Stephen Curry

President Zelensky presented Heraskevytch with a civil honor this evening in Munich. Immediate national hero.

Yes! Britain leads the world in precipitous decline! #skeleton

If you would like to help put pressure on the @royalsociety.org to finally take meaningful action on this issue, you can politely decline their requests for your labour (eg invitations to review or to sit on their editorial boards or grant panels), and refer to the arguments in this blogpost.

If you would like to help put pressure on the @royalsociety.org to finally take meaningful action on this issue, you can politely decline their requests for your labour (eg invitations to review or to sit on their editorial boards or grant panels), and refer to the arguments in this blogpost.

Why are all the US media using words like "revoke" and repeal"? They mean nothing in this context. Why not "refuse to accept", "deny", or "lie about"?

Here's a story I'd definitely by covering if Science in Action was still on air - the likely cause of the rare but dangerous bloodclots from some COVID vaccines. The question is how easy it would be to tweak the adenovirus carrier to avoid the issue.

An elegant wooden desk with a high-backed armchair behind. The desk is cluttered with objects and paper. To the left is a fireplace and a wall covered with framed pictures.

On Darwin Day I thought I’d share this photo I took of his study in Down House. It looks as if he’s just stepped out of the room and will be back momentarily.

Economics has failed on the climate crisis. This complexity scientist has a mind-blowing plan to fix that Doyne Farmer says a super-simulator of the global economy would accelerate the transition to a green, clean world

Mad or Bas-ass? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I'm flabbergasted at the way the debate on Jim Radcliffe's comments on immigration has gone. People's offence at his language is not the point. His basic claim was wrong. He quoted fake numbers on immigration. Exaggerating the numbers more than fivefold...

A Ukrainian Olympian with principles.

Sigh. Maybe stop blaming REF and look at the toxic culture in BS where the ABS list is seen as the only marker of quality. It's a pressure that BS are putting on themselves as some sort of mad group think. Or to be blunt, (I'm having a very bad week), stop blaming REF for your own crap behaviour.

More Heraskevych, less Radcliffe.

Serving the Reich: The Struggle for the Soul of Physics under Hitler by Philip Ball – review The Nobel Prizewinners and the Nazis: were Heisenberg et al tacit collaborators, asks Graham Farmelo

Some will, some won’t. www.theguardian.com/books/2013/n...

Would have said Michael O’Neill, footballer & manager of the NI team, but having checked just now, maybe it’s Declan Lawn, co-creator of the fabulous Blue Lights. (St Louis Grammar, Ballymena)

Hard to tell which international sports organisation has the least moral fibre, the IOC or FIFA.

Jim Radcliffe is an economic migrant in Monaco.

Jim Radcliffe offshores his money to avoid paying tax in the UK.

Jim Radcliffe wants to ensure that the british working class blame refugees and migrants for the problems in Britain.

Jim Radcliffe is the problem, not desperate asylum seekers.

Colourful image from the webpage of the Royal Society. Background is a mix of images of electronic circuits and silicon wafers. Text reads: "Welcome to the Royal Society. We are the independent scientific academy of the UK, dedicated to promoting excellence in science for the benefit of humanity."

FOR THE RECORD: one year on, I lay out clearly how Elon Musk FRS has breached the @royalsociety.org’s code of conduct, why the Society’s failure to defend its values has been so damaging, & what they need do to recover their standing in the scientific community. occamstypewriter.org/scurry/2026/...

Epstein and the moral rot of US public intellectuals The disgraced sex offender was able to gather a group of scientists and thinkers around him who shared his anti-woke, anti-women and Silicon Valley techno-fascist views. But it doesn’t end with Epstei...

There hasn't been much media coverage outside the science media of the Epstein scientists. So I wrote about them here for @thenewworldmag.bsky.social. As many in science know, John Brockman was central in linking Epstein to scientific "public intellectuals".
www.thenewworld.co.uk/philip-ball-...

Come on folks - at this price, it's worth it for the cover alone.

Happy birthday to a great university!

Colourful image from the webpage of the Royal Society. Background is a mix of images of electronic circuits and silicon wafers. Text reads: "Welcome to the Royal Society. We are the independent scientific academy of the UK, dedicated to promoting excellence in science for the benefit of humanity."

FOR THE RECORD: one year on, I lay out clearly how Elon Musk FRS has breached the @royalsociety.org’s code of conduct, why the Society’s failure to defend its values has been so damaging, & what they need do to recover their standing in the scientific community. occamstypewriter.org/scurry/2026/...

Congratulations! Big party tonight?

I couldn't agree more with the position on Musk and the Royal Society laid out in this excellent post by @scurry.bsky.social. What continues to dismay folks like Stephen and @deevybee.bsky.social & me is that the RS seems unwilling to speak to *this* case...
occamstypewriter.org/scurry/2026/...

Exploring interdisciplinarity – raising self-awareness through a comprehensive research assessment - MetaROR

For the University of Helsinki's comprehensive research assessment, researchers designed a dedicated module to capture interdisciplinarity.

Reviewers called their approach "inspiring" and did not identify major weaknesses, but do provide recommendations.

👇 Read the assessment, reviews & full text

For me I'm afraid it is an appropriate phrase for an organisation whose leadership has failed to apply its own code of conduct or to defend the values of the community it claims to represent.

Excellent piece by @scurry.bsky.social on damage to @royalsociety.org's reputation by inaction and obfuscation over Elon Musk
occamstypewriter.org/scurry/2026/...

I’m not an insider, obviously, but no one I’ve spoken to on the outside thinks the RS has handled this well. The sense is of an organisation that has lost its authority, though I’m sure many normal operations continue as before.

A year of inaction: why has the Royal Society allowed itself to be hollowed out by Elon Musk? occamstypewriter.org/scurry/2026/...

Quark soup - what flavour?

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