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Patrick Fullick @insect-project.org · 31/07/2026

'“Whoever created and approved this slide did not know where countries in Africa are and did not care to check their work,” wrote Matt Petit, who focuses on AI and geopolitics at the Atlantic Council.' www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference

State department ‘takes full responsibility’ for erroneous, widely shared chart displayed at Aids conference in Brazil

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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Half of England now officially in ‘exceptionally serious’ drought - “flash drought” developed quickly because of unusually low recent rainfall and very high temperatures (and despite wet winter) #climatecrisis Story by @pippaneill.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

theguardian.com

Half of England officially in ‘exceptionally serious’ drought

Environment Agency names seven regions affected by unusually hot and dry weather and shortage of water

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Odd, how Republicans are so angry at the *pretend* notion that Dr. Fauci undermined our health but are not even slightly interested in RFK Jr’s *actual* undermining of our health.

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Scott Bryan @scottygb.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Wayne Rooney speaks for everyone.

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Dan Jagger @auditorynerves.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Editorial -> On gene-edited humans: darker uses must be acknowledged alongside medical ones. Polling shows that the public supports this new technology, but the conversation must move beyond simple questions of safety. 🧪🧬🔬 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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The Guardian view on gene-edited humans: darker uses must be acknowledged alongside medical ones | Editorial

Editorial: Polling shows that the public supports this new technology, but the conversation must move beyond simple questions of safety

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

A reminder that this is the guy we're all now supposed to be listening to on the subject of the safety of MPs

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Simon Pegg @simonpegg.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I've just seen about 40 kids sneak into watch 'The Odyssey' without paying by hiding in a giant wooden coat.

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Patrick Fullick @insect-project.org · 16/07/2026

“I’m here personally liking you, but feeling as if I’m having to represent the public health of the United States of America, so that it’s not taken over by people who are ideologically inclined and looking to file a lawsuit, not looking to prevent disease.”

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Patrick Fullick @insect-project.org · 16/07/2026

The confirmation hearing for Erica Schwartz yesterday was 😳. Bill Cassidy: “You can be CDC director and just take orders. We need a CDC director that will actually stand up to crazy, stupid things being said that undermine faith in immunization.” 🧪 www.politico.com/live-updates...

politico.com

CDC nominee struggles to convince senators she'll stand up to RFK Jr.

“We need a CDC director that will actually stand up to crazy, stupid things being said that undermine faith in immunization,” Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) said.

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

1/ Irony number one: Many of the people now cheering me on spent years insisting heat pumps don't work. Air conditioners ARE heat pumps. Same refrigeration cycle, same physics, running in reverse. Most modern units do both. If AC works (it does), heat pumps work (they do).

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 11/07/2026

The latest from the irrepressible Pecksniff... * Reform's Clacton gamble * Count Binface steals the headlines * Labour's donations dilemma.

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Pecksniff: End game for Farage

In which Mr Pecksniff lays before his readers for their approval certain observations and speculations reflecting on the political life

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Helen Barrett @helenbarrett.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

In 2015, a terrific bunch of Lithuanian builders were working on my house. They didn't speak English, but they loved Heart FM. One day there was a solar eclipse so the ever-literal Heart played 'Total Eclipse of the Heart'. The builders knew every word and bellowed the lot, entirely phonetically.

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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

The USPSTF typically meets three times a year to review the science for screening tests/medications for diseases like cancer, diabetes, HIV. These recommendations guide doctors & determine what insurance companies cover. They haven't met in over a year. 🧪🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/07/06/u...

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Key Health Care Panel Is Again Blocked From Meeting

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Jos Olivier @josolivier.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Western Europe records hottest-ever June as heatwaves intensify. Temperatures across ravaged region 3C above average as scientists warn of risks for people, ecosystems and infrastructure. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Western Europe records hottest-ever June as heatwaves intensify

Temperatures across ravaged region 3C above average as scientists warn of risks for people, ecosystems and infrastructure

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Jos Olivier @josolivier.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

UK waters hit with extreme heatwave as global sea temperatures reach record levels. Experts warn that some marine species are at risk of ‘mass mortality events’ in ever-warming oceans. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

theguardian.com

UK waters hit with extreme heatwave as global sea temperatures reach record levels

Experts warn that some marine species are at risk of ‘mass mortality events’ in ever-warming oceans

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Jos Olivier @josolivier.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Barcelona registers highest temperature in 112 years as UK health service urges children and elderly to ‘take weather seriously’ – Europe live. Some stations in Spain recorded temperatures of up to 44C after western Europe experienced the warmest June on record. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

theguardian.com

Barcelona registers highest temperature in 112 years as UK health service urges children and elderly to ‘take weather seriously’ – Europe live

Some stations in Spain recorded temperatures of up to 44C after western Europe experienced the warmest June on record

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Olivia Rudgard @oliviarudgard.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

New from me: Are you struggling to stay cool in a hot London flat today? Here's my story about how we've spent the past two decades building heat traps for people to live in. Gift link 🎁

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Londoners Complain of ‘Unbearable Heat’ in City’s Modern Housing

In Britain’s capital city, an architectural trend that started about two decades ago is now being linked to unbearable levels of indoor heat.

