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Jeannette Eggers @jeannetteeggers.bsky.social · 9d

"We studied more than 70 different elections that took place in 12 western European countries over several decades, and found that when mainstream parties take more anti-immigration positions, it leads to more support for the radical right, not less."

Our research makes it clear: by capitulating to the right, Labour is driving voters to Reform UK | Tarik Abou-Chadi and Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte

Mimicking Farage on immigration is senseless. Labour voters feel betrayed; anti-immigration voters see through the ruse, say academics Tarik Abou-Chadi and Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte

www.theguardian.com

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 7d

The idea that someone can become British but never English is so agonisingly stupid that it makes me fear for the future of the species.

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Pete @caffetino.bsky.social · 5d

💪💪💪

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Mike Harrison @higheredactuary.bsky.social · 5d

“It is the first time in nearly 500 years of history that the Church nominated a woman to lead it”

Quite a moment.

Sarah Mullally named as new Archbishop of Canterbury

Dame Sarah, a former chief nursing officer, was previously the first female Bishop of London.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Pete @caffetino.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 5d

A really interesting article on Social Media usage by John Burn-Murdoch in the FT:

Have we passed peak social media

https://on.ft.com/4pOoLiV

#socialmedia #antisocialmedia

Photo of a graph showing social media usage to keep up with friends, share opinions and meet new people going down, while following celebrities and filling spare time have increased.

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Simeon Schmauß @stim3on.bsky.social · 6d

This photo from the Perseverance rover captured in early March, may be my favorite Mars image from this year.

It shows Mars' smaller moon Deimos over the hills of the Nili Planum region in the dark skies before dawn. 🔭

Full res: flic.kr/p/2rwUwV7

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Simeon Schmauß

A picture of Mars taken during astronomical twilight (the sun was 13° below the horizon). It shows a dimly lit reddish landscape with some hills at the horizon. Deimos, Mars' smaller moon shines with a small halo in the pale sky above.

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 7d

Setting the table for vibe paychecks

www.theverge.com/news/787076/...

Microsoft launches ‘vibe working’ in Excel and Word

Vibe working is all about Office’s new Agent Mode.

www.theverge.com

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La Siegolina🌵 @la-siegolina.bsky.social · 7d

"The axe may forget, but the tree remembers"
Nuovo mantra unlocked.

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Pete @caffetino.bsky.social · 9d

Truly amazing if proved correct

Michael Le Page @mjflepage.bsky.social · 9d

We've found a master regulator that controls the level of DNA repair 🧬 and thus how fast we accumulate mutations 🧪

The team that discovered it thinks this also determines the rate of ageing 👵, but they haven't quite proved it yet

www.newscientist.com/article/2497...

How fast you age may be controlled by a DNA repair boss in your cells

When a key protein regulator dials down DNA repair mechanisms, our cells accumulate more mutations, which may cause us to age faster

www.newscientist.com

Pete @caffetino.bsky.social · 11d

They say the mark of a good baker is in the consistency of the shape and size. Every roll should be identical.

I think I've cracked it.

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 12d

New: The link between air pollution and aortic dissection/aneurysm, adds to genetic susceptibility
www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Association of air pollution exposure and genetic susceptibility with increased risk of thoracic aortic aneurysm and dissection - Nature Cardiovascular Research

Ma et al. demonstrate that air pollution is associated with an increased risk of thoracic aortic aneurysm and dissection (TAAD), and that genetic susceptibility to TAAD amplifies this risk through multiplicative and additive interactions.

www.nature.com

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Data controversies, James Stewart @datacontroversies.bsky.social · 12d

BBC News - Nursery hackers threaten to publish more children's profiles - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Nursery hackers threaten to publish more children's profiles

The criminals say they will share 30 more profiles along with 100 employees' data if a ransom is not paid.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Pete @caffetino.bsky.social · 13d

This is why I'm exploring self-hosting...

Minerva47874627.bsky.social @minerva47874627.bsky.social · 13d

This👇is not good for democracy.

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14d

The richest man on earth owns X.

The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.

The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.

