Mark Burnley
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Mark Burnley
@drmarkburnley.bsky.social
· Feb 28
Blue plaque review series: A.V. Hill, athletic records and the birth of exercise physiology
Abstract figure legend Depiction of the world running records from 1925 studied by A. V. Hill and those of 2025 up to and including ultradistance events on a semi-logarithmic plot. These records, in ...
physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
The world did have A.V. Hill, so that’s something to be grateful for in spite of current affairs. physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/...
Today in being deeply offended by words you said yourself.
November 11, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Today in being deeply offended by words you said yourself.
Top story on the BBC website has a final sentence that should have been the second sentence. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
UK unemployment rate rises to 5% as jobs market weakens
Latest official data ahead of the Budget later this month shows it is the highest rate since 2021.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Top story on the BBC website has a final sentence that should have been the second sentence. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Whole fucking thing makes me sick to my stomach. An abject fucking liar, a man who lies as easily as he fucking breathes, threatening an organisation which strives for truthfulness. And plastic patriots like the Mail and Farage urging him on. Jackels.
November 11, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Whole fucking thing makes me sick to my stomach. An abject fucking liar, a man who lies as easily as he fucking breathes, threatening an organisation which strives for truthfulness. And plastic patriots like the Mail and Farage urging him on. Jackels.
Looking at you, Royal Society.
“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”
November 11, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Looking at you, Royal Society.
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A radio programme like the Shipping Forecast but it’s called Bin Day and it just reads out every single council in the country’s bin schedule
November 10, 2025 at 11:53 PM
A radio programme like the Shipping Forecast but it’s called Bin Day and it just reads out every single council in the country’s bin schedule
Quentin Willson youtu.be/NlTalT3faSM?...
'Top Tier': Robert & Dan pay tribute to Quentin Willson. Gone too soon, never forgotten.
YouTube video by Everything Electric CARS
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November 10, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Quentin Willson youtu.be/NlTalT3faSM?...
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Just absolutely classic BBC. You've just broadcast the most successful programme of the year, uniting Gen Z kids online and Boomers on broadcast in a return to appointment television. And instead of celebrating, your DG reigns due to a made-up right-wing scandal.
November 9, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Just absolutely classic BBC. You've just broadcast the most successful programme of the year, uniting Gen Z kids online and Boomers on broadcast in a return to appointment television. And instead of celebrating, your DG reigns due to a made-up right-wing scandal.
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I simply do not believe they would have resigned if it was a misleading claim about someone on the left.
How is this different to the HIGNFY claims about digital ID a few weeks ago? The BBC literally laughed it off.
How is this different to the HIGNFY claims about digital ID a few weeks ago? The BBC literally laughed it off.
November 9, 2025 at 7:05 PM
I simply do not believe they would have resigned if it was a misleading claim about someone on the left.
How is this different to the HIGNFY claims about digital ID a few weeks ago? The BBC literally laughed it off.
How is this different to the HIGNFY claims about digital ID a few weeks ago? The BBC literally laughed it off.
PSA: vagus nerve stimulation is a snake oil designed to sound sciencey but all any of the techniques do is encourage you to calm the fuck down. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Ever feel the need to switch off? Your vagus nerve might hold the key
You might not have heard of it, but can training your vagus nerve give you a moment or two of peace?
www.bbc.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 9:58 AM
PSA: vagus nerve stimulation is a snake oil designed to sound sciencey but all any of the techniques do is encourage you to calm the fuck down. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Incredible degrees in know-nothing pedantry from those arguing with Tom. It took Hitler years to become Fuhrer, but it took a day for Germany to lose its democracy.
Hitler was appointed - not elected - Chancellor in January 1933. The Enabling Act, allowing laws to be put in place without the legislature, was pushed through in March.
53 days.
So, yeah, pretty much overnight.
53 days.
So, yeah, pretty much overnight.
No it didn’t lol they didn’t just wake up one day & say we’re going to have a third Reich & by the next day it was there ffs
November 9, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Incredible degrees in know-nothing pedantry from those arguing with Tom. It took Hitler years to become Fuhrer, but it took a day for Germany to lose its democracy.
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It is with shock and genuine sadness that I learn of the passing of my good friend, long time colleage and just a really kind man, Quentin Willson. He will be sorely missed by many who knew and worked with him.
November 8, 2025 at 8:05 PM
It is with shock and genuine sadness that I learn of the passing of my good friend, long time colleage and just a really kind man, Quentin Willson. He will be sorely missed by many who knew and worked with him.
He’ll be claiming Christmas is 200% cheaper next.
Trump: "I just saw that Walmart came out last night that Thanksgiving this year will cost 25% less than last year ... that's emblematic of the rest of prices." (They shrunk the turkey and made the meal smaller.)
November 7, 2025 at 5:48 PM
He’ll be claiming Christmas is 200% cheaper next.
