Black Fen

@blackfen.bsky.social

Ruminations from darkest East Anglia.

“Nigeria, home to one of the continent’s largest ports, has drifted inland, grown in size and changed shape. It’s not that the map bestows the name on the wrong country; the new landlocked, splat-shaped Nigeria sprawls across Mali, Niger, Algeria and Chad, probably, resembling no existing state”

State Dept. apologizing for Africa map that mislabeled every country

The map, part of a presentation Sunday at the AIDS 2026 summit in Rio de Janeiro, purports to show six African countries that are receiving U.S. health funding. It gets each of them wrong.

washingtonpost.com

Short-sighted, stupid cuts to the UKRI budget include shutting down Jodrell Bank, the icon of British astronomy. (Many other cuts too, including 20% to our brand new @vrubinobs.bsky.social). Interesting politically to shut down a major facility in...um..Manchester 🔭 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Jodrell Bank's Lovell telescope faces axe in science cuts, BBC understands

Astronomers warn it would tear the heart out of UK science, and leave a generation untrained.

bbc.co.uk