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Gene Supremo and Worm Wizard aberdeenwormlab.org
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David Allsopp
13 minutes ago
I was reminded recently of the fun fact that the Cadbury's Caramel bunny (voted 3rd sexiest cartoon character of all time) was voiced by Miriam Margolyes (drawing on her experience making adult audio tapes for sex shops)
thebritishcandyconnoisseur.wordpress.com/2020/06/05/f...
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Meera Sundaram
13 minutes ago
Basic, curiosity driven, sometimes very exploratory, research is the seed corn that leads to the biggest scientific advances
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/s...
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Nobel Prizes This Year Offer Three Cheers for Slow Science
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/science/nobel-prizes-science-basic-research.html?unlocked_article_code=1.s08.5PyZ._yrfmoCC0gta&smid=url-share
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Just as I’m getting to know this hillside, it’s under threat. Please join the campaign
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STOP THE EXPANSION OF BREEDON QUARRY IN BALMULLO, ST ANDREWS (No donation required)
Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?
https://c.org/wcLDZj99NS
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Renee de St. Croix
about 16 hours ago
“Fast forward to today, and the transformation is astonishing. Paris has quietly—and quickly—become one of the most bike-friendly cities in the world” with pop-up bike-lanes during the pandemic evolving “into a permanent cycling network spanning hundreds of kilometres.” Via
@momentummag.bsky.social
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New Study Shows How Paris Pedaled Its Way to a Cycling Revolution
Cycling through central Paris meant weaving between buses and scooters—a bold choice reserved for the fearless few.
https://momentummag.com/new-study-paris-cycling-revolution/
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Anil Dash
about 20 hours ago
Phew. This one got me. There is so much heart and soul and love behind a campaign like this.
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Coleen Murphy
2 days ago
Begging scientists (and media posts about science) to stop using ChatGPT-generated images
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Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍
2 days ago
This is so cool! Four amino acid changes in the naked mole rat cGAS turn it from a DNA repair inhibitor into an enhancer
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
What is going on in armadillos, which have lost the cGAS and STING genes‽
#PetosParadox
#EvMed
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pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40463121/
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A cGAS-mediated mechanism in naked mole-rats potentiates DNA repair and delays aging
Efficient DNA repair might make possible the longevity of naked mole-rats. However, whether they have distinctive mechanisms to optimize functions of DNA repair suppressors is unclear. We find that na...
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adp5056
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Steven Beschloss
2 days ago
“When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognise courageous defenders of freedom who rise & resist. Democracy depends on people who refuse to stay silent, who dare to step forward despite grave risk & remind us freedom must never be taken for granted.”
www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace...
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Nobel Peace Prize 2025
The Nobel Peace Prize 2025 was awarded to Maria Corina Machado "for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transi...
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/2025/press-release/
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dag
2 days ago
This is a timely, excellent and important report on how "arms length" bodies in UK are vulnerable to political manipulation. Kudos
@chrischirp.bsky.social
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@martinmckee.bsky.social
for putting this together.
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What a despicable and shameful country the UK has become
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Lee Hurley
2 days ago
If she'd been married and lied about being single or if she'd been a convicted abuser and lied about that she would not be going to jail. People lie all the time before sex, during sex and after sex. If you're trans, that's a crime.
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Thibaut Brunet
7 days ago
Latest from ours:
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
This is two stories in one: a case study/cautionary tale on developing genetic tools in new organisms, and the first hint at a gene regulatory network for choanoflagellate multicellular development (which turn out to involve a Hippo/YAP/ECM loop!) A 🧵
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Captain Cuddles © 🤠😈😜
2 days ago
Louisiana grandma gonna solo the whole nation
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Rob Mullins
2 days ago
I've been looking for papers and articles written in (even partial) defence of the judgment in FWS. So far I have: Michael Foran's paper and blog post, Karen Monaghan KC's article in Briefings, and Ben Cooper KC's paper. All three were involved on the winning side. Does anyone know of any others?
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Health Nerd
2 days ago
The Cass review into children's gender services in the UK continues to be terrible. A new report from Australia led by the fantastic Dr. Julia Moore - and featuring me - looks into the issues in detail. My new piece.
gidmk.substack.com/p/the-cass-r...