See the problem here?

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Fabio Chiusi @fabiochiusi.bsky.social · 13d

In un mondo normale, in cui il sapere ha valore e la scienza viene rispettata invece che diffamata da bande di teppisti ignoranti ma potenti, questa è una notizia da prima pagina

il Post @ilpost.it · 13d

C’è un primo trattamento promettente contro la malattia di Huntington

Una delle malattie genetiche neurodegenerative più difficili e finora senza cura

ilpost.link

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UK Research and Innovation @ukri.org · 13d

Diagnosing health conditions early and in a way that works for people’s everyday lives is vital.

We're pleased to announce six new EPSRC projects that are developing community-based diagnostic tools to diagnose health conditions earlier, and closer to home.

More: www.ukri.org/news/new-too...

New tools aim to improve early diagnosis and ease NHS pressure

New technologies being developed by UK researchers could help diagnose common mental and physical health conditions earlier, more accurately and closer to home.

www.ukri.org

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Peter Lewis @peterlewis55.bsky.social · 19d

Occultation! Venus is about to disappear behind the 5% lit Moon! #astronomy #astrophotography #Occultation #Moon #Venus @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social 1/2

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Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 20d

German media have long used the quaint Americanism, "shitstorm." Now, turning the linguistic heat up a notch, @spiegel.de headline says Starmer is "in the middle of a clusterfuck."

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Pete @caffetino.bsky.social · 20d

Auguri!

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Pete @caffetino.bsky.social · 20d

“We’re a kind of vassal state technologically, we really are. The moment our companies, our tech companies, start developing any scale or ambition, they have to go to California, because we don’t have the growth capital here.”

I agree with Nick!

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 21d

Nick Clegg: multibillion-dollar transatlantic tech agreement ‘sloppy seconds from Silicon Valley’

Meta’s former president of global affairs said the deal, which coincides with Trump’s state visit, would leave the UK more reliant on US tech giants A multibillion-dollar transatlantic tech agreement announced to coincide with Donald Trump’s state visit represents “sloppy seconds from Silicon Valley”, Nick Clegg, Meta’s former president of global affairs, has said. The former deputy prime minister said that the deals, heralded with great fanfare by the government as it tries to foster growth in the UK, were “mutton dressed as lamb” and would make the country ever more reliant on US tech giants. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

Pete @caffetino.bsky.social · 21d

This is really interesting:

Shmatko, A., Jung, A.W., Gaurav, K. et al. Learning the natural history of human disease with generative transformers. Nature (2025). doi.org/10.1038/s415...

#Healthcare #AI

Learning the natural history of human disease with generative transformers - Nature

Delphi-2M forecasts a person’s future health, covering more than 1,000 diseases, provides insights into co-morbidity dynamics and generates synthetic data for the training of AI models that have never...

doi.org

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Pete @caffetino.bsky.social · 21d

Thread 👇

Paola Masuzzo @pcmasuzzo.bsky.social · 21d

Not that I don't appreciate people speaking up for #OpenScience, but I can't help but notice that a lot of the advocacy nowadays looks exactly what it looked like 5 or perhaps even 10 years ago. /

Pete @caffetino.bsky.social · 22d

The unofficial death toll in #Gaza has reached over 64,000. While the US provides weapons and Europe debates whether Israel should be allowed in a song contest.

How did we get here?

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 25d

Elon Musk speaking at a far right rally today, claiming to speak for a British people that increasimgly hold Elon Musk in contempt, across every political perspective outside the far right, owing to his wrecking of Twitter + boosting of racism + rioting + hatred

James Ball @jamesrball.com · 25d

Elon, speaking at the Tommy Robinson march today: “This is a government against the people and not for the people, this is why everyone is gathered here today…we don’t have another four years…there’s got to be a dissolution of parliament”

And the government just…continues to use X.

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Pete @caffetino.bsky.social · 27d

Speriamo! È impossibile dall'aeroporto al centro.

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Jacques-Yves Cousteau @runflysmile.bsky.social · 27d

A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely 😊

Hugh Lofting

#HughLofting

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