Lewis Dartnell

If they make another Star Trek movie, can we have James Gunn direct it? Not because of his directorial skills; I just think it’s about time a narrative included Gunn’s Chekov.

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So much excitement for this game. If I could MiB mind-wipe having played the first one and get to do it all fresh I would in a heartbeat

That being said, he does giggle his way through every episode. I reckon he's working up to asking a return favour

My 3yr-old has announced that he isn't all that bothered about Bluey, but he watches it with me because he knows I like it so much. Which is about the cutest thing in the world

NASA is being told to cancel 19 *active* missions to save $6B, which looks to be less than the ICE *hiring/retention* budget going forward.

I need people to let that sentence sink into their bones for a minute.

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This is not equality. The BBC is supposed to be impartial. Why are they only promoting religious views on R2 and R4? Why is more secular positive messaging from organisations such as the @humanists.uk not included? Pls help equality by signing this petition.

I’m devastated to hear that my friend Micky Lachmann has departed this life. He was a fantastic producer - bringing a keen intelligence and a real sense of exploration to documentaries - and he was a lovely person. My thoughts are with his family - especially his boys, who he loved so much.

It is with great sadness that I am doing what I would once have thought unthinkable. Following Salim Abdool Karim's superb Faraday Lecture 10 days ago, i have decided to return my own Faraday prize, awarded in 2014.

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Producer behind Brian Cox documentaries dies in Alps Michael Lachmann, 54, who worked on the ‘Wonders’ series, slipped and fell while coming down the Grands Couloirs glacier in the Vanoise National Park

Such tragic news. I've worked with Micky a few times over the years and he was a wonderful TV producer.

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Well, yeah, it is about the end of days!

FOR A STUDENT WHO USED AI TO WRITE A PAPER Now I let it fall back in the grasses. I hear you. I know this life is hard now. I know your days are precious on this earth. But what are you trying to be free of? The living? The miraculous task of it? Love is for the ones who love the work. -Joseph Fasano

I don’t know. I love this Joseph Fasano poem and have it pinned on my office door but I don’t know what to actually do about any of this.

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Antarctica ‘too wild for humans to rule’, says Shackleton medal winner Environmental lawyer Cormac Cullinan lauded for his work to establish continent’s legal status to protect its interests

Great coverage in @theguardian.com of Cormac Cullinan's vision for protecting Antarctica. Cormac just won the Shackleton Medal. I chaired the selection panel and honestly can't think of a more deserving winner. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Epithelial GREMLIN1 disrupts intestinal epithelial-mesenchymal crosstalk to induce a wnt-dependent ectopic stem cell niche through stromal remodelling - Nature Communications The authors show that aberrant epithelial GREM1 expression remodels intestinal stroma to form ectopic stem cell niches in mice. Anti-GREM1 reversed these changes, highlighting a potential strategy for...

Lovely new paper from @leedham-simon.bsky.social dissecting epithelium-microenvironment crosstalk through BMP & wnt signalling in the intestine. Inhibition of BMP antagonist GREM1 may forestall polyp formation in Hereditary Mixed Polyposis Syndrome (HMPS). www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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If you’re looking for an animated apocalyptic comedy (and who isn’t?!), ‘Carol & the End of the World’ is absolutely superb. Currently available on Netflix. 1/2

Poor ExoMars... Its can has been kicked down the road half a dozen times now

How Trump’s budget cuts could derail global science collaborations Europe’s ExoMars mission is among the highest-profile causalities of the US president’s plan to slash research funding.

Europe’s ExoMars mission is among the highest-profile causalities of the US president’s plan to slash research funding

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And stunning it is too - cheers!

With art by yours truly

Mars may once have had rings, which could help explain where its largest moon came from | BBC Sky at Night Magazine Phobos could be the latest incarnation in a cycle of creation and destruction of rings around Mars, and is only around 100 million years old.

Mars may once have had rings, which could help explain where its largest moon came from

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Mars may once have had rings, which could help explain where its largest moon came from | BBC Sky at Night Magazine Phobos could be the latest incarnation in a cycle of creation and destruction of rings around Mars, and is only around 100 million years old.

My latest column for BBC Sky at Night magazine
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Well played Pimlico Plumbers, well played

Enjoyed this collection of essays on #TheExpanse, with titles like “Is Amos Evil?” (heck no!) and “Hannah Arendt and Naomi Nagata on Making and Doing Politics” (badass!)

Unfortunately none were dedicated to Drummer and too few to Avasarala, but still a fun read! 💙📚

Great thread from Kit explaining why this is still good news—but needs careful interpretation.

Further context here is that most cancer is caused by ageing, so if we want to prevent it we should probably try targeting the ageing process rather than just screening for cancer…

If you go down to the woods today… Image by Jill Wellington from Pixabay In the 2025 RHS Chelsea Flower Show there was one garden that was about technology as well as plants: The Avanade Intelligent Garden  exploring how AI might be…

Computing by all, for all - TODAY
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Yvonne Rogers & team publish paper on Ambient woods where probes help us see more of the woods. Her vision was to use computing not to shut us off from the world but to spark imagination, challenging us to think & see more
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(Image is Thomas Gold. Not our newborn)

The same Thomas Gold who developed the steady-state hypothesis for the universe, and also argued that crude oil was produced geologically and so is effectively limitless. Wild!