Patrick Fullick
@insect-project.org
unrecovered academic https://fullick.net ~ writer ~ habitually techy ~ InSECT Project team member https://insect-project.org - working to restore trust in science, bolster democracy and counter the erosion of truth 🧪 ✊
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The InSECT Project is developing a new teaching program to bolster democracy and counter the erosion of truth, with science being considered as a form of knowledge alongside arts and humanities knowledge.
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This out-Onions the Onion. Destruction of trust in science is part of the erosion of truth and the attack on democracy.
It’s so laughable that it could be a satire from The Onion.
Unfortunately it seems to be deadly serious.
The US administration tries to destroy real climate science and to replace it with the fossil fuel lobby’s view.
Unfortunately it seems to be deadly serious.
The US administration tries to destroy real climate science and to replace it with the fossil fuel lobby’s view.
I look forward to the legally required, transparent peer review process required by the US Global Change Research Act and the Information Quality Act. I always thought they would try to do a NCA with Judith Curry, five old men and a LLM.
December 23, 2025 at 9:35 AM
This out-Onions the Onion. Destruction of trust in science is part of the erosion of truth and the attack on democracy.
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#OnThisDay in 1872, the expedition of HMS Challenger set sail from Portsmouth, travelling nearly 70,00 nautical miles and cataloguing over 4000 unknown species over 4 years. This pioneering expedition, organised by the Royal Society, laid the foundations of oceanography.
December 21, 2025 at 12:43 PM
#OnThisDay in 1872, the expedition of HMS Challenger set sail from Portsmouth, travelling nearly 70,00 nautical miles and cataloguing over 4000 unknown species over 4 years. This pioneering expedition, organised by the Royal Society, laid the foundations of oceanography.
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Pleonexia. Learn this word. It’s all around us.
As Christmas approaches, I reflect on my word of the year: pleonexia — an ancient Greek term describing the insatiable desire to take more than your fair share, even when it harms others. In 2025, we saw that everywhere.
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The ancient word that explains 2025
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy
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December 22, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Pleonexia. Learn this word. It’s all around us.
We are with you on championing truth in science!
Authoritarian leaders always devalue truth so they can re-define it as whatever they want – this allows them to re-define ‘the will of the people’ to be whatever they want.
Authoritarian leaders always devalue truth so they can re-define it as whatever they want – this allows them to re-define ‘the will of the people’ to be whatever they want.
December 21, 2025 at 2:32 PM
We are with you on championing truth in science!
Authoritarian leaders always devalue truth so they can re-define it as whatever they want – this allows them to re-define ‘the will of the people’ to be whatever they want.
Authoritarian leaders always devalue truth so they can re-define it as whatever they want – this allows them to re-define ‘the will of the people’ to be whatever they want.
Excellent BBC Radio 4 programme about the radicalisation of young women - young women are increasingly moving left and voting green, while their male counterparts move to the right. Some superb insights here.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - Currently, Left Out: the political radicalisation of young women - and the silence surrounding it
A look at the leftwards move of young women and why media and politicians are ignoring it
www.bbc.co.uk
December 21, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Excellent BBC Radio 4 programme about the radicalisation of young women - young women are increasingly moving left and voting green, while their male counterparts move to the right. Some superb insights here.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
“People are looking to escape powerlessness… to regain action and sovereignty and act on things.”
Young people support a move to greater European unity in the face of attacks by Trump and Musk.
www.politico.eu/article/unit...
Young people support a move to greater European unity in the face of attacks by Trump and Musk.
www.politico.eu/article/unit...
Forget the far right. The kids want a ‘United States of Europe.’
Based on social media, the upcoming generation is expressing more European solidarity than the continent has seen in decades.
www.politico.eu
December 19, 2025 at 7:26 AM
“People are looking to escape powerlessness… to regain action and sovereignty and act on things.”
Young people support a move to greater European unity in the face of attacks by Trump and Musk.
www.politico.eu/article/unit...
