Michael Saunby

"a distinctively British approach to artificial intelligence"

The US and Israeli war against Iran has been the big energy story in 2026, but the quiet retooling of power grids from Lagos to Manila may prove to be of greater significance in the long run. www.reuters.com/commentary/r...

I knew gas cooking released pollutants that increase risks of cardiovascular diseases and cancers, but this was new to me: In a new study, 68% of gas-fired commercial kitchens exposed cooks to unsafe temperatures >90 °F, and 53% to temps >100 °F. All electric kitchens studied stayed at safe temps.

Good morning.

8 years ago, I tweeted side-by-side maps from NASA GISS showing global temperatures in 1976 and 2018 – both hot summers in the UK. It subsequently went viral and was printed in the Daily Mail! The 2026 version is stark. Two locally extreme summers separated by 50 years of global climate change.

Truly disgusting social media post from one of Brexit's most influential backers.

Still a few butterflies around today.

Elon Musk is living proof that money doesn’t make you smart, interesting, loved, creative, nice, kind, happy, funny, or cool.

Rough Draft vs Final Draft

Fridge died in 🇨🇦 so off to the appliance store. Salesguy “yes, these are both the same brand. The one on your right is made in China and the one on the left is from the U.S.” I gave him the look and then we laughed and laughed as we loaded the Chinese one up.

We’re just normal men

Truly a fitting punishment for Fraser Nelson. Compelled by his own inner demons to try, vainly, to use facts/evidence to argue with an openly racist Conservative MP, who was probably originally radicalised by Nelson's own Spectator.

Remember when the pandemic ended? I took these two photos in the same store.

🦋 I’m recruiting a fully funded PhD student at the University of Helsinki: understanding how butterflies respond to climate change across Europe. Apply by 30 Sept: Full details: jobs.helsinki.fi/job-invite/5... Please share! #ecology #job #phd

Impressive chutzpah from JWS here: 4000 words on the spread of the "Great Replacement" theory in the UK without a single mention of his columnist/friend Douglas Murray, who wrote a whole book endorsing it...

Rain!

tbh I’m pretty worried that academics across disciplines are not even remotely equipped to deal with the revival of overtly white supremacist and eugenicist ideas in academia

"Climate Denial Didn’t Disappear. It Moved From The Diagnosis To The Treatment" by @ingmar.wsocial.eu for @forbes.com: www.forbes.com/sites/we-don...

Drought tip. Pour a bucket of water in the weeds in your garden. It will brighten it up, and help the insects.

RFK Jr. Recommends Drinking Anything That Comes Out Of Cow

ACTUALLY JUST SHAT MYSELF.

Jesus fucking Christ covid vax REDUCED miscarriages and stillbirths. Also I'm one of the people who studied menstrual side fx of the covid vax to make sure we didn't invalidate peoples' real experiences, and to better set expectations for side fx. Ultimately the project made me even MORE provax!

An American interviewer asked me about my political beliefs. #VoteBinface

Data centers

Solar eclipse coming up so here’s one of my favourite maps

MAGA is artificially suppressing the DEMAND for American higher education at home and abroad. We have the goods, the people want them, but this minority political movement wants to ruin it.

We’re just normal men

Elon Musk: ‘Revenge Porn Is A Human Right’

US Rice Thanks to US companies occasionally spraying a totally safe arsenic based pesticide on their rice paddies, somewhat inexplicably, the European Union decided to put US rice on its watchlist, requiring it to be tested for arsenic before being sold to Europeans.

Theres a very long list of US products that cannot be sold in the EU thanks to EU regulations. Since the favorite pastime of the Trump regime & every US oligarch is to demonize EU regulations, I thought it would be very much worth going through some of those products. 🧵 by @daractenus.bsky.social

US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference reut.rs/4x9eTCW

I'm not qualified to judge whether such people are psychopaths. All I can say is that they behave as if they are. From today's Telegraph.

#OTD 24 July 1949 The first #BBC #TuningSignal to incorporate a clock was introduced.

I'm exhausted. How many days until Christmas?

Tate Brothers Vehemently Deny They Did Anything Consensual

5 tips for reporting on unprecedented weather without mentioning climate change

Updated my profile. Again.

He’s been getting quite heavily into mindfulness lately. It’s not that I have a problem with it. I just wish he would stop banging on about it all the time

AGREE

No reflection.

Probably more helpful to think of them not so much as “Canadian wildfires” but rather “climate change wildfires currently consuming Canada”