A single line in this piece just made my day:
“The electricity system operator is understood to be preparing to run the grid without any gas for short periods as soon as this summer, in a first for the UK energy system.”
Renewables *work*. And progress matters🎉
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Monthly generation from wind and solar in terawatt hours on the island of Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales), which has a separate electricity system from the island of Ireland, which includes Northern Ireland. Source: National Energy System Operator (NESO) and Carbon Brief analysis.
NEW – Analysis: Record wind and solar saved UK from gas imports worth £1bn in March 2026
✍️ @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org Ho Woo Nam
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Crude oil prices, showing a very sharp increase in the last day, from around 65 to 101 dollars per barrel..
Oil prices wouldn't be all over the news today if more of our economy was powered by local, secure renewable energy.
This isn't an "energy crisis". It's a fossil fuel crisis.
44% of UK electricity came from renewables in 2025. More of that plus an electrified economy => no more oil shocks.
This is why we need 100% renewables:
Motherfucking wind farms…
There are a hundred more important things to say, and I tried to say some of them in my essay for "Thinking About...", but: invading a country for oil is also just atavistic at this point. Even if it worked, which it won’t, it still wouldn’t work.
what a week-meme: What a yeah, huh Captain, it's 3 January
ugh
Finger weg vom 2017 Renault Zoe! Nach 55k km war der Motor platt. Sonst auch sehr schlecht gebaut. Mein VW Diesel hat hingen 225k km und nie ein Problem. Kann also auch daneben gehen. Generell mag ich EVs aber man ist jetzt auf der Hut bezgl des Herstellers.
His children from his German ex-wife are British-German and presumably speak both? The level of dishonesty is quite remarkable.
Stephen Flynn criticises Nigel Farage from attacking children who speak more than one language #BBCQT
"A man who aspires to be PM of these isle would pick a fight with school kids, would hold school kids up as an object to beat, absolutely repulses me and it should repulse all of you as well"
Time person of the year cover for 2025
I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
The role (and esp. mechanism) of PGR5 remain elusive and we needed new tools to get to the bottom of it. Biosensors have so much potential to gain a deeper understanding of cellular bioenergetics 🔬🌱⚡️
So happy this is out as a preprint (for) now. Since measuring ATP is tricky, we used ATP biosensors in collab with @schwarzlanderlab.bsky.social to show that in chloroplasts without PGR5, NPQ and pmf are diminished, yet ATP levels unchanged. Balancing ATP/NADPH must be achieved by different means.
Our new preprint 🚨🌱☀️on flourescent biosensing of ATP levels in chloroplasts in vivo shows disequilibrium between proton motive force and ATP levels. We show PGR5 dependent cyclic electron transfer does not augment ATP/NADPH ratios @gustaf23.bsky.social 🙌
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
UK science and technology is suffering from a lack of investment, a hostile immigration system, and fragile university finances, reports @cathleenogrady.bsky.social 🧪 #scipolicy
www.science.org/content/arti...
Today, Germany remembers the November pogroms of 1938.
87 years ago, Jews were targeted in a wave of orchestrated violence in Germany. Jewish shops and synagogues were destroyed. Many Jews were murdered.
These acts of terror paved the way for the Holocaust.
#NeverForget
PROTON GRADIENT REGULATION 5 enables efficient C4 photosynthesis under fluctuating light (Russell Woodford, Jacinta Watkins, Marten Moore, Samuel J Nix, Suyan Yee, Kai Xun Chan, Barry Pogson, Susanne von Caemmerer, Robert T Furbank, Maria Ermakova) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience @aspbofficial
Der @sixtus.net hat einen inhaltlich großartigen und auch noch sehr ästhetischen Film über KI-Bullshit und die Shittification des Internets gedreht - u.a. featuring @ambakak.bsky.social @ Cory Doctorow. Danke ☺️
„KI - der Tod des Internet“
Jetzt auf ARTE:
www.arte.tv/de/videos/12...
A cartoon by Bruce Eric Kaplan, from 1997. #NewYorkerCartoons
Einen Beutel über Fenster stülpen? Machen sowas nicht die Schildbürger??
Thanks @profaliceroberts.bsky.social for a brilliant night out (the 2nd since parenthood began) in Sheffield tonight!
Continued support for blue-sky research is essential to fuel the breakthroughs of tomorrow. Carola Vinuesa, Francis Crick Institute
It took decades for the work of Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi—the winners of this year's Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology—to have clinical relevance. That and more of the best in @science.org and science in this edition of #ScienceAdviser: www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪
We mourn the passing of our Editor-in-Chief Steve Long.
His vision to establish one of the first journals dedicated to Global Change over 30 years ago was truly ahead of its time. Through GCB, researchers have demonstrated that biology and ecosystems are not simply victims of global change..
Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!
Wenn der Ottomotor heute erfunden werden würde
1/2 So this new report presents this photo (from a review by Gerhart and Ward 2010) as evidence that more CO2 is good for plants.
The amount of energy we are wasting on this AI thing. Machine learning for science I get behind but all this stuff is just useless.
A very mistaken list of the last 12 presidents of the United States and their years in office produced by the Ph.D level scholar known as ChatGPT-5. Includes John F. Katwady, president 1991-1968; George W. bush, president 220Z-1999), and Bill Christen, president 1999-2001
I've seen this on Bluesky and had to try it myself. The image below was the response to the prompt: "Show me a diagram of the US presidents since Herbert Hoover, with their names and years in office under their photos" Bravo, OpenAI, bravo.
