Prof Chris Scotton

Respiratory Medicine research group leader in Exeter & Director of PGR for Clinical & Biomedical Sciences. Embracing middle-age as a DIY & gardening enthusiast.

[Peter Stefanovic @PeterStefanovi2]

“His response has been to appeal for rage. That’s his response to a father who has lost his son and asked for that not to happen. Exploiting this tragedy to create grievance and division would be wrong in any circumstances but to do it when the family are expressly saying please don’t is unforgivable. It shows exactly who he is”
Keir Starmer responds to Nigel Farage at #PMQs

[Sholto David @addictedtoigno1]

Today I'm posting a new blog about an astonishing scientific own goal. Hundreds of papers have reported using a completely wrong antibody to investigate the tumor suppressor p16. This mistake has happened because scientists have muddled the names of two proteins 🧵

[Prof Colin Talbot (rerum cognoscere causas) @colinrtalbot]

Angela Rayner - £40k underpaid stamp duty - repaid. Lost jobs in Cabinet and Dep. PM.

Peter Murrell - £400k theft from SNP - going to prison

Huge coverage of both

Nigel Farage - £5m undeclared bung (possibly more) - goes to ground for a month.

Media coverage? You judge.

[Naftali Kaminski @KaminskiMed]

The first snRNASeq & spatial transcriptomic analysis of bronchoscopic cryobiopsies from patients with Early IPF & preserved pulmonary functions is out on @biorxivpreprint and message is Early IPF is IPF‼️
https://t.co/yyX28bn7D2

[Richard Hanania @RichardHanania]

Before Brexit, there were about 300K net migrants a year, mostly from the EU.

After Brexit, immigration shot up to 900K, and EU migration was negative.

It’s amazing how stupid Brexit was from every possible perspective.

Populism is a low IQ movement.

[Prof. Katharine Hayhoe @KHayhoe]

This article says climate change is “believed to have played a role” in the UK's extreme heat this week.

As a climate scientist, let me fact-check that.

First, climate change is not a religion. No belief is required. It is about evidence.

And the evidence has been crystal clear for more than two decades: climate change is making heat waves hotter, longer, more frequent and more dangerous.

In fact, science has advanced far beyond saying climate change merely “played a role.” Today, we can quantify how much more likely and how much hotter climate change made a specific event.

Here's the bottom line:

Climate is changing. Humans are responsible. And we are experiencing the impacts now. That’s the bad news.

The good news is that solutions already exist, and the majority of people care - 89%, around the world!

But meaningful action depends on helping people understand not just what is happening: we need to know how it affects our lives (this heat wave being example A today) and what we can do about it.

That’s the opportunity this reporting missed.

https://t.co/vYfPDKcWWf

[Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy]

💥 97,500!💥

Let’s tip it over the 100,000 mark to force the government to respond.

Given the party in power now realises they need the pro-EU base - are they really going to refuse a debate in parliament on this?

Let’s find out!

Sign and share!

https://t.co/GOVLNDxfdX

[UCU @ucu]

Today @DrJoGrady and @AndreaEganGS have written to Keir Starmer demanding emergency intervention as 15,000 jobs are lost across higher education and 2,700 staff face the axe at Nottingham alone.

When British Steel was at risk, the government nationalised it overnight. Where's that urgency now?

Read the full the statement here: https://t.co/VnHVUuu9Z0

[Prof Chris Scotton @Isteefer]

This is well worth a read...

[Prof. Lopa Leach @LopaLeach]

The Cost Allocation Death Spiral and the University
https://t.co/SnVgCrfW6l

[Prof. Lopa Leach @LopaLeach]

The Cost Allocation Death Spiral and the University
https://t.co/SnVgCrfW6l

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

You'll want to be sitting down for this bit.

Water companies are currently £82.7 billion in debt, have paid themselves £85 billion in dividends, leak over a trillion of litres of water per year, dump sewage for almost 4 million hours per year, have been convicted of over 1,200 criminal acts since 1989 and an average of 35% of your bill goes on nothing but paying more interest and yet more dividends.

And not a single company has ever lost their operating licence. 👇

[Dr Iain Overton @iainoverton]

1/ Nigel Farage took £50,000 in speaking fees from two crypto firms in Oct 2025 — then told Reuters he was “not aware” of crypto businesses funding Reform UK. But I found his Parliamentary records show
• £30k from Blockworks Inc
• £20k from Zebu Group

[Peter Stefanovic @PeterStefanovi2]

🚨DESPITE NET MIGRATION HAVING FALLEN BY 82% SINCE ITS PEAK NEARLY HALF OF BRITONS INCORRECTLY BELIEVE ITS ACTUALLY INCREASED!

Politicians have now been blamed for skewing the public's understanding of immigration levels.

This is a shocking indictment of the abject failure of UK news shows to get the actual facts about net migration across to the public and call out the bull**** by the likes of Nigel Farage.

If UK news shows can’t get the job done let’s damn well do it ourselves!

[Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy]

💥 70,000 signatures 💥

...and the petition closes on June 8th.

If we can get it over 100,000 and open a Parliamentary debate in time for the 10th anniversary of the Brexit vote on June 23rd - that'd be powerful.

Sign and share, share, share.👇

https://t.co/GOVLNDxfdX

[21group @21percentgroup]

"UK universities are precious commodity. Ten years of dropping this commodity to see where pieces land is not an education policy...It is neglect bordering on vandalism ... Westminster needs to wake up"

Royal Historical Society lands an enormous punch

https://t.co/2uJwXGFEaJ

[Dave Hibbert, BA(Hons), ACTUS, Cert.Ed. Rejoin EU. @Cpass12David]

The Guardian: “Net migration down by three-quarters, the biggest fall in NHS waiting lists for 17 years, knife crime cut by 10%, the economy growing the fastest in the G7, rising wages, energy bills and petrol prices held down, the biggest sustained rise in defence spending since the cold war, a massive expansion of free childcare …
If Keir Starmer did tub-thumping lists of Labour’s achievements in the style of Gordon Brown, he would not actually have a shortage of things to talk about.”
During the two years of Labour government, following fourteen years of Tory mismanagement, there have actually been significant improvements in Britain. Why does the Tory media not report them?

[Jo Grady @DrJoGrady]

Nearly half of our universities are forecasting deficits.

Institutions across the country are closing departments and issuing redundancy notices.

The government don’t yet consider this a crisis.

How many more jobs and courses must be lost before ministers act?

[Prof Chris Scotton @Isteefer]

Please do sign...
https://t.co/KmitZ9Ib3v

[Prof Chris Scotton @Isteefer]

https://t.co/84Kgg4nInc