Kat Arney @katarney.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Yes but also my partner spelled my name wrong the first time he booked us plane tickets so.... 360
Kat Arney @katarney.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Hello Cambridge! On stage at J2 tonight with Sunday Driver, supporting the fabulous Baby Seals 050
Kat Arney @katarney.bsky.social · 23/09/2026New phrase I learned this week: Slop Grenade. A big ol' piece of AI generated shite that someone drops into a project that takes more time to interpret/fix than would have been needed to just do the thing the old-fashioned way. 2146
Reposted by Kat Arneyc3rmen @c3rmen.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Losing my mind while doing some research for my creature design lecture that the closest relative to the maned wolf is the bush dog. Like there has gotta be a fable where the maned wolf took all the leggie from its cousin 14178402090
Reposted by Kat ArneyAdam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 22/09/2026You should all read this. It’s superintelligent, organically so. 64910
Kat Arney @katarney.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Far too many quotable bits in @mjrobbins.com latest piece about the AI apocalypse doomed, so you'll just have to go read the whole thing martinrobbins.substack.com/p/the-ai-apo...martinrobbins.substack.comThe AI Apocalypse is Extremely Boring NowElites are obsessed with the end of the world. Most people have bigger problems. 134
Reposted by Kat ArneyMartin Robbins @mjrobbins.com · 20/09/2026Obviously going to regret this when Claude starts a nuclear war on Monday.martinrobbins.substack.comThe AI Apocalypse is Extremely Boring NowElites are obsessed with the end of the world. Most people have bigger problems. 85418
Kat Arney @katarney.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Knock yerselves out, gene regulation dorks. @philipcball.bsky.social has a story for you... 051
Reposted by Kat ArneyJournal of Art in Society @artinsociety.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Laura Knight’s seemingly-effortless pencil sketch of her bare-footed Cornwall neighbour & friend Ella Naper, eating an apple as she looks back down at us from her perch on a tree in a local orchard (1916). Love those delicate shadows! www.royalacademy.org.uk/article/how-... 113920
Kat Arney @katarney.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Marking the turning point of the year when I need to break out the cosy blanket for my morning wake-up-before-i-hit-the-gym coffee. 020
Reposted by Kat ArneyJim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 06/09/2026It’s really weird reading weird supposedly pro small business stories when you run a small business. This paperwork is not what bothers you! It’s a minor annoyance! It’s the taxes on hiring young staff, the cliff edges, and the sense your fellow small companies aren’t paying any tax at all. 1627131
Kat Arney @katarney.bsky.social · 30/08/2026POV: your boyfriend has finally finished the first draft of his bloody book 2280
Kat Arney @katarney.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Fascinating thread if you want to nerd out on how genes actually work. I looked at all this ten years ago in my book Herding Hemingway's Cats. There has been a fair bit of progress since, but still a lot we don't understand. The genome is not 'code', but a 3-D molecular library. 2174
Reposted by Kat ArneyJames Ball @jamesrball.com · 28/08/2026Go on then, for old time's sake: here's something I wrote in 2017: Milo Yiannopoulos is the walking embodiment of bullshit. archive.ph/ZK2co 812819
Reposted by Kat ArneyJason Song Quinn (Comms Open) @hulkhoquinn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Think about Miss Piggy. She lost a best friend and now an ex-lover in matter of 24 hours. 117313088380
Reposted by Kat ArneySam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 25/08/2026New post out: Much of the right - led by Elon Musk - has decided the world's problems are caused by "suicidal empathy". I look at where this phrase comes from, why it's a profoundly wrong misdiagnosis, and a misunderstanding of what empathy is. (£/free trial) samf.substack.com/p/the-war-ag...samf.substack.comThe war against empathyLast week Reform’s treasury spokesman Robert Jenrick set out proposals to cut welfare spending on working age adults in half. 59619170
Reposted by Kat ArneyMartin Robbins @mjrobbins.com · 25/08/2026Also a *phenomenal* businesswoman, an absolute shark who grafted, dealed and invested her way from grinding poverty to being a half-billionaire. 2201
Reposted by Kat ArneyMartin Robbins @mjrobbins.com · 23/08/2026I was always quite sceptical about the usefulness of writing books. A big chunk of cash helped me to modify that position, but IMO the main benefit is it forces you to link themes you’ve written about in ways you didn’t fully appreciate before. Like seeing the Matrix finally. 051
Kat Arney @katarney.bsky.social · 21/08/2026🎼🎵🎵 "Pink Chicken Wine, I'm gonna keep on drinking all the Pink Chicken Wine...."🎵🎵 1110
Kat Arney @katarney.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Today I am mostly side-eyeing certain people who are hand-wringing about the tragic consequences of excessive negative attention on someone with characteristics they like while at the same time orchestrating pile-ons of negative attention on people with characteristics they don't like 😒 080
Reposted by Kat ArneySchmidt Ocean Institute @schmidtocean.bsky.social · 15/06/2026This is a deep-sea isopod. Dr. Johanna Weston, a deep-ocean biologist and guest investigator at @whoi.edu, is confident this is Bathyopsurus nybelini, one of her favorite animals. Learn why via the YouTube caption: youtube.com/shorts/DenUj... 7531401040
Reposted by Kat ArneyThe Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Not to be some wild-eyed innocent, but I think it should be slightly bigger news that The Lancet have crunched the numbers and found that Musk's USAID cuts will kill 14 million people. And that's just by 2030. That's 9,600 people a day, every day, until the next world cup rolls around. 7350492753
