Dmitri Mendeleev, who created a version of the periodic table of elements, was born #OnThisDay in 1834. 🧪 Of the 10 elements discovered or first isolated here at the Ri, one has a bit of an image problem. @helenarney.bsky.social wrote a great song to remind us that boron isn't boring at all!

Happy birthday to us! 🎂 The Ri is turning 227 today, and what better way to celebrate than with a delicious cupcake? Of course, this one didn't quite make it to our birthday party... 🧪

10 years ago, Tim Peake joined the Christmas Lectures via video link from the International Space Station. Today, he takes centre stage in our Theatre, right here on Earth! 🌍 Tune in at 7.00pm on BBC Four and iPlayer for the grand finale of the 2025 Christmas Lectures, supported by CGI!

The Christmas Lectures, supported by CGI, are starting TONIGHT! We couldn't wait either, so here is a little sneak peek of what's to come... 🎁 Tune in at 7.00pm on BBC Four and iPlayer to follow Maggie Aderin-Pocock on a fantastic voyage through space, searching for evidence of alien life.

Can you help us find the missing Christmas Lectures? 📼 31 episodes of the Christmas Lectures broadcast between 1966 and 1973 are missing, presumed "wiped" by the BBC. This includes one of Sir David Attenborough's lectures, not seen since it was first broadcast live over 50 years ago. (1/2)

Those colourful swirls on a soap bubble are caused light interfering with itself inside a tiny “soap sandwich.” 🌈 Watch the full talk with the Ri Demo Team: youtube.com/watch?v=wQTvf2vsxEU

Loneliness can negatively affect your physical health more than smoking 🧠 Psychologist Bruce Hood illuminated what science can tell us about happiness. Watch the full talk: youtube.com/watch?v=LtGY85JXTUM

Animals don't just play-fight: they enjoy being tickled, and even tell jokes! 🐁 Neurologist Kelly Clancy illustrates the important role play has in building social circuits. 🧪 Watch the full talk: youtube.com/watch?v=KNn-Sa8T3iw

11 km beneath the ocean surface. No sunlight, enormous pressure, and still...life! Space instrumentation expert Carly Howett will reveal how clues about alien life might be hiding right here at home 🌊 Watch the 2025 Christmas Lectures, supported by CGI, on BBC Four and iPlayer tonight at 7.00pm

Exploding bubbles are always a pop-ular demo at our family science shows 🫧💥 Dan Plane, Head of Demo at the Ri, puts the flammable properties of hydrogen into action. Watch the full show here: youtube.com/watch?v=5XOQ-wFF_P4

Celebrate food as a gateway to culture, connection, and discovery. They highlight how tasting new flavors, sharing meals, and embracing local ingredients—even when messy or risky—are essential to traveling and understanding the world. 👨‍🍳 🍳 👩‍🍳 ❤️ 😍

AOC: This is what drinking water in Georgia looks like after Meta began data center construction in the community. @meidastouch.com

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Big moves in digital assets: CLARITY Act breakthrough, DTCC tokenization timeline, and Bullish acquiring traditional transfer agent infrastructure. The institutional wave is here. Read the full update: aktiego.com/market-analy... #Fintech #Crypto $BULL

@iamreginaasaba This Pastor is talking about Paula White-Cain who serves as the head of the White House Faith Office

EuroBasket 2025 Final Power Rankings #basketball #nba #eurobasket #nbaeurope #nbauk

Where did the first humans come from? Scientists once thought Asia. New evidence changed that. Explore how bias shaped early ideas and why Africa is now seen as the cradle of humanity. Listen: player.sheffield.ac.uk/events/out-a... #HumanOrigins #Evolution

🧵 Olivia Andre remains in ICE custody at Dilley, despite her mother and siblings—who were detained with her—having already been released. ICE has failed to provide a clear written explanation for why Olivia continues to be detained. This lack of transparency is unacceptable and indefensible. (1/4)

Set 23 years after Castlevania Dracula's Curse - follow a young Belmont's jouney in an all new 2D Action-Exploration title from KONAMI, Evil Empire and Motion Twin. Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse is out on all platforms, sometime this year.

🧪 Ancient rhinoceros discovered in the polar ice 👉 A completely new species of rhinoceros has been discovered in the Canadian polar region. Important detail: the animal lived there millions of years ago, and in a much... 🔗 whyrwe.com/@26/0326-1315 #️⃣ #whyrwe #factuallyfun #science

(REITERATING) Again For The Slow Kid's In The Back Of The Bus...🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 ---> YO ELITE CLASS, HOW'S IT GOING FOR YOU ALL NOW ? 👀

Fashion Critique: Dominican Republic's Red Ensemble #TeenUniverseInternational2026 In this clip, we dive into the fashion choices of the Dominican Republic's representative. WATCH ON: youtu.be/f0WLHZN72t0 #FashionCritique #DominicanRepublic #RedEnsemble #TeenStyle #Glamour

'Most wanted' British man arrested in Spain #police #arrested #spain #britishcitizen #news #curiousfellow

[ "Death Wish" ] Canavan calling for an election now "Cute"

#OnThisDay 9 May 1985 BBC Schools' SCENE - #VictoriaWood: "Sometimes when your'e in the depths of despair, where you think I've forgotten how to write and I'm going to have to give this up and work on the bins, if they'll have me, sometimes a block moves away from your brain"

Jefferson County- A crash being cleared on I-81 northbound past the I-40 split 6:08am ET. Get Instant Tennessee Traffic Information Right Now With Commander Chuck's “LIVE” Traffic Video. Saving you Time and Gas Money. commanderchuck.net

Han har passerat sitt mest intensiva, men här är en spinnande kvällshälsning från Finn 🔊 #finncleo #catsofmastodon #purriverse #FediPets

Do you have a favorite Johnny Cash song? Let us know in the comments! Some days, the music flows effortlessly. Other days, it takes patience, persistence, and a deep breath before the right note or lyric finds its place.

