Flora Graham

For 61 years the #BBCWorldService has been broadcasting the latest in science via its weekly Science in Action programme. That dies in the next half hour, with this final edition, reflecting on the fall in trust in expertise driven by malign interests over recent years.

Sorry I just wasn't sure what you meant. I agree manels are rubbish :)

I appreciate that perspective. Just that women shouldn't be excluded from any aspect of scientific credit/prestige (including opportunities to review) because of systemic sexism. Whether peer review itself sucks is another, very important, question. Of course when it comes to sexism it's all linked

Text version of this data: https://www.nature.com/immersive/content/gender-gap-report/appendix/index.html#section-Fig-7-error-bar-SlfL2nlj4H:~:text=reviewers%20across%20disciplines-,Discipline,-Error%20bar%20%2D%20women

Interesting point! Springer Nature data seems to agree 'across most fields, we see a higher % of women reviewers compared with women authors at submission' but interprets this as a good thing as it suggests 'editor efforts to diversify reviewer pools' are working www.nature.com/immersive/co...

My conferences?

Hi Dr Williams, follow me and I'll message you a link to the specific article I'm subtweeting ;)

Women are credited less in science than men - Nature The difference between the number of men and women listed as authors on scientific papers and inventors on patents is at least partly attributable to unacknowledged contributions by women scientists.

Anyone interested in learning about why journals make a proactive effort to increase women's participation in the peer review process should take the time look at some actual evidence about why this is needed. Ditto journalists covering such a story. Do some reporting! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Cover with photo showing penguin approaching a huge ship. Image: NAPA/Alamy. Cover design: Alex Whitworth

Leif Penguinson makes a cameo on the latest edition of @natsustain.nature.com 🐧

It's not even politics I just want to spend some time in a bubble where 'ranch' is not considered an ingredient (sorry)

I know there are 'no politics' feeds but does anyone know a good 'no USA' feed? I love those guys, I support them, they're my family, I go all out covering their country daily and sometimes I just need a break haha

I love an annotation! That's a great one. YES it's nerdy and that's why it's GOOD 😉

Alchemy: discredited pseudoscience or chemistry’s worthy ancestor? A spirited tour of alchemy shows how it bridged everything from chemical reactions, medicine and craft to philosophy, art and religion.

via www.nature.com/articles/d41... thanks to @annenotintokyo.bsky.social 😁

Woodblock from 1856 showing a Chinese alchemical furnace.Credit: Wellcome Collection, London (PDM)

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Forbidden Nutribullet

Wooo! bsky.app/profile/natu...

and forbidden liquorice allsort

Forbidden smartie

Professor Robson was back at work hours after the announcement, taking a first-year chemistry tutorial.

Imagine having Richard Robson as your 1st-year chem prof AND then he wins the Nobel 😁 www.unimelb.edu.au/newsroom/new...

Sorry to say I haven't got a great solution to contribute, myself 😟

The Taz looks awesome! Thanks for flagging it to me. But the model seems like it might require some very specific conditions to work (The Guardian does it, for example, but has a HUGE endowment) thefix.media/2025/03/17/n...

Ah, I have been involved in all of these options at various places, and unfortunately none come even close — not even CLOSE — to the amounts that are required to fund the fourth estate, as subcriptions from loyal subscribers do

Have humans passed peak brain power? Data across countries and ages reveal a growing struggle to concentrate, and declining verbal and numerical reasoning

Since it took me ages to track it down, here's the original article in the FT in case of use to anyone else www.ft.com/content/a801...

Genuinely curious about what you suggest are these better ways (asking for myself and not on behalf of my employer)

Looking up at the night sky, it's hard not to wonder how many other planets might be circling those pinpricks of light – and how many are home to beings gazing back at us. Today, we are starting to get a handle on the number of roughly Earth-sized exoplanets that might be suitable for life.

The first exoplanet around a Sun-like star was discovered 30 years ago this month! Makes me think yet again of the AMAZING scrolly (published in 2013, pre-TESS spacecraft) by
@adambecker.bsky.social @peteraldhous.com & MacGregor Campbell at @newscientist.com freelanceastro.github.io/how-many-ear...

From a poster called “just shower thoughts“ reading: when people talk about traveling to the past, they worry about radically, changing the present by doing something small, barely anyone in the present to really thinks that they can radically change the future by doing something small.

I may have found my defining quote.

Pair this with my pinned post and you will see what I mean!

[Forgotten Baby Syndrome: dimensions of the phenomenon and new research perspectives] - PubMed Forgotten Baby Syndrome (FBS) defines the phenomenon of forgetting a child in a parked vehicle. FBS is in constant growth with significant repercussions for the parent, the family and society. Scienti...

Tragically there have been fatal cases of people forgetting their baby was in the car. Do call 999 if you see this ❤️ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32202549/

Opinion | The moment I knew the world would try to move on from Jamal Khashoggi I could see it coming at Time’s 2018 Person of the Year celebration.

The Saudi government murdered Jamal Khashoggi seven years ago today. His editor @karenattiah.bsky.social wrote this two years ago.

Authors, Time to Get That (Anthropic) Bag To begin, for those of you who do not follow such things with intense interest, a little context about the “AI” company Anthropic being sued for stealing authors’ works and reachi…

Some brief thoughts on the Anthropic settlement, and why I think most authors should claim their share of the settlement if they can, inadequate though I think it is:

whatever.scalzi.com/2025/10/02/a...

WOW this interview by @maxkozlov.bsky.social is a banger

Powerful stuff, very interesting and moving