Marnie Chesterton
@amsterdammed.bsky.social
I’m on hols. & these are khai. Tiny Thai bananas. Which are 1. Delicious and 2. Remind me of a scientist I interviewed, whose job I really wanted. She travelled the world looking for local bananas, to breed resilience into the monocrop most of us eat in supermarkets. Banana Hunter = cool job.
January 8, 2026 at 4:49 AM
I’m on hols. & these are khai. Tiny Thai bananas. Which are 1. Delicious and 2. Remind me of a scientist I interviewed, whose job I really wanted. She travelled the world looking for local bananas, to breed resilience into the monocrop most of us eat in supermarkets. Banana Hunter = cool job.
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Tired: Everything evolves to be a crab.
Wired: Everything evolves to eat ants.
Wired: Everything evolves to eat ants.
Mammals have evolved into ant eaters 12 times since the dinosaur age, study finds
Mammals have developed some unusual eating habits over the past 100 million years, but a new study has uncovered the surprising lengths to which some have gone to satisfy one of the more peculiar—a ta...
phys.org
January 7, 2026 at 1:13 AM
Tired: Everything evolves to be a crab.
Wired: Everything evolves to eat ants.
Wired: Everything evolves to eat ants.
Some really interesting details in here: changes to the vaccine schedule for US kids, appeals to reason with ‘bringing it in line with Denmark’ plus various holes in that rational, and problems with the launch of this change.
Once again, I implore media outlets to stop saying these are CDC decisions.
These are changes being made unilaterally by RFK Jr. against the expert advice of CDC scientists.
I note that RFK Jr. no longer recommends flu vaccine for kids in the midst of a horrible influenza year.
These are changes being made unilaterally by RFK Jr. against the expert advice of CDC scientists.
I note that RFK Jr. no longer recommends flu vaccine for kids in the midst of a horrible influenza year.
CDC overhauls childhood vaccine schedule to resemble Denmark in unprecedented move
The new U.S. guidelines recommend all children get vaccines for 11 diseases, compared with the 18 previously on the schedule.
www.nbcnews.com
January 6, 2026 at 3:01 AM
Some really interesting details in here: changes to the vaccine schedule for US kids, appeals to reason with ‘bringing it in line with Denmark’ plus various holes in that rational, and problems with the launch of this change.
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This person went on a buying spree over the past 24 hours. Fresh wallet. Only existed since Dec 27th and has only bet on Venezuela-related markets.
polymarket.com/@0x31a56e9E6...
polymarket.com/@0x31a56e9E6...
January 3, 2026 at 7:49 AM
This person went on a buying spree over the past 24 hours. Fresh wallet. Only existed since Dec 27th and has only bet on Venezuela-related markets.
polymarket.com/@0x31a56e9E6...
polymarket.com/@0x31a56e9E6...
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This is just such a damned disgrace. A crime against knowledge and humanity itself.
January 1, 2026 at 5:38 AM
This is just such a damned disgrace. A crime against knowledge and humanity itself.
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My mate Marnie @amsterdammed.bsky.social Chesterton doing Quantum in Helgoland (Heligoland for the purists).
Absolutely sublime wireless-output! :-) <3
And you lot moaned about the lack of Wizard of Oz this year!?
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Absolutely sublime wireless-output! :-) <3
And you lot moaned about the lack of Wizard of Oz this year!?
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - What Is Quantum?
Marnie Chesterton travels to the birthplace of quantum theory armed with just one question
www.bbc.co.uk
December 30, 2025 at 10:01 AM
My mate Marnie @amsterdammed.bsky.social Chesterton doing Quantum in Helgoland (Heligoland for the purists).
Absolutely sublime wireless-output! :-) <3
And you lot moaned about the lack of Wizard of Oz this year!?
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Absolutely sublime wireless-output! :-) <3
And you lot moaned about the lack of Wizard of Oz this year!?
