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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 10h

Just make sure you turn your lights off, Alom. While someone builds a data centre down the road…

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What exactly is “climate action” that ordinary people can take when the fucking billionaires and politicians are literally happy to burn the whole planet down for money and power? (Sorry, feeling very down about all this).

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Them Fatale, @mxthemfatale.bsky.social · 10h

Badenoch claims £2,700 a month from the taxpayer to rent a grade II-listed farmhouse with six bedrooms. The property sits within the highest council tax bracket, costing over £4,000 in council tax a year, which the Essex MP also claims on expenses. "Best welfare" is being an MP.

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Dr Tess Machling @tessmachling.bsky.social · 13h

Newark Important Fact #4 Newark has a castle which is currently undergoing a fabulous restoration as part of a lottery funded project... ... you'd expect nothing less for the place where King John had a fatal case of diarrhoea back in 1216... 🥴

Newark Castle with the River Trent running beneath the castle walls.

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 13h

I also hate it when museums do that (apart from Pitt Rivers, where it makes sense). Though I must admit, my latest book starts in the present, goes back to Ancuent Egypt, then to 18th century India, before filling in the middle!

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 13h

Liz Truss? Liz fucking Truss!?

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Humanists UK @humanists.uk · 14h

A very happy 50th birthday to our patron Tim Minchin. Thank you for the music, the laughter, and these really lovely words on living, happiness, and finding meaning in the here and now. Happy Birthday, Tim!

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 13h

I am very uncomfortable about calling bits of software “agents”. They have no more real agency than a wind-up toy.

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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

the tech industry is about to invent books

Andrew Yeung
@andruyeung
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We created gyms because modern day work no
longer required physical activity. Without exercise,
our muscles atrophy.
I predict we'll need gyms for our brains too, once Al
starts doing our knowledge work.
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Zeteo UK @zeteo.uk · 06/10/2026

"If you're telling us that the editorial line is to say what we are told to say, that is not journalism." @misanharriman.bsky.social tells @sangitamyska.bsky.social about the media's double standard on Gaza. Watch the full conversation: zeteo.uk/p/sangita-myska-misan-harr…

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 15h

So exciting! It’s always momentous to find something that someone made thousands of years ago. If you go to your local museum with it, a curator may be able to catalogue it and give you more information about the area.

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Kristina Killgrove @killgrove.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Your astonishing artifact of the week is a Maya urn on which the deceased is depicted wearing a jaguar costume and flanked by skulls as he enters the underworld. 🧪🏺

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Urn with jaguars and skulls: A burial vessel depicting a dead ruler's arrival in the Maya underworld

This 1,400-year-old Maya urn features skulls, underworld gods, and a deceased ancestor dressed like a jaguar.

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Dr Sally Le Page @sallylepage.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Doing some swotting on embryonic development for a podcast I'm hosting and came across @profaliceroberts.bsky.social's hand drawn videos. Incredibly clear explanations, would recommend. (though I am very envious of her drawing skills!) youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Lockdown Embryology - bite size videos exploring the amazing development of a human in the womb - more coming soon - YouTube

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

No, it just has to be good enough to get you to the point where you have offspring. After that, natural selection doesn’t give a shit about you, as I’m realising as I get older and older. Anyway - fight the decrepitude!

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

So WHY CAN’t WE? I’d like some new teeth please. And new cartilage behind my patellae, while we’re at it. Whoever the creator* was, they were a bit sloppy. *Spoiler: there wasn’t one. Our bodies were assembled piecemeal over millions of years by a process (Natural Selection).

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The British social attitudes survey has been recording ~50% non-religious for years. They start by asking - are you religious? Rather than the leading census Q - what religion are you? Which has people ticking a box even if not believers.

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I strongly believe schools should bring children together rather than try to impose one religious identity on them. If you agree - please add your name and call on the Education Secretary to introduce inclusive assemblies for all, and to keep dangerous Christian Nationalism OUT of our schools.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Adam is my friend, so I'm biased. But he's a darned sight better than the rest of them. Which presumably is why Badenoch fears him. Which is presumably why he's banned.

