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John Ashburner
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Does things with computers and brain scans as a profession. Very amateur parent, naturalist, etc.
You might not be doing any today. They seem to be having some IT issues.
October 30, 2025 at 1:01 PM
A much better pic than my photo-bombing Stonechat from 2022. (PS. Thanks for your recent iNat hoverfly IDs).
October 29, 2025 at 11:29 PM
A good place for plume scrolling.
www.featherbase.info/en/home
October 21, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Showing they are out of control by dumping diarrhea on the country. I've seen that somewhere else on the Internet today.
October 19, 2025 at 8:13 AM
They seem to hate everything that controls the bitey fly populations: swifts, newts, bats, jumping spiders.
October 18, 2025 at 11:45 AM
No Brians in the Tory party
October 6, 2025 at 7:21 PM
I hope students will learn the difference between domestic animals (e.g., honey bees) and wild animals.
September 29, 2025 at 9:10 AM
I hope the Nobel Prize committee is taking note. Looks like that's another in the bag, in addition to his certain awards for Peace, Economics and Literature.
September 23, 2025 at 6:08 AM
They must really hate this country to leave that mess.
September 15, 2025 at 8:37 PM
It's currently the worst of both worlds. In the UK system, we are supposed to be voting for people to represent us. Even this is not allowed because the party whips prevent our elected representatives from voting freely.
September 13, 2025 at 7:04 AM
September 8, 2025 at 7:00 AM
My phone read out the message. The Welsh bit at the end came out as gibberish - I think.
September 7, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Not a teacher, but our daughter is a GCSE student. She made me follow you because she's a big fan of all things Six Idiots.
September 5, 2025 at 9:00 PM
My mother went to secondary school in Wigton, where Melvyn Bragg was the head boy. She had an autograph book, and got people from school to sign it. His entry was

Never B#,
Never B♭,
Always B♮.
September 5, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Does anyone have a handle on how much of the financial problems of the NHS can be attributed to PFI payments?
September 5, 2025 at 6:20 PM
E-r-i-s-t-a-l-i-s--t-e-n-a-x
September 3, 2025 at 9:17 PM
It's not over till the first lady sings.
August 30, 2025 at 8:03 AM
The flags should have a yellow norman cross painted on the red to represent the shady people funding this shit.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of...
Flag of Guernsey - Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org
August 27, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Fixed it.
August 25, 2025 at 9:42 AM