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Opening self-congratulation by #UCL and #RoyalSociety proved to be misplaced.
(Yes, they included my obvious question, but in a bunch of 3 at the end - it was not answered.)
Chair #MarkMiodownik briefly mentioned #climateandnatureEmergency in his summing up, but only by referring to 'the elephant in the room' - having allowed a couple of facetious comments about future lack of snow for ski-ing, plus a mention of 'let's not do doom'; left feeling simultaneously entertained and insulted.

Opening self-congratulation by #UCL and #RoyalSociety proved to be misplaced.
(Yes, they included my obvious question, but in a bunch of 3 at the end - it was not answered.)
Chair #MarkMiodownik briefly mentioned #climateandnatureEmergency in his summing up, but only by referring to 'the elephant in the room' - having allowed a couple of facetious comments about future lack of snow for ski-ing, plus a mention of 'let's not do doom'; left feeling simultaneously entertained and insulted.

Opening self-congratulation by #UCL and #RoyalSociety proved to be misplaced.
(Yes, they included my obvious question, but in a bunch of 3 at the end - it was not answered.)
Chair #MarkMiodownik briefly mentioned #climateandnatureEmergency in his summing up, but only by referring to 'the elephant in the room' - having allowed a couple of facetious comments about future lack of snow for ski-ing, plus a mention of 'let's not do doom'; left feeling simultaneously entertained and insulted.

Opening self-congratulation by #UCL and #RoyalSociety proved to be misplaced.
(Yes, they included my obvious question, but in a bunch of 3 at the end - it was not answered.)
Chair #MarkMiodownik briefly mentioned #climateandnatureEmergency in his summing up, but only by referring to 'the elephant in the room' - having allowed a couple of facetious comments about future lack of snow for ski-ing, plus a mention of 'let's not do doom'; left feeling simultaneously entertained and insulted.

Opening self-congratulation by #UCL and #RoyalSociety proved to be misplaced.
(Yes, they included my obvious question, but in a bunch of 3 at the end - it was not answered.)
Chair #MarkMiodownik briefly mentioned #climateandnatureEmergency in his summing up, but only by referring to 'the elephant in the room' - having allowed a couple of facetious comments about future lack of snow for ski-ing, plus a mention of 'let's not do doom'; left feeling simultaneously entertained and insulted.

Et si les arbres nous parlaient depuis toujours ?

Ils ne crient pas, ne bougent presque pas... en apparence... et pourtant les arbres communiquent.
Sous nos pieds, dans l’air, à travers leurs racines et les champignons, une véritable conversation silencieuse s’organise.
Science ou poésie ?
Les dernières recherches dévoilent un monde végétal bien plus vivant et connecté qu’on ne l’imagine. Entraide, alertes, mémoire collective... les forêts auraient-elles leur propre langage ?
Après cette lecture, impossible de traverser une forêt sans écouter son silence.

https://librexpression.fr/est-ce-que-les-arbres-sont-de-grands-bavards

#alberta #arbre #bioelectric #broceliande #champignon #communication #epinette #foret #France #gevaudan #langage #legendes #librexpression #nature #naturelovers #royalsociety

(Crédits : Peter Jochim/Pexels)

Et si les arbres nous parlaient depuis toujours ?

Ils ne crient pas, ne bougent presque pas... en apparence... et pourtant les arbres communiquent.
Sous nos pieds, dans l’air, à travers leurs racines et les champignons, une véritable conversation silencieuse s’organise.
Science ou poésie ?
Les dernières recherches dévoilent un monde végétal bien plus vivant et connecté qu’on ne l’imagine. Entraide, alertes, mémoire collective... les forêts auraient-elles leur propre langage ?
Après cette lecture, impossible de traverser une forêt sans écouter son silence.

https://librexpression.fr/est-ce-que-les-arbres-sont-de-grands-bavards

#alberta #arbre #bioelectric #broceliande #champignon #communication #epinette #foret #France #gevaudan #langage #legendes #librexpression #nature #naturelovers #royalsociety

(Crédits : Peter Jochim/Pexels)

Et si les arbres nous parlaient depuis toujours ?

