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Swaledale Mutton Co. @swaledalemutton.bsky.social · 19h

The Heroes and Aliens Kickstarter launches tomorrow. There is a lot of new art to commission, so the sooner the campaign funds, the sooner I can say "start" to the artists and the sooner the print books can be proofed! www.kickstarter.com/projects/203...

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Coming soon: Aliens and Heroes

Three RPG books for Advanced Fighting Fantasy and Savage Worlds

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mad4fev.bsky.social @mad4fev.bsky.social · 19h

And to think he was advising the SoS for Health (Javid) in Déc '21.....

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Atomsk's Sanakan @atomskssanakan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It happens often, and then he deletes what he said to cover it up. x.com/dfreedman7/s... web.archive.org/web/20210228... x.com/tarahaelle/s... archive.is/9Sdlw x.com/drStuartGilm... archive.is/AycLz x.com/DrArturoAI/s... x.com/AlastairMcA3... x.com/mehdirhasan/... web.archive.org/web/20211227...

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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Yes. He said I was “threatening” him when I said I was going to write this article.

sciencebasedmedicine.org

Should An Infectious Disease Epidemiologist Comment on Child Vaccination?

Yes!

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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Prof Francois Balloux C @BallouxFrancois
I'm not sure how to convey this message in a half-acceptable way.
But, if the objective were to send SARCoV2 into endemicity, then healthy kids have to be exposed to the virus, ideally earlier than later. This is not 'eugenism'; it is bog-standard infection disease epidemiology.
21:22 • 26/01/2022 • Twitter Web App

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Nanip @nanip.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Amazingly good news!

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Patrick - Here for the craic❗️🤷🏼‍♂️😉 @paddyopatrick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

As happens two things are true at once here Firstly it’s a mystery to me why such a plank as Reform’s Matt Goodwin is viewed as an academic. Secondly his puerile bollox about Iranian agents coming here on migrant boats is moronic, Iranians can fly here and all secret agents use fake IDs FGS 🙄🙄🤷‍♂️

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Madame Pinkness @madamepinkness.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I've been on one of these & if you're interested in keeping sheep & in the NE it's worth a go. Very understanding & supportive of my physical limitations & supportive of women in farming, knowledgeable, lovely chap. Got to wrestle a Swaledale ewe amongst other things.

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Swaledale Mutton Co. @swaledalemutton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I am running another of the very popular Sheep Keeping courses on Saturday the 10th October between Bedale and Leyburn. Suitable for complete Novices or those with some experience, we cover the theory and practice involved in some detail! www.swaledalemutton.com/sheep-handli...

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Sheep Handling Courses - SwaledaleMutton

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The Scottish Farmer @thescottishfarmer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

National Sheep Association condemns Defra after England’s £233m SFI 2026 fund ran out in under seven hours on September 22, leaving farmers…

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NSA condemns SFI 2026 closure after £233m funding allocated in hours

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Christophe 🔬 Leterrier @christlet.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Here's a balanced account of where the microscopy community stands on AI use by this year's Small World in Motion winner. My main issue is that no one seems to have seen the original data despite requests (no mention of it being reviewed by the organizers) www.the-scientist.com/allegations-...

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Allegations of AI Use in Nikon Competition Spark Controversy | The Scientist

Microscopists raise concerns about inappropriate AI usage in Nikon's microscopy contest-winning video. Nikon stands their ground, citing no policy breach.

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mad4fev.bsky.social @mad4fev.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If he'd pled guilty now the opportunity to grift ends almost before it's started. He'll probably plead guilty at Crown Court next week once the cash is safely in his bank account.

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Tom Ward @tomdward.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Haha-absolutely brainless moron typical of the type

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Tom Ward @tomdward.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Daniel Thomas pleads not guilty after alleged dinghy slashing in Channel www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026... Not so brave now. Hopefully he will receive a lengthy sentence. People like him make me feel ashamed of being perceived as British

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Daniel Thomas pleads not guilty after alleged dinghy slashing in Channel

Far-right activist who was filmed appearing to slash boat with blade is refused bail as he denies charges

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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Cannot tell you how much I hate this & how ashamed & angry I am that @ukri.org have taken this step. We KNOW this sort of gAI is socially biased, we KNOW it favours slopAI output over human-written. Our research landscape is falling apart due to underfunding, & they do this? it's *appalling*

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Kate Baker @ksbakes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

We have an open Assistant/Associate Professor position in Pathogen Biology at the Department of Genetics - come and join us! 🦠 🧫 🧬https://www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assistantassociate-professor-in-pathogen-genetics-pc51175

cam.ac.uk

Assistant/Associate Professor in Pathogen Genetics

Applications are invited for an Assistant or Associate Professorship in Pathogen Genetics to be held in the Department of Genetics. We are searching for a talented individual with a track record of fu...

