BrianB🇸🇬🇬🇧🇮🇪🇪🇺🇪🇸🇺🇸✈️
@brianeb.bsky.social
Recently retired and now partially un-retired Singapore-based research scientist and professor of cell biology. Still dabbling in biotech, molecular biology and gene therapy. Often to be found under water. Fascinated by things that fly.
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This one had all the prospects of turning into a disaster. 6 possibilities after turn 1, but only 5 options.
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This one had all the prospects of turning into a disaster. 6 possibilities after turn 1, but only 5 options.
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Whenever I have doubts I ask myself WWJSD.
What would Joe Strummer do?
This is not the time to be dismayed my friends. This is punk rock time. This is what Joe Strummer trained you for.
What would Joe Strummer do?
This is not the time to be dismayed my friends. This is punk rock time. This is what Joe Strummer trained you for.
October 26, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Whenever I have doubts I ask myself WWJSD.
What would Joe Strummer do?
This is not the time to be dismayed my friends. This is punk rock time. This is what Joe Strummer trained you for.
What would Joe Strummer do?
This is not the time to be dismayed my friends. This is punk rock time. This is what Joe Strummer trained you for.
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No, Chris. No, it doesn't. Let John Oliver explain it to you like you're five:
Confederacy: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
YouTube video by LastWeekTonight
www.youtube.com
October 24, 2025 at 11:44 PM
No, Chris. No, it doesn't. Let John Oliver explain it to you like you're five:
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www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
This is another nail in the coffin of US science. Faculty recruitment, postdocs, forget it.
This is another nail in the coffin of US science. Faculty recruitment, postdocs, forget it.
Trump news at a glance: president hikes H-1B visa cost to $100,000 a year as aide tells firms to ‘train Americans’
Decision could be major blow to tech industry, but commerce secretary says ‘all of the big companies are on board’
www.theguardian.com
September 20, 2025 at 5:50 AM
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
This is another nail in the coffin of US science. Faculty recruitment, postdocs, forget it.
This is another nail in the coffin of US science. Faculty recruitment, postdocs, forget it.
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www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Can’t say I disagree with this. Last paragraph is disturbing.
Can’t say I disagree with this. Last paragraph is disturbing.
Quality of scientific papers questioned as academics ‘overwhelmed’ by the millions published
Widespread mockery of AI-generated rat with giant penis in one paper brings problem to public attention
www.theguardian.com
July 13, 2025 at 3:30 PM
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Can’t say I disagree with this. Last paragraph is disturbing.
Can’t say I disagree with this. Last paragraph is disturbing.
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In 2020, two men made an “Earth Sandwich”.
One was in New Zealand and the other in Spain. At the exact same time, they each placed a slice of bread at precisely opposite points on the globe.
This created an Earth Sandwich with 12,724 km of planet Earth stuffed between the two slices of bread.
One was in New Zealand and the other in Spain. At the exact same time, they each placed a slice of bread at precisely opposite points on the globe.
This created an Earth Sandwich with 12,724 km of planet Earth stuffed between the two slices of bread.
June 10, 2025 at 4:35 AM
In 2020, two men made an “Earth Sandwich”.
One was in New Zealand and the other in Spain. At the exact same time, they each placed a slice of bread at precisely opposite points on the globe.
This created an Earth Sandwich with 12,724 km of planet Earth stuffed between the two slices of bread.
One was in New Zealand and the other in Spain. At the exact same time, they each placed a slice of bread at precisely opposite points on the globe.
This created an Earth Sandwich with 12,724 km of planet Earth stuffed between the two slices of bread.
Another nudibranch from about a month ago, Chromodoris willani. This one near Sipadan, Malaysia (Borneo).
June 8, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Another nudibranch from about a month ago, Chromodoris willani. This one near Sipadan, Malaysia (Borneo).
Very happy with this nudibranch (Dermatobranchus ornatus). Spotted it at about 12 metres just off of Sepoi Island near Tioman, Malaysia
June 7, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Very happy with this nudibranch (Dermatobranchus ornatus). Spotted it at about 12 metres just off of Sepoi Island near Tioman, Malaysia
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The press has been all over this shit but not a single fucking one has broken what a placebo trip would look like so, lets. 🧵🧵
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr will require all new vaccines to undergo placebo testing, WaPo reports
U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr intends to shift the way vaccines are tested, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday, citing a spokesperson from the HHS.
www.reuters.com
May 2, 2025 at 5:03 PM
The press has been all over this shit but not a single fucking one has broken what a placebo trip would look like so, lets. 🧵🧵
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
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This is not a partisan moment. This is a moral moment.
Where do you stand?
Now whose ready to get into good trouble and redeem the soul of the nation?
#MomSky
It starts on April 5th! LFG! social.demcast.com/s/ktfwjyg2
Where do you stand?
Now whose ready to get into good trouble and redeem the soul of the nation?
#MomSky
It starts on April 5th! LFG! social.demcast.com/s/ktfwjyg2
April 3, 2025 at 11:07 PM
This is not a partisan moment. This is a moral moment.
Where do you stand?
Now whose ready to get into good trouble and redeem the soul of the nation?
#MomSky
It starts on April 5th! LFG! social.demcast.com/s/ktfwjyg2
Where do you stand?
Now whose ready to get into good trouble and redeem the soul of the nation?
#MomSky
It starts on April 5th! LFG! social.demcast.com/s/ktfwjyg2
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We can surely rule out stupidity, senility, madness and kompromat - can’t we? But what else explains Trump’s behaviour? My column. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/views/69483/...
Donald Trump is surely not a Russian asset. But how else to explain his behaviour?
It’s difficult to make sense of the turmoil one man has unleashed on the world in five short weeks
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
March 8, 2025 at 10:59 AM
We can surely rule out stupidity, senility, madness and kompromat - can’t we? But what else explains Trump’s behaviour? My column. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/views/69483/...
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Penn and Teller are my hero’s. Not because I made and sold a magic trick nation wide 30 years ago, but because they get vaccination!!!
Penn and Teller on Vaccinations
YouTube video by UltraMiraculous
youtu.be
March 7, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Penn and Teller are my hero’s. Not because I made and sold a magic trick nation wide 30 years ago, but because they get vaccination!!!