THREAD: The IEA global energy review 2026

* CO2 record high, but growth nearly ground to halt
* Clean energy shaved 3bn tonnes off CO2
* Fossil-fuel power pushed into reverse
* Age of Electricity "confirmed"
* "Extraordinary" solar growth
* Batteries up 40%
* EVs up 20%
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Today is the 2 year anniversary of when I met the Ravens. They just checked me out from a distance then! Here is some of my fav footage: them courting, feeding each other, barrel rolling and some of their vocalisations. They are the most amazing birds and I am so lucky to have them!

#BlueSkyArtShow #Edge
As The Daily Rothno

"I also believe there are a lot of things that Britain can learn from countries like Hungary: how to preserve national borders, oppose mass immigration, invest in pro-family policies, and stand up to distant supranational institutions - like the European Union... fundamentally, conservatives need to work together to share best practices on what is working and what is not." - Defeated Reform candidate Matt Goodwin shares his election-losing tips with Orbán supporters at the Mathias Corvinus Collegium's "Reclaiming the West" summit, Hungary Today, 11 March. Goodwin has denied reports in Hungarian media that he receives a €10,000-a-month salary as a visiting fellow of the pro-Orbán MCC "Farage said Reform's plans would rip up what he sees as the orthodoxy of a liberal establishment responsible for 'a progressive, woke ideology' that has left Britons ashamed of their country. He compared himself to his friend Donald Trump, as well as Hungarian leader Viktor Orban and Argentina's Javier Milei, as figures bringing 'very, very big changes' to the world." - Interview with Nigel Farage at Reform Welsh manifesto launch, Reuters, 17 March

MattGPT Goodwin and Farage admit where their loyalties lie.

Don’t ever let these fascist foghorns pretend they’re not fully signed up and paying members of the Putin/Trump/Orban fanclub.
They’re distancing themselves frantically now. Too late.
(Private Eye)

Announcement for a three-year Rising Talent Fellowship for Black heritage postdoctoral scientists at MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

The LMB Rising Talent Fellowship is open for new applicants!

Aimed at Black heritage scientists, the Fellowship offers a 3-year postdoctoral position beginning Oct-Dec 2026.

Visit our website for more info: mrclmb.ac.uk/careers-and-...

Please circulate this post to anyone who might be interested!

Again recommending these daily tech/science nuggets. LLMs uncritically absorbing fake info is as alarming as it is predictable.

Putin's point man in the EU has been pushed out

This is good news for Europe and for democracy

Let's hope voters in other countries reject Putin stooges

Including Nigel Farage

The Telegraph just gave a convicted criminal a two-page spread to explain why he's pumping £4 million into Reform UK. They tucked his criminal record away in the small print. So as a former financial crime specialist I’ll do their job for them👇

Consumers urged to ‘completely avoid’ UK-caught cod as population plunges Marine Conservation Society warns that fish numbers have reached dangerous point of decline Consumers should “completely avoid” buying UK-caught cod, the Marine Conservation Society (MCS) has said, as it warned that populations have reached a dangerous point of decline despite zero-catch recommendations. The MCS, an environmental charity, publishes a Good Fish Guide to help consumers and businesses make sustainable seafood choices. Continue reading...

Consumers urged to ‘completely avoid’ UK-caught cod as population plunges

Happy War Crimes Day to all who celebrate.

Call for Targets: CASP17 (2026)
Depositors: Help advance the frontiers of structural biology by submitting your targets

The UK Covid Inquiry has laid bare the avoidable horror of the second Covid wave It is becoming ever clearer both how devastating the second wave of winter 2020/21 was, and how much of that devastation could have been avoided.

I wrote about the findings from the inquiry about the impact of the pandemic on the NHS, and the mistakes of the first year.

I hope it makes you angry - it should make us all angry.

open.substack.com/pub/christin...

I'm not a believer in the Great Man Theory of History, but there's a certain credibility to the Fucking Idiot Theory of History. And a Fucking Idiot may well just have got us all into World War Three. 6/6

Earthenware bowl covered in a whitish glaze and painted with glaze colors under a clear glaze (Iran, 11th century) Davids Samling (The David Collection), Denmark

Earthenware bowl covered in a whitish glaze and painted with glaze colors under a clear glaze (Iran, 11th century)

Davids Samling (The David Collection), Denmark

Linocut portrait of biochemist and medical researcher Maud Menten (1879-1960) with the Michalis-Menten equation in blue and a histology image in pinks and purples in the background.

Happy birthday to 🇨🇦Canadian medical researcher & #biochemist Maud Menten (1879-1960). 👩🏼‍🔬🧪🐡 #histsci Not only was she an author of Michaelis-Menten equation for enzyme kinetics, she invented the azo-dye coupling for alkaline phosphatase, 1st example of enzyme histochemistry, still used in imaging of

“It’s not my duty as Mayor to make sure you have a parking spot. It’s the same as if you bought a cow, or a refrigerator, and then ask me where you’re going to put them.“ — Miguel Anxo Fernandez Lores, mayor of Ponte Vedra, Spain. Graphic by the Urban Truth Collective.

Don’t buy a cow, or a car, and expect your city to give you someplace to park it. #UrbanTruth

FFS. Just ... FFS.

World's longest coastal path opens in England to the public The King Charles coastal path will allow walkers right of access to the entire coast for the first time.

A historic day as the England Coast Path is completed.

