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Badger culling is ineffective at tackling TB in cattle, yet the Labour government reneged on its promise to #EndTheCull and issued new licenses! 🤦‍♀️ Inspiring to meet Brian May and the Save Me Trust to hear about a successful trial of alternatives at Gatcombe Farm. Let's do it! 🦡

submitted 17 hours ago • 7 comments

Another reminder to be mindful of your dogs in this heat. No dog has died from missing a walk, but they can easily get heatstroke running around in this weather!

submitted 14 hours ago • 1 comment

Whether for love, work or to flee danger - people move. Always have and always will. It's the govt's job to make it work - but instead the failing Home Office wastes taxpayer money treating migrants like criminals. Time for something new - my report with ‪@zoejardiniere.bsky.social‬ out today.

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

For #RatOfTheWeek this week - these two little breakfast buddies, Reggie (front) and Figgy (behind). Both get special breakfasts as both are old men in poor health. They look so cute lined up like this! #Rats #Pets #PetRats #SkyRats #FancyRats #RatsOfBluesky

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Our paper in @science.org 👉🏽 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... is accompanied by an especially thoughtful perspective by Carey Nadell and Chris Marx 👉🏽 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

#RatOfTheWeek has to be my two old men, Farley and Figgy. They looked do beautifully peaceful snuggled together that i had to take a picture. That got their attention! Hooman, what you doing? Is there food?? #Rats #pets #petrats #skyrats #fancyrats #RatsOfBluesky #RatSky

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Last week as part of Cohort III I finished the Leading for Research Fellows programme🙌🔥 Most interesting to talk to Research Fellow from all over the university that run into the same barriers😅 (a lot of job security talks)

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

🏳️‍🌈 happy pride month!! lgbtq+ rights are human rights!! my rats bite bigots!! 🏳️‍🌈

submitted 19 days ago • 21 comments

#RatOfTheWeek can only be my old man Figwit, aka Figgy. Because he's beautiful and has the pinkest, roundest, most satellite dishest ears. And he's 30 months old and a bit poorly, which makes us even more aware of his preciousness. Here he is. #Rats #pets #PetRats #FancyRats #SkyRats #RatsOfBluesky

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

Wow. Just wow. UK people, do not vote for Niggle Farridge and his plan to introduce American style insurance based healthcare...

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

"Migrants.... are overall more likely to be in work and have slightly higher wages. It follows almost automatically that their short-term impact is to boost, not reduce, GDP per capita. Indeed, that’s exactly what the ONS says.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 37 days ago • 11 comments

🧵5 Top Free Alternatives to BioRender for Scientific Illustrations! These five websites offer free scientific illustrations for biologists. Great for presentations, research papers and other research communication needs. Save and share the post!

submitted 38 days ago • 34 comments

"A private workshop took place on 11 March 2025 in Washington DC, hosted by the Heritage Foundation, to discuss proposals by European right-wing lobby groups to dismantle the European Union and the European Court of Justice."

submitted 38 days ago • 30 comments

extraordinary that Thames Water executives are getting new bonuses, this time as a result of the £3bn rescue loan from the spring - which loads the company with interest rates of nearly 10% via me and Gill Plimmer www.ft.com/content/1f6d...

submitted 38 days ago • 55 comments

Look at her… Her name is Siwar and she is 6 months old Her tiny body desperate for food that is being deliberately held from her and countless others By an Israeli government that couldn’t be clearer as to its aims …and our ‘leaders’ watch on.

submitted 38 days ago • 16 comments

I cannot state this strongly enough: If you are upset about the way this government is treating trans people and immigrants, and you have a Labour MP, for God sake write to them.

submitted 38 days ago • 113 comments

I got a new camera... So #RatOfTheWeek is a... little... different 😂 An excellent fluffy rat who I enjoyed being able photograph while he used all his ratty wiles to boldly steal my bird food 😄 #pets #petrats #wildlife #squirrel #RatsOfBluesky #fancyrats #veryfancyrat

submitted 40 days ago • 1 comment

If kidnapped, what would you post that would alarm your followers without the kidnappers knowing you're asking for help? "I really want to hang out with a big crowd of people tonight. Staying home on my own would be awful. Maybe I'll go clubbing, unless there's a big family party at my in-laws'."

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

This food is life!

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A reminder that when the Sycamore Gap tree was cut down people immediately started blaming immigrants and teenagers... It was neither. It was two white Englishmen in their 30s.

submitted 42 days ago • 201 comments

#PopulationGenetics of microbial #pathogens can inform decisions that impact society; @smlatorreo.bsky.social explores a @plosbiology.org study on wheat powdery mildew #fungus which uses genomic data to predict continental-scale dispersion routes 🧪 Paper: plos.io/43qfH9F Primer: plos.io/44YjHQN

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

We joined a meeting of the Global Research-Intensive Universities Network last week hosted by @u15ca.bsky.social, where the network issued the Ottawa Declaration - a collective commitment to increasing collaboration at a time of global uncertainty: www.russellgroup.ac.uk/news/global-...

submitted 45 days ago • 1 comment

Some weeks, it's just too hard to pick a #RatOfTheWeek. Here are Farley, Figgy, Ace, Dusty, Waffle, Crumpet, Pingu and Muffin, playing "how many rats can we fit on the bookshelf?". #Rats #Pets #PetRats #FancyRats #SkyRats #RatsOfBluesky

submitted 46 days ago • 1 comment

Elon Musk gives himself a red lightsabre on one of his many sockpuppet accounts. At least he knows he is evil, now to get one of his children to throw him into the core of the Death Star.

submitted 47 days ago • 7 comments

🔥 This is important. Really important. And none of the mainstream media are reporting it. So please read and share — because we are the news community for ourselves and the “mainstream” media are utterly hopeless for meaningful news.

submitted 47 days ago • 22 comments

Indeed. First thought. No, second thought. First was "eeep where's the eye-bleach"

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If this is what Starmer means when he says “I get it”, heaven help us …

submitted 47 days ago • 47 comments

LIBERTY DEFEATS GOVERNMENT APPEAL AS COURT RULES ANTI-PROTEST LAWS ARE UNLAWFUL This should be on every UK News channel www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/issue/libert...

submitted 49 days ago • 15 comments

Great paper out by Ben Chan, Jon Koff and co at Yale highlighting compassionate use of phage therapy in nine patients with CF with multi-drug resistant strains of Pseudomonas aeruginosa www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 50 days ago • 1 comment

oh god, it’s true, we’re living in an era of Clippy Maxing

submitted 49 days ago • 25 comments