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Nick Fisher
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Biochemist (respiratory & photosynthetic bioenergetics). Ph.D., Visiting Fellow, bibliophile, Mahlerian, feral cat dad. Also other things. Google Scholar: http://bit.ly/2vpjBP1

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · Nov 6
Hello new folks! Thanks for stopping by. Sometimes I post about biochemistry, but it’s mostly cats/classical music/books/things in my garden here. Live from Cornwall. Beardy, generally worn down by academia.

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 11h
I expect to see Yannick Nézet-Séguin crowdsurfing while conducting the Radetzky March next year.

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 21h
He'll never be cool, but, it's light, jolly stuff. Fine for New Year's Day! (Wozzeck can come later).

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 1d
2026 going tolerably well SO FAR.

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 1d
Ooh!

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 1d
Thank you! looking forward to seeing more of your art in ‘26.

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 1d
Farewell then, 2025; happy new year, if that’s your thing. A rather middling sort of year for me. A couple of publications, a new roof, and a vet bill. (You can guess which cost more of the latter two, and you’d be right).
The metropolis. Chilly tonight.

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 1d
Coco, seeing the year out. Pervasive aroma of fermenting windfalls in the garden today.
Feral boy Coco, on a hawthorn. Snowshoe colours, sunshine.

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 2d
Uneaten Double Deckers? What madness is this?

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 2d
Darwinism, but confectionery.
Not a fan of Bounty bars, tbh.

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 2d
Inverse Loebs might be more useful units.

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 2d
The hyperbolic cosine function that describes that catenary curve of the chain between the bollards is negated.

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 2d
1995, causing Clive James to (good-naturedly) duck when throwing a frisbee on Parker's Piece, Cambridge.

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 3d
Apropos of nothing, have some Peter Sellers.

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 3d
The young lad running towards the van isn't wearing a tie.

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 3d
That's not an entirely silly idea, I've been considering it too (it's the driest it's been in weeks!). Only thing is I've packed the mower away for the winter....

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 4d
Snowdrops out in St Ervan, Cornwall for #wildflowerhour
Snowdrops, St Ervan (PL27).

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 4d
Unusually, I think the 2025 version is my favourite here 🤯

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 4d
Strong Das Lied von der Erde fan 👍

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 4d
The reliably magnificent Rupert Everett on R3 right now klaxon

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 4d
I suppose in France you'd simply be 'Monsieur', and that would be the end of it.

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 5d
Difficult one. Laura Loomer? Don Jr? Catturd?

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 5d
😊

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 5d
I had a similar wish for a kinetic spectrofluorometer simulator where I could test pulse routines and light sources, but I was never smart enough to be able to write the code.

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 5d
People here are more concerned about rural poverty, lack of services, lack of public transport, housing and opportunity. Hunting? Performative animal cruelty for the wealthy.

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 5d
Spot on. I live in a remote and rural part of the SW, very little support for hunts (drag, or ‘otherwise’) here. Likewise, the CA speak for very few. Typical and entirely predictable attempt to divide by the usual suspects. Animal cruelty is not, generally, a vote winner.

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 6d
Also, get to know the people in the basement of your building, and be on good terms with them. You'll need them!

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 6d
Not a bad day at all, mind you. All’s well in the parish.
Heading towards the leat at St Ervan.

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 6d
Boxing Day stroll. One of those feral rural churches that creeps up on you.
The path leading to St Ervan church, Cornwall. Sycamore. Fresh.