Jonathan Pettitt
@genotripe.bsky.social
Gene Supremo and Worm Wizard
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“Science of the Lots of Trash” 🔽🔽
„The fall of a prolific science journal exposes the billion-dollar profits of scientific publishing“ 🧪🎓
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Many of my colleagues in ecology will know the name of the journal:
Science of the total environment (STOTEN)
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Many of my colleagues in ecology will know the name of the journal:
Science of the total environment (STOTEN)
The fall of a prolific science journal exposes the billion-dollar profits of scientific publishing
One of the 15 publications that put out the most studies globally has been expelled from the indexing system for irregularities. Its publisher, Elsevier, has a 38% profit margin that reached $1.5 bill...
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December 2, 2025 at 6:53 AM
“Science of the Lots of Trash” 🔽🔽
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The inspiring exception to this on old Twitter was whenever Belgium lost an international football match you'd get loads of random Africans from across the continent and diaspora posting images of Lumumba smiling. The kinda chaotic neutral vibes of black twitter of old is something I genuinely miss.
Tbf I also think the Belgians and Dutch don't get enough shit for *their* colonial shenanigans. The former we know quite a bit about now, but the VOC made the British East India Company look like teddy bears
December 2, 2025 at 6:25 AM
The inspiring exception to this on old Twitter was whenever Belgium lost an international football match you'd get loads of random Africans from across the continent and diaspora posting images of Lumumba smiling. The kinda chaotic neutral vibes of black twitter of old is something I genuinely miss.
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I’m here to remind folks that we live next to a star — a huge nuclear fusion factory of plasma and radiation — and proximity gives us an opportunity to study a star!
We often take it for granted as “the Sun in the sky” and consider stars just points of light — but we have one right next door too!
We often take it for granted as “the Sun in the sky” and consider stars just points of light — but we have one right next door too!
Physics in action: a truly mesmerising #SolarFlare on the Sun last night, from the same region that produced strong flares and triggered widespread aurora back in mid-November. The flare gives a hypnotic example of how plasma and magnetic fields interact in the Sun’s atmosphere.
December 1, 2025 at 7:00 PM
I’m here to remind folks that we live next to a star — a huge nuclear fusion factory of plasma and radiation — and proximity gives us an opportunity to study a star!
We often take it for granted as “the Sun in the sky” and consider stars just points of light — but we have one right next door too!
We often take it for granted as “the Sun in the sky” and consider stars just points of light — but we have one right next door too!
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This explains something that has always mystified me about drivers who rail against bike lanes and transit. Why WOULDN'T you want people to have options not to drive? It would make your own driving better! But they don't just want good traffic, they want to reinforce the NORM of driving
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 1:04 PM
This explains something that has always mystified me about drivers who rail against bike lanes and transit. Why WOULDN'T you want people to have options not to drive? It would make your own driving better! But they don't just want good traffic, they want to reinforce the NORM of driving
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Busy lately working with Magic Torch Comics on illustrations for story prompt / top trump cards based on myths and legends from the Inverclyde area.
First is Auld Dunrod, a landowner accused of being a warlock. Based on his apprearance in "Tales of the Oak"
www.magictorchcomics.co.uk
First is Auld Dunrod, a landowner accused of being a warlock. Based on his apprearance in "Tales of the Oak"
www.magictorchcomics.co.uk
December 1, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Busy lately working with Magic Torch Comics on illustrations for story prompt / top trump cards based on myths and legends from the Inverclyde area.
First is Auld Dunrod, a landowner accused of being a warlock. Based on his apprearance in "Tales of the Oak"
www.magictorchcomics.co.uk
First is Auld Dunrod, a landowner accused of being a warlock. Based on his apprearance in "Tales of the Oak"
www.magictorchcomics.co.uk
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From Falkirk to Aberdeen, Dundee to Inverness. Far right groups are attending anti-asylum protests across Scotland.
We spent three months investigating. People doxxed, attacked, threatened. And communities standing firm.
Our first monthly long read.
bit.ly/ferret-long-...
We spent three months investigating. People doxxed, attacked, threatened. And communities standing firm.
Our first monthly long read.
bit.ly/ferret-long-...
December 1, 2025 at 8:19 AM
From Falkirk to Aberdeen, Dundee to Inverness. Far right groups are attending anti-asylum protests across Scotland.
We spent three months investigating. People doxxed, attacked, threatened. And communities standing firm.
Our first monthly long read.
bit.ly/ferret-long-...
We spent three months investigating. People doxxed, attacked, threatened. And communities standing firm.
Our first monthly long read.
bit.ly/ferret-long-...
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Friends. Comrades. I have QUESTIONS, especially about item 4 there.
November 28, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Friends. Comrades. I have QUESTIONS, especially about item 4 there.
