Adam Rutherford

@vizcomic.bsky.social absolutely smashing the history of science in the new issue. #histsci

Origin of Species was a prank that got out of hand, and Mendel was breeding his pea plants cos he was a raving plant pervert.

My beautiful elegant hound, fast asleep, dreaming of squirrels.

Final re-up on the joy of being a scientific advisor for amazing films and with wonderful actors - Natalie Portman, Tessa Thompson, Ryan Reynolds - and also working on a movie with Jared Leto 😬
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Joy of joy!

The House of Commons was completed in 1852 and designed to look medieval.

The Guardian view on saving Westminster: parliament should leave London | Editorial Editorial: The long-overdue refurbishment could be an ideal opportunity for Britain to spread power to other parts of the UK, and send a powerful message

This is correct. The Palace of Westminster is a decrepit crumbling faux-old relic, and is a hinderance to democracy.

Make it a museum of democracy.
Make the houses round, move to York.

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Eine dringende Empfehlung für "Control" von Adam Rutherford.

Im Licht der Enthüllungen um Epstein und dem tief eugenischen Weltbild das Epstein und seine Gefolgschaft vertraten und vertreten, sowie der Silicon-Valley-Eugenik sehe ich das Buch quasi als Pflichtlektüre.

Ich bin tatsächlich gerade in Berlin!

‘Britain is not a Christian country. This is not a radical ideological statement; it is a basic demographic fact.’

Preach it. Wisdom from my spiritual guru.

AI: tools in need of problems (part 491,903 of an ongoing series)

Macro photo of a brown stink bug in face view on a leaf, guarding a tightly-clustered bunch of eggs that are shaped and colored exactly like a full tray of dark beer with foam on top.

Finally, the bug is back with a round of the Guinness.

“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge...”

This quote from Darwin's Descent of Man, published #OnThisDay in 1871, pretty much sums up the challenges the world is facing now, a century & a half later.

Some. Those films, such as Venom, though critically condemned, and not doing well at the box office in the West, sometimes do ridiculously well in other territories, notably China. They do different cuts with Chinese actors to nurture that market. Bottom line, it's the bottom line.

Working science into great movies, and also with Jared Leto The joys of being a science advisor on movies, and the HORROR.

On working with Jared Leto: tl;dr it was baffling.

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YouTube video by Sky News Mandelson arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office

Watching Mandelson's perp walk, I cannot get over how much the reporter sounds like Chris Morris on the Day Today.
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We also got an Oscar for Ex Machina! (Not meaning to Hey Me! Hannah’s successes)

Re-upping this.

Working science into great movies, and also with Jared Leto The joys of being a science advisor on movies, and the HORROR.

Here's a piece on my Substack about working on some of the best science fiction movies of this century, and also with Jared Leto.

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Working science into great movies, and also with Jared Leto The joys of being a science advisor on movies, and the HORROR.

Here's a piece on my Substack about working on some of the best science fiction movies of this century, and also with Jared Leto.

substack.com/home/post/p-...

Start the Week at 9 on BBC Radio 4: strategy from Odysseus to Barbie, the Hotel Lutetia - a hostel for exiles from Germany, artists, refugees, concentration camp survivors. And London during the war, as depicted in art.
God I love my job.

That is exactly correct. Not as funny as I had thought.

Could someone tell me what this enigmatic diary entry means?

I'd be more careful with my syntax if I were having a whinge about this.

I was on a bus, the 73, on the way back from my PhD supervisors house in Stoke Newington, and there was a guy with a mobile phone, which were still quite rare then. And he was bellowing, 'it's like something out of a disaster movie'.

Matching sounds to shapes: Evidence of the bouba-kiki effect in naïve baby chicks Humans across multiple languages spontaneously associate the nonwords “kiki” and “bouba” with spiky and round shapes, respectively, a phenomenon named the bouba-kiki effect. To explore the origin of t...

“Humans across multiple languages spontaneously associate the nonwords kiki & bouba with spiky & round shapes, respectively...We tested the bouba-kiki effect in baby chickens. Similar to humans, they spontaneously chose a spiky shape when hearing a kiki sound & a round shape when hearing a bouba.”😲🧪

Heroes of free thought! New Humanist's Spring 2026 edition is out now Meet the people resisting propaganda and ideology around the world

🚨 Our Spring 2026 issue is out today!

In a new era of brazen propaganda, we're celebrating the heroes of free thought on the frontlines of the battle against dogma and ideology.

Let's take a look inside... 🧵

One birthday, a few years ago, all my family had vomitus bugs and I spent most of the day clearing up excretia. BUT AT LEAST I WASN'T IN GAOL FOR DOING CRIMES.

They got Al Capone on tax evasion.

Wait what. Someone is being held responsible for their actions? What is happening

I had a chat with the brilliant @davidolusoga.bsky.social