Dr Dave Clements
@davecl.bsky.social
Astrophysicist at Imperial College. Extragalactic astronomy, observational cosmology, astrobiology. Writes science fiction. Not speaking for anybody. Science for Fiction podcast https://open.spotify.com/show/7HzQoyNyNI115W3kgqZAku?si=jK0XQYAyS1ubvzD76spbEg
Any cis women who are disgusted by the Burnham government's transphobic policy of segregation can sign the @nionwomen.bsky.social petition, which is now closing in on 110,000 signatures. notinourname.org.uk
Home - Not in our name
Not In our Name: Women in support of the trans+community
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Letters to The Guardian newspaper about United Kingdom state funding for basic science, including one from Prof. George Miley: www.theguardian.com/science/2026... #UKScienceCuts #STFCFundingCrisis
Science funding cuts will harm Britain’s global standing | Letters
Letters: Readers respond to an editorial about the threat to research funding, including plans to close the Jodrell Bank Observatory
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I believe that if an individual did this they would go to jail. Whereas these companies simply say “oops” #aihack www.bbc.com/news/article...
Anthropic AI created fake profiles and impersonated people in attempted hack
The UK's AI Safety Institute said recent behaviour from Anthropic and OpenAI models was malicious and unprecedented.
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Proud to have been part of this submission to SCOTUS to hold fossil fuel companies accountable for their decade-long disinformation about climate change. With @naomioreskes.bsky.social @geoffreysupran.bsky.social and others www.ucs.org/about/news/a...
Experts File Friend-of-the-Court Brief in Suncor v Boulder Documenting Companies’ Climate Deception
Experts File Friend-of-the-Court Brief in Supreme Court Case Documenting Suncor Energy and ExxonMobil Decades of Climate Deception
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Retrospective cohort of 2.5 million US kids found NO association between measles vaccination and autism, with an adjusted hazard ratio of 0.97 (99% confidence interval 0.91–1.03). Another negative study to add to the mountain of negative studies that we already have.
Association Between First MMR Vaccination Before... : Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal
Background:Concerns about potential associations between measles–mumps–rubella (MMR) vaccination and autism persist despite extensive prior research....
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A retired friend was remembering when there were departmental secretaries at universities who basically project managed the departments. You could give them handwritten documents, and they would type them up. He was shocked when I said it didn't work like that for female academics.
Kate Manne@katemanne.bsky.social · yesterdayGenerative AI is catnip to the men who miss female sycophants katemanne.substack.com/p/a-culture-...
Ursula K. Le Guin’s Home Recognized as National Historic Landmark, to host Writers’ Residency locusmag.com/2026/08...
My answer is LOL ROFL (dickbrain) The terminally AI-pilled can't even *imagine* some people have *never* asked stochastic parrots to cheat at their job for them.
Accidentally crashing a 4000kg lump of metal into the moon at 8700km/h is part of the new commercial space race. Experts say we shouldn't make a habit out of it, and are working to ban it in future, but that some interesting science can be had as a side effect. www.newscientist.com/article/2583...
SpaceX rocket crashes into moon at 8700 kilometres per hour | New Scientist
A rocket launched last year is thought to have smashed into the lunar surface this morning, creating the moon's newest crater
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New: police are being explicitly told to hide the fact they're using Flock to pull people over and arrest them. Basically, do not mention this in official police reports. If the tech is completely legal and acceptable, like law enforcement say, why hide it? www.404media.co/do-not-menti...
‘DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE’: How Cops Are Trying to Hide Their Use of Flock
“DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE TO THE OCCUPANTS OF THE VEHICLE. DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE IN YOUR REPORT OR COMPLAINT."
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Gravitational wave faculty position being advertised at @imperialphysics.bsky.social @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social. www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...
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A 60 Minutes probe into Epstein's banking, with Wyden already interviewed, vanished right after Sharyn Alfonsi got pushed out under Bari Weiss. Same editor who stalled the CECOT migrant story until Stephen Miller got a say. CBS keeps calling it timing. Sure looks like a pattern.
60 Minutes Epstein Banking Story Vanished After CBS Ousted Sharyn Alfonsi, Dem Senator Reveals
Wyden revealed he was interviewed for the show in a Senate report alleging the country's largest banks turned “a blind eye” to Epstein's financial activity
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If there are three things that trans people need to remember if they’re using toilets in pubs, restaurants etc., it is these:
HoC Science, Innovation & Technology Committee 'expressed concern that, two weeks on from the announcement of the abolition of DSIT, ministerial portfolios have yet to be announced and it is unclear where civil servants who previously worked in the department will go.' Science Minister anyone?
