Dorothy Bishop

Solar has overtaken nuclear. A decade ago it supplied 1% of the world's power. In 2025 it met three quarters of global demand growth. Almost nobody saw it coming. I spoke to Jocelyn Timperley at BBC Future about why. www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

Phil Baker’s llamas will provide you with eggs forbetterscience.com/2026/10/27/p...

⚠ Travel Update - 27/10 ⚠ Due to the emergency services dealing with an incident between London Paddington and Reading all lines are blocked. Train services running to and from these stations may be cancelled. Disruption is expected until 09:00 Check your journey at gwr.com/check

Elsevier out here publishing 2027-issues and they still accept papers without ever opening any figure file. Duplicated XRD pattern in Figure 1a. It's not that hard to spot this dear editors... Gong et al. 2027 in 'Synthetic Metals' (DOI: 10.1016/j.synthmet.2026.118324): pubpeer.com/publications...

🤣🤣the Deloitte report is SO WOEFUL the West Australian govt wants it's $$ back Expert in public governance on Deloitte errors:“they’re so extensive tt you probably need a new report, or at the very least someone to go thru that material from the ground up & rework it manually without the use of AI"

100% this - had a bit of this years ago when my dad died. I remember Lloyds bank saying we had to convert his bank account into a “club or society” account for some reason. I’m sure this is only going to get worse as AI replaces humans at the interface.

I took new photos of some older Cambridge sketches yesterday. Here's a few of them. Firstly, a sketch of two young women walking by the Granta pub in Newham, Cambridge.

"Governing bodies and senior management should actively promote the standards and principles set out in the code, and scientific integrity must be a recurring topic of discussion in the workplace and at other levels of the organisation." www.nwo.nl/en/news/revi...

Southern Vermont No.3. Peak foliage, but the clouds were even better. 6”x6” Oil on cradled wood panel

Other work by the Ladybird artists ‘Autumn scene’ Artist: Ronald Lampitt

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

Well worth a listen. On the importance of pushing for accountability after the mid-terms. snyder.substack.com/p/before-and...

We’ve made Oxford Street traffic-free – and that’s just the start. Soon there’ll be green spaces for arts and music too | Sadiq Khan

What’s absolutely fascinating—& entirely predictable—is that the MAHA kooks (RFK Jr, Bhattacharya, etc.) used to say that it’s important to do proper RCTs & it’s important to get rid of financial conflicts of interest in medicine, but now that they run the health system they think the opposite 🧐

Today I'm posting a new video to my YouTube Channel. Persistent misnaming of 17-OHPC as "progesterone" in medical literature lead to pregnant women receiving the wrong drug through compounding pharmacies: youtu.be/I1C9aDfLH-U

Also, never forget: RFK Jr put together a panel of his buddies as peptide advisers, who voted to make peptides more easily available—but SEVEN of the advisers have financial conflicts of interest! MAHA is all about grifting, corruption, and ties to industry www.cspi.org/press-releas...

If I need to sum up the experience of living in Britain, it might be this sign

Yes, but your two big ideas so far have been police and crime commissioners and Brexit. Shall we check on them first?

Real post from the mountain rescue Facebook page

ICYMI - a good read for the weekend

"This could have been an email." Aragorn whispers. "He ALWAYS pulls this shit in 'Any Other Business" Boromir replies, quietly. "It's why Faramir marked himself as busy when the invite went out."

Happy #StandingStoneSunday 🥳 The - ahem 🧐 - decorated stone pillar from Rhosmeirch, Ynys Mon/Anglesey, in private ownership but on display in Oriel Môn Thought to be Iron Age it is unusual for Wales. The central band has parallels with belts on European Iron Age statues 🤔 📷 My own

Ok. Slight changes to blocking rules. Anyone posting about stones being moved, or referring to Stonehenge whilst posting pictures of Avebury, or calling it Stone Henge will get a dad joke a day for the next 6 months

Verse from Qu’ran inspired US man to leap on runaway school bus and halt it

Dear aspiring PhD student A lengthy, off-topic, AI-generated email which assumes I’m a man is never going to get me to agree to supervise you. Four today.

So in a huge surprise to absolutely no one, it turns out that NIH director Jay Bhattacharya's new journal based on the premise of letting his friends and only his friends publish essentially whatever they want is full of crackpot nonsense from retired cranks.

This chart about data center construction blew my mind. Watch.

- Great Spotted Woodpecker (Dendrocopos major) on it's way to feed his kids, Look out, oncoming traffic ! - Photo of ‎Annette Witvliet, Kalmthout, Belgium 15th May 2026

Feeling a bit rough this morning after being up all night comforting Richard Tice, who was crying hysterically.

"[Donald Trump] has got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory." --Barack Obama

NOT NOW MYSTERIOUS COLD BLOB

A great horned owl perches on a fence post at dusk in Longmont, Colorado. #BirdOfTheDay #LMNO #Brown #ECK #bird #birds #birdphotography #birdsofbluesky #nature #wildlife #owl #owls

This new electoral vídeo from Pedro Sánchez is quite something. Standing in front of Guernica defending the anti-war stance of his government, limiting military expenditure, denouncing the atrocity of Gaza. English subtitles.

We need a special term for people who identify with naked-mole-rats & wear naked-mole-rat costumes, and are Furries without actually being furry.

University of Nottingham, right now, is cutting 560 jobs. Do we need to rebrand universities as very large, very clean, land-based oil rigs to get government support?

I found the pair of Rufous-vented Ground-cuckoos again this morning at @tapirvalley.bsky.social #birds #nature #costarica

I am happy to see a downplaying retraction notice corrected with more candor. The emphasis on praising admissions of honest error to create exit strategies is pragmatic but has created too many face-saving efforts.

who else remembers famtastic lomgbois amd where to fimd them

Tonight's Brasil Presidential Debate Recap: 🚨 Lula delivers a historic response to Flávio Bolsonaro, after being called 9 fingers [Lula only has 9 fingers]:

The guy threatened to guillotine scientists speaks about how science is under attack.

It’s imperfect. But I gotta say, one of the things I like about my gig is we actually often do a priori power analyses. If you’re gonna spend money with your project, it’s not unreasonable to expect you’ve demonstrated at least a minimal level of planning.

May I refer you to Arkell v. Pressdram? Private Eye is 65. To celebrate, we’re taking a peek behind the curtain to explain where some of the Eye’s lore, columns, and in-jokes originate from.

The mini donk boys and the new neighbours are having a conference. Wonder what they’re plotting? #minidonks #cows #farmlife #littlefarm

Everyone loves a sore loser.