On a Stone Age boat, 8000 years ago!

In Whitby. (Why is that not surprising?)

#Ohdearwhatapitynevermind.

#fb Much harm done, apology only first step.

...or indeed, can Europe?

"For men, having children is a career advantage. For women, it’s a career killer."

@JulietEMcKenna speaks.

@StefanFuleEU's "more for more" in practice.

" it was precisely because Thatcher knew what scientific research was like that made her impervious to claims that science was a special case, with special features and incapable of being understood by outsiders, and therefore that science policy should be left in the hands of scientists."

In a word, no.

Starts with the Vatican, moves to countries with only one neighbour, ends with Canada.

ERS analysis: "We now have a picture of where UKIP may make its first breakthroughs. It won the popular vote in the equivalents of nine parliamentary seats: Boston and Skegness, Bognor Regis and Littlehampton, Worthing East and Shoreham, Great Yarmouth, Forest of Dean, Aylesbury and Camborne and Redruth."

Is "ziegenleer" funnier than "goatless"? (I think so.)

Fascinating genomic research.

Just seen this - range is 70 million!

Good luck for tonight, Rosi!

Hooray!

Spine-tingling and moving.

My old friend Andrew making history. Delighted to bump into him this evening.

I really really hope this rumour is true.

Amazing!

"There’s nothing new about this, just the tools to do so are far more powerful."

The UK government decide that severely sick and disabled people will have no benefits at all if they appeal their assessments.

A revisionist account of what happened in Iran in 1953.

"He was one of our very best, a star whose light will travel a long way, and fall on places not yet built."

Headline says it all.

Too many good lines here to single any one out.

"We mourn him not as we'd have mourned him old complete and done. We mourn the might-have-been"

"For once, the subject of one of my elegies got to read it before he passed and sent notes of thanks... Always a gentleman was Banks."