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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Although this year’s vaccine match is suboptimal, it is better protection against severe influenza disease than going without #vaccines
🎁 article 👉 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/n... #IDSky
🎁 article 👉 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/n... #IDSky
Flu Cases Climb to Highest Levels in New York State in Two Decades
www.nytimes.com
December 26, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Although this year’s vaccine match is suboptimal, it is better protection against severe influenza disease than going without #vaccines
🎁 article 👉 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/n... #IDSky
🎁 article 👉 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/n... #IDSky
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A new report from researchers at the Yale School of Public Health warns that the U.S. government’s abrupt cancellation of funding for mRNA vaccine research could have devastating health and economic consequences for the nation.
New report sounds alarm on health fallout from mRNA vaccine funding cuts
A new report from the Yale School of Public Health warns that the U.S. government’s abrupt cancellation of funding for mRNA vaccine research could have
ysph.yale.edu
December 22, 2025 at 8:43 PM
A new report from researchers at the Yale School of Public Health warns that the U.S. government’s abrupt cancellation of funding for mRNA vaccine research could have devastating health and economic consequences for the nation.
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Study concluded that 'COVID-19 vaccines targeting the KP.2 variant used in the 2024-2025 season [in the USA] offered high protection against death and modest protection against infection, ED/UC visits or hospitalization, and vaccine effectiveness declined over time.'
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Effectiveness of the 2024–2025 KP.2 COVID-19 vaccines in the United States during long-term follow-up - Nature Communications
Vaccinations against the SARS-CoV-2 KP.2 variant were introduced for the 2024-25 season in the United States. Here, the authors investigate the effectiveness of these vaccines up to April 2025 through...
www.nature.com
January 1, 2026 at 10:48 AM
Study concluded that 'COVID-19 vaccines targeting the KP.2 variant used in the 2024-2025 season [in the USA] offered high protection against death and modest protection against infection, ED/UC visits or hospitalization, and vaccine effectiveness declined over time.'
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Hysterical watching Iran’s Revolutionary Guard trying to bend reality to its will. The Fars News Agency which it runs: “the demonstration consisted of 200 people with about 5-10 chanting slogans that went beyond economic concerns”.
Videos shared by Iranians show thousands on the streets. 1/2
Videos shared by Iranians show thousands on the streets. 1/2
December 31, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Hysterical watching Iran’s Revolutionary Guard trying to bend reality to its will. The Fars News Agency which it runs: “the demonstration consisted of 200 people with about 5-10 chanting slogans that went beyond economic concerns”.
Videos shared by Iranians show thousands on the streets. 1/2
Videos shared by Iranians show thousands on the streets. 1/2
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There's rather a lot of heated rhetoric about immigration and immigrants in the UK from politicians. Don't they realise that a lot of us immigrants have a vote (and even more do in local elections)? And do they think we will vote for our own oppression?
January 1, 2026 at 10:44 AM
There's rather a lot of heated rhetoric about immigration and immigrants in the UK from politicians. Don't they realise that a lot of us immigrants have a vote (and even more do in local elections)? And do they think we will vote for our own oppression?
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🚨 “Can I tell you how many times in the last 45 years the European Court of Human Rights has ruled against the UK when it comes to deporting people from this country - only 13 times - in 45 years”
Please remember this in 2026 when Nigel Farage tells you we must leave the ECHR to control our borders
Please remember this in 2026 when Nigel Farage tells you we must leave the ECHR to control our borders
Human rights are universal - politicians may not always find them politically convenient but it shouldn’t fall to any government to say who those rights should & should not apply to. Because none of us then has rights, just privileges that can be taken away by those in power
youtu.be/bl0Lm7v_T18?...
youtu.be/bl0Lm7v_T18?...
The government won’t achieve ‘decency’ over ‘division’ by trying to be Reform Lite
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
youtu.be
December 31, 2025 at 5:52 PM
🚨 “Can I tell you how many times in the last 45 years the European Court of Human Rights has ruled against the UK when it comes to deporting people from this country - only 13 times - in 45 years”
Please remember this in 2026 when Nigel Farage tells you we must leave the ECHR to control our borders
Please remember this in 2026 when Nigel Farage tells you we must leave the ECHR to control our borders
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Satyendra Nath Bose was born #OTD in 1894. Bose-Einstein quantum statistics describe the collective behavior of a set of identical particles of the bosonic type, with applications to lasers, superfluidity, and superconductivity.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satyend...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satyend...
