Reposted by Ellis CrawfordCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 27/09/2026Ignore for a moment the question about whether Anthropic trains on user sessions. I am I right in reading this as saying that Anthropic's "never-before-discovered" reverse transcriptase was *patented* three years ago? 10380112
Reposted by Ellis CrawfordBrendan @chemscrapes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026It was the basis of this for Sketch Chemistry....but I can't find the pitch. 193
Reposted by Ellis CrawfordSo Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 24/09/2026Donate to Category Is's fix-it fund: gofund.me/8591b840cgofund.meDonate to Help Category Is Books Get Shutters!, organized by Category Is BooksFor the past eight years, Category Is Books has been able to comfortably oper… Category Is Books needs your support for Help Category Is Books Get Shutters! 02314
Reposted by Ellis CrawfordThem Fatale, @mxthemfatale.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Category is Books just had its window smashed in AGAIN. Fuck every person on the fence. Fuck every Just Asking Questions. Fuck every Labour MP, MSP, councillor and member. 216959
Reposted by Ellis CrawfordRoyal Society of Chemistry @rsc.org · 23/09/2026We’re delighted to announce Professor Robert House as the winner of the 2026 EES Lectureship, which recognises exceptional emerging talent in energy science! Learn more 👉 rsc.li/47dQZeE @kebleoxford.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk @oxfordmaterials.bsky.social @raeng.org.uk #ChemSky 1109
Reposted by Ellis CrawfordJohn Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 18/09/2026What on earth is happening? 23833121339
Reposted by Ellis CrawfordThe Journal of Immaterial Science @immaterialscience.bsky.social · 18/09/2026An article examining under what conditions you could do NMR spectroscopy on a human. PDF: www.immaterialscience.org/2026/humannmr 0126
Reposted by Ellis CrawfordJane @localnotail.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Solidarity with this Piddington resident ♥️✊ #Newsnight 721802539
Reposted by Ellis CrawfordScott Bagley @bagphos.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I see you are attempting to join #ChemSky Please mark all images containing a sandwich 99025
Reposted by Ellis CrawfordChemistry World @chemistryworld.com · 18/08/2026Complexes with multiple metal–metal bonds are rare because there needs to be the right balance of atomic size, electron configuration and available orbitals. Read about the latest advances, with researchers developing a new uranium-based complex: #ChemSky www.chemistryworld.com/news/uranium... 072
Reposted by Ellis CrawfordTuring Police Andúnië Branch 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴 @dov.bsky.social · 18/08/2026One thing that I find is cool about Monica is that in this piece she is completely unafraid of speaking about trans people as actual voters that exist and not some weird child.bbc.co.ukLennon criticises 'nasty' Scottish Labour as leadership bid failsMichael Marra and Joe Fagan secured enough to support to run to replace Anas Sarwar. 1719
Reposted by Ellis CrawfordNeil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 18/08/2026In Britain minorities are lined up to demonise and destroy. We humiliate and abuse and we long for ruin. The desperate horror of this moral collapse is that it’s us being ruined: our society, our values. How many more victims do we need before we look in the mirror and realise we’ve become monsters?heraldscotland.comThe persecution of minorities has reached bloodthirsty levelsEven in death, Jason Arday is hounded, writes Neil Mackay: the cruelty isn’t just immoral and disgusting, it is making Britain look like a nation… 53710
Reposted by Ellis CrawfordGregory Kohn @kohngregory.bsky.social · 15/08/2026In the wake of Arday's death, Nathan Cofnas (who led the X mob against him) states his motivation. Beyond whistleblowing, he states that after a 'revolution' removes professors like Arday, it will open opportunities for him to become 'head of the department of eugenics and race science at Harvard'. 51434461311
Reposted by Ellis CrawfordMarty Hades 🔥💀 @smartypantsmarty.com · 14/08/2026It’s just so wrong. We need to revisit the need for a public inquiry into press standards. No one should have to endure the hounding that Jason Arday experienced. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukJason Arday: Former Cambridge university professor found deadJason Arday was found "unresponsive" at an address in Battersea, south London, on Friday afternoon, officials said. 11462100
