Yes, @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social filed a review with τῇ καλλίστῃ jotted as a title and nobody thought about the consequences. (Fortunately you can access the living oral tradition on the podcast feed.)

Lydia Polgreen@polgreen.bsky.social · last wk.

Uh, did Emily Wilson's Odyssey takedown crash the @lrb.co.uk website?

I love seeing solutions like this. Great report from @mongabay.com: news.mongabay.com/2026/07/zero...

Zero roadkill as Amazon canopy bridges secure 15,000 crossings

For some of the world's rarest monkeys, the path to survival now runs through a simple network of ropes.

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🚨Breaking🚨 Patrick Vallance appointed chair of prime minister’s new AI taskforce. Story: www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-p...

Opinion: Science took a back seat in Dsit—don’t mourn its demise. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...

Science took a back seat in Dsit—don't mourn its demise - Research Professional News

Kieron Flanagan says change might benefit UK science and innovation

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New study shows that heat-induced restrictions on global photosynthesis are worsening, threatening ecosystem productivity worldwide. Areas suffering heat stress have expanded 57% in 22 years; 90%+ vegetated areas showing only partial acclimation to rising temps academic.oup.com/nsr/article/... 🧪

Increasingly severe thermal stresses on global photosynthesis using insights from observations of canopy temperature

Satellite-derived canopy temperatures reveal a rapidly escalating heat threat to global photosynthesis over the past 22 years. Although vegetation can part

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The 2025 State of the UK Climate report highlights how rapidly the UK's climate is changing The report, with input from UKCEH, puts the year and decade into historical context. 2025 was the UK’s warmest year on record and there has been warming of ~0.25°C per decade since the 1980s. 1/

This is an interesting and good take on multiverse analyses…

ArXiv Paperboy (Stat.ME+Econ.EM)@paperposterbot.bsky.social · 3w ago

arXiv📈🤖 Multiverse analysis, abdication of responsibility and manufacturing of doubt By Modr\'ak

This is what I took from the New Statesman profile last year - Starmer is motivated to right wrongs that have befallen individuals, but not to analyse or remedy societal wrongs. www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...

What Keir Starmer can’t say

The Prime Minister believes he will heal Britain – but can he find the words?

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Public Sector Lawyer@publicsectorlawyer.bsky.social · 3w ago

This is the only sort of thing that seemed to really fire him up.

I can answer this: It comes out of people's bums.

Roger Highfield@rogerhighfield.bsky.social · 3w ago

‘Explosive diarrhoea’ outbreak grips US: how researchers are hunting its source www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Kalshi Will Offer Sports-Style Betting on Drug Trial Results www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Kalshi Will Offer Sports-Style Betting on Drug Trial Results

Kalshi Inc. is expanding in biotechnology by offering wagers on the outcomes of clinical trials and regulatory decisions, giving traders a more direct way to bet on key industry catalysts.

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Very nice review on the cultural integration of non-native species In 2014 I interpreted this integration as a form of shifting baselines syndrome, since degraded (ie invaded) ecosystem states are perceived as normal or desirable See paper below www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Cultural integration of invasive species - npj Biodiversity

npj Biodiversity - Cultural integration of invasive species

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I opened my recent piece for the Arts Council with a gentle dig at Suno. Maybe I should have been sharper www.artscouncil.org.uk/sites/defaul...

Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 3w ago

New: the highly controversial AI music generator Suno was hacked. The hacker sent us Suno source code; it shows the company scraped YouTube Music, Deezer, and Genius. In all, Suno scraped *decades* worth of music from the internet. Obviously didn't pay artists www.404media.co/hack-reveals...

This is one of the more enticing list of summer reading recommendations that I have seen. (Disclaimer: Doesn't necessarily mean I'll read any of them.) britishprogress.substack.com/p/hot-progre...

Hot Progress Summer: A reading list

Book recommendations to spark big ideas

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As this review notes, From the Earth to the Moon also devotes a surprising amount of its story to the dynamics of research-funding, scientific collaboration, and similarly wonkish matters.

London Review of Books@lrb.co.uk · 3w ago

‘The immensity of his fictional voyaging emerged from an intense imaginative compression of space – maps studied at a desk, scientific reports mined for narrative energy, a globe contained and rendered in print.’ Raymond N. MacKenzie on Jules Verne’s fantastic voyages. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Amazon is stockpiling economists

Soumaya Keynes@soumayakeynes.ft.com · 3w ago

New study looking at where PhD economists get jobs. I knew about the trend towards tech hiring economists in the 2010s. I didn't realise Amazon was such a big part of that... (Their data goes up to 22, so not including the latest job market collapse.) cepr.org/publications...

