Dr Joby Razzelliot

Possibly the greatest achievement of my career: having one of my photos on display in the Natural History Museum’s Images of Nature gallery, showcasing how we can use photography to do science!

I get a lot of spam emails inviting me to submit to random predatory journals but this is the best one yet. Not sure how martian meteorites are relevant to nutrition, beyond the fact you probably shouldn't be eating them.

Holy crap Laika you’ve done it again. Wildwood is a work of art from start to finish.

“A distinctively British approach to artificial intelligence”

The universe says trans rights

It is 2026, it is so easy to say “crewed” instead of “manned” and I can’t believe we’re still doing this litigation!! Say “human spaceflight” if you must

The greatest challenge of our time isn’t to figure out how to get to Mars or become interstellar, but to figure out how to live sustainably on Earth.

“In its urgency and survival rate, it is closer to appendicitis than to most cancers. The treatment pathway is well understood. Joelle needed treatment immediately. A delay of 16 days was impossible to survive and cost her her life.”

Insulating homes and investing in heat pumps would be more effective in reducing living costs, creating jobs, and boosting the economy than drilling for new oil.

Best cinema in London by a wide margin, so glad it's safe!

UK friends: Apply for the @prideinstem.bsky.social small grant scheme until October 30th (Halloween is the holiday of our people, after all). The theme is "Empowering Queer People With STEM", and grants of £1,000 will be awarded in late 2026. Spread the word! prideinstem.org/2026/10/01/s...

Perseverance has set a new off-world record! 🏅 On Oct. 11, the rover's odometer hit 28.1 miles (45.22 km), eclipsing the distance record set by NASA's Opportunity rover. Longer drives are putting more geological diversity within reach faster science.nasa.gov/blogs/persev... youtu.be/XaxuV6tsIb4?...

I’ve been overcaffeinated and full of energy at work all day but the moment I get home I crash

Australopithecus 3 million years ago:

"We don't want to turn into a banana republic, so we won't try to rein in corporations" is the kind of thing you say if you don't know what makes a banana republic a banana republic, and instead want to be a banana republic where the bananas are data centers.

Private Eye reported on this last issue, but this is a remarkable stat which neatly shows what massive, fuck-off donations from interested capital mean in terms of practical reach, influence and visibility (and your regular reminder that you can say literally anything you like in social media ads)

never the wrong time for this classic

Pride in STEM's Small Grants scheme is open! The theme this year is “Empowering Queer People With STEM”. The deadline is October 31, and it is for projects exclusively in the United Kingdom! prideinstem.org/2026/10/01/s...

two fasts, both alike in fury, in fair Los Angeles where we set our scene

Lignin chemistry!! I’ve drawn a line tree with the lignin polymer behind it. I’ve drawn it as one single polymer throughout! This messy, highly irregular biopolymer gives plants structural strength and helps protect their cell walls. #sciart #chemsky

I went the whole summer without seeing a single mosquito but last night I got bitten a dozen times

If you're outside the UK and haven't been sharing these resources because they aren't local to you, please share them anyway. They weren't made to be country-specific and I promise your country has trans people too!

5 potatoes cubed is still 5 potatoes because potatoes are root vegetables

New Horizons is now *three days away* from shutting off its two heliophysics instruments, simply because NASA has not provided the $2M in funding it had promised to the mission last year or this year. There is no science basis for shutting these off. Our earlier coverage:

It really doesn't make sense to attribute those job losses to AI-the-technology, because if that were the case we'd be observing AI outputs displacing conventional entertainment products, and they're clearly not. Rather, the impact of AI is that AI-the-business is crowding out other investment.

Strange New Worlds really spoiling us with background aliens in the season finale, I counted a lizard guy, a bird guy, and a cat girl. Not sure why the bird doesn’t get a uniform though

We're publishing new guidance to support trans people who do fieldwork (any work outside the office)! Now we need your help to get them seen so please share! inclusivefieldwork.leeds.ac.uk/trans/

Hello computer: exploiting plasmonic waveguides to achieve transparency in low-atomic-mass metal alloys

Panspermia: cross-referencing galactic common ancestries with reports of time travel by the first officer of the Enterprise D

i think you can fairly say that the second trump administration is the most racist federal administration since woodrow wilson and honestly i'm not sure that it isn't more racist than wilson's

Another week, another watercolour class

I reject this. One brain is already too many

Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise.

Voyager, walking on those tiny legs.

why do pro-AI researchers seemingly hate doing research so much

Being very brave and eating an orange-coloured vegetable stew while wearing white trousers

Jesus Christ can Labour please stop doing Reform’s work for them?

Adding this to the pile of enshittification: my phone cannot load anything unless it’s on full-bar 5G. Even full 4G does nothing now.

Hazard Tarot — Organical Mechanical organical-mechanical.itch.io/iso-tarot

🚨 Record-breaking amounts of plastic are being found in seabirds. A 16-year study of sable shearwaters on Australia’s Lord Howe Island has found a sharp rise in the amount of plastic in their stomachs.