‘Vital issues’ being missed in post-closure DSIT limbo, say MPs
Parliamentary committee asks government to confirm details of plans for science as soon as possible
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A study shows male mice recovering from severe COVID-19 can pass anxiety-like traits to their offspring. The virus alters RNA molecules inside their sperm, suggesting a father's infection before conception could change how the next generation develops mentally. Source: archive.md/U7dad
Two dead from the US cyclospora outbreak, just in case you had any doubt how dangerous it is. There are now 18,000 confirmed or suspected cases across 45 states. By any standard this would be a scandal but it’s just another metaphor for life under Trump - killer food contaminated with human waste.
Two People Have Died in the Cyclospora Outbreak — TIME
Two people in Michigan have died from cyclosporiasis, state health officials announced on Aug. 3. They are the first reported deaths from a record Cyclospora outbreak that has sickened thousands of pe...
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The news story about Donald Trump being desperate for immunity for tax fraud & the news story about Donald Trump being kicked to the curb by Capital One for widespread money laundering are RELATED.
Early COVID mitigations showed us the power of collective action. The environment began to heal. People with disabilities were accommodated. An entire flu strain was eradicated. Folks reconnected with their local communities. We worked together & saved lives.
I mean, just look at these beauties.... 🤩
Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans@astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 3d agoJarvis Cocker, New Order, Elbow, Dr Who (v. Eccleston), @daraobriain.bsky.social, Kraftwerk, Mogwai, Brian May, 2 astronauts (Peake & Hadfield), the Poet Laureate, the Lovell family & many more. Heartwarming to see how much the UK loves Jodrell Bank & astronomy🔭🙏 www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
RFK Jr and wife had a soiree at their Hollywood mansion during COVID and required proof of COVID vaccination with RSVP. Watch what they do, not what they say. –Rachel Maddow
Disappointed but not surprised. University leadership continue to kowtow to fascism, and for what? Have they learned nothing? I'm sure their own faculty are disgusted.
Jacob T. Levy@jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 2d agoFour university presidents, "Andrew Martin at Washington University in St. Louis, Michael Crow at Arizona State University, Douglas Girod at the University of Kansas, & Ronald Daniels at the Johns Hopkins University" collaborated in the latest attack on higher ed. www.chronicle.com/liveblog/her...
🧵This regime is surely guilty of a lot of evil, but there's a special cast to the evil of denying a reality THROUGH WHICH WE ALL LIVED that stole at *least* 1.2 million of us. That's more people than the populations of St. Louis, New Orleans, Boise, & Anchorage, combined. One of them was my mom.
Gabriel Bosslet@gbosslet.bsky.social · 3d agoRFK Jr said these words today on national television "There were ICUs that were empty all over the country including in New York at the height (of the pandemic)" hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha You are a fucking idiot hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha <sobs silently>
An initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play
"The Pentagon has treated the trans separation board hearings with levels of security and silence usually reserved for state secrets... In some cases, service members’ spouses and even the service members themselves are kept out." w/ Dave Philipps www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/u...
Inside the Secretive Boards Deciding Trans Troops’ Fate (Gift Article)
The Pentagon is relying on closed-door hearings to kick out transgender service members. An Army Reserve lawyer is one of the few who have seen how they really work.
nytimes.com
"It also detected an “unintended consequence” of the ban: the proportion of parents who didn’t know their child had used social media increased by 10%." Spookily enough, this complacency side effect is precisely one of the things we warned about with this and the Online Safety Act in the UK.
Ben Schwarz@benschwarz.bsky.social · 3d agoAustralia’s eSafety commissioner buried a report (released Friday afternoon) that shows the under 16 social media ban didn’t tangibly reduce teen social media use, and also resulted in parents tuning out of kids usage. We traded our privacy for no reason. theconversation.com/more-than-80...
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Sutter Cane Appears in The Mouth Of Madness
ALT: Sutter Cane Appears in The Mouth Of Madness
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The famed astronomer Bernard Lovell and his team tracked Luna 2 with the radiotelescope at Jodrell Bank, UK, verifying that it had crashed on the Moon. THIS IS THE SAME TELESCOPE THAT WILL BE CLOSED DUE TO GOVERNMENT FUNDING CUTS 🧪 🔭 @proftimob.bsky.social
Lovell Telescope - Wikipedia
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