Dr Dave Clements
@davecl.bsky.social
Astrophysicist at Imperial College London. Works with space missions like Herschel and Planck, on extragalactic astronomy, observational cosmology and astrobiology. Ask about phosphine on Venus! Also writes science fiction. Not speaking for anybody
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Interesting investigation into a dodgy Elsevier journal -- with the additional nugget that the CEO of Elsevier's parent company made more than €15 million in total compensation last year.
english.elpais.com/science-tech...
english.elpais.com/science-tech...
The fall of a prolific science journal exposes the billion-dollar profits of scientific publishing
One of the 15 publications that put out the most studies globally has been expelled from the indexing system for irregularities. Its publisher, Elsevier, has a 38% profit margin that reached $1.5 bill...
english.elpais.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Interesting investigation into a dodgy Elsevier journal -- with the additional nugget that the CEO of Elsevier's parent company made more than €15 million in total compensation last year.
english.elpais.com/science-tech...
english.elpais.com/science-tech...
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Nottingham University spent £80m on Castle Meadow Campus & now decides to sell it
Only 2 buildings were ever used
No one is taking blame for huge fiasco
University blithely calls it “strategic realignment” -- while sacking staff & closing courses
www.nottinghampost.com/news/notting...
Only 2 buildings were ever used
No one is taking blame for huge fiasco
University blithely calls it “strategic realignment” -- while sacking staff & closing courses
www.nottinghampost.com/news/notting...
Struggling university selling £80m 'vanity project' campus
Unions criticised the 'vanity project' as being partly to blame for hundreds of job cuts
www.nottinghampost.com
November 30, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Nottingham University spent £80m on Castle Meadow Campus & now decides to sell it
Only 2 buildings were ever used
No one is taking blame for huge fiasco
University blithely calls it “strategic realignment” -- while sacking staff & closing courses
www.nottinghampost.com/news/notting...
Only 2 buildings were ever used
No one is taking blame for huge fiasco
University blithely calls it “strategic realignment” -- while sacking staff & closing courses
www.nottinghampost.com/news/notting...
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These are good points.
Van Hollen: "It's either murder from the first strike if their whole theory is wrong, and I think the weight of the legal opinion is they've concocted this ridiculous legal theory. But even if you accept it, then it is a war crime. I do believe the secretary of defense should be held accountable"
November 30, 2025 at 5:06 PM
These are good points.
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'Applicants who will be awarded their doctoral title before 30 September, 2026 are also eligible to apply. Applicants should normally be within 7 years of the award of their Ph.D.' All nationalities eligible; must be fluent in English.
The Turin Humanities Programme again offers two-year #postdocs, this time with a #CFA on the topic "After the Enlightenment: Histories, Debates, and Reinterpretations”.
Sponsored by the fabulous Fondazione 1563, deadline 16 February. #skystorians
www.fondazione1563.it/progetti/en-...
Sponsored by the fabulous Fondazione 1563, deadline 16 February. #skystorians
www.fondazione1563.it/progetti/en-...
EN THP 2025 - Fondazione 1563
Turin Humanities Programme call for application 2025 "After the Enlightenment: Histories, Debates, and Reinterpretations"
www.fondazione1563.it
November 30, 2025 at 1:37 PM
'Applicants who will be awarded their doctoral title before 30 September, 2026 are also eligible to apply. Applicants should normally be within 7 years of the award of their Ph.D.' All nationalities eligible; must be fluent in English.
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Happy anniversary, Pete!
Exactly 80 years ago this precise moment (8:40am Hamburg time, Nov. 30, 1945), German submarine commander Heinz-Wilhelm Eck and two of his former subordinates on the U-852 were shot by Allies in Hamburg for killing the survivors of a ship they had sunk. Pete Hagueseth needs to lawyer up immediately.
The Peleus War Crimes Trial
After sinking the Greek steamer Peleus in 1944, the captain ordered his crew to attack the survivors, three sailors survived and faced their attackers in a war crime trial.
www.usni.org
November 30, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Happy anniversary, Pete!