Ils ne crient pas, ne bougent presque pas... en apparence... et pourtant les arbres communiquent.
Sous nos pieds, dans l’air, à travers leurs racines et les champignons, une véritable conversation silencieuse s’organise.
Science ou poésie ?
Les dernières recherches dévoilent un monde végétal bien plus vivant et connecté qu’on ne l’imagine. Entraide, alertes, mémoire collective... les forêts auraient-elles leur propre langage ?
Après cette lecture, impossible de traverser une forêt sans écouter son silence.

https://librexpression.fr/est-ce-que-les-arbres-sont-de-grands-bavards

#alberta #arbre #bioelectric #broceliande #champignon #communication #epinette #foret #France #gevaudan #langage #legendes #librexpression #nature #naturelovers #royalsociety

(Crédits : Peter Jochim/Pexels)

Et si les arbres nous parlaient depuis toujours ?

Ils ne crient pas, ne bougent presque pas... en apparence... et pourtant les arbres communiquent.
Sous nos pieds, dans l’air, à travers leurs racines et les champignons, une véritable conversation silencieuse s’organise.
Science ou poésie ?
Les dernières recherches dévoilent un monde végétal bien plus vivant et connecté qu’on ne l’imagine. Entraide, alertes, mémoire collective... les forêts auraient-elles leur propre langage ?
Après cette lecture, impossible de traverser une forêt sans écouter son silence.

https://librexpression.fr/est-ce-que-les-arbres-sont-de-grands-bavards

#alberta #arbre #bioelectric #broceliande #champignon #communication #epinette #foret #France #gevaudan #langage #legendes #librexpression #nature #naturelovers #royalsociety

(Crédits : Peter Jochim/Pexels)

Google Blog: Explore Benjamin Franklin’s scientific discoveries on NotebookLM. “A true polymath, his ingenuity shaped American democracy and human knowledge. This spirit of innovation drives a new collaboration between the Royal Society (the UK’s national academy of sciences), Google Arts & Culture and Google NotebookLM to launch a Featured Notebook called The Science of Benjamin Franklin.”

Google Blog: Explore Benjamin Franklin’s scientific discoveries on NotebookLM. “A true polymath, his ingenuity shaped American democracy and human knowledge. This spirit of innovation drives a new collaboration between the Royal Society (the UK’s national academy of sciences), Google Arts & Culture and Google NotebookLM to launch a Featured Notebook called The Science of Benjamin Franklin.”

Google Blog: Explore Benjamin Franklin’s scientific discoveries on NotebookLM. “A true polymath, his ingenuity shaped American democracy and human knowledge. This spirit of innovation drives a new collaboration between the Royal Society (the UK’s national academy of sciences), Google Arts & Culture and Google NotebookLM to launch a Featured Notebook called The Science of Benjamin Franklin.”

Google Blog: Explore Benjamin Franklin’s scientific discoveries on NotebookLM. “A true polymath, his ingenuity shaped American democracy and human knowledge. This spirit of innovation drives a new collaboration between the Royal Society (the UK’s national academy of sciences), Google Arts & Culture and Google NotebookLM to launch a Featured Notebook called The Science of Benjamin Franklin.”

Google Blog: Explore Benjamin Franklin’s scientific discoveries on NotebookLM. “A true polymath, his ingenuity shaped American democracy and human knowledge. This spirit of innovation drives a new collaboration between the Royal Society (the UK’s national academy of sciences), Google Arts & Culture and Google NotebookLM to launch a Featured Notebook called The Science of Benjamin Franklin.”

@mfeilner
Das ist die #RoyalSociety die sich mit Elon #Musk schmückt, oder?

Attended “In the Cloud” how the Met Office are using the Cloud and AI to transform weather and climate intelligence.
Hosted by the Royal Society.

Fascinating talks and demos. Obviously the best was the LLM to Shipping Forecast generator.

#metoffice #cloud #data #ai #hpc #science #royalsociety

"In the face of the daily degradation of public discourse by lies, deceit and conspiracy theories transmitted across social media, many of them touching on scientific matters such as vaccines, climate science and the wealth of human diversity, the Royal Society stands almost mute."
— @StephenCurry writing at https://occamstypewriter.org/scurry/2026/02/11/year-of-inaction-royal-society-hollowed-out-musk/

#RoyalSociety

"The leadership of the Royal Society is now also in breach of its own code of conduct."
— @StephenCurry writing at https://occamstypewriter.org/scurry/2026/02/11/year-of-inaction-royal-society-hollowed-out-musk/

#RoyalSociety

Vast amounts of work at the science-policy interface – countless statements, declarations, reports, committees, events and workshops – are not seemingly leading to policy action at anything like the scale needed. Scientists in a global emergency - London's #RoyalSociety March 18th #globalemergency
https://www.foundation.org.uk/Events/2026/From-publication-to-public-action-the-case-for-res