The 115th Fighter Wing of the Wisconsin Air National Guard performed a flyover of the Watertown Aero Park during the community's Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall unveiling.

"Making a living in Gaza is like carving on stone. Selling things to people with no income and relying on goods to come in through a suffocating siege. But this young man is doing what he can despite the hardships to provide for his family in a genocide"(QNN) #Gaza

Edgar Quero hits a walk-off two-run homer in extras to secure a White Sox series win over the Cubs. It's Quero's first homer of the season.

Wiggly kittens are also available for those wanting to check out PurrCon, tucked into a more quiet corner of #IndyPopCon.

is he why they lose their minds and fight each weekend at Nellie’s?

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Get yourself a girl like Utena from Gushing Over Magical Girls. Browse the most popular ero products we restocked in time for our big Fiscal Year-End Sale! See jli.st/495wC3J

Culers have shown up in Oslo to support Barcelona & are making themselves heard ❤️💙 🎥: FCBfemeni

🎵 The Doobie Brothers (1972) Jesus Is Just Alright 🙏

When Bluesky doesn’t like my posts. 🚬

😳 EXCLUSIVE: Kendrick Perkins was held back in a heated argument at his son's AAU game. 😂😂😂😂

Can’t let a little traffic stop us from making art! #forfuqssake #photography #sonyalpha #sonyartisan #photoshoot #atl #atlphotographer #travellphotography #travelphotographer #insta360 #berlin

Pam Bondi has now admitted she was never truly in charge of the Epstein files and was merely a puppet while Todd Blanche ran the entire operation behind the scenes. Blanche is accused of helping bury the names of Epstein’s most powerful associates tied to the child trafficking network.

🎙️Pornin’ & recordin’ - Alea 🎲 🐇 ‼️DANGER SAVE MOM - Alea’s dog 🐶 (I just read this post to you in a Mario voice 👴) #audioouttake #nsfwcreator #BlueskyAfterDark

Remember to gamble! Gamble everything! 🎲🎲 #EpsteinClass #PedoProtectors

#MeanwhileInCanada. Casper the Owl that was injured in the late 90’s and who can’t return to the wild fosters baby owlets — she has fostered over 500 owlets in her lifetime. #BritishColumbia OWL Orphan Wildlife Rehabilitation Society

The clocks may have gone one hour back, but we’re taking a trip one month back into October in our latest newsletter to see what this year’s trick-or-trick bag had in store. 🎃 With 2 awards and 9 ranking features, this spooky season has also certainly been an awards season! 🏆(1/4)

Nouveauté de la semaine ! À l'occasion de la sortie de "Robin the Boy Wonder" de Juni Ba aux éditions Urban Comics, le Comic Shops Assemble vous propose une édition collector du titre ! #astrocity #urbancomics #comicshopsassemble #batman

Mondays hit hard - but sometimes a joke so bad it loops back to funny is all you need. 😅 🤳 Best watched full screen (or with subtitles)! #MondayMotivation

Here's a Kamen Rider X commercial for his Ridol belt! The 70s were wild! We have a kid running between two explosion in order to sell a belt, you will never see these type of advertisements again #Tokusatsu #KamenRider #KamenRiderX #70s

Building workforce resilience amid geopolitical change – 3 chief people officers discuss www.weforum.org/stories/2026... Seminars on WORK-related topics where professionals share their expertise. digitalsocietypress.com #DigitalSocietyPress #GlobalSeminars #CareerGrowth #WEF #workforce

Your much needed Afternoon #TimelineCleanser ... We all need a baby kookaburra on our balcony

👏 Excellent attendance at #EASLCongress in the early afternoon session “Rethinking #MASH: Time to explore a multisystem treatment approach” - a Novo Nordisk Symposium. Aleksander Krag served as chair & speaker: 1️⃣ Navigating a multifactorial disease... 2️⃣ Integrating #PatientCare... #MetabolicHealth

Hey everyone, im trying to get on this Discord to help with mine and my friend (Rolzresto) networking. If you're into games, and want to network as well, hit us up, say hi, and let's chat. discord.gg/gxQ3RHyNnk

The youngest runner in the @TCS London Marathon? Join us in wishing Ollie a very happy 18th birthday today! Ollie ran alongside mum, Catherine, in memory of his dad, who died four years ago. He would be very proud. #TeamSarcoma #LondonMarathon #SarcomaAwareness

I'm a fan of the Roadhouse Rule: Be nice, until it's time to not be nice.

📺Más de 10.600 alumnos están convocados este martes en Canarias para la prueba de acceso a la universidad (PAU) Estaremos muy pendientes en BDCanariasTV  ➡️ https://rtvc.es/en-directo/

Artist Miles Johnston #draws and #paints surreal figures that twist, split and loop back on themselves to show the strange weight of being #human. Artist: @miles_art #art #surrealart #drawing #artwork #creative

Today we learnt all the things our body & mind needs to stay healthy. We also discussed who can help us with this. Ask us at home to share these with you. #antohandwb #Article24 @antorightsps.bsky.social 👫🤔💭🙌💭🤔👫

O que estão achando dos gráficos de Crimson Desert? #crimsondesert #ps5pro

GOAL ⚽️ JONATHAN OSORIOOOOOO 😎 🔴 Watch #CanMNT on OneSoccer

🦆 Rétrogamerie du jour Deep Duck Trouble (Master System) Pour sauver Picsou, explorez une île sauvage dans ce jeu de plateforme magnifique et coloré. Un vrai régal ! Dispo : retrogamerie.fr/sega-master-...