18. standuptoracism.org.uk/robert-jenri...

94% of teachers have had to dip into their own pockets to buy school supplies. An estimated 1 in 6 have second jobs during the school year to make ends meet. The average Wall Street employee got a record $244,700 bonus last year. Something has gone terribly wrong.

A new study uncovers how paper mills and brokers collaborate to drive large-scale scientific fraud. Fraudulent publications are rising far faster than legitimate ones. In @science.org: www.npr.org/2025/07/24/n... In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Looks like it’s going to be another long, crap season for us Everton fans.

How RFK Jr. Mastered Fake Science — and Screwed Us in the Process He’s Making America Great Again — for lethal pathogens.

Spaces are running out for our online flow cytometry course this September! 🧪 Master multiparameter design and troubleshooting like a pro with expert-led sessions that are tailored for immunologists. Register now and save with the BSI member discount! https://bit.ly/43N86mG

The UK Government must recognise the power of research and development. If harnessed strategically, it can create economic growth in the UK, boost its soft power and make it healthier and safer. We’ve published a report outlining how. Read it here: wellcome.org/reports/uk-g...

Outgoing head of Durham University's Student Union: things are 'brutal', 'Higher Education is in a death spiral', hundreds of staff have gone, the student rental housing market is in crisis. They're even fundraising to buy a house. Tough reading. www.palatinate.org.uk/higher-educa...

what’s occurred to me today is that academics feel like unheard canaries in the coalmine: we know that the cuts being made are impoverishing our universities, our research culture and outputs, and students’ experience of higher education. we are shouting but going unheard by managerial staff #UKHE

This is spectacularly damning coming from someone that served in cabinet alongside Chris ‘hapless display of ineptitude’ Grayling and chums.

Prof Harris gave a brilliant lecture followed by loads of excellent questions from a highly engaged audience. Stay tuned for our next online lecture, coming in the autumn! #cancerresearch

This will be a great meeting - and in the sunniest part of the UK!

2025 Inaugural BACR Early Career Award Recipient

The BACR are pleased to announce this year's BACR Student Impact Award Winner.

Summary Table of the massive defunding of biomedical research in the United States www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

A very interesting read…

$20 million cut from Springer Nature. Whilst I agree we shouldn't be giving these companies money (or at least so much of it) this is pure censorship. Don't be fooled by the talk behind it, this is about control over expertise and injection of political ideology. www.axios.com/2025/06/25/t...

Rewatching Prof David Thomas' Natl Press Club Address "Cancer: The Modern Plague" from ~ 12 mths ago to use in my class. Asked to cut it down to just 7-8 mins; but hope many will watch it all. It's a brilliant speech, full of the benefits science brings to healthcare. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ih8A...

I’m hoping that as the voice of UK universities, @universities-uk.bsky.social might provide some reflection on implications of today’s spending review for the HE sector and keep us informed on much needed efforts to lobby government on our behalf. It would be great to see a first Bluesky post!

Good Morning Britain's North America correspondent Noel Phillips hit on the arm by a police rubber bullet while covering LA protests against immigration raids: "Police don’t appear to care whether you’re a journalist, whether you're a resident or a protester" www.itv.com/watch/news/i...

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (born #OnThisDay in 1836) was a pioneering physician and suffragette. She was the first woman in Britain to qualify as a doctor, co-founding the London School of Medicine for Women and paving the way for other women in the profession. #WomenInSTEM

The question for those opposed to 20mph speed limits in urban areas is very simple: why do you want to kill children?

New powerful article up in the New York Times on cancelled and delayed grants www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

New study from @weillcornell.bsky.social and @mskcancercenter.bsky.social revealed that Bacillus Calmette-Guérin #BCG, the century-old #tuberculosis #TB #vaccine & decades-old #immunotherapy for #bladdercancer, works to reprogram immune cells in the #bonemarrow www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Don't miss our interactive workshop exclusive to EACR members, designed to equip you with the skills, strategies, and confidence needed to navigate interviews across a variety of science-related job positions.  📅 09 June at 15:00-16:30 CET 🌍 Zoom us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

In beautiful Edinburgh for the @thebacr.bsky.social 65th anniversary meeting. What better way to start than getting up King Arthur’s Seat. Now to hear some brilliant science!

I had to read this several times as “prioritise growth” and “hit universities over the head” are so mutually contradictory

“Higher education might have been bad at making the arguments, but its campuses are the new factories, or even the new mines, supporting thousands or tens of thousands of jobs. Closures could devastate communities for a generation.” www.theneweuropean.co.uk/james-ball-i...

'Moreover, human data analysis revealed that both age and NAD metabolism determine the responsiveness to CAR-T cell therapy. Targeting NAD pathways, we were able to recover the mitochondrial fitness and functionality of CAR-T cells derived from older adults.' www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Wow, just wow. Trump administration ends Harvard's ability to enrol international students.

Brilliant! www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

It’s definitely progress! 🇬🇧🇪🇺 And if you want to push for more (ultimately all the way back to EU membership), then join European Movement UK 👉 www.europeanmovement.co.uk/membership

What happens to science under autocracy? The rise of the National Socialist Party in 1930s Germany provides an (admittedly extreme) example. Prior to the early 1930s, scientists at German institutions won a third of Nobels. 10 years later, that number was 5%, and has never recovered.

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‘Kennedy told reporters that there were "many, many good ways to treat measles and doctors need to know that and to know those methods.’ One problem; there is no treatment for measles. Signed, a doctor who’s been forced to deal with measles because of this stupid fraud.

This is all getting very dark.

Blair’s comments on net zero today come in at number 3 in misguided things he’s done behind the Iraq war (2nd) and THAT post-lockdown haircut.

PD1+ ILC3 predict JAK-dependent inflammation in rheumatoid arthritis www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

'Among the 117 total patients, recurrence-free survival at 2 years was 92% (95% confidence interval, 86 to 99); the median follow-up for recurrence was 20.0 months (range, 0 to 60.8). The majority of patients (95%) had reversible, grade 1 or 2 adverse events (60%) or had no adverse events (35%).'

Credit where it’s due to Labour on academy schools | Letters

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