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Another example of how fascists win. By holding talks with Reform Party Cambridge performs an act of normalisation of the fascist takeover of the UK.
I can only hope that UCL is not among the universities who sell out their soul to the devil.
www.varsity.co.uk/news/30787
I can only hope that UCL is not among the universities who sell out their soul to the devil.
www.varsity.co.uk/news/30787
Cambridge cosies up to Reform UK
Leaked recordings of a University Council meeting, obtained by Varsity and The Sunday Times, show the VC fearful of Trump-style recriminations if Reform were to win power
www.varsity.co.uk
December 1, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Another example of how fascists win. By holding talks with Reform Party Cambridge performs an act of normalisation of the fascist takeover of the UK.
I can only hope that UCL is not among the universities who sell out their soul to the devil.
www.varsity.co.uk/news/30787
I can only hope that UCL is not among the universities who sell out their soul to the devil.
www.varsity.co.uk/news/30787
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Mind-blowingly cool use of AI
“Altogether, these findings are leading us to an extraordinary conclusion: Whales may possess a communication system more intricate than our own, one that possibly predates human language by tens of millions of years.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
“Altogether, these findings are leading us to an extraordinary conclusion: Whales may possess a communication system more intricate than our own, one that possibly predates human language by tens of millions of years.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
Opinion | I’m a Marine Biologist. This Is How I Talk to Whales.
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November 30, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Mind-blowingly cool use of AI
“Altogether, these findings are leading us to an extraordinary conclusion: Whales may possess a communication system more intricate than our own, one that possibly predates human language by tens of millions of years.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
“Altogether, these findings are leading us to an extraordinary conclusion: Whales may possess a communication system more intricate than our own, one that possibly predates human language by tens of millions of years.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
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The epitranscriptome formed by the growing number of modifications occurring within mRNA transcripts.
We have been mapping mRNA modifications for over a decade.
=> Characterizing their functions -- especially on translation -- is a research frontier.
We have been mapping mRNA modifications for over a decade.
=> Characterizing their functions -- especially on translation -- is a research frontier.
November 30, 2025 at 2:36 PM
The epitranscriptome formed by the growing number of modifications occurring within mRNA transcripts.
We have been mapping mRNA modifications for over a decade.
=> Characterizing their functions -- especially on translation -- is a research frontier.
We have been mapping mRNA modifications for over a decade.
=> Characterizing their functions -- especially on translation -- is a research frontier.
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Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance: Twists and turns in the story of learned avoidance
Evidence that learned avoidance of a pathogenic bacterium can be transmitted to future generations in C. elegans is growing.
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Evidence that learned avoidance of a pathogenic bacterium can be transmitted to future generations in C. elegans is growing.
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Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance
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November 29, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance: Twists and turns in the story of learned avoidance
Evidence that learned avoidance of a pathogenic bacterium can be transmitted to future generations in C. elegans is growing.
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Evidence that learned avoidance of a pathogenic bacterium can be transmitted to future generations in C. elegans is growing.
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The sheer scale of media outrage this week about plans to lift hundreds of thousands children out of poverty, by taxing millionaire homeowners, tells you everything you need to know about the real priorities of the British press
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-real-b...
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-real-b...
The Real 'Benefits Street' Protecting Britain's Wealthiest
The sheer scale of outrage about plans to lift children out of poverty, by taxing millionaire homeowners, tells you everything you need to know about the priorities of the British press
www.adambienkov.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 4:29 PM
The sheer scale of media outrage this week about plans to lift hundreds of thousands children out of poverty, by taxing millionaire homeowners, tells you everything you need to know about the real priorities of the British press
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-real-b...
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-real-b...
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Good morning to everyone except reviewers who, in the year of our lord 2025, are STILL finding it necessary to ask for qPCR/western blot validation of RNAseq results
a cartoon character asks where 've you been ? the stone age .
Alt: a cartoon character asks where 've you been ? the stone age .
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November 28, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Good morning to everyone except reviewers who, in the year of our lord 2025, are STILL finding it necessary to ask for qPCR/western blot validation of RNAseq results
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U can have a park for the people or park cars. The town of Tulln in Lower Austria made the choice for the people. They turned a concrete desert into a green paradise at the very heart of the city. We need more of these transformations. For families, seniors, teenagers…..
Park statt Parkplatz, Grünoase statt Asphaltwüste: In Tulln wurden mehr als 150 Parkplätze durch einen grünen Park für Menschen ersetzt. Ist viel schöner, verbessert Mikroklima und Lebensqualität. Nachahmenswert! #Klimakrise #Klimawandelanpassung
November 28, 2025 at 7:16 AM
U can have a park for the people or park cars. The town of Tulln in Lower Austria made the choice for the people. They turned a concrete desert into a green paradise at the very heart of the city. We need more of these transformations. For families, seniors, teenagers…..
