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Biomedical scientist, Commercialisation specialist, Parent, geek. Tweets are personal.
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Elon realizes Tesla is over and he’s freaking out.
March 11, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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As Trump tries to dismantle the Department of Education, remember that his plan to cut the corporate tax rate to 15% would give the 100 largest corporations a tax cut larger than the entire department's K-12 budget.

Really think about how twisted this all is.
March 11, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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People need to stop assuming that normal elections, whether at the mid terms or in 2028, will put an end to this.
it could *not be clearer* that the more things the Trump administration does, the more it is hurtling towards being an authoritarian, expansionist, aggressive state
canada pm justin trudeau: “what [trump] wants is to see a total collapse of the canadian economy, because that will make it easier to annex us.”

astounding words from america’s (former) closest friend
March 4, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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I’m very easily amused…
March 4, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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Say what you like about Kemi Badenoch, literally nothing gets past here see👇🏼her incredible insight

Obvs we all struggled to interpret how the meeting went, trying to pick the bones out of what we all saw..

But thanks to her, we know Zelensky was humiliated.. you can’t replicate genius like that 🤷🏼‍♂️🤣
March 2, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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NEW #UKHSAVirusWatch: #Flu activity is low, and #COVID19 and #RSV are circulating at baseline levels. 1/3
February 27, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Unethical! Musk’s company Starlink is poised to steal a multibillion-dollar government contract for the nation’s air traffic control communications system from Verizon. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
February 28, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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Environmental factors significantly influence aging and mortality, surpassing genetic contributions in many diseases, according to the UK Biobank study.

by Argentieri MA, Amin N (...) van Duijn CM et 10 al. in Nat Med #MedSky

📖 read the article:
Integrating the environmental and genetic architectures of aging and mortality - Nature Medicine
Based on a systematic analysis of environmental exposures associated with aging and mortality in the UK Biobank, the relative contributions of such exposures and genetic risk for mortality and a range of age-related diseases were compared, highlighting the potential beneficial effects of environment-focused interventions.
www.nature.com
February 28, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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starting a club called sons of apathy if anyone’s uninterested
February 9, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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Here are some nice mushrooms
February 10, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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This work is phenomenally interesting, and I’m delighted to have played a very very small part in it! bsky.app/profile/keyf...
Many zoonotic diseases are believed to have emerged during prehistory, but can we actually identify their past host range using ancient DNA? In the first publication of the Key Lab we present a 4000y old Yersinia pestis genome reconstructed from domesticated sheep. 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Bronze Age Yersinia pestis genome from sheep sheds light on hosts and evolution of a prehistoric plague lineage
Most human pathogens are of zoonotic origin. Many emerged during prehistory, coinciding with domestication providing more opportunities for spillover from original host species. However, we lack direc...
www.biorxiv.org
February 11, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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There isn’t a fucking BUPA for air traffic control. What the fuck is he even talking about?
Trump on air traffic control: "We're gonna sit down & do a great computerized system for our control towers. Brand new...let's spend less money & build a great system done by 2 or 3 companies...when I land in my plane, privately, I use a system from another country...I won't tell you what country"
February 7, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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NEWS! Wages to be recalculated based on how useful you will be after the apocalypse
Wages to be recalculated based on how useful you will be after the apocalypse
Your value to the post-apocalyptic world will determine your wages from now on, according to reports this afternoon.
buff.ly
February 6, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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Thread 🧵 of my “super-successful” Skeets over time…

No.315

bsky.app/profile/2ton...
February 6, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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"I don't think we should go there", says Conservative Shadow Foreign Secretary Priti Patel, when asked whether Donald Trump's plan to ethnically cleanse Gaza should be described as ethnic cleansing
February 5, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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Wed 5th Feb 2025 10pm (UK time)

30.9 million users

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bsky-users.theo.io
February 5, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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right now a 25 year old berkeley grad is slapping chat gpt cobol code into the treasury’s electronic payment system. im sure this will be fine.
February 4, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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I bought a kindle to read Warhammer 40k books because my wife would probably divorce me if she caught me with the paperbacks
February 5, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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🦫

And...another donation to my Bluesky Charity Swear Box...
February 4, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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✈️🇺🇦🇫🇷 The work of Ukrainian Su-25 with French AASM-250 Hammer bombs.
January 1, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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From 24.02.2022 to 01.01.2025 (Day 1043), estimated losses #Russia suffered in #Ukraine.

Milestones: 790,000 Personnel

Highlights:
+1250 Personnel
+1 Helicopter

Statistics: www.reddit.com/r/RussianLos...

#RussianLosses
January 1, 2025 at 6:02 AM
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🦅🇺🇦🎉 Soldiers of 14th BPA Regiment send gifts to the Russians for the New Year
January 1, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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He is such a twat.
January 1, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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“Shouldn't hospitals be the shining light of infection control?
Shouldn't they be showing the rest of us the way forwards?”
January 1, 2025 at 10:00 AM