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Dr Lori-Ann Foley
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PhD from Open University School of Planetary Sciences researching Mars's climate, focusing on Lyot Crater, after my Physics BSc. Previously did 3 degrees in Roman archaeology, one in languages and a law degree. Multinational upbringing. 🇯🇪🇨🇦🇩🇪
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lafoley.bsky.social
I just finished O.O. Sangoyomi’s Masquerade and what a brilliant book. Beautifully captured the world of Yorubaland and its mythology. And the ending had me smiling for the rest of the day. Well worth a read. 😘
The cover of the book Masquerade by O O Sangoyomi
January 14, 2026 at 8:35 PM
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cam.ac.uk
Undergraduates: Curious about a career in astronomy? 🔭

Take your first step with @cambridgeastro.bsky.social’s Summer Internship Programme and gain 8 weeks of research experience.

Applications from underrepresented groups in astronomy are encouraged.

Apply by 27 February 👇
https://bit.ly/4qYR0LD
Three individuals observing a telescope at the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge. A text overlay reads: 'Are you looking for an astronomy internship at Cambridge?'
January 14, 2026 at 1:01 PM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
The FBI searched the home of a Washington Post reporter seeking classified state documents. Nothing she wrote about could be considered classified. They simply want to suppress dissent via intimidation. Don't let them. Here is what she wrote. Please share.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
I am The Post’s ‘federal government whisperer.’ It’s been brutal.
One reporter’s effort to show how Trump was transforming government brought her 1,168 new sources — and nearly broke her.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 14, 2026 at 2:11 PM
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kameronhurley.com
Your brain is a hallucination engine. Feed it a steady diet of shit, and it will build you a shit world. So what happens when you change what you feed it? www.kameronhurley.com/were-fucked-...
"We’re Fucked" Feels Like a Profound Insight. It’s Actually a Trap. - Kameron Hurley
I recently watched a documentary about that reaffirmed many changes I made last few years to my mental outlook (I read a LOT of brain books the last few years). Brains are hallucination engines. If th...
www.kameronhurley.com
January 14, 2026 at 6:24 PM
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lukelebrun.ca
Several Canadian news orgs have already left X, but I believe @pressprogress.ca may be the first to adopt a policy setting standards around use of digital platforms

We think it's time news orgs stop prioritizing clicks and start requiring higher standards from these platforms
pressprogress.ca PressProgress @pressprogress.ca · 9h
We’ve adopted a new policy clarifying how we’ll be using digital platforms to share our journalism

Going forward, we will expect any platforms we use to demonstrate basic commitments to user safety, information integrity and democratic values

Learn more: pressprogress.ca/journalistic...
Our policy on digital platforms
January 14, 2026 at 6:54 PM
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myzerocarbon.org
📽️
19 Climate Actions - ranked

personal #ClimateAction we can all take today!

PL RP🩷💚💙

full #video with more detail▶️https://youtu.be/Xia2dKtHHCg

report @worldresources.bsky.social
📖 wri.org/research/eff...

#ClimateChange #ClimateActionNow #ActOnClimate #climate #environment #hope #cleanenergy
January 12, 2026 at 12:15 PM
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joannabagniewska.com
Paid summer research internships in Oxford! Work with me on biodiversity in school grounds (or with someone else on another project).

🧪 #UNIQplus is open to UK undergraduates from under-represented and disadvantaged backgrounds.
📆 Applications due 18 Feb:
www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/g...
🌍 #AcademicSky
Oxford skyline.
January 14, 2026 at 10:19 AM
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jeffgoodell.bsky.social
Safe from a nuclear bomb, but unsafe from fossil fuels.
January 13, 2026 at 9:57 PM
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mattywin.bsky.social
Mike here doing the good work as to why the numbers plastered across certain newspapers are absolute baloney.

TLTR: they've only looking at half the equation.
mikethommo.bsky.social Mike Thompson @mikethommo.bsky.social · 1d
1/ Some wild numbers have been used in the media this week for “the cost of net zero”.

Reports have said that net zero will “cost” £4.5 trillion, £7.6 trillion – the list goes on.

None of these are the cost of net zero – a quick explainer 🧵 on why
January 13, 2026 at 8:11 PM
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thierryaaron.bsky.social
This thread responds to Prof. Christian Dunn’s Telegraph piece on #climate communication.

