Alom Shaha

Hope you can recuperate quickly over the weekend

Donating to my stupid run for @mariecurieuk.bsky.social is one small way you can help. www.justgiving.com/page/richard...

Pretty difficult to refute a single thing in this perfect assessment of where the f**k we are, from @iandunt.bsky.social:

I'd go further. I read (and quickly give up) so many nonfiction books that should just be like 3 articles instead. But then my general position is that publishers should produce fewer books

How Flightradar24 became the go-to platform for the world to watch global aviation crises unfold The Swedish flight tracking tool, spun out of a price comparison portal, is tracking the travel chaos sparked by the US-Israel war on Iran in real time

it's a shame this piece doesn't mention at all the nerds like me who build receivers (it's pretty straightforward if you're somewhat techie) and feed the data to @flightradar24.com. It's data crowdsourcing at its best; you get a free premium account in return; everyone benefits.

How the ocean shapes our world | Helen Czerski | Humanists UK Convention 2025 YouTube video by Humanists UK

We were privileged to have Helen lecture at our Convention in Sheffield last year. Discover the ocean’s vast engine: how it works, why it matters, and the many ways it has shaped animals, weather, and human history and culture. Watch now on our YouTube channel.

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'Standing up against the assumption that Earth is simple and will bend to our will is fundamentally a humanist thing to do'. Read this Humanist Climate Action interview with Dr Helen Czerski, our patron, ocean physicist, and author of 'Blue Machine'. humanists.uk/2026/03/06/h...

You should be my agent ;)

That’s very kind of you to say

Thank you.

So good, Henry. Omg these people are straight out of pg Wodehouse but somehow less amusing. (Article v amusing tho)

Cannot tell you how depressing it is to read that people are simply refusing to read nonfiction after you’ve worked really hard to write a nonfiction book you believe in, in case anyone is wondering why I’m posting so much about my book which comes out in a few weeks #BookSky

Also worth noting that there is going to be a *lot* more of this pushing the simplistic idea that the Greens are nothing more than a left-wing mirror image of Reform, and where it isn’t just lazy it will seldom be in good faith

Honestly, I have not paid for Aine to post this.

Thank you - I know people aged 8 to 80 have read and enjoyed it. I have no idea at what age one might enjoy it most.

The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-lo...

Crucial and powerful essay by @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social. Lest we forget.
www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...

Thank you :)

Honestly, I have not paid for Aine to post this.

You’ll have to forgive me for the book promo posts - it’s British Science Week and while you may not care about that, you should care about having some understanding of what is arguably our greatest cultural achievement (no, I don’t want to argue, go read my book).

Oh but it’s a cool looking costume. (Sigh).

I know that if I live long enough, I‘ll look back and think my “life’s work“ has been being a parent. But my other, less important, work has been about trying to help more people understand and appreciate science and I’m glad there’s a physical representation of that in this book:

Have spent 25+ years teaching and communicating science, often to people who have little interest or knowledge of science. Have helped many prominent scientists and science institutions communicate their work to the public. Wrote this book for people who didn‘t understand / enjoy science at school:

I remember a lot of frustration from keen readers about the hassle of finding a book they could identify a character from that they could dress up as

Saw it last Saturday and enjoyed it very much. Sort of play that I would have loved to have studied at school.

I have found my soul mate

It's also a bit galling coming across as the stick-in-the-mud while all the kids in football kits and inflatable dinosaur costumes caper about irrelevantly...

It’s been commodified, which is why so many kids are wearing Disney etc stuff. Sure there are Disney books, but this stuff feeds into the licensing machine. And it annoys me because (homemade, home sourced charity shop) dress ups are super fun

Well, in her defence, Taylor Swift has sold more books than me. Although the student would’ve looked better dress as me, obviously.

I had this exact rant at the dinner table last night 😂

It's "which book can I find that will let me dress up as x" rather than "let me tell you about my favourite book"