It's ironic that brighter car head lights may be making cycling less safe. Rather than being able to see road features & cyclists, drivers are blinded. 👀 🌕🌕 This can render some roads completely unsafe for cycling. Unfair! #roadsafety #cycling www.bbc.com/news/article...

Fascinating stories from Victor Spinetti. My Mam knew him and we knew his family... and their chip shop ... in my home village of Cwm in Wales :-) www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Interesting study that finds similar behaviour to what we found in the HadGEM3 climate model (agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....) that heat can be brought to the surface of the Southern Ocean in a cooling climate, with temporary warming. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Yay. Priceless. The right column at the right time. And a gleefully English two fingers to the haters.

Well done people of Exeter for turning up and opposing the far right marching on our streets. My Swiss immigrant wife and I met several other non-Brits today who have made their home here and who were also part of the "This is what community looks like" brigade.

Exeter is for everyone! Anti-fascist counter-protest earlier today.

It's my last BBC Radio 3 Sound of Cinema tomorrow, and I will be saying a proper goodbye. So tomorrow's show is an argument for the intellectual depth and richness of the film music, and how it should never be treated like wallpaper. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

This is a good corrective to the BS narrative flowing through the Pielke/AEI/NYP/EID/DOE nexus. Their argument is designed so that we can never ever attribute extreme events to emissions - even singular events that would have *never* [for some suitable finite approximation] have happened before.

This is pretty grossly misleading. 90-95% of this footprint is associated w/life cycle emissions of manufacturing - and almost nothing from the use of the inhalers (see the Supp Info linked below). Should manufacturing in general reduce it's emissions? Sure, but that isn't specific to asthmatics.

End of an era. Very fond memories of family day-trips to Porthcawl and visiting Coney Beach amusement park, during late 70s. Back then there was also a dinosaur park next door ... seeing huge prehistoric (fibreglass) creatures had a big impression on 7 year old me! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Paul Robeson and his wife, Eslanda, were invited as special guests to the Royal National #Eisteddfod of Wales held at Ebbw Vale in August 1958. As this took place before the official opening of the Eisteddfod, he was allowed to speak in English.

Still active, an inspiration, and doing conservation work right up to the end. Thank you for being a great and wonderful citizen of this planet, Jane Goodall. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Lovely day at Seaton Wetlands (East Devon), where even the birds use the hides. Seeing two kingfishers flying in formation was quite special.

Apart from forgetting that correlation does not necessarily mean causation, presenting a correlation of 0.2 as being "significant" and being suggestive of a relationship between the solar system's orbit of the galaxy and Earth rock formation is probably optimistic! journals.aps.org/prresearch/a...

What's that? Climate predictions, you say? Okay! www.realclimate.org/index.php/cl...

I’ve said it once, I’ll say it again. Ignore the haters, London is the 🐐

The people I work with are not stupid people and our climate predictions of 30 years ago of global warming have proved to be accurate. Just saying. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cp...

Every time.

This #LochNessMonster photo is doing the rounds on social media, accompanied by a fake story about it being real, and new, and attached to a specific eyewitness event. I see people on Facebook groups thinking that the photo is the 'real deal', sigh. However... 1/n

Take any claims about models not matching observations with a pinch of salt, if only a multi-model mean is shown. Model uncertainties and radiative forcing uncertainties are important!

You can take the girl outta London, but you can’t take London outta the girl. Even if I’m a proper west-country bumpkin now, London will always have a big place in my ❤️

Robert Redford playing a gentle incarnation of death, coming for a frightened old woman in The Twilight Zone episode "Nothing in the Dark" (1962). An extraordinary performance then, terribly bittersweet today

John has a knack for finding the heart of the issue and expressing it in understandable terms.

If you see headlines claiming NASA's found life on Mars - these are new studies of features in rocks which, if they were on Earth, look like the kind of thing caused by microorganisms. But they could very well - are most probably in fact - be caused by chemistry, not biology.

