Fabien Garçon
@quakef.bsky.social
Scientist by day, ninja by night
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Ed Davey asks to stand up to Trump's threats to Europe and to strengthen the UK with a Customs Union with the EU
Stramer dodges the Trump comment, and says post Brexit trade deals outside the EU are better than a Customs Union with the EU
Labour under Starmer makes us smaller and poorer
Stramer dodges the Trump comment, and says post Brexit trade deals outside the EU are better than a Customs Union with the EU
Labour under Starmer makes us smaller and poorer
December 10, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Ed Davey asks to stand up to Trump's threats to Europe and to strengthen the UK with a Customs Union with the EU
Stramer dodges the Trump comment, and says post Brexit trade deals outside the EU are better than a Customs Union with the EU
Labour under Starmer makes us smaller and poorer
Stramer dodges the Trump comment, and says post Brexit trade deals outside the EU are better than a Customs Union with the EU
Labour under Starmer makes us smaller and poorer
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How many times do we need to point this out?
By appeasing the far right, you do not weaken it. You strengthen it.
While weakening your own position.
There's a vast amount of academic research showing this.
But Labour will not listen.
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...
By appeasing the far right, you do not weaken it. You strengthen it.
While weakening your own position.
There's a vast amount of academic research showing this.
But Labour will not listen.
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...
Starmer urges Europe’s leaders to curb ECHR to halt rise of far right
Exclusive: PM calls for members of European convention on human rights to allow tougher action to protect borders
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 10:56 AM
How many times do we need to point this out?
By appeasing the far right, you do not weaken it. You strengthen it.
While weakening your own position.
There's a vast amount of academic research showing this.
But Labour will not listen.
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...
By appeasing the far right, you do not weaken it. You strengthen it.
While weakening your own position.
There's a vast amount of academic research showing this.
But Labour will not listen.
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...
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Nobel prize for Tregs!
www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medic...
www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medic...
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025 was awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi “for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance.”
www.nobelprize.org
October 6, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Nobel prize for Tregs!
www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medic...
www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medic...
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I once almost drowned on a school trip to a wave pool. I remember just being trapped below the surface, far too exhausted to thrash or even swim. A tiny old German lady spotted me, dragged me out and yelled at me while I lay there & choked. Likely she saved my life and I never even said danke schön
Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on.
slate.com/technology/2...
slate.com/technology/2...
Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning
Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.
slate.com
June 21, 2025 at 7:47 AM
I once almost drowned on a school trip to a wave pool. I remember just being trapped below the surface, far too exhausted to thrash or even swim. A tiny old German lady spotted me, dragged me out and yelled at me while I lay there & choked. Likely she saved my life and I never even said danke schön
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Israel is a nuclear armed genocidal rogue state.
It is allowed to commit every war crime under the sun - armed and facilitated by the West.
Yet you hear so few people saying these truths on TV.
Here's what I said this morning.
It is allowed to commit every war crime under the sun - armed and facilitated by the West.
Yet you hear so few people saying these truths on TV.
Here's what I said this morning.
June 13, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Israel is a nuclear armed genocidal rogue state.
It is allowed to commit every war crime under the sun - armed and facilitated by the West.
Yet you hear so few people saying these truths on TV.
Here's what I said this morning.
It is allowed to commit every war crime under the sun - armed and facilitated by the West.
Yet you hear so few people saying these truths on TV.
Here's what I said this morning.
Makes for a very sobering read
💰 Want to know what Brexit has cost you?
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📊 Curious as to how your sector's future has been hit?
Find out all below 👇 👇 👇
👨👩👧👦 Want to know how your family has been affected?
📊 Curious as to how your sector's future has been hit?
Find out all below 👇 👇 👇
The Cost of Brexit
Change Minds → Change Politics
buff.ly
June 10, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Makes for a very sobering read
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I realize posting this here is preaching to the choir. But after the Grok White Genocide thing & Ye essentially launching an exclusive Neo Nazi single on the platform... I felt motivated to write about X and how bizarre it is that so many people (news outlets, celebrities, politicians) use it
What Are People Still Doing on X?
Imagine if your favorite neighborhood bar turned into a Nazi hangout
www.theatlantic.com
May 23, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I realize posting this here is preaching to the choir. But after the Grok White Genocide thing & Ye essentially launching an exclusive Neo Nazi single on the platform... I felt motivated to write about X and how bizarre it is that so many people (news outlets, celebrities, politicians) use it
Look up
These are real images of exoplanets.
Four super-Jupiters, imaged 10 times over 12 years around a star 133 lightyears away.
These are real, giant worlds, out there in the dark.
And we can see them.
Four super-Jupiters, imaged 10 times over 12 years around a star 133 lightyears away.
These are real, giant worlds, out there in the dark.
And we can see them.
May 8, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Look up
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Despite there being mounting evidence of Brexit being a monumental exercise only in self-harm…
We continue down this ridiculous road because politicians are too scared to re-open the debate.
We continue down this ridiculous road because politicians are too scared to re-open the debate.
April 21, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Despite there being mounting evidence of Brexit being a monumental exercise only in self-harm…
We continue down this ridiculous road because politicians are too scared to re-open the debate.
We continue down this ridiculous road because politicians are too scared to re-open the debate.
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No, just no. No matter how many times you repeat this, it remains no. The data shows this, no matter what your belief system says.
April 8, 2025 at 1:13 PM
No, just no. No matter how many times you repeat this, it remains no. The data shows this, no matter what your belief system says.
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Good grief, can we desist with this nonsense. Barring convicted criminals from holding office - especially criminals convicted of abuses of power - is just basic civic sense. The option of not stealing taxpayers' money was right there. www.economist.com/leaders/2025...
