Fuck you, Joanne. And all your hideous TERFy friends around the world. And all the courts and legal actions you’ve bought with your boy wizard money that I gave you in good faith, back in the day.

Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com · 39m ago

A trans couple has been brutalized by a mob, and then the trans woman ended up being arrested afterwards, at a public bathroom in Louisiana. EITM writer S Baum investigates this horrible act of violence in our latest piece. www.erininthemorning.com/p/trans-coup...

"This Clacton by-election is a contest between a joke candidate... and Count Binface!" is such a classic gag that no matter how many times I hear it I laugh every time

A few people have asked me to write a simple explainer about chronic inflammatory conditions like autoimmunity or allergy so here is an immunology 101 about what we understand about why they occur. Will dig into more research studies in a future post. Hope u enjoy

Immunology 101: Chronic inflammatory diseases are increasing but why?

An overview of some of the ideas as to why some of us get chronic inflammatory diseases

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COMP. If anyone would like a signed book and a lovely hare postcard just repost this & pop a reply below. I'll choose the winner in about 30 minutes. If you'd prefer to purchase & help some niche weird fiction survive, you can get it here with free delivery: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...

THIS WHOLE THREAD <3

Tom Cox@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · last mo.

I've decided to compile a definitive thread of photos of the best sheep I've photographed during my walks in the countryside, together with supporting biographical information. I will put the vital story associated with each sheep in the alt text, since some of it is a little long to fit in a post.

Announcing state backed trans segregation and discrimination with a smile

Equality and Human Rights Commission@equalityhumanright.bsky.social · 10h ago

Our code of practice for services, public functions and associations comes into force today. It provides practical guidance on how the Equality Act 2010 applies to services, public functions and associations. Find out more: https://ow.ly/alIf50Zwrkx

Butterflies around the world are changing habitats - and experts say it’s ‘signalling a warning’

Butterflies around the world are changing habitats - and experts say it’s ‘signalling a warning’

New research shows early-warning species is on the move, expanding or contracting geographic range and changing altitude * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Butterflies, often considered a “sentinel of change”, are on the move across every continent they inhabit, shifting to survive as global heating reshapes their environment. About one in 10 species have already expanded or contracted their geographic range, or shifted in altitude, according to a global study published in Nature Ecology & Evolution. Continue reading...

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I am so triggered by RJK Jr's comment about ICU's being empty during #COVID. I re-read what I wrote after one of the surges. How do others forget. The trauma was--and is--real.

I'm An ICU Doctor. I’m Haunted By What I’ve Seen During The Recent COVID-19 Surge.

“I can’t stop thinking about the 40-something man who told me, ‘I can’t die like this. I just got engaged and have a 6-month-old baby.’ I encouraged him to be positive, but that didn’t stop him from d...

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meanwhile, the anti-trans lobby has gone straight from "we won't need toilet police" to "the toilet police will need much more funding" without missing a beat bsky.app/profile/hlee...

Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · 10h ago

Absolute state of Falkner and Reindorf in the Times today

✅ Touring Clacton ✅ Visiting local businesses ✅ Listening to constituents’ concerns ✅ Hi-vis vest Make your Vote Count! #VoteBinface #Clacton

Hahhahaa I love this (It's so fascinating to see things through the lens of other people's expertise)

Deidre Lynch@drbibliomane.bsky.social · 21h ago

You can/should read Emily Wilson's latest take on the Odyssey, but I'm logging on to convey my hairdresser's reaction. She was AGHAST that Nolan, with his million $ budget, gave Matt Damon ONLY 6 hair extensions. As a result, his hair did not blow around properly, & that ruined the film for her.

El Niño could push 50m people into acute hunger before end of next year www.theguardian.com/environment/...

El Niño could push 50m people into acute hunger before end of next year

UN forecasters warn of worsening conditions in 45 countries currently experiencing severe food insecurity

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Our latest: Hummingbird and hawkmoth wing shape: Analyzing functional convergence in analogous structures, by Benton Walters @bristolpalaeo.bsky.social, with help from Yuming Liu, Iman Fadel @ferronhg.bsky.social @emilyrayfield.bsky.social and myself.

Hummingbird and Hawkmoth Wing Shape: Analyzing Functional Convergence in Analogous Structures

Synopsis. Similar wing planform shapes have independently evolved in both hummingbirds and hawkmoths, indicating convergence. Functional analysis of bird w

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Generative AI is catnip to the men who miss female sycophants katemanne.substack.com/p/a-culture-...

A Culture Hooked on Generative AI is a Culture that Misses Female Sycophants

And we have missed a central reason why AI is a feminist issue

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“Former fire service leaders from every state and territory are warning climate pollution is fueling the fires ravaging across Europe, Canada and the US, with worsening fire weather likely in Australia over the next two years.” theaimn.net/lessons-for-...

Lessons for Australia from a world on fire: former emergency chiefs

Emergency Leaders for Climate Action Media Release Former fire service leaders from every state and territory are warning climate pollution is fueling the fires ravaging across Europe, Canada and the ...

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“It’s time to make oil giants pay up to repair the climate breakdown they’re driving. Think how many fire and flood defences we could build, or how many solar panels we could install, if big oil paid their fair share in taxes.” www.theguardian.com/business/ng-...

Revealed: major oil firms make $93bn profits amid war and climate crisis

Iran conflict windfall over three months reignites calls for companies ‘cashing in on human misery’ to pay for environmental damage

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My column on how capital becomes a death cult. Faced with a choice between profit and human life, the radical right chooses profit. Then it tries to persuade us that mass death is what we want. It's the new phase of climate denial: accept your fate, earthlings. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Murderous heat, an endangered food supply, decimated landscapes: embrace the Mediterranean life | George Monbiot

As climate disaster stares us in the face, the radical right says ‘Embrace the Mediterranean life’. Embrace death, more like it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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"As the AI summer rolls on with heatwave upon heatwave, we directly experience its damage. We witness severe deskilling to academic reading, to essay writing, to deep thinking, even to scholarly discussions between students, which are all now seen as acceptably outsourced to AI products ..."