Young people support a move to greater European unity in the face of attacks by Trump and Musk.
www.politico.eu/article/unit...
Underfunding education damages democracy.
Chronic underfunding of our public education system hurts everyone.
Students lose access to affordable career training, our local economy loses skilled workers, and faculty are forced to teach under impossible conditions.
Students lose access to affordable career training, our local economy loses skilled workers, and faculty are forced to teach under impossible conditions.
'All the walls are falling.' Shoreline Community College plans layoffs
Shoreline Community College is planning layoffs as it faces a $4 million three-year budget deficit.
www.kuow.org
December 19, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Underfunding education damages democracy.
Social media is GenZ's source of information for most things - no reason why investment advice should be any different.
Column: Social media has become the main source of investing advice for millions of young adults. That is very troubling.
Column | 61% of young adults trust social media investing tips. But should they?
Here are five things to consider before heeding the advice of a “finfluencer” on YouTube, TikTok, Instagram or other platform.
wapo.st
December 18, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Social media is GenZ's source of information for most things - no reason why investment advice should be any different.
Particularly important that our young people learn about how science acts as a bolster against totalitarianism, with trusted knowledge about the observable world. 🧪✊
"These findings indicate that building and activating students’ knowledge across subject areas like science, history, and literature is crucial for improving reading skills and that..." (1/2) #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky
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December 17, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Particularly important that our young people learn about how science acts as a bolster against totalitarianism, with trusted knowledge about the observable world. 🧪✊
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Closing this world-leading climate research centre would be a disaster for the science of climate and our understanding of climate change - which gets more important to everyone, every day. I spent a formative couple of weeks there in 2013, it was welcoming, open, classy, excellent and beautiful.
Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
bit.ly
December 17, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Closing this world-leading climate research centre would be a disaster for the science of climate and our understanding of climate change - which gets more important to everyone, every day. I spent a formative couple of weeks there in 2013, it was welcoming, open, classy, excellent and beautiful.
UK set to rejoin EU Erasmus scheme.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
UK to rejoin EU’s Erasmus student exchange programme
Exclusive: British students will be able to participate in EU-wide scheme from January 2027, sources say
www.theguardian.com
December 17, 2025 at 5:06 AM
UK set to rejoin EU Erasmus scheme.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
The latest direct attack on science 🧪 - US administration moves to break up NCAR in Boulder CO, one of the world's leading climate research labs.
eu.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
eu.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
December 17, 2025 at 5:00 AM
The latest direct attack on science 🧪 - US administration moves to break up NCAR in Boulder CO, one of the world's leading climate research labs.
eu.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
eu.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
Thanks to all new followers - your support and interest is much appreciated! Am in the process of following back!
December 16, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Thanks to all new followers - your support and interest is much appreciated! Am in the process of following back!
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This documentary captures the destruction of the past year at NIH and so many agencies. It’s an important watch.
If you’ve ever worked inside a federal agency, or know someone who has, you already know this kind of purging weakens our country.
HEIST documents how institutions are dismantled from the inside out.
Watch the full documentary on YouTube. And visit the website at www.heistthedocumentary.film
HEIST documents how institutions are dismantled from the inside out.
Watch the full documentary on YouTube. And visit the website at www.heistthedocumentary.film
December 16, 2025 at 4:15 AM
This documentary captures the destruction of the past year at NIH and so many agencies. It’s an important watch.
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Well, this is an utter disaster for science.
This gutting of peer review is very likely driven by Project 2025/OMB/Vought, very likely is about funding junk science, and very likely is coming for #NIH and biomedical research next.
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This gutting of peer review is very likely driven by Project 2025/OMB/Vought, very likely is about funding junk science, and very likely is coming for #NIH and biomedical research next.
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December 16, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Well, this is an utter disaster for science.
