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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 · 1d
I’ll DM you my details. You should let me cover the cost of postage, at least. Or let me know a favourite charity of yours.

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 1d
Hey, that's awesome, you've definitely captured him there. Let me know if you want to sell it.

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 2d
Morning Alan, delighted with my recent purchase, thank you.

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 3d
That's interesting. Is it the same for 'loan' and 'borrow' for native German speakers? (I've had various German colleagues over the years asking me to 'borrow them' something).

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 4d
Do we need to rethink the QA quenching model of chlorophyll fluorescence? Probably not, but here's a provocative chin stroker from Győző Garab.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Revisiting the QA model of chlorophyll-a fluorescence induction: new perspectives to monitor the photochemical activity and structural dynamics of photosystem II - Photosynthesis Research
The technique of chlorophyll-a fluorescence induction (ChlF) is widely used in plant biology. The ‘mainstream’, so-called QA model of ChlF, posits that the reaction centers (RCs) of Photosystem-II (PS...
link.springer.com

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 5d
It's all fun and games until someone finds an eye.

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 5d
No fireworks here for miles around, (it frightens the livestock), so here’s some bonus Grandpa Ginger content for you.
He disapproves of whatever it is you’re doing.

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 6d
Two men sunbathing, August bank holiday, Blackpool, 1971, by Don McPhee.

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 6d
Well, that was an entertaining rabbit hole. The best I can do is a murky image from eBay (where else?) - apparently the painting is 'Sarah in the Bath' (1958), oil on canvas, in a private collection.

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 6d
Subtle nod of acknowledgment from across the room.

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 7d
Don't expect anything from the Royal Society other than the sound of papers being shuffled and throats cleared.

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 8d
So one of us (not me) got wrongly imprisoned in a shed for four days. He said he used his time incarcerated to reflect on becoming a better person.
Edward Fleas, no longer missing.

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Roger Freedman @rogerfreedman.bsky.social · 9d
The first (1955) Danish edition of Ray Bradbury’s FAHRENHEIT 451. Later editions did not convert the title, so this is the only SI-compatible edition! 🎢
Cover of “233 Celsius” by Ray Bradbury

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 10d
Word was when I was there that the foundations of the chapel are extremely shallow, but that may be entirely apocryphal. (It has yet to fall down, anyway).

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 11d
Understandable!

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 12d
So does anyone else eat their avocados with salt and vinegar? (As a treat mind you, I’m not made of money).

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 14d
I like the idea of being galactic compost.

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 14d
😬

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 14d
Possibly one of the Coriolaceae - Giant Polypore?

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 16d
The academic experience.

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 16d
Looking forward to putting all the cats back an hour tonight.

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 18d
12 September 1910, Munich. The Mahler 8 premiere conducted by the man himself.

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 18d
When I was doing my PhD, back in the last century, we had something green growing in a bottle of 10% (w/v) SDS. We christened it the 'SDS plant'. A tough little bugger whatever it was.