Update. @StephenCurry just wrote an excellent piece reminding the #RoyalSociety of the many ways that #ElonMusk violated its code of ethics. Expelling him needn't be based on political disagreements. Citing the principle that fellows should be free to disagree about politics willfully misses the point.
https://occamstypewriter.org/scurry/2026/02/11/year-of-inaction-royal-society-hollowed-out-musk/

@jmbecologist
And even London's #RoyalSociety have published on this. If #scientists don't speak out, why should anyone else acknowledge the #climateandnatureEmergency
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article/11/7/240411/93103/Actions-speak-louder-than-words-the-case-for

Got a survey from the Royal Society:

• of course, they forgot Mastodon in their list of "where do you get information about new articles". I added it in the "other" box!

• "what would make me recommend Royal Society journals to my colleagues?" Obviously, cutting all ties with Elon Musk, the nazi destroyer of science and our planet!

(Yes, they still have him as a fellow and this is their latest defense: Royal Society president reignites Elon Musk row by defending lack of action

#RoyalSociety #Musk

Update. In a new open letter, UCambridge prof #RachelOliver criticizes #PaulNurse, president of the #RoyalSociety, for proposing to change the society's code of conduct so that Fellows (like #ElonMusk and #TimHunt) could only be expelled for scientific misconduct, and not (e.g.) for sexual misconduct.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/18poQruZ9oImg-4SUH-P-1JAdqFdf1HCx/view

It's just Men telling Women to 'shut up and be quiet' when they raise concerns about other male members. Haven't we heard this all so many times before?

#RoyalSociety #Misogyny #Patriarchy #Science #ElonMusk #Musk

The feebleness and cowardice is indeed 'depressing', for we see it everywhere don't we?

#RoyalSociety #ElonMusk #Musk #Cowardice #Quislings #Appeasement

"Evil Prospers When Good Men (People?) Do Nothing

The inherent misogyny of the Royal Society is quite something, isn't it? "WE'RE MEN OF SCIENCE!"

#RoyalSociety #ElonMusk #Musk #Misogyny

"Please, our Boys Club is far more important than all your petty troubles, we're MEN OF SCIENCE!"

Fucking cowards with dodgy search histories....

#RoyalSociety #Patriarchy #Misogyny #ElonMusk #Musk

The Royal Society turns a blind eye to Elon Musk so we should turn a blind eye to the Royal Society

Stale, pale and male.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jan/14/royal-society-president-reignites-elon-musk-row-defends-lack-of-action

#RoyalSociety #ElonMusk #Musk #GrokAI #CSAM #Misogyny #SexualViolence #NonConPorn

Perverse, contradictory self-justification: "...the Royal Society’s actual job, defending the conditions for science in Britain" is being undermined not by the row, but by the actions of the man in question - quite apart from his continued Fellowship.
#RoyalSociety #Musk
And good to see quote from @sellathechemist
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jan/14/royal-society-president-reignites-elon-musk-row-defends-lack-of-action

#RoyalSociety president reignites Elon #Musk row by defending lack of action - https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jan/14/royal-society-president-reignites-elon-musk-row-defends-lack-of-action #nurse is clueless; he should go

Royal Society president reignites Elon Musk row by defending lack of action https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jan/14/royal-society-president-reignites-elon-musk-row-defends-lack-of-action #RoyalSociety #ElonMusk #Science #Technology #GrokAi #AiArtificialIntelligence #X

Bunch of heroes they are /s

#RoyalSociety

RE: https://halo.nu/@theguardian_science/115876260531101140

"Nobody wants to stand up to Elon Musk, we fear his reprisals"

The Royal Society is a bit fucked then....or maybe just too weak and male?

#RoyalSociety #ElonMusk #Musk #Patriarchy

RE: https://mastodon.social/@sellathechemist/115882159194514089

The Royal Society seems to be nothing more than a staid White Male club that enforces Patriarchy.

All power to people like the Professor here trying to change that.

#RoyalSociety #ElonMusk #Musk #Patriarchy

Imagine stating a reluctance to eject anyone from your learned society because your learned society may have "murderers" as members and that hasn't warranted ejection so far.

