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Rowan Hooper @rowhoop.bsky.social · 8m

A parakeet is hogging this prime nest site - just watched a great spotted woodpecker scouting on this oak but the parakeet ain’t moving

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Rowan Hooper @rowhoop.bsky.social · 2h

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 13h

Vote for the iconic New Scientist podcast for Signal Listener's Choice awards! I write a monthly column for @newscientist.com and they are a bunch of lovely nerds who want to make you smarter and teach you a few dad jokes along the way.

Rowan Hooper @rowhoop.bsky.social · 2d

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 15h

Sorry Jews

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 16h

RFK JR: There are many other confirmations -- there are two studies that show children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism. It’s highly likely because they are given Tylenol

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 15h

Vote vote vote! #scicomm

Rowan Hooper @rowhoop.bsky.social · 2d

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Rowan Hooper @rowhoop.bsky.social · 15h

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Rowan Hooper @rowhoop.bsky.social · 16h

Podcast out tomorrow - with @pennysarchet.bsky.social and @mjflepage.bsky.social and time zone-shifted Katie!

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Rowan Hooper @rowhoop.bsky.social · 17h

What!? Diary of a CEO will become the first UK podcast broadcast IN CINEMAS. inews.co.uk/culture/radi...

Diary of a CEO's Steven Bartlett is everything wrong with podcasting

An episode featuring Louis Tomlinson will be screened in cinemas tonight. As ever, clicks and cash seem to trump good-quality content

inews.co.uk

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Rowan Hooper @rowhoop.bsky.social · 21h

Proof - if it was needed - that big energy firms are not investing in renewables and are unduly promoting their work on the energy transition - by @stokel.bsky.social www.newscientist.com/article/2499...

Top 250 oil and gas firms own just 1.5% of the world's renewable power

Despite public promises by many fossil fuel firms that they are investing in the green transition, it turns out that they have made little contribution to the growth of renewable energy

www.newscientist.com

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New Scientist @newscientist.com · 23h

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The Signal Listener's Choice Award needs YOU

I just voted for this finalist to win a Signal Listener's Choice Award. You should too.

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Rowan Hooper @rowhoop.bsky.social · 1d

Um. I have 343 tabs open just on my phone.

YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 1d

How many browsing tabs do you typically have open?*

1: 6%
2-5: 54%
6-10: 14%
11-20: 8%
21-30: 2%
More than 30: 3%

*across all windows, on desktop/laptop

yougov.co.uk/topics/techn...

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Rowan Hooper @rowhoop.bsky.social · 1d

Last call! Please do vote for THE WORLD, THE UNIVERSE AND US.

Rowan Hooper @rowhoop.bsky.social · 2d

Vote for us! We are up for BEST SCIENCE PODCAST at the Signal Listener's Choice awards, please vote for THE WORLD, THE UNIVERSE AND US here: vote.signalaward.com/PublicVoting...

Rowan Hooper @rowhoop.bsky.social · 1d

Also I'd like some veganer Wurstaufschnitt bitte

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Rowan Hooper @rowhoop.bsky.social · 1d

I mistakenly assumed German politicians weren't as vapid as ours

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Rowan Hooper @rowhoop.bsky.social · 1d

UGH lobbyists. The transition to plant-based foods is just as important as that to renewable energy.

Mark Lynas @marklynas.bsky.social · 1d

WOW! The European Parliament just voted to BAN the words 'burger' and 'sausage' when used in sustainable plant-based alternatives. HUGE win for the meat and dairy lobby in the EU, and lots more confusion for consumers if this goes through. Insane!
www.euroveg.eu/european-par...

European Parliament votes to ban use of ‘veggie burger’ and ‘plant-based sausage’ - European Vegetarian Union

Brussels, 8 October 2025 European Parliament votes to ban use of ‘veggie burger’ and ‘plant-based sausage’: coalition calls decision misguided and counterproductive This Wednesday the Members of the E...

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Rowan Hooper @rowhoop.bsky.social · 1d

We touched on this last night - work on embryo development in space (because of the possibility of a pregnancy during a future trip to Mars)
www.newscientist.com/article/2399...

Mouse embryos have been grown in space for the first time

An experiment on the International Space Station suggests early embryo development isn't affected by the low-gravity, high-radiation conditions

www.newscientist.com

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Rowan Hooper @rowhoop.bsky.social · 1d

it was a lot of fun! we should do a palaeo one!

Rowan Hooper @rowhoop.bsky.social · 1d

Here she is on her way to space

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Rowan Hooper @rowhoop.bsky.social · 2d

I felt like @holland-tom.bsky.social last night - people queuing up to see our live podcast, filling the Royal Society's biggest hall! (ahem it MIGHT have helped that the brilliant Helen Sharman was on the bill...)

Rowan Hooper @rowhoop.bsky.social · 2d

What a panel! ❤️

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Rowan Hooper @rowhoop.bsky.social · 2d

John Gurdon has died aged 91. He shared a Nobel in 2012 for pioneering work on cloning in 1962 (!), showing that you could create a new embryo by taking the nucleus of an adult cell and putting it into an egg. The work led to the creation of Dolly the Sheep

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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 14d

UPDATE: I saw it happen! At the Birds Canada research station at the tip of Long Point I watched an expert ever-so-gently and carefully put one of these tiny tags on a monarch. Let me walk you through the steps (1/4)

Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 19d

So cool to visit the Motus workshop at Birds Canada headquarters. The Motus community is studying the movement of birds, bats and insects. This tiny radio telemetry device will fit on a Monarch butterfly 😲 #invertebrates #birds 🌿 www.birdscanada.org/bird-science...

Brown wood-sided building with a wi Dow and a door. Sign above the door says, “Motus Workshop and Research Laboratory”.

Tiny antenna with a rectangular box on the end. The whole thing is on an open hand and is about 5cm long.

Orange and black butterfly on purple flowers.

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Rowan Hooper @rowhoop.bsky.social · 2d

No (we run adverts)

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Rowan Hooper @rowhoop.bsky.social · 2d

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Rowan Hooper @rowhoop.bsky.social · 2d

What a panel! ❤️

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Rowan Hooper @rowhoop.bsky.social · 2d

Off to the @royalsociety.org for a special live recording of our podcast, THE WORLD, THE UNIVERSE AND US - with Helen Sharman, Irene di Giulio, Katie King and co-host @abbybeall.bsky.social

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