This never stops being funny: academics trying to write a “lay summary”.

Looking forward to everyone having a completely normal one on this site for the next 24 hours... 🫣😖🫠🙃

Right lads, here we go!

NB For anyone interested in reading further about our evolving understanding of cancer, I can wholeheartedly recommend Kat Arney's book (very much aimed at the general reader): amazon.co.uk/Selfish-Monste…

on which word/grammar hill are you absolutely dying?

The only explanation is that everyone in the planning committee was high as balls for the past four years #OlympicGames

What is happening?

Going through old family papers - endless beautifully written letters about buying furniture from catalogues - the 1900s equivalent of Wayfair. If any social historian wants these, let me know ASAP or they're going in the recycling #History

We know he can swim but…

This looks like the cast of a sleeper hit made by an obscure Indonesian director for $40k that took $5 million at the box office

We found this in our family papers - it's a St John Ambulance England first aid certificate awarded to my great grandfather in 1888!

New music! Vinyl! T-shirts! Handmade socks!! In my non-science comms life I'm a musician - my band Sunday Driver UK has opened pre-orders for our new album with some extra special bonuses - check it out: trappedanimal.com/products/silk-…

We learned all about how the mitochondria, ✨ the powerhouse of the cell ✨, produce chemical energy. But do we know where they came from? Kat Arney shares a fascinating possibility for their origin.

From the 2025 Nixon National Cancer Conference - "New Ways –and Means– of Communicating About Cancer" Kat Arney, PhD – Founder and Chief Creative Officer, First Create the Media Shannon La Cava, PsyD – Director, Simms/Mann-UCLA Center for Integrative Oncology Elaine Schattner,