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This thread keeps getting longer and more damning of the "winner" and its creator @healthcare.nikon.com is damaging heir brand by not intervening 🧪 @statnews.com Want to cover this?

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Christophe 🔬 Leterrier @christlet.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I think I'm going to lose it being lectured on microscopy image presentation integrity by the winner of the Small Artificial World in Motion competition

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Dr Ellie Chowns MP @elliechowns.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The fact that the entire funding pot for the SFI was allocated within mere hours of applications opening demonstrates the huge ambition of our farmers to invest in sustainable practices - but without proper support from the govt to do so, countless farmers will be left unable to take on this work.

I am writing about the closure of Window 2 of the Sustainable Farming Incentive 2026 (SFI26)
and the farmers who have been left without an agreement - despite making genuine efforts to
apply. The window opened yesterday morning, 22nd September, and closed at 15:48, after the
£233 million budget had been committed. The fact that the entire fund was allocated within hours
is striking evidence of the level of demand from farmers for support to adopt and maintain
sustainable, nature- and river-friendly farming practices.
Farmers have contacted me directly. One told me they pressed the application button at around
16:00, only to find the budget had already been exhausted. Another, whose SFI23 agreement
expires in November, encountered a Rural Payments Agency (RPA) functionality problem,
followed RPA advice to re-apply, and ultimately found SFI26 closed before they could secure the
support they had been trying to obtain. A further farmer described confusion over the status of
their different applications within the RPA system. These cases raise immediate questions about
how farmers who made every reasonable effort to apply will be treated. But they also point to a
wider issue - the speed at which the funding was taken up suggests that the problem is not a lack
of willingness among farmers to deliver environmental outcomes, but a lack of sufficient, reliable
public investment to enable them to do so.
I therefore ask that your Department urgently:
1. Provides a remedy for farmers who made genuine and timely attempts to apply but were
unable to secure an agreement - particularly those whose existing environmental
agreements are expiring before the next SFI opportunity.
2. Reviews cases involving technical or administrative problems, including farmers who
followed RPA advice to withdraw, reject, or reapply - and ensure that farmers who lost
access to funding because of such problems have a route to redress.
3. Publishes a clear account of Window 2,…

4. Sets out what support is available to farmers with expiring agreements who have been left
without a new agreement - rather than simply asking them to wait for SFI27. Your
Department specifically created an early application mechanism for farmers with eligible
agreements, so I hope you will agree that continuity for these farmers needs to be
addressed quickly.
5. Uses the evidence from SFI26 to set a significantly more ambitious level of funding for
future environmental farming support. The fact that £233 million was committed in less
than six hours should be treated as evidence of substantial unmet demand. I would be
grateful if you could set out how the Government will ensure that farmers who want to
improve soil, protect nature and rivers, build resilience and produce food sustainably have
the resources to do so.
In July, you said that you remain committed to bringing greater stability and predictability to the
SFI, and that your Department will keep the core offer largely stable for the remainder of this
Parliament to help farmers plan ahead - but that stability will only be meaningful if farmers can
also have confidence that sufficient funding will be available to participate.
In North Herefordshire and across the nation, farmers are stepping up to deliver environmental
outcomes for the public, and the response to yesterday’s window shows clearly that many are
willing to do so. As Government policy should meet that ambition, rather than creating a system in
which the available support disappears within hours, I would be grateful for a response on (1)
what urgent action you will take for those affected by Window 2, and (2) what assessment your
Department has made of the level of investment required to meet the evident demand for
sustainable, nature- and river-friendly farming.

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Christophe 🔬 Leterrier @christlet.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Good luck trying to understand the imaging method used by the Small World in Motion winner with these nonsensical optical diagrams from their publication

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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

One of my favorite cases of someone being Wrong on the Internet was a very earnest, very confused vegan who was telling people how cruel honey is; and it eventually turned out they thought honey was made by putting bees in a centrifuge and spinning them around until they threw up.

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DaemonSky @dsky.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is as good as the vegan I know who doesn't wear wool because she thinks it's part of the sheep's skin that makes it come off in one piece. Yes truly, she thinks they skin the sheep every year. I tried and failed to fix this impression.

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Swaledale Mutton Co. @swaledalemutton.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Trying to sell a car at the moment, and have it on multiple platforms. It has had lots replaced, so should be problem free and is reasonable priced, but despite lots and lots of views, most of the contacts have either been bots, timewasters or derisory offers. Is it just a bad time to sell a car?

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Duchess Gemma 🐠🕷️🇪🇺 @gemmagould.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

ALL OF THIS ! 👇

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Seeadler @seeadler.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I remember when the sheer nakedness of some of his errors – which he refused to acknowledge – earned him the nickname "Balloux the Bare".

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Seeadler @seeadler.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This is the same Balloux who said "the wide, open spaces of Ukraine are unsuited to mechanised warfare" back in 2022, so I take his views on misinformation with more than one extremely large grain of salt.