Why Marine Le Pen should be allowed to run for president
Punish the offender without also punishing French democracy
www.economist.com
April 2, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Good grief, can we desist with this nonsense. Barring convicted criminals from holding office - especially criminals convicted of abuses of power - is just basic civic sense. The option of not stealing taxpayers' money was right there. www.economist.com/leaders/2025...
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Thousands of people are ditching Tesla. Here’s one of them with a message you can see from space.
Location: Black Rock Sands, Wales, UK
Led By Donkeys is 100% funded by small donations.
Location: Black Rock Sands, Wales, UK
Led By Donkeys is 100% funded by small donations.
March 17, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Thousands of people are ditching Tesla. Here’s one of them with a message you can see from space.
Location: Black Rock Sands, Wales, UK
Led By Donkeys is 100% funded by small donations.
Location: Black Rock Sands, Wales, UK
Led By Donkeys is 100% funded by small donations.
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A very long shot, but worth giving it a go stoptrump.org.uk/petition-can...
Petition: Cancel Trump’s state visit
Stop Trump Coalition
stoptrump.org.uk
March 2, 2025 at 10:55 AM
A very long shot, but worth giving it a go stoptrump.org.uk/petition-can...
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This is an image of a human immune cell called a macrophage (purple) connecting with the bacteria Mycobacterium tuberculosis (green), which causes TB. #microscopy 🧪🔬
Image credit: Tony Fearns and Beren Aylan
Image credit: Tony Fearns and Beren Aylan
February 25, 2025 at 1:15 PM
This is an image of a human immune cell called a macrophage (purple) connecting with the bacteria Mycobacterium tuberculosis (green), which causes TB. #microscopy 🧪🔬
Image credit: Tony Fearns and Beren Aylan
Image credit: Tony Fearns and Beren Aylan
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Macron, with Trump scowling next to him, says "the aggressor is Russia"
February 24, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Macron, with Trump scowling next to him, says "the aggressor is Russia"
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"This work was in part funded by NIH..."
That survival curve was unthinkable just a few years ago for this cancer type.
Amazing work like that is now not funded anymore.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
That survival curve was unthinkable just a few years ago for this cancer type.
Amazing work like that is now not funded anymore.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
RNA neoantigen vaccines prime long-lived CD8+ T cells in pancreatic cancer - Nature
In a phase 1 trial, patients with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma who were treated with surgery and bespoke neoantigen mRNA vaccines combined with anti-PD-L1 and chemotherapy exhibited marked lo...
www.nature.com
February 21, 2025 at 9:10 PM
"This work was in part funded by NIH..."
That survival curve was unthinkable just a few years ago for this cancer type.
Amazing work like that is now not funded anymore.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
That survival curve was unthinkable just a few years ago for this cancer type.
Amazing work like that is now not funded anymore.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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"Public sentiment toward Brexit has changed dramatically since the 2016 referendum, when 52% of voters chose to leave the European Union (EU)...
One of the key factors driving this shift is not merely people changing their minds but rather a demographic process known as “cohort replacement.”"
One of the key factors driving this shift is not merely people changing their minds but rather a demographic process known as “cohort replacement.”"
Brexitinction: how time is erasing Brexit support
Demographic shifts are driving the decline in Brexit support, with growing pressure for a closer EU relationship
eastangliabylines.co.uk
February 14, 2025 at 6:19 AM
"Public sentiment toward Brexit has changed dramatically since the 2016 referendum, when 52% of voters chose to leave the European Union (EU)...
One of the key factors driving this shift is not merely people changing their minds but rather a demographic process known as “cohort replacement.”"
One of the key factors driving this shift is not merely people changing their minds but rather a demographic process known as “cohort replacement.”"
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Because it is necessary
Here's the visual proof of why vaccines do more good than harm
See year by year how vaccines beat back nine dangerous infectious diseases
www.science.org/cont...
Here's the visual proof of why vaccines do more good than harm
See year by year how vaccines beat back nine dangerous infectious diseases
www.science.org/cont...
December 20, 2024 at 12:14 AM
Because it is necessary
Here's the visual proof of why vaccines do more good than harm
See year by year how vaccines beat back nine dangerous infectious diseases
www.science.org/cont...
Here's the visual proof of why vaccines do more good than harm
See year by year how vaccines beat back nine dangerous infectious diseases
www.science.org/cont...
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The new cover of TIME.
February 7, 2025 at 2:10 PM
The new cover of TIME.
Strange, surreal and sexy: 31 images that changed the way we see our bodies
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
Strange, surreal and sexy: 31 images that changed the way we see our bodies
From dancers to divas, amputees to activists: what images of the human form throughout the decades tell us about who we are
www.theguardian.com
February 1, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Strange, surreal and sexy: 31 images that changed the way we see our bodies
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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This is a big deal, y'all. Federal health websites are being stripped of content or removed in their entirety. Stick with this thread for a look at what's disappeared so far! 1/x
January 31, 2025 at 7:28 PM
This is a big deal, y'all. Federal health websites are being stripped of content or removed in their entirety. Stick with this thread for a look at what's disappeared so far! 1/x
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It’s all beginning to feel a bit 1984. We’re in a battle against autocrats and oligarchs who are using money and misinformation to dismantle democracies. That’s why we’re looking for 1,984 new monthly supporters to make our biggest and boldest plans a reality (see link in bio)
January 30, 2025 at 7:12 PM
It’s all beginning to feel a bit 1984. We’re in a battle against autocrats and oligarchs who are using money and misinformation to dismantle democracies. That’s why we’re looking for 1,984 new monthly supporters to make our biggest and boldest plans a reality (see link in bio)