Yesterday we started #kakapo artificial insemination for the season. We do this to help maintain genetic diversity, with a potential additional benefit of improving fertility. We inseminated Esperance, who mated naturally a few nights ago. #conservation #parrots #birds

Public buildings will be increasingly important as cool, safe gathering places during heatwaves and other extreme weather events, which people (mostly the global rich) are making more frequent and severe through climate change, largely by burning fossil fuels. h/t @chrisbaraniuk.com

Spain to open climate shelter network ahead of next summer

Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez says the shelters will be in public buildings across the country.

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Global Health Bioethics Network Webinar: Bioethics and Conflict. Dec 9, 2025 09:00 AM GMT. Speakers: my colleague Ms Napat Khirikoekkong ,@moru-mip.bsky.social, and Prof Dr Thalia Arawi (AUB-AUBMC). Register here: medsci.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

This is absolutely four-alarm-fire climate news. Astonishing, that this is the first time I've seen it.

Dr. Aaron Thierry@thierryaaron.bsky.social · 9mo ago

'Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has made Tehran impossible to sustain' #Iran 🇮🇷

now this is the kind of data-crunching I like to see

Eiko Fried@eikofried.bsky.social · 9mo ago

70 teaspoons placed in tearooms around the institute & observed weekly over 5 months. 80% of spoons disappeared; spoon halflife~81 days. Communal room halflife lower than in specific labs. 250 spoons annually required to maintain 70 spoon population. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

One time I felt bad for a wheelchair-using colleague who had to navigate a poster session where the boards were "accordioned" making the aisle less than 2m wide...

Can we please discuss accessibility at conferences? When organizers and schedules assume that everyone can walk fast and climb stairs, people with mobility issues (visible or invisible) might feel excluded. /

Have yourself a Hieronymus Bosch Christmas.

Matt Thrower@mattthr.bsky.social · 9mo ago

This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu

This is an insightful discussion about using LLM AI for science communication (please don't). Among the *many* problems, it can't distinguish correlation from causation. By @em-underwood.bsky.social with Abigail Eisenstadt

And the reality is that this has barely started.... www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Climate disasters displaced 250 million people in past 10 years, UN report finds

Floods, storms and droughts have uprooted people across the globe as rising temperatures intensify conflict and hunger

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pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

Brittany Trang@brittanytrang.com · 10mo ago

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫

Definitely worth paying for a flu jab this year, about £15 at pharmacies! www.bbc.com/news/article...

Will a new mutated flu strain cause a rough winter?

Leading flu experts say they will not be surprised if this year's is the worst flu season for a decade.

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Prof Christina Pagel@chrischirp.bsky.social · 10mo ago

The early flu season in England continues to build, while the latest Covid wave continues to recede. Latest UKHSA hospital admission data up to 27 Oct.

This week's column is on Billionaire Brain: the condition which seems to prevent extremely rich people from perceiving the utterly bleeding obvious. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I wish we could ignore Bill Gates on the climate crisis. But he’s a billionaire, so we can’t | George Monbiot

Money talks – and his essay denouncing ‘near-term emissions goals’ at Cop30 mostly argues the case for letting the ultra-rich off the hook

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"it is striking how many of the key players we have looked into — the people who have gone out of their way to put up hundreds of flags — seem anything but ordinary." manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...

The men who raised the flags

Nigel Farage says this summer’s movement was led by ‘ordinary people’ expressing their patriotism. That’s not what we found

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Went trick or treating as myself last night. Because nothing seems to terrify some of the locals as much as an immigrant.

The National Patient & Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE) Summit 2025 marks the beginning of a collective national voice advocating for patients, their families and members of the public in health research. Karachi, 1st Nov, 8-10.30 am GMT, join online. www.eventbrite.ca/e/national-p...

National PPIE Summit 2025: Awaz se Aaghaz

Join us for the 2nd National Patient & Public Involvement and Engagement Summit online or in-person at Avari Towers in Karachi!