Congratulations to @ramblers.org.uk & @naturalengland.bsky.social.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

‘Trump is aiming for dictatorship’. That’s the verdict of the world’s most credible democracy watchdog | Martin Gelin Sweden’s V-Dem Institute warns that the US is no longer a liberal democracy. And autocracy is creeping across Europe too, says writer Martin Gelin

‘Trump is aiming for dictatorship’. That’s the verdict of the world’s most credible democracy watchdog | Martin Gelin

25 rectangular pictures of close ups of animals with different patterns that would make good prints. We’ve got purple and green stripes on a chiton, there’s blue rings on a yellow octopus, there’s navy blue and sky blue triangular tartan on a velvet worm, mottled black spots overlaid on a rainbow gradient on a lizard, blue and green eye spots on a turtle shell, labyrinthine ridges on brain coral, red and white candy stripes on an amphipod, Rorschach test blots on a crab, and teal and coral colored geometric shapes on a beetle.

I made this a while ago. There are some vertebrates in here but the inverts steal the show. I especially love the triangular plaid on the velvet worm.

"The sooner David Ellison takes over that network, the better."

The Defense Secretary calling for a billionaire ally of the government to take over a media outlet & make it more pro-government. This is what authoritarianism looks like. But in other countries they try & hide it.

Andrew O’Hagan · Stay Classy: Mummy’s Favourite The late queen can be held responsible for much, but nobody could accuse her of seeming to enjoy her role. For the...

The finest take down of the institution of monarchy and "class" and the grasping, greedy, venal, entitled, and very stupid people it enables that you will read today or any day.

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

A gradient pink to yellow background news title card that reads 'International Women's Day Scholarship winners announced' with winners Maryam Shahid and Dr Sibel Cal Kayitmazbatir pictured in the top left.

Our Computational Biology Facility(@cbflivuni.bsky.social) are proud to announce the winners of its fifth #InternationalWomensDay Scholarship – an annual award aiming to bridge the gap for women in the field of data science.

➡️ bit.ly/4sxQW6f

#TeamLivUni | #WomeninScience

I can’t fucking stand this discussion about how bad we are at working with Trump. It’s not our job to to appease a fucking lunatic in the Whitehouse.

I cannot wait for the insights on this! He's going to:

1. Sample some local street food.
2. Ride a train.
3. Visit a temple.
4. Not mention the pogroms that the serving Prime Minister presided over.
5. Smile at some elephants.
6. Top up his kids' private school fees.
7. Say "India is changing".

Most Reform members believe non-white UK citizens born abroad should be forced or encouraged to leave, poll finds Nigel Farage’s recent efforts to woo centre-ground voters may cause tension in party’s right flank, says Hope Not Hate

Are we allowed to call them racists yet or are the media and politicians still going to pretend there is anything "legitimate" about either their concerns or grievances?

This is who Labour is trying to appeal to via their own discriminatory and hostile policies.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

[We see a close up of a young white male, tanned, white teeth, coiffed hair clearly an influencer on social media. It is an image such as you see when social media posts are shown on the news. In the corner of the screen is named a location: DUBAI. He is staring slightly off-camera for several silent panels of the comic strip. His eyes move slightly. He is having a thought.] From off-screen a newsreader’s commentary comes: NEWSREADER: Extraordinary images here of an expat in Dubai [The influencer’s eybrows raise slightly] …Having their first ever geopolitical thought. [CUT TO a BBC news scene. The BBC newsreader CLIVE MYRIE is talking to an interviewee next to the screen showing the social media influencer’s face. The interviewee’s name is David Jones]. CLIVE MYRIE: To explain the significance of this moment we’re joined by David Jones, our Expat Thoughts correspondent DAVID JONES: Clive, this is momentous It was caught on film at the end of an Instagram post titled: ‘Dubai Is Brilliant’. [Pointing at the screen, the influencer’s expression still the same] You can clearly see in the eyebrows here, the dawning realisation that there *might* be something in the world beyond his dickhead self. It marks a *huge* departure from all the Dubai Expat’s previous thoughts. CLIVE MYRIE: Which are…? DAVID JONES: You've Got To Get Yourself Out Here Mate, Everything Is So Clean, I Don't Have To Pay Taxes, I Am Incurious As To Why I Do Not Have To Pay Taxes, and Spa. CLIVE MYRIE: And might we see an expansion of these new Thoughts in coming days? DAVID JONES: I think we can expect to see: “I Deserve To Be Airlifted By A Country I Pay No Tax To” CLIVE MYRIE: Mmm. [Ends]

A photo of the front cover of issue 1670 of Private Eye magazine, with the caption “on shelves now.” The main headline reads “TRUMP ATTACKS IRAN,” with a subheading “HOW OPERATION EPIC FURY UNFOLDED.” The cover features four photo panels set in the situation-room with US political figures seated around a table. Speech bubbles add dialogue: “Is the Supreme Leader dead?” followed by “No, Trump always looks like this!”; “Mission accomplished!” answered with “Yes, I’ve killed the Epstein story”; “What happens next?” with the reply “Popular revolt and regime change,” and a follow-up, “In America?”; and finally, “Why have you started this war?” answered with “So that I can stop it,” alongside “I’ll ring the Nobel Committee.”

Trump Attacks Iran. How Operation Epic Fury unfolded…

The new Private Eye is out now.

Surprise! Seems those "legitimate concerns" were about melanin content after all