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Edgar Häner @gaussianwalk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Positive ideas on how to keep written assignments. For example, make students write in a shared Google doc with version history tracking and copy and pasting and then have an oral exam on the content and sources they used www.chronicle.com/article/how-...

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is testament to No.10's frankly astonishing degree of political competence. A policy which was branded electoral suicide 48 hours ago now showing signs of robust popularity.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

These anonymous MPs saying it's 'electoral suicide' to tinker with the triple lock. Exactly the type who got us into this mess: unwilling to lead, unwilling to recognise reality for fear of offending voters, unwilling to solve long-term problems if it presents the slightest short-term risk.

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If you want to know the actual best poem it's Senlin, by Conrad Aiken. Behold just a taste:

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Hoosier Homer is reading The Fifth Sun by Camilla Townsend @hoosierhomer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

i think it's notable that I haven't seen any hospitals, schools, or apartment buildings burning in Moscow, but we see them in Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities weekly.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 16/09/2026

Short thread: 18 months ago, as part of their assault on higher ed, Trump/DOGE/Vought terminated my friend Kelton Minor's NIH Director's award that would have allowed him to take a faculty position there. Without the funds, Columbia ultimately rescinded the position. Kelton moved to Denmark.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

NSF has reduced the research budget for all atmospheric, ocean, and earth sciences by ~80%. 80%! A lot of us will not be conducting new research or training new students for the foreseeable future.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The US National Science Foundation Directorate for Geosciences, which has funded most of my research over the past three decades, has been enshitified by Trump and his lackeys.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026

Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.

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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 14/09/2026

Trump has only declared victory in the Iran war once this month. Concerning.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

One reason England does so well is our second generation immigrants outperform their peers which is not true in most OECD countries. We are also very good at integration. And it's v sad that this is never acknowledge in debates on immigration.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

New PISA data out England is now top ten in all three areas (reading, maths, science) and the second highest performing country outside of east Asia (after Estonia). This is a huge public policy success.

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Chris Kendall @ottocr.at · 05/09/2026

Our grandparents knew how to deal with fascist thugs on our streets

Red wall plaque reads:

Tower Hamlets Environment Trust
THE BATTLE OF CABLE STREET
The people of East London rallied to Cable Street on the 4th October 1936 and forced back the march of the fascist Oswald Mosley and his Blackshirts through the streets of the East End.
"THEY SHALL NOT PASS"

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

A lot of people assume Argentina must have some kind of legitimate claim over the Falklands because otherwise its deathless obsession with the islands would be weird and embarrassing, but guess what?

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Large portions of the data center backlash are based on moral panic, but the the tech right VC types upset by it are very funny considering how gleeful they were about the demise of ‘legacy’ media. What’s that? You’re missing epistemic gatekeepers who would place complex facts in context? Tough shit

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Just because there's a lot of pessimism on this site, did you know that a ton of African economies are finally hitting rapid development? E.g.

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Joni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Never trust Russia. Its words mean nothing

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

If you worry alot about AI, China's Robot Olympics is here to reassure you that things are going to be OK.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

This is *too much* devolution.

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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 27/07/2026

What's grim about this is that the numbers involved are almost comically small – it needs £2.8m! (Can we just cap bus fares at £2.01 instead?)

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

It's not just that they got it wrong it's that believing the original shows such a fundamental misunderstanding of the immigration system.

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Dutchy Patrick @dutchiepatrick.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Stay the hell away from Elon Musk and especially his cars, rockets and software….

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Thomas House @tah-sci.com · 25/07/2026

This is dreadful - I'd add one quick technical point which is that it was always predicted that we might get resurgent measles even if vaccination rates had stayed high, due to the complex dynamics of infection. It's going to be difficult to predict what epidemics we might see.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

It's funny how no-one ever asks where the money is coming from when you announce a cut in immigration.

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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

www.youtube.com/live/nQeXWoP...

Screen shot of a FB post from NASA solar system exploration advertising Eye on Dragonfly Live

Titan is the only moon in our solar system with a dense atmosphere, and the only world besides Earth known to have rivers, lakes and seas on its surface.
NASA's Dragonfly mission will investigate this extraordinary environment to help scientists better understand the chemistry that may have led to the origins of life.
Join us July 16 for a live look at the mission and hear how the spacecraft is preparing for launch.
https://www.youtube.com/live/nQeXWoPfUBY

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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 10/07/2026

It's just a shame that they don't work.

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Edgar Häner @gaussianwalk.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Its all coming together! First picture of the almost finished helicopter NASA is sending to Titan that I have seen. Space exploration never gets old, very excited

Picture of Dragonfly, the NASA spacecraft that has 8 rotors and will explore Titan.

