Felt Beard Taped To Child’s Face Hanging On For Dear Life With Entire Christmas Pageant To Go

Ever wondered why the earliest sunset / latest sunrise comes days away the shortest day of the year? Here is a _fabulous_ explanation. And it is presented in the style of the internet of my adolescence. ❤️ larry.denenberg.com/earliest-sun...

gen z sysadmins be like rm -fr

Wow the Crimson is on fire. Volunteer journalism seems more immune from enshittification than the corporate kind.

This is an all-timer. The fucking snow plow at the end always makes me lose it.

Thank goodness for that. Something that shouldn’t have happened, happened. And now it’s set to unhappen. Great for students, great for research in general and great for Britain. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

'The Forest' by contemporary German artist Katja Lang #WomensArt #ArtAdvent

If you’re wondering what December in Finland is like…

SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE

Notably Canada's investment is far larger at $1.7B than the entire ERC's extra allocation for American recruitment to Europe (€500M), despite Canada having a population roughly 20 times smaller than the EU. Not to mention being just one country and not, like, 30

Brilliant move by the Canadian government. Every research active country (looking at you 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇦🇺) should be doing this at max scale. Once in a generation opportunity.

I thought _for sure_ this was an Onion headline. Delectable detail that the State Dept adopted Calibri after it had been the default for 20 years, but had already been replaced by Aptos.

Marvellous mail boxes of Paris, largely Modernist and you can see more here www.instagram.com/romainlaprade

✨From the archives: St Mary’s, Breamore in Hampshire, is one of the most complete late Anglo-Saxon churches we have — a building that’s held its ground for over a millennium. Here I photographed it with the Elizabethan Breamore House behind it, two eras folded into one view.

#apod 2025-12-06 Apollo 17 at Shorty Crater Web page: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap251206.html#apod

please share this postdoc job alert! come join the budding Biodiversity Cell Atlas initiative as a postdoc or senior postdoc at @sangerinstitute.bsky.social working closely with @arnausebe.bsky.social and me to make progress on what we cover in this paper www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Car in snow, c.1955 by prolific US photographer Vivian Maier #womensart

Richard so deserves this - a legend in bioinformatics and computational biology - work genome, human genome, Pfam, 1,000 genomes, Sam/bam format, bwa, vcf, psmc… and so many more

I can’t remember seeing a single graffito inside a tube carriage. I’m sure there’s some but the photog must’ve spent days riding around looking for this shot. The Tube is a temple of modern civilisation—hilarious to see it held up in this way by know-nothings.

The eight words that keep on giving. Every time I see them I spend an enjoyable 2 minutes trying to remember how it works.

These choices are necessary. Some will be unpopular. Academics affected will complain loudly (our "no reviews" policy is endlessly debated) but one must look at the big picture. Some types of content may just not be appropriate for generic servers and better suited to more subjective outlets 2/3

Keeping fuel duty at the same level for 15 years, while phasing in a cumbersome-to-implement tax on EV owners seems insane. www.bbc.com/news/article...

IBM ThinkPad 550 BJ (1993) - Included an integrated Bubble Jet printer!

Polar night begins in Finnish Lapland. Forecast for Utsjoki notes the next sunrise is January 17th. 😣

Great map of European soil -- so many different things to pick up on.

Amazing, depressing article about RFK Jr by Michael Scherer in The Atlantic. This graf at the end stayed with me. Our national policy is now based on the difference between 17 and 21 outcomes out of populations of 22000. As usual, hard to know if it is stupidity or dishonesty.

Boston's Mayor Wu playing with Yo-Yo Ma at Symphony Hall

Sad to hear about reductions at the MIT Libraries… I have happy memories of digging around in the ancient, musty-smelling stacks to find an obscure journal article, or going looking for a single oddball book & finding even more interesting things on nearby shelves. libraries.mit.edu/about/vision...

Broad Street featuring some red ivy 🍂 📷 Instagram | Luis_Louis_Lewis (November, 2023)

Happy birthday to David Ortiz, who is 50. Still can’t figure out why the Cardinals kept pitching to him in ‘13.

The Ashes - known to me as my biennial attempt to pass myself off as a cricket fan - gets underway this week. There's something really very wonderful about 5 day, unlimited over test cricket that, for me at least, cannot be reproduced in T20, ODIs or any other audience friendly format.

This is the way.

Welcome to our webinar “Multiomics from a single blood sample: combining Nightingale metabolomics with NULISA proteomics to brain health research and beyond” on 25 November at 3 p.m. CET!
The webinar will be run jointly by experts from Nightingale and Alamar. Sign up: www.lyyti.fi/reg/webinar-...

Saturn’s rings remain disconcertingly thin

Stopped in the Rockwell museum in western Mass a few years ago. Surprisingly great.

Congratulations to Richard Durbin on being awarded our Genetics Society Medal!

Congratulations Hilary!

Congratulations @hilarycmartin.bsky.social from @sangerinstitute.bsky.social on being awarded the 2026 Balfour Lecture!

Personal favourites: * Smedley Crooke, MP for Birmingham Deritend * Seymour Cocks, MP for Broxtowe * Waldron Smithers, MP for Chislehurst * Dingle Foot, MP for Dundee and Ipswich * Bartle Bull, MP for Enfield * Isidore Salmon, MP for Harrow

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Flying Squirrel Loves It Every Time

The Sandwich Guy’s prosecutor seems unfamiliar with both baseball and the meaning of the verb “spike”

🚨 NEW: The majority holder of the world's genetic sequence data is a bad actor who can cut off access to critics and competing services. We've tolerated this for years, and now it threatens the pandemic treaty. Time for WHO to step in. With @ctrlalttim.com: www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/to-f...

WHAT A SPEECH. Read the whole thing via the link. My fave: “More than a million of us stood in our churches, in gymnasiums, in community centers, as we filled in the ledger of democracy. And while we cast our ballots alone, we chose hope together.”

😎😎😎😎 GOOD THINGS CAN STILL HAPPEN 😎😎😎😎

Have you registered for our annual Scientific Conference on 8th December? Join @jeffbarrett.eu from @nightingalehealth.com and many more researchers, industry experts and the UK Biobank team for a day of innovation and discovery.

Collyhurst cowboy, Manchester, January 1968, photo by Dennis Hussey.

I am presenting updates on multiomic research and clinical risk prediction on behalf of @nightingalehealth.com at this year's @ukbiobank.bsky.social conference. Looking forward to joining the event, and catching up with other attendees! #UKBiobank #Omics #HealthData