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"When New Scientist asked explicitly if human-caused climate change played any role in the record high temperatures, the NOAA press representative abruptly ended the call, saying, “I’m not seeing any more on-topic questions from the media""

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On this day 50 years ago, the pioneers of genetic engineering assembled in California for a fractious meeting to decide if & how they could proceed with their experiments safely. But did the fabled Asilomar conference go far enough? A BBC doc I made with @matthewcobb.bsky.social bit.ly/4gVy0rJ

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Today a group of Very Serious senators will go on TV and pretend that this is a normal & healthy appointment. "Dan Bongino, a former...police officer & Secret Service agent turned right-wing pundit & podcaster, will be the next deputy director of the FBI" www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/u...

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Gregg is a former Marine and Forest Service ranger. He's saved the lives of hikers dangling off a cliff or going through cardiac arrest, and he's bravely fought forest fires to save small rural towns. 100% of his salary is paid by WA state. Elon fired him. Share his story.

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I don’t like saying this but BBC News is utterly failing in its coverage of Trump. Go elsewhere to find out what is actually happening

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Not a great photo but it is a moment from 5 mins of pure joy today watching a lesser spotted woodpecker: foraging, drumming and calling overhead in a bitterly cold wood on the Quantocks. No bigger than a sparrow. Never seen one in the UK before and only once fleetingly in Romania.

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Not long started listening to 16 Sunsets (@16sunsets.bsky.social) This has to be one of the best podcast series I've had the fortunate luck to stumble across. The storytelling, the music, and the sheers scale of the whole shuttle program is captured incredibly! Can't wait til the next episode!

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NUJ World Service branch opposes cuts as "bad for the BBC, bad for Britain, and bad for the world..Losing journalists means lower quality content and programmes & our audiences notice that. Yet the BBC is subjecting the World Service to death by a thousand cuts"

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“there are Neville Chamberlain’s in every generation” George Monbiot’s takedown of Matt Goodwin and the Reform party is a thing of beauty 👏 #bbcqt

submitted 13 days ago • 147 comments

Good morning to this man, and this man only #bbcqt

submitted 12 days ago • 538 comments

Life & science on board an icebreaker in the Antarctic. @geomarkiel.bsky.social 's Autun Purser is a fantastic story teller who's promised a look round the vessel, views from the polar seabed, and tales of life in the cold. With him longevity expert Lisa Chakrabarti of @uniofnottingham.bsky.social

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This is pretty infuriating. Just about everything Musk says here is nonsensical fantasy or garbage, but it's just laid out as if these are the insights of a genius. And this just keeps happening again and again and again. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

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Elon Musk's continuing Royal Society fellowship "debases" the organisation and actions at key US science agency "cross yet another line" - so Royal Society fellow and leading climate scientist Michael Mann tells @francesjones.bsky.social www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-c...

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Teal on the River Otter estuary this morning

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Best not fly to or within the US for the next 4 years at least

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Grubby cowards. Try a spine www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

submitted 22 days ago • 22 comments

Reminder - there is a once in a generation opportunity to recruit the best US brains fleeing Trump

submitted 22 days ago • 8 comments

Conservative Andrew Griffith tells the BBC the Government's "attacks on free speech have landed extremely badly" with the Trump administration What attacks? The only free speech issue has been whether those who incited racist riots should be locked up. Is it Conservative policy that they shouldn't?

submitted 24 days ago • 79 comments

A gay guy, a Black man, and a woman walk into a flight deck— that’s not the beginning of a joke, but just a regular day at work! There was so much DEI on this plane that we could hardly get in the air. Luckily my limp wrists were able to wrestle the heavy jet back to the ground 💅🏼

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Total coincidence that the NYT, NPR, and NBC are all being forced out of the Pentagon and replaced with right-wing outlets. I’m sure those names were just picked out of a hat randomly!

submitted 25 days ago • 149 comments

An astonishing exploration of the reality of ‘DEI’ in this excellent @drkevinfong.bsky.social podcast about 1970s NASA. The testimony from older male astronauts on how female excellence changed their minds is memorable. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/1...

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@peaseroland.bsky.social

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New episode of our space shuttle podcast #16Sunsets released. All about the mighty launch system inc its vulnerabilities. @drkevinfong.bsky.social with ex #NASA engineers who designed & tested the rocketry and astronauts Crippen, Hoffman, Mullane & Stewart who reckoned with the risks bit.ly/4hmmMh1

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Cracking new edition of #ScienceinAction. Interviews with 4 US scientists dealing with the madness of MAGA's war on science. Plus the potpourri of amino acids & nucleobases in asteroid #Bennu c/o #OSIRISRex mission. Great work host @peaseroland.bsky.social & producer Alex Mansfield. bit.ly/3WFou4K

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Out today in @foreignpolicy.com: I wrote about what will happen if there is an H5N1 pandemic with Robert F Kennedy, Jr. in charge of safeguarding the health of Americans. If H5N1 begins spreading human to human, the deaths will be counted in millions.🧵👇 foreignpolicy.com/2025/01/30/r...

submitted 27 days ago • 28 comments

Episode 5 has landed wherever you get your pods ! Do not miss Anatomy of a Firecracker #16Sunsets @drkevinfong.bsky.social pod.link/1771470820

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If you wanted no leaks you should have gone into Settings -> Security -> Configure privacy & security -> Privacy options -> Other -> Configure -> Media interface and clicked “Disallow.” The Leak setting is on by default but we understand your privacy is important so we’ve made it easy to opt out

submitted 27 days ago • 876 comments

New episode of our space shuttle podcast #16Sunsets released. All about the mighty launch system inc its vulnerabilities. @drkevinfong.bsky.social with ex #NASA engineers who designed & tested the rocketry and astronauts Crippen, Hoffman, Mullane & Stewart who reckoned with the risks bit.ly/4hmmMh1

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BERNIE SANDERS: Vaccines do not cause autism. Do you agree? RFK Jr: As I said, I'm not going into HHS with any preordained-- SANDERS: I asked you a simple question, Bobby RFK Jr: If you show me those studies ... SANDERS: That is a very troubling response

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WTF, man. arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...

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Truly terrible move by BBC World Service to axe its flagship science news show #ScienceInAction, the world's best, smartest science journalism in audio for a global audience. Host @peaseroland.bsky.social is the most insightful, informed, energetic journo in the BBC Science Universe. bit.ly/3PTLg50

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Stop Musk! This petition to prevent overseas billionaires meddling in our politics is now at 94,000 signatures - having leapt up from just 30k a day ago. It’s so close now to triggering a parliamentary debate - let’s get it over the 100k mark by the end of today! bsky.app/profile/guys...

submitted 29 days ago • 13 comments

This is an excellent thread on the impact of Trump's presidency on science and medicine in the US, as well as a few global examples. Make no mistake people will die in large numbers.

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American science and medicine has been thrown into chaos and uncertainty over the past week. Here are some stories to get up to speed. 1/12

submitted 29 days ago • 64 comments

Musk speaking to the far right German party, the AfD, today. Best picture angle, ever! 😂

submitted 32 days ago • 285 comments

Yes it was a Nazi salute. Only fools, cowards and fellow travellers won’t say out loud what he is now.

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Tesla Gigafactory, Berlin (Collaboration with @politicalbeauty.bsky.social )

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Opportunistic, uninformed, haphazard, confused, shameless, contradictory, ideological, petty, misleading, vindictive and insane: Another week in the life of Kemi Badenoch iandunt.substack.com/p/one-week-i...

submitted 40 days ago • 59 comments

I BET DEI DID THIS

submitted 41 days ago • 832 comments