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always worth reminding that Blue Labour aren't just conservatives, they are actually insane people.
Not sure - 14 years into project - Blue Labour ever previously set out actual proposals before, so this is new
1. Abolish Treasury
2. Leave ECHR
3. Closr/refound half of unis
4. Double army size for anti-EU alliance with Ukraine
5. PM to lead grooming inquiry with arrest powers + televised trials
1. Abolish Treasury
2. Leave ECHR
3. Closr/refound half of unis
4. Double army size for anti-EU alliance with Ukraine
5. PM to lead grooming inquiry with arrest powers + televised trials
November 30, 2025 at 2:08 AM
always worth reminding that Blue Labour aren't just conservatives, they are actually insane people.
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Trump is invading American cities to nominally address crime, and I think the scale of his pardon-sprees should be given more political salience
When this criminal was jailed, the judge told David Gentile and America: ‘This is a warning to would-be fraudsters that seeking to get rich by taking advantage of investors gets you only a one-way ticket to jail.’ I guess not
November 30, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Trump is invading American cities to nominally address crime, and I think the scale of his pardon-sprees should be given more political salience
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This is the most alarming story I’ve read today. Giving up the fight before it’s started
November 30, 2025 at 9:57 AM
This is the most alarming story I’ve read today. Giving up the fight before it’s started
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“Ah, just one more thing, sir. You’re blowing up those boats, saying they’re filled with drugs headed for the US. But then you go and pardon the guy who brought in 400 tons of cocaine. That’s billions of doses. Help me understand that.”
November 30, 2025 at 3:25 AM
“Ah, just one more thing, sir. You’re blowing up those boats, saying they’re filled with drugs headed for the US. But then you go and pardon the guy who brought in 400 tons of cocaine. That’s billions of doses. Help me understand that.”
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Extremely grim consequence of Home Sec announcement of penalising claiming benefits claims in routes to settlement: a low-paid carer cancelling housing benefit, universal credit, and disability allowance for her autistic daughter’s personal care and mobility www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
UK immigration status fears prompt carer to cancel benefits she is entitled to
Woman cancels all benefits including disability living allowance for daughter after policy change announcement
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Extremely grim consequence of Home Sec announcement of penalising claiming benefits claims in routes to settlement: a low-paid carer cancelling housing benefit, universal credit, and disability allowance for her autistic daughter’s personal care and mobility www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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🔴 NEW: The University of Edinburgh has quietly paid more than £750,000 to a controversial consulting firm amid job cuts - staff say bosses ignored "repeated" questions about its role.
Read more about 'Nousferatu' 👉 www.theferret.scot/p...
Read more about 'Nousferatu' 👉 www.theferret.scot/p...
November 30, 2025 at 8:30 AM
🔴 NEW: The University of Edinburgh has quietly paid more than £750,000 to a controversial consulting firm amid job cuts - staff say bosses ignored "repeated" questions about its role.
Read more about 'Nousferatu' 👉 www.theferret.scot/p...
Read more about 'Nousferatu' 👉 www.theferret.scot/p...
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Just read that first line, then read it again, and imagine what’s to come.
UK’s three worst harvests on record have occurred in the past five years
When families can’t afford to feed their children, societies break down
Climate change is slow enough to ignore, but fast enough to insidiously overwhelm
What seems to be missing is political will to move at emergency speed.
When families can’t afford to feed their children, societies break down
Climate change is slow enough to ignore, but fast enough to insidiously overwhelm
What seems to be missing is political will to move at emergency speed.
UK Security, Food And Economy At Risk Without Climate Action, Experts Say
Experts at the U.K.’s first national emergency briefing on climate and nature shared risks in a world being rapidly destabilised by climate and biodiversity breakdown
www.forbes.com
November 30, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Just read that first line, then read it again, and imagine what’s to come.