This gutting of peer review is very likely driven by Project 2025/OMB/Vought, very likely is about funding junk science, and very likely is coming for #NIH and biomedical research next.
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This gutting of peer review is very likely driven by Project 2025/OMB/Vought, very likely is about funding junk science, and very likely is coming for #NIH and biomedical research next.
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Gov. Gavin Newsom announced on Monday that California has hired two former leaders of the CDC who accused the Trump administration of abandoning scientific standards.
California Hires Former C.D.C. Officials Who Criticized Trump Administration
A former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and a former chief medical officer of the agency will advise the state on public health issues.
nyti.ms
December 16, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Gov. Gavin Newsom announced on Monday that California has hired two former leaders of the CDC who accused the Trump administration of abandoning scientific standards.
"The tactic of dictators ... is to erode truth because it constrains their interpretations of the national will; dictators want to destroy truth so they can be in a position to re-define it as whatever they want and thus redefine ‘the will of the people’ as whatever they want."
InSECT Project credo.
InSECT Project credo.
December 16, 2025 at 3:27 AM
"The tactic of dictators ... is to erode truth because it constrains their interpretations of the national will; dictators want to destroy truth so they can be in a position to re-define it as whatever they want and thus redefine ‘the will of the people’ as whatever they want."
InSECT Project credo.
InSECT Project credo.
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We've just published our third set of resources for schools in our series to help teachers to explain to students how scientists find the truth about the observable world. 🧪
"The experimenter’s regress – gravitational waves" is available at insect-project.org now! #EduSky
"The experimenter’s regress – gravitational waves" is available at insect-project.org now! #EduSky
December 11, 2025 at 12:40 PM
We've just published our third set of resources for schools in our series to help teachers to explain to students how scientists find the truth about the observable world. 🧪
"The experimenter’s regress – gravitational waves" is available at insect-project.org now! #EduSky
"The experimenter’s regress – gravitational waves" is available at insect-project.org now! #EduSky
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"Bluesky is an echo chamber."
"Bluesky doesn't have enough reach"
"Liberals must return to X to challenge the far right"
I'm not a tech bro or a journalist. Your priorities are not my priorities. Stop telling me I need to do anything other than chat about comics & telly with people who seem nice.
"Bluesky doesn't have enough reach"
"Liberals must return to X to challenge the far right"
I'm not a tech bro or a journalist. Your priorities are not my priorities. Stop telling me I need to do anything other than chat about comics & telly with people who seem nice.
December 15, 2025 at 10:12 AM
"Bluesky is an echo chamber."
"Bluesky doesn't have enough reach"
"Liberals must return to X to challenge the far right"
I'm not a tech bro or a journalist. Your priorities are not my priorities. Stop telling me I need to do anything other than chat about comics & telly with people who seem nice.
"Bluesky doesn't have enough reach"
"Liberals must return to X to challenge the far right"
I'm not a tech bro or a journalist. Your priorities are not my priorities. Stop telling me I need to do anything other than chat about comics & telly with people who seem nice.
"The broader context was that those agitating for crazy ideas, like (checks notes) an end to slavery, votes, votes for women etc etc are always ignored, and once they can’t be ignored are repressed and smeared. That’s just the way it is."
Kudos! 👌
Kudos! 👌
also, "natural" is such a stupid word. Bubonic plague is natural. Cobra venom is natural. WTAF.
December 15, 2025 at 10:40 AM
"The broader context was that those agitating for crazy ideas, like (checks notes) an end to slavery, votes, votes for women etc etc are always ignored, and once they can’t be ignored are repressed and smeared. That’s just the way it is."
Kudos! 👌
Kudos! 👌
As @dr-lungs.bsky.social observes in this 🧵, #vaccines meant that he saw virtually NONE of the infectious diseases that were common up to the second half of last century in the entirety of his professional practice.
Ain't 🧪 wonderful?
Defend trust in science! ✊🧪
Ain't 🧪 wonderful?
Defend trust in science! ✊🧪
Retired physician here.
