Pixi
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🧬 Non-scientific work in science. 🫁
🧬 Non-scientific work in science. 🫁
Hung out with my former sports business colleague last night and 15 years on it's still a boys club, but one that now claims skilled worker shortage. IDK, hire women?!
December 18, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Hung out with my former sports business colleague last night and 15 years on it's still a boys club, but one that now claims skilled worker shortage. IDK, hire women?!
When the communal paper recycling containers are overflowing and it's not even Christmas yet.
December 15, 2025 at 2:59 PM
When the communal paper recycling containers are overflowing and it's not even Christmas yet.
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Social media today:
December 14, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Social media today:
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Kiel, Germany, 1931
December 14, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Kiel, Germany, 1931
Okay, guys:
Who of you can remember all social media handles, e-mail-addresses and telephone numbers they have used in the past five years, I couldn't even tell you my current phone numbers.
Who of you can remember all social media handles, e-mail-addresses and telephone numbers they have used in the past five years, I couldn't even tell you my current phone numbers.
Jeez. All tourists - including those from Britain - will have to undergo a social media screening before being allowed entry into the US under new plans being considered by the country's border force
news.sky.com/story/us-pla...
news.sky.com/story/us-pla...
US plans to start checking all tourists' social media
The potential social media mandate being proposed by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) would apply to anyone visiting, whether they require a visa or not.
news.sky.com
December 10, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Okay, guys:
Who of you can remember all social media handles, e-mail-addresses and telephone numbers they have used in the past five years, I couldn't even tell you my current phone numbers.
Who of you can remember all social media handles, e-mail-addresses and telephone numbers they have used in the past five years, I couldn't even tell you my current phone numbers.
Framing this for my desk for days when PhDs want everything immediately cause they're doing such important work.
December 9, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Framing this for my desk for days when PhDs want everything immediately cause they're doing such important work.
Me changing the duvet cover of the weighted blanket.
Hoy es martes, si, pero yo llevo el lunes a rastras.
December 9, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Me changing the duvet cover of the weighted blanket.
Says the only guy who was constantly eating on NY Med while everyone else was working.
December 9, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Says the only guy who was constantly eating on NY Med while everyone else was working.
Me really trying to practise active listening.
Day 2 #BatMas: X: Desert long-eared bat (Otonycteris hemprichii)🦇🌎🧪
A species in North Africa & Middle East, these bats use echolocation to find scorpions (including the highly venomous deathstalker) which the bats catch & eat. The bats are considered immune to the venom!
📸: Christian Dietz
A species in North Africa & Middle East, these bats use echolocation to find scorpions (including the highly venomous deathstalker) which the bats catch & eat. The bats are considered immune to the venom!
📸: Christian Dietz
December 3, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Me really trying to practise active listening.
I don't have Spotify, but my CD collection is pretty cool.
December 3, 2025 at 11:38 PM
I don't have Spotify, but my CD collection is pretty cool.
Just let AI handle it. What could possibly go wrong.
Half of jury trials to disappear under government reforms
Barristers warned the changes would bring a “wrecking ball” to a system that had been in place for generations
www.channel4.com/news/half-of...
Barristers warned the changes would bring a “wrecking ball” to a system that had been in place for generations
www.channel4.com/news/half-of...
Half of jury trials to disappear under government reforms
Crimes like burglary and threatening to kill will no longer be tried before juries in England and Wales, under reforms announced today by the Justice Secretary David Lammy.
www.channel4.com
December 3, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Just let AI handle it. What could possibly go wrong.
I'm spoilt rotten, my new work husband is a doctor and promised to confirm natural deaths.
November 30, 2025 at 10:34 PM
I'm spoilt rotten, my new work husband is a doctor and promised to confirm natural deaths.
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Jamal Hinton and Grandma Wanda officially celebrate Thanksgiving together for a 10th year. 🦃
November 28, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Jamal Hinton and Grandma Wanda officially celebrate Thanksgiving together for a 10th year. 🦃
Me arriving at work, hoping no one will talk to me for at least two hours.
November 27, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Me arriving at work, hoping no one will talk to me for at least two hours.
Hugged a doctor from Ukraine today. 💛 💙
She traveled 2,5 days to tell us what it's like to be a doctor & scientist in a war-stricken country. Showed a picture of her daughter's kindergarten after a drone strike and it was from last month.