None of geoengineering ideas to protect polar regions from climate warming are feasible in coming decades, are potentially dangerous to environment & present distraction from efforts to limit climate change by massively & rapidly cutting greenhouse gas emissions: www.frontiersin.org/journals/sci...

FABULOUS ANIMALS (BBC, 1975): A young David Attenborough presented this brilliant children's series revolving around one of his personal interests, cryptozoology. Bigfoot, Nessie, Dragons, and all manner of folkloric beasts are covered in David's trademark soothing fashion. A delight.

Someone's found the perfect response:

That comparison seems both absurd and tasteless

Obituary: Rainer Weiss (1932-2025) Nobel laureate who pioneered the technique that detected gravitational waves go.nature.com/4m2HYtW

Gone floppy.

Are your sheep always turning up late for work? Are they taking too long on their lunch break or simply struggling to get through the workload? Are they always just mucking about? Then you need some

Paper that seems to associate every European historical event of the last 500years to the inaccurately called, and ill-defined, "Little Ice Age". Claiming that events like the Merthyr Rising and the Rebecca Riots were caused by sunspots is naive at best! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

RealClimate: Climate Scientists response to DOE report www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...

Some energy/climate math for the late night crowd: Total Absorbed Solar Energy: 240 W/m2 Total human primary energy use in 2024: 186kTWh (from ourworldindata.org/energy-produ...) Converting: 186*10^15/5.1x10^14/3600= 0.1 W/m2 => total energy from solar is 2400 times what we use.

More than 85 scientists say that a recent U.S. Department of Energy report is full of errors and misrepresents climate science.

This map shows which year had the warmest summer on record, for mean temperature, area by area. Note that for many areas, it was summer 2025. 1976 is no longer the warmest summer on record for any area.

It's incredibly disappointing to hear that a quarter of UK schools don't have a specialist physics teacher. It's essential that we can all see the basics of how the world works & it's fun to satisfy that very basic curiosity. Physics gives us all agency in a complex world.

New analysis from @metoffice.gov.uk showing that the record-breaking hot UK summer of 2025 has been made much more likely by human-induced climate change and such a hot summer would be expected about once every 5 years in current climate. www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...

Foolish, reckless and politically desperate: www.bbc.com/news/article...

What more can we do to get heard? Probably not the same thing over and over again. diagrammonkey.wordpress.com/2025/08/30/w...

Lest we Canadians start feeling complacent…. 😱

Are you or your loved ones worried about solar farms? Have you heard scary things about solar panels turning the countryside into an industrial hellscape? Fear not! We at Carbon Brief have just published the definitive article debunking solar myths ⬇️ interactive.carbonbrief.org/factcheck/so...

Oh here's the link if you want to laugh and then feel dented www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Interesting to listen to this again. It's funnier than I expected, but also from a more hopeful time, pre-Brexit, pre-Rowling controversies. Made me laugh and made me sad and made me wish we could go back and have another go at the last 15 years.

BBC4's 'What are UFOs' was mostly good with a lot of sceptical viewpoints. But I thought the calls for 'more data' about something that doesn't exist was not very scientific. Still, pretty cool that the narrator was 'Wedge Antilles' (Denis Lawson) 😀 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Hi all, me, @richardjbutler.bsky.social and the amazing UK-US-Moroccan team are delighted to announce that.. we have a new specimen of Spicomellus AND IT'S WAY WEIRDER AND WAY COOLER THAN WE EVER IMAGINED!!

Was very sad to see this over the weekend from the family home, 2 miles away. Remarkable that it has been burning for so long. Just one of many wild fires across the UK this summer. nation.cymru/news/deep-se...

It’s just summer….

There was no passenger service when I was a kid. Even though I have used the line a few times, it is still a novelty to visit my home town by train.

At #DinoConUK at Exeter uni. Brilliant seeing so much enthusiasm for palaeontology. Meeting and saying 'thank you' to Dougal Dixon for his wonderful books is highlight so far.