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My new book Birds, Sex and Beauty, is on sale in the USA from 25 March.
If you love nature, birds, evolution or...sex, then this is the book for you!
It argues that mate choice is a powerful driver of evolution.
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Matt Ridley
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Matt Ridley
@mattwridley
Biologist, columnist | Author of Red Queen, Genome, Rational Optimist, the Evolution of Everything, How Innovation Works, Viral and Birds, Sex and Beauty.
Northumberland, UK Katılım Haziran 2009
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Longtime users are frustrated with X because it no longer works the way it used to.
Back in the early days of Twitter, your reach was simple and direct. If you had 5,000 or 10,000,20,000 followers, your posts were delivered to them in real time. It was a true chronological feed—your tweets showed up in the order you posted them, and your audience actually saw your content.
The “old” Twitter (pre-2016) was built around that real-time experience. Your voice reached the people who chose to follow you, without interference.
Today, that’s no longer the case. X relies on an algorithm-driven, engagement-based feed, meaning even your own followers may never see your posts unless the system decides to prioritize them.
That shift—from a guaranteed audience to an unpredictable algorithm—is why so many longtime users feel frustrated and disconnected.
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Matt Ridley retweetledi
In my latest with @lawfare, I detail the recent discovery of an unauthorized biolab in Las Vegas. The owner of the lab—Zhu Jia Bei—was arrested and indicted for his involvement with a similar unauthorized biolab in Reedley, California in 2023.
lawfaremedia.org/article/two-il…
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Remember this is exactly the opposite of what all polite opinion expected.
In the early 2010s I was almost alone at least in the UK in saying the shale revolution was big news.
Flash in the pan said all the energy “experts” and energy editors.
Some flash, some pan.
Michael A. Arouet@MichaelAArouet
The US is energy independent. It can do whatever it wants Europe sacrificed its economy, relevance, and foremost geopolitical security at the altar of the green religion. It will get really nasty now. Don't blame Trump, you did it to yourself. Blame your left-green politicians.
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Matt Ridley retweetledi
The US is energy independent. It can do whatever it wants
Europe sacrificed its economy, relevance, and foremost geopolitical security at the altar of the green religion.
It will get really nasty now. Don't blame Trump, you did it to yourself. Blame your left-green politicians.
Leading Report@LeadingReport
BREAKING: President Trump is now considering pulling out from the Strait of Hormuz, forcing US allies to defend it.
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Matt Ridley retweetledi
As ever, the great @mattwridley nails it. The late Paul Ehrlich was a brutal, wannabe totalitarian who got almost everything disastrously wrong. That he was so widely feted suggests that humans really want his millenarian, dystopian fantasies to come true.thefp.com/p/paul-ehrlich…
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The cost of creating an island on doggerland by building a sea wall and pumping out the water might be smaller than the benefit. The benefit would include fascinating archaeological finds.
Mike Sowden@Mikeachim
Generation after generation, Doggerland was nibbled away by the rising North Sea. Did Mesolithic people have stories about times when life was easier? Who knows. But there certainly wasn't any ignoring what happened next. (Image: bbc.co.uk/news/science-e…) 10/
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It’s propaganda @andrew_lilico
Matt Ridley@mattwridley
Remember “telegraph global health security” is a team of non journalists paying to place propaganda in the mainstream media for gates foundation and WHO. Here they support a flimsy attempt to find support for China’s popsicle origin theory in a single social media post!
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I hope @honigsbaum listens in.
Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD@NIHDirector_Jay
🔬Scientific progress depends on discovery, but also the freedom to question, debate, and examine evidence wherever it leads. In the spirit of that ideal, I’m thrilled to announce the launch of our NIH Scientific Freedom Lecture Series, an exciting new forum aimed at advancing transparency, rigor, and open scientific inquiry. Please join me March 20 at 2:30pm ET for our inaugural talk, titled “Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19” featuring a conversation with Matt Ridley, D.Phil. Guests can attend in person at the Masur Auditorium in NIH Building 10 or online via the NIH videocast page. bit.ly/3PsHAu5
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Remember “telegraph global health security” is a team of non journalists paying to place propaganda in the mainstream media for gates foundation and WHO.
Here they support a flimsy attempt to find support for China’s popsicle origin theory in a single social media post!
Telegraph Global Health Security@TelGlobalHealth
A ‘nail in the coffin’ for the lab-leak theory? A new study suggests Covid-19 didn’t need special adaptation to spread to humans but was simply waiting for the right opportunity Analysis by medical historian Mark Honigsbaum (@honigsbaum)👇 telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…
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Not even arctic Canada is as deprived of sunlight as northern Britain. No wonder the world bank concluded we were the second least suitable country for solar power after Ireland.
