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Guggenheim Collection @guggenheim.bsky.social · 17h

Levels by Vasily Kandinsky, 1929
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137781

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Solomon R. Guggenheim Founding Collection

© 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 1d

They didn’t just NOT give Trump the Nobel Peace Prize, they wrote a citation that reads like an anti-Trump rallying cry.

(He’s gonna extra-tariff Norway now, isn’t he?)

Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 1d

Also, if you're "in bed with flu", it's almost certainly Covid.

Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 1d

After a long pause, I've just done another England Covid & NHS update as we head into the autumn/winter season.

TLDR: we're in a significant Covid wave now, the NHS is stretched, get boosted if you're eligible.

christinapagel.substack.com/p/england-is...

England is now experiencing a significant Covid wave, after 10 months of relative quiet

The latest Covid situation in England and a look at where NHS services are as we head into winter

christinapagel.substack.com

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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 4d

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 4d

Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild

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EMBL-EBI @ebi.embl.org · 4d

We’re renewing our collaboration with Google DeepMind!

We'll keep developing the AlphaFold Database to support protein science worldwide 🎉

To mark the moment we’ve synchronised the database with UniProtKB release 2025_03.

www.ebi.ac.uk/about/news/t...

🖥️🧬 #AlphaFold
@pdbeurope.bsky.social

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 7d

🔴NEW🔴

Thread 🧵

@bylinetimes.bsky.social can now reveal that, during the crucial period when convicted Reform leader Nathan Gill was most active, working directly with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most senior ally in Ukraine, he was also one of Nigel Farage’s closest confidantes 1/12

‘Thick as Thieves’: Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage’s Putin Problem

Far from being distant from the Reform UK Leader, insiders told Byline Times that the former MEP convicted of bribery was one of Farage’s closest aides, while we reveal how Gill worked on the Kremlin’...

bylinetimes.com

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 6d

Convinced that most British people want to live in a functioning, decent country where government improves stuff and everyone can thrive.

The vast majority want nothing to do with this imported hate and atmosphere of violence directed at people just trying to live their lives.

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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 10d

The UK was experiencing a national emergency when Michelle Mone decided to scam the government for £ms.
She should be in prison not issuing self pitying press releases.

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Simon Gosden @simongosden.bsky.social · 10d

Energy Secretary Ed Milliband brands Nigel Farage and his allies as: 'Investment-crushing, job-destroying, bill-raising, poverty-driving, science-denying, Putin-appeasing, young people betraying, bunch of ideological extrmeists'

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.bsky.social · 10d

💰 PPE Medpro must repay £122m for supplying defective PPE

⚖️ But it doesn’t stop with Baroness Mone. When will the ministers who referred their cronies onto the VIP Lane face consequences?
https://goodlaw.social/f2e9

PPE Medpro must repay £122m for breach of contract | Good Law Project

The company Michelle Mone landed on the Tories’ unlawful VIP Lane has 14 days to repay £122m for gowns supplied during the pandemic and never used.

goodlaw.social

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University of Liverpool @liverpooluni.bsky.social · 12d

Last week we were awarded ‘University of Sanctuary’ status and launched a new Refugee Hub, confirming our commitment to refugee communities, widening access to higher education and amplifying voices of people with lived experience of displacement.💙

Read more >>> news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/09/29/u...

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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 20d

1. Bluesky doesn’t downrank links
2. You can choose your own algorithm from among thousands
3. The whole app is open source

This keeps it a free and open platform by design, leading to better click-throughs and traffic to your site.

We 💙 the open web.

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Prof Mike Yearworth @mikeyearworth.bsky.social · 20d

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits."

www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws

In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...

www.computerworld.com

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Alan Cartmell @acartmell47.bsky.social · 20d

Happy to have this collaborative work out on Biorxiv on how Akkermansia muciniphila deploys it’s carbohydrate sulfatases to metabolise colonic mucin, and that processed glycopeptides/proteins of colonic mucin are a favoured carbon source #glycotime.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The role of Akkermansia muciniphila sulfatases in colonic mucin utilisation

Akkermansia muciniphila , an obligate mucin degrader, is a major member of the human colonic microbiota and has been associated positive health outcomes. Mucins are complex glycoproteins that contain ...

www.biorxiv.org

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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 23d

"the hard data suggests that the largest of the UK’s very real problems are no more being caused by mass immigration than they are by a group of charity fundraisers rowing past Great Yarmouth"

on.ft.com/3IsyVVu

@timharford.ft.com with his facts and reasonableness

The UK’s problems aren’t caused by immigration

It’s not hard to see how so many came to worry about the issue. But the data isn’t there

on.ft.com

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 23d

Silly Jimmy Kimmel. He should have just called for all homeless people to be killed and he’d still have a job.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 24d

Brexit is the toxic epicentre of the political shitshow we now have to endure. It promoted idiocy and deceit, endorsed racism, divided us, made us poorer, weaker, less safe and less sane. It’s belittled the country, killed the Tory party and given birth to Reform.
A relentless klaxon of failure.

Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 24d

What a gargantuan mess. #Brexit

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Yale Climate Connections @climateconnections.bsky.social · 26d

🔥 The world’s top climate scientists have found that global warming is accelerating. Oceans are rising faster than ever, and the 1.5°C target is slipping away, but there’s still a narrow path forward. #ClimateAction

Climate change is accelerating, scientists find in ‘grim’ report » Yale Climate Connections

They warn that humanity is just three years from overshooting the Paris Agreement’s 1.5°C target, with seas rising faster than ever. But the report also contains a little bit of good news.

yaleclimateconnections.org

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 25d

I thought I saw some auks, but it was just a skua flying backwards.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · Sep 9

Man, it's like gifting the President with a flying bribery palace can't even buy a country sovereignty anymore.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · Sep 9

WASHINGTON (AP) - US had advance knowledge of Israeli strike against Hamas leaders in Qatar, AP sources say.

@apnews.com

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · Sep 9

Crisis at England universities created by successive govts.

Freeze on student fees
Real cuts in govt grants
Harder to enrol foreign students
Home student numbers falling
£267bn student debt
Real wage cuts
40% of universities in trouble.

Local economies decline with university decline

The Guardian view on university finances: stop chipping away at a crumbling system | Editorial

Editorial: Economic and academic activity are bound up together. Charging international students more for less will not fix deep-seated problems

www.theguardian.com

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EMBL-EBI @ebi.embl.org · Sep 8

Mathematical models in biology are powerful, but often hard to run, visualise, or reuse without specialist skills.

Menelmacar is a new platform that makes biological models interactive and easy to explore directly in the browser: biomodels.bacpop.org
🧬💻

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 3

Nigel Farage looks uncomfortable as Jamie Raskin uses his opening statement to absolutely demolish him

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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · Aug 31

Reform want to bin the ECHR.

So what do Labour do? They roll out the red carpet of appeasement by agreeing that it needs reform.

If someone wants to eat another human being, you don't say "you can't have a whole one... but it's fine if you just munch an arm or leg".

No, you scream bloody murder.

Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · Aug 31

Bridget Phillipson, "Labour believes there needs to be reform to the ECHR"

Trevor Philips, "You want to see changes in the ECHR?"

Bridget Phillipson, "Home Secretary Yvette Cooper is looking at Article 8 Provisions to see if they need updating"

*Article 8: Right for private and family life*

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · Aug 27

FUCK YEAH SCIENCE

arstechnica.com/science/2025...

Bluesky now platform of choice for science community

It’s not just you. Survey says: “Twitter sucks now and all the cool kids are moving to Bluesky”…

arstechnica.com

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