Such an amazing evening at #transmission. This was the moment that broke me. Seeing the amazing @alicemydaughter.bsky.social on stage. Currently in floods of tears to see such a brave and wonderful @transparentaction.bsky.social on our side.
Why is this (or rather *parental* leave) not already a thing? UKRI, Wellcome etc should put their heads together.
Three panel comic. Panel 1: a giant squid wearing a yellow Bart t-shirt and some terrible hypebeast shorts is looking in the mirror. It says, “need groceries… but all my clothes are in the laundry.” Panel 2: the squid, now also wearing hot pink crocs, exits its apartment and says, “eh. I won’t see anyone.” Panel 3: two fisherman are pulling the squid to the surface of the water and pointing at it. An overlayed news caption reads: RARE SQUID SIGHTED - the fit was crazy
Primary Teachers! Science Teachers! Generating awe and wonder is a good way to engage students with science, especially if you know how to use demonstrations in a pedagogically sound way. I’ve made resources to help you develop your demonstration skills here:
Some molecular machines, like ribosomes, can persist for long periods of time in cells.
Could molecular aging of ribosomes shape how proteins are made?
In our new preprint we track ribosomes as they age in cells and uncover unexpected effects on translation (1/10)
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
I am sure that this "review" will be done unbiasedly without any secret influence from Christian Concern's own Wes Streeting and the morons from SEGM that infest the NHS 🚨
Extract from Impact Assessment. NHS England is separately reviewing the evidence for the use of MAF in adults with gender dysphoria, with the aim of a consultation on the evidence later in 2026.
Given that every 'evidence review' under Labour is conducted to 'build the evidence case against' can there be any real doubt about how this ends?
The complete removal from the NHS, and possible criminalization, of all medication for trans people.
New NHS England Review Excluded 97% Of All Trans Studies To Say Care Doesn't Work
www.erininthemorning...
#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
🚨 WATCH: Labour MP Charlotte Nichols reveals she was raped as an MP as she opposes the jury trial reforms
"I waited 1,088 days to go to court. We've been told [by the Government] that if we have concerns about this Bill, it's because we've not been raped"
Most accurate portrait of modern culture currently available
goddamn is this a breath of fresh air after Allred 2024
I'm genuinely not a War or Middle East Knower so I'm not at all confident in this. But: from the outside it really rather seems USA and Israel have started a conflict with no clear win condition for themselves and wherein it's turned out that the Iranian state has a fair capacity to cause them pain.
Whoa. This is big. "The U.S. Navy has refused near-daily requests from the shipping industry for military escorts through the Strait of Hormuz since the start of the war on Iran, saying the risk of attacks is too high for now." www.reuters.com/world/middle...
Just discovered this wonderful adaptation of our maize moving map (figshare.com/articles/fig...) by @andikur.bsky.social .
18 yr old Bahar had offers from York and Reading, but 'thanks to Shabana Mahmood, she will now never escape the Taliban.'
'Britain has decided that the girl who fought the Taliban’s agenda, who learned English in secret, who turned down a forced marriage, who won her place, is an asylum risk.'
Private clinics must follow NHS and ban child gender drugs The Daily Telegraph10 Mar 2026By Michael Searles DEPUTY HEALTH EDITOR Wes Streeting ordered a review into gender hormone treatments last year WES STREETING has been told to ban private prescriptions of cross-sex hormones to children. The NHS said yesterday that it would stop prescribing the drugs to gender-questioning under-18s because the “available evidence does not support the continued use” of them. A group bringing legal action to secure a ban welcomed the NHS decision but said it would be an “abdication of responsibility” if the Health Secretary allowed private clinics to continue providing them. The drugs, also known as gender-affirming hormones, are now mostly obtained by children and their families from private clinics and online, often unregulated, markets. Mr Streeting announced a review of the medication last May, but no details have been published and private clinics continue to supply them. Legal action to ban cross-sex hormones for under-18s was halted last year in order to give time for this review to be undertaken. However, those behind that challenge are set to issue proceedings once again this week, it is understood, almost one year later. Cross-sex hormones include testosterone and oestrogen, which are taken to help someone change their physical appearance to align with their desired gender, such as by growing hair or breasts. They are different to puberty blockers, which suppress the hormones that support a child’s body and brain to develop into an adult. Paul Conrathe, partner at Conrathe Gardner LLP, which is representing the claimants in this case, told The Telegraph the NHS decision was “overdue”. “While protecting teenagers treated in the NHS, it leaves others vulnerable to treatment from gender activists in the private sector. It would now be irrational and an abdication of the Secretary of State’s responsibility for him to allow private providers to continue to prescri
As expected, they are going after private clinics again [Telegraph]
Paul Conrathe.
The BBC somehow manages not to mention that a male anti-trans/gender-critical extremist harassed a female MP so relentlessly that police had to offer her an escort for her protection
A pretty significant and central detail to just leave out
So it *is* possible to reject fast-food outlets. Someone tell Stockport's planning department!
Most pandemic viruses show little adaptation before infecting humans
For anyone wondering whether to respond to the consultation.
Don't bother.
They are not interested in good healthcare. Not even interested in a semblance at good evidence-based healthcare.
Yesterday the NHS banned all under 18 prescriptions of HRT for trans young people.
This ban was justified by 10 new studies that largely stated NO EVIDENCE for under 18s HRT exists.
The study underpinning this played one particular trick.
Let's briefly look at how the NHS rigged the game 1/5
Whitlock was a badass.
www.getty.edu/news/getty-l...
I found this really frustrating to read.
Mainstream media, including the BBC, prioritised the battle of ideas/2 sides argument as a popular means of coverage. This piece suggests it happened accidentally, or even at the behest of those pushed into these scenarios /1
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I just checked and this is real. We call this “a clue”
@plosbiology.org is formalizing its long‑standing practice of asking authors to share research code, introducing a mandatory #code‑sharing policy and clarifying what is meant by code sharing.
Learn more and find guidance on best practice: plos.io/4reyX3v
"In all cases, vehicle collisions decrease during periods of increasing fuel prices"
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @brenttoderian.bsky.social
For comparison with London projects:
• Garden Bridge: Never built, but £53m spent
• Thames cable car: £60m
• Rotherhithe - Canary Wharf cycle bridge: Scrapped after £600m estimate
• Silvertown Tunnel: £2bn
• Lower Thames Crossing: £10bn+ estimate
Nescio Bridge, Amsterdam. It allows people to cycle from the city centre over the Amsterdam-Rhine canal to the new housing distrcit IJburg. Built in 2005 it cost €9.5m and was designed by British architects WilkinsonEyre.
Rabobank on the unfolding worst case scenario:
And for the record, getting an NIH grant was already one of the hardest things out there. This is how you kill a research infrastructure that has taken a century to build. 🧪 #medsky #episky
