Paul Driscoll
@pcdriscoll.bsky.social
Research biochemist, metabolomics, structural biologist, Francis Crick Institute. Cyclist, drummer-ish. Husband, dad, DIY, gardening, host to Ukrainians. Heat pump/solar/battery converter. Views my own. (Might follow back if you have a meaningful bio.)
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If you think climate change has gotten worse during your lifetime, you're right and there's a good reason.
If you're Gen X like me, more than 3/4 of fossil fuel CO₂ emissions have occurred in your lifetime. Even if you're a Millennial, it's at least half.
📊: @neilrkaye.bsky.social
If you're Gen X like me, more than 3/4 of fossil fuel CO₂ emissions have occurred in your lifetime. Even if you're a Millennial, it's at least half.
📊: @neilrkaye.bsky.social
June 10, 2025 at 10:22 AM
If you think climate change has gotten worse during your lifetime, you're right and there's a good reason.
If you're Gen X like me, more than 3/4 of fossil fuel CO₂ emissions have occurred in your lifetime. Even if you're a Millennial, it's at least half.
📊: @neilrkaye.bsky.social
If you're Gen X like me, more than 3/4 of fossil fuel CO₂ emissions have occurred in your lifetime. Even if you're a Millennial, it's at least half.
📊: @neilrkaye.bsky.social
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There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
May 31, 2025 at 4:43 AM
There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
Was able to help this along... #humblebrag
Crick researchers have developed a new stem cell model of the mature amniotic sac development.
The team is now exploring the potential for using these new 3D models in clinical applications, such as cornea reconstruction and treating ulcers.
www.crick.ac.uk/news/2025-05...
The team is now exploring the potential for using these new 3D models in clinical applications, such as cornea reconstruction and treating ulcers.
www.crick.ac.uk/news/2025-05...
New stem cell model sheds light on human amniotic sac development
Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have developed a new stem cell model of the mature human amniotic sac, which replicates development of the tissues supporting the embryo from two to four wee...
www.crick.ac.uk
May 16, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Was able to help this along... #humblebrag
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With current trends and policies, we'll transgress all planetary boundaries in 2050, except for ozone depletion. Targeted interventions — e.g., the Paris Agreement — can help, but not enough. More effective policy measures are needed to ensure we live well within the planetary boundaries.
Exploring pathways for world development within planetary boundaries
Nature - Current trends imply that we will transgress most of the planetary boundaries by 2050; however, ambitious, urgent and universal action to ameliorate climate change and increase resource...
rdcu.be
May 15, 2025 at 9:10 AM
With current trends and policies, we'll transgress all planetary boundaries in 2050, except for ozone depletion. Targeted interventions — e.g., the Paris Agreement — can help, but not enough. More effective policy measures are needed to ensure we live well within the planetary boundaries.
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Opinion | The Science I Would Be Doing if I Weren’t in ICE Detention
www.nytimes.com
May 13, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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As the Trump administration fires government researchers, cancels scientific grants, and targets universities with funding freezes, scientists who might once have welcomed public attention for their work or spoken up on issues affecting their field are instead opting for silence. scim.ag/4jLxA9E
Trump’s ‘fear factor’: Scientists go silent as funding cuts escalate
Many worry about retribution. But for others, speaking out is worth the risk
scim.ag
May 13, 2025 at 3:30 PM
As the Trump administration fires government researchers, cancels scientific grants, and targets universities with funding freezes, scientists who might once have welcomed public attention for their work or spoken up on issues affecting their field are instead opting for silence. scim.ag/4jLxA9E
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Labour's immigration announcement today is a reflection of the paucity of honest debate by BOTH political parties over the last decade on this issue.
Labour has never made a counter-argument, or been honest about economic cost of immigration curbs, so it's stuck making Tory/Reform arguments 1/n
Labour has never made a counter-argument, or been honest about economic cost of immigration curbs, so it's stuck making Tory/Reform arguments 1/n
May 12, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Labour's immigration announcement today is a reflection of the paucity of honest debate by BOTH political parties over the last decade on this issue.
Labour has never made a counter-argument, or been honest about economic cost of immigration curbs, so it's stuck making Tory/Reform arguments 1/n
Labour has never made a counter-argument, or been honest about economic cost of immigration curbs, so it's stuck making Tory/Reform arguments 1/n
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I see that the UK gov is now to demand that anyone wishing to come and live in the UK must learn to speak English. I presume that the Spanish government will now follow suit and require all those Brits who wish to live in Spain to learn Spanish - or Catalan, as the case may be. Seems only fair.
May 13, 2025 at 4:39 AM
I see that the UK gov is now to demand that anyone wishing to come and live in the UK must learn to speak English. I presume that the Spanish government will now follow suit and require all those Brits who wish to live in Spain to learn Spanish - or Catalan, as the case may be. Seems only fair.
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This is so awful and sad - and where they feel silenced, we who have less to lose must speak up for our US scientific colleagues
“The lived experience of a scientist [in the US] right now is terrifying”
www.science.org/content/arti...
“The lived experience of a scientist [in the US] right now is terrifying”
www.science.org/content/arti...
May 13, 2025 at 9:39 AM
This is so awful and sad - and where they feel silenced, we who have less to lose must speak up for our US scientific colleagues
“The lived experience of a scientist [in the US] right now is terrifying”
www.science.org/content/arti...
“The lived experience of a scientist [in the US] right now is terrifying”
www.science.org/content/arti...
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You are a "citizen of nowhere", they said.
A "queue-jumper", they said.
Now I am a "squalid chapter", they say.
A risk as I might make this an "island of strangers", they say.
I am "pulling the country apart", they say.
A "queue-jumper", they said.
Now I am a "squalid chapter", they say.
A risk as I might make this an "island of strangers", they say.