#RoyalSociety

‘Lots of people don’t want to do it’: Paul Nurse on his controversial second term as Royal Society president https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jan/11/paul-nurse-second-term-royal-society-president-interview #RoyalSociety #Science #UkNews #ElonMusk

Elon Musk, who condones and promotes the production of child pornography and child abuse through his lack of action against his own Grok AI program, is still a member of the Royal Society in London.

What sort of light does that cast on such an old and, in theory, exclusive society?

#CSAM #Musk #RoyalSociety #Grok #Twitter #X

Haven't seen this on Mastodon yet - the #royalsociety #musk saga continues: https://www.ft.com/content/088b804f-15e0-4a8e-b32d-146a826b8d6c?utm_social_post_id=647289682&utm_social_handle_id=did%3Aplc%3A5u54z2qgkq43dh2nzwzdbbhb

Perfect example for how to run a scientific society into the ground 🤦

You’ll Never Guess What Took First Place at the Royal Society’s Photo Competition

'Astronomers, ecologists, and other scientists from around the world submitted mind-bending images representing their fields.’

#photography #PhotoCompetition #RoyalSociety

https://gizmodo.com/youll-never-guess-what-took-first-place-at-the-royal-societys-photo-competition-2000695628

Fans Of Open Access, Unite: You Have Nothing To Lose But Your Chained Libraries

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2025/11/19/fans-of-open-access-unite-you-have-nothing-to-lose-but-your-chained-libraries/

Fans Of Open Access, Unite: You Have Nothing To Lose But Your Chained Libraries

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2025/11/19/fans-of-open-access-unite-you-have-nothing-to-lose-but-your-chained-libraries/

Fans Of Open Access, Unite: You Have Nothing To Lose But Your Chained Libraries

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2025/11/19/fans-of-open-access-unite-you-have-nothing-to-lose-but-your-chained-libraries/

Fans Of Open Access, Unite: You Have Nothing To Lose But Your Chained Libraries

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2025/11/19/fans-of-open-access-unite-you-have-nothing-to-lose-but-your-chained-libraries/

Fans Of Open Access, Unite: You Have Nothing To Lose But Your Chained Libraries

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2025/11/19/fans-of-open-access-unite-you-have-nothing-to-lose-but-your-chained-libraries/

Fans of open access, unite: you have nothing to lose but your chained libraries

When books were rare and extremely expensive, they were often chained to the bookcase to prevent people walking off with them, in what were known as “chained libraries”. Copyright serves a similar purpose today, even though, thanks to the miracle of perfect, zero-cost digital copies, it is possible simultaneously to take an ebook home and yet leave the original behind. For a quarter of a […]

#analogue #ao3 #archives #diamondOpenAccess #digital #fanFiction #libraries #metadata #openAccess #publishers #reputation #reviews #royalSociety #s20 #subscribeToOpen #trueFans

https://walledculture.org/fans-of-open-access-unite-you-have-nothing-to-lose-but-your-chained-libraries/

Our Brains, Our Selves: What a Neurologist’s Patients Taught Him About the Brain By Masud Husain — Review

2025 #RoyalSociety #Science #Books Prize #Shortlist

A frightening but fascinating #book that reveals how our personalities and identities hang by the slenderest of neurological threads.

#BookReview by @GrrlScientist

#neurology #cognition #personality #self
https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2025/09/17/our-brains-our-selves-by-masud-husain---review/

Our Brains, Our Selves: What a Neurologist’s Patients Taught Him About the Brain By Masud Husain — Review

2025 #RoyalSociety #Science #Books Prize #Shortlist

A frightening but fascinating #book that reveals how our personalities and identities hang by the slenderest of neurological threads.

#BookReview by @grrlscientist

#neurology #cognition #personality #self
https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2025/09/17/our-brains-our-selves-by-masud-husain---review/

Hey London!
Are you a SPACE fan?
Are you a nerd?
Do you like music?

You should probably come to this on 7 October! Tickets here https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/royal-society-lates-2075-a-space-odyssey-tickets-1639555457509

Ready Singer One, the UK's nerdiest choir, will be performing some of our most out-of-this-world rep.

Turn-up queue also but with priority to ticketholders.
#London #LondonEvents #singing #livemusic #Nerds #space #astronomy #comedy #RoyalSociety #choir #choralMusic #choralSinging #adultsOnly #art #science #scienceCommunication #scicomm

@sellathechemist Useful position from which he can #bringsciencetopolitics #Scienceunderthreat #MarkMiodownik #RoyalSociety