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The Cass Review Continues To Be Severely Flawed
A new paper from an Australian team shines a light on the problems with the review
https://gidmk.substack.com/p/the-cass-review-continues-to-be-severely
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Toby Buckle
3 days ago
reactionary centrists insist trans acceptance went too far & generated a backlash but the UK legal transition for 20 years, it wasn't an issue until the press made it one
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CosmicRami 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
3 days ago
There’s lots of crappy things going on right now. Don’t forget there is also lots of good stuff going on across the world …. and even beyond! ☄️
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Prof Christina Pagel
3 days ago
🧵🚨 The UK’s independent scientific bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation - over the past 5 months I've been working with
@martinmckee.bsky.social
to map out their vulnerabilities and it's not good news. Today our report is published!
www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n...
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UK’s arm’s length public bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation
Seven in ten Britons say it is important for top scientific institutions to be independent in exclusive new polling.
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/news/2025/oct/uks-arms-length-public-bodies-are-highly-vulnerable-politicisation
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Alejandra Caraballo
3 days ago
Remember all of the ghouls who denied this was happening and did everything they could to make the problem worse from JK Rowling to Wes Streeting. The NHS who did a stitch up report to hide the growing number of suicides from trans youth on the waitlists. They should never be forgiven.
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The Onion
3 days ago
Israel Agrees To Go Back To Killing Palestinians On Less Frequent Basis
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Israel Agrees To Go Back To Killing Palestinians On Less Frequent Basis
CAIRO—As part of a historic ceasefire agreement with Hamas following two years of war, the Israeli government reportedly agreed Thursday to go back to killing Palestinians on a less frequent basis. “I...
https://theonion.com/israel-agrees-to-go-back-to-killing-palestinians-on-less-frequent-basis/
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Ketan Joshi
3 days ago
I know Jane Goodall was revered by many in the environment movement, but it is pretty clear that she also harboured many seriously problematic colonial attitudes. The 'overpopulation' stuff in particular was pretty bad, and as a concept the conduit of plenty of serious wrongdoing over the years
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Rose Schmits
3 days ago
Yknow not to be dramatic but officially seeing ill health and disability as a problem to be seen in terms of labor is a sign of core principles of your society falling apart it seems to me
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Stephen Bush
4 days ago
If you want to read an actually good piece about integration in the United Kingdom, try
@samfr.bsky.social
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The Truth About Integration
I have been challenged by readers to write something less depressing about the state of the country.
https://samf.substack.com/p/the-truth-about-integration
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Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume
4 days ago
imagine being this guy and finding a really chubby sheep on a warm afternoon
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Frances Ryan
4 days ago
This is devastating but hard to think of more important journalism. 18,457 children have been killed in Gaza (many more not accounted for). Here, The Guardian prints their names and beautiful faces and tells us what they were like before Israel stole their lives.
www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
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Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead
Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive
https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2025/oct/08/young-lives-cut-short-on-an-unimaginable-scale-the-18457-children-on-gazas-list-of-war-dead?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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El Espectro 👻 🎃
4 days ago
Solidarity with colleagues at Imperial College who are on strike this week.
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5 days ago
Scott Prior (American painter b. 1949) Summer Window, 2022 Oil on panel
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European News
4 days ago
Dutch court rejects X’s bid to silence data privacy claimant A Dutch court has rejected a request by Elon Musk’s platform X to impose a gag order on a local tech expert who is suing the company over access to his personal data. (
https://archive.ph/JnfBc
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Dutch court rejects X’s bid to silence data privacy claimant
A Dutch court has rejected a request by Elon Musk’s platform X to impose a gag order on a local tech expert who is suing the company over access to his personal data. (https://archive.ph/JnfBc)
https://euobserver.com/digital/ar901024af
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This is progress, but signs won’t ensure compliance. The roads need to be designed to make travelling faster than 20 mph uncomfortable for drivers
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20's Plenty for Us
4 days ago
It's good to see 20mph being the norm across the whole city. Yet another place that is saying #20splenty where people are.
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Council chiefs name next Manchester area where speed limits will be cut to 20mph
It's part of a wider drive to reduce deaths and injuries on Manchester's roads
https://bit.ly/4nFlj8z
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Joshua G. Schraiber
6 days ago
Just an absolutely horrific self own, depleting the US of amazing students from all over the world who contributed to what used to make America great: its diversity, its openness, and its leadership in education.
