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Astrophysicist at Imperial College London. Works with space missions like Herschel and Planck, on extragalactic astronomy, observational cosmology and astrobiology. Ask about phosphine on Venus! Also writes science fiction. Not speaking for anybody
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Reproductive rights are under attack! Take 2 mins to write to your MP TODAY to demand that abortion is decriminalised action.goodlawproject.org/decriminalis...

1/4. ❌ PIP cuts will be devastating for people with #LongCovid and #ME. Our new briefing shows these reforms will push people further from work, deepen poverty & worsen health. We’re calling on MPs to oppose the cuts - help us flood their inboxes! Link to briefing & how to act below ⬇️

BREAKING: Nuclear Regulatory Commissioner Chris Hanson has been fired by President Trump. The NRC is one of the most independent agencies in the Federal Government. Statement from Hanson.

++HOW IS THIS FOR CYBER PUNK++

This is Bad.

www.theverge.com/news/687418/... every day a new shakedown, every day a new reminder we put the most chintzy scam artists this country ever produced in charge of the government

Utah voters: Are these really your values? Mike Lee is the best you can do?

Following my complaint, the Telegraph has amended the inaccurate statement that "48% of social housing in London has a non-British head of household". www.telegraph.co.uk/news/0/teleg...

Britain's most comically illiterate headmistress strikes again. I mean... How could one find opportunities to discuss racism, in the context of Othello and The Merchant of Venice, or sexism, while teaching The Taming of The Shrew and Twelfth Night?

Vaccines save lives!

Who should the American people believe: the independent, nonpartisan experts or Trump’s hand-picked Treasury Secretary? NOT a tough choice.

Orwellian www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/u...

Last night in Riverside, CA, what 6 months ago would’ve been on every new channel, was only on local news. A man drove his vehicle into protesters. At least one woman screamed that her sister had been ran over. /

Not a trans woman 👇

Rep Melissa Hortman & her husband Mark volunteered with Helping Paws Assistance Dogs training service dogs for ppl in need, like Veterans. Their dog Gilbert was also killed in the assassination. “Both sides” are NOT the same. Trump & Republicans spewing their hate as sure as pulled that trigger.

www.science.org/content/arti... Guidance seems to change daily, and sometimes staff find out that grants have been cut at the same time as PIs. This isn't a good way to run a *business*, let alone a complicated funding entity meant to improve human health and wellbeing.

Disability benefit cuts will harm hundreds of thousands, MPs warn: 'A disaster on every front' 'it's very clear that if this goes ahead, the wider cost to society will be bigger than any money they save' www.bigissue.com/news/social-...

#skao2025 Federico Di Vruno on impact of satellites on #RadioAstronomy from intended emissions (strong enough to saturate receivers) & unintended electromagnetic radiation (originating from on satellite electronics). In future 🛰️ constellations could impact 25% of our observing time! 🔭📡🧪

Trump cuts US public spending on health science to lowest level in decade www.ft.com/content/63c1...

Even more easily amused

If you’re in LA in a public space this month and someone tries to get you to sign a petition about wages and voting DO NOT SIGN IT. this is businesses trying to repeal an ordinance that increases wages for workers in hospitality spaces ahead of the Super Bowl, World Cup, & Olympics. Do not sign!

Infants can literally just stop breathing and die with no warning from “whooping cough” (pertussis) infection. They do not necessarily even get the infamous cough that older children and adults get (and can be severe enough to break ribs). Do not let unvaccinated people around your newborns (or you)

Contrary to media reports after the 2025 local elections, there was no Reform UK landslide, just an outdated voting system that needs reforming.

Wow! 💥💥💥 Not only did the soldiers look like they didn't want to be there, one of the main songs they played ("Fortunate Son") was about a son-of-a-bitch rich draft dodger! World class trolling by the troops! #NoKings

Arturo Obrego, a 77-year-old army veteran who hitchiked from Huntington Beach is going viral for getting hit with wooden baton by officers on horses and knocked down during today’s peaceful “No Kings” protest in DTLA. @TheGlutster ran into him at Union Station a couple of hours after the incident.

Fwiw arstechnica did a better write up of what he believes and it's more fucked up and more clearly based in eugenics He says it's miasma theory but in classic RFK Jr. fashion he defines it wrong. It would actually be better if he believed in miasma theory than his actual beliefs imho

Leonard Nimoy with son Adam on the set of STAR TREK. #FathersDay

Also see everything in media about the Columbine shooters that didn't mention they were white supremacists who wrote eugenicist screeds and praised Hitler and nazi Germany.

If you’re interested in some of the murkier parts of UK history catch The Mystery of Anthrax Island on the BBC iPlayer, available for a week. Gruinard, Dark Harvest and 300lbs of anthrax contaminated soil that have never been recovered.

Why is germ theory in the same air quotes as "miasma theory," I ask as a historian of medicine who is very very tired

In 2008 the security staff employed by Pride tried to gender police the toilets at Trafalgar Square. I warned them that if they did not desist, I would organise a mass sit in within ten minutes. They made the mistake of calling my bluff. Pride eventually apologised to trans people. #Toiletgate2008

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the strolling of the dudes They ambled up the street today before the crowds so few There wasnt much to see maybe an abram tank or two This parade is kinda mid Glory glory what a bullshit way to serve

From Kaz Gary: For Pride Month, Astrobites is interviewing one transgender astronomer every week. This week we interviewed Joy Bhattacharya, a PhD candidate at the Ohio State University! 🔭✨☄️ astrobites.org/2025/06/13/j...

This time-lapse video of protesters marching down Broadway in Oakland for No Kings Day gives an idea of how many people turned out today @sfchronicle.com

LMFAO 😂