The 1st edition of the 'Relational Map of #Plant #SyntheticBiology in the UK' is out! 🌱 It's a transdisciplinary collaboration between @olmoore.bsky.social , Dr Little & Dr Rylott. Part of the ARIA-funded Futuring Biological Commons, led by @joyzhang.bsky.social To access doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Baseball’s back baby 😁🥰

Londoners! Not long now, before I kick off my spring book tour at the Highgate Literary and Scientific Institute on 24 March. Join me for an evening of wild discovery about the women who didn't believe it when they were told, "You can't do that." Wildly Different - HLSI share.google/UNS33TRnRkn3...

Green Day playing before the Super Bowl was just bizarre. Awesome but bizarre.

📢 #CFP: Futuring Digital Foodscapes Join us at @easst.bsky.social in Krakow (8–11 Sept) to discuss how digital tech shapes food futures, values, and inequalities. Panel 177 co-organised with @allgaier.bsky.social, Tina Bartelmeß & Katharina Graf #STS DL: 9 March nomadit.co.uk/conference/e...

We're wrapping up proofs this week for The Routledge Handbook of Health & Environmental Humanities: it's got 43 (!) chapters - couldn't have done it without the fab authors and my even more brilliant co-editors Amber Abrams and Rocío Gomez @historyrocio.bsky.social www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...

A UC Berkeley-born CRISPR breakthrough is being used to directly edit the genetic mutation behind sickle cell diseases—offering new hope for patients. news.berkeley.edu/2026/01/22/b...

Got be impressed with the pets in this house and their interest it inspiring academic literature…

I think he wants some answers…

Gotta love a protest of the protestors…

We’re losing to the cardinals? When is baseball season back… 😱

Absolutely delighted that our panel for @easst.bsky.social '26 was accepted. Please submit an abstract to our panel "Commoning socio-technical frontiers: Navigating cutting-edge science & technology..." Deadline 28th February - P014 at conference EASST2026. nomadit.co.uk/conference/e...

The DARE team invites abstract submissions for “Caring for the Possible: In the Meantime of Healthcare’s Data-Driven Futures”, a panel at the EASST conference in Krakow, September 2026! Deadline 28 Feb :) @cathm.bsky.social @nicolasugden.bsky.social @0404am.bsky.social dare.ed.ac.uk/events/2025/...

Today has been a rough writing day. However! I have managed to confuse my sons school friends who appeared at our door and “6 7” To which I responded with “8 9” The looks of confusion on a group of 10 and 11 year olds was priceless. So you know, silver linings.

PETE ALONSO 🎉🎉🎉 www.mlb.com/news/pete-al...

Reminder: Professor Michael Winter’s Distinguished Lecture 17.12.25 @crpr-exeter.bsky.social: Whatever happened to the Political Economy of Agriculture? Hybrid: Queen’s building, LT1 - 10:15-12:15 or online. Registration is via Eventbrite (bit.ly/3KDpFPu ). Any questions: [email protected].

@greggrosenthal.bsky.social - why are the Falcons trash? 😢 Is it coaching or team building?

I was wrong Daily Express February 1975. With this interesting article.

Why are historians bad at house renovations…. Because I have found more newspaper and I’ll be trying to preserve it. Excitement waiting to see when it’s from. My guess 1990s.

Oh the irony - doing renovations at home. Found the Somerset Country Gazette newspaper from July 1967 crumpled up behind a fake wall. And there’s an advert (I think) to Bristol Zoo.

Ha! When you accidentally discover a documentary series on Zoo Vets - nearly 2 years after you finish your PHD 🤦

Folks, are we forgetting that Francis cited Haraway?

Spread the word about this brand new Masters in Public Environmental Humanities with me and The Greenhouse crew in Norway. For those outside of EU, registration is in second half of November, so don’t miss it!

Best zoo sign - ever.

Old habits, hard to break. 😆

🌱 #UNWorldFoodDay Dr @olmoore.bsky.social took the stage at the @aria-research.bsky.social event, 'Securing the Future of Food' to highlight the power of open dialogue around plant-engineering, biotech and public engagement: research.kent.ac.uk/global-scien...

