Yes, core funded research institutes do this (EMBL, CRUK, MRC-LMB, MaxPlanck etc) but it is rare for universities to.

Which ones? I want a job there!! Not in the UK not even Oxbridge. The closest to this is a few core funded research institutes but even there everyone is subject to a 5-year review and outcome is linked to funding. Maybe Switzerland?

You may be right. I guess someone here might find official statistics on shootings in the uk and gun deaths. This might guide what ‘mass’ means. As a layman I tend to think of large tragedies as mass. Clearly the USA ‘wins’ but maybe the numbers in the post were for all shootings?

You mean the USA I assume? In the UK there are perhaps 1 or 2 incidents with 4 or more people shot/year. There have thankfully only been a couple of terrible mass shootings in my lifetime. Hungerford (1980s) and Dunblane(1990s) Dunblane led to a total ban on hand gun ownership in the UK.

UK numbers look way off. Far too big.

I never used them but my PhD desk room in the basement at Birkbeck London had boxes of them on the high shelves. They mostly hand reflection data from X-ray crystallography experiments I think 🤔

I timed it perfectly to be in the entirety of the storm for my 20 min walk…. Ho hum!

The rain was lovely and warm!

Do people really collect this junk???

I threw a pile of SGI stuff out a couple of years ago. I think I kept the green Indigo2 XZ though since it was the first SGI I’d bought thanks to a BBSRC grant around 1993?. All the peripherals went to recycling…

Actually, it was a COMPAQ one so @ewanbirney.bsky.social might appreciate that…

They used to flash when bounced but the batteries are long dead!

Nice pen! I have some SGI bouncy balls from the late 1990s. Oh and Sun Microsystems ones with ‘We are the dot in dot com’ on them!