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Flora Graham
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I write the Nature Briefing, a daily email for Nature (@nature.com) about all the science, which I hope you will enjoy.
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Flora Graham @floragraham.bsky.social · Sep 20
I'm just saying I will email you this newsletter for free 😘 (Should you wish to build bridges over the yawning trenches of the 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 ℎ𝑢𝑚𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑒)
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to those of you with a nice, clear view of the #aurora tonight:

happy for you. great. love that for you. must be nice. enjoy.

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November 12, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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Congratulations to AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio for the fun fact of being the first with 1M citations. Immigrated to beautiful Montréal aged 12 ⚜️https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03681-6
floragraham.bsky.social Flora Graham @floragraham.bsky.social · Sep 8
Gonna restart my old Twitter thread about great immigrant and refugee scientists. Extra bonus in this one for those us who flunked a wee bit of physics here and there back in the day 😜 Rainer Weiss won the Nobel in 2017
Born in Berlin in 1932, Weiss came from an intellectual but unsettled family. His father, a Jewish communist doctor, and his mother, a Christian actress, fled Nazi Germany when Rai was still a child. The family escaped first to Prague and later to New York City, arriving in 1939. Weiss studied physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge but struggled, failing out in his junior year. He was rescued by nuclear physicist Jerrold Zacharias at MIT, who took him on as a laboratory technician and later a PhD student. Weiss never forgot the kindness and spent much of his career mentoring students in the same spirit.
November 12, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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hothbricks.bsky.social Hoth Bricks @hothbricks.bsky.social · 8d
LEGO ICONS 10356 StarTrek: U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-D
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Dispo le 28/11/2025 :

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November 7, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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For 61 years the #BBCWorldService has been broadcasting the latest in science via its weekly Science in Action programme. That dies in the next half hour, with this final edition, reflecting on the fall in trust in expertise driven by malign interests over recent years.
October 30, 2025 at 8:28 PM
floragraham.bsky.social
Anyone interested in learning about why journals make a proactive effort to increase women's participation in the peer review process should take the time look at some actual evidence about why this is needed. Ditto journalists covering such a story. Do some reporting! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Women are credited less in science than men - Nature
The difference between the number of men and women listed as authors on scientific papers and inventors on patents is at least partly attributable to unacknowledged contributions by women scientists.
www.nature.com
October 28, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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October 24, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Leif Penguinson makes a cameo on the latest edition of @natsustain.nature.com 🐧
Cover with photo showing penguin approaching a huge ship. Image: NAPA/Alamy. Cover design: Alex Whitworth
October 23, 2025 at 9:49 AM
floragraham.bsky.social
I know there are 'no politics' feeds but does anyone know a good 'no USA' feed? I love those guys, I support them, they're my family, I go all out covering their country daily and sometimes I just need a break haha
October 17, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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Forbidden Nutribullet
Woodblock from 1856 showing a Chinese alchemical furnace.Credit: Wellcome Collection, London (PDM) nutribullet Blender 900 Series in Matte Sand
October 13, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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Wooo! bsky.app/profile/natu...
floragraham.bsky.social Flora Graham @floragraham.bsky.social · Sep 8
Gonna restart my old Twitter thread about great immigrant and refugee scientists. Extra bonus in this one for those us who flunked a wee bit of physics here and there back in the day 😜 Rainer Weiss won the Nobel in 2017
Born in Berlin in 1932, Weiss came from an intellectual but unsettled family. His father, a Jewish communist doctor, and his mother, a Christian actress, fled Nazi Germany when Rai was still a child. The family escaped first to Prague and later to New York City, arriving in 1939. Weiss studied physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge but struggled, failing out in his junior year. He was rescued by nuclear physicist Jerrold Zacharias at MIT, who took him on as a laboratory technician and later a PhD student. Weiss never forgot the kindness and spent much of his career mentoring students in the same spirit.
October 9, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Forbidden smartie
October 9, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Imagine having Richard Robson as your 1st-year chem prof AND then he wins the Nobel 😁 www.unimelb.edu.au/newsroom/new...
Professor Robson was back at work hours after the announcement, taking a first-year chemistry tutorial.
October 9, 2025 at 2:41 PM
floragraham.bsky.social
The first exoplanet around a Sun-like star was discovered 30 years ago this month! Makes me think yet again of the AMAZING scrolly (published in 2013, pre-TESS spacecraft) by
@adambecker.bsky.social @peteraldhous.com & MacGregor Campbell at @newscientist.com freelanceastro.github.io/how-many-ear...
Looking up at the night sky, it's hard not to wonder how many other planets might be circling those pinpricks of light – and how many are home to beings gazing back at us. Today, we are starting to get a handle on the number of roughly Earth-sized exoplanets that might be suitable for life.
October 6, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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I may have found my defining quote.