Please don't forget about Ukraine. The situation is dire.
She traveled 2,5 days to tell us what it's like to be a doctor & scientist in a war-stricken country. Showed a picture of her daughter's kindergarten after a drone strike and it was from last month.
Please don't forget about Ukraine. The situation is dire.
November 5, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Hugged a doctor from Ukraine today. 💛 💙
She traveled 2,5 days to tell us what it's like to be a doctor & scientist in a war-stricken country. Showed a picture of her daughter's kindergarten after a drone strike and it was from last month.
Please don't forget about Ukraine. The situation is dire.
She traveled 2,5 days to tell us what it's like to be a doctor & scientist in a war-stricken country. Showed a picture of her daughter's kindergarten after a drone strike and it was from last month.
Please don't forget about Ukraine. The situation is dire.
Such a sweet video of the carpenter who restored Notre Dame and was granted the exception to get married there.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=FH7D...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=FH7D...
Notre-Dame hosts rare wedding for carpenter who helped rebuild it • FRANCE 24 English
YouTube video by FRANCE 24 English
m.youtube.com
November 4, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Such a sweet video of the carpenter who restored Notre Dame and was granted the exception to get married there.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=FH7D...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=FH7D...
Now want to dress my colleagues as myco(bacteria) next Halloween. 🍄🫁
I’m a finalist in the Science Friday Nerdy Halloween costume contest. Mycomycetes rule! Vote me in when it’s time.
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#fungifriends #slimemolds
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#fungifriends #slimemolds
November 4, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Now want to dress my colleagues as myco(bacteria) next Halloween. 🍄🫁
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no one asked for an extra hour of life. read the room.
November 2, 2025 at 5:40 PM
no one asked for an extra hour of life. read the room.
Protect your ears 👂🏻
Great story on the guys who make Loop earplugs from my colleague @simonemelvin.bsky.social
www.forbes.com/sites/simone...
www.forbes.com/sites/simone...
How Loop Earplugs Turned Down The Volume For Gen Z And Dialed Up Massive Revenue
Maarten Bodewes and Dimitri O suffered hearing damage from years of attending loud concerts and wanted to help others avoid the same fate. Now their cult earplug company brings in $220 million, has co...
www.forbes.com
October 27, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Protect your ears 👂🏻
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The photo:
The comments you will laugh at:
The comments you will laugh at:
October 23, 2025 at 4:25 AM
The photo:
The comments you will laugh at:
The comments you will laugh at:
Trust me, we already have enough TB cases and samples at my job, we don't need to try that.
A new study led by Harvard Chan School and @busph.bsky.social projects that U.S. funding cuts to global health aid will have a catastrophic effect on pediatric #tuberculosis.
U.S. funding cuts could result in nearly 9 million child tuberculosis cases, 1.5 million child deaths | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
A new Harvard Chan School and BUSPH study projects that U.S. funding cuts to global health aid will have a catastrophic effect on pediatric TB.
hsph.harvard.edu
October 21, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Trust me, we already have enough TB cases and samples at my job, we don't need to try that.
They do look like they're waiting for feedback after a presentation, don't they?
October 21, 2025 at 8:35 AM
They do look like they're waiting for feedback after a presentation, don't they?
Update: they sent it back with an unverified .pdf 'signature'.
Guess the funding situation is worse than we thought?
Guess the funding situation is worse than we thought?
I'm not saying Harvard is slow, but we have signed our mutual contract days ago.
a man wearing a pink hoodie and a pink bandana looks out over a pink fence .
ALT: a man wearing a pink hoodie and a pink bandana looks out over a pink fence .
media.tenor.com
October 20, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Update: they sent it back with an unverified .pdf 'signature'.
Guess the funding situation is worse than we thought?
Guess the funding situation is worse than we thought?
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Take action today to demand the European Parliament hold the #Faroes accountable for the slaughter of pilot shales and dolphins, by supporting the Motion for a Resolution. #StoptheGrind
www.seashepherdglobal.org/our-campaign...
www.seashepherdglobal.org/our-campaign...
October 20, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Take action today to demand the European Parliament hold the #Faroes accountable for the slaughter of pilot shales and dolphins, by supporting the Motion for a Resolution. #StoptheGrind
www.seashepherdglobal.org/our-campaign...
www.seashepherdglobal.org/our-campaign...