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Patrick Fullick @insect-project.org · 18/06/2026

🧪 From the linked Lancet study: In women aged 20–24 years between 2020 and 2024, in whom vaccination coverage was around 88–90% at age 12–13 years, no deaths occurred, compared with 23·1 expected deaths based on historical rates ... a mortality reduction of 100% ... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

Cervical cancer deaths fall to zero in young women given HPV vaccine

A new study finds that hundreds of lives have been saved since school-age girls were offered the HPV jab in 2008.

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Patrick Fullick @insect-project.org · 30/04/2026

In London on 8th May? @katharinehayhoe.com is speaking at UCL at 2pm about how we decide and why we act depends not as much on the physical sciences 🧪 as they do on the social and political science of how humans interact with information and make decisions: www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...

ucl.ac.uk

Why Climate Science is Not Enough

Welcoming leading climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe who will talk about the disconnect between climate science and climate action.

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Stephan Lewandowsky @lewan.uk · 23/04/2026

It has been nearly a year since we released our Anti-Autocracy Handbook sks.to/autocracy. Our team of authors includes @karmaos.bsky.social @drsunitasah Prof Christina Pagel Renee DiResta Philipp Markolin John Cook 1/5

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Patrick Fullick @insect-project.org · 21/04/2026

To add: delving through this, "windmill" as a proposal has been "under consideration" since 2020. "Solar panel" was declined in 2021. No background to either of these that I can see.

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Patrick Fullick @insect-project.org · 21/04/2026

In my mind I through that there must at least be a windmill emoji (as in wind-powered tech for grinding wheat into flour), but no! Astonishing! This is where we need to go to make the request: unicode.org/emoji/propos...

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Guidelines for Submitting Unicode® Emoji Proposals

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Patrick Fullick @insect-project.org · 20/04/2026

Well, the following paragraph blew my mind. Tomatoes?

"The argument started because there were no tomatoes on
the shepherds pie that Michael made for tea and John thought this was wrong," said

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 17/04/2026

Friday ice update - #Arctic sea ice extent is currently the 2nd lowest on record (JAXA data)... • about 480,000 km² below the 2010s mean • about 760,000 km² below the 2000s mean • about 1,220,000 km² below the 1990s mean • about 1,810,000 km² below the 1980s mean More: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...

Line graph time series of 2026's daily Arctic sea ice extent compared to decadal averages from the 1980s to the 2010s. The decadal averages are shown with different colored lines with purple for the 1980s, blue for the 1990s, green for the 2000s, and white for the 2010s. Thin white lines are also shown for each year from 2000 to 2025. 2026 is shown with a thick gold line. There is a long-term decreasing trend in ice extent for every day of the year shown on this graph between March and May by looking at the decadal average line positions.

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Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

"We present The AI Scientist, which creates research ideas, writes code, runs experiments, plots and analyses data, writes the entire scientific manuscript, and performs its own peer review." You're a nut. If you've done this, you've missed the point of multiple bits. You could remove those bits.

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Patrick Fullick @insect-project.org · 17/04/2026

Looks like your meeting on 2 July would be a good place to come and talk to science journalists about this! I will plan to come along.

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Patrick Fullick @insect-project.org · 17/04/2026

... pretending to be an expert. Science journalists have an important role to play here, helping people to interpret the faint signals that come through what we call the "thicket of noise" ( at the top of the figure 👇).

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Patrick Fullick @insect-project.org · 17/04/2026

... in finding this community and figuring out who is trustworthy there. In the case of science, online sources and social media have blurred the boundaries of communities of experts, making it hard for non-experts to understand whether a message is coming from an expert or someone who is ...

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Patrick Fullick @insect-project.org · 17/04/2026

... in the sense of 'doing the science'. The situation is similar to where you need to get your car fixed, or get your roof repaired - you have to find the community which has expertise in this, and then take your advice from their. But this requires a special kind of meta-expertise ...

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Patrick Fullick @insect-project.org · 17/04/2026

It's our way of saying that if you want to know the direction that you should take, as a policymaker or as an individual, you should take your advice from science rather than anywhere else in terms of understanding the observable world. We make the point that you cannot 'do your own research' ...

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Patrick Fullick @insect-project.org · 17/04/2026

We are very interested in the role that journalists play in relaying the messages from frontier scientists to the general public, particularly in situations where scientific consensus is still in the process of formation.

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Patrick Fullick @insect-project.org · 17/04/2026

Our point about science and scientists is that the enterprise is premised on two kinds of truth - *correspondence truth* about the observable world, and *moral truth* as an imperative for scientists in interpreting and communicating their results.

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Patrick Fullick @insect-project.org · 17/04/2026

Yes, rec 5. See this extract 👇 from our recent submission to the APPG for Learning and Assessment in Schools inquiry into the reduction of the voting age to 16, which addresses the need for people to understand why science should be trusted.

