Here’s the @natureportfolio.nature.com crew at #SVP2025 - @joaovascoleite.bsky.social @devinleaward.bsky.social @lukegrinham.bsky.social and me. Come and chat.
November 13, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Here’s the @natureportfolio.nature.com crew at #SVP2025 - @joaovascoleite.bsky.social @devinleaward.bsky.social @lukegrinham.bsky.social and me. Come and chat.
Woes of the New Postdoc No. 143
November 6, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Woes of the New Postdoc No. 143
Investigative journalist Sarah Jane Smith (the late Elizabeth Sladen) gives @nature.com a namecheck in Dr Who ('Invasion of the Dinosaurs', 1974). Ah, the days when even small children hiding behind sofas were scientifically literate.
November 1, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Investigative journalist Sarah Jane Smith (the late Elizabeth Sladen) gives @nature.com a namecheck in Dr Who ('Invasion of the Dinosaurs', 1974). Ah, the days when even small children hiding behind sofas were scientifically literate.
People who have no interest in human evolution are potato-heads. Obviously.
October 31, 2025 at 6:52 AM
People who have no interest in human evolution are potato-heads. Obviously.
My feelings about AI are summarised nicely in this single picture (from the Dr Who episode 'Victory of the Daleks').
October 30, 2025 at 7:23 AM
My feelings about AI are summarised nicely in this single picture (from the Dr Who episode 'Victory of the Daleks').
Clearly, the mind of the production designer for the Dr Who story ‘The Time Monster’ (1972) was … er … elsewhere.
October 21, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Clearly, the mind of the production designer for the Dr Who story ‘The Time Monster’ (1972) was … er … elsewhere.
I have! I have! Pick me!
October 19, 2025 at 6:00 AM
I have! I have! Pick me!
Now, why didn’t I think of that?
October 18, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Now, why didn’t I think of that?
Home visits from general practitioners are now extremely rare in some parts of the galaxy.
October 17, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Home visits from general practitioners are now extremely rare in some parts of the galaxy.
I’m sure we’ve a vacancy at one of our interdisciplinary journals, Doctor. I presume you’ll be working mostly from one of our Earth offices?
October 14, 2025 at 3:51 PM
I’m sure we’ve a vacancy at one of our interdisciplinary journals, Doctor. I presume you’ll be working mostly from one of our Earth offices?
Dating in a time of respiratory pandemics.
October 11, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Dating in a time of respiratory pandemics.
‘Matters Arising’
October 10, 2025 at 10:44 PM
‘Matters Arising’
Actual view of me at work.
October 5, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Actual view of me at work.
So farewell, Hay on Wye. See you again soon. But not too soon. I’ll have to save up first #BookSky #TsundokuForever
September 26, 2025 at 11:42 AM
So farewell, Hay on Wye. See you again soon. But not too soon. I’ll have to save up first #BookSky #TsundokuForever
Well who’d’ve thunk it?
September 26, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Well who’d’ve thunk it?
The older I get, the more I agree with Dr Who.
September 25, 2025 at 7:21 PM
The older I get, the more I agree with Dr Who.
Why many news editors and all politicians find scientists so frustrating.
September 11, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Why many news editors and all politicians find scientists so frustrating.
From Yesterday's Constitutional
September 11, 2025 at 7:35 AM
From Yesterday's Constitutional
Browsing in bookstores. Hey, this one looks good. But I already know how it ends.
September 6, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Browsing in bookstores. Hey, this one looks good. But I already know how it ends.
New books! New books! I’m not a Black Belt in Tsundoku for nuthin’
September 6, 2025 at 9:26 AM
New books! New books! I’m not a Black Belt in Tsundoku for nuthin’
It’s that look. The one every P.I. gets towards the end of the second week of the family vacation. You know, the guilt-fuelled one just after the two-month field trip.
September 5, 2025 at 8:12 PM
It’s that look. The one every P.I. gets towards the end of the second week of the family vacation. You know, the guilt-fuelled one just after the two-month field trip.
Underneath the cruel, callous, heartless exterior, we journal editors just want to be loved.
September 5, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Underneath the cruel, callous, heartless exterior, we journal editors just want to be loved.
From today's constitutional. 'to set budding more/
And still more, later flowers for the bees/ Until they think warm days will never cease/ For summer has o'er-brimm'd their clammy cells.'
And still more, later flowers for the bees/ Until they think warm days will never cease/ For summer has o'er-brimm'd their clammy cells.'
August 30, 2025 at 7:35 PM
From today's constitutional. 'to set budding more/
And still more, later flowers for the bees/ Until they think warm days will never cease/ For summer has o'er-brimm'd their clammy cells.'
And still more, later flowers for the bees/ Until they think warm days will never cease/ For summer has o'er-brimm'd their clammy cells.'