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Former US military lawyers speak out:
"The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both."
Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes
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"The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both."
Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes
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November 29, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Former US military lawyers speak out:
"The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both."
Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes
1/2
"The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both."
Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes
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goodness. someone has finally said it.
this is a fabulous article on the UK's failure to recognise the world order changed post WW2. but, we had to be a nuclear power as well as rearm. Suez should have been the clue, but even by 2016 the country had not, and still has not, recognised its place.
this is a fabulous article on the UK's failure to recognise the world order changed post WW2. but, we had to be a nuclear power as well as rearm. Suez should have been the clue, but even by 2016 the country had not, and still has not, recognised its place.
Will Britain’s exceptionalism wreck the reset?
In a world of rising protectionism, Britain is in danger of being left outside all of the big trade blocks
@sussexbylines.co.uk
In a world of rising protectionism, Britain is in danger of being left outside all of the big trade blocks
@sussexbylines.co.uk
Willl Britain’s exceptionalism wreck the reset?
In a world of rising protectionism, Britain is in danger of being left outside all of the big trade blocks
sussexbylines.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 5:47 PM
goodness. someone has finally said it.
this is a fabulous article on the UK's failure to recognise the world order changed post WW2. but, we had to be a nuclear power as well as rearm. Suez should have been the clue, but even by 2016 the country had not, and still has not, recognised its place.
this is a fabulous article on the UK's failure to recognise the world order changed post WW2. but, we had to be a nuclear power as well as rearm. Suez should have been the clue, but even by 2016 the country had not, and still has not, recognised its place.
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Asbestos doesn’t make you healthy again.
FDA poised to kill proposal that would require asbestos testing for cosmetics
RFK Jr signed order withdrawing rule that would mandate testing for the cancer-linked toxin in talc-based makeup
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
FDA poised to kill proposal that would require asbestos testing for cosmetics
RFK Jr signed order withdrawing rule that would mandate testing for the cancer-linked toxin in talc-based makeup
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
FDA poised to kill proposal that would require asbestos testing for cosmetics
RFK Jr signed order withdrawing rule that would mandate testing for the cancer-linked toxin in talc-based makeup
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Asbestos doesn’t make you healthy again.
FDA poised to kill proposal that would require asbestos testing for cosmetics
RFK Jr signed order withdrawing rule that would mandate testing for the cancer-linked toxin in talc-based makeup
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
FDA poised to kill proposal that would require asbestos testing for cosmetics
RFK Jr signed order withdrawing rule that would mandate testing for the cancer-linked toxin in talc-based makeup
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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The "immigrants using taxis and hotels" bullshit is driving me insane - everything about the press and political framing is an absolute lie.
Asylum seekers are only staying in hotels and using taxis because we're apparently incapable of processing applications and providing nearby healthcare!
Asylum seekers are only staying in hotels and using taxis because we're apparently incapable of processing applications and providing nearby healthcare!
November 29, 2025 at 11:30 AM
The "immigrants using taxis and hotels" bullshit is driving me insane - everything about the press and political framing is an absolute lie.
Asylum seekers are only staying in hotels and using taxis because we're apparently incapable of processing applications and providing nearby healthcare!
Asylum seekers are only staying in hotels and using taxis because we're apparently incapable of processing applications and providing nearby healthcare!
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Oh look, yet another disaster for ordinary people caused by Tory governments abandoning social responsibility in pursuit of cost-cutting for lower taxes, which has unfolded exactly as experts predicted at the time, and clearing up the mess will now cost public money desperately needed elsewhere.
November 29, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Oh look, yet another disaster for ordinary people caused by Tory governments abandoning social responsibility in pursuit of cost-cutting for lower taxes, which has unfolded exactly as experts predicted at the time, and clearing up the mess will now cost public money desperately needed elsewhere.
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Please share: I am delighted to release the programme for the July 11 2026, Symposium on the work of Frances Hardinge, at Kings College, London. We can't manage virtual attendance but we do offer cheap conference proceedings. Tickets at Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-one-day-...
