Update. @StephenCurry just wrote an excellent piece reminding the #RoyalSociety of the many ways that #ElonMusk violated its code of ethics. Expelling him needn't be based on political disagreements. Citing the principle that fellows should be free to disagree about politics willfully misses the point.
https://occamstypewriter.org/scurry/2026/02/11/year-of-inaction-royal-society-hollowed-out-musk/

Update. @StephenCurry just wrote an excellent piece reminding the #RoyalSociety of the many ways that #ElonMusk violated its code of ethics. Expelling him needn't be based on political disagreements. Citing the principle that fellows should be free to disagree about politics willfully misses the point.
https://occamstypewriter.org/scurry/2026/02/11/year-of-inaction-royal-society-hollowed-out-musk/

Update. In a new open letter, UCambridge prof #RachelOliver criticizes #PaulNurse, president of the #RoyalSociety, for proposing to change the society's code of conduct so that Fellows (like #ElonMusk and #TimHunt) could only be expelled for scientific misconduct, and not (e.g.) for sexual misconduct.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/18poQruZ9oImg-4SUH-P-1JAdqFdf1HCx/view

#RoyalSociety president reignites Elon #Musk row by defending lack of action - https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jan/14/royal-society-president-reignites-elon-musk-row-defends-lack-of-action #nurse is clueless; he should go

Update. Adrian Smith, President of the #RoyalSociety, has decided to criticize #ElonMusk rather than expel him.
https://royalsociety.org/news/2025/10/statement-from-president-royal-society/

Smith's criticism focuses on Musk's "language of violence, and narratives of division and polarisation" and says nothing about Musk's violation of the Royal Society code of ethics or role in pillaging US science agencies.

I’m going to hazard a guess here that the Royal Society find some way to avoid doing the right thing. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly08l9vlpyo.amp #RoyalSociety #Musk #ElonMusk

I’m going to hazard a guess here that the Royal Society find some way to avoid doing the right thing. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly08l9vlpyo.amp #RoyalSociety #Musk #ElonMusk

Update. Next month the #RoyalSociety will reopen the question of expelling #ElonMusk. This time the provocation is Musk's "violence is coming" address to a far-right rally in London last week.
https://www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-royal-society-to-debate-throwing-out-elon-musk/

More on the rally itself.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/elon-musk-tommy-robinson-london-protest-b2826032.html

Update. In March the president of the #RoyalSociety, Paul Nurse, asked Elon #Musk to “step in and reverse" the #Trump administration attacks on US science. Musk played dumb and asked for details on those attacks. In May Nurse "suggested" that Musk resign as an RS fellow. Musk did not reply and that seems to be that. Nurse shared the "substance of the correspondence" with members but stands by his position not to discipline Musk for violating the RS code of conduct.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/jul/17/royal-society-elon-musk-resign-science-fellowship-tesla

Update. Kudos to Andrea Sella for returning his 2014 Faraday Prize to the #RoyalSociety because the society refuses to expel or discipline Fellow Elon #Musk.
https://www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/why-i-returned-the-faraday-prize-to-the-royal-society/4021668.article

From Sella: "Musk has amplified wild conspiracy theories, repeated racist and eugenic ideas, and spread calls for harming of one of his fellow Royal Society members, Anthony Fauci. The Royal Society stayed silent, declining to take disciplinary action against Musk even after resignations and petitions. Acting for the US administration, this past spring Musk embarked on a rampage…gutting science-based agencies, shutting down scientific databases, shredding public health programmes."

Also see the ( #paywalled) coverage at the Financial Times.
https://www.ft.com/content/877853df-1687-4d1f-940b-9eefc0cf69c0

A little more about why I returned the #RoyalSociety Faraday Prize, with a question for everyone to ponder. #Musk

https://www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/why-i-returned-the-faraday-prize-to-the-royal-society/4021668.article

A little more about why I returned the #RoyalSociety Faraday Prize, with a question for everyone to ponder. #Musk

https://www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/why-i-returned-the-faraday-prize-to-the-royal-society/4021668.article