Adrian Allen
@nornirnlib.bsky.social
Northern Irish molecular bacteriologist 🧬 🦠 interested in disease ecology, tuberculosis, reading, sci-fi, guitar 🎸, Irish League and Northern Ireland International football, hiking and dog walking.
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Global exodus: How climate change is forcing hundreds of millions of people to relocate
As the planet continues to warm, states should already begin preparing for new waves of migration.
As the planet continues to warm, states should already begin preparing for new waves of migration.
Global exodus: How climate change is forcing hundreds of millions of people to relocate
At the end of 2025, Australia received the first officially recognized climate migrants in history — citizens of the Pacific island state of Tuvalu, who relocated under a special agreement between the...
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January 28, 2026 at 6:05 AM
Global exodus: How climate change is forcing hundreds of millions of people to relocate
As the planet continues to warm, states should already begin preparing for new waves of migration.
As the planet continues to warm, states should already begin preparing for new waves of migration.
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An outbreak of Nipah virus has been confirmed in West Bengal, India. Nipah has a fatality rate of 40 to 70 percent, according to the CDC, and no cure or vaccine.
Here's what to know about the virus:
Here's what to know about the virus:
What to know about the deadly Nipah virus, amid outbreak in India
Some airports in Asia are on alert after confirmed cases in West Bengal of the Nipah virus, which has no cure. South Asia sees outbreaks nearly every year.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 27, 2026 at 11:00 PM
An outbreak of Nipah virus has been confirmed in West Bengal, India. Nipah has a fatality rate of 40 to 70 percent, according to the CDC, and no cure or vaccine.
Here's what to know about the virus:
Here's what to know about the virus:
Wife recently got me a small notebook and I've taken to sketching in it to de-stress.
January 27, 2026 at 8:08 PM
Wife recently got me a small notebook and I've taken to sketching in it to de-stress.
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Lambasted (n): sheep born out of wedlock.
January 26, 2026 at 6:41 PM
Lambasted (n): sheep born out of wedlock.
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Please please vaccinate your child against measles.
This is from our @independentsage.bsky.social report from last year, led by @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social & @helensalisbury.bsky.social
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This is from our @independentsage.bsky.social report from last year, led by @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social & @helensalisbury.bsky.social
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January 26, 2026 at 5:55 PM
Please please vaccinate your child against measles.
This is from our @independentsage.bsky.social report from last year, led by @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social & @helensalisbury.bsky.social
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This is from our @independentsage.bsky.social report from last year, led by @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social & @helensalisbury.bsky.social
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Labour should be campaigning and calling Reform, 'Reborn' with a picture of Liz Truss and a lettuce in front of that teal background colour they use.
January 26, 2026 at 2:22 PM
Labour should be campaigning and calling Reform, 'Reborn' with a picture of Liz Truss and a lettuce in front of that teal background colour they use.
It's Burns' night!
January 25, 2026 at 7:00 PM
It's Burns' night!
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Some of Saturn’s moons sculpt its rings with gravity.
Here’s Prometheus (right) dragging ripples through the F ring as it passes.
Image: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
#astronomy
Here’s Prometheus (right) dragging ripples through the F ring as it passes.
Image: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
#astronomy
January 25, 2026 at 8:59 AM
Some of Saturn’s moons sculpt its rings with gravity.
Here’s Prometheus (right) dragging ripples through the F ring as it passes.
Image: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
#astronomy
Here’s Prometheus (right) dragging ripples through the F ring as it passes.
Image: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
#astronomy
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Reform MP Andrew Rosindell tells the BBC that he "would not object" to scrapping the NHS and replacing it with private insurance
January 25, 2026 at 10:36 AM
Reform MP Andrew Rosindell tells the BBC that he "would not object" to scrapping the NHS and replacing it with private insurance
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The news is often overwhelming. I only found this recently. It's a tonic. A reminder of the good our species can do. The heights we can soar to.
The news is often overwhelming. I only found this recently. It's a tonic. A reminder of the good our species can do. The heights we can soar to.
BBC Sounds - Soul Music - Available Episodes
Listen to the latest episodes of Soul Music on BBC Sounds.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 24, 2026 at 8:32 PM
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The news is often overwhelming. I only found this recently. It's a tonic. A reminder of the good our species can do. The heights we can soar to.
The news is often overwhelming. I only found this recently. It's a tonic. A reminder of the good our species can do. The heights we can soar to.
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American Fascism is testing the limits of what it can get away with, having already gotten away with a failed coup, we are now well into the rounding people up without due process and extrajudicial executions stage.
January 24, 2026 at 8:06 PM
American Fascism is testing the limits of what it can get away with, having already gotten away with a failed coup, we are now well into the rounding people up without due process and extrajudicial executions stage.
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Alex Pretti, the man killed by federal agents today in Minneapolis, appears to have been a registered nurse, an athlete, a son and a brother, with ties to Colorado and Wisconsin.
Here is a photo he used for several accounts.
Here is a photo he used for several accounts.
January 24, 2026 at 7:07 PM
Alex Pretti, the man killed by federal agents today in Minneapolis, appears to have been a registered nurse, an athlete, a son and a brother, with ties to Colorado and Wisconsin.
Here is a photo he used for several accounts.
Here is a photo he used for several accounts.
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In case you missed it: My suggestion that Farage was whispering to Trump behind the scenes while Trump was going after Greenland has been essentially confirmed.
As @jamesdaustin.bsky.social notes: Working against your country's interest with a semi-hostile state - there's a word for that.
