10,000-year-old #GobekliTepe has it all: Massive stone pillars, elaborate carved reliefs and hundreds of fragmented human bones. Now @dai-weltweit.bsky.social researchers have uncovered burials, too – and they point to a new, natural explanation for the scattered remains at the site. @science.org

Bones link 10,000-year-old temple complex to a village, not a ‘skull cult’

Landslides, not rituals, may have scattered skulls and bones at Turkey’s famed Göbekli Tepe site

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NEW from us: India's rapid clean power expansion has kept power sector emissions flat for two years, for the first time in over 50 years, and sharply reduced fossil fuel imports. Oil and gas consumption have also fallen for two years in a row, helping alleviate the Hormuz shock.

Carbon Brief@carbonbrief.org · last wk.

NEW – Analysis: India’s power-sector emissions flat for two years due to clean-energy surge ✍️ Written by @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social and Anubha Aggarwal @creacleanair.bsky.social Read here: buff.ly/JIwsTKV

a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes

A new (daily) low. It’s going to take the US a while to haul itself out of this hole.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

"Please right your right hand. I pledge to the greatest president in history that loves us so much he can't even breathe" -- in extremely culty scene, Trump has his supporters pledge to him that they will vote, then tells them they will "go to hell" if they don't Here's the full sequence:

NEW: The latest international education comparisons from PISA 2025 have just been published Scores in England remain high relative to other countries – while in many other countries, scores are falling Across the UK, scores remain lowest in Wales www.gov.uk/government/p... @theifs.bsky.social

PISA 2025: national report for England

England’s PISA 2025 results, with an international comparison of the mathematics, reading and science performance of 15-year-old pupils.

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New PISA data out England is now top ten in all three areas (reading, maths, science) and the second highest performing country outside of east Asia (after Estonia). This is a huge public policy success.

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Jess Asato MP@jessasatomp.bsky.social · 4w ago

This is a deeply complex and literally life-changing Bill. We’re no longer talking about the principle – this is real, and it is not safe. The Assisted Dying Bill returns to Parliament on 11 September.

Saddened to learn of the death of Ada Yonath. Her work on ribosome structure and function and antibiotic mechanisms was an immense contribution to biology. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Yon...

Ada Yonath - Wikipedia

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Wake up, babe. The Prime Minister just dropped “hydronym”.

#Africa’s solar boom is spreading across the entire continent, with 36 out of 54 countries set for record solar installations in 2026 🌍☀️ 19 countries saw YoY growth of over 100%, including DRC 🇨🇩 (+544%), Zimbabwe 🇿🇼 (+282%) and Egypt 🇪🇬 (+176%) ember-energy.org/lat...

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Rob Ford@robfordmancs.bsky.social · 4w ago

Ward on the border of St Helens and Wigan, v near to Burnham’s new Makerfield seat

Pretty good going from BBC R4's Today to talk for 15 minutes about the disaster in Nepal and not once mention the impact of climate change A massive chunk of glacier collapsed and fell 1.2km, reduced to 'flash flood'.

$3.7 billion spent on APCs in 2025. That's ~1000X more than it costs to run bioRxiv/medRxiv. Worth thinking about as we consider how to fund infrastructure... arxiv.org/pdf/2608.16322

The fallout from the collapse of this glacier - a torrent of mud surging down the valley - killed hundreds of people. Gone, in a flash. Those people were wiped out by anthropogenic climate change. Our governments are simply not responding quickly enough to this disaster which is already upon us.

Nahel Belgherze@wxnb.bsky.social · 4w ago

An incredibly well-timed Landsat 9 pass captured the effects of yesterday’s catastrophic glacier collapse near the Nepal–Tibet border. The event was so massive that it was detected by seismometers around the world.

Dolly Parton is credited in at least 37 research papers on the COVID vaccine, including the first phase I trial results published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2020.

Interested in nuclear mechanobiology and want to know what some of the big open questions are in the field? Read our recent editorial with input from >15 leading experts in the field, along with a list of review articles on nuclear mechanobiology: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Nuclear mechanobiology: a brief history and five unresolved questions

Published in Nucleus (Vol. 17, No. 1, 2026)

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More than 18,000 questionable images found in antibody catalogues of 15 companies 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

More than 18,000 questionable images found in antibody catalogues of 15 companies

Science sleuth’s findings raise questions for researchers working to improve the reliability of commercial antibodies.

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www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

We tried, and failed, to sort ours. As I remember, the University Outlook can't sync with someone else's iPhone. Very inconvenient.

Ewan Birney@ewanbirney.bsky.social · last mo.

Geek bat signal: I wear many hats but one of them is IT support for the Birney family - and I have a calendar integration tangle to untangle. We have the holy trinity of Google calendar (my work, shared family, invisible computer) outlook (my wife’s small co) and iCloud (we’re Apple device family)

Undocumented migration does not raise crime rates, huge study finds. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Undocumented migration does not raise crime rates, huge study finds

Analysis of neighbourhoods in more than 100 US cities finds no evidence that rising numbers of undocumented immigrants are linked with violent crime.

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Great quotation

Marcus Chown@marcuschown.bsky.social · last mo.

"No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible" - Voltaire This is how the “journalists” on The Times, Telegraph, Mail and the rest will persuade themselves they did not cause the death of Jason Arday, and leave his wife without a husband and his children without a dad.

A former director of BBC News speaks:

Richard Sambrook@sambrook.eurosky.social · last mo.

BBC’s coverage of Reform’s welfare plans is frankly bizarre. Headlines in Ten, leading on some radio networks. Reform are not even the official opposition and the plans have less credibility than Count Binface. Will BBC News do the same for Lib Dem and Greens policy two years out from an election?

The impact of summer 2026 can perhaps best be seen from space Exceptional heat combined with limited rainfall has truly transformed the landscape across the UK

With Andy Burnham set to talk about dodgy shops as part of his nationwide tour this week, the number of Britons who suspect a local business of being connected to organised crime has risen from 18% in 2022 to 43% now 2026: yougov.com/en-gb/daily-... 2022: yougov.com/en-gb/daily-...

Water crisis: then vs now. From the latest Private Eye, out now.

General practice in England delivered nearly 35m appointments in June this year - a new record that is 46% above the same month in 2019, GPonline analysis shows. Full story: www.gponline.com/general-prac...

🗳️ NEW | Reform PLUNGES to third place 😲 🔴 Lab: 27% ( +6 ) 🔵 Con: 23% ( +2 ) ➡️ Ref: 18% ( -3 ) 🟢 Grn: 15% ( -2 ) 🟠 Lib: 8% ( -1 ) -- Seats -- 🔴 Lab: 269 🔵 Con: 193 🟡 SNP: 49 ➡️ Ref: 37 🟠 Lib: 36 🟢 Grn: 23 🟩 Plaid: 12 Poll: Lord Ashcroft, 3 Aug (+/- vs 29 Jun)

My article about @jodrellbank.bsky.social in @theobserveruk.bsky.social today: bit.ly/3UneUVN

Jodrell Bank isn’t a museum – it’s a place where science ...

The funding cut threatening the observatory has caused a public outcry and reinforced the site’s image as the spiritual and practical home of astronomy

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Nice video on Manchester’s urban regeneration since the 1980s. youtu.be/VPkLUOfugjo?...

How Manchester became the UK's economic miracle

YouTube video by CityEd.

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