I wonder what fraction of this is explained by the fact that a 50:50 shot at £1 million just sounds so ridiculous, I’d rather take the cash, thanks

YouGov@yougov.co.uk · 2w ago

If you had a choice between instantly receiving £50,000 or a 50% chance to win £1m, which would you pick? £50,000: 73% 50/50 chance of winning £1m: 21% yougov.com/en-gb/daily-...

It was a pleasure to speak to @thesun.co.uk about the Rejuvenation Olympics and longevity science more broadly! ‘Longevity scientist Andrew Steele, 40, from Shropshire*, describes some measures as “biohacking nonsense” and says they “are not very scientific” in their approach.’

Blood-swapping, oxygen tanks & WiFi blockers - inside the 'immortality Olympics'

THEY have gruelling gym regimes and rigid routines that monitor food, sleep and nutritional intake – but unlike other athletes, these ‘Olympians’ aren’t trying to cross the finish line first.…

the-sun.com

On the OpenAI hacking, I think this is the key point: do the advanced cybersecurity capabilities of these models net out at an advantage for attackers, or defenders? If the ‘good guys’ are always a few months ahead, and a few months is long enough to patch all the things, we’re golden…if not, uh-oh

What they don't teach you about heatwaves: It's not just heat. It's: • Your crops dying • Your river drying (Rhine is low again, disrupting shipping) • Your lungs burning from wildfire smoke • Your power grid collapsing It's everything at once.

It’s fun to go through this article and replace the word ‘ageing’ with the words ‘cancer’ or ‘dementia’. I don’t think longevity science is ageist—I want everyone to have a chance to be healthy, however old they are!

‘Anti-ageing is anti-life’: why longevity culture is just ageism in a lab coat

Rapid scientific progress has given us the tools to stop time more convincingly than ever – but lurking behind these claims is the same fear of ageing

theguardian.com

If you couldn’t see it on LinkedIn, my post on Bryan Johnson’s autoimmune gastritis diagnosis is now on my website:

Bryan Johnson’s ‘stomach-eating disease’ and the limits of biohacking – Andrew Steele

How did ‘The Most Measured Man in Human History’ have hidden autoimmune gastritis? %

andrewsteele.co.uk

Longevity entrepreneur Bryan Johnson has autoimmune gastritis: "My stomach is eating itself," he wrote. Experts say this could raise awareness over a chronic disease that's very hard to diagnose, and often missed by gastroenterologists: www.statnews.com/2026/07/08/b...

Bryan Johnson’s chronic disease is notoriously difficult to diagnose

Why longevity entrepreneur Bryan Johnson’s chronic disease is notoriously difficult to diagnose.

statnews.com

I wrote a piece about Bryan Johnson’s diagnosis with autoimmune gastritis. Check it out here: www.linkedin.com/pulse/bryan-...

I wrote a piece about Bryan Johnson’s diagnosis with autoimmune gastritis. Check it out here: www.linkedin.com/pulse/bryan-...

GET HEARING AIDS ❤️ stop worrying if they're cool they're like glasses just get them and wear them this one's for the dads out there (except my dad, he's cool and wears his aids)

Hi, welcome back to Séamas's Boarding Pass London City Airport to Derry 23rd August 2026, boy do we have a great show for you but first I'd like to tell you all about our friends at Athletic Greens who

Allan “Ransomware Sommelier” Liska@ransomwaresommelier.com · last mo.

What kind of sociopath has EVER looked at a PDF document and said to themselves, "This could be a podcast?"

I’m genuinely sorry to hear that Bryan is unwell. But this episode shows the limits of flashy biohacking theatre vs real medicine: too much focus on social-media-friendly measures like epigenetic clocks and night time erections while overlooking low ferritin for over a decade.

Happy 250th birthday, America! 🎂🇺🇸 To put that into perspective: here are some animals that live even longer—some of them alive today were probably around when the Declaration was signed… 🧵

Comparing the UK heatwaves of June 1976 and June 2026... Daytime maximum & night minimum temperatures were much hotter in 2026. Details: maxima over 21st-30th June in both years. Uses provisional 2026 HadUK-Grid data from Met Office NCIC. Note the difference scale is larger for night minimums.

Amazing work, though for the moment these things/devices can’t synthesise new ribosomes, so they die/stop working after a few generations when the ones they have been given wear out. Read it and be amazed! And it’s non-patented!