As @jamesdaustin.bsky.social notes: Working against your country's interest with a semi-hostile state - there's a word for that.
January 24, 2026 at 7:40 AM
In case you missed it: My suggestion that Farage was whispering to Trump behind the scenes while Trump was going after Greenland has been essentially confirmed.
As @jamesdaustin.bsky.social notes: Working against your country's interest with a semi-hostile state - there's a word for that.
As @jamesdaustin.bsky.social notes: Working against your country's interest with a semi-hostile state - there's a word for that.
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We can all get things wrong, but if I had been this consistently and catastrophically wrong about such important issues I don't think I could carry on publishing my opinions every week.
I'd want to go away and think about how I'd so badly misunderstood the things I write about.
I'd want to go away and think about how I'd so badly misunderstood the things I write about.
January 24, 2026 at 12:16 PM
We can all get things wrong, but if I had been this consistently and catastrophically wrong about such important issues I don't think I could carry on publishing my opinions every week.
I'd want to go away and think about how I'd so badly misunderstood the things I write about.
I'd want to go away and think about how I'd so badly misunderstood the things I write about.
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Thiel, Vance and the Second Coming. Or how to govern a humanity that you despise
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The Veep, the Mogul and the Antichrist
The strange intellectual origins of the new Trumpism
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January 23, 2026 at 3:16 PM
Thiel, Vance and the Second Coming. Or how to govern a humanity that you despise
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open.substack.com/pub/davidaar...
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An observation test for your inner 8-year-old.
You’ll be doing well to spot 12 deliberate mistakes.
From Treasure magazine, 1963
Official answers coming soon
(Even if you don’t reply, could you please ‘like’ or share this one?)
You’ll be doing well to spot 12 deliberate mistakes.
From Treasure magazine, 1963
Official answers coming soon
(Even if you don’t reply, could you please ‘like’ or share this one?)
January 24, 2026 at 8:17 AM
An observation test for your inner 8-year-old.
You’ll be doing well to spot 12 deliberate mistakes.
From Treasure magazine, 1963
Official answers coming soon
(Even if you don’t reply, could you please ‘like’ or share this one?)
You’ll be doing well to spot 12 deliberate mistakes.
From Treasure magazine, 1963
Official answers coming soon
(Even if you don’t reply, could you please ‘like’ or share this one?)
You Are Reviewer 2 by Matthew Murray 🦇
A solo d6-based
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January 23, 2026 at 7:35 AM
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Sky News: Danish PM Mette Freideriksen’s note in the visitors book when she visited UK today
January 23, 2026 at 4:59 AM
Sky News: Danish PM Mette Freideriksen’s note in the visitors book when she visited UK today
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Next week Netanyahu will honour Charlie Kirk as a “fighter against antisemitism” even though Kirk revelled in anti-Jewish conspiracy theories.
My piece on how the Israeli far-right will welcome any racist as long as they hate Muslims more than they hate Jews
comment.press/as220126
My piece on how the Israeli far-right will welcome any racist as long as they hate Muslims more than they hate Jews
comment.press/as220126
Netanyahu, Charlie Kirk and the whitewashing of antisemitism
Jerusalem gives Jew-hate a free pass
comment.press
January 22, 2026 at 7:08 PM
Next week Netanyahu will honour Charlie Kirk as a “fighter against antisemitism” even though Kirk revelled in anti-Jewish conspiracy theories.
My piece on how the Israeli far-right will welcome any racist as long as they hate Muslims more than they hate Jews
comment.press/as220126
My piece on how the Israeli far-right will welcome any racist as long as they hate Muslims more than they hate Jews
comment.press/as220126
Sinners was such a great film. A vampire, delta blues musical with Buddy Guy. What's not to like?
January 22, 2026 at 7:28 PM
Sinners was such a great film. A vampire, delta blues musical with Buddy Guy. What's not to like?
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If only it was Dignitas.
January 20, 2026 at 8:37 PM
If only it was Dignitas.
Let's cut a deal with the great deal maker. The greatest ever. Release the Epstein files fully and unredacted, and Trump can have Greenisland maps.app.goo.gl/uVUjEMgtjV16...
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January 20, 2026 at 6:13 PM
Let's cut a deal with the great deal maker. The greatest ever. Release the Epstein files fully and unredacted, and Trump can have Greenisland maps.app.goo.gl/uVUjEMgtjV16...
Mount Stewart is such a lovely place. Good for the soul. Glad to see Winterwatch setting up camp there.
Join Hannah Stitfall on our first day on location in Northern Ireland at @nationaltrust.org.uk Mount Stewart meeting some of the cutest & most famous residents 🐾🐿️
Our wildlife cams will be live from 10:00 - 22:00 on iPlayer. Chris, Michaela & Iolo are back on BBC Two & iPlayer at 7pm.
#Winterwatch
Our wildlife cams will be live from 10:00 - 22:00 on iPlayer. Chris, Michaela & Iolo are back on BBC Two & iPlayer at 7pm.
#Winterwatch
January 20, 2026 at 4:53 PM
Mount Stewart is such a lovely place. Good for the soul. Glad to see Winterwatch setting up camp there.
Plainly the Norwegian Government needs to play its Nopebell Peace Prize NOPE card from @explodingkittens.bsky.social
January 19, 2026 at 8:37 PM
Plainly the Norwegian Government needs to play its Nopebell Peace Prize NOPE card from @explodingkittens.bsky.social