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · 11mo ago

💛🚫🤖 No AI Gods, No AI Masters 🤖🚫💛 I am massively excited to share the backstory ACADEMIC SHENANIGANS behind our Open Letter (& so this paper below too) — and as always big thanks to my co-authors {@irisvanrooij.bsky.social & @marentierra.bsky.social}: www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/no-ai-g... 1/n

Friends! This is an incredibly worthy cause - Aine is seeking to raise a relatively small amount of money to buy “one new reading book for every child at St. Brigid's National School, Glenmakee, Carndonagh, Co. Donegal”. Already about 1/3 of the way there, please help her get all the way.

AineMcCaul ✍🏼@ainemccaul.bsky.social · yesterday

Hi Alom, I finally got a fundraiser set up and approved by the school board (thanks for that wonderful idea btw) and here is the link below. gofund.me/55e46e8ca

OPINION - Telling us to "embrace a Mediterranean climate" as Europe burns isn’t adaptation—it’s reckless surrender. Scrapping net zero for swimming pools as drought hits is pure nihilism. Is this real policy or just denial in disguise? ☀️ #ClimateCrisis #climatechange

Murderous heat, an endangered food supply, decimated landscapes: embrace the Mediterranean life | George Monbiot

As climate disaster stares us in the face, the radical right says ‘Embrace the Mediterranean life’. Embrace death, more like it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Major oil firms make $93bn profits in just 3 months amid war and climate crisis. They shift profits, dodge taxes, fuel poverty and inflation. They don't bear the social cost of their business. Forever holding people/govts to ransom. Polluters must pay. Need windfall tax now.

Revealed: major oil firms make $93bn profits amid war and climate crisis

Iran conflict windfall over three months reignites calls for companies ‘cashing in on human misery’ to pay for environmental damage

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Interesting, RE the value of novelty, and an insightful comment by @nisreenalwan.bsky.social RE who may produce it. IMO this relates to the rise of pseudoscientific "hierarchies of evidence" that mirror hierarchies of influence - a terra nullius where nothing counts until the right people say it.

Prof Nisreen Alwan@nisreenalwan.bsky.social · 2w ago

Interesting piece @science.org It's true that in the way scientific hierarchy is designed it generally rewards confirmation & penalises difference. What this paper misses is the epistemic injustice in recognition based on the identity of who presents the surprises. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

This is a depressing read but we all need to be aware of the terrible potential of the bird flu that has finally made its way to Australia and New Zealand. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...

'List of doom' outlines birds facing extinction if deadly flu spreads

A list of thousands of Australian species have been ranked by threat level as the deadly H5 bird flu spreads.

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A thread of abolsutely fantastic woman and enby pterosaur palaeoartists (you should follow, platform and shower with compliments) 🧵 Like, look at avi🌧️ over here, baller:

avi 🌧️@barghest-land.bsky.social · 2y ago

i think it's time to introduce Gentle Wind - my personal project about pterosaurs. there will be quite a few animations done to appreciate those beautiful creatures. here's one of them :) more to come! i'll be talking about it under #gentle_wind tag☁️ #paleoart #sciart

On August 5, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is predicted to crash onto the Moon. What has crashed on the Moon before? The very first human object to touch the Moon - Luna 2 in 1959. A probe, 3 bombs, and a rocket body! 🧪 🔭

1959: Luna 2 (USSR)

YouTube video by International Astronautical Federation

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1/2 Global warming isn't just raising temperatures—it is redrawing Africa's disease map. A Nature study reveals malaria could spike 20% in coastal southern Africa as mosquitoes invade cooler highlands. Can fragile healthcare systems adapt before warming outpaces vector control? #ClimateChange

Climate change expected to redraw Africa’s malaria map, study finds

Malaria killed an estimated 579,000 people in Africa in 2024, about three-quarters of them children under five, according to the World Health Organization.

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It is a simple fact that my non white colleagues had to do more to get to where they are today. There's no chance they're less qualified than me.

Lots of ideas for making use of scrap cardboard in this thread: bsky.app/profile/alom...

Alom Shaha@alomshaha.bsky.social · 2y ago

Fellow parents! Carers! Anyone looking after children over half-term! Here is a thread of videos showing TOYS you can MAKE at home from scrap stuff you probably have lying around. First, the utterly delightful "balancing bird" alomshaha.com/balancing-bi...

Un-patient centred doctors? Maybe it's how we assess #MedEd. 'when we design assessments prioritising speed, we may reproduce... constant urgency, rapid task switching and unilateral decision making [and]... unintentionally equate speed with competence.'

Validity for whom? Unpacking assessment validity from an inclusion perspective

Click on the article title to read more.

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I was lucky to be invited by @bmj.com to be a Guest Editor for a series on COVID in the US For one paper, I commissioned my brilliant Duke colleague @keishabentley.bsky.social to lead an analysis on "Race, racism, & covid-19 in the US: lessons not learnt" Read it at www.bmj.com/content/384/...

Race, racism, and covid-19 in the US: lessons not learnt

Keisha Bentley-Edwards and colleagues argue that systemic racism and economic inequality are at the root of disparity in covid-19 outcomes and suggest how to distribute resources more equitably. The...

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Trevon Logan@trevondlogan.bsky.social · 2d ago

By late Summer of 2020, COVID was the third leading cause of death for Black people in the USA. It’s like everyone has just forgotten that…