This Cell Feeds, Grows and Reproduces. And It’s Manmade.

From chemical building blocks, scientists have created synthetic cells that have most of the hallmarks of life.

nytimes.com

‘The Interventions Testing Program, which discovered or validated many of the best longevity drugs in mice, runs on a budget that’s only about twice what Bryan Johnson spends on his health every year.’ Are billionaires are obsessed with longevity? Check out my new article for BBC Science Focus: 🧪

Why billionaires could reverse ageing for everyone – but keep refusing to | BBC Science Focus Magazine

The ultra-rich keep spending millions to live forever – so why are the real breakthroughs going unfunded?

sciencefocus.com

Just one possible outcome... but the GFS weather forecast model is suggesting 40-41°C is possible in the UK around 7th July. This is a long-range forecast with significant uncertainty, but the fact that we are even seeing such values fairly regularly in the forecasts is extraordinary.

This weather isn’t just bad for your health because it’s hot: it also affects the air we breathe. 🧪

The invisible health risk from heatwaves (it’s not the heat)

YouTube video by Andrew Steele

youtube.com

This silver parasol reflects both UV (sunburn, skin ageing) and IR (heat), so I’m trying it out in the oppressive 35°C heat in London. I’d like to do a randomised trial to see if it actually affects my core body temperature, but I think it would be unethical to put myself in the control group.

I think this is a fair point, up to a point. I'm qualifying because there is a long and established debate in the field, with all the arguments worked through. Those working on this have engaged.

Alex Hern@hern.bsky.social · last mo.

wish there was more engagement with the distinction between "net zero is bad" and "the UK leading the way on net zero is bad". former is nonsense talking from barely reformed climate denialists but the latter deserves a better answer than "oh you like climate change do you?"

I’m starting to think this whole ‘climate change’ thing wasn’t such a great idea

If other news was reported like climate change:

Conor@ernekid.bsky.social · 2mo ago

For Christ’s sake RTE can we have a story about climate change that isn’t accompanied by a jolly picture of people on the beach?

EXLCUSIVE: An analysis by two MIT researchers shows how Russia's nuclear-powered cruise missile actually works. And guys, it's not pretty. 🚀☢️🤢🧵 www.npr.org/2026/06/18/n...

Report: Russia's nuclear-powered 'Skyfall' missile is dirty and dangerous

MIT researchers think they've worked out exactly how Russia's Burevestnik nuclear-powered missile flies. "It's almost certainly a terrible idea," one analyst said. "But it's not an impossible idea."

npr.org

A new study suggests the uptick in young people getting cancer is because they’re biologically older. Target the ageing process and you might help the 30-year-olds too! And a proper interventional study would finally tell us what these ageing clocks are actually measuring…

Biological aging and generational shifts in early-onset cancer risk - Nature Medicine

Analyses of population cohorts found that young adults exhibited earlier systemic and organ-specific aging, which was associated with increased risk of early-onset cancer compared with older adults bo...

nature.com

The days will start getting shorter… …wait for it… …now! Summer solstice 2026, June 21st, 08:25 UTC (09:25 BST, 10:25 CEST).

Vaccines can literally prevent cancer—and the new HPV jab statistics are even more remarkable than the headline. New article:

Vaccines can literally prevent cancer – Andrew Steele

The new HPV vaccine statistics are even more remarkable than the headlines suggest.

andrewsteele.co.uk

Racism Goldilocks strategy is hard to execute

Steve Akehurst@steveakehurst.bsky.social · 2mo ago

They’re calling it the quote on British politics that ended the need for all other quotes

"If we assume that this is governed by a Poisson distribution—a good first approximation for random events—the probability of observing zero deaths in 2020–24 without the vaccine is: P(0) = e⁻²²·⁷ ≈ 1.4 × 10⁻¹⁰ That's roughly 1 in 7 billion—ie, essentially impossible"

Andrew Steele@statto.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Vaccines can literally prevent cancer—and the new HPV jab statistics are even more remarkable than the headline. New article:

Vaccines can literally prevent cancer—and the new HPV jab statistics are even more remarkable than the headline. New article:

Vaccines can literally prevent cancer – Andrew Steele

The new HPV vaccine statistics are even more remarkable than the headlines suggest.

andrewsteele.co.uk