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Kat Arney
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Award-winning Storyteller of Science. PhD. Founder & Chief Creative Officer at First Create The Media for life science comms strategy & content https://firstcreatethemedia.com/ Views: mine. Book: https://www.rebelcellbook.com.
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robfordmancs.bsky.social
By-election bar charts, off-licence edition
johnlister.bsky.social John Lister - johnlisterwriting.com @johnlister.bsky.social · 16h
In this comparison, am I ordering a hundred mls of bitter or a pint of whisky?
February 5, 2026 at 4:20 PM
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mjrobbins.com
Snooker won't be the same without him. May he finally find out where the cue ball's going.
John Virgo dies aged 79
John Virgo, who co-presented TV show Big Break and was a popular BBC commentator for decades, has died.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 4, 2026 at 6:36 PM
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dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social
It occurs to me that these freaks tend to talk about things in terms of genes instead of love or relationships because if they did frame it in those terms they’d have to confront the fact that a significant number of men refuse to do the work to make themselves lovable
smhaustralia.nzcow.com The Sydney Morning Herald (unofficial) @smhaustralia.nzcow.com · 3d
📢 “A huge amount of men between the age of 15 and 50 will not pass on their genes. They will effectively die out of the gene pool ... Should society intervene?” Steven Bartlett asked last year.
Two top podcasters have identified a global decline. The problem, they say, is women
www.smh.com.au
February 3, 2026 at 4:06 PM
katarney.bsky.social
Completely normal. Nothing to see here, no sirree... Just the President of the US shaking down his own IRS for cash.
bradheath.bsky.social Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 7d
President Trump has filed a lawsuit against the IRS, in which he demands that the IRS, which he as president controls, pay him $10 billion.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
January 30, 2026 at 5:17 PM
katarney.bsky.social
Communities all over the country are crying out for retired volunteers to support local activities - it's engaging, makes you feel good, builds real connections etc etc. And yet sitting on Facebook complaining about potholes or cameras is what they (usually men) do.
mjrobbins.com Martin Robbins @mjrobbins.com · 7d
Quite a telling quote from previous coverage. Men being disengaged from the real world is a big multiplier for social media brain.
January 29, 2026 at 11:20 AM
katarney.bsky.social
It's everywhere. Unreadable 20+page reports that should be 2-3, 1000+ word scripts for <2 minute animations. Even had a client "helpfully" use AI to rewrite our proposal entirely to stuff we dont actually do. It's a menace if you don't have the discernment to know what "good" should look like.
mjrobbins.com Martin Robbins @mjrobbins.com · 8d
Complete aside to this amazing thread but I’m hiring at the moment and seeing some cover letters from ChatGPT and the biggest tell now is… the length? All the other stuff of course, but as soon as you see a 500 word cover note ten shillings says it’s AI slop.
kolektiv.xyncro.com Andrew Cherry @kolektiv.xyncro.com · 8d
Are we going to wonder if she actually has those skills? Because, with my employer hat on, receiving a CV full of relevant skills that a candidate doesn't have is, ummm... Less than great. Or, put another way, lying. Hallucinating? Nope, just lying. Don't do this!

Oh well, back to the prompt mines.
January 29, 2026 at 8:38 AM
katarney.bsky.social
Make Encephalitis Great Again!

vaccineknowledge.ox.ac.uk/measles#Key-...
A child with measles will have to spend about five days in bed and could miss two weeks of school. Even in wealthier countries such as the UK, around one in every 15 children with measles will develop more serious complications. These can include: ear infection (otitis media) in about 8% of measles cases (about 1 in 12 people) pneumonia in up to 6% of measles cases (up to 1 in 16 people) diarrhoea in about 8% of measles cases (about 1 in 12 people) encephalitis (inflammation of the brain): 1 case for every 1000-2000 cases of measles. Encephalitis can lead to permanent brain damage. In countries like the UK, measles causes death in about 1 in 5000 cases. In rare cases, measles can lead to a condition called SSPE (subacute sclerosing panencephalitis). SSPE is a persistent viral infection, a devastating complication of measles which leads to a progressive destruction of the central nervous system. Symptoms can develop years after the initial infection. It results in dementia, loss of motor control, epilepsy and eventually death. A US study has suggested that SSPE may be more common than previously thought. Do watch the short film in the video section below: 'SSPE - a serious complication of measles: Sarah Walton's story'.
January 28, 2026 at 2:46 PM
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smbccomics.bsky.social
Later they attack the Buddhist and keep asking what is the sound of one hand slapping.

COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/why-9
PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm...
STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com
4-panel SMBC comic update. A bully is holding a smaller kid down, asking him aggressively why he's hitting himself. The smaller kid answers deadpan "for it is in the nature of things," bumming the bully out. The bully walks along a brick wall with his friends, hands in his pockets, dejected. He says "I hate trying to bully stoics," to which his friend answers "let's try some existentialists. They're sad before you even get there."
January 26, 2026 at 11:30 PM
katarney.bsky.social
Not only can he not get laid, his editor clearly hates his guts to have committed this to print.
January 27, 2026 at 9:40 PM
katarney.bsky.social
This is such a beautiful song, arranged and performed by one of the most talented musicians I've ever had the privilege of working with 🥰 open.spotify.com/track/3dX97p...
Fairest of the Seasons
open.spotify.com
January 26, 2026 at 10:11 PM
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chrisblohm.bsky.social
The speed at which my friend @mjrobbins.com is mastering this kind of content is somewhat terrifying. Behold his latest video, which operates in a dream state somewhere twixt a One Show segment and an Adam Curtis dystopian nightmare.
January 26, 2026 at 10:17 AM
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mjrobbins.com
My latest: On the mad sequence of events that unfolded when badgers demolished a road.
Britain's Weirdest Detour
When badgers destroyed a road in rural Lincolnshire, the response was wilder than you might imagine.
open.substack.com
January 26, 2026 at 8:13 AM
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smbccomics.bsky.social
Because the null hypothesis is you're an empiricISN'T.

COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/just
PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm...
STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com
Part 1/2 of a 5-panel SMBC comic update. A young man and a bearded man are walking together over a blue background. The young man asks "do you think justice is a notion outside human behavior or merely the rules that the powerful impose and the weak endure?" The bearded man answers that no discussion is needed, only science. He suggests they take random people, give them massive and arbitrary power, and watch to see if platonic justice pops out! Part 2/2 of a 5-panel SMBC comic update. It's 14 seconds later. The young man and the bearded man are now against a red background with a sketch destroyed city. The young man's clothing is all ripped, and the bearded man now has a hook for his right hand. The young man says "well, I guess the theory's out" prompting the bearded man to reply "science is magic!" The young man says that it's too bad about the collapse of civilization and ensuing murder or all their loved ones though. The bearded man replies "are you a empiric-IS-t or an empiric-ISN'T?"
January 25, 2026 at 11:30 PM
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lanceparkin.bsky.social
Can you imagine having such a weak hand that you feel the best two cards you can play as selling points are 'American treatment of indigenous people' and 'American healthcare'?
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11d
Waltz: "Denmark has ignored Greenland from a defense standpoint and they have ignored the Greenlandic native iniut people ... if you get a cancer diagnosis in Greenland right now, it's darn near a death sentence. Denmark has not invested in the way it should've over the years."
January 25, 2026 at 7:34 PM
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tracyking.bsky.social
You can tell how old a Christmas tree is by counting the rings
A man holding a large brown box which has been taped many times
January 25, 2026 at 5:55 PM
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mjrobbins.com
Amazing scenes in Shefford at Old Bridge Way, the road abandoned to ruin by Central Bedfordshire Council. The council placed 'private road' signs to show they won't be held responsible for it, but residents have, er, repurposed them...
January 24, 2026 at 10:12 PM
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laurasaurus.bsky.social
Chasing goose meme and the goose is saying “which side in WWII?”
January 24, 2026 at 12:14 AM
katarney.bsky.social
What happened to that 17 year old kid who already solved this with his science fair project???

(I'm being bitchy but it did really piss me off)
natureportfolio.nature.com Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 13d
Pancreatic cancer is often caught too late to affect a person’s prognosis. A Nature Outlook article reports on the work scientists are doing to change that. #medsky 🧪
Early detection could improve pancreatic cancer’s poor survival rates
The disease is often caught too late to affect a person’s prognosis — scientists are looking to change that.
go.nature.com
January 24, 2026 at 12:44 AM
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katedes.bsky.social
Jesus. This poor family. Yet PIV manufacturers go on pushing it - and ofc blaming installers when people are harmed.

Unfortunately Awaab's Law as it stands drives dangerous quick fixes like PIV and chemical washes/mists over actually tackling the causes. Which, as here, can just make things worse.
January 23, 2026 at 9:24 AM
katarney.bsky.social
Make polio great again! US public health is going completely off the rails. www.statnews.com/2026/01/22/v...
public health Top CDC vaccine adviser questions historic vaccine Kirk Milhoan, a pediatric cardiologist who recently became chair of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, suggested on a podcast yesterday that the public might want to reconsider the use of polio vaccines. “What we are doing is returning individual autonomy to the first order, not public health, but individual autonomy to the first order,” he said about the committee while downplaying established science.
January 23, 2026 at 11:46 AM
katarney.bsky.social
Just... fucking hell, folks.
January 23, 2026 at 8:59 AM
katarney.bsky.social
The crazy thing about this story is that there must be hundreds of truckloads of waste systematically being dumped over months at these sites. Why are the EA/police not given powers to arrest drivers/impound the lorries? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Supersized illegal waste dumps hidden across English countryside
A BBC investigation uncovers how criminals are operating huge illegal rubbish tips across the country.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 23, 2026 at 8:33 AM
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“It’s the oldest cheese DNA in the world.”

Bronze Age herders were buried with lumps of cheese starter, shows a 2024 study of ancient DNA. https://scim.ag/49HeqxQ #CheeseLoversDay
This enigmatic mummy from western China was swathed in cheese
Bronze Age herders were buried with lumps of cheese starter, ancient DNA shows
scim.ag
January 20, 2026 at 5:50 PM
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rigb.org
Nitrogen triiodide is a highly unstable substance that detonates when disturbed. So, of course, we disturbed it. 💥🧪
January 22, 2026 at 3:24 PM
katarney.bsky.social
Whoever wrote the OP has clearly never had to play tech support to a parent in their 70s. ("I don't know - i clicked something and now it doesn't work!!") Bonus points for doing it over the phone when you can't see their screen or know what the heck mad shit they've previously installed.
flobbert.bsky.social Mon Mothra @flobbert.bsky.social · 14d
Nobody is going to break into your parents house and steal their password book. This is boomer 1Password and it’s fine for personal use
paperghost.bsky.social Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 14d
no, you're wrong. using one of these books is infinitely preferable to someone using nothing but a reused password 9,000 times. they're especially good for older people who don't go out much. if your book is at risk in your home, you have bigger problems than "they're going to steal my amazon login"
January 22, 2026 at 1:59 PM