#Farmers it is your turn. We are holding 2 focus groups in November to bring farmers together to shape science & technology. Please do join us at Norwich Research Park, 10th November forms.office.com/e/NHgYtsUNci Or at the Angel & Royal Hotel, Grantham, 11th November. forms.office.com/e/VJ2hTeedi8

Although my invisible juggling didn't get the reception I was hoping for... 😂

Can't beat focus group facilitator "jazz-hands"... Thank you York you were superb.

It was a busy but incredibly fruitful and inspirational few days in London. An absolute delight to be involved.

Please share far and wide. If you're interested in & want to be involved in shaping science and technology. AND you are in #York on 8th October or #Newcastle on 22nd October. Then please come and join us. Sign up: York - forms.office.com/e/7fZqjUYHnx | Newcastle: forms.office.com/e/K1KG4M5GDd

Animals out of place: @angecass.bsky.social getting us started at the Planetary Futures conference at Manchester Museum, @manchester.ac.uk blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2025/0...

The entrance to submitting articles to journals and open access admin is mildly scary - not gonna lie. Feel like I need a PhD in publishing articles to publish articles from my PhD 😬

Work in AgTech or plant breeding industry? Got time to discuss novel scientific and technological products in every day life? Available to get to Cambridge, UK on Friday 12th September? Well, then come and join me for a focus group. #FocusGroup #Research #ScienceAndTechnology

I'm transcribing. Research, actual research, lovely wonderful research. I forgot how much I enjoyed this. It's been a while. 😁

An afternoon of transcription derailed because the better half took my AirPods (with her AirPods) to work. Neither were required whilst she has been pulling teeth out of horses...! Sigh.

Ultra-processed foods are THE debate in nutrition right now, so you'd figure a new randomized control trial on UPFs would get lots of attention. But this study in Nature Medicine has only gotten modest coverage -- probably because it's findings are not so scary. THREAD www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Someone has broken the thermostat in Kent... 🥵

In Canterbury, Kent on the 12th August? Fancy being part of a discussion about shaping science and technology? Then please join the Futuring Biological Commons team for a 2 and half hour focus group. Register your interest here forms.office.com/e/uQ7UHf05xs or email [email protected]

Oh my. If you just read government legislation on genetically modified organisms you would assume that the only persons undertaking this work were men. Kind of intrigued to see when this changes - it better change....!

Me after a cold and dismissive paper rejection: "A rite of passage passed" Supporting academic. "No, that's your life now.." Happy Friday everyone. 😆

Split decision. On the one hand it's been fun trawling away for different countries policies on plant synthetic biology. On the other, I've just found a website dedicated to tracking said policies... I guess at least I have the background to sense check the tracker...

Oooh, there's a comment on a webinar "if you want to have impact get out of university" 👀

A day of trawling EU policy supported by AnnenMayKantereit and specifically the album - Alles nix knonkretes. Another reminder to get back to the Babbel app and German lessons..! open.spotify.com/album/2Cq6fg...

It has been a day of trawling US policy documents and so many have file names ending "FINAL." And you know somewhere, someone has a multitude of other files for the document named things like "v.1.4" "Final Final" "v.2" and "FINAL_absolutely_the_last_one" 😂

Great to see this timely report published. cms.wellcome.org/sites/defaul...

This fall, The Greenhouse is offering three 5 ECTS micromodules @unistavanger.bsky.social, based in environmental history & humanities, online and open for all to take. #envhist #envhum

Tomorrow, you can hear from Steve Emery (also of Rothamstead) and Catherine Broomfield (also Pasture for Life) about their work on farming-science collaborations (Thurs 10.15am, PFLA Tent). We're looking forward to getting stuck in at #groundswell25 !

Very happy to announce I am moving on to a new chapter and joining a brilliant team, led by @joyzhang.bsky.social, investigating the social and ethical dimensions of plant synthetic biology. An exciting 3 years await. Looking forward to being a part of @gsej.bsky.social at the University of Kent.

JOB: Senior Research Associate: Plants, Enslavement, and Public History at University of Bristol, UK #envhist www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNK213/s...