Pair this with my pinned post and you will see what I mean!
From a poster called “just shower thoughts“ reading: when people talk about traveling to the past, they worry about radically, changing the present by doing something small, barely anyone in the present to really thinks that they can radically change the future by doing something small.
September 29, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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The Saudi government murdered Jamal Khashoggi seven years ago today. His editor @karenattiah.bsky.social wrote this two years ago.
Opinion | The moment I knew the world would try to move on from Jamal Khashoggi
I could see it coming at Time’s 2018 Person of the Year celebration.
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October 2, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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Some brief thoughts on the Anthropic settlement, and why I think most authors should claim their share of the settlement if they can, inadequate though I think it is:

whatever.scalzi.com/2025/10/02/a...
Authors, Time to Get That (Anthropic) Bag
To begin, for those of you who do not follow such things with intense interest, a little context about the “AI” company Anthropic being sued for stealing authors’ works and reachi…
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October 2, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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WOW this interview by @maxkozlov.bsky.social is a banger
I am worried about the context that we’re placing on our public-health officials, who just want to help people. To contextualize it any other way is to do them such an extraordinary disservice. How are we going to incentivize our best and our brightest to contribute to public health, which is thankless? And what happens if we don’t? I have been in and around government now for 18 years — every administration from [Republican George W.] Bush till now. I’ve always been in a position where I’ve been able to make contributions. We were always marching steadily towards a better world. I’m less naive now than I was.
October 2, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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“I don’t think of writing as a craft that one repeats in order to perfect it, like blacksmithing or bread-baking. Writing is, rather, a practice that engages the writer in her whole capacity as a human: reading, thinking, feeling, choosing, and acting.” www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/702...
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September 29, 2025 at 11:57 AM
floragraham.bsky.social
Wiki Wiki Bus namesake my beloved
The Wiki Wiki Shuttle (lit. 'Very Fast Shuttle') is a free shuttle bus service at Daniel K. Inouye International Airport in Honolulu, Hawaii. Shuttles run between 6:00 a.m. and 10:00 p.m. local time, carrying people and baggage between the various terminals and gates. Photo of Wiki Wiki Shuttle bus in 2022 In the Hawaiian language, the word "wiki" means quick. In 1994, the shuttle's name inspired American computer programmer Ward Cunningham to build the first ever user-editable website, WikiWikiWeb.[1] Although WikiWikiWeb is itself no longer user-editable, the word wiki for a user-editable website thus derives from the shuttle's name.
September 28, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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The fantastic UK network of science and discovery centres needs your help to survive and thrive! Sign this letter urging the UKGov to stop excluding science from the financial support that is available for other museums, art galleries & theatres 🙏🧪🔭👩‍🔬🎢

👉✉️: www.sciencecentres.org.uk/openletter20...
Catherine having a laugh at the Aberdeen science centre with three girls playing with a powerful fan. Catherine chatting to an interested girl in front of an arch they've just built. Catherine and two kids looking earnestly at some marshmallows in a glass jar that is about to become a vacuum. Catherine looking through a giant lens. She has a mask on.
September 27, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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Hats off to the factcheckers who tackled this one! 👏https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/09/25/fact-checking-donald-trumps-europe-claims-in-un-speech
Fact-checking Donald Trump's Europe claims in UN speech
Trump's speech contained claims relating to immigration in Europe, the climate crisis and Russia's war in Ukraine. #EuroVerify
www.euronews.com
September 26, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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FYI
Trans Legal Clinic: free legal advice in the UK http://www.translegalclinic.com
September 26, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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This story is very interesting, and this detail made me feel sick. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
According to the model, the phrases and words that were most likely to lead to cancellation included ‘gender-affirming care’, ‘assigned male at birth’, ‘affirming care’, ‘racial justice’, ‘LGBTQ’ and ‘hate speech’.
September 25, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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gandersocial.bsky.social Gander Social @gandersocial.bsky.social · Sep 19
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Fun, private, and ethical. We're changing the way social media is done around here, all without your personal data taking an unexpected trip down south.
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September 25, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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What a treat to speak to scientists at @csh.ac.at in beautiful Vienna, where so much fascinating and relevant work is happening! Check out their spectacular visualizations page just for a start: csh.ac.at/visuals/
csh.ac.at Complexity Science Hub @csh.ac.at · Sep 24
What matters in #science today? You might want to ask @floragraham.bsky.social, editor of Nature Briefing. Last week, Flora joined us to give our scientists a crash course in science communication. Thank you for sharing your expertise, Flora, and for sparking such thought-provoking discussions!
September 25, 2025 at 10:59 AM