A One Day Symposium on Frances Hardinge
Politics, Ethics and the Material World: the Interrogative Fiction of Frances Hardinge.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Please share: I am delighted to release the programme for the July 11 2026, Symposium on the work of Frances Hardinge, at Kings College, London. We can't manage virtual attendance but we do offer cheap conference proceedings. Tickets at Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-one-day-...
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Adm. Frank M. “Mitch” Bradley...ordered the second strike to fulfill Hegseth’s directive that everyone must be killed. Remember him. Read it without paying Bezos archive.is/XaZrB
November 29, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Adm. Frank M. “Mitch” Bradley...ordered the second strike to fulfill Hegseth’s directive that everyone must be killed. Remember him. Read it without paying Bezos archive.is/XaZrB
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The asylum seeker (not "illegal immigrant") who needed a 200 mile taxi journey had been relocated against his will but was required to attend a hospital appointment. The government refused to allow him to take public transport.
It's 100% a government failure, but easier to scapegoat the innocent
It's 100% a government failure, but easier to scapegoat the innocent
November 29, 2025 at 11:35 AM
The asylum seeker (not "illegal immigrant") who needed a 200 mile taxi journey had been relocated against his will but was required to attend a hospital appointment. The government refused to allow him to take public transport.
It's 100% a government failure, but easier to scapegoat the innocent
It's 100% a government failure, but easier to scapegoat the innocent
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Any attempt by the government to undermine this fundamental freedom - a cornerstone of our democracy and an essential safeguard against authoritarianism - must be opposed
🚨Trial by jury is a cornerstone of our democracy and an essential safeguard against authoritarianism. We must come together - cross party - to stop any attempt by the government to undermine this fundamental freedom
youtu.be/QdD9LaAN19A?...
youtu.be/QdD9LaAN19A?...
Trial by jury is a cornerstone of our democracy - We must fight any attempt to undermine it
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
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November 28, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Any attempt by the government to undermine this fundamental freedom - a cornerstone of our democracy and an essential safeguard against authoritarianism - must be opposed
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They had taxis forced upon them as the Government refused to provide public transport warrants (maybe fearing they’d use them to escape (where?). OR for or purpose other than intended eg a hospital appointment 200 miles away to give a factual example.
November 29, 2025 at 11:25 AM
They had taxis forced upon them as the Government refused to provide public transport warrants (maybe fearing they’d use them to escape (where?). OR for or purpose other than intended eg a hospital appointment 200 miles away to give a factual example.
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Keep out: what flags mean to community NHS workers
Frontline NHS staff are feeling an increasing sense of exclusion and intimidation from the surge of St George’s flags displayed on homes | Mark Cunliffe
@markcunliffe.bsky.social @centralbylines.co.uk
Frontline NHS staff are feeling an increasing sense of exclusion and intimidation from the surge of St George’s flags displayed on homes | Mark Cunliffe
@markcunliffe.bsky.social @centralbylines.co.uk
Keep out: what flags mean to community NHS workers
Frontline NHS staff are feeling an increasing sense of exclusion and intimidation from the surge of St George’s flags displayed on homes
centralbylines.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Keep out: what flags mean to community NHS workers
Frontline NHS staff are feeling an increasing sense of exclusion and intimidation from the surge of St George’s flags displayed on homes | Mark Cunliffe
@markcunliffe.bsky.social @centralbylines.co.uk
Frontline NHS staff are feeling an increasing sense of exclusion and intimidation from the surge of St George’s flags displayed on homes | Mark Cunliffe
@markcunliffe.bsky.social @centralbylines.co.uk
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AI researchers gamed by AI.
Major AI conference flooded with peer reviews written fully by AI
Controversy has erupted after 21% of manuscript reviews for an international AI conference were found to be generated by artificial intelligence.
www.nature.com
November 29, 2025 at 9:37 AM
AI researchers gamed by AI.