Mike Cosgrave

Airbus Beluga XL. Big big cargo plane for carrying large items.
I’m sure there’s a joke there about carry on bags, but it’s not coming to me right now

Sex Redefined: The Idea of 2 Sexes Is Overly Simplistic Biologists now think there is a larger spectrum than just binary female and male

My husband has taught human reproduction and development to the Cambridge medics for over three decades. When people start banging on about "only two biological sexes" he starts with "which sex: genetic, hormonal, or gonadal"?

Biological sex is not binary. www.scientificamerican.com/article/sex-...

I just attended a conference in the US. We had one speaker detained and two others turned away at the border.

In 15 Years, 80,000 Homes in the New York Area May Be Lost to Flooding The metro region’s housing shortage is acute. But by 2040, dozens of neighborhoods and suburbs are likely to have lost thousands of homes to floods, a new report found.

Tens of thousands of homes in the New York City area could be lost to floods over the next 15 years, a new report warns.

This Friday April 11th sees the release of Corpus/Mimesis on cassette through @fiadh.bsky.social and also digital formats
The compositions were produced in collaboration with Jean-Luc Nancy, AMAE and Pier Giorgio De Pinto to explore Nancy’s 58 Indices on the Body. More to come.

Seattle understands what's at stake here

Dungeons & Dragons Live with Ian Green & Guests

Live D&D at the International Literary Festival in Dublin. Featuring me! Really looking forward to it! ilfdublin.com/whats-on/fes...

Morgan Stanley planning for a 3°C world is an astonishing admission. It's a commitment to business as usual while writing off billions of lives and, in all likelihood, dozens of nation states.

According to the publication, the letter said that Trump’s executive order applied to companies outside the US if they were a supplier or service provider to the American government.

Financial Times: the Trump administration has sent a letter to some large companies in the EU warning them to comply with an executive order banning diversity, equity and inclusion programs.

The call for submissions to the IEEE International Symposium on the Internet of Sounds at L'Aquila, Italy closes July 1st for Papers, Performances and Tutorials.

If your work bridges Sound and Music Computing with the Internet of Things do consider a submission:

internetofsounds2025.ieee-is2.org

Trump rescinds executive order after law firm agrees to provide $40m in free services US president reverses threat to suspend security clearances and cancel federal contracts after meeting with chair of Paul, Weiss

This is freakishly wrong. Extortion, corruption, submission. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This country is awash with money. The very rich are rich beyond imagination. So when Starmer wants to stay within his arbitrary fiscal rules, who does he decide to take money from? The very rich? No, from people with disabilities who depend on benefits for the bare minimum of a decent life.

For those who don’t know, “Big Berks” is the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians; yet another case of erasing groups under the current US regime

Wikipedia image of Major General (Ret.) Charles C. Rogers

Defense.gov google return: Medal of Honor Monday: Army Maj. Gen. Charles Calvin Rogers

Defense.gov 404 - Page Not Found

https://www.defense.gov/News/Feature-Stories/Story/Article/2824721/deimedal-of-honor-monday-army-maj-gen-charles-calvin-rogers/

This is blood-boiling. Charles Rogers was awarded the Medal of Honor in Vietnam after being wounded three times leading the defense of a position.

Google his name and the entry below comes up. When you click, you'll see the page has been deleted and the URL changed to include "DEI medal."

Trump’s FBI Moves to Criminally Charge Major Climate Groups The Trump administration is targeting climate organizations that received a Biden-era grant.

The FBI is moving to criminalize groups like Habitat for Humanity for receiving grants from the Environmental Protection Agency under the Biden administration.

FBI ordered Citibank to freeze the group bank's accounts.

newrepublic.com/post/192660/...

Just got an email from the Fulbright Association. As of right now, funding has been cut off to 12,500 US citizens currently abroad and and more than 7,400 foreigner scholars and students in the United States

As a senior digital person in Higher Education, the thing i have to drill into everyone is that young people lie constantly on surveys.

Surveys are a game to be won, by saying the thing they think the old people want them to say.

They're not even conscious they're doing it. /1

Ladies, be your own Valentine. Buy yourself chocolates. Order yourself flowers. Bring yourself the head of your own enemy after seven years of bloody warfare to prove yourself worthy of your affection. It's called self-care.

Ongoing thread about the DOGE Bros, who turn out to not just be bad, but seemingly every possible kind of bad

Peter Goldsmith • 1st Professor, University of Illinois at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 3h • G Today is a dark day when once there were so many winners. SIL, the Soybean Innovation Lab, will shutter its doors as of 4/15/25 as all USAID funding has ceased. Today I had to let go of a staff of 30. These individuals are not only unique experts in the field of tropical soybean, but also close colleagues and friends who are now unexpectedly out of work. The land grant system now loses 19 crown jewel Innovation Labs, across 17 states, that delivered high and measurable impact on very little investment. U.S. soybean farmers lose one of their best tools to expand their markets and U.S. standards globally. Local economies in emerging markets lose soybean as an incomparable engine growing wealth, prosperity, and economic development. International security is a loser, as local populations now fall back into poverty, unrest, and migration, due to greater food insecurity. U.S. influence loses as Innovation Labs operate on the ground in direct collaboration with hundreds of local businesses, organizations, and governments building strong and lasting friendships. Today we all lose. It is a shame. Innovation Labs like SIL are an investment for good on so many levels. You and 53 others 17 comments

The average Fox News viewer has no idea that Musk is tearing down a system that allowed this country to rule the world for the past 75 years. And when their standard of living slips dramatically in the next five years they still won’t understand because their TV will blame it on some poor scapegoat.

these aren’t the actions of people who are strong

these are the actions of weak losers

BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed. Any unpublished manuscript mentioning certain topics, including gender and "LGBT," must be pulled or revised.

BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.

Goes beyond MMWR +other CDC pubs. Applies to research already submitted to top medical journals.

Take a look.
open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

Family at Warpcon 35

Family (most of, Xander was playing Munchkin) at Warpcon 35

I guess it turns out that US leadership culture is nothing more than three insipid clichés in a trench coat.

Word of day is ‘unasinous’ (17th century): united in stupidity.

A riff on ‘unanimous’: which comes from the Latin for ‘one mind’. ‘Unasinous’ means ‘one ass’.

The tech gods arrive As our new broverlords ascend to the presidential dais, it's up to us now

Worth reading, depressing but realistic. open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

Curator of Archaeology :Manchester Museum

‼️Job alert‼️
Curator of archaeology at Manchester Museum. Great collection and wonderful team.
Details here: www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...