This system is monstrous and inhumane - we should be rubber-stamping such applications
November 28, 2025 at 9:04 AM
This system is monstrous and inhumane - we should be rubber-stamping such applications
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The dispersal of domestic cats from North Africa to Europe around 2000 years ago | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
The dispersal of domestic cats from North Africa to Europe around 2000 years ago
The domestic cat (Felis catus) descends from the African wildcat Felis lybica lybica. Its global distribution alongside humans testifies to its successful adaptation to anthropogenic environments. Unc...
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November 28, 2025 at 8:46 AM
The dispersal of domestic cats from North Africa to Europe around 2000 years ago | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
C. elegans researchers were early adopters of open science: "The development of common resources and the belief that research findings and mutant strains should be freely shared has propelled worm research to the forefront"
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From nematode to Nobel: How community-shared resources fueled the rise of Caenorhabditis elegans as a research organism | PNAS
Experimental organisms such as the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans are fundamental
to biological discovery. The success of C. elegans research has ...
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November 28, 2025 at 8:00 AM
C. elegans researchers were early adopters of open science: "The development of common resources and the belief that research findings and mutant strains should be freely shared has propelled worm research to the forefront"
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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"Postdoc in the job market"
November 16, 2025 at 7:52 PM
"Postdoc in the job market"
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This raises a very real question about how we talk about AI. To call this slop is to downplay the fact that it was published in an esteemed journal. We used to call such things fraud, but this suggests the publisher is innocent. AI has changed the terms of debate. We urgently need new norms.
"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
November 27, 2025 at 6:59 PM
This raises a very real question about how we talk about AI. To call this slop is to downplay the fact that it was published in an esteemed journal. We used to call such things fraud, but this suggests the publisher is innocent. AI has changed the terms of debate. We urgently need new norms.
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"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
November 27, 2025 at 9:30 AM
"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
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Sally Rooney ‘almost certain’ UK ban could force her books off shelves
Normal People author Sally Rooney’s books may have to be withdrawn from sale and none of her new works published in the UK due to “uncertainty” caused by the ban on Palestine Action, the High Court has been told.
Normal People author Sally Rooney’s books may have to be withdrawn from sale and none of her new works published in the UK due to “uncertainty” caused by the ban on Palestine Action, the High Court has been told.
Sally Rooney ‘almost certain’ UK ban could force her books off shelves
Normal People author Sally Rooney’s books may have to be withdrawn from sale and none of her new works published in the UK due to “uncertainty” caused by the ban on Palestine Action, the High Court ha...
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November 27, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Sally Rooney ‘almost certain’ UK ban could force her books off shelves
Normal People author Sally Rooney’s books may have to be withdrawn from sale and none of her new works published in the UK due to “uncertainty” caused by the ban on Palestine Action, the High Court has been told.
Normal People author Sally Rooney’s books may have to be withdrawn from sale and none of her new works published in the UK due to “uncertainty” caused by the ban on Palestine Action, the High Court has been told.
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Labour Together is a hate group mate.
Page 30.
The bigotry towards people who are transgender is not incidental.
It was and is a central plank of the Labour Party to gain and retain power. This is who our government is and every LGBT person should never forget this.
The bigotry towards people who are transgender is not incidental.
It was and is a central plank of the Labour Party to gain and retain power. This is who our government is and every LGBT person should never forget this.
November 27, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Labour Together is a hate group mate.
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Two studentships available, one with me and Sam Booker and the other with me and Paul Donlin-Asp- do apply!
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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EASTBIO Subcelllular compartmentalisation of eEF1A paralogous proteins in neurons across the lifespan at University of Edinburgh on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - EASTBIO Subcelllular compartmentalisation of eEF1A paralogous proteins in neurons across the lifespan at University of Edinburgh, listed on FindAPhD.com
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November 27, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Two studentships available, one with me and Sam Booker and the other with me and Paul Donlin-Asp- do apply!
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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This is why we need cycling infrastructure. The intensity and range of bad driving has gotten absolutely bananas in the last few years, and the only thing that helps curb it in a meaningful way is to create physical barriers to the fuckery. Still won't stop all of it, but nothing else comes close.
I'm all for road safety but you could have every cyclist in the land wearing a full suit of Christmas lights and drivers fucking around on their phones will still knock them down
November 27, 2025 at 10:55 AM
This is why we need cycling infrastructure. The intensity and range of bad driving has gotten absolutely bananas in the last few years, and the only thing that helps curb it in a meaningful way is to create physical barriers to the fuckery. Still won't stop all of it, but nothing else comes close.
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Functions of RNA m6A methylation at the molecular, genomic and organismal level: go.nature.com/484M6pB
Free to read here: rdcu.be/eR4zx
Free to read here: rdcu.be/eR4zx
November 27, 2025 at 12:58 PM