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Quite! And I remember that book from school - didn’t realise it was a BBC indoctrination tool!

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Wow, that’s a transgression of a basic human right to freedom of belief/worldview

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It’s a wrap! Goodbye Sri Lanka - what a wonderful country - with so many rich layers of history. Watch out for Ancient Sri Lanka by Train on @channel4.bsky.social in the New Year!

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Absolutely - and I’m finding exactly the same in India and Sri Lanka. My favourite spots are those overlooked gems!

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gbrunstrom.bsky.social @gbrunstrom.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Reading about Brittany when you notice out of the window that you're looking down on it. Thank you for the holiday company @profaliceroberts.bsky.social

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

🔥 This video is approaching 1 million views collectively across social media. Pretty please use this tool to write to your MP - whoever they are - it all counts. And then share this link everywhere to family, friends, groups —> www.europeanmovement.co.uk/contact-mp-a...

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Humanists UK @humanists.uk · 22/09/2026

For millions, Terry Pratchett opened the door to a lifelong love of reading. The passage below, from Reaper Man, has always struck us as one of his most moving – a humanist meditation on death and legacy that continues to be read at humanist funerals today. #GNUTerryPratchett

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Humanists UK @humanists.uk · 18/09/2026

'By the time I finished it, I knew I'd left that faith behind.' Writing in the Guardian, our Vice President Alice Roberts on the book that ended her faith – Richard Dawkins' The Blind Watchmaker – and on becoming a humanist long before she knew the word for it. @profaliceroberts.bsky.social

When i picked up Dawkins' The Blind Watchmaker. I was already beginning to seriously doubt the Anglican faith i'd been brought up in. By the time i finished it, I knew I'd left that faith behinds. biological diversity could be entirely explained through natural processes; there was no need - and no evidence of - a divine creator. I became a humanist although I didn't know the word for it back then.

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

It’s good to be back in India! New archaeological adventures await…

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It was one of the great joys of my recent life to know Bonnie Greer. A truly remarkable person who radiated such wisdom and intellect. And when she spoke the audience was rapt. A kind, generous, passionate and very funny human. Thank you for giving us you Bonnie. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...

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Bonnie Greer, writer and cultural commentator, dies aged 77

The British-American novelist and playwright who regularly appeared on panel shows will be remembered for her ‘warmth, humour and generosity’, says her husband

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I’d forgotten about this demonstration - a blast from the past with the male reproductive system on my programme, Don’t Die Young, 20 years ago! youtu.be/iIMbsosjRXA?...

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Male Reproductive Organs - Dr Alice Roberts: Don't Die Young

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Fox Lane Books 🦊 @foxlanebooks.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Beautiful #IndieBookshop editions of The Goddess Queen by Alice Roberts ✨ Sprayed edges ✨ Map design endpapers ✨ Indie exclusive edition Ancient history, high politics, sex and power collide in this dramatic story of Cleopatra and Antonius. www.foxlanebooks.co.uk/product-page...

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Caitlin Moran @mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Hope this isn't a total "find and replace" on all official NHS documents - if I'm asked if I have "a warm hand over" in my pants next time I have thrush, I'm going to be very confused.

Story about NHS replacing "discharge" with "a warm handover"

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

And good luck with what sounds like a difficult day

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

So weird. These twerps need to do some biology. I think the idea that the brain stops inside the skull is behind some of this. It goes right out to your fingertips. And inside to your guts. You can’t have a brain without a body. It doesn’t make sense. Whatever AI is, it’s just a model.

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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

i'm thinking we, as a species, lost the plot. don't know where. but if we're talking about AI rights while the rights of trans people, pregnant people, immigrants, and Black and brown people are daily eroded, we messed up somewhere.

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Can chatbots feel – or even dream? Meet the man leading the fight for AI rights

Cattle rancher and tech CEO Michael Samadi is convinced these artificial minds are far from just tools. Has he glimpsed digital consciousness – or simply been seduced by an algorithm?

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

My first novel for adults - has gone straight into the SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER LIST! Thank you all my lovely readers!

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