"Diplomatic wheels, it seemed, were in motion, even as the lack of detail left many around the world with suspicious minds, as Elvis once crooned." Great read from @zurch.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
NEW article by me!
We can now visualize pathogens down to atoms; design vaccines in weeks; manufacture them in microbial factories; engineer them more precise than ever before.
We're living through a golden age of vaccine development, but only if we continue to invest in them.
A two-section chart showing on top the daily contribution of solar to Britain's total electricity generation in 2025 broken into 30-minute periods which are coloured according to their intensity, from white representing 0% to a deep orange to represent 50% or higher. Every day is ordered top-to-bottom from 1 January to 31 December and left-to-right from midnight to 23:59. The days in summer have more shaded blocks as would be expected with longer days and winter days have fewer. The bottom section repeats this chart in multiple facets, one per year from 2013 to 2024, with the overall intensity of shading darkening as years progress to correspond to solar's increased share in generation. Together, they look like hazy suns with deeper orange in the middle of each
2 Jan and already a strong contender for most beautifully apt data viz of the year from @beckydale.bsky.social and Jess Carr www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Exercising muscles pumps out substances that can suppress the growth of breast cancer cells, a new study found.
“Our work shows that exercise can directly influence cancer biology,” said a senior author.
Insightful reporting from Natalie Sherman in Massachusetts where manufacturers say President's Trump's tariffs are squeezing their businesses.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
What's driven 50,000 small boat crossings under Labour?
My Sounds explainer 🎧👇
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Claims circulating online that a picture shows a young Boris Johnson with Ghislaine Maxwell are misleading.
It is actually of Mr Johnson with his first wife, Allegra Mostyn-Owen, while the pair were at university.
Important public service announcement. Reading it might just save a life.
The front page of the Salem Gazette, Friday, 2 April, 1813. It has an image of the redrawn district of Boston which has been turned into a contorted dragon shape, with clawed feet, wings and sharp teeth
Last week I learned that gerrymandering gets its name from a Massachusetts governor called Elbridge Gerry and the shape of a redrawn Boston district, said to resemble a salamander. H/T @therestpolitics.bsky.social US!
We wanted to know if the money that the EU has put into rearmament is turning into production capacity — and the answer is: yes. Industry is rearming.
Highly recommend this Channel4 doc series about how police hacked into #encrochat , an encrypted messaging service being used for serious organised crime across continents. Every episode is jaw-dropping; and the drama recon and graphics are superb www.channel4.com/programmes/o...
A drawing of the tattoo on the ice mummy's skin. It shows two tigers and a leopard brinking down two deer. It is stylised and flowing in style.
2,500-year-old Siberian 'ice mummy' had intricate tattoos, writes @georginarannard.bsky.social
The intricate tattoos of leopards, a stag, a rooster, and a mythical half-lion and half-eagle creature on the woman's body shed light on an ancient warrior culture.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
And this is beautiful and informative from The Times on London's green parakeets. They've been around longer than you think... 🦜🦜🦜 #dataviz #scrollytelling
By
@kayaburgess.bsky.social , Cecilia Tombesi, George Willoughby and Megan Beckwith
www.thetimes.com/uk/london/ar...
Lovely scrollytelling stories out today, first up @mrdiscopop.bsky.social 's look at pop song length and tone in the age of TikTok with great data viz from Jess Carr www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...
We geolocated the view out of the window as Jeremy Bowen's team filmed packages falling from a plane over Gaza yesterday. They were dropped into a "dangerous combat zone", which Palestinians are warned not to enter because it would put their lives at risk. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd...
This kind of #cancertreatment development is so exciting www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Here again is the remarkable impact of immunotherapy for intractable cancer via engineered T cells
gift link www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/h...
The impact of the trade court tariffs ruling – in numbers
My BBC Verify analysis 👇
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Today's coding is brought to you by the entire Weyes Blood back catalogue #musicforcoding #weyesblood open.spotify.com/album/3mF47P...
Very nice post by @scientificdiscovery.dev on why cancer mortality has declined. Spoiler: it’s not just that fewer people are smoking.>
www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/the-declin...
The British trial, published in the journal Allergy, shows adults with serious allergies can increase the amount of peanut they can tolerate by 100 times. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Features great maps by @erwanrivault.bsky.social and sterling data checking by @harrietagerholm.bsky.social
To investigate the process, @olgar.bsky.social downloaded dozens of lists of properties deemed to be “showing signs of ownerlessness” at various stages in the process. I cleaned the data and geocoded it so we could map what was going on.
