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I follow smart people, daft people and experts you decide which is which 🙂 Interested in grown up politics, climate science, green tech, fossils, travel, food (cooking/eating/growing), and good beer 🍻
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I just finished watching series 2 of #Loki I realise I'm coming late to this but what a gem of a show. I find so many of the current crop of science fiction series so slow, the pace of this was perfect. Any ideas for something else I should be watching?

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A recent cartoon for New Scientist 🧪

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🌱🐝 Something to consider.

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Watched The Fog again last night, a modern horror classic that stands up really well. I hadn't considered before how the only character with any (and not much) backstory is the DJ. It is one long scary campfire story and well worth revisiting on a stormy night.

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A very old, lone oak, dripping in epiphytes, overhangs a river in Killarney NP. Just as the tree reflects off the water, so is it a living reflection of a precious rainforest ecosystem that has been, and continues to be, grazed to oblivion. Something *must* give here. 🌎

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Another fabulous moth from the Andean cloud forest. The coloring and patterns of this tiger moth remind me of something you might find decorating a playing card. Bellavista Cloud Forest Reserve, Ecuador (Amaxia sp.) 🌿🧪🐡 #invertebrate

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I was studying Old English in college and I came across a thing written by a monk that was basically like "Albric doesn't get any mutton for a week because he won't stop making faces at prayer and when I asked him to stop he called me a fat bald thumb" and I startled everyone in the library

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Under appreciated genius

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Remembrance Sunday. A time to remember all of them. Including the millions of Black, Sikh, Muslim, Hindu soldiers whose contribution has too often been ignored and even, at times, deliberately silenced.

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Keeping it real

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Now that I know starfish are just heads, invertebrate fossils seem a lot more fun to me Starfish, crinoids, and trilobites from the Ordovician of Morocco, on display at the Goseong Dinosaur Museum in South Korea #FossilFriday 🧪 ⚒️

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We were lucky to see the digitally remastered 'A Matter of Life and Death' this evening, such an incredible film and years ahead of its time. @britishfilmstardom.bsky.social Are BFI on here yet?

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Adriatic Sea or Gulf of Venice? How Medieval Politics played out on maps www.medievalists.net/2023/11/adri...

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🧪🦑

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So the wildest thing happened to me today. I was scuba diving in fuertaventura and my dive turned into a turtle rescue 🌍

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"Globally, up to 40 per cent of land is now degraded, according to the UNCCD." Over 100 million hectares of productive land was lost annually between 2015 and 2019. www.scidev.net/global/opini...

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Look at her! 🧪🦊🌏

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Today’s IEA’s new report claims that there isn’t a “discernible Brexit effect” on the British economy. My analysis shows a different picture: the UK’s has had the slowest GDP growth per capita among G7 economies. There’s only one significant point of difference between them, and it begins with a B.

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Interested in doing a History PhD in Travel Writing? The history department at the University of Warwick has received a donation from Tony Wheeler, co-founder of Lonely Planet, for four fully-funded studentships! 2 with Autumn 2024 entry: warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/his...

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Cheers!

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📣 Paper: We show that mutators can drive the evolution of multi-resistance to antibiotics, in cases where purely wild type populations can't This came out earlier this year while the other place was imploding But it's a story I'm proud of for many reasons... 1/n journals.plos.org/plosgenetics...

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Nice post.

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First Post on Bluesky #Evolution #Biology #ExperimentalEvolution #LTEE #Microbes #Bacteria #Viruses #Science #Microbiology #ScienceCommunication #ScienceEducation #DEI #ScienceHistory #PhilosophyOfScience Lots of other stuff, too.

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an amazing display of the northern lights from Northumberland last night

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Ok 🥲

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President Emmanuel Macron submitted language for an amendment that would make France the first country to enshrine a right to abortion in its constitution.

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I love how, if you time-traveled into the past, the shrimp would still be shrimping 🦐 A Cretaceous ray and some shrimp at the Goseong Dinosaur Museum in South Korea 🧪 ⚒️ #FossilFriday

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