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theoxforddom.bsky.social
By day, freelance sci-comm do-gooder. By night, korfball dinosaur, Human Scientist and Jersey bean, living in exile on the fens.
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This is also generally how you exclude minorities and women from “serious discussions” BTW - pick on something ridiculous and irrelevant (esp clothes, hair) and make it the entire basis for a character assassination pile on

submitted 21 hours ago • 2 comments

I get it now. That noise the internet used to make when connecting. It was the ghosts of the future trying to warn us to turn off the internet.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Join us on 24 March for a fun evening of comedy and science in Cambridge! @cambridgejunction.bsky.social @cambridgefestival.bsky.social

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Slightly awkward photo of me posing with my 2024 Beetlestone Award for leadership and legacy in informal science learning. Nominations open soon for the 2025 award, so get thinking about someone you know who deserves it. I promise they'll get a huge boost just from being nominated! #SciComm UK only

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Why did dinosaurs evolve into birds? Because they were terrible lizards! I wrote this joke

submitted 5 days ago • 6 comments

Michael Young coined the phrase "meritocracy" as satire, and then he fathered Toby Young in case people didn't get the joke.

submitted 9 days ago • 7 comments

It's lovely and windy today, which means lots of clean green electricity. Or does it? See all those purple dots in Scotland? Those are wind farms that we're turning off as of 8am… 🤔

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

Superb post from @alisongopnik.bsky.social. Although I grew up (in the UK) with the story being about Nail Soup. simons.berkeley.edu/news/stone-s...

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Gorton. The hardest working font in Manhattan. aresluna.org/the-hardest-...

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

Show me two people with insane beef.

submitted 13 days ago • 13 comments

"Not having much of an ideology other than being nice" is, in fact, a pretty decent guiding principle for life, especially if you're a person who is not really into politics. I can certainly think of worse ones.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Great thread

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Look on the bright side: the chances of a nuclear war between Russia and America seem to have gone down a bit.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Eeek "Rather than make the effort to understand the intricate processes of change, most critics appeared to slip into the easy vulgarizations of the "devil-view" of history which ingenuously assumes that all human misfortunes can be traced to the machinations of an easily located set of villains...

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Half-expect Trump to make a proposal for lasting peace in the north of Ireland by inviting over Scottish Protestants to establish plantations.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Do this. Every little thing.

submitted 18 days ago • 130 comments

🧵 1/3 History rarely judges kindly those who, when faced with a moral choice, chose the path of least resistance. Link to the full article here: www.ft.com/content/5ba3...

submitted 26 days ago • 8 comments

just over here photoshopping muppets onto the cover of elle magazine: thread

submitted 23 days ago • 213 comments

Just a few days left to submit a proposal for The BIG Event 2025 Put forward a workshop, panel, discussion or interactive demonstration for this year's skills sharing event. Submit by 10th February at bigevent.info

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