Reposted by Ellis CrawfordKay Severin @kay-severin.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Metal-organic B-N networks. Work by @atenasolea.bsky.social and co-workers, published #openaccess in @chemicalscience.rsc.org: pubs.rsc.org/sc/article/d... 1206
Reposted by Ellis CrawfordChemistry World @chemistryworld.com · 27/07/2026Even if many of the antibodies with manipulated data do work, science sleuths tell Chemistry World’s Frankie Macpherson the broken trust will take a long time to repair. @elisabethbik.bsky.social @reeserichardson.bsky.social @sholtodavid.bsky.social #ChemSky www.chemistryworld.com/news/thermo-...chemistryworld.comThermo Fisher antibody data manipulation is a breach of trust, say researchersScience sleuths say the problem is impacting research progress and Thermo's response falls short 0208
Reposted by Ellis CrawfordCommander Sterling @commandersterling.bsky.social · 10/07/2026I can’t get enough of Count Binface. As miserable as everything has become, a man with a bin for a head promising to build one affordable house is what I need in my news feed. That he’s made such a joke of Farage is just the cherry on top. 562656486
Reposted by Ellis CrawfordJosephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 09/07/2026Okay. This is a big deal for me Three years ago, writer Henry Bean told me he had a short story he'd finished in 2020, which he felt needed to be published He'd been turned down everywhere I read it I was stunned I took it to @jewishcurrents.bsky.social It's up now, and it will change you:jewishcurrents.orgThe Event“Something has taken place that we cannot speak of or know or even fully perceive, yet the fact of which sits before us.” 41537172
Reposted by Ellis CrawfordTuta @tuta.com · 08/07/2026One-Click Migration is now in closed beta 🎉🥳 This means that if you or your business would like to switch to Tuta & bring all existing emails and folders with, it will soon be an automated & hassle-free process. 😎 That's not all that's new & improved! Find out more 👉 tuta.com/blog/tuta-on... 47413
Reposted by Ellis CrawfordAndrew Martin @andrewmartin.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Political ideology is the strongest predictor of Messi-Ronaldo preference. Authoritarians who like short-form video are more likely to think Ronaldo is the GOAT. 721566370
Reposted by Ellis CrawfordUniversity of St Andrews @uniofstandrews.bsky.social · 24/06/2026St Andrews researchers catch sperm whale dialects evolving in the Mediterranean Sea 🐳🌊🥳 Read more...👇 ow.ly/zIou50Zg9S5 #EverToExcel 021
Reposted by Ellis CrawfordGeekOnALeash 🏳️⚧️ @geekonaleash.co.uk · 22/06/2026Decided to write to Heir Harmer one final letter after he announced his resignation 67826
Reposted by Ellis CrawfordUnicornsRockUK @unicornsrockuk.northsky.social · 23/06/2026Depressing but very much worth a read and share. www.erininthemorning.com/p/starmers-r...erininthemorning.comStarmer's Resignation And Labour's Collapse Shows Why Democrats Must Avoid Abandoning Trans PeopleThrowing trans people under the bus will not help the party. 1165
Reposted by Ellis CrawfordCharlotte Garden @charlottegarden.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Irony is dead. 71116326
Reposted by Ellis CrawfordSam Smith. Not That One. @scsmith4.bsky.social · 22/06/2026There's a whole series of books about this. Let's not, eh?static.klipy.comJames Holden's Frustration: God DammitAlt: The TV version of James Holden looking at a monitor, face crumpling in frustration before saying "God Dammit" and walking off 161
Reposted by Ellis CrawfordAlan Woke 2 @mrpostsgood.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Pro-Palestine marches will openly be called "hate marches" in the press, but these arsonist pogroms, illustrated by a burned-out bus, are simply "disorder" 152895995
Reposted by Ellis CrawfordOwen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Absolutely wild how right-wing commentators and politicians are just completely ignoring the attempted pogrom in Belfast. Families with kids rescued from homes set on fire. And these same people who smear peaceful protests against genocide as hate marches say NOTHING 351195366
