I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Dear Sir Paul, Re: Royal Society Code of Conduct I am sure that many scientists have written to you about the specific question of Elon Musk’s Fellowship and whether, under the Royal Society’s Code of Conduct, his retaining that Fellowship is appropriate. I will not rehash these issues. Instead, as a female scientist with extensive experience of activities aiming to increase equality, diversity and inclusion in the engineering and physical sciences sector, I am writing to you (in a personal capacity) to ask you to reconsider the statements you have recently made in this context to the UK press about the Royal Society’s Code of Conduct and how it is applied. A 2018 report from the joint National Academies of the United States of America, concluded that “sexual harassment is common in academic science, engineering, and medicine” and that “greater than 50 percent of women faculty and staff and 20–50 percent of women students encounter or experience sexually harassing conduct in academia”. This report described codes of conduct that make clear that sexual harassment is unethical and will not be tolerated as a “powerful incentive for change”. The authors also noted that sexual harassment can have significant and damaging effects on the integrity of research. In my own praxis, I have found that clear and consistently-implemented codes of conduct that address these issues make female scientists and engineers safer, and allow them to focus more effectively on their research. For codes of conduct to have such a positive effect, it is vital that sanctions for actions which transgress the code are meaningful and substantial.
I was hence aghast to realise that in an interview with the Financial Times published on 9/1/26, you appear to have suggested that the Royal Society “should only expel fellows if their science proved “faulty or fraudulent or highly defective””. Moreover, in a further interview with the Guardian on 11/1/26 you suggested that the code “may need to be looked at again”, with the implication that your aim would be to remove the option of sanctions on Fellows for reasons not strictly related to faults or defects in their research. I suggest that changing the Royal Society’s code of conduct so that the likelihood of serious sanctions for sexual harassment is reduced, would directly endanger women who interact with the Royal Society at events or otherwise, and would provide a licence to harass to the already powerful people on whom the Society bestows fellowship. The implications of your words - that under your leadership the only infringements of the code which are likely to receive the sanction of the Fellowship being removed are those related to research misconduct - already risk empowering harassers. You stated, in the Financial Times interview, that “there’s many bad people around, but they have made scientific advances”. Given this awareness of the possibility of bad actors in our scientific community, it is wholly irresponsible to suggest that the Royal Society would not act to sanction these people if they harass more vulnerable scientists. I am hence writing to request that you retract any suggestion that the Society’s Code of Conduct should be changed so that the only reason a Fellow might be sanctioned by the removal of their Fellowship is “faulty or fraudulent or highly defective” research. This action is necessary to safeguard female scientists, a requirement placed on the Society by safeguarding legislation and UK statutory guidance. Yours sincerely, Professor Rachel A. Oliver.
Following coverage over the weekend of Sir Paul Nurse's comments that suggested that the only reason that a Fellow should be expelled from @royalsociety.org is scientific misconduct, I have written to him to explain the risks such an attitude poses of increasing sexual harassment in STEM.
The River Finnow, a tributary of the mighty Blackwater, makes its way down a gentle eminence that forms part of the way into, and up to the main street of, Ballyclough, Mallow, Co. Cork.
Pictured here: the Finnow through Millstreet.
#spéirghorm #ireland
Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Historical Demography at the University of Bradford w Jo Buckberry on the AHRC-funded project "Dead and Buried: Investigating changes in health during the Industrial Revolution using documentary records and human skeletal remains"
Trump is turning Minnesota into a test case for federal abuse of power. After lies, raids, and a deadly ICE escalation, Tim Walz is done campaigning and ready to fight back.
British politics managing to feel even more like a TV show with an increasingly lazy set of writers, in that we are just increasingly just having plot beats of 'the most generic cookier-cutter European democracy' inserted into our politics.
Surround yourself with the kind of people who make small talk with stray animals.
The game is called football.
There has never been a game called soccer… or even footie.
It’s football.
"waaaaait a minute, this is only TEN pieces of silver!"
So. I went looking for more information on this... because, like the OP notes (via Big Hero 6), it feels cartoonish.
Turns out they're designed for urban deployment, and this one hit 6500 feet altitude.
And THEY'RE INFLATED. They aren't all solid.
futurism.com/science-ener...
Switched over to Foyle’s War. Sam’s at a dance and her date is Danny Dyer!
ohhhhh so none of them know yet that they’re not getting $50K after tax withholding, do they
First thought: we are boycotting Target so please shop elsewhere if you can. That store should rightly be empty. Second thought: ICE is not welcome ANYWHERE where decent people are. Not even in boycotted stores.
Community pushed them out.
This is what I meant when I wrote that "we can overthrow them with a union of care."
Well played, Transport for London
I broke the story yesterday that masked ICE agents (not DOJ) were removing items including a personal computer from the home of Jonathan Ross, the ICE agent who shot Renee Good. I have yet to see a single news outlet cover this or an elected official even acknowledge it.
Someone PLEASE put the Benny Hill chase theme music to this...
Taking this opportunity, while watching Interior Chinatown, to recommend the source novel (Interior Chinatown, by Charles Yu) for your very meta novel reading consideration
TROUSER SUITS NOT BIG ENOUGH.
🤣🤣🤣
Family nagged me for years to get hearing aids. Finally gave in and have spent the last two days oiling every creaky door in the house. Oh, and those silent but deadly farts I've been dropping out everywhere I go; they're high pitched squeakers.
Woman marching, seen from behind. Her sign reads ANOTHER FUCKING BITCH AGAINST ICE.
At the NYC protest. Powerful and tough.
Fascism is a global movement
ice takes out ICE again 😬 🧊
100% this!👇
"Secretary Kennedy has vowed to ‘end the war on vitamins,’ surrounding himself with advocates for pills, powders, tinctures & IV drips that aren’t subject to FDA approval"
Yup, RFK Jr is lying when he says he's pursuing "gold-standard science"–he's pushing unproven pills/powders/tinctures/IV drips😔
we’re in the vet’s office waiting room and they just called for Agamemnon. we all looked at the Great Dane but it turns out Agamemnon is an orange kitten in a backpack that makes him look like an astronaut cheese puff
“The murdering will continue until you stop calling us murderers.”