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Chris Mason is what happens when a Hospital Radio DJ, whose sole qualification appears to be a sort of soporific inoffensiveness, is somehow promoted to BBC Politics Editor - a position that demands unflinching insight, objectivity, and sharpness. It's like a puddle trying to be the ocean.
November 7, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Chris Mason is what happens when a Hospital Radio DJ, whose sole qualification appears to be a sort of soporific inoffensiveness, is somehow promoted to BBC Politics Editor - a position that demands unflinching insight, objectivity, and sharpness. It's like a puddle trying to be the ocean.
Not wanting to panic anybody, but Nvidia has lost $540 billion in market value in the last 5 days.
November 7, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Not wanting to panic anybody, but Nvidia has lost $540 billion in market value in the last 5 days.
The #CelebrityTraitors was brilliant telly. But it was infuriating to see people earnestly analysing noise rather than signal. They thought they were Benoit Blanc, reading people’s behaviour, but they were (like the rest of us) shit at it.
November 7, 2025 at 7:55 AM
The #CelebrityTraitors was brilliant telly. But it was infuriating to see people earnestly analysing noise rather than signal. They thought they were Benoit Blanc, reading people’s behaviour, but they were (like the rest of us) shit at it.
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incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty
November 6, 2025 at 6:10 PM
incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty
Bluesky hallucinating that Open AI is requesting a government bailout is wonderfully ironic.
November 6, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Bluesky hallucinating that Open AI is requesting a government bailout is wonderfully ironic.
Am increasingly convinced that the story in the OP is not true. I’d like it to be true, but I can find no evidence that it is.
If anyone was looking for solid evidence that a crash is imminent, here it is:
BREAKING: OpenAI is requesting US government support to help guarantee financing for the massive investments in AI chips and data centers it needs for expansion, per Bloomberg.
November 6, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Am increasingly convinced that the story in the OP is not true. I’d like it to be true, but I can find no evidence that it is.
Good, happy to pay it. Thanks www.bbc.co.uk/news/article....
EV drivers could face new tax in Budget
The BBC understands there have been
www.bbc.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Good, happy to pay it. Thanks www.bbc.co.uk/news/article....
I can find very little evidence of the claimed request beyond this post. Triangulate before dancing on Open AI’s demise.
BREAKING: OpenAI is requesting US government support to help guarantee financing for the massive investments in AI chips and data centers it needs for expansion, per Bloomberg.
November 6, 2025 at 8:35 AM
I can find very little evidence of the claimed request beyond this post. Triangulate before dancing on Open AI’s demise.
1. Fuel duty is already a pay per mile tax.
2. Taps 1.
2. Taps 1.
Thursday's TELEGRAPH: Pay per mile tax to hit drivers in Budget #TomorrowsPapersToday
November 6, 2025 at 7:02 AM
1. Fuel duty is already a pay per mile tax.
2. Taps 1.
2. Taps 1.
His Halloween Boris Yeltsin is incredibly good.
November 5, 2025 at 8:16 PM
His Halloween Boris Yeltsin is incredibly good.
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And another paper from us about a cancer-associated kinase with a curiously conservative mutation.
https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/scisignal.adr0235?af=R
2 in 2 days!
#molecularbiology #academia #Science #research #cancer
https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/scisignal.adr0235?af=R
2 in 2 days!
#molecularbiology #academia #Science #research #cancer
November 5, 2025 at 6:22 PM
And another paper from us about a cancer-associated kinase with a curiously conservative mutation.
https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/scisignal.adr0235?af=R
2 in 2 days!
#molecularbiology #academia #Science #research #cancer
https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/scisignal.adr0235?af=R
2 in 2 days!
#molecularbiology #academia #Science #research #cancer
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NEW PAPER from us!
Work from Sophie's PhD characterising a curiously conservative (D427N) but highly penetrant mutant in PKC Beta that is associated with adult T-cell leukaemia/lymphoma […]
Work from Sophie's PhD characterising a curiously conservative (D427N) but highly penetrant mutant in PKC Beta that is associated with adult T-cell leukaemia/lymphoma […]
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xtaldave.net
November 5, 2025 at 10:51 AM
NEW PAPER from us!
Work from Sophie's PhD characterising a curiously conservative (D427N) but highly penetrant mutant in PKC Beta that is associated with adult T-cell leukaemia/lymphoma […]
Work from Sophie's PhD characterising a curiously conservative (D427N) but highly penetrant mutant in PKC Beta that is associated with adult T-cell leukaemia/lymphoma […]
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Ask ChatGPT something you an expert in. It fails almost every single time.
While waiting for election results, I asked ChatGPT for the top 50 synthetic polymers used in drug delivery - with discovery years and references.
It got 35% of the years right and only 1 correct reference out of 40!
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It got 35% of the years right and only 1 correct reference out of 40!
ainslielab.web.unc.edu/wp-content/u...
November 5, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Ask ChatGPT something you an expert in. It fails almost every single time.