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Andrew Stronach
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Recovering journalist. Powered by caffeine and cortisol. Chart. PR. and Head of External Relations at the @QuadramInstitute.bsky.social in Norwich. Scottish 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 via Zambia 🇿🇲 Hedgehog champion 🦔
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But James Johnson did a poll showing 700k+ people were going to leave? Surely that wasn't complete and utter obvious bollocks?
November 14, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Filthy weather, got home from work, and rushed out to restock the hedgehog houses. And guess who’d already come round for dinner? 🦔
November 14, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Read 'em and weep. (www.nber.org/system/files...)
November 14, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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📰 A paper our Group Leader Dr Maria Traka contributed to "Rethinking Omega-3s for Health and Sustainability" is the @nutritionsociety.bsky.social 's paper of the month ⤵️
Rethinking Omega-3s for Health and Sustainability « Nutrition# « Cambridge Core Blog
The paper “Sustainable and available sources of omega-3 fatty acids for health: are the current dietary recommendations, food sources and legislation fit for purpose?“, published in Nutrition…
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November 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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We gathered brilliant minds across disciplines to tackle a challenge: how do we integrate omics data to advance biology?

Huge thanks to our supporters:
@norwichmicro.bsky.social
@microbiologysociety.org
@aibio-uk.bsky.social
Microbial Genomics

The blog captures the highlights of the journey!
November 14, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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"What is certain, and felt instinctively by almost everybody, is that things cannot go on in their present way" – The Times, May 1975

“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
November 14, 2025 at 9:13 AM
A very wet night here in Norwich and it’s a slightly damp Bramble coming in for breakfast just after 4am. 🦔
November 14, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Hello again KC-135 neighbours! Couple of C130s and F15s out there too.
November 13, 2025 at 6:57 PM
My art teacher used to say “Always look up” He was not wrong.
November 13, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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The clever thing about going for stuff like the cycle for work scheme is it’s really noticeable, affects people with lots of media access and platforms, annoys green groups, and raises almost no revenue at the same time. Real win/win/win there.
November 13, 2025 at 9:20 AM
A deer drive by of the hedgehog highway at the literal break of down this morning.
November 13, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Good morning all. Bramble the hoglet arrived just before 7pm last night to continue the job of feeding up for winter and valiantly tackled the floor biscuits. 🦔
November 13, 2025 at 6:07 AM
It’s the four KC-135s doing circuits over us again. The cat is not impressed.
November 12, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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These men are completely incompetent and have no regard whatsoever for the safety of Americans. We will all pay.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/w...
F.B.I. Director Is Said to Have Made a Pledge to Head of MI5, Then Broken It
www.nytimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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🆕 Quadram Institute researchers brief MPs and Peers on health impacts of hidden hunger
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Quadram Institute researchers brief MPs and Peers on health impacts of hidden hunger - Quadram Institute
Professor Martin Warren, Dr Maria Traka, Dr Emma Webb and Dr Laura Bardon, met with Members of Parliament and Peers in Westminster on Tuesday, 4 November to present their latest insights on…
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November 12, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Marvellous piece by George Parker:
‘Mad’: Labour in crisis after Starmer declares he will fight any challenger
Recriminations fly in Downing Street after prime minister highlights weakness of his own position
www.ft.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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It is 01:46 and the hoglet, let’s call him/her Bramble, has the biscuits all to themselves. We’ll be putting food and water out all winter - our local hedgehogs don’t tend to hibernate until well into December. Climate change has that effect. 🦔
November 12, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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🆕 In collaboration with the Biofilm Alliance and @ukbiofilms.bsky.social , the UK Food Safety Research Network #UKFRSN have published a workshop report on Biofilm Methodologies and Food Sector Regulation 🧪
Biofilm Methodologies and Food Sector Regulation Workshop Report - Food Safety Research Network
In collaboration with the Biofilm Alliance and the National Biofilms Innovation Centre, we organised a workshop on Biofilm Methodologies and Food Sector Regulation, which took place in Nottingham on…
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November 10, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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🆕 Dr Naiara Beraza from the Quadram Institute is part of an innovative new project developing an interconnected multi-organ platform that replicates non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.
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Quadram joins new initiative to develop liver disease models and reduce animal research - Quadram Institute
Quadram is part of an innovative new project developing a liver disease model that will reduce reliance on animal testing
quadram.ac.uk
November 11, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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We can share your #EngineeringBiology stories with the Hub membership in our Winter 2025 newsletter out early December. We can feature work on #MetalRecovery or #CircularEconomy. If we can support, please get in touch elementalhub.org/home/join-us
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November 11, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Watch the prickles rise then it’s more little and large hedgehog shenanigans. The hoglet gets the proverbial crumbs from the table 🦔
November 11, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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Quick thread on the BBC and the political and societal significance of recent developments:

One of the main reasons the UK has historically been so much less polarised than the US, is that Britain has a shared source of information, consumed and trusted by most people regardless of their politics.
November 10, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Michael Prescott's report makes vital points about the importance of being accurate, and also how difficult that is. For instance, he describes himself as having been Political Editor of the Sunday Times for 10 years, which is not what the Guardian reported when he left the job.
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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📰Norfolk volunteers sought to eat gene-edited tomato soup🍅

Our ViTaL-D study investigating whether @johninnescentre.bsky.social biofortified tomatoes developed through gene editing to be high in vitamin D leads to higher levels of active vitamin D in the blood, featured in the EDP⤵️
Volunteers sought for vital scientific trial which involves eating tomato SOUP
Almost 80 Norfolk volunteers are wanted to eat tomato soup in one of the first human trials of gene-edited food.
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November 10, 2025 at 11:13 AM