Reposted by Ellis CrawfordKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 10/06/2026I've been a broken record on this for three years and I'll be a broken record for as long as that fucking website exists: X is a viciously racist far-right organising platform that ONLY WORKS because a huge number of centrists, lefties and progressivs cannot stop propping it upyahoo.comElon Musk accused of fuelling unrest after Belfast knife attackThe use of social media in planning violent protests over the Belfast knife attack has drawn condemnation, with Britain's ruling Labour Party accusing Elon Musk of stoking divisions. The tech billiona... 16388213361
Reposted by Ellis CrawfordAlistair Davidson @moh-kohn.eurosky.social · 10/06/2026Sick of "legitimate concerns". "I'm scared of black people" isn't a "legitimate," it's just racism. "LGBT people make me irrationally angry" isn't "legitimate," you just fear difference. It's not legitimate to wish you lived in a country with only people who are exactly like you. 7578174
Reposted by Ellis CrawfordToby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 09/06/2026this should frighten you 1012075521
Reposted by Ellis CrawfordMolly McKew @mollymckew.bsky.social · 10/06/2026It’s a pretty weird week when a guy who wants to be a trillionaire is simultaneously getting headlines for the economy-shattering IPO expected Friday and the racist pogroms he is accused of stoking — but these stories are viewed as separate and in no way connected or prescient of the future. 5278862554
Reposted by Ellis CrawfordConor Sewell @ccsewell.bsky.social · 10/06/2026There’s an increasingly scary question as to whether certain Labour MPs are merely ill-advisedly pandering for votes, or if they’ve become so mired in a toxic social media information ecosystem that they’ve actually fallen prey to far-right radicalisation. 1925158
Reposted by Ellis CrawfordTristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 10/06/2026It is now openly irresponsible for UK politicians and Government institutions to continue using Twitter/X as their primary communication platform. There should instead be serious conversations about banning it. 0199
Reposted by Ellis CrawfordJohn Swinney @johnswinney.bsky.social · 10/06/2026The scenes we saw in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Ayr last night are unacceptable. Scotland is a welcoming nation and those who choose to make their lives here are valued members of our communities. Racism, hatred and intimidation have no place in Scotland. We must stand against it. 57679230
Reposted by Ellis CrawfordAndrew Bissette @andrewbissette.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Ban X in the UK. It serves no public good. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...theguardian.comChinese activist in UK told by X that abusive deepfakes do not breach rulesApple Peiqing Ni targeted by account portraying her as promiscuous drug addict after posting about Tiananmen Square 033
Reposted by Ellis CrawfordLee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 10/06/2026Keir Starmer has condemned the riots in Belfast, encouraged and promoted on X by the platform's owner, by posting his statement on X. 15650139
Reposted by Ellis CrawfordRose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 10/06/2026British government: good golly gosh we understand and agree with the legitimate concerns of the pogrommers but my goodness we must all come together and to our racist ethnic cleansing with Dignity and Respect through boring bureaucracy 210419
Reposted by Ellis CrawfordRob Davies @byrobdavies.bsky.social · 10/06/2026You can't "legitimate concerns" a pogrom. 241253294
Reposted by Ellis CrawfordPeter Coles 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ 🇮🇪 @telescoper.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Elon Musk is a Fellow of the Royal Society. Judge people by the company they keep. bsky.app/profile/polp... 0142
Reposted by Ellis CrawfordJack McGovan @jackmcgovan.bsky.social · 10/06/2026If anything was going to make me a doomer, it would be the failure of the progressive left to leave X in the face of this stuff. It genuinely feels like progressive public intellectuals think their hot takes and pithy tweets are more powerful than a billionaire-backed misinformation algorithm. 0145
Reposted by Ellis CrawfordAnnika Brockschmidt @ardenthistorian.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Media: Stop calling the people setting fire to the homes of people of colour in Belfast “protesters”. This is a pogrom. 462750811
Reposted by Ellis Crawfordchiller @chiller.eurosky.social · 10/06/2026It's time for the UK to ban X and Facebook. 612125