Even if we combine economic forecasting with, say, scenario analysis, I doubt if having a "deranged/senile megalomaniac" in the White House would have been chosen as a valid scenario.
We are where we are. A mid tier power. Do we have the right tools and processes to navigate challenges ahead ?
The sooner that the UK recognises it is a mid-tier power the better for everyone.
We need a long term strategy that endures. With clear strategic objectives for 2030-2040.
To counter narrative of populist right and left we should follow Finland's lead and embed media literacy in the curriculum.
Very good post from @chrisgrey.bsky.social
Farage, Johnson et al need to be asked the question. If they thought that a Trump administration "would provide a solid and supportive geo-political and economic anchor for post-Brexit Britain", what's their view now ?
With that pillar gone, what next ?
Our team received a report of intermittent app outages at about 11:40pm PDT on April 15, 2026. They worked through the night to mitigate a sophisticated Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack, which intensified throughout the day.
What did the lunar solar eclipse look like ? This from @stim3on.bsky.social using the NASA #Artemis GoPro video posted on IG
bsky.app/profile/stim...
Great to hear the #ArtemisII astronauts try to take in all that they have achieved during the mission.
Will there be a operational lunar base say in next 30 years ... maybe.
What science could be done on lunar surface before then - radio astronomy ?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_43E...
@jdportes.bsky.social @johnspringford.bsky.social 👀
@vincegaffney.bsky.social @submergedlands.bsky.social @sef049.bsky.social 🧐
France passed a law requiring solar panels on every parking lot with more than 80 spaces.
Equals 10 nuclear reactors
Reduces heat island, shades cars
The US -- 800 million parking spaces. Most of them are uncovered asphalt sitting in direct sunlight.
Why aren't we doing this?
Good news on UK participation in Erasmus+.
Consider all of lost opportunities resulting from the short sighted decisions in the past.
How many orgs in UK had to scale back or diversify due to lack of funding ?
How many young people from UK missed out on opportunities to build confidence/skills ?
“Lebanese hilltop border towns and villages are now hard to recognise. Once characterised by their winding streets lined with stone buildings overlooking sweeping valleys, verified videos now show how they have turned grey from dust and debris of explosions.”
QGIS expert @qwast-gis.com may know.
It’s official: the UK is rejoining Erasmus! 👏🇪🇺
🌌 Major milestone for DESI: full originally planned survey footprint was completed on April 15, ahead of schedule!
47M+ galaxies & quasars mapped → the largest 3D map of the Universe ever made.
Keep posted: Observations continue through 2028.
More: tinyurl.com/Y5DESI
#DESI
The Total Solar Eclipse from Artemis II
This image sequence was captured by a modified GoPro on the solar array of the Orion spacecraft while the Artemis II mission flew around the farside of the moon.
Credit: NASA/Simeon Schmauß
🔭🧪 #Artemis
Just found a great @manymindspod.bsky.social podcast in their 2020 archive:
"Revising the Neanderthal story"
@lemoustier.bsky.social in conversation with @kensycoop.bsky.social
disi.org/revising-the...
And yes, I agree, if you haven't read her book "Kindred" then I would highly recommend.
Great FT article.
Were the satellite tasking logs hacked before being leaked ? If so, by which group ?
Is there any evidence to suggest that the Iranian regime still has access to other Chinese satellites ?
A reconstruction of a Neanderthal based on the fossils from La Chapelle-aux-Saints in France. He is a man with pale skin and a broad nose, shoulder-length hair and a beard. He's looking straight at the camera. Credit: S. Entressangle / E. Daynes / Science Photo Library
I tried to make sense of all the conflicting data and ideas about the origins of the Neanderthals, for @newscientist.com
www.newscientist.com/article/2522913-are-nean...
Some great details in this FT piece. Some us of experts have been banging the drum of third party space services support/sales to smaller powers without much of their own systems for years… also happened a lot during the Cold War across the Third World.
Fascinating.
European Citizens' Initiative demanding the full suspension of the EU-Israel Association Agreement in view of Israel’s violations of human rights tops one million citizens-initiative.europa.eu/initiatives/...
Just imagine what such an approach could tell us about peopling of North America, and elsewhere.
What's the oldest lake sedaDNA to be successfully extracted and analysed ?
#BBCNews - Ukraine's military to get biggest-ever shipment of UK drones
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#UkraineWar
'The article pointed out that China’s R&D expenditure increased sixfold between 2007 and 2023, overtaking the EU. China surpassed the US on this metric in 2024, according to the OECD, spending $1.03tn compared to the US’s $1.01tn.'
www.ft.com/content/47c7...
ohhhh, this is good!
Using the 3.9m AAT, Sarah Caddy and Lee Spitler (from our school!) were able to track Orion on its return trajectory ...
... when the astronauts were still 200,000 km away from Earth! 🤯
ping: @planet4589.bsky.social
via @astroaustralia.bsky.social LinkedIn
#ArtemisII
🔭
Last week the @npr.org team interviewed our researcher @godin.bsky.social about the obstacles faced by those looking for open source information on the Iran-Israel-US conflict and why the development of new tools is important within this space: www.npr.org/2026/04/10/n...
And along side that growth, making sure your relatives get a slice of that bigger pie ... to become one of Hungary's wealthiest individuals.
Just check out István Tiborcz, Viktor Orbán son in law.
When is a blockade legal ? bsky.app/profile/just...
What will China do next ? Economic warfare ?
It's .... complicated.
US 'blockade' is not across the Strait of Hormuz. US Navy is operating a lot further out into Gulf of Oman.
On passing through strait some vessels are doing odd things. Some stopped ? Another turned around.
bsky.app/profile/arms...