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Alex Selby-Boothroyd @alexselbyb.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Not even the worst political chart I've seen

"Only Count Binface can beat Nigel Farage", accompanied by a slightly less than honest bar chart

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

It would be great if Binface won Clacton and then turned out to be a remarkably effective local MP who served several terms

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Why the far-right loves crypto inews.co.uk/opinion/fara...

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

NEW from me: Americans are set to lose nearly $250B gambling this year—a record high, up more than 60% since 2019—and that's before counting unofficial betting via prediction markets or crypto Can anything stop America's gambling boom? 🧵

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 26/06/2026

This is remarkable.

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Emily Lakdawalla 🏳️‍⚧️ Uranus Expert @elakdawalla.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Cool, I hadn't come across this visualization of the Mars rover weather data before. It's not *quite* accurate to call it "real-time" because there isn't a live connection to the rovers, but it is a data stream that is published as soon as it's received on Earth, which can be as often as 4x/day.

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

It was inevitable, wasn't it🙄 Of course the Telegraph would run with something like this👇 So let's remove some of the rose-tinted spectacles and also look at some of that data comparing 1976 with modern heat waves Because the 1976 nostalgia porn is wearing a bit thin at this stage 🧵1/23

Telegraph headiline:

"Heatwave hysterics wouldn't have lasted a day in 1976", overlaid with a bold “MONK DEBUNKED” stamp.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

A fifth of Leave voters have died.

Graph showing the movement of Leave and Remain voters since 2016

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Paul Smith @pmsmith.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

If housing affordability is a supply problem, we’d expect the places building the most homes to be the most affordable - exactly what the data shows. No major US housing market has both high house prices and high build rates. There’s no reason to think England’s housing market is any different.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Irony is dead

An event flyer for London Climate Action Week, titled "Extreme heat: Improving governance and strengthening action around the world," features a background photograph of a dry, arid landscape with a road and mountains under a hazy blue sky. At the top, logos for the "Climate Resilience Alliance" and "London Climate Action Week" are visible next to a red "EVENT" tag, while the bottom of the flyer lists the event details—scheduled for 24 June from 09:30-12:00 BST at the Shaw Library, London School of Economics and online—alongside partner logos including LSE Grantham Research Institute, IFRC, Mercy Corps, and Practical Action. Stamped boldly across the center of the image in large, dark red, capitalized letters is the ironic overlay text: "CANCELLED DUE TO EXTREME HEAT."

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

No joy to be found today. No satisfaction. Just frustration and a profound sense of squandered opportunity iandunt.substack.com/p/the-traged...

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Cleanthinking.de - Sauber in die Zukunft @cleanthinking.wsocial.eu · 21/06/2026

Solarstrom erspart Deutschland über 20 Milliarden Euro an Energieimporten Rund 6 Mio. Solaranlagen haben Deutschland zwischen 2020 und 2025 fossile Energieimporte im Wert von über 20 Mrd. Euro erspart. Am Dienstag beginnt die Intersolar Europe 2026 in München.

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Solarstrom spart Deutschland 20 Milliarden Euro Importkosten

Branche trifft sich: Solarstrom hat Deutschland 20 Mrd. Euro an Energieimporten erspart. Die Intersolar Europe zeigt ab Dienstag die 24/7-Zukunft.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 21/06/2026

"The Americans can't get the slime out of their capital's monument pool and will arrest you for touching it," sounds like the sort of lie they'd tell us in the Soviet Union so we'd stop bitching about bread lines.

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Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Research confirms that the more skilled professionals like doctors and software engineers rely on AI, the more their skills degrade. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

nature.com

Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in — and they’re not good

Reliance on artificial-intelligence tools degrades the abilities of physicians and software engineers, studies show.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

God I love this country. We're just so ridiculous.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Spain’s electricity bills have decreased due to its commitment to renewable energy, reducing the influence of fossil fuels on electricity prices.

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Why Spain’s electricity bills have fallen during an energy crisis

Homes and business are benefitting from Spain's commitment to clean energy.

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 15/06/2026

re the day's debate - I get that I was pretty precocious but I did move to an entirely different country where I didn't know anyone, by myself, at 17 years old, and I'm yet to regret it for even one moment, and I hate that we're apparently building a world where 17yos as seen as babies instead?

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Edgar Häner @gaussianwalk.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

The whole thread is full of bangers

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Ricard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

How did complex cells emerge? In this groundbreaking paper, @tonigabaldon.bsky.social & co show that eukaryotes arose through multiple waves of ancient genetic exchange involving diverse bacteria (& giant viruses!) revealing a far more complex origin than we imagined. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Edgar Häner @gaussianwalk.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

I could not agree more! Books that fit into your pockets are the peak reading experience

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