The vibe shift is happening

Perhaps not Alain Delon’s greatest role but the one I first knew him

If Dutch Golden Age artists depicted potato genetics #NationalPotatoDay scim.ag/84H

Sperm whales have the biggest brains of any organism and complex, phonetic language. Now we are using machine learning to figure out what they are talking about... newscientist.com/article/mg2633… 📷Alex Westover

This has fried my head. PURDUE PHARMA - the company that helped fuel the opioid crisis - has produced medication to reverse opioid overdoses newscientist.com/article/244421… #Dopesick #oxycontin By Grace Wade

Rest in peace Atsuko Tanaka, the voice of the Major, Motoko Kusanagi, in Ghost in the Shell. One of the most influential mangas ever.

🐋2023: the first “conversation” took place between a human and a whale. 🐋2024: the phonetic alphabet used by sperm whales was decoded. 🐋2025: machine learning allowed us to talk to whales... newscientist.com/article/mg2633…

The Wow! signal finally explained (sadly it's not aliens) newscientist.com/article/244479…

Brilliant - basic income paid to indigenous communities to protect Amazon. I wrote about this in my book #HowToSpendATrillionDollars theguardian.com/environment/ar…

1 in 5 coma patients may be aware of what's happening around them - many more than we realised. Alexandra Thompson and Rowan Hooper ローワン フーパー say this finding poses major ethical challenges for end of life care link.chtbl.com/newscientist

This is huge! Congratulations #StopRosebank Tessa Khan & all the campaigners & NGOs involved. ✊🏴‍☠️🤙🌊🌎🐋

I always used to think of the Amazon when I thought of rainforests. But recently I’ve spent time in Atlantic rainforests on both sides. First in Brazil, now in west Wales

Forget Oasis - Pulp were always the better band

Tudor rock chick Anne Boleyn with her lute. She really springs from history in these extraordinary photos by Hiroshi Sugimoto, taken from wax figures made in the 1980s. From Six Lives at National Portrait Gallery

Gutted that my much-loved Pearson bikes have been stolen from the garden shed. If anyone sees them please get in touch. And thanks: Met Contact Centre Cycle Safety Team

I've been waiting months to say this, but: THE WILDLIFE TRUSTS ARE BUYING SKIDDAW! THE WILDLIFE TRUSTS ARE BUYING SKIDDAW! THE WILDLIFE TRUSTS ARE BUYING SKIDDAW! Please help CumbriaWildlifeTrust with this most brilliant endeavour! wildlifetrusts.org/news/cumbria-w… The Wildlife Trusts

Wow. Richard Powers has done it again. What a piece of work! #Playground

This is a bust/cast of William Blake. Who does he remind me of?