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Former Higher Scientific Officer, UK Civil Service. Left to play guitar, and grow my own guitar strings. Reluctant to attempt communication when undercaffeinated.
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🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

submitted 116 days ago • 1309 comments

The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here. HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻 archive.org/details/2025...

submitted 118 days ago • 231 comments

"The greatest trick that Santa ever played was convincing the world he didn't exist." Or was it Satan? Easily misremembered....

submitted 161 days ago • 0 comments

I finally deactivated my Twitter account last night. I'd been using it pretty much passively for months, but seeing Melon Husk shilling for Tommeh made it seem unjustified to continue using it even that way. So, yup. Twitter RIP from me for the foreseeable.

submitted 185 days ago • 0 comments

Neil Fergusson's cross-investigation at the Covid Inquiry is painting a very clear picture that it was evident by the end of February to SAGE that huge numbers of people would die and hospitals would be overwhelmed if nothing was done. So why wasn't something done sooner?

submitted 591 days ago • 5 comments

Sunak says we don't want a General Election. I'm pretty sure that's bs. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/64...

submitted 601 days ago • 0 comments

Am I alone in wondering if Elon Musk has a secret account here?

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