📌In memory of an #MSc_alumna and a member of the World Health Organization (WHO) team in #Gaza, killed in the bombing, University of Glasgow is offering the #Dima_Alhaj_Scholarship to a Palestinian student forced to flee Gaza due to the war 🔴Deadline: August 31 2024 gla.ac.uk/scholarships/t… palast.ps/en/news/memory…

I expect tomorrow night’s Jupiter–Mars conjunction will be marred by cloud cover in London so I’m consoling myself with this pic, done a few minutes ago. Surprising that a couple of Jovian moons are just visible even in this handheld shot (assuming they survive X’s compression)

How did the changeable lizard likely make its way to Singapore? Watch on to find out! 🦎🚂 Come on down to the gallery to check out our lizard specimens this #WorldLizardDay!

Always a joy when you go and watch a band that haven’t necessarily been your cup of tea in the past but you feel they’re starting to go places – and they more than live up to expectations. ‘Champion’, album #3 from Norway’s Pom Poko, is out on Friday

For 52 years, mpox was restricted to a dozen countries in sub-Saharan Africa. Could it have been stopped before spreading worldwide? Fascinating Science Magazine investigation by Jon Cohen & Abdullahi Tsanni science.org/content/articl…

You have to be suspicious of a band that dares to put ‘Nusantara’ in its name, but Amsterdam’s Nusantara Beat have a retro feel to the few tracks they’ve put out, and a London show coming up on 31 August. Should I go? tinyurl.com/584sehbb

Gosh who knew there was now a #RotiKing at Liverpool Street? (Artillery Lane to be precise)

A timely Crossing Continents about #Malaysia and the inadequacy of its social contract and EPF savings to provide a decent retirement income. “Old-age poverty is already happening in Malaysia and this will get worse, like a time bomb, ticking” bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

‘Mandoob’ (The Night Courier) is the Saudi film you never knew you’d appreciate, and it gets its UK theatrical release in just a couple of days. MANDOOB (Night Courier) “Film” theguardian.com/film/article/2…

I spoke to the wonderful Cindy Yu for her Chinese Whispers podcast about the unlikely origins of China’s claims in the South China Sea. How national enthusiasm combined with a few translation mistakes in the 1930s to create the nine-dash line… podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/chi…

It’s been 7 years and one respiratory pandemic since I last saw NZ’s Nadia Reid (Nadia Reid) play London. Great not just to see her tonight at Servant Jazz Quarters, E8, but also to hear about her new life up north in Chorlton. Single dropped today; LP soon (on Chrysalis)

“We were completely deceived by its camouflage.” In #Malaysia, a nature educator saw what he thought was a #snail...it's our Observation of the Week! Read the story at: inaturalist.org/blog/98469-is-… #nature #biodiversity #lepidoptera

Interesting to have not one, but two #Singapore feature films at this year’s BFI London Film Festival: Yeo Siew Hua’s Stranger Eyes (premiered earlier in Venice) and Daniel Hui’s Small Hours Of The Night, with Irfan Kasban youtube.com/watch?v=pPAfWc…

Parched Iraqi Kurdistan town navigates regional water diplomacy olj.me/1426612?t=32-1…