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Dr Paul Mackey @auscandoc.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Which bit of “I personally suspect he’s (Kennedy) fundamentally honest” is out of context? I struggle to think of a context that this sentence is anything but ridiculous.

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Zach Hensel @zachhensel.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Disclosures on this preprint appear to be lacking. The last author and, apparently, the funder of the study is a long-time snake oil salesman and more. Picture and google-translated caption from this article by Maurizio Mascitti: www.facta.news/articoli/int... FYI @narsimarsi.bsky.social

Funding
This study was supported by a grant from HAHASIAH S.r.l., Rome (Italy) to MC for the project
“Preclinical assessment of candidate treatments for post-acute COVID-19 syndrome (PACS, “long
Covid”) and post-COVID-19 vaccination syndrome.”

Competing interests
GVF holds an equity interest in HAHASIAH S.r.l. All the other authors declare that they have no
competing interests.

Google translated (from Italian) picture caption: On the left, Giovanni Frajese. On the right, Marco Raurati holding some supplements from their collaboration. At the bottom right, there's a checkmark for Red Ronnie's channel, where the image comes from.

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Patrick - Here for the craic❗️🤷🏼‍♂️😉 @paddyopatrick.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Tommy Robinson doxing the brave lady, who spoke so articulately & intelligently about racism running rife in Piddington The village is so toxic someone leaked her address to Robinson & the Pink ‘Ladies’ (using term very loosely) so they could dox her on X Far Right hate her, RNLI, they hate good

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Ed Rybicki 🇿🇲🇿🇦🇬🇧🍷🚀 @edrybicki.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

#viraf26 @isv-news.bsky.social Denise Doolan on EBV and cancers: use of protein microarrays to look at responses in different cancers and disease.

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Jack Hurley @loudribs.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Here - I’ve made a map of Leeds for you all to get angry about:

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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Misinformation is so wild that people don’t trust doctors/scientists anymore. Seven in 10 respondents said they believed at least one of six disproven health claims (eg.Tylenol use during pregnancy causes autism). We are accused of fear mongering about measles. 🧪 www.cidrap.umn.edu/anti-science...

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New polls highlight tumbling trust in measles vaccine safety, advice from doctors

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Restore Britain's Cllr Kieran Mishchuk of Sittingbourne, Sheppey is so determined to see "men on boats" everywhere that he mistook 2 minibuses full of agricultural labourers in an Asda capark for "illegal immigrants"

Last night, I made a post about 2 buses full of
foreign men & women parked in Asda. I have
been reliably informed that these buses are
agricultural workers.

hold my hands up for this genuine mistake
and accusation that wasn't fair. However, I
still don't understand why we need imported
foreign labour when we have plenty of people
from my generation who are unemployed and
would like a job

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/09/2026

The taxpayer-funded White House incitement account is now attacking me for [checks notes] being in my 40s

President Trump does, in fact, travel with staff.

Aaron, on the other hand, is a sick, deluded freak (in his 40s) who sits behind a keyboard and posts creepy things like this.

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Rouleur @rouler.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Timeline entirely as expected. Clearly not 'Red' Labour. Blocked.

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Janne M. Korhonen @jmkorhonen.fi · 10/09/2026

A sexist, hilariously incompetent captain who fails up thanks to his central casting looks, or a cartoon character? www.cbr.com/futurama-zap...

cbr.com

Futurama: Zapp Brannigan's 10 Most Iconic Quotes

There are many Futurama characters that have some clever and hilarious quotes, but Brannigan may have more noteworthy quotes than he has appearances.

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Janne M. Korhonen @jmkorhonen.fi · 10/09/2026

The REAL uniform for US space forces just dropped

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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Superb grit to be in this position after the last few weeks.

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IS HE DEAD YET? ..Dave hater of racism , ignorance and hypocrisy @davehaterofracism.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

but how random mutations create changes in populations hasn't

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IS HE DEAD YET? ..Dave hater of racism , ignorance and hypocrisy @davehaterofracism.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I studied genetics at school in the early 1970s 😜

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IS HE DEAD YET? ..Dave hater of racism , ignorance and hypocrisy @davehaterofracism.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

it doesn't need COVID to be consciously doing it , if a random mutation causes conspiracy acceptance , those infected with that mutation are more likely to become infected and spread that strain ' COVID is a hoax I won't isolate when I feel ill '

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IS HE DEAD YET? ..Dave hater of racism , ignorance and hypocrisy @davehaterofracism.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

mild infection turning hosts into anti vaxxers so that the COVID virus could survive in the wild .. side effect being susceptibility to ALL conspiracy theories

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

As the government bans social media for kids further evidence emerges that it's a minority of retired adults we should really be concerned about. www.devonlive.com/news/devon-n...

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Pensioners attack traffic lights over wild 'deadly weapon' claims

An online movement say that the sensors on traffic lights can cause heart attacks, brain cancer, anxiety and even sudden death

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