Not cheerful, but important. Spread the word about what Trump has planned.
democracy-ish | Crushing the Vermin?! on Podbean https://www.podbean.com/ea/dir-iki28-1be6e39b
My new Coppola Comment post highlights NIESR's call for a large increase in public investment to revitalise the UK economy. Chartfest. https://coppolacomment.substack.com/p/the-sorry-state-of-uk-investment
I need to open a new current account in the UK. Before going with the classics, does anyone here has some suggestion of ethical banks?
Congress was a chaotic place yesterday, not only because the GOP Speaker once again had to rely on Democrats to keep the government from shutting down, but because threats and fights broke out in the open. It would be laughable if it weren’t so dangerous. https://open.substack.com/pub/statuskuo/p/failures-and-fisticuffs?r=1zr8b&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Hello science friends! Can anyone point me towards some resources that I could use learn how to do a de novo genome assembly from long reads (@nanopore)? Mammalian species, no reference genome exists. An equally exciting and daunting task.... Please share #neuroscience #genomics
Me on the Rwanda court decision at @FT
https://www.ft.com/content/c040946a-c294-4a89-808e-46c8b2f2f414
The UK government was told *one year ago* that the Rwanda arrangement should be a treaty and not a mere MoU
Here is the House of Lords report from October 2022: https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld5803/ldselect/ldintagr/71/71.pdf
The Home Office ignored this prescient report
#UKPolitics
Enjoy the moment that the Rwanda deportation plan is stopped by the courts, by all means.
But this was always going to happen andbthey knew that at the start, they wanted to be seen to be stopped from fullfilling the will of 'the people'* by "Liberal judges" and the dastardly Human rights laws...because those laws are the true target. If they stay in power that's what comes next.
*gullible racist cunts
Pioneering female journalist Nellie Bly begins a successful attempt to travel around the world in less than 80 days #OTD in 1889.
In 1888, Bly suggested to her editor at the New York World that she take a trip around the world, attempting to turn the fictional Around the World in Eighty Days (1873) into fact for the first time. A year later, at 9:40 a.m. on November 14, 1889, and with two days' notice, she boarded the Augusta Victoria and began her 24,898 mile journey. via @wikipedia
Still perplexed about the large number of people from Germany and Austria who confuse "never again" with "never again but if this one country does it it's fine".
This is really personal for me having grown up in Austria (and having had actual Nazi grandparents) and I don't understand it.
Israeli politicians are using the exact same tone and language when talking about Palestinians as my grandfather did when talking about Jewish people. It's heartbreaking to have to hear this garbage again.
Today a record-breaking 85,000+ people joined the #klimaatmars in Amsterdam! Among them were 200+ scientists who also refuse to remain silent.
The science is clear, and so are the demands of those who showed up today: we need immediate climate action!
So it turned out that the real threat to the sanctity of Remembrance weekend came from the very far-right thugs first legitimised by the Home Secretary herself
https://www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-far-right-hate-marchers-whipped
Austrian Physicist Lise Meitner was born #OTD in 1878. She was the first to pinpoint the atomic phenomenon now known as the Auger effect, but it was credited to Pierre Auger who independently discovered it months after her. Years later when she made a breakthrough in identifying and understanding nuclear fission, her findings were published only under the name of her collaborator, Otto Hahn, who later also received the Nobel Prize for this discovery. via @IAEA
@sciencebase Lost voice. Advice = avoid alcohol.😭
Love the Umpire on #SASWhoDaresWins saying of Hatt
Mancock: 'I just don't think he's able to wipe that look off his face' and 'He's a political animal, that makes him a twat, it doesn't make him shit at this!'
Steel industry metallurgical specialist.