I argue it misdiagnoses public disengagement, underplays escalating scientific risk, & reproduces a media narrative that has actively shaped, not merely reflected, public resistance to climate action 🧵
January 13, 2026 at 8:58 AM
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ketanjoshi.co
Criticism, opposition and activist pushback against the excessive and unjustified over-deployment of genAI matters. If you want proof, here's two ultra-rich and unstoppably successful tech CEOs begging us to stop

gizmodo.com/jensen-huang...
Jensen Huang Is Begging You to Stop Being So Negative About AI "[It's] extremely hurtful, frankly, and I think we've done a lot of damage," he said. By AJ Dellinger Published January 12, 2026 Reading time 3 minutes Jensen Huang Jensen Huang © Fotofield Read Later Comments (26) Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, who has seen his net worth skyrocket by nearly $100 billion since the AI boom started a couple of years ago, would really appreciate it if you would stop talking about the potential harms of the technology that’s supercharged his fortune. It’s really harshing his vibe. Microsoft’s Nadella wants us to stop thinking of AI as ‘slop’ Julie Bort 3:09 PM PST · January 5, 2026 A couple of weeks after Merriam-Webster named “slop” as its word of the year, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella weighed in on what to expect from AI in 2026. In his classic, intellectual style, Nadella wrote on his personal blog that he wants us to stop thinking of AI as “slop” and start thinking of it as “bicycles for the mind.” He wrote, “A new concept that evolves ‘bicycles for the mind’ such that we always think of AI as a scaffolding for human potential vs a substitute.”
January 13, 2026 at 1:04 PM
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drsimevans.carbonbrief.org
This is genuine
Jaw-droppingly, horrifyingly real
sundersays.bsky.social Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d
Ukip have submitted a new logo and slogan to the Electoral Commission, swapping the £ pound sterling symbol for a cross, that looks very much like it is modelled on the Iron Cross used by Prussia & Germany 1871-1918 and Hitler's Nazi regime from 1933-45
January 13, 2026 at 8:54 AM
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politicsisbroken.bsky.social
No checks. No balances.
Politics Is Broken podcast out now
January 12, 2026 at 11:27 AM
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flyingtrilobite.com
Help the SciArt Feed 🐡 reach 5,000 subscribers!

The intersection of art & science.
No generative AI, no NFTs; a curated Feed of great visual art by skilled people.

🧡 Please share, pin & like today:
December 28, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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coreyryung.bsky.social
This isn't just a casual observation. Fascism scholars have long made this point. It's why calling them "weird" was a more effective strategy than talking about the prices of eggs. Fascism is an aesthetic political movement - you need to make people feel embarassed and horrified by it.
ndrew.bsky.social Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 2d
one of the most effective weapons we have against fascism is mockery, especially when its really funny
isibb.bsky.social Isi Baehr-Breen @isibb.bsky.social · 3d
It occurs to me all the yelling at ICE in MPLS isn't merely funny. Getting made fun of like this is awful for morale. ICE is losing field officers faster than it can wave them through training, and a big part of it is how little of this these little weasels can take.
January 12, 2026 at 5:54 PM
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profrachelgan.bsky.social
Following coverage over the weekend of Sir Paul Nurse's comments that suggested that the only reason that a Fellow should be expelled from @royalsociety.org is scientific misconduct, I have written to him to explain the risks such an attitude poses of increasing sexual harassment in STEM.
Dear Sir Paul, Re: Royal Society Code of Conduct I am sure that many scientists have written to you about the specific question of Elon Musk’s Fellowship and whether, under the Royal Society’s Code of Conduct, his retaining that Fellowship is appropriate. I will not rehash these issues. Instead, as a female scientist with extensive experience of activities aiming to increase equality, diversity and inclusion in the engineering and physical sciences sector, I am writing to you (in a personal capacity) to ask you to reconsider the statements you have recently made in this context to the UK press about the Royal Society’s Code of Conduct and how it is applied. A 2018 report from the joint National Academies of the United States of America, concluded that “sexual harassment is common in academic science, engineering, and medicine” and that “greater than 50 percent of women faculty and staff and 20–50 percent of women students encounter or experience sexually harassing conduct in academia”. This report described codes of conduct that make clear that sexual harassment is unethical and will not be tolerated as a “powerful incentive for change”. The authors also noted that sexual harassment can have significant and damaging effects on the integrity of research. In my own praxis, I have found that clear and consistently-implemented codes of conduct that address these issues make female scientists and engineers safer, and allow them to focus more effectively on their research. For codes of conduct to have such a positive effect, it is vital that sanctions for actions which transgress the code are meaningful and substantial. I was hence aghast to realise that in an interview with the Financial Times published on 9/1/26, you appear to have suggested that the Royal Society “should only expel fellows if their science proved “faulty or fraudulent or highly defective””. Moreover, in a further interview with the Guardian on 11/1/26 you suggested that the code “may need to be looked at again”, with the implication that your aim would be to remove the option of sanctions on Fellows for reasons not strictly related to faults or defects in their research. I suggest that changing the Royal Society’s code of conduct so that the likelihood of serious sanctions for sexual harassment is reduced, would directly endanger women who interact with the Royal Society at events or otherwise, and would provide a licence to harass to the already powerful people on whom the Society bestows fellowship. The implications of your words - that under your leadership the only infringements of the code which are likely to receive the sanction of the Fellowship being removed are those related to research misconduct - already risk empowering harassers. You stated, in the Financial Times interview, that “there’s many bad people around, but they have made scientific advances”. Given this awareness of the possibility of bad actors in our scientific community, it is wholly irresponsible to suggest that the Royal Society would not act to sanction these people if they harass more vulnerable scientists. I am hence writing to request that you retract any suggestion that the Society’s Code of Conduct should be changed so that the only reason a Fellow might be sanctioned by the removal of their Fellowship is “faulty or fraudulent or highly defective” research. This action is necessary to safeguard female scientists, a requirement placed on the Society by safeguarding legislation and UK statutory guidance. Yours sincerely, Professor Rachel A. Oliver.
January 12, 2026 at 8:59 AM
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lauragraceweldon.bsky.social
One out of 12 rams is uninterested in females. Deemed “non-procreative" by farmers, they're typically sent to slaughter. German farmer Michael Stücke rescues the gay rams. His company Rainbow Wool, sells fabulous wool products from his flock of gay sheep. rainbow-wool.com
Man standing in field of sheep holding rainbow flag.
January 12, 2026 at 8:26 PM
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jtemple.bsky.social
If there's an energy or climate star who you think should be on our 35 Innovators Under 35 list this year, please shoot me a DM.

