Government to propose electricity price changes in clean power push The war in the Middle East has brought renewed attention to Britain's vulnerability to energy price shocks.

Finally! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

If one person can do this much damage, the people of the world should get to vote on who it is

Op Ed by James Dyson about agriculture

The fact that Dyson is a billionaire who is one of the biggest agricultural landholders in the UK seems highly relevant here.

As does the fact that the UK hasn’t been self sufficient in food since the Industrial Revolution.

That said how about the subset of people that think Apollo was real but this is fake? 😮

I’m curious: Are there people who think the Apollo missions were a hoax but Artemis is real and therefore they’re proper excited by this, even more than everyone else? 🤔🔭🧪

A half Earth hanging viewed in a porthole

This must be the shot of the mission so far. Beautiful. #ArtemisII

There are now 10 toilets in Space

International Space Station: 4
Crew Dragon Docked at ISS: 1
Soyuz Docked at ISS: 1
Tiangong Space Station: 2
Shenzhou Docked at TSS: 1
Artemis II on way around Moon: 1

This will be the first time a toilet has left low earth orbit!

Start the fire. Walk away. Tell the world they’re on their own.

BBC. Trump tells rest of world to get their own oil from the gulf

I have no words for this

Haha thank you, love KHOP. (Plus it's the only place open in Hilo after 7pm 😂)

A casio calculator and a Ken’s House of Pancakes mug

Still using my UG one to this very day

Multiple people have told me that they now "write for the A.I.": Even when their writing is superficially for their co-workers or their readers, they are actually thinking about how their words will be read by A.I.s. In some cases, that's because they want to deepen the A.I.s at their company; in others, it's to inform the future systems they expect will be the core repositories of human knowledge.

This is grim stuff.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/o...

But calling for it anyway, however ignorantly, will make a direct difference to what climate change denying donors pay politicians. So there’s that.

The “goal” of the Iran war is now reportedly to open the Strait of Hormuz, which was open before the war began

Must be aliens

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Quite the list

The future of Uk scientific research. Several research projects face funding cuts. Here are some projects under threat. Words over a picture of the extremely large telescope (ELT) under construction in Chile

Scotland's Astronomer Royal, Catherine Heymans, speaking for the UK community of astronomers, told the science select committee that the proposed cuts were "genuinely catastrophic and will be devastating for the UK." She, along with a particle physicist, told MPs most of the potential cuts would lead to British scientists having to greatly reduce their involvement or withdraw altogether from some of the world's most important international astronomy and particle physics experiments. Those experiments seek to answer some of the biggest questions in science. These include learning how the Universe began and how it will end, finding the first ever signs of life on planets orbiting distant stars, detecting black holes that ripple space time, mapping newborn planets around distant stars and analysing their atmospheres for signs of life. All of these are experiments in which, historically, the UK played a leading role. But now, British scientists could be largely locked out of them in the future, if the STFC does not pay its way.

The future of UK Astronomy & Particle Physics is at risk from proposed 30% funding cuts that, if implemented, will be "genuinely catastrophic".

Great to see this detailed BBC report on the issue by @pallabg.bsky.social 🔭🧪⚛️

#STFCcuts #SaveUKAstronomy

🗞️: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Excited to have come away from my trip to London for Royal Astronomical Society Council with a batch of newly-printed “Save Astronomy” stickers! 🔭
@royalastrosoc.bsky.social

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'Save UK Astronomy' stickers.

'Save UK Astronomy' stickers.

'Save UK Astronomy' sticker on a laptop.

❌️ Stop the cuts! ❌️

We've been campaigning extensively for the reversal of proposed cuts to astronomy and space science. To help spread the word, we've also created some 'Save UK Astronomy' stickers! 🔭🪐

You can pick one up at any RAS event and show your support for the cause.

News story from the Guardian: Reform UK government would replace top civil servants with those ‘more like[ly] to implement party’s priorities’

Let us hope that they will never get the chance. It the UK electorate is stupid enough to vote in a Reform government, we are lost.

Not enough oil in north sea to affect oil price which is sold on global market. We don’t pump our own oil thanks to Thatcher so we can’t get it cheaper.

My favourite part of the excellent letter by @chionwurah.bsky.social 🧪🔭

Breaking: Looming physics cuts a ‘failure’, says science committee chair.

Chi Onwurah says science minister and UKRI leadership must “bear responsibility” and “win back trust”.

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-p...

Summary: "it's this question of the [PPAN] partition.... I think it's a very legitimate concern because of the tensioning between the increasing facilities cost: that's what she's trying to work through at the moment to come up with solutions"

(sadly no offer of a magic money tree solution though)

I she asking for us to nationalise North Sea gas such that the means of production are owned by us in direct contrast to when Thatcher sold it all off. It's funny how people don't know their own history.

Probability of panpsychism?

If thats true, its insane