Dave Hemprich-Bennett

Our greatest minds and institutions are rendered powerless when faced with the sheer allure of ‘make number go up’

Boooooooo

anyways happy weekend everyone

Edits that should have taken very little time at all, but then I got a chest infection and then had to catch up on all the more pressing things that I didn’t do while I had that whole ‘chest infection’ thing going on

Paper (re)submitted!

Hey look it’s survivorship bias in bridge troll form

If you want to know what Reform would be like in power, look at how it threatened Bangor University | Gaby Hinsliff A debating society didn’t want to invite two figures connected to the party to speak. Cue an authoritarian response, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

If you want to know what Reform would be like in power, look at how it threatened Bangor University | Gaby Hinsliff

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

Good luck little buddy, you’d be great if you get to exist

I know it’s par for the course in so many fields, but there is something very emotionally odd about sinking a tonne of time planning and writing funding applications for an experiment you know would be really cool AND important… while knowing there’s good odds it’ll never happen

Yeah it’s gonna blow her tiny mind

The private bar there must be a sight to behold

My local theatre just got in touch trying to upsell me tickets to the VIP ‘ambassador’s lounge’… for our 2yo’s birthday trip to see live-action Bluey

“You mean I get to be sad AND behind on everything?!”

Responding to the DEFRA wood burning consultation — Mums for Lungs Read our guidance on how to respond to DEFRA’s wood burning consultation - deadline 19th March. This is a critical moment to get your voice heard by the government.

Brilliant info from @mumsforlungs.bsky.social about responding to the DEFRA wood burning consultation.

Including why it will not lead to meaningful reductions in air pollution from domestic burning.

Respond to DEFRA here: consult.defra.gov.uk/domestic-bur...

www.mumsforlungs.org/news/respond...

Whenever I see pseudoscientific conspiracy theories about ancient aliens or giant petrified trees or ice age satellites or whatever it drives me crazy because THE EARTH IS COOL ENOUGH JUST AS IT IS! WE DON’T NEED TO REACH FOR REASONS TO MAKE IT MORE INTERESTING! HAVE YOU SEEN A TULLY MONSTER??!!

RFK Jr's Nutrition Chatbot Recommends Best Foods to Insert Into Your Rectum Realfood.gov will happily give you the worst possible advice.

Could be worse I guess www.404media.co/rfk-jrs-nutr...

Which Other Olympic Mascots Could Italian Stoats Tina And Milo Slaughter In Cold Blood? | Defector Apologies to all otters, ferrets, badgers, ferret-badgers, weasels, fishers, polecats, wolverines, martens, and grisons, but the mustelid of the moment is the stoat. The mascots of the 2026 Winter Oly...

I wrote about the Olympics
defector.com/which-other-...

I inhaled traffic fumes to find out where air pollution goes in my body BBC health correspondent James Gallagher gets his blood analysed to understand how air pollution is killing us.

This is such a good read. And a good listen - Inside Health, on Radio 4.

"I think the more we understand the mechanisms of how it can cause these effects, the more we can add to the pressure for policy makers to reduce exposure - because that's the answer in the end."

#AirPollution #Health

The law on universities and free speech prevents speakers from being *disinvited after they have been invited*. It does not require universities to provide a platform to whoever demands one.

Let's not mince words: the threat to cut funding to every university who disagrees with them is fascist.

always so funny to me when people are like “how am I supposed to explain Gay to my kids?” my kid asks me way harder shit all the time. “why did they build the road this way? why are some people bad?” I don’t know. please ask me about Gay

every single person writing credulously about "elon will put people on the moon" should have to pin this post to their monitor

(Join a union)

I don’t want to ‘strategise my content’ you pricks, I’m just sharing some photos I took with my geographically-disparate loved ones

Hearing photography (or any art for that matter) described as ‘content’ always feels revolting. Doubly so when it’s being used as a way of keeping in touch with loved ones

Screenshot from instagram: “Today Your weekly recap is ready. See how your content is doing and how to plan for this week.”

Something about this weekly notification from instagram always really gives me the ick

Chance of El Niño forming in Pacific Ocean may push global temperatures to record highs in 2027 One expert says 2027 could be even hotter than the last three years, which have been the top three warmest on record

Chance of #ElNiño forming in Pacific Ocean may push global temperatures to record highs in 2027

#climatecrisis
Story by @readfearn.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Epstein Backed ‘Billionaires’ Dinner’ Network of Prominent Anti-Trans Figures Lawrence Krauss, Richard Dawkins, Steven Pinker and other anti-trans influencers personally benefited from a right-wing academic social group backed by infamous human trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, somet...

You’re not crazy. The anti-trans movement is not organic; it was funded by pedophilic billionaires like Jeffrey Epstein who backed a network of conservatives to accuse the same people they were sexually abusing of being the real danger. @madycast.com exposes the truth in our in-depth report.

A black and white photo of someone walking along under an umbrella pulling a suitcase, between a telephone box and a streetlight

…and a rainy dusk in Oxford

Getting away from it at speed also becomes a viable option