John Whitfield
@johnwhitfield.bsky.social
(Science) journalist and author.
Opinion editor, Research Professional News.
Books: Lost Animals; People Will Talk ; In the Beat of a Heart.
www.johnwhitfield.co.uk
Opinion editor, Research Professional News.
Books: Lost Animals; People Will Talk ; In the Beat of a Heart.
www.johnwhitfield.co.uk
There seem to be other options
November 12, 2025 at 11:52 AM
There seem to be other options
Rogue Nation is my favourite MI movie, though.
September 23, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Rogue Nation is my favourite MI movie, though.
Under-developed thought: the emergence of the far right in the UK owes something to the death of the queen and the weakening of the sentiment that Clement Attlee describes here
September 18, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Under-developed thought: the emergence of the far right in the UK owes something to the death of the queen and the weakening of the sentiment that Clement Attlee describes here
How it started, etc., as the kids say.
September 18, 2025 at 8:30 AM
How it started, etc., as the kids say.
This brought to mind a recent conversation about the tendency of some media coverage to attribute things published in Nature not to their authors, but to Nature as some kind of authoritative entity. www.ft.com/content/55bc... [£]
June 16, 2025 at 10:06 AM
This brought to mind a recent conversation about the tendency of some media coverage to attribute things published in Nature not to their authors, but to Nature as some kind of authoritative entity. www.ft.com/content/55bc... [£]
It's the week that the @resprofnews.bsky.social opinion section shows its love for @armauk.bsky.social, ahead of next week's annual meeting. Thanks to everyone involved. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/category/opi...
June 12, 2025 at 9:22 AM
It's the week that the @resprofnews.bsky.social opinion section shows its love for @armauk.bsky.social, ahead of next week's annual meeting. Thanks to everyone involved. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/category/opi...
"If contribution is the new currency of migration, then the system must be designed to recognise and reward it—not delay it, price it out, or push it elsewhere." Shuyeb Muquit writing on last week's white paper at @resprofnews.bsky.social [£]
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May 20, 2025 at 11:02 AM
"If contribution is the new currency of migration, then the system must be designed to recognise and reward it—not delay it, price it out, or push it elsewhere." Shuyeb Muquit writing on last week's white paper at @resprofnews.bsky.social [£]
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It's Inorms/Earma conference week at @resprofnews.bsky.social: www.researchprofessionalnews.com/category/opi...
May 6, 2025 at 11:16 AM
It's Inorms/Earma conference week at @resprofnews.bsky.social: www.researchprofessionalnews.com/category/opi...
For what peak journalistic jamminess looked like, Graydon Carter's recent memoir will serve.
May 2, 2025 at 12:11 PM
For what peak journalistic jamminess looked like, Graydon Carter's recent memoir will serve.
Can I get a blurb quote from LibGen?
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
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March 21, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Can I get a blurb quote from LibGen?
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
I wouldn't have put funding first in this list, but still strong words from the Royal Society. royalsociety.org/news/2025/02...
February 25, 2025 at 2:40 PM
I wouldn't have put funding first in this list, but still strong words from the Royal Society. royalsociety.org/news/2025/02...
EU's planned megafund would be all kinds of wrong for research and innovation, writes @palmowski.bsky.social www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-euro...
February 21, 2025 at 9:18 AM
EU's planned megafund would be all kinds of wrong for research and innovation, writes @palmowski.bsky.social www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-euro...
The scientific literature is a workplace - and it needs better occupational safety. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-euro...
@jabyrnesci.bsky.social writing in @resprofnews.bsky.social
@jabyrnesci.bsky.social writing in @resprofnews.bsky.social
February 21, 2025 at 9:12 AM
The scientific literature is a workplace - and it needs better occupational safety. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-euro...
@jabyrnesci.bsky.social writing in @resprofnews.bsky.social
@jabyrnesci.bsky.social writing in @resprofnews.bsky.social
We will look back on these as the years when it was hard to tell if you were reading the news or the lyrics to Nelly the Elephant.
February 3, 2025 at 9:36 AM
We will look back on these as the years when it was hard to tell if you were reading the news or the lyrics to Nelly the Elephant.
...and also David Walker, writing after Boris Johnson resigned on how, when good-chaps government gives way to a court, the academic establishment risks becoming a stooge: "Official science is still polite, because chaps are polite".
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January 21, 2025 at 10:59 AM
...and also David Walker, writing after Boris Johnson resigned on how, when good-chaps government gives way to a court, the academic establishment risks becoming a stooge: "Official science is still polite, because chaps are polite".
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Judging from the Guardian's coverage, the Australian Open is seeing an unusual amount of evisceration
January 16, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Judging from the Guardian's coverage, the Australian Open is seeing an unusual amount of evisceration
Thanks to @aeon.co for making my piece on ant geopolitics one of their highlights of 2024. Good to see it was popular! aeon.co/essays/the-s...
January 7, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Thanks to @aeon.co for making my piece on ant geopolitics one of their highlights of 2024. Good to see it was popular! aeon.co/essays/the-s...
The UK's 'cross-party consensus' on science policy is cross party, but it's not a consensus. @williamcb.bsky.social on Dorothy Bishop's resignation from the Royal Society and the increasingly strained relationship between science, politics and tech. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...
December 11, 2024 at 10:09 AM
The UK's 'cross-party consensus' on science policy is cross party, but it's not a consensus. @williamcb.bsky.social on Dorothy Bishop's resignation from the Royal Society and the increasingly strained relationship between science, politics and tech. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...
Conservation biology has an idea called shifting baseline syndrome that speaks to this.
December 4, 2024 at 9:20 AM
Conservation biology has an idea called shifting baseline syndrome that speaks to this.
