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@rpgrant.bsky.social
scientist, poet, gadfly
keeper of bees, chickens, and the secret to happiness
Has great genes. 🇺🇦 🇮🇱
keeper of bees, chickens, and the secret to happiness
Has great genes. 🇺🇦 🇮🇱
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Rainy-day garden harvest - first up, the quinces. After having hardly any last year, this mast season produced bumper crop. Plenty to make membrillo for the Christmas cheese plate - but I will leave them in the bowl for a while just because their amazing scent fills the room so wonderfully
December 7, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Rainy-day garden harvest - first up, the quinces. After having hardly any last year, this mast season produced bumper crop. Plenty to make membrillo for the Christmas cheese plate - but I will leave them in the bowl for a while just because their amazing scent fills the room so wonderfully
Gorgeous picture.
Good morning!
Nothing says winter in England quite like fully-blown roses dotted with droplets of melted frost…
Nothing says winter in England quite like fully-blown roses dotted with droplets of melted frost…
December 5, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Gorgeous picture.
I am taking “perfected”.
I think @rpgrant.bsky.social racked up at least 50 bottles from our grape harvest this year - he’s perfected a really nice light sparkling white in recent seasons
November 26, 2025 at 9:09 AM
I am taking “perfected”.
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I learned only recently that “Jerusalem” in the name is likely a bastardisation of “girasole”, the Italian for “sunflower” (which of course these plants resemble) 🌼
November 26, 2025 at 9:00 AM
I learned only recently that “Jerusalem” in the name is likely a bastardisation of “girasole”, the Italian for “sunflower” (which of course these plants resemble) 🌼
Just had some *excellent* clinical trial news.
*happy bounce*
*happy bounce*
November 23, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Just had some *excellent* clinical trial news.
*happy bounce*
*happy bounce*
*whistles* www.thetimes.com/article/8229...
November 22, 2025 at 3:48 PM
*whistles* www.thetimes.com/article/8229...
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Here’s the gorgeous 3-layer red velvet birthday cake @rpgrant.bsky.social made for me - a bit of slippage in the basal layer giving it added charm. The secret ingredient turned out to be buttermilk. ♥️
November 22, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Here’s the gorgeous 3-layer red velvet birthday cake @rpgrant.bsky.social made for me - a bit of slippage in the basal layer giving it added charm. The secret ingredient turned out to be buttermilk. ♥️
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We have the worst government ever.
November 18, 2025 at 9:22 PM
We have the worst government ever.
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Just walked in on @rpgrant.bsky.social in the study cracking open Stryer’s Biochemistry. #CultClassic
November 17, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Just walked in on @rpgrant.bsky.social in the study cracking open Stryer’s Biochemistry. #CultClassic
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Good to get the warning publicly logged in case there's a criminal investigation at a later date.
November 16, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Good to get the warning publicly logged in case there's a criminal investigation at a later date.
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OMG, this actively hurts
You and the text you need to trim in order to meet the word limit
November 10, 2025 at 4:38 PM
OMG, this actively hurts
Watson was a bit of a dick: intelligent, yes, but age disinhibited him.
Met him once. Wasn’t overly impressed.
Also a bit of
“Huh, thought he was dead already”
James Watson obituary: Nobel prizewinner who discovered DNA structure
www.thetimes.com/article/5295...
Met him once. Wasn’t overly impressed.
Also a bit of
“Huh, thought he was dead already”
James Watson obituary: Nobel prizewinner who discovered DNA structure
www.thetimes.com/article/5295...
James Watson obituary: Nobel prizewinner who discovered DNA structure
The co-discoverer of the double helix, hailed as a genius of modern biology but later shunned for controversial remarks, dies aged 97
www.thetimes.com
November 8, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Watson was a bit of a dick: intelligent, yes, but age disinhibited him.
Met him once. Wasn’t overly impressed.
Also a bit of
“Huh, thought he was dead already”
James Watson obituary: Nobel prizewinner who discovered DNA structure
www.thetimes.com/article/5295...
Met him once. Wasn’t overly impressed.
Also a bit of
“Huh, thought he was dead already”
James Watson obituary: Nobel prizewinner who discovered DNA structure
www.thetimes.com/article/5295...
We call him Donald.
I think @rpgrant.bsky.social’s pumpkin is better appreciated in daylight 😭
November 1, 2025 at 10:15 AM
We call him Donald.
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After a strenuous trick or treat with the kid, and stumbling upon this, it would be churlish not to, right?
October 31, 2025 at 6:36 PM
After a strenuous trick or treat with the kid, and stumbling upon this, it would be churlish not to, right?
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You could never administer jazz in an interventional study – it would never pass ethics
October 29, 2025 at 7:24 PM
You could never administer jazz in an interventional study – it would never pass ethics
The Times would never allow such a thing to happen.
Saw this and thought of you, @rpgrant.bsky.social
Wonderfully pedantic letter in today’s @financialtimes.com
October 26, 2025 at 9:39 AM
The Times would never allow such a thing to happen.
Maybe ae could borrow some of what the southern hemisphere is about to save?
Well, guess it’s time to spend all that daylight we saved.
October 26, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Maybe ae could borrow some of what the southern hemisphere is about to save?
Well, guess it’s time to spend all that daylight we saved.
October 26, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Well, guess it’s time to spend all that daylight we saved.
Happy Trafalgar Day all.
October 21, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Happy Trafalgar Day all.
Hello Heathrow my old friend.
October 21, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Hello Heathrow my old friend.