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How do you see AI fitting into the future of PPI storytelling? And what safeguards or opportunities do you think matter most? Read the latest IPPIN blog post from Patrick Toland - 'Patient Voices in the Age of AI: Opportunity or Visibility Theft?' intppinetwork.wixsite.com/ippin/post/p...

Wouldn't a prequel to Slow Horses about Lamb's time in communist East Germany be marvellous?

a man is eating a bowl of noodles with chopsticks and the words slow horses time above him

ALT: a man is eating a bowl of noodles with chopsticks and the words slow horses time above him

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The need for better genAI literacy is incredibly urgent jfc. Also sea safety, apparently. (I check several sites before relying on them for tide times to account for discrepancies and errors!).

Depeche Median@happybusman.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Two people check tide times with ChatGPT, almost die. uk.news.yahoo.com/restaurant-b...

This is also a disability justice issue.

Catherine Rampell@crampell.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Report examining the employment history data of more than 3m finance & tech workers at companies that rolled out office mandates found that turnover among women is almost three times as high as that of their male co-workers, and that women are more likely to take a lower position if they leave

Are you a researcher working in infectious diseases or #AMR, from a social science discipline (broadly interpreted?). INAMRSS has 3 great opportunities for you! www.globalstrategylab.org/events/open-... Abstract submission open now - move fast!

Open Call for Social Science Presentations On Infectious Diseases - Global Strategy Lab

INAMRSS was founded to advance social science research on infectious diseases, including but not limited to antimicrobial resistance (AMR). In 2026, we are partnering with ESCMID Global (17-21 April i...

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One in six bacterial infections worldwide are now resistant to antibiotics, WHO warns www.bmj.com/content/391/...

‘Knitting had been a safe way to soften the search for new friends each time I took up residence in a new city.’ Susan M. Strawn 🧶

The Shetland Fair Isle Kep - AgArts

By Susan M. Strawn      Late afternoon my second day in the Shetland Islands, I walked past the ferry terminal toward my hotel in Lerwick. I heard footsteps, quick and determined, following me. My sho...

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Every morning waking up to news about how migration is Bad, Very Bad, Very Bad for the UK. That it's ruining this country. Picture it like water from the roof of a cave, falling on the head of every migrant who's made their home here: drip, drip, drip, every second, for years, making a hole...

This is the most anti-science thing I have watched today. What is most shocking about this is all of these statements are being made without any scientific evidence to back it up. There are very few safe options to treat pain and fever in pregnancy so this is also an attack on women's health.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 11mo ago

what the hell did Tylenol ever do to this guy?

We mourn the passing of our Editor-in-Chief Steve Long. His vision to establish one of the first journals dedicated to Global Change over 30 years ago was truly ahead of its time. Through GCB, researchers have demonstrated that biology and ecosystems are not simply victims of global change..

When speaking to Tommy Robinson at the far right demonstration in London today, Elon Musk wore a t-shirt saying "What would Orwell think?" So let's dive in - what would George Orwell think about Tommy Robinson and Elon Musk? 🧵

This thread has some excellent book suggestions! Everything I wanted to suggest was already there, so I now have a massive new list of fun distracting sounding books to listen to/read. Thanks!

Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D.@sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Anybody read any engrossing, silly, decidedly unserious books lately? Ideally with a great audiobook? Like a real solid mind-vacation-from-the-horrors read?

Great to see a UK GP writing a BMJ e-letter like this: "Research must consider Post Exertional Malaise as a neurological event underpinning fluctuating cognitive dysfunction in Long Covid" www.bmj.com/content/390/... #PEM #LongCovid

🚨 We’re hiring! 🚨 We are looking for a Head of #DataEngineering & Informatics to play a leading role in our ongoing development & lead our data strategy. 📍 Oxford, UK 📅 Apply by Sep 17 🔗 www.iddo.org/about-us/jobs #NTDs #EmergingInfections #Malaria #GlobalHealth @tropicalmedicine.ox.ac.uk @ox.ac.uk