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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 5h

We have built a society in which people of different skin tones, religious backgrounds & cultures get along, share power, work alongside each other, procreate with each other, recognise the each other’s humanity and democratic rights. It is a STUNNING ACHIEVEMENT OF WORLD HISTORIC PROPORTIONS.

Omar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social · 21h

I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter

Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

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Katharine Sanderson @kms163.bsky.social · 5h

And I also wrote about MOFs for Nature back in 2007! www.nature.com/articles/448...

Space invaders - Nature

MOFs, or metal–organic frameworks, are sponge-like crystalline compounds held together by strong chemical bonds — carbon–carbon, carbon–oxygen, or metal–oxygen. Their unique structure results in solids that are rigid and strong, but at the same time porous, flexible and incredibly light. The 'killer app' for MOFs could well be in making the hydrogen economy a reality by providing the solution to the problem of hydrogen storage.

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RiotGrlErin @riotgrlerin.bsky.social · 17h

the fellowship of the arts: thread

The Eye of Sauron in Still life with Oranges by Paul Gauguin.

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 5h

Without one I just couldn’t balance work/kids and would have given in and bought a car. The biggest challenge for mass take-up is everyone’s buying them through regressive Cycle to Work tax dodge. So a £5k bike costs 12 x £241 monthly payments if you’re high earner or 12 x £416 if you’re in poverty.

Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 23h

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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Oliver Morton, Eater of Sun @eaterofsun.bsky.social · 5h

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 18h

COME ON

Chris Schilling @schillingc.bsky.social · 18h

A good friend has submitted this brilliant model of the library from Buffy to Lego Ideas. I’d be very grateful for your help in getting her to 5k supporters: beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...

Buffy the Vampire Slayer Library | LEGO® Ideas

"Sunnydale High isn't really like other high schools. A lot of weird stuff happens here." Buffy the Vampire Slayer first exploded onto our TV screens in the lat…

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 21h

increasingly thinking these might be the only ethical scifi novels to write...

Mel G. @a4rdvark.bsky.social · 21h

Accepting recommendations for scifi novels about dismantling the torment nexus

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 18h

#ScienceUnderSiege reading, conversation and book-signing in 20 minutes at the @upenn.edu bookstore

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James Temple @jtemple.bsky.social · 21h

DOE appears set to terminate tens of millions in funding for Project Cypress and South Texas Direct Air Capture Hub, the two big projects in the US DAC Hubs program.

The US is set to cancel funding for two major direct-air capture plants

he terminations cut tens of millions of dollars that Climeworks, Heirloom, Oxy and others were depending on to develop carbon removal projects in Louisiana and Texas.

www.technologyreview.com

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Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 1d

This is inspired by Manu Larcenet's adaptation of 'The Road' by Cormac Mccarthy.

I used a sable brush and sumi ink.

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Brian Weeden @brianweeden.bsky.social · 1d

A good overview of the plans for Galileo's High Accuracy Service, which aims to provide 20-40cm location information globally www.gpsworld.com/inside-galil...

Inside Galileo HAS: A new era of free high-precision GNSS - GPS World

Developed by the European Union, Galileo is an independent, global, satellite-based navigation system that provides a range of services.

www.gpsworld.com

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Oliver Morton, Eater of Sun @eaterofsun.bsky.social · 1d

These shares of sketches are always a smile, often a joy. Thank you

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 1d

From highest A.I. use to lowest. The top 30 countries.

The countries using Al the most
The proportion of working-age population that uses Al by country (%)

UAE (almost 60%
Singapore
Norway
Ireland (about 42%)
France
Spain
New Zealand
UK
Netherlands
Qatar
Australia (about 34%)
Israel
Canada (about 33%)
Belgium
Switzerland
Sweden
Austria
Hungary
Denmark (about 27%)
Germany
Poland
Taiwan
U.S. (about 27%)
Czech Rep.
S. Korea
Italy
Finland
Bulgaria
Jordan
Costa Rica (about 25%)

FINANCIAL TIMES Source: Al for Good Lab - Microsoft research

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Oliver Morton, Eater of Sun @eaterofsun.bsky.social · 1d

But I am all but certain that this treatment of a remarkably similar premise, which I have read, is a lot better, because John Kessel is a star.
www.google.co.uk/books/editio...

Pride and Prometheus

“Dark and gripping and tense and beautiful.” —Karen Joy Fowler, New York Times bestselling author of The Jane Austen Book Club and Pulitzer Prize finalist for We Are All Completely Besides Ourselves P...

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Oliver Morton, Eater of Sun @eaterofsun.bsky.social · 1d

No disprespect to this book, which I have not read www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/melin...

The Shocking Experiments of Miss Mary Bennet

An utterly fantastical and undeniably queer melding of Pride and Prejudice and Frankenstein that recasts Mary Bennet as an insatiable scientist, one who crea...

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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 1d

Oh joy, this is wonderful. And a great choice for the recipients. I had a great chat with Michel at the Helgoland quantum centenary: he's such a modest guy.

Nature @nature.com · 1d

BREAKING: The Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret, and John M. Martinis "for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit"

Stay tuned for more.

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Ed King @ed-king.bsky.social · 1d

This column by Stephen Bush in @FT is worth a read... this sentence stood out to me as deeply depressing:

'There is nowhere in the United Kingdom where large gatherings of Jewish people can now take place without some form of security.'

Israel seems more important — and less desirable — than ever for British Jews

Amid rising antisemitism at home, our lifeboat abroad seems less attractive

www.ft.com

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 2d

It helps to be able to spell the country you say only you are competent enough to run.

Goody-bag merch from Tory Conference branded "When Labour negotiates Britian loses" and signed "Kemi Badenoch".

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Carlo "Realism, Gedankenfetzen und Rants" Masala @carlomasala1.bsky.social · 2d

Chers Français, je ne veux pas vous stresser, mais il faut battre les 10 jours de mandat de Giulio Andreotti en 1972. Faites de votre mieux et bonne chance.