January 1, 2026 at 8:56 AM
Satyendra Nath Bose was born #OTD in 1894. Bose-Einstein quantum statistics describe the collective behavior of a set of identical particles of the bosonic type, with applications to lasers, superfluidity, and superconductivity.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satyend...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satyend...
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On 13 February 1990, from a distance of 6.4 billion km, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft turned around and photographed our homeworld.
About halfway up on the right side is a tiny speck of light, about one pixel across.
"That's home. That's us.
A mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam."
—Carl Sagan
About halfway up on the right side is a tiny speck of light, about one pixel across.
"That's home. That's us.
A mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam."
—Carl Sagan
December 31, 2025 at 11:17 PM
On 13 February 1990, from a distance of 6.4 billion km, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft turned around and photographed our homeworld.
About halfway up on the right side is a tiny speck of light, about one pixel across.
"That's home. That's us.
A mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam."
—Carl Sagan
About halfway up on the right side is a tiny speck of light, about one pixel across.
"That's home. That's us.
A mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam."
—Carl Sagan
And to you too now you're living in the future!
December 31, 2025 at 11:06 PM
And to you too now you're living in the future!
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"The more doubt and division that Kennedy sows, the more money he’ll make. In the year leading up to his appointment, Kennedy disclosed that he made roughly $10 million in 2024 from speaking fees and dividends from his vaccine lawsuits."
RFK Jr. Will Let Us All Die Just to Make a Buck
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is forcing his MAHA agenda on all of us—and it’s already getting ugly.
newrepublic.com
December 31, 2025 at 8:20 PM
"The more doubt and division that Kennedy sows, the more money he’ll make. In the year leading up to his appointment, Kennedy disclosed that he made roughly $10 million in 2024 from speaking fees and dividends from his vaccine lawsuits."
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A little too flattering if you ask me.
December 31, 2025 at 8:52 AM
A little too flattering if you ask me.
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Getting to Net Zero is cheaper than letting the planet burn. Twice as cheap in fact.
If we do nothing, climate change will cost us 15% of global GDP. Getting to Net Zero limits those costs to 7%.
If we do nothing, climate change will cost us 15% of global GDP. Getting to Net Zero limits those costs to 7%.
December 31, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Getting to Net Zero is cheaper than letting the planet burn. Twice as cheap in fact.
If we do nothing, climate change will cost us 15% of global GDP. Getting to Net Zero limits those costs to 7%.
If we do nothing, climate change will cost us 15% of global GDP. Getting to Net Zero limits those costs to 7%.
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WSJ breaks significant news reporting that Mar-a-Lago’s spa *for years* regularly sent young staffers to Epstein’s home purportedly to give him massages, contorts its scoop to find a more flattering angle for Trump, and still gets an icy blast of a comment from Leavitt. www.wsj.com/us-news/trum...
Exclusive | The Incident That Prompted Trump to Ban Epstein From Mar-a-Lago’s Spa
Mar-a-Lago sent an 18-year-old spa worker on a house call to Jeffrey Epstein in 2003. She complained to her bosses that Epstein pressured her for sex.
www.wsj.com
December 31, 2025 at 2:24 AM
WSJ breaks significant news reporting that Mar-a-Lago’s spa *for years* regularly sent young staffers to Epstein’s home purportedly to give him massages, contorts its scoop to find a more flattering angle for Trump, and still gets an icy blast of a comment from Leavitt. www.wsj.com/us-news/trum...
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🔭 Want to help shape global policy and direction within the astronomy community? 🪐
Today is the LAST CHANCE to join the International Astronomical Union free of charge for 2026.
Before completing an application, check the IAU website to ensure you are eligible to apply: www.iau.org/Iau/News/Ann...
Today is the LAST CHANCE to join the International Astronomical Union free of charge for 2026.
Before completing an application, check the IAU website to ensure you are eligible to apply: www.iau.org/Iau/News/Ann...