In 38 Yr career 1984-2022 my experience:
Measles - 0 cases
Mumps - 0
Rubella - 0
Polio - 0 active. Few post polio paralysis in Nepal, 0 in UK
Whooping Cough - 0
Tetanus - 2 or 3 cases in Nepal, 0 in UK
Meningococcal- several cases in 1980s (before vaccine available. 0 since)
In 38 Yr career 1984-2022 my experience:
Measles - 0 cases
Mumps - 0
Rubella - 0
Polio - 0 active. Few post polio paralysis in Nepal, 0 in UK
Whooping Cough - 0
Tetanus - 2 or 3 cases in Nepal, 0 in UK
Meningococcal- several cases in 1980s (before vaccine available. 0 since)
🚨new Indie SAGE report on childhood diseases!
🧵Vaccines have been so successful that once common diseases are now so rare that even many doctors might never see a case.
In this report we describe 12 diseases, their consequences & impact of vaccines 1/15
independentsage.org/report/preve...
🧵Vaccines have been so successful that once common diseases are now so rare that even many doctors might never see a case.
In this report we describe 12 diseases, their consequences & impact of vaccines 1/15
independentsage.org/report/preve...
December 15, 2025 at 9:56 AM
As @dr-lungs.bsky.social observes in this 🧵, #vaccines meant that he saw virtually NONE of the infectious diseases that were common up to the second half of last century in the entirety of his professional practice.
Ain't 🧪 wonderful?
Defend trust in science! ✊🧪
Ain't 🧪 wonderful?
Defend trust in science! ✊🧪
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Drip, drip, drip, the anti-science ideologous will attack all vaccines and keep lying.
No vaccine or infection can prevent (re)infection! Vaccines reduce the risk of primary and secondary disease due to infection.
No vaccine or infection can prevent (re)infection! Vaccines reduce the risk of primary and secondary disease due to infection.
December 15, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Drip, drip, drip, the anti-science ideologous will attack all vaccines and keep lying.
No vaccine or infection can prevent (re)infection! Vaccines reduce the risk of primary and secondary disease due to infection.
No vaccine or infection can prevent (re)infection! Vaccines reduce the risk of primary and secondary disease due to infection.
"The trend comes at a time of growing vaccine hesitancy and science denial. Wellness influencers have fueled skepticism by characterizing the vitamin K shot as unnecessary and questioning its lab-made ingredients ..."
It just gets more and more stupid.
It just gets more and more stupid.
Vitamin K shots are not the same as vaccines. Babies are born with very low levels of vitamin K, necessary for blood clots, leaving them at risk for severe bleeding early in life.
One in 60 babies are at risk for developing a Vit K deficiency.
🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/vita...
One in 60 babies are at risk for developing a Vit K deficiency.
🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/vita...
A Vitamin Shot Given at Birth Prevents Lethal Brain Bleeds, but More Parents Are Opting Out
Vitamin K injections have prevented deadly brain bleeds in infants for more than 60 years. New research shows refusal rates have recently jumped nearly 80 percent
www.scientificamerican.com
December 14, 2025 at 7:07 PM
"The trend comes at a time of growing vaccine hesitancy and science denial. Wellness influencers have fueled skepticism by characterizing the vitamin K shot as unnecessary and questioning its lab-made ingredients ..."
It just gets more and more stupid.
It just gets more and more stupid.
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The renewable energy transition is global. Lack of progress in one nation may slow it, but it will not stop it. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋
The U.S. may be dragging its feet, but the rest of the world is not waiting on renewables. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋 www.wri.org/insights/sta...
The State of Clean Energy, in 10 Charts
We explore the data to see where the clean energy transition stands today, from rising investment and job growth to grid needs and critical mineral demand.
www.wri.org
December 14, 2025 at 10:34 AM
The renewable energy transition is global. Lack of progress in one nation may slow it, but it will not stop it. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