Former head of MI6, Sir Alex Younger, "I travel around Europe.. Nobody mentions the UK, we've just made ourselves irrelevant" "Brexit has marginalised us" "Putin will have been absolutely delighted by our decision to leave the EU, as will have Xi Jinping.. When Xi looks at

Lib Dems on verge not only of returning as the third party but their best ever result. Indeed best result for a third party since 1923.

Covering car parks with solar panels is a hell of a lot more logical than plastering them over prime farmland.

Dyson sued the Mirror for calling him ‘the vacuum-cleaner tycoon who championed Vote Leave due to the economic opportunities it would bring to British industry before moving his global head office to Singapore.’ (He lost.) bbc.com/news/uk-englan…

🔥🔥 Excellent! “Brexit was definitely a problem for science. We were part of a very successful European funding scheme with very large collaborations… You can’t do the type of science that everyone’s trying to do and make progress in isolation.” Spot on.

To win here is special. To defend here is elite. Carlos Alcaraz is the 2024 Gentlemen’s Singles Champion 🏆 #Wimbledon

After his uninformed attack on Britain as the islamist state with nukes, GOP VP candidate @JDVance1 should check out opening of parliament coverage of His Majesty King Charles III (Head of the Church of England) #KingsSpeech on new Labour gov. programme. x.com/ga_richardson/…

July 20th, 1969 is a date that stands high in my life – it was the day that we, together as one people, achieved the greatest scientific and technological feat in human history. The specific role that Neil, Mike and I performed in the event was but one part of an immeasurably

After an 11 hour Jönköping to Münster drive (no potholes!) we returned to Parkhotel 🏰 Hohenfeld. Spent today exploring the Dom and then the fab #Picasso lithograph gallery that also hosted a unexpected but poignant #RobertCapa 20th century war photography retrospective.

Cornell researchers have created robots controlled by king oyster mushrooms! Using mycelium’s electrical signals, these biohybrid robots can sense light and adapt their movement. This breakthrough in robotics blends biology with technology, opening doors for future applications

The Amazon is one of the most important carbon sinks in the atmosphere, said Lucas Ferrante, a biologist and researcher. “Today it has started to emit carbon,” he said. “We are at a turning point, a point of no return.” bloomberglinea.com.br/brasil/incendi…

Should have gone to Specsavers theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Thank you to the many thousands of people across the whole of the NHS & social care who helped deliver the care during the pandemic. Has been a strange and difficult day. But felt it was important to give witness to some small part of the enormity of the challenge we all faced.

We’re going to hear lots of stories about which people, policies and rhetoric are to blame for the Democrats’ defeat. Some of those stories may even be true! But an underrated factor is that 2024 was an absolutely horrendous year for incumbents around the world 👇

Poignant reworking of Pink Floyd classic, #ComfortablyNumb, set to cutting 21st century lyrics penned & fronted by Ice-T with Body Count & David Gilmour reprising his iconic guitar solo. Appreciation to David and Roger Waters for agreeing to the release. youtu.be/xVH6YL62_3Q?si…

If you're even half interested in energy, I bet you've seen this chart. I call it The Most Hopeful Chart in the World. The point? We're embracing renewable power MUCH faster than expected. Hurrah! Only problem is, this chart has an evil twin. A chart we really need to discuss 🧵

Delighted to announce the publication of our new study on N assimilation pathways in Laccaria bicolor & poplar ECM in Plant Physiology. Special thanks to Feng and Xinyin for their key contributions to this work, which builds upon research I initiated in 1985! academic.oup.com/plphys/advance…