Call for New IAU Individual and Junior Members for 2026
Applications are now open until December 31st 2025 for new Individual and Junior Members of the IAU.
www.iau.org
December 31, 2025 at 9:15 AM
🔭 Want to help shape global policy and direction within the astronomy community? 🪐
Today is the LAST CHANCE to join the International Astronomical Union free of charge for 2026.
Before completing an application, check the IAU website to ensure you are eligible to apply: www.iau.org/Iau/News/Ann...
Today is the LAST CHANCE to join the International Astronomical Union free of charge for 2026.
Before completing an application, check the IAU website to ensure you are eligible to apply: www.iau.org/Iau/News/Ann...
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🔭🕰️⌛ ** Reminder ** ⌛🕰️🔭
The closing date for applications to be the next Editor-in-Chief of MNRAS is Friday week: 9th January 2026. Interested? Visit ras.ac.uk/mnras-eic for more information. @royalastrosoc.bsky.social
The closing date for applications to be the next Editor-in-Chief of MNRAS is Friday week: 9th January 2026. Interested? Visit ras.ac.uk/mnras-eic for more information. @royalastrosoc.bsky.social
Call for applications: Editor-in-Chief, MNRAS
The Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) is seeking to appoint a new Editor-in-Chief (EiC) of Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS) to
provide outst...
ras.ac.uk
December 31, 2025 at 8:35 AM
🔭🕰️⌛ ** Reminder ** ⌛🕰️🔭
The closing date for applications to be the next Editor-in-Chief of MNRAS is Friday week: 9th January 2026. Interested? Visit ras.ac.uk/mnras-eic for more information. @royalastrosoc.bsky.social
The closing date for applications to be the next Editor-in-Chief of MNRAS is Friday week: 9th January 2026. Interested? Visit ras.ac.uk/mnras-eic for more information. @royalastrosoc.bsky.social
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Wanna see real-life miracles? Fund scientific research.
A team of US scientists just cured Alzheimer’s in mice — and there is now hope that the disease can be reversed in humans.
futurism.com/health-medic...
A team of US scientists just cured Alzheimer’s in mice — and there is now hope that the disease can be reversed in humans.
futurism.com/health-medic...
Alzheimer's Fully Reversed in Mice, Scientists Say
A new compound has been shown to reverse late stage Alzheimer's disease in lab mice, which gives millions of sufferers new cause for hope.
futurism.com
December 31, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Wanna see real-life miracles? Fund scientific research.
A team of US scientists just cured Alzheimer’s in mice — and there is now hope that the disease can be reversed in humans.
futurism.com/health-medic...
A team of US scientists just cured Alzheimer’s in mice — and there is now hope that the disease can be reversed in humans.
futurism.com/health-medic...
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Oh, we do. Since her appointment Mary-Ann Stephenson has declined to recognise that trans women are women, has affirmed the hideous guidance drawn up by her predecessor, and has proven correct the two Select Committees who rejected her appointment because she was hopelessly out of her depth.
Judge me on what I do, says new EHRC chair after transgender groups’ criticism
Mary-Ann Stephenson says she must build relationship with LGBTQ+ sector amid debate over single-sex spaces
www.theguardian.com
December 31, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Oh, we do. Since her appointment Mary-Ann Stephenson has declined to recognise that trans women are women, has affirmed the hideous guidance drawn up by her predecessor, and has proven correct the two Select Committees who rejected her appointment because she was hopelessly out of her depth.
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"If you think everyone is lying, why not go with the lies you like rather than the lies you don't," is how I've tried to explain the appeal of Reform to cynical voters. Garbage like this from Labour and its outriders just creates the conditions for Reform to flourish.
Amazing interview attacking Polanski as a "fantasist" "selling unicorns".
But Polanski has not said "squeezing a tiny elite of billionaires will pay for everything that we want and everything that we need.” He has simply argued, as many tax economists do, for a wealth tax.
So who is the fantasist?
But Polanski has not said "squeezing a tiny elite of billionaires will pay for everything that we want and everything that we need.” He has simply argued, as many tax economists do, for a wealth tax.
So who is the fantasist?
December 31, 2025 at 8:52 AM
"If you think everyone is lying, why not go with the lies you like rather than the lies you don't," is how I've tried to explain the appeal of Reform to cynical voters. Garbage like this from Labour and its outriders just creates the conditions for Reform to flourish.
