Lonely Joe Parker

This is such a great post, and I'm so glad you're still writing, Jonathan. One of the original Scientists Of Olde Twitter! Kudos 🙏

A ton to be thankful for -- here is one part of that - all the acknowledgement sections from my scholarly papers A blog about microbiology, genomics and metagenomics, sequencing, evolution, ecology, and open science.

The Tree of Life: A ton to be thankful for phylogenomics.blogspot.com/2025/11/a-to...

Women deserve safety and privacy online. Why are we still being made to choose? Seyi Akiwowo interviews sex workers, policy leads, and parents about online safety.

“Because the truth is, no one wins in the false choice between safety and freedom. But if we centre care, equity, and imagination, we might just build an internet that lets us all breathe easier.”

We need online communities that are safe and inclusive. We can build them with care, joy, and justice.

Today’s xkcd made me cry.

In a good way.

xkcd.com/3172/

Wow. Really? Christ almighty they need to grow up a bit over the pond, don't they?

Twitter's new feature that reveals where accounts originate doesn't reveal many surprises.

www.politico.eu/article/russ...

Er... Lads could be forgiven for thinking the way to make the unreasonable Russians reasonable is to... Smash them all the way back into their own borders?

Too simple? Perhaps it'll dawn on the grownups eventually 🙄

And that, my dears, is a classic snakebite puncture 😥

Almost new tube too. Annoying. #commuting

Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.

Watch out for those hate reads, they'll bring you down..

Meta halted internal research suggesting social media harm, court filing alleges Meta is alleged to have halted internal research suggesting social media harm, according to court documents.

Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...

👍👍👍

('former') Reform UK top brass jailed for a decade on Russia bribe charges, you say? I am SHOOK.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c8...

Doesn't sound very patriotic... But maybe just a wee bit Nationalist🤔🤫🤣

POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success

Nope. The headline should actually read “Astronomers using ML discover quasars acting as lenses”

Why are they wearing army stuff, and why are their faces covered?

The Democratic Party would be a lot better if it had embraced Zohran Mamdani the way it's embracing Marjorie Taylor Greene.

#Photography

@davidkernohan.bsky.social congrats!! ⚽🏆

Got sleeted on this morning 😱😱😱
Definitely gloves weather now #commuting #bikes #activetravel

Fossil fuel lobbyists outnumber all Cop30 delegations except Brazil, report says One in every 25 participants at 2025 UN climate summit is a fossil fuel lobbyist, according to Kick Big Polluters Out

2/5 The fossil fuel industry has a long history of spreading misinformation and disinformation while blocking meaningful climate action.

Despite this, lobbyists received almost 60% more passes to COP30 than the 10 most climate-vulnerable nations combined (1,061).

In the global electrification race China is marching ahead.

The US and Europe risk falling behind clinging on to yesterday's technologies.

Dick's was a legendary gangster hangout back in the day, but you probably knew that already

Graphic titled “Homicides fall by more than a third since 2019.” Text says: "Since the Mayor set up the Violence Reduction Unit in 2019, the number of homicides have continued to decline, with the lowest January–October figures recorded this year." A line graph shows homicides decreasing from 2019 to 2025 - a 36.5% reduction. Source: MPS recorded homicide data from 1 January to 31 October, 2019–2025.

In 2019, we did something transformative: we set up a specialist Violence Reduction Unit to intervene and take a preventative approach.

The impact has been huge ⬇️

My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far

it's not that i ever doubted that being a barista was a skilled position, but my year-long effort to try to produce a half-decent latte at home has convinced me that a good barista is easily more skilled than virtually every c-suite executive on the planet

I'm sorry but as much as I want the Russians to stop being murderous bastards and go and sort their shit country out instead of invading people, this video looks a bit AI to me? Why did it happen to get filmed? Tail failure mode looks odd? Camerawork is weird? Etc

Anyone else struggling to upload pics?

So excited about the upcoming release of Equator! "We began to imagine a new cultural venture, one that rejects the nihilistic idea that the powerful do what they please, and success is the only measure of moral virtue."

US anti-fascism expert blocked from flying to Spain at airport Rutgers University professor who published book on antifa was informed at boarding gate that his trip was cancelled

Extremely disturbing developments here

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...