Please do not just @reply with their name or handle here (awkward).
January 12, 2026 at 3:43 PM
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drsimevans.carbonbrief.org
🧵A political/media guide to the "truth" about net-zero

1) Add up costs to install & run a net-zero energy system
2) Pretend fossil-fuelled alternatives wld be free
3) Do say "eco zealots are bankrupting us"
4) Don't say "free cars if we scrap net-zero" cos it sounds ridiculous
5) That's it!

1/10
January 12, 2026 at 4:18 PM
lafoley.bsky.social
And @royalsociety.org will continue to support this person who is openly Nazi as a valuable Fellow who cannot be expelled.
letsgomathias.bsky.social Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 5d
Every week is overwhelming evidence of what we saw with our own eyes, but which our credulous media was afraid to print: the Nazi salute was a Nazi salute
benlorber8.bsky.social Ben Lorber @benlorber8.bsky.social · 5d
Yesterday Elon Musk retweeted "white solidarity is the only way to survive". In our numb overwhelmed media environment it barely made headlines that the world's richest man endorsed blood-curdling white nationalism. My brief writeup for @religiondispatches.org

religiondispatches.org/elon-musk-ju...
January 12, 2026 at 4:34 PM
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billmckibben.bsky.social
"I'm not mad at you" as your last words on earth are really not all that far from "forgive them father for they know not what they do."
January 9, 2026 at 8:15 PM
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brittlestar.com
Be Careful When Using Ai
January 12, 2026 at 1:12 PM
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iop.org
We’re looking for volunteers to help run activities, welcome families & chat with them about your own journey in physics.

You'll be invited to an online training session to learn more about the IOP, walk through the activities & receive our proven engagement tips.

Email [email protected] by 5 Feb
Image calling for Cardiff-based physicists to volunteer for Mimi's Tiny Adventure event on Thursday 19 to Saturday 21 February.
January 12, 2026 at 2:25 PM
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tom-phillips.com
This is so silly I had to go and check the full text of her post and... it's actually even sillier? She's claiming this as a policy breakthrough? "just 5% of the area" lol
We have identified 2,000 hotspots which make up 25% of violent crime in England and Wales, but just 5% of the area. The next Conservative government under my leadership will recruit 10,000 extra police officers, and use half of them to patrol intensively these crime hotspot areas. This is paid for within our Golden Economic Rule, thanks to the savings we have announced such as from the welfare budget, cutting the size of the Civil Service and reducing foreign aid.
January 12, 2026 at 10:08 AM
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keith65.bsky.social
"Batteries are no longer just a backup system. They're becoming a primary tool for managing peak demand."
– Dave Borlace, Just Have a Think
#GlobalCarbonFeeAndDividendPetition
youtu.be/fR--t-eMq_Y?...
Grid scale battery cost reductions - the final nail in the fossil fuel coffin?
YouTube video by Just Have a Think
youtu.be
January 12, 2026 at 12:26 AM