Marnie Chesterton
@amsterdammed.bsky.social
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...
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Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, UN commission of inquiry says www.bbc.com/news/article...
Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, UN commission of inquiry says
The panel finds that four of the five genocidal acts defined under international law have been carried out against Palestinians during the war.
www.bbc.com
September 17, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, UN commission of inquiry says www.bbc.com/news/article...
Dear internet- if I’m doing a science show about trains for the World Service, what should I absolutely cover, topic-wise?
September 16, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Dear internet- if I’m doing a science show about trains for the World Service, what should I absolutely cover, topic-wise?
I can’t read this as anything other than sarcastic trolling from the NYT puzzle bot
September 15, 2025 at 9:47 PM
I can’t read this as anything other than sarcastic trolling from the NYT puzzle bot
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Last week, I joined @amsterdammed.bsky.social on Radio 4’s Inside Science to chat about my favourite science news:
🌋 How a volcanic eruption might have sparked the French Revolution
☀️ A new way to detect worrying solar storms
🐕 Dogs can thrive on a vegan diet
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
🌋 How a volcanic eruption might have sparked the French Revolution
☀️ A new way to detect worrying solar storms
🐕 Dogs can thrive on a vegan diet
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
BBC Inside Science - What does caffeine do to our bodies? - BBC Sounds
The evidence on whether high caffeine energy drinks affect our health.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 8, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Last week, I joined @amsterdammed.bsky.social on Radio 4’s Inside Science to chat about my favourite science news:
🌋 How a volcanic eruption might have sparked the French Revolution
☀️ A new way to detect worrying solar storms
🐕 Dogs can thrive on a vegan diet
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
🌋 How a volcanic eruption might have sparked the French Revolution
☀️ A new way to detect worrying solar storms
🐕 Dogs can thrive on a vegan diet
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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‘On 18 August, judicial police showed up at the Research Institute in Health Sciences (IRSS) in Bobo-Dioulasso, a key partner in Target Malaria, to stage what scientists described as a “brutal, humiliating” raid.’
My story on mosquitoes, malaria and misinformation in @science.org 🧪
My story on mosquitoes, malaria and misinformation in @science.org 🧪
After ‘humiliating’ raid, Burkina Faso halts ‘gene drive’ project to fight malaria
Disinformation campaign may have triggered “brutal” shutdown of mosquito lab
www.science.org
September 3, 2025 at 7:23 PM
‘On 18 August, judicial police showed up at the Research Institute in Health Sciences (IRSS) in Bobo-Dioulasso, a key partner in Target Malaria, to stage what scientists described as a “brutal, humiliating” raid.’
My story on mosquitoes, malaria and misinformation in @science.org 🧪
My story on mosquitoes, malaria and misinformation in @science.org 🧪
Alert for Train Fans: I’m doing a special episode of Unexpected Elements for the 200th anniversary of passenger trains. It’s for the BBC World Service and is science themed, so any stories or experts I should be looking at? Please let me know/retweet
August 22, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Alert for Train Fans: I’m doing a special episode of Unexpected Elements for the 200th anniversary of passenger trains. It’s for the BBC World Service and is science themed, so any stories or experts I should be looking at? Please let me know/retweet
This week on #bbcinsidescience: solar panels in space, @simonparkin.bsky.social and @valmcdermid.bsky.social talk about Simon’s book, The Forbidden Gardens of Leningrad, shortlisted for the @royalsociety.org Trivedi Book Prize. @adamhartscience.bsky.social talks hunting for conservation.
August 21, 2025 at 3:44 PM
This week on #bbcinsidescience: solar panels in space, @simonparkin.bsky.social and @valmcdermid.bsky.social talk about Simon’s book, The Forbidden Gardens of Leningrad, shortlisted for the @royalsociety.org Trivedi Book Prize. @adamhartscience.bsky.social talks hunting for conservation.
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On Science in Action today: the editor who won't be cowed.
Following RFKjr's astonishing attack on a vaccine safety study published in Annals of Internal Medicine, editor Christine Laine defends the research, and explains why his demand for its retraction is rebuffed.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...
Following RFKjr's astonishing attack on a vaccine safety study published in Annals of Internal Medicine, editor Christine Laine defends the research, and explains why his demand for its retraction is rebuffed.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...
August 14, 2025 at 3:10 PM
On Science in Action today: the editor who won't be cowed.
Following RFKjr's astonishing attack on a vaccine safety study published in Annals of Internal Medicine, editor Christine Laine defends the research, and explains why his demand for its retraction is rebuffed.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...
Following RFKjr's astonishing attack on a vaccine safety study published in Annals of Internal Medicine, editor Christine Laine defends the research, and explains why his demand for its retraction is rebuffed.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...
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What really killed Napoleon’s soldiers?
I was on Radio 4’s Inside Science yesterday with @amsterdammed.bsky.social.
Our favourite news:
- what divorce looks like in birds
- can we redirect spacecraft to look at a mysterious object which has entered our solar system?
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
I was on Radio 4’s Inside Science yesterday with @amsterdammed.bsky.social.
Our favourite news:
- what divorce looks like in birds
- can we redirect spacecraft to look at a mysterious object which has entered our solar system?
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
BBC Inside Science - What’s the evidence for vaccines? - BBC Sounds
Cuts of $500 million to vaccines research have been announced by the US government.
www.bbc.co.uk
August 8, 2025 at 5:13 PM
What really killed Napoleon’s soldiers?
I was on Radio 4’s Inside Science yesterday with @amsterdammed.bsky.social.
Our favourite news:
- what divorce looks like in birds
- can we redirect spacecraft to look at a mysterious object which has entered our solar system?
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
I was on Radio 4’s Inside Science yesterday with @amsterdammed.bsky.social.
Our favourite news:
- what divorce looks like in birds
- can we redirect spacecraft to look at a mysterious object which has entered our solar system?
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
This is the best threat for parents forced to look after the longed-for and neglected pet: “if you don’t clean its cage, it’s going to the zoo.”
A zoo in Denmark is asking pet owners to donate their animal companions — their guinea pigs, rabbits, chickens and even small horses — to feed to its predators. In a Facebook post, the zoo noted that donations of pets would help it mimic the natural food chain.
A Zoo in Denmark Wants to Feed Your Pets to Its Predators
A Danish zoo is asking owners of companion animals nearing life’s end to instead donate them as food for captive lynxes, lions and other carnivores.
nyti.ms
August 4, 2025 at 9:37 PM
This is the best threat for parents forced to look after the longed-for and neglected pet: “if you don’t clean its cage, it’s going to the zoo.”