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Bethany Brookshire
5 days ago
"You have been hired as a sop to a Trump administration that is actively hostile to the actual free press, and you will be made to oversee wave after wave of layoffs until you quit"
@lopatto.bsky.social
If this doesn't keep Bari Weiss up at night, nothing will.
www.theverge.com/business/793...
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Memo to Bari Weiss Re: CBS News: You’re doomed
Bari Weiss has sold her company, The Free Press, to manage the decline of broadcast news at CBS. How many ways can it go wrong?
https://www.theverge.com/business/793525/bari-weiss-cbs-news-glass-cliff
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"spooky sukkot" daniel s.
about 2 years ago
when israel mass murders palestinian civilians it’s collateral damage. when palestinians mass murder israelis, it’s terrorism. only one side’s civilians are civilians in our discourse. palestinians are all militants or would-be militants and off-duty israeli reservists are civilians.
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Adrian Liston
6 days ago
A small primer on the
#NobelPrize
awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi today. This prize was for combining two separate fields of immunology research - genetic research on IPEX and immunology research of regulatory T cells (#Tregs), with enormous impact on biology/medicine
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Jaws Stone - indefinite hiatus
6 days ago
If you, like me, are highly suicidal and lack any meaning and hope right now, may I deeply recommend watching this documentary about Ennio Morricone:
youtu.be/gkrNxpuT_z4?...
If you, as a creative, needed a sign now more than ever that what we do is important and fundamentally human.
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Ennio: The Maestro
YouTube video by Catapang, Amos Abraham C.
https://youtu.be/gkrNxpuT_z4?si=D1UONcE5Dmt9afCn
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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS
5 days ago
They're going to tax foreign languages, aren't they?
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The Conversation UK
6 days ago
New study finds both MPs and the public underestimate how quickly global emissions must be cut.
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We surveyed British MPs – most don’t know how urgent climate action is
New study finds both MPs and the public underestimate how quickly global emissions must be cut.
https://tcnv.link/uwR5jMx
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Mike Sowden
6 days ago
Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
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Natacha
6 days ago
The new Aussie critique of the Cass Review does not pull its punches about its failures, & makes the point that "gender-critical beliefs" should be declared. Since transphobes have made so much of having these protected by law, they should be required to declare them.
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Ian Dunt
6 days ago
It breaks my mind that two British political parties have seen scenes like this and decided to try and replicate it in Britain. Thuggary, lawlessness, state brutality. Farage and Badenoch decided they liked the look of it.
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This is a hugely important piece for anyone who wants to understand why the Cass review is ideologically driven and should not be used to develop healthcare policy
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Rob Mullins
6 days ago
If I were an investigative journalist in the UK (are there any left?), I would be having a good look at the extent to which NHS leadership seems to have allied itself with a fringe medical movement that more or less condones conversion therapy.
qnews.com.au/australian-r...
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Australian report says UK’s Cass review should not guide transgender healthcare
QNews LGBTIQA+ News
https://qnews.com.au/australian-report-says-uks-cass-review-should-not-guide-transgender-healthcare/
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Stephen Curry
9 days ago
Britain’s meritocracy. Heaven forfend we should ever try to mitigate these effects…
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Harmit Singh Malik
7 days ago
1937 Germany would like its propaganda machine back
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dag
7 days ago
The government want more coercive powers for the state against protests, and the main opposition party wants more coercive powers for the state against migrants. Our political-media culture continues in a loop where the response to every perceived problem is yet more coercive powers for the state.
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Simon Fisher
9 months ago
The inevitable March of Progress is a myth. What evolutionary thinking teaches us is that Homo sapiens is but one fragile branch on a massive ancient tree of life, or (in light of evidence that we co-existed & interbred with other hominins) just one remaining channel from a braided river. 9/9 🧪
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flyingrodent
9 days ago
The Arab Spring is a relevant point to pick, because it’s when all the lads joyfully hailed social media as an excellent tool* for people to organise against cruel, unjust regimes that rule by force, propaganda, patronage and inertia. And then they stopped, and had a think about what that meant.
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Felicity Hannah
9 days ago
This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.
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9 days ago
How much of right wing politics would flat out just disappear if men didn't have weird sexual neuroses?
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Alex von Tunzelmann
10 days ago
This comment nails it. Frankly it’s none of anyone’s business who else is in a public lavatory, even if they consider someone is in the “wrong” one. If you’re upset by the mere presence of somebody else for reasons of your own beliefs, that’s your problem.
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