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R.I.P. Tatiana Schlossberg 💔
She wrote NYT article about RFK Jr.’s Central Park bear hoax, not knowing her first cousin-once removed was the perpetrator who would go on to bring back the measles and harm thousands.
She wrote NYT article about RFK Jr.’s Central Park bear hoax, not knowing her first cousin-once removed was the perpetrator who would go on to bring back the measles and harm thousands.
December 30, 2025 at 8:27 PM
R.I.P. Tatiana Schlossberg 💔
She wrote NYT article about RFK Jr.’s Central Park bear hoax, not knowing her first cousin-once removed was the perpetrator who would go on to bring back the measles and harm thousands.
She wrote NYT article about RFK Jr.’s Central Park bear hoax, not knowing her first cousin-once removed was the perpetrator who would go on to bring back the measles and harm thousands.
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The only thing ChatGPT ever does.
August 14, 2025 at 7:35 PM
The only thing ChatGPT ever does.
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Open up this picture fully.
Then look at the surface of Mars.
Then look up to the top right.
Spot Mars' moon Phobos high in the sky.
Then notice the bright spot beside Phobos.
That's Earth.
Then look at the surface of Mars.
Then look up to the top right.
Spot Mars' moon Phobos high in the sky.
Then notice the bright spot beside Phobos.
That's Earth.
December 30, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Open up this picture fully.
Then look at the surface of Mars.
Then look up to the top right.
Spot Mars' moon Phobos high in the sky.
Then notice the bright spot beside Phobos.
That's Earth.
Then look at the surface of Mars.
Then look up to the top right.
Spot Mars' moon Phobos high in the sky.
Then notice the bright spot beside Phobos.
That's Earth.
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An edited list of food for a feast at the Hall in 1448: 21 capons, 72 fowls, 6 suckling pigs, 12 rabbits, 6 herons, 2½oz of saffron, 10oz white sugar.
To drink: 170 pints of wine and 416 pints of ale.
Standard week between Christmas and New Year if you ask us…
To drink: 170 pints of wine and 416 pints of ale.
Standard week between Christmas and New Year if you ask us…
December 30, 2025 at 11:01 AM
An edited list of food for a feast at the Hall in 1448: 21 capons, 72 fowls, 6 suckling pigs, 12 rabbits, 6 herons, 2½oz of saffron, 10oz white sugar.
To drink: 170 pints of wine and 416 pints of ale.
Standard week between Christmas and New Year if you ask us…
To drink: 170 pints of wine and 416 pints of ale.
Standard week between Christmas and New Year if you ask us…
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Trump voters: We didn’t vote for this.
Others: Yes, you did. You didn’t think you were going to be on the receiving end.
Others: Yes, you did. You didn’t think you were going to be on the receiving end.
December 29, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Trump voters: We didn’t vote for this.
Others: Yes, you did. You didn’t think you were going to be on the receiving end.
Others: Yes, you did. You didn’t think you were going to be on the receiving end.
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😮 What a winner it would be for a candidate to run for the French presidency on the basis of justice and holding Musk to account! www.joe.co.uk/politics/fra...
France could freeze Elon Musk's assets and jail him for foreign election interference
Now wouldn't this be nice...
www.joe.co.uk
December 29, 2025 at 8:38 PM
😮 What a winner it would be for a candidate to run for the French presidency on the basis of justice and holding Musk to account! www.joe.co.uk/politics/fra...
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So Boris Johnson, Prince Phillip, Andrew Bonar Law, Freddie Mercury, George I, George II, Richard E Grant, Douglas Carswell, Rudyard Kipling, Cliff Richard, Joanna Lumley and Spike Milligan weren't British?
Interesting
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Interesting
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Number of people who say Britons must be born in UK is rising, study shows
Exclusive: Research finds ‘worrying’ surge in support for hard-right narratives on national identity
www.theguardian.com
December 29, 2025 at 11:21 PM
So Boris Johnson, Prince Phillip, Andrew Bonar Law, Freddie Mercury, George I, George II, Richard E Grant, Douglas Carswell, Rudyard Kipling, Cliff Richard, Joanna Lumley and Spike Milligan weren't British?
Interesting
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Interesting
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...