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Simon Bayly @simonbayly.bsky.social · 17h

New posdoctoral fellowship programme at the @crick.ac.uk just dropped. Some very cool projects on the list: www.crick.ac.uk/careers-and-...

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PACE fellowships projects

Learn more about the PACE collaborative postdoc projects.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 19h

I've been a member of the lobby for well over a decade. Not a single one of my lobby colleagues has said a word about the Conservatives banning me from their conferences, without any explanation. Contrast with the US where even Fox News stood in solidarity when Trump banned news outlets he disliked

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Kemi Badenoch's Conservatives Block Byline Times From Conference After Condemning Reform for Journalist Ban

The ban comes just weeks after the Conservative leader called Reform's barring of critical journalists from their conference an "authoritarian" attack on the free press

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Ken Tindell @kentindell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Not the Onion. No really, not The Onion.

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Theo Priestley @theopriestley.net · 29/09/2026

Every AI CEO sounds like this.

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Ned Boulting @nedboulting.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This was a very powerful read. Recently I have visited Weimar a few times and feel drawn to it. I will have to go back again now, armed with all that Hoyer documents in these pages. I highly recommend.

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Gail Myerscough @gailmyerscough.co.uk · 24/09/2026

A tumbleweed is rolling through my online shop today. I create colourful prints, cards, homewares and T-shirts inspired by architecture, music and mid-century design. Please have a look at my shop and repost to help spread the word. Thanks! gailmyerscough.co.uk

A pile of colourful prints featuring illustrations inspired by music, mid-century design and architecture.

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Markus Pössel @mpoessel.de · 24/09/2026

Oh, this is glorious! Upping to the science feed. 🧪

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 24/09/2026

Anyway, my masters is done and so I'm looking for more project work and potentially the right permanent job if it comes along. If you've liked the cut of my jib and think I'm right for something, or know someone who might - you can check my website. www.jmoxley.co.uk

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John Oxley | Writer, Strategist and Political Commentator

John Oxley advises on strategy, public affairs and communications, with a decade working alongside senior leaders in politics, law and business.

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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"Fantastic news Latest records show that RNLI donations have increased by 5000% over the past couple of weeks after far-right backlash. The RNLI is on track to record its highest annual fundraising total in its almost 200-year history" via Daniel Lismore Donate here rnli.org/support-us/g...

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Donate to the RNLI and help save lives at sea

Your donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here.

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Michael Gilman @gilman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Priceless

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Tony Tassell @tonytassell.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Big day at the FT - celebrating the 80th birthday of the great Martin Wolf. He has been with the FT for 39 yrs and will be here for a few more years yet. What people might not know is what an incredible colleague he is -so supportive and interested in all colleagues. He wants to hear from everyone

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Simon Bayly @simonbayly.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Interested in the state of the art of AI in biology? @crick.ac.uk is hosting a seminar series www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ai-in-biol...

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AI in Biology Seminar | Professor Caroline Uhler

A new AI for Biological Discovery Seminar Series, presented by the Francis Crick Institute.

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Nature @nature.com · 14/09/2026

The UK's universities are under pressure from every direction. We asked eight higher education leaders for their thoughts go.nature.com/4yWXJd1

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UK universities are on the brink — what is their greatest source of stress?

Nature asked eight leaders in higher education what they thought about the state of UK institutions. Here’s how they answered.

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 14/09/2026

UC Berkeley Law School bans AI—and other law schools quietly follow their lead—U Chicago bans AI use in the social sciences but NOT the business school & now MIT issues this damning report. But AI companies lobby the private equity execs on university boards to adopt it anyway.

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NBER @nber.org · 11/09/2026

A survey experiment and a policy shock in China show that more patient limited partners lead venture capitalists to hold companies longer, invest earlier, and achieve better exits and innovation, from Yingxiang Li, Tong Liu, and Ting Xu www.nber.org/papers/w35711

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

10 September 1930 | An Italian Jewish woman, Liliana Segre, was born in Milan. In January 1944, she was deported to #Auschwitz with her father Alberto who perished in the camp in April 1944. Liliana survived. Today she turns 96.

