Quiet, noble, male role modelling heroes are so rare and this is an excellent post. After the childhood experiences of my own abusive father, and even after you have grown up, and need no further parenting, you never stop looking for them.

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Calling all teachers – classroom material on this year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is ready for use. The 2026 medicine laureates developed optogenetics, a method enabling us to show how nerve cells form memories, emotions and behaviours. Find teaching material at https://bit.ly/3WyQNVj

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patrick stewart more than maybe anyone else showed that you can take science fiction seriously on screen, that it can be profound and meaningful and that just because you're on a spaceship doesn't mean it's a joke I am tremendously grateful to him for that

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Picard was also a father figure to little girls with shite dads. I'm one of them. He gave me the love of Shakespeare, the English language and earl grey. He showed me how to be kind, compassionate and how to use diplomacy. I mourn him more than I did my biological father.

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There were FOUR GRITTS

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