A difficulty is when science is asked to work at the speed of policy-making, which is almost always much faster than the speed of scientific consensus-formation. What our course shows is why science is still 'the way to bet' under these circumstances. This is because of the expertise of scientists and because of their obsession with the truth of the matter: there is no other institution that can be relied upon as much as science to aspire to deliver the truth. That is the argument that leads to the conclusion that professional science is the place to seek the truth about the observable world while social media, artificial intelligence and populist politicians are not.

InSECT Project materials provide teachers with ways of examining historical and contemporary case studies in the context of debates comparing the interpretation of scientific findings and literary and artistic works. For example, we explain that historical accounts of
certain famous experiments as they are usually taught in schools are false in terms of the reported speed and certainty of their outcomes, which may be fixed now but were debatable at the time. Likewise, contemporaneous science often has a degree of interpretative flexibility.

Instead, science has to be understood via its aspirations. An identifying feature of science is
the aspiration to clarity and uniqueness of interpretation even if it cannot be achieved
immediately. In works of art and literature, on the other hand, the need for expert analysis and
the possibility of novel interpretations is often thought of as a characteristic of great work. Yet, some works of art are produced with the aspirations of a science in terms of clarity and unique interpretation - consider Picasso's Guernica and Orwell's 1984 where the artist and
author clearly did not mean the spectator or reader to understand their work in multiple ways.
InSECT Project case studies include vaccination and climate change: we show that in these
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Patrick Fullick @insect-project.org · 17/04/2026

Reading the Executive Summary of the report, I am struck by the need to explain why, in situations of great uncertainty (eg COVID), although the scientific consensus may be fluid, science is still 'the way to bet' when making decisions.

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Patrick Fullick @insect-project.org · 16/04/2026

One of our team is talking about this *today* at the NSTA meeting in Anaheim: "The interdisciplinary experience: teaching about science with humanities". my.nsta.org/conferences/...

Hands-On Workshop
The interdisciplinary experience: teaching about science with humanities
Thursday, April 16 • 3:40 PM - 4:40 PM
Anaheim Convention Center - 260 A, North Building
Inspired by InSECT, we propose courses that include both science and humanities. Elizabeth Zodda has five years of experience teaching an interdisciplinary course that blends science and social studies and includes students who may not see themselves as science students. In this session you will see how such a course was developed and how it runs. As students investigate current or historical issues that make use of scientific knowledge, we analyze the differences between science and other disciplines such as literature or political science. How do they compare in their approach to knowledge production, interpretation, and communication? Through this unusual classroom experience, students develop an appreciation for science and its role in providing trustworthy and reliable knowledge about the world and come to understand the arts and humanities. Stand-alone lesson suggestions will be included for use in your own classroom to enhance your science students’ connection to current events.

TAKEAWAYS:
Participants will leave with a better understanding of how science and other subjects differ in terms of building up, evaluating and using knowledge. You will be introduced to interdisciplinary methods for discussing the nature of science with your students.

SPEAKERS:
Elizabeth Zodda

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Prof Sheena Cruickshank @sheencr.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

What a chaotic mess- vaccine recommendations on hold and inconsistent action across States all under RFKJr’s watch. Trust in vaccines is at an all time low and it will take years to repair the chaos he has wreaked. Why is he not impeached?

theguardian.com

‘Uncharted territory’: uncertainty as US vaccine guidance falls apart under Trump

Several shots – including flu and Covid – lost their CDC recommendations under overhauls from the White House

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Patrick Fullick @insect-project.org · 16/04/2026

Curriculum change is slow and subject to so many competing and conflicting interests. This is the reason we've chosen to address climate change and vaccine scepticism from the bottom up, building a movement of teachers who see the need to teach about this across the curriculum.

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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Wouldn't it be cool to invest trillions of dollars into a technology that would actually make society better? Maybe we can call it “HI” — Human Intelligence. Instead of “data centers”, we could fund “schools”. Instead of *stealing* art, literature, and science, we help people *create* it. Crazy!

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Patrick Fullick @insect-project.org · 11/04/2026

"[Newton's] Waste Book served as an extension of his mind, rather than merely a memory aid, later becoming the foundation of his magnum opus Principia Mathematica."

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Patrick Fullick @insect-project.org · 11/04/2026

@questingvole.bsky.social's list contains some good books, and as he says: "there are many dozens more that could, or should, have been here." Missing for me is Crime and Punishment - essential adolescent reading, imho. www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...

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From Peepo! to Middlemarch: 25 books to read before you turn 25

An unmissable book for every year of your early life – with recommendations from Jacqueline Wilson, Michael Rosen, Katherine Rundell and more

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Simeon Schmauß @stim3on.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

If you're wondering what the Artemis II astronauts will be experiencing during tomorrows reentry, I recently made this video showing the Artemis I reentry with a telemetry overlay. 🔭🧪 #Artemis Full video on YouTube: youtu.be/-QbYrs5SZ5M

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Patrick Fullick @insect-project.org · 09/04/2026

I wish our (UK) government would cancel the King's state visit.

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