Reposted by Kat ArneyLaura Howes @laurahowes.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Do not, I repeat, do not look at the sun or think sunglasses are enough. They aren't. cen.acs.org/articles/95/...cen.acs.orgChemistry explains why you shouldn’t stare at the solar eclipse without protectionLooking at the sun can set off damaging radical reactions in the eye 332
Reposted by Kat ArneySqueezy John @johnspiers.co.uk · 10/08/2026I still absolutely think that the English rugby team should learn how to morris dance properly and do it in response to the Haka against New Zealand. 611387266
Kat Arney @katarney.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Petition to rename them Freedom Horns. www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/au...washingtontimes.comTrump vs. trumpets: New tariff plan hits the orchestra’s brass sectionThe Trump administration this week declared tubas, trombones, trumpets and French horns a national security threat. 010
Reposted by Kat ArneyBSHS @bshsnews.bsky.social · 03/08/2026The Cambridge First All-Ladies Fire Brigade, a new musical about Hertha Ayrton and pioneering women in science, supported by the BSHS OEC project grant, @ the britishsciencefestival.org on 19 Sept in Southampton. bshs.org.uk/cambridge-fi... Free tickets: www.mayflower.org.uk/whats-on/bri... 187
Reposted by Kat ArneyAli B @alic.bsky.social · 09/08/2026I am one of the 662 waiting for a new liver on this list. My current existence is a pale shadow of what it could be. It's so important for people to talk about this; imagine it was you, or a loved one, in need. You'd hope someone else would be that generous. Please read: liveruk.org/new-nhs-figu...liveruk.orgNew NHS figures highlight growing demand for liver transplants across the UK - Liver UKFor anyone living with advanced liver disease, or supporting a loved one through treatment, the wait for a liver transplant can feel overwhelming. NHS Blood and Transplant have today launched a report... 31618
Reposted by Kat Arneywomensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 09/08/2026#BOTD Born on this day...9th Aug 1914. Tove Jansson, Finnish author, novelist, painter and illustrator, creator of the Moomin book series #WomensArt 6611134
Kat Arney @katarney.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Don't want your cat to get fed by others? Don't let it out. Don't want your cat to get hit by a car? Don't let it out. Don't want your cat to go missing? Don't let it out. Don't want your neighbours to hate your cat because it kills wildlife and shits all over their garden? Don't let it out. 261
Reposted by Kat ArneyMedieval Military Medicine @medmilmedicine.bsky.social · 08/08/2026A clever bit of artistry in this manuscript makes it appear as if the dog (?) has gone through one side of the page and out the other - 15th century, Kraków, MNK 3025 I, pp. 469-470 07818
Kat Arney @katarney.bsky.social · 07/08/2026This. Until you encounter a malignant narcissist and/or fantasist in the wild you have no idea what these people are like or capable of. It breaks your brain because their behaviour is so contrary to established norms. "Surely nobody would do or say that???" 2121
Reposted by Kat ArneyAmy Peace @amypeace.bsky.social · 07/08/2026I suspect similar will happen in most cases of 'A.I. productivity saving' cases: people only consider how a tool can help them, and not how others could use that tool to make your work harder (eg we might speed up drug discovery, but also malicious virus creation). And unfortunately, (cont)... 232
Kat Arney @katarney.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Next, scientists discover a carnivorous plant whose seeds are shaped like a tiny horse, fooling termites into take them into their mounds whereupon they devour their grubs. 040
Reposted by Kat ArneyRob Edwards @linsalrob.bsky.social · 06/08/2026This is a much more impressive reimagination of phiX174, which, alas, didn't get an NYTimes article about it because of, well, the other used AI. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...biorxiv.orgComplete Mutagenesis of the Genome and Proteome of ΦX174The bacteriophage ΦX174 was the first genome to be sequenced and the first to be chemically synthesised. Here we present a complete map of the consequences of changing every nucleotide in the ΦX174 ge... 13710
Kat Arney @katarney.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Attention writers! A new type of AI email scam designed to flatter your ego and engage you in order to extract personal info just landed. The real Larry Niven is 88, I don't think he gives a shit about my writing journey... 442
Reposted by Kat ArneyJoe Noonan @joenoonan.se · 13/03/2026Coming up with a post-hoc theory section when your results are weird: 51786270
Kat Arney @katarney.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Another excellent podcast from @jamesomalley.co.uk and @mjrobbins.com 031
Kat Arney @katarney.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Our home automation may have gone too far. I was walking my dad's dog today, got to a road and said "Alexa... sit!" The dog's name is Daisy. 260
Kat Arney @katarney.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Strangely apposite (or equally cursed) posts in my timeline tonight 021
Reposted by Kat ArneyDr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 01/08/2026A courtyard in Delft, c. 1658, by Pieter de Hooch, Dutch Golden Age painter, whose domestic scenes with perspective views reveal subtleties of light & mood; a contemporary of Vermeer, he lived 1629-c 1679, worked in Delft and Amsterdam. National Gallery London 728049
Reposted by Kat Arney✨[redacted]✨ @britculpsapp.bsky.social · 31/07/2026christ if that’s not a metaphor for our times 17108623745
Kat Arney @katarney.bsky.social · 30/07/2026The answer is more incredible than you could ever believe. 43815
Reposted by Kat ArneyTamsin Edwards @flimsin.bsky.social · 28/07/2026I've been off socials for 2 years, but have to speak up. Utter madness to defund this flagship institution of UK science + education. International research, UNESCO-level heritage, training physicists (inc. me in 2000), inspiring public w/ visitor centre and bluedot festival. We must #SaveJodrell 23917