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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 2h

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

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Anne Carpenter @drannecarpenter.bsky.social · 1d

15 years in the making, we confirmed that mitochondria - the powerhouse of the cell - have an unusual localization in patients who experience psychosis (including schizophrenia and bipolar disorders). You’ll never guess what kind of patient cells we used to make this discovery… 🧵

mitochondria from bipolar patients are closer to the nucleus in these images; control patients' are spread out further

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 2d

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The UK’s independent scientific bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation - over the past 5 months I've been working with @martinmckee.bsky.social to map out their vulnerabilities and it's not good news.

Today our report is published!
www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n...

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UK’s arm’s length public bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation

Seven in ten Britons say it is important for top scientific institutions to be independent in exclusive new polling.

www.ucl.ac.uk

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 2d

This is a vulnerability map for 8 key bodies: ONS, OBR, Food Standards Agency, MHRA, Met Office, UKRI, Natural England, & UKHSA.

ONS has the most independence. All but ONS have ministerially appointed leadership. 3 could be abolished with no oversight as they have no statutory basis.
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Kevin Marks @kevinmarks.com · 1d

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Feross @feross.bsky.social · 1d

1/ 🚨 We just found a massive abuse of the npm ecosystem:

• Targeting 135+ orgs worldwide 🤯
• 175 malicious npm packages (26k+ downloads)
• 630+ HTML lures
• Weaponized unpkg as free CDN hosting for credential-phishing attacks

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Kevin Marks @kevinmarks.com · 1d

Talulah's secret agenda to take over X is revealed by her t-shirt collection and her posts telling him to buy it in the first place

Talulah Riley making a t-shirt with a big swastika on it

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Julia Simon @juliaradio.bsky.social · 2d

This story was inspired by a conversation with a fossil fuel exec in Paris a few days after the big outage in Spain. He blamed too much renewable energy as the cause.

Was that really it? Turns out: No.

@npr.org takes you through a new report on what happened + impacts of renewable misinformation.

After Spain's blackout, critics blamed renewable energy. It's part of a bigger attack

When millions lost power in Spain and Portugal this spring, some were quick to blame too much solar and wind power. That wasn't the cause, but the misinformation had an impact.

www.npr.org

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Kevin Marks @kevinmarks.com · 2d

She vanished between this version archive.ph/2025.10.08-1... and this one archive.is/202510090930...
I assume that she withdrew consent for the photo or something

Kevin Marks @kevinmarks.com · 2d

Can they predict when the AI bubble will burst?

Sung Kim @sungkim.bsky.social · 2d

@research-fri.bsky.social's ForecastBench - their benchmark that tracks how accurate LLMs are at forecasting real-world events.

A linear extrapolation of state-of-the-art LLM forecasting performance suggests LLMs will match superforecasters in November 2026.

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Jill Blake @biscuitkitten.bsky.social · 2d

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

Ingrid Bergman as Ilsa Lund in Casablanca

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 3d

in which, I continue to plead for systems thinking in planning, reprising last night's bluesky rant, so people who read that can be excused. backofmind.substack.com/p/canaries-a...

canaries and islands

the indicator species in the system

backofmind.substack.com

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Robin Hilton @robinpr.bsky.social · 3d

It turns out the 'Wish You Were Here' title isn't actually a reference to Syd Barrett. Listen now on this wk's All Songs Considered from @npr.org

A conversation with David Gilmour : All Songs Considered

The Pink Floyd guitarist and singer talks about the 50th anniversary of Wish You Were Here, a new live album and concert film for his latest solo release Luck And Strange, and more.Weekly Reset: Rowin...

www.npr.org

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Kevin Marks @kevinmarks.com · 2d

Did you warn him that the way from the rental car lot to Piccadilly goes through this roundabout, and he should try the Piccadilly Line instead?

Aerial view of Hatton Cross Roundabout from Google Maps, showing it's actually 5 roads meeting at a large roundabout , but connected by 5 short 2 way roads joining 5 smaller roundabouts

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Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 4d

Electric cargo bikes can replace many everyday car trips for the average family and “reshape suburban family mobility”, say Oxford University researchers. 49 British households were loaned e-cargo bikes for school runs, shopping trips, family outings and other day-to-day use.

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Kevin Marks @kevinmarks.com · 3d

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 3d

coincidentally 'oh fuck off' was the phrase I wrote most commonly in the margins of Nick Clegg's book when I was reading it for review. it should have been called "I think Facebook would like it if I took the blame for banning Tr*mp"

observer.co.uk/culture/book...

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Kevin Marks @kevinmarks.com · 3d

Can we ban PPE at Oxford instead? That seems to have an adverse effect on the UK economy judging by what happens when we have a Prime Minister who studied it.

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Kevin Marks @kevinmarks.com · 3d

Did you ask him about the Stephàne Grapelli violin solo on Wish You Were Here?

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Kevin Marks @kevinmarks.com · 3d

Does Taskmaster count as Reality TV? Or is is Surreality TV?

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Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 4d

I find this really interesting and analogous to the way the LGBTQA+ community moved from fighting for just gay and lesbian rights to supporting anyone who didn’t fit into heteronormative sex and gender limits.

andrea shea @whattheshea.bsky.social · 4d

“If we view feminism as the struggle of gender-marginalized people for bodily autonomy, rather than just calling these things “women's issues,” then we make room for all trans people within feminism.”

Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 4d

"As much as our enemies are louder and crueler, and in many cases more powerful than ever, we have more allies than ever too."

Assigned Media interviews transmasc feminist @judedoyle.bsky.social

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Spooky Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · 4d

"When racists do a racism in private, it's very unfair if that gets out in public, because everyone knows being called a racist is much worse than actually being racist". Is that how it works, Victoria Atkins MP?

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 4d

Shadow DEFRA SoS, Victoria Atkins MP, bemoans those trying to score points off Jenrick's "private" remarks: "These are conversation we must have thoughtfully away from the clickbait of social media that, sadly, is so often the case."

And here is Victoria Thoughtful-Atkins at a farmers' protest. ~AA

Victoria Atkins with a thoughtfull bullhorn, wearing a non-clickbait union jack jacket.

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Kevin Marks @kevinmarks.com · 3d

*UK not auk

Kevin Marks @kevinmarks.com · 3d

What kind of deer is your venison? In the auk we get Roe deer which is not very gamey and more like a very lean beef

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