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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This is a photo of the surface of an asteroid
It was taken from the *surface*I of that asteroid
By a *bouncing rover* the size of a lunchbox
(1/2)
It was taken from the *surface*I of that asteroid
By a *bouncing rover* the size of a lunchbox
(1/2)
December 29, 2025 at 10:36 PM
This is a photo of the surface of an asteroid
It was taken from the *surface*I of that asteroid
By a *bouncing rover* the size of a lunchbox
(1/2)
It was taken from the *surface*I of that asteroid
By a *bouncing rover* the size of a lunchbox
(1/2)
Tomorrow, 9.30am, you know what you need? Half an hour of me trying to understand why Quantum is so hard to understand. Includes Carlo Rovelli, Elise Crull and @philipcball.bsky.social being brilliant. Solutions? less clear
December 29, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Tomorrow, 9.30am, you know what you need? Half an hour of me trying to understand why Quantum is so hard to understand. Includes Carlo Rovelli, Elise Crull and @philipcball.bsky.social being brilliant. Solutions? less clear
Ever since the Oliver Sacks article in the New Yorker, I've been mulling why he embellished his stories of his patients. The lure of a good story over truth. Pleasingly, so have Tom Chivers and Stuart Ritchie in their excellent podcast. sciencefictionspod.substack.com/p/episode-92...
Episode 92: Oliver Sacks
Listen now | The man who mistook his diary for a case file
sciencefictionspod.substack.com
December 16, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Ever since the Oliver Sacks article in the New Yorker, I've been mulling why he embellished his stories of his patients. The lure of a good story over truth. Pleasingly, so have Tom Chivers and Stuart Ritchie in their excellent podcast. sciencefictionspod.substack.com/p/episode-92...
Dear maths people: How would you say this equation in words? X.sum()%2 (friend of mine narrating a book wants to know)
November 25, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Dear maths people: How would you say this equation in words? X.sum()%2 (friend of mine narrating a book wants to know)
Help! Does anyone know what this is? I bought it at my local south Asian veg store because they didn’t have any spinach. The guy said it was something that sounds like “hosu hosu” but I clearly misheard. Anyway, I tried a bit of stem and it felt like I’d put a nettle in my mouth.
November 11, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Help! Does anyone know what this is? I bought it at my local south Asian veg store because they didn’t have any spinach. The guy said it was something that sounds like “hosu hosu” but I clearly misheard. Anyway, I tried a bit of stem and it felt like I’d put a nettle in my mouth.
Arrived in Brooklyn just in time for Mamdani’s victory. Hilarious scenes as the cars slow down to shout at the cheering crowds. Car1: “I love socialism” Car2: “Fuck you, commies”
November 5, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Arrived in Brooklyn just in time for Mamdani’s victory. Hilarious scenes as the cars slow down to shout at the cheering crowds. Car1: “I love socialism” Car2: “Fuck you, commies”
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For 61 years the #BBCWorldService has been broadcasting the latest in science via its weekly Science in Action programme. That dies in the next half hour, with this final edition, reflecting on the fall in trust in expertise driven by malign interests over recent years.
October 30, 2025 at 8:20 PM
For 61 years the #BBCWorldService has been broadcasting the latest in science via its weekly Science in Action programme. That dies in the next half hour, with this final edition, reflecting on the fall in trust in expertise driven by malign interests over recent years.
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Minority representation on TV causes outrage
From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
October 29, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Minority representation on TV causes outrage
From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
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It's a very interesting development because i know many in the industry expected to see chocolate substitutes / alternatives come in more gradually / subtly than this.
But taking the "🎵if you like a lot of chocolate on your biscuit join our club!🎵" bar is a surprise.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
But taking the "🎵if you like a lot of chocolate on your biscuit join our club!🎵" bar is a surprise.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Penguin and Club bars can no longer be described as chocolate
The rising cost of cocoa has led to the manufacturers changing their recipe.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 20, 2025 at 8:15 PM
It's a very interesting development because i know many in the industry expected to see chocolate substitutes / alternatives come in more gradually / subtly than this.
But taking the "🎵if you like a lot of chocolate on your biscuit join our club!🎵" bar is a surprise.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
But taking the "🎵if you like a lot of chocolate on your biscuit join our club!🎵" bar is a surprise.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I'm recording a World Service show with a guest in Bengaluru.... and Diwali has kicked off big time - every time he talks, it sounds like there's a war zone in the back ground! 🎆
October 21, 2025 at 1:37 PM
I'm recording a World Service show with a guest in Bengaluru.... and Diwali has kicked off big time - every time he talks, it sounds like there's a war zone in the back ground! 🎆
Just about to do Inside Science on Radio 4, featuring @pennysarchet.bsky.social talking fit mice, the moon & Shackleton; comedian @josielong.bsky.social on Megafauna and @philipcball.bsky.social unpicks the quantum in the Nobel Prize for Physics
October 9, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Just about to do Inside Science on Radio 4, featuring @pennysarchet.bsky.social talking fit mice, the moon & Shackleton; comedian @josielong.bsky.social on Megafauna and @philipcball.bsky.social unpicks the quantum in the Nobel Prize for Physics
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Everybody makes money out of academic authors except the authors...News.