Black and white photo of a smiling man holding a young child, both dressed in light-colored clothes.

Elderly womanwith white hair wearing a black blazer and a light pink scarf, posing against a neutral background.

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg: "What is taking place today in the West Bank is a Chillul HaShem, a violation of God’s name of the worst order. We cannot stay silent." Proud that he was the rabbi who conducted my Bar Mitzvah.

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

skullduggery and high mathematics.... the original statement by the mathematician who seems like a nice and honourable man - worth reading! cims.nyu.edu/~tristanb/st...

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scott dagostino @scottdagostino.ca · 08/09/2026

Never seen a STAR TREK? 60 years is daunting but I got you: here’s a perfect, self-contained episode from each series, starting with the original in “The City on the Edge of Forever.” It’s got everything: Kirk and Spock time-travel to 1930s NYC and meet Joan Collins in a doomed romance 🖖🏼

William Shatner and Joan Collins in 1930s New York City

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Simon Bayly @simonbayly.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Know a postdoc, first-time founder or academic thinking about starting a company? Fantastic (and free) life science entrepreneurship programme offering practical leadership training from CEOs and industry experts. Delivered by @crick.ac.uk and @bia-uk.bsky.social lnkd.in/exF-8Gyi #biotech

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PULSE

Programme for up-and-coming life sciences entrepreneurs. Apply by 17 January 2027.

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Michael Gilman @gilman.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Looking forward to Part 2!

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Ned Boulting @nedboulting.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

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Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore @sjblakemore.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Saw these interview jokes on Twitter many years ago and kept them... Twitter was often a joyful place before it went batshit

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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Rough Draft vs Final Draft

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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Mindscape 366 | Jim Al-Khalili on Time, Quantum, Biology, and Cosmology. #MindscapePodcast preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2026...

Title card for Mindscape episode with Jim Al-Khalili.

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Sarfraz Manzoor @sarfrazmanzoor.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I am teaching a 12 week course at @faberacademy.bsky.social from Sep 17 in how to transform your passions and experiences into compelling first-person essays, opinion pieces, and columns. It is in person only and in London. It is also great fun. More details here faberacademy.com/product/show...

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Show and Tell: Writing for Newspapers, Magazines and Online Media – 17 September 2026 | Faber Academy

Transform your passions and experiences into compelling first-person essays, opinion pieces, and columns under the guidance of acclaimed journalist Sarfraz Manzoor.

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Nooman Haque @noomanhaque.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Please let us take these students in the UK! In fact let them study here even.

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Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

To those saying this normalises abhorrent views, the piece absolutely does not. It hangs him with his own words. As someone who has been on the receiving end of overt antisemitism I’ve always held that it is far better to know who the worst people in the world are than to pretend they don’t exist.

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Nooman Haque @noomanhaque.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Hobbling exports of a genuinely leading sector. Hobbling growth; hobbling cultural enrichment Without a universities strategy there is no growth strategy giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... Andy Burnham faces EU clash over youth scheme as summit looms

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Andy Burnham faces EU clash over youth scheme as summit looms

Ireland’s European affairs minister says ‘a lot of work still to do’

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EconomicsInTen @economicsinten.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Whenever we looked at Chartable to see how we were doing in the Science podcast charts, 'Infinite Monkey Cage' was nearly always no.1, so it's crazy to read both the posts to see what was going on in the background. It's quite the read. Amazed they are bringing it back with different presenters.

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Nooman Haque @noomanhaque.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

A lovely post about mortality

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France Today (FranciaOggi.com) Live @radionizza.com · 14/08/2026

Global: Biotech VCs are criticized for behaving like bankers, implying systemic financial risk for the public. Context: The industry relies heavily on private funding, making it vulnerable to economic shifts. Fact Check by gemma4:latest bsky.app/profile/financialtimes.com…

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Dave Eagle @dave-stargazer.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Not the best conditions, but I was imaging until 4:30 this morning, and I absolutely loved every second, with just me and our amazing universe. 🤩More of my pics here: www.flickr.com/photos/eagle...

