Just two days to go until the launch of the Ethical Reporting Guidelines.
Hosted by PJP co-ordinator and media justice & rights campaigner @lizpendleton.bsky.social the panel + Q&A covers how handling sensitive topics with ethical rigor means the difference between life or death.
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#JournoRequest I am working on a story for @iflscience.com on the NASA cuts in Trump's budget proposal 🔭🧪
Is your mission directly affected, or will your research be affected if a mission is ended or cancelled? I want to hear from you; we will keep you anonymous.
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After choking on fumes in a traffic jam, scientist Karim Zaghib suffered a life-threatening asthma attack.
‘From that day forward, I felt a strong conviction that I must help the world rid itself of fossil fuels,’ he says.
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I'm no expert, just an interested amateur having been on a nutraceutical trial the year before last. Looks like the biological/epigenetic clocks used in this trial are pretty new so it may be that we start to see more of this kind of study, perhaps on exercise.
I feel like you may have set that one up Leo
That would be great. Please spread the word!
There are definitely some interesting discussions to be had about what makes people trust experts - people trust journalists much less than scientists in general. The More In Common 'Shattered Britain' report shows that right-leaning folk have much less trust in experts. Do they fix their own roofs?
Glad there was a second tweet in this thread, because you nearly lost me! But yeah, getting expert advise on fixing things is a good analogy.
When you say "way to bet", are you referring to "way" as a method, as in this way individuals can use science themselves to figure out how to bet, or as in a direction, so individuals can look to/trust scientists for advice on how to bet?
Would it be in scope for Carbon Brief to investigate who's behind them, like maybe the Node Project? www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026...
A HUGE, narrative-breaking moment for the UK car market
New EVs are now cheaper than petrol cars on average, says Autotrader
Last yr CCC said price parity was due by 2028 – and it's already here
And EVs are already MUCH cheaper to run than petrol
Do you mean recommendation 5? www.moreincommon.org.uk/media/keddjx... Or are you saying that this is what the survey respondents believe?
Great opportunity for scientists to remember, and perhaps for ‘sceptical scrollers’ and ‘dissenting disruptors’ to learn, that scepticism is arguably more important to science than trust! Would learning the importance of scepticism increase trust? 😜 www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-c... 🧪
The impact is roughly a month of ageing every two years. Assuming I live another 30 years, I would effectively be something like 1.25 years younger. Over the same period I would have spent £2400 on multivitamins. Would be more compelled if they looked at mortality. news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor... 🧪
Have you encountered the user needs model for news? I think it's a really useful way of thinking about things, and explores when people need fun and when they need other things smartocto.com/blog/explain...
Sounds like you're doing some really interesting thinking, which I look forward to reading about. But people also need fun! So I guess what you write about will depend about who your newsletter is for....
That Iran "coal comeback" in full
A picture of the top story in the April 7, 2026 ScienceTimes section of the print New York Times. The headline reads, "It's Hard to Thrive as a Pet in a Shell," with the subtitle, "Hermit crabs in captivity require special care, self-taught experts say." The opening image shows 7 hermit crabs in spiral shells on a piece of bark, with the caption, "Hermit crabs cared for by Mary Akers in her home. She wants to end the poaching of wild crabs and improve conditions for captive ones. By Katie L. Burke and Rebecca Byerly. The intro paragraph says, "Blacksburg, VA -- With a homemade siphon the size of a straw, Mary Akers expertly withdrew 60 hermit crab larvae from the churning waters of a saltwater tank in the spare bedroom of her Virginia home here. She deposited the babies, which resembled minuscule, flame-orange lobsters, into a white kitchen mixing bowl. Using a small flashlight to examine them, she noted a straggler. The exoskeleton it had shed that morning was stuck to its tail. Ms. Akers had learned from tending tens of thousands of crabs that without help this one would die. She placed it in an antique mother-of-pearl salt cellar and used a straight pin to gently scrape off the translucent molt. After freeing the squirming crab, she squirted it into a clear measuring cup, where it gobbled shrimp pellets with its siblings."
🎵🎸Despite all my rage, it's hard to be a crab in a caaaage.
🎶Even though I'm alive & well,
It's hard to thrive as a pet in a shell! 🐚
First thought when I read the print headline. Call me old school, but there's magic in seeing my name in print. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/m...
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One of the reasons the world is heating faster than models suggest it should be, probably... phys.org/news/2026-04... 🧪
Injecting chemotherapy into people's eyes sounds nightmarish, even delivering drugs into their eyes with particles from pig semen instead is a huge improvement! www.livescience.com/health/medic...
Doesn't look like @evaamsen.com posted her article when it published, that doesn se(e)m(en) right?!🧪
What do you think the science writing and journalism profession will look like in 2030 and beyond? Join @wblau.bsky.social and I and many others to discuss this, and decide how we respond, in an innovative 'community assembly' format either in London or online in July www.absw.org.uk/events/what-...
"[T]here’s no evidence that anyone is earning a return" on AI, says @nextwavef.bsky.social. Companies are planning big bets on building data centres - but half of them are cancelled or delayed, *because they have no path to profitability*! Madness! thenextwavefutures.wordpress.com/2026/04/09/a...
I'm really enjoying The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See, nearly finished listening to it. Really great story about an ethnic Chinese woman and the modernisation of China. Very much enjoying how it weaves in a powerful personal story with everything from global economics to chemistry!
Bring back Gary Jones
This is about how to detect these fake citations, but I'm trying to wrap my head around *how* fake citations end up in papers. (thread)
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
NEW ANALYSIS: Record wind and solar generation saved UK from gas imports worth £1bn in March 2026
📈Wind+solar were up 22% year-on-year in March to a record high for the month
⛴️This avoided the need for gas imports worth £1bn at current high prices
www.carbonbrief.org/...
Policy proposal: such donations should be taxed at 40% and the funds used to invest in parts of the beneficiary sector where financial support is lacking. #levellingup www.theguardian.com/education/20...
After YouGov retracted their poll on young people going to church more, I wrote about why polling young people, especially young men, has become increasingly challenging.
It's a growing problem, and the market research industry needs to respond.
chriscurtismk.substack.com/p/young-men-...
Everything Elise says here resonates... and also:
"science curiosity promotes open-minded engagement with information that is contrary to individuals’ political predispositions"
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
which is a good reason to try to trigger that curiosity in different groups
