Kat Arney
Award-winning Storyteller of Science. PhD. Founder & Chief Creative Officer at First Create The Media for life science comms strategy & content firstcreatethemedia.com Views: mine. Book: https://www.rebelcellbook.com.
- Reposted by Kat Arney"Zombie citations" of work that was never written are becoming a big problem in academic publishing. After encountering one recently I tried tracking down its source. Instead I found a growing mob of mutant references gathering on Google Scholar codeactsineducation.wordpress.com/2026/01/30/t...
- Reposted by Kat ArneyBy-election bar charts, off-licence edition
- Reposted by Kat ArneySnooker won't be the same without him. May he finally find out where the cue ball's going.
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- Completely normal. Nothing to see here, no sirree... Just the President of the US shaking down his own IRS for cash.
- President Trump has filed a lawsuit against the IRS, in which he demands that the IRS, which he as president controls, pay him $10 billion. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
- Communities all over the country are crying out for retired volunteers to support local activities - it's engaging, makes you feel good, builds real connections etc etc. And yet sitting on Facebook complaining about potholes or cameras is what they (usually men) do.
- It's everywhere. Unreadable 20+page reports that should be 2-3, 1000+ word scripts for <2 minute animations. Even had a client "helpfully" use AI to rewrite our proposal entirely to stuff we dont actually do. It's a menace if you don't have the discernment to know what "good" should look like.
- Make Encephalitis Great Again! vaccineknowledge.ox.ac.uk/measles#Key-...
- Reposted by Kat ArneyLater they attack the Buddhist and keep asking what is the sound of one hand slapping. COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/why-9 PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm... STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com
- Not only can he not get laid, his editor clearly hates his guts to have committed this to print.
- This is marvellous. He's even worse than the headline might make you think (gift link) Celibacy taught me I’m too clever to find love www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/15a11f3...
- This is such a beautiful song, arranged and performed by one of the most talented musicians I've ever had the privilege of working with 🥰 open.spotify.com/track/3dX97p...
- Reposted by Kat ArneyThe speed at which my friend @mjrobbins.com is mastering this kind of content is somewhat terrifying. Behold his latest video, which operates in a dream state somewhere twixt a One Show segment and an Adam Curtis dystopian nightmare.
- Reposted by Kat ArneyMy latest: On the mad sequence of events that unfolded when badgers demolished a road.
- Reposted by Kat ArneyBecause the null hypothesis is you're an empiricISN'T. COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/just PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm... STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com
- Reposted by Kat ArneyCan you imagine having such a weak hand that you feel the best two cards you can play as selling points are 'American treatment of indigenous people' and 'American healthcare'?
- Reposted by Kat ArneyYou can tell how old a Christmas tree is by counting the rings
- Reposted by Kat ArneyAmazing scenes in Shefford at Old Bridge Way, the road abandoned to ruin by Central Bedfordshire Council. The council placed 'private road' signs to show they won't be held responsible for it, but residents have, er, repurposed them...
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- What happened to that 17 year old kid who already solved this with his science fair project??? (I'm being bitchy but it did really piss me off)
- Pancreatic cancer is often caught too late to affect a person’s prognosis. A Nature Outlook article reports on the work scientists are doing to change that. #medsky 🧪
- Reposted by Kat ArneyJesus. This poor family. Yet PIV manufacturers go on pushing it - and ofc blaming installers when people are harmed. Unfortunately Awaab's Law as it stands drives dangerous quick fixes like PIV and chemical washes/mists over actually tackling the causes. Which, as here, can just make things worse.
- Make polio great again! US public health is going completely off the rails. www.statnews.com/2026/01/22/v...
- Just... fucking hell, folks.
- WH posted AI faked photo of arrested protestor “Guardian analysis shows images are the same, with Nekima Levy Armstrong looking composed in original but sobbing after alteration” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
- The crazy thing about this story is that there must be hundreds of truckloads of waste systematically being dumped over months at these sites. Why are the EA/police not given powers to arrest drivers/impound the lorries? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
- Reposted by Kat Arney“It’s the oldest cheese DNA in the world.” Bronze Age herders were buried with lumps of cheese starter, shows a 2024 study of ancient DNA. scim.ag/49HeqxQ #CheeseLoversDay
- Reposted by Kat ArneyNitrogen triiodide is a highly unstable substance that detonates when disturbed. So, of course, we disturbed it. 💥🧪
- Whoever wrote the OP has clearly never had to play tech support to a parent in their 70s. ("I don't know - i clicked something and now it doesn't work!!") Bonus points for doing it over the phone when you can't see their screen or know what the heck mad shit they've previously installed.