At the risk of revealing how the magic happens, Monya Baker has written about how journalists approach editing experts for @theopennotebook.bsky.social. www.theopennotebook.com/2026/07/07/b...

Building Relationships While Editing Experts - The Open Notebook

Editing experts draws on all the skills required to edit journalists, but demands more diplomacy and upfront orientation. Often the most important work comes before the author starts their draft. It’s...

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Our new commentary rdcu.be/ftx6h in @natecoevo.nature.com written with folks from @inaturalist.bsky.social and @cornellbirds.bsky.social shows that use of AI to manipulate existing or create new wildlife images undermines the huge value of vast citizen science databases. 🌍🪰🪶 #Ornithology 🧵 1/10

Citizen science platforms must mitigate against the threat of generative AI

Nature Ecology & Evolution - Citizen science platforms must mitigate against the threat of generative AI

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Dear humanity, please stop with the balloons. @nautiluslive.org ROVLittle Hercules is nearly 6000m deep on abyssal plain seafloor far from land. The 3rd item they zoomed on was this balloon 😩😢 nautiluslive.org #NoBalloons

About the time I saw Ann Widdecombe in panto (Bridlington 2016) www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2016/de...

Thomas Jones | Booooooooooooooo!

I went to the pantomime in Bridlington yesterday: Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, with a special guest star who had '...

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I have nothing against the French-born Arthur Fery representing the UK, but I suggest we offer to swap him for Michael Olise.

Kit Yates@kityates.bsky.social · 4w ago

I know we’re all excited about the football, but for English (British) sports fans, this is the most extraordinary story. Next chapter on Friday.

"The idea of a unified academic community defending academic freedom against external threats is ... misleading. In reality, academia is marked by ideological, professional and generational divisions that shape how freedom is exercised and constrained." A very worthwhile read #HigherEd […]

For 6 months the line from DSIT & UKRI on STFC cuts has been that no final decisions have been taken That is no longer the case, after DSIT approved UKRI's proposal for how to save £162m British research at Cern will be hit, along with UK science facilities Scoop by me & @francesjones.bsky.social

UK research at Cern to shrink as government approves STFC cuts - Research Professional News

Exclusive: Science department approves UKRI’s cost-saving proposal, with major UK facilities also facing cutbacks

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Your reminder that @resprofnews.bsky.social is set to go the way of (allegedly) Jodrell Bank at the end of the year. Who will get these stories then?

Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans@astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 4w ago

If this leaked info is to be trusted, we'll soon be adding #SaveJodrellBank to #SaveUKAstronomy🔭. I fear this is UKRI "rolling the pitch" to prepare us for the official announcement of unpleasant news😔 There is still a little glimmer hope though: A DSIT spokesperson said: "This is speculation".

So as a proportion, the money paid out in relation to e-bikes, e-motorcycles, dockless ebikes and e-scooters? < drum roll > 0.3% Zero. Point three. Per cent.

In 1998 and 1999, four of Britain's regions and nations voted for devolution. Since then, all have overperformed the rest of the country economically. Even Wales. . Also a bit of a rant about how there's more than one big city in Britain. tomforth.co.uk/agglomeratio...

Iranian security forces have rearrested conservationists Houman Jowkar and Sepideh Kashani. The Asiatic cheetah experts previously served 6 years on widely condemned espionage charges linked to using wildlife camera traps. @wcs.org expressed “profound concern and alarm” over the detentions.

Iran rearrests prominent conservationists freed just two years ago

Iranian security forces in Tehran arrested wildlife conservationists Houman Jowkar and Sepideh Kashani, alongside Sepideh’s sister, Sima Kashani, on July 1, 2026, according to reports from multiple…

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Hey, do you own a dog or a snake? Or both? It would make SUCH a difference if you could fill in this quick survey for my 11yo. He's doing a GSCE-like in herpetology in his spare time, because he's the best, and this is for a research project: forms.cloud.microsoft/Pages/Respon...

In China, a high-speed rail link between two cities increases scientific collaboration, measured by co-publications, by 35% econ.geo.uu.nl/peeg/peeg260...

Have been at a number of events with various think tankers and senior civil servants and everyone knows this is happening but seems caught like a deer in headlights. Meanwhile Bridget Phillipson and Jacqui Smith blithely whistle on. Can’t hold.

Hetan Shah@hetanshah.bsky.social · last mo.

‘We urge the Government to prioritise this issue. Should this situation continue unchecked, the damage to the health of higher education, research and innovation will be profound and have long-lasting consequences.’ www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/stateme...