Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 13hOne day, we will look back on the musings of these egomaniacal showboating cranks who somehow convinced first academia and subsequently the world that they had some sort of philosophical wisdom beyond the reach of mortals. 2333
Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 10/10/2026<are we the baddies meme> www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...theguardian.com 1313
Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Wait what, Tom Watson went to work for Palantir?? 14498
Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Absolute trash, by trash people who are not scientists 1822257
Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I think this might be a new category: metamansplaining 2111
Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Well done to the science Nobel Prizes, awarded to six men. Finally, this tragically under-represented demographic getting the recognition they need. If you want to hear what i REALLY think about the Nobel Prizes, try this with @ppfideas.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNQh... 5767
Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Can't believe the rejected mine. The Doctor and companion to be played by Lauren Layfield and Hacker T. Dog. Davros is back but he's Grotbags. The Master played by Pinky from Pink and the Brain. 4140
Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I have similar complaints about Best Kebabs in Catford. 020
Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Quote RT is switched off on my last RT, but let me say that @matthewcobb.bsky.social’s commentary on the new Rosalind Franklin DNA Photo 49 article is a chef’s kiss history of science explainer by a true expert. A he real events are so my CV more interesting than the legend. 2360
Reposted by Adam RutherfordMatthew Cobb @matthewcobb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026A lot of excitement on here about the article in Science summarising the discoveries of @alistairsponsel.bsky.social and Brian Sutton, just published in the Journal of the History of Biology. Some people have asked, so here is what I think they show, and what are the implications:link.springer.comPhotograph 49 is the Key to Understanding the History of Rosalind Franklin’s DNA Photograph 51 - Journal of the History of BiologyThis essay, co-authored by a historian of science and an X-ray crystallographer, sheds new light on Rosalind Franklin’s Photograph 51. We refute the infamous claim that, unlike James Watson, Franklin ... 4272148
Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I don’t know which one came first, but he uses whistles of varying frequencies as part of the anthropomorphic lab. 130
Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 06/10/2026And the weather map. Sort of. And new way to cut round cakes. And a hat with ventilation. 120
Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I so do. Wasn’t there some crazy stat about how much he ran that game? 120
Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 06/10/2026That's it! Thank you, and not to all the VERY FUNNY suggestions from everyone else. 180
Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 06/10/2026What do you call the insert into a dimmer switch which makes it a non-dimmer? 1360
Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Knowingly doing crime to develop your product. 08118
Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 05/10/2026'Hits out' is one of those headline phrases that no-one outside of headline writers ever says. See also 'dubbed', to name something. 13352
Reposted by Adam RutherfordHetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Now do everywhere else www.theguardian.com/technology/2...theguardian.comMeta glasses banned from courts in England and WalesExclusive: Court service says anyone trying to enter buildings with glasses will have them confiscated and returned when they leave 1238795
Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 05/10/2026He did not say that did he? Really? Cos that means he’s insane. And probably going to jail. 9626
Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The environmental costs of AI is mostly in the infrastructure required to build these unwanted sinks, and here are these avaricious ghouls avoiding paying for their environmental desecration. 210530
Reposted by Adam RutherfordLyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Who will speak for me when I can no longer speak for myself? So enjoyed talking to David Runciman about the politics of old age and Beauvoir's astonishingly prescient 1970 book on Old Age - La Vieillesse. 0183
Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 04/10/2026My students often ask me how I got into writing for the Guardian. The answer is 'I emailed Georgina Henry and she said yes. It was a very different time'. 290
Reposted by Adam RutherfordPast Present Future Podcast @ppfideas.bsky.social · 04/10/2026NEW EPISODE OUT NOW! For the final episode in our series on living in an ageing world David talks to @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social about one of the most interesting and challenging of all writers on the subject of old age – Simone de Beauvoir. Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com 1124
Reposted by Adam RutherfordSimon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Today marks the 25th anniversary (😯) of our publication on discovery of FOXP2. To commemorate, I’ll repost a few prior threads about the gene. Here’s my explainer of how we tracked down FOXP2 & implicated it in speech/language deficits, in the days before completion of the human genome project.🗣️🧬🧪👇 16523
Reposted by Adam RutherfordCharlotte Houldcroft @virologyhouldcroft.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Fantastic outgoing third year Cambridge Genetics student Chris Leung has turned his prize-winning project on ARG methods for DNA viruses into a preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... @aylwyn-scally.bsky.social & I welcome your feedback.biorxiv.orgStatistical inference of virus evolution using ancestral recombination graphsAncestral recombination graphs (ARGs) represent the coalescent history at every locus in the genome, subject to mutation and recombination. Modelling viruses using the coalescent with recombination re... 03110
Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I sleep talk: My wife recorded what I said in my dream this morning: 'Christopher Columbus. In a basement. Too many pigs. No, they are actually swine. Feral swine. Many feral swine.' 261867
Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I found an error on every other page for the first 40. It's comically bad. 2141
Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Not surprised in the least. It’s a masterpiece. 121
Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Part time is also great, meaning 5 days a week rather than the usual 9. 050
Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 30/09/2026But that's such bullshit too! They make such a song and dance abut practical effects, but it's crammed with digital. (I know you know this, but I am humourless about Nolan.) 030
Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 30/09/2026See also: vfx for Jurassic Park are still incredible after 30 years, vfx for Jurassic Park inferior sequels: arse. 1100
Reposted by Adam RutherfordET Heisenberg @utdheisenberg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Man City when asked to provide their “irrefutable evidence.” 561823375
Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Random: I’ve got a pair of tix for First Aid Kit tonight at the RAH, 70 each. We can’t go. 475
Reposted by Adam RutherfordVelour Shirt @object.works · 29/09/2026This is a metaphor for so many things these days that I couldn't choose 682152710
Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 28/09/2026My prediction - and I am happy to wrong about this - is that this will soon turn out to be inconsequential and will be quietly forgotten, in the overgrown garden of forgotten big claims. The hype IS the product. 7473
Reposted by Adam RutherfordSecret Agent Number Six @designationsix.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Elon Musk as he really is and he is pissed about it. boingboing.net/2026/09/25/o...boingboing.netOfficial trailer for "Musk" documentaryIf you haven't figured out the deal with Elon Musk, yet, a blockbuster documentary is on its way to explain it in detail. Filmed by Alex Gibney (Enron: The Smartest… 11280115
Reposted by Adam RutherfordSarah Elizabeth Cox @oispooky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed; Second, it is violently opposed; and Third, it is 4 for £1.00. 933272