Dex
@sholingdex.bsky.social
‘Mature’ student at the OU studying astronomy ‘we’re all in the gutter but some of us are looking at stars’
#SaintsFC fan, lager enthusiast
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#SaintsFC fan, lager enthusiast
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Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦
Love this, I was a year out on the last photo!
November 4, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Love this, I was a year out on the last photo!
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Science evolves, but consensus matters.
Don’t confuse openness to revision with carte blanche for misinformation.
Settled science exists - and it matters for policy and public trust.
Read the full article here: www.livescience.com/...
10/10
Don’t confuse openness to revision with carte blanche for misinformation.
Settled science exists - and it matters for policy and public trust.
Read the full article here: www.livescience.com/...
10/10
There is such a thing as 'settled science' — anyone who says otherwise is trying to manipulate you
How bad-faith arguments sow doubt by weaponizing scientific humility.
www.livescience.com
October 28, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Science evolves, but consensus matters.
Don’t confuse openness to revision with carte blanche for misinformation.
Settled science exists - and it matters for policy and public trust.
Read the full article here: www.livescience.com/...
10/10
Don’t confuse openness to revision with carte blanche for misinformation.
Settled science exists - and it matters for policy and public trust.
Read the full article here: www.livescience.com/...
10/10
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“Settled” doesn’t mean 100% certainty - it means overwhelming evidence.
The earth is round.
Vaccines save lives.
These aren’t 50-50 debates.
Uncertainty shouldn't be an excuse for false balance.
www.livescience.com/...
6/10
The earth is round.
Vaccines save lives.
These aren’t 50-50 debates.
Uncertainty shouldn't be an excuse for false balance.
www.livescience.com/...
6/10
'Vaccine rejection is as old as vaccines themselves': Science historian Thomas Levenson on the history of germ theory and its deniers
Live Science spoke with author Thomas Levenson about his new book on the history of germ theory.
www.livescience.com
October 28, 2025 at 8:37 AM
“Settled” doesn’t mean 100% certainty - it means overwhelming evidence.
The earth is round.
Vaccines save lives.
These aren’t 50-50 debates.
Uncertainty shouldn't be an excuse for false balance.
www.livescience.com/...
6/10
The earth is round.
Vaccines save lives.
These aren’t 50-50 debates.
Uncertainty shouldn't be an excuse for false balance.
www.livescience.com/...
6/10
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Shameful. Normalising racism by pretending she might have a point. Dancing the little dance they want you to dance. What’s happened to you? This isn’t journalism. It’s sponsorship.
October 27, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Shameful. Normalising racism by pretending she might have a point. Dancing the little dance they want you to dance. What’s happened to you? This isn’t journalism. It’s sponsorship.
More than a hint of the Black Knight to it
October 28, 2025 at 12:39 AM
More than a hint of the Black Knight to it
Are you being serious?!?!
October 27, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Are you being serious?!?!
Owlma from Greenclaws
October 16, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Owlma from Greenclaws
Pretty sure the football image is West Brom captain Len Millard being presented with the FA Cup in 1954
October 12, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Pretty sure the football image is West Brom captain Len Millard being presented with the FA Cup in 1954
This is the greatest idea I’ve ever heard!
October 4, 2025 at 2:30 PM
This is the greatest idea I’ve ever heard!
I see the odd Perseid at the tail end of summer here in the UK, although typically when the best ones whizz across the sky I’ve popped indoors for a wee or something… a fireball though, wow… v v v jealous!!!
October 2, 2025 at 2:58 AM
I see the odd Perseid at the tail end of summer here in the UK, although typically when the best ones whizz across the sky I’ve popped indoors for a wee or something… a fireball though, wow… v v v jealous!!!