Dr. Matthew M. Wielicki@MatthewWielicki
These folks are building solar where the sun doesn't shine. 🤷♂️
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Matt Ridley retweetledi
" The COVID response was a symptom of replacing the culture of questioning in science and medicine with a culture of authority
It didn't matter what was actually true... what mattered was whether you were aligned with authority. "
- Jay Bhattacharya, NIH Director.
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Matt Ridley retweetledi
Over £12bn in total CfD subsidies so far. Record £2.6bn in 2025. Of course CfDs are subsidies.
Bob Ward@ret_ward
What nonsense. The CfD guarantees a price. Whether it represents a subsidy or not depends on the market price.
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We are repeating the retreat from free trade that happened in the 1930s. Smoot-hawley and uk imperial preference were a big part of the reason Japan chose war instead of trade to get the raw materials it craved. Hmmm.
Ed Conway@EdConwaySky
📽️Globalisation as we know it is dead. That's what Rachel Reeves said earlier this week. But was today the day Britain hammered the final nail into the coffin? My film from Port Talbot on how the UK just raised tariffs at the fastest rate in a generation youtube.com/watch?v=hlNOIK…
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Correct. Which it’s why it’s so crazy to damage its reputation by defending idiotic and dangerous gain of function research that had huge risks and minor benefits.
Simon Maechling@simonmaechling
Genetic engineering is one of the greatest achievements in human history. Period.
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Matt Ridley retweetledi
This should be compulsory viewing for Labour MPs.
Their plans will leave us more reliant on dirtier imports of gas.
Less tax, fewer jobs, higher emissions.
All because of Ed Miliband’s nutty ideology.
Ed Conway@EdConwaySky
📽️ From Donald Trump to Britain's wind power trade body, there's a growing coalition calling for more drilling in the North Sea. Raising the question: if we DID encourage more exploration, how much oil & gas could we actually get? Our MEGA primer on the North Sea👇 Ps it's longer than usual, but it turns out this topic has SO MANY misconceptions. Time to put some of them right. Let me know what you think
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Matt Ridley retweetledi
After 35 years of 'support', hype, propaganda and grift, it is still hard to underestimate just how puny the 'renewables revolution' has been.
I put it in the red circle
Oops!
Did I forget to mention the trillions of pounds spent on it?
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The motto on the British government’s coat of arms should be Unus Modus Omnibus.
One size fits all.
Crazy way to approach land management!
@TonyJuniper
Moorland Association@MoorlandAssoc
🔥 Natural England's wildfire message is unravelling. One of the authors of NEER155 - the evidence review Defra used to tighten restrictions on prescribed burning - has now publicly conceded that rewetting does not prevent wildfire. It only reduces severity. That is a significant shift. Just months ago, Natural England's Chief Scientist described rewetting as a long-term solution to wildfire risk. Now one of the people behind the evidence base is saying something far more limited. Meanwhile, the practical toolkit has been cut back. Defra's 2025 changes extended protections across upland deep peat and pushed prescribed burning into a tightly constrained, exceptional category. The Climate Change Committee has warned that wildfire-conducive conditions are becoming more likely and more extreme. If rewetting doesn't prevent fire, and burning is barely available, what is England's credible wildfire strategy? The England Peat Action Plan needs rewriting - and Ministers need to answer that question. Read the full article - link in the comments 👇
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Matt Ridley retweetledi
🔥 Natural England's wildfire message is unravelling.
One of the authors of NEER155 - the evidence review Defra used to tighten restrictions on prescribed burning - has now publicly conceded that rewetting does not prevent wildfire. It only reduces severity.
That is a significant shift. Just months ago, Natural England's Chief Scientist described rewetting as a long-term solution to wildfire risk. Now one of the people behind the evidence base is saying something far more limited.
Meanwhile, the practical toolkit has been cut back. Defra's 2025 changes extended protections across upland deep peat and pushed prescribed burning into a tightly constrained, exceptional category. The Climate Change Committee has warned that wildfire-conducive conditions are becoming more likely and more extreme.
If rewetting doesn't prevent fire, and burning is barely available, what is England's credible wildfire strategy? The England Peat Action Plan needs rewriting - and Ministers need to answer that question.
Read the full article - link in the comments 👇
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Now do the storegga slide?
Mike Sowden@Mikeachim
When I wrote about the Zanclean Megaflood filling the Mediterranean in 12-18 months (!) it was wistfully. I'm English. Lovely place, England! But - Big Geological Drama? Not round 'ere, sadly. Imagine my delight at what geophysicists have found in the English Channel! 1/
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