- 📢 BIG NEWS! 📢 I'm delighted to be hosting the new Behind The Science podcast series with GSK - check out the teaser here 👇 Our first episode is all about antimicrobial resistance #AMR Subscribe now wherever you get your podcasts: www.youtube.com/watch?v=deM2...
- Reposted by Kat Arney"Meanwhile, Princess Anne went for a ride in Kirkbride, Queen Camilla went shopping in Wapping, Prince Edward dropped a clanger in Bangor, and the young ladies of Buckingham asked Prince Andrew if he'd mind staying at home. Now it's goodnight from me ... ... and it's goodnight from him."
- Reposted by Kat ArneyEXCLUSIVE: A quiet revolution happened at Great Ormond Street Hospital last week. A girl with a rare fatal condition received a custom drug under a new MHRA protcol that is 1st step towards process approval, a shift that could one day save millions of lives. www.economist.com/science-and-...
- It's the 20th January. Feels like we've had a year's worth of geopolitics already.
- Reposted by Kat ArneyFairly sure it’s unintentional, but the end date on this mug being sold by the Smithsonian does make it sound a little like they’re saying America dies in 2026…
- Reposted by Kat ArneyDr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.
- Reposted by Kat Arneythe female astronaut that we'ee sending to the moon had to warn her husband that he won't just be able to call her to ask where something is in the house 💀💀💀💀
- Reposted by Kat Arneyno doubt this beetle is metal, but maybe not as a hardcore as the "bone collector" caterpillar. www.scientificamerican.com/article/carn...
- Reposted by Kat ArneyIn this week's Wild Way I'm taking a look at some easy things to think about to get your garden off to a great start this year www.wildway.info/p/5-gentle-s... (article for paid subscribers)
- Reposted by Kat ArneyJapanese artist Akie Nakata (known as Akie) turns found stones and rocks into animal paintings #WomensArt
- Reposted by Kat Arney'Alright pal, got plans for the #BigGardenBirdwatch?' 'Nah, just the usual... hang out of sight whilst she's doing the count, then touch down once the hour's over. You?' 'Classic. Planning some fly-bys with a few of the boys, but we'll only land one at a time.' 'Niiice.'
- Reposted by Kat Arney"Mother," said the Child, "I have discovered a song." The song: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAZB...
- Reposted by Kat ArneyWe experienced a truly incredible moment at the aquarium when this octopus decided to be a total jerk to its tankmate.
- Reposted by Kat ArneyIt makes me so angry because these are not serious people and we are forced to pretend they are or get scolded for being elitists insufficiently open to new stalls in the marketplace of ideas when we point out a prerequisite for the debate stage should be understanding how literally anything works.
- Reposted by Kat ArneyExplain to me how this would happen. The fucking mechanics of it. Explain them to me. Russia or China, storming the beaches of an EU and NATO member state terrotiry which includes a fucking US military base on it in a take and hold maneuver a bazillion miles from their nearest supply lines?
- I would read a PhD thesis about the implicit signalling of clothing choices in #traitorsuk #thetraitors
- I am now solely using this from now on.
- Pilgrimage
- "Value engineered" - what a phenomenal euphemism! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
- Reposted by Kat ArneyNew post just out: "Troubleshooters" How fixing the many small frustrations - that make up most of our interactions with the state - can give people faith in goverment's ability to make things work. And help create a different Whitehall culture. (£/free trial) open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...
- Reposted by Kat ArneyWe've got ISSUES. Literally. We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do? arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563 A 🧵 1/n
- Reposted by Kat ArneyThis is the exact quote I have been searching for with regard to what is happening with science
- I was a media spokesperson for years - Sky news, Ch 4 and ITV also sent cabs. It's a way of making sure your guest is there on time especially if you're on at an ungodly hour in the morning.
- Reposted by Kat ArneyHaughty (& hairy): Pier Maria Rossi di San Secondo, with a remarkably lively codpiece. Painted by Parmigianino, who was born OTD 1503.
- Spent most of the weekend chucking the contents of a shed into a skip. Very satisfying.
- Reposted by Kat ArneyNobody in The Moral Maze gets eaten by the Moral Minotaur, which is a fundamental flaw in the programme.