Wiley is the latest academic publisher to reach a multi-million deal to allow access to its content to AI developers, with no opt out, let alone payment, for the authors who created that content.
Wiley is the latest academic publisher to reach a multi-million deal to allow access to its content to AI developers, with no opt out, let alone payment, for the authors who created that content.
Wiley set to earn $44m from AI rights deals, confirms “no opt-out" for authors
The US publisher is the latest to capitalise on deals to give tech firms access to its authors’ content to train their Large Language Models (LLMs).
www.thebookseller.com
September 19, 2024 at 10:21 AM
Everybody makes money out of academic authors except the authors...News.
Wiley is the latest academic publisher to reach a multi-million deal to allow access to its content to AI developers, with no opt out, let alone payment, for the authors who created that content.
Wiley is the latest academic publisher to reach a multi-million deal to allow access to its content to AI developers, with no opt out, let alone payment, for the authors who created that content.
Imogen was a novella about a pasty lumpen teenager who accidentally goes on holiday with a glamorous St Tropez gang. Pasty lumpen teenage me loved it. Even with the terrible puns.
October 6, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Imogen was a novella about a pasty lumpen teenager who accidentally goes on holiday with a glamorous St Tropez gang. Pasty lumpen teenage me loved it. Even with the terrible puns.
My Queen is dead. Jilly Cooper is gone 💔
October 6, 2025 at 10:46 AM
My Queen is dead. Jilly Cooper is gone 💔
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Conventional wisdom says motherhood should wait for tenure as before you land a permanent post, #academia is just not that family friendly🙁
@carersinstemm.bsky.social are calling for change and to celebrate their new report, a Saturday🧵on parenting & academia! 1/9 👩🔬🧪🔭⚛️
ℹ️: carersinstemm.co.uk
@carersinstemm.bsky.social are calling for change and to celebrate their new report, a Saturday🧵on parenting & academia! 1/9 👩🔬🧪🔭⚛️
ℹ️: carersinstemm.co.uk
October 4, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Conventional wisdom says motherhood should wait for tenure as before you land a permanent post, #academia is just not that family friendly🙁
@carersinstemm.bsky.social are calling for change and to celebrate their new report, a Saturday🧵on parenting & academia! 1/9 👩🔬🧪🔭⚛️
ℹ️: carersinstemm.co.uk
@carersinstemm.bsky.social are calling for change and to celebrate their new report, a Saturday🧵on parenting & academia! 1/9 👩🔬🧪🔭⚛️
ℹ️: carersinstemm.co.uk
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Right now, I’m on Radio 4’s Inside Science with @amsterdammed.bsky.social, chatting about my favourite science news:
🪐 potential signs exoplanet Trappist 1e could be habitable
🐨 a new vaccine for koala chlamydia
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
🪐 potential signs exoplanet Trappist 1e could be habitable
🐨 a new vaccine for koala chlamydia
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - BBC Inside Science, Are embryos made from skin cells the future of fertility treatment?
Scientists have made early-stage human embryos using skin cell DNA fertilised with sperm
www.bbc.co.uk
October 2, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Right now, I’m on Radio 4’s Inside Science with @amsterdammed.bsky.social, chatting about my favourite science news:
🪐 potential signs exoplanet Trappist 1e could be habitable
🐨 a new vaccine for koala chlamydia
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
🪐 potential signs exoplanet Trappist 1e could be habitable
🐨 a new vaccine for koala chlamydia
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Just discovered that Jane Goodall like this! We discuss her life and legacy on Inside Science tomorrow. #RIPJaneGoodall
October 1, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Just discovered that Jane Goodall like this! We discuss her life and legacy on Inside Science tomorrow. #RIPJaneGoodall
Someone, or some group, has cable-tied 16 union jacks around the BBC. Which feels excessive. I’d love to know if any outfit has a flag budget?
September 24, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Someone, or some group, has cable-tied 16 union jacks around the BBC. Which feels excessive. I’d love to know if any outfit has a flag budget?
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Simply astonishing. Maybe Lecturer A should not have to mark over 100 essays in a two-week window in the first place? Invest in qualified staff and reduce impossible workloads FFS www.kcl.ac.uk/about/strate...
September 17, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Simply astonishing. Maybe Lecturer A should not have to mark over 100 essays in a two-week window in the first place? Invest in qualified staff and reduce impossible workloads FFS www.kcl.ac.uk/about/strate...