I am "pulling the country apart", they say.
May 12, 2025 at 8:46 AM
You are a "citizen of nowhere", they said.
A "queue-jumper", they said.
Now I am a "squalid chapter", they say.
A risk as I might make this an "island of strangers", they say.
I am "pulling the country apart", they say.
A "queue-jumper", they said.
Now I am a "squalid chapter", they say.
A risk as I might make this an "island of strangers", they say.
I am "pulling the country apart", they say.
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People who never read books now in charge of books.
May 11, 2025 at 12:24 AM
People who never read books now in charge of books.
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Just curious, what’s the tariff on a $400 million jet from Qatar?
May 11, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Just curious, what’s the tariff on a $400 million jet from Qatar?
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This is what ICE does: just like they stalked the family’s car and smashed the windows in to kidnap them.
They attack people on the streets grab them and take them to concentration camps.
Entire neighborhoods gather to protect little babies & their moms from being separated & kidnapped.
They attack people on the streets grab them and take them to concentration camps.
Entire neighborhoods gather to protect little babies & their moms from being separated & kidnapped.
May 10, 2025 at 1:44 AM
This is what ICE does: just like they stalked the family’s car and smashed the windows in to kidnap them.
They attack people on the streets grab them and take them to concentration camps.
Entire neighborhoods gather to protect little babies & their moms from being separated & kidnapped.
They attack people on the streets grab them and take them to concentration camps.
Entire neighborhoods gather to protect little babies & their moms from being separated & kidnapped.
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This is horrible. I don't even know what to say. Some of our most key polar data.
"As a result, the level of services for affected products below will be reduced to Basic—meaning they will remain accessible but may not be actively maintained, updated, or fully supported."
nsidc.org/data/user-re...
"As a result, the level of services for affected products below will be reduced to Basic—meaning they will remain accessible but may not be actively maintained, updated, or fully supported."
nsidc.org/data/user-re...
May 6, 2025 at 8:08 PM
This is horrible. I don't even know what to say. Some of our most key polar data.
"As a result, the level of services for affected products below will be reduced to Basic—meaning they will remain accessible but may not be actively maintained, updated, or fully supported."
nsidc.org/data/user-re...
"As a result, the level of services for affected products below will be reduced to Basic—meaning they will remain accessible but may not be actively maintained, updated, or fully supported."
nsidc.org/data/user-re...
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Read this excerpt of an interview with Jay Bhattacharya, new NIH director.
And do not miss the last graf.
Via @jocelynkaiser.bsky.social
www.science.org/content/arti...
And do not miss the last graf.
Via @jocelynkaiser.bsky.social
www.science.org/content/arti...
May 6, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Read this excerpt of an interview with Jay Bhattacharya, new NIH director.
And do not miss the last graf.
Via @jocelynkaiser.bsky.social
www.science.org/content/arti...
And do not miss the last graf.
Via @jocelynkaiser.bsky.social
www.science.org/content/arti...
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Even *if* you accept Stephen Miller’s (textually, historically, and morally indefensible) claim that undocumented immigrants are not entitled to due process, you’d *still* need due process to ensure that the individuals at issue are, in fact, undocumented.
His argument fails even on its own terms.
His argument fails even on its own terms.
May 5, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Even *if* you accept Stephen Miller’s (textually, historically, and morally indefensible) claim that undocumented immigrants are not entitled to due process, you’d *still* need due process to ensure that the individuals at issue are, in fact, undocumented.
His argument fails even on its own terms.
His argument fails even on its own terms.
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May 5, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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Raphael Coyotl
Raphael Coyotl
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May 4, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky
Just received an email saying that it's not advisable to include the following words in future applications for research funding to the US DOT. Here we are.
February 10, 2025 at 9:00 PM
I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky
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Tony Blair Institute have released a report which is getting a lot of coverage in UK today
It says the drive for net zero emissions is flawed and some media outlets have gone to town
However it’s a bit odd
By odd, I mean there’s a lot of bollocks in it and shouldn't be taken seriously 🧵🧵
Tony Blair Institute have released a report which is getting a lot of coverage in UK today
It says the drive for net zero emissions is flawed and some media outlets have gone to town
However it’s a bit odd
By odd, I mean there’s a lot of bollocks in it and shouldn't be taken seriously 🧵🧵
April 30, 2025 at 6:33 AM
1/12
Tony Blair Institute have released a report which is getting a lot of coverage in UK today
It says the drive for net zero emissions is flawed and some media outlets have gone to town
However it’s a bit odd
By odd, I mean there’s a lot of bollocks in it and shouldn't be taken seriously 🧵🧵
Tony Blair Institute have released a report which is getting a lot of coverage in UK today
It says the drive for net zero emissions is flawed and some media outlets have gone to town
However it’s a bit odd
By odd, I mean there’s a lot of bollocks in it and shouldn't be taken seriously 🧵🧵
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personally would like to see every store show what part of the price increase is due to tariffs bc if these tariffs ever come down, i need to see that price go right back down
April 29, 2025 at 6:48 PM
personally would like to see every store show what part of the price increase is due to tariffs bc if these tariffs ever come down, i need to see that price go right back down
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This is a new image from #JWST.
The bright points with spikes are stars in the Milky Way.
Everything else is a galaxy.
Everything. Else. Is. A. Galaxy.
The bright points with spikes are stars in the Milky Way.
Everything else is a galaxy.
Everything. Else. Is. A. Galaxy.
April 29, 2025 at 6:47 PM
This is a new image from #JWST.
The bright points with spikes are stars in the Milky Way.
Everything else is a galaxy.
Everything. Else. Is. A. Galaxy.
The bright points with spikes are stars in the Milky Way.
Everything else is a galaxy.
Everything. Else. Is. A. Galaxy.