This is an important response by a study author to the pictured Tim Spector MD (Prof) tweet, which has been called irresponsible by multiple people I trust. Spector has huge media prominence in the UK post-Covid – and perhaps merits more scrutiny as a result

Rishi Sunak, soaking wet, trying to announce the general election over the most famous Labour campaign song in history really does encapsulate his premiership in a way that renders sketch writers redundant

Dinosaurs seeing their demise (65MYA, colourised)

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Stop it

It's high time something was done to crack down on dodgy crowd-funding campaigns. The Salty Allotment woman was so obviously a fraud from the start. I don't give to anything unless it's an established registered charity or someone I know personally: cityam.com/salt-tears-won…

Cannot get over the facial expression on this poor cat 😭😭😭 (owner was found, cat is fine btw)

This never stops being funny: academics trying to write a “lay summary”.

Looking forward to everyone having a completely normal one on this site for the next 24 hours... 🫣😖🫠🙃

Happy publication day to me :) Some lovely things from the lovely Kat Arney Jon Agar Nick Touran

Right lads, here we go!

NB For anyone interested in reading further about our evolving understanding of cancer, I can wholeheartedly recommend Kat Arney's book (very much aimed at the general reader): amazon.co.uk/Selfish-Monste…

on which word/grammar hill are you absolutely dying?

The only explanation is that everyone in the planning committee was high as balls for the past four years #OlympicGames

What is happening?

Going through old family papers - endless beautifully written letters about buying furniture from catalogues - the 1900s equivalent of Wayfair. If any social historian wants these, let me know ASAP or they're going in the recycling #History

We know he can swim but…

This looks like the cast of a sleeper hit made by an obscure Indonesian director for $40k that took $5 million at the box office

We found this in our family papers - it's a St John Ambulance England first aid certificate awarded to my great grandfather in 1888!