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Dr Chris Macdonald @drchrismacdonald.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

New speech anxiety treatment: doi.org/10.3389/frvi... New exercise and protein guidelines: doi.org/10.3389/fnut... New vision of medicine: doi.org/10.3389/fmed... New nudge for sustainability: doi.org/10.3389/fsuf... New system for measuring the impact of food: doi.org/10.3389/fsuf... #science

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David Blanchflower BSc @davidbflower.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I had a great time capturing the Eclipse despite the cloudy conditions. Met a few people in the park. Here's roughly two thirds of the Sun gobbled. 🔭 🧪 🎨 ☀️ #astrophotography #SciArt #photography #StormHour #ThePhotoHour #SolarEclipse #Eclipse #Sun #Solar

The Sun partially eclipsed by the Moon with a spot about to be covered. All on a dark background.

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Iain Mansfield @igmansfield.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

"The central drama of the modern world is innovation against suffering, and we have made incredible progress so far. But we are doing far worse than we could." Fascinating piece by @scientificdiscovery.dev. worksinprogress.co/issue/future...

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Every disease is a policy failure

Few people know how much medicine has progressed in their lifetimes. Fewer know how much faster it could be progressing.

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Nooman Haque @noomanhaque.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Woke Muslim mayor. Standing up for our pubs

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.eurosky.social · 02/08/2026

Few people understand that the UK university system is in crisis, but even fewer realise that many of the people losing their jobs are amongst the best in their fields

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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

This is what drew me to classics in the first place. This is what I have always loved. And I am so delighted that everyone else now gets to discover it too. Whatever you think of the film in other ways, on that metric it’s a triumph www.newstatesman.com/culture/2026...

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Who owns the Odyssey?

The original poem is not as straightforward as Elon Musk and the Online Right might hope

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Thomas Hanrath @astrocamp.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Stonehenge under the Milky Way - the highlight of my England trip, captured on the very first night. ▼ IRIX 15mm | Canon EOS R astrocamp.eu/en/stoneheng... #astrophotography #astronomy #nature

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 23/07/2026

4. His role as Trump's science advisor and head of OSTP aside, Kratsios has no scientific experience whatsoever. His degree is a BA in politics, and his main credentials are as a Thiel apparatchik. So when he compares himself to Vannevar Bush… Kratsios is not a Vannevar. He isn't even a George W.

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Assistant to the President and Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) Michael Kratsios published a new report to President Trump that charts a bold course to revitalize American research and development (R&D). The report, entitled Science: A New Golden Age, marks the first comprehensive rethinking of the U.S. science and technology enterprise in over 80 years since Vannevar Bush’s Science: The Endless Frontier.

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Natasha Loder @natashaloder.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

With Anthropic racing to get into biopharma, I'm sharing my earlier piece on how AI companies are trying to eat pharma's lunch. (How far this will go will largely depend on what they can learn or infer about biology that isn't currently understood) open.substack.com/pub/overmatt...

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In Brief #1: The lab with no lab. How AI is changing the rules of drug discovery

Machines are making wet labs matter less

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

A strong and competent UK state would sweep in here and grab every PhD student we can find. Alas, no such state exists and we won't bother doing anything, as usual.

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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

There's a lot we can learn from museums. For example: imagine how much better England would have been last night if there had been a dry-stone wall in front of Pickford's goal.

A clearly photoshopped image of Messi stood in front of a drystone wall (from The MERL collection)

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Nooman Haque @noomanhaque.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Very good. Very accurate. I just don’t think there’s the will or courage to do any of this. To use a recent analogy, we’re 1-0 on the economy and hope to hold on for something better

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