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Every year around Thanksgiving, I see tons of grad students post heartbreaking messages on social media about how their loved ones don’t understand or support their decision to study what seems like something pointless or silly.

Perhaps my American Scientist essay can help!

🧪🌎🦑 #SciComm
“Why Are We Funding This?”
Long-standing myths about “silly science” have contributed to the reckless slashing of government-supported research.
www.americanscientist.org
November 25, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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Not a great few days for Nigel Farage and his party
November 25, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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Reform UK’s ‘Cost Cutting’ Council Kent Prepares to Raise Taxes After Presiding Over £46 Million Overspend

bylinetimes.com/2025/11/24/r...

#KemkaranMustGo
Reform UK's 'Cost Cutting' Council Prepares to Raise Taxes After Presiding Over £46 Million Overspend
Nigel Farage's flagship Kent County Council, which promised to "reduce waste and cut your taxes" is set to raise bills on local taxpayers, after spending tens of millions of pounds over its budget
bylinetimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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Zia Yusuf just refused 5 times to condemn Nigel Farage's statement last year that "we [NATO and the EU] provoked this war".

2 days ago Reform's former Welsh leader was sent down for taking pro-Russian bribes. Yet they're still happy to go along with Kremlin talking points.
November 23, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Pressure grows on Nigel Farage after ex-leader of Reform UK in Wales jailed

There are calls for an investigation into Reform UK's alleged Russian links after the sentencing of Nathan Gill
Pressure grows on Nigel Farage after ex-leader of Reform UK in Wales jailed
There are calls for an investigation into Reform UK&apos;s alleged Russian links after the sentencing of <span>Nathan Gill</span>
www.walesonline.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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Whilst it’s still hilarious really all that’s happened is they’ve scuttled off to Reform

Brexit & Farage the best investments Putin ever made
November 22, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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Reform has a Russia problem.

Fáragë has a Russia problem.

Lee Anderson's problem is nobody told him there was Russian money available.
November 21, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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I want A.I. to do my admin and laundry while I write and illustrate books. I don't want A.I. to write and illustrate books while I do my admin and laundry.
November 21, 2025 at 9:46 AM
@OFGEN @SkyNews I am sick to death of energy companies saying there is no way of storing renewable energy. Utter BS you can use excess energy to generate hydrogen gas by splitting water - store it in tanks then burn that in gas fired stations to generate electricity. Using the same power stations.
November 21, 2025 at 10:52 AM
This is big: Michelle Mone is being forced to pay back £122m after supplying poor quality protective gear to our NHS during the pandemic. But she STILL hasn't been kicked out of the House of Lords. Mone has to go. Agree? Sign the petition today:
November 19, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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He lived until 1980. A "misunderstood victim and hero" in his own mind to the end, and when he died, the obituaries in some quarters were downright gushing.

A truly appalling human being.
#OnThisDay 1943: wonderfully acidic Zec cartoon on the news that the British fascist leader, Oswald Mosley, was being released from prison on the grounds of ill-health...
November 19, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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As Richard Tice says, Reform have identified £300m of savings from councils they run. This remarkable feat has been achieved by plucking that figure out of thin air while increasing council tax by 5%.
November 17, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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Can't help but feel those responsible for Brexit should not, for example, be riding high in the polls with a new party...
November 17, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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November 17, 2025 at 8:15 PM
The absolute brass neck of the Tories talking about Labour infighting - just review their history. No wonder nothing gets done under the Tories.
Another very pertinent fact that I have not seen mentioned ANYWHERE: In 14 years of Tory rule we had 14 Prisons Ministers - six in a single year, at one point - and a total of 11 Justice Secretaries, including Grayling, Raab, and Truss. In 13 years of Labour it was three: Irvine, Falconer, Straw. 🤔
November 12, 2025 at 1:51 PM
@skynewsrss.bsky.social the Tories cannot comprehend that a party in government isn’t fighting like rats in a sack - I suppose it’s all the Tories can do.
November 12, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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November 9, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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I am an atheist, but I like this Pope!
November 8, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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Another very pertinent fact that I have not seen mentioned ANYWHERE: In 14 years of Tory rule we had 14 Prisons Ministers - six in a single year, at one point - and a total of 11 Justice Secretaries, including Grayling, Raab, and Truss. In 13 years of Labour it was three: Irvine, Falconer, Straw. 🤔
November 9, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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Farage is now facing an Official Parliamentary Standards investigation over funding , records, donations from foreign sources.

So crooked , if he swallowed a nail he would shit a corkscrew.
November 5, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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November 6, 2025 at 11:24 AM
@skynewsrss.bsky.social of course never mention the tens of thousands of failed asylum applicants that the govt with Jenrick as immigration minister lost all trace of.
November 6, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Reform is a racist party - they have no other purpose. They are fascists. They will run out of enemies to blame like the Tories did but they’ll come for everyone.
Nigel Farage's favoured Mayoral candidate for Doncaster said black people cannot be English.

Reform councillor Alexander Jones claimed being English requires Anglo-Saxon ‘lineage’.

The messages were deleted after questions were raised by Byline Times

bylinetimes.com/2025/11/05/n...
Nigel Farage's Chosen Reform Mayoral Candidate Suggested Black Britons Can’t Be English
The party's candidate for Mayor of Doncaster claimed being English requires Anglo-Saxon 'lineage' and attacked 'third world cultures' in now-deleted posts
bylinetimes.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Bare faced cheek of Robert Jenrick who in govt as Justice Minister caused the collapse of the justice system and chronic overcrowding of jails - bleating about the current govt mid-releasing prisoners. He should be in jail for his corruption.
November 6, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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Chris Philp opens by gymnastically framing the train attack with relation to asylum seekers, concludes that the reason for knife crime is foreigners in prison, then LOSES HIS RAG when LibDem Home Affairs spox @maxwilkinson.bsky.social pulls him up on it.

"Withdraw! Withdraw!" Utter clown. 🤡 ~AA
November 3, 2025 at 6:42 PM