Scott C Edmunds
@scedmunds.bsky.social
Iranian-Scottish Londoner lost in the East, trying to get his head around scientific data and publishing
The best thing about it is everything is listed in Thai and French, and so is a great way to learn French insect vocabulary. Les Sauterelles sound like a fancy wine or something you'd get in a fancy patisserie
December 4, 2025 at 1:37 PM
The best thing about it is everything is listed in Thai and French, and so is a great way to learn French insect vocabulary. Les Sauterelles sound like a fancy wine or something you'd get in a fancy patisserie
Officially your favourite deep fried insect cart. As seen in Phitsanulok train market.
December 4, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Officially your favourite deep fried insect cart. As seen in Phitsanulok train market.
Most people skip the Sukhothai West temple complex but they were my favourite as you really get to explore the forests and countryside
December 2, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Most people skip the Sukhothai West temple complex but they were my favourite as you really get to explore the forests and countryside
This ain't Mashad, this is the Takia Yokhin Mosque just south of Ayutthaya. The oldest mosque surviving the period of Persian residency, pilgrims still come to burn incense and drink holy water at ttomb of a venerated Muslim aristocrat named Chaokhun Takia or Sheikh Amad Maimum
November 23, 2025 at 5:00 AM
This ain't Mashad, this is the Takia Yokhin Mosque just south of Ayutthaya. The oldest mosque surviving the period of Persian residency, pilgrims still come to burn incense and drink holy water at ttomb of a venerated Muslim aristocrat named Chaokhun Takia or Sheikh Amad Maimum
The shrine and bridges are all that remain of the original Indo-Iranian quarter on the island of Ayutthaya. Now completely covered by the Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya Rajabhat University campus
November 21, 2025 at 11:36 AM
The shrine and bridges are all that remain of the original Indo-Iranian quarter on the island of Ayutthaya. Now completely covered by the Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya Rajabhat University campus
This ain't Isfahan, these are the Wanon and Dinso bridges in the old Indo-Iranian quarter of Ayutthaya close to the Tomb of Sheikh Ahmad.
November 21, 2025 at 11:33 AM
This ain't Isfahan, these are the Wanon and Dinso bridges in the old Indo-Iranian quarter of Ayutthaya close to the Tomb of Sheikh Ahmad.
This ain't Shiraz, this is Tomb of Sheikh Ahmad Qomi in Ayutthaya. The Persian merchant who settled in the Ayutthaya Kingdom in the early 17th century, founding the still powerful Bunnag family in Thailand.
November 21, 2025 at 11:30 AM
This ain't Shiraz, this is Tomb of Sheikh Ahmad Qomi in Ayutthaya. The Persian merchant who settled in the Ayutthaya Kingdom in the early 17th century, founding the still powerful Bunnag family in Thailand.
Despite health problems James Watson filmed a video 2yrs ago for the BGI ICG meeting (which they just showed again at #ICG20) where he was still looking forward to solving difficult problems. Even then he couldn't help go off script to talk about girls and tease Crick's failure in neuroscience #RIP
November 8, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Got a pretty good view of the Wat Nang Chi “Pulling of the Buddha’s relic” procession on the Khlong Dan canal this morning
November 7, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Got a pretty good view of the Wat Nang Chi “Pulling of the Buddha’s relic” procession on the Khlong Dan canal this morning
Enjoying the DataCite-OpenAlex webinar right now. Interesting seeing the heavy use of the API from places like India
November 6, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Enjoying the DataCite-OpenAlex webinar right now. Interesting seeing the heavy use of the API from places like India
Sam Sen Nai Philatelic Museum really going all in for their Halloween “You’ve Ghost mail” weekend
November 2, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Sam Sen Nai Philatelic Museum really going all in for their Halloween “You’ve Ghost mail” weekend
We made it to the end of #ICG20 and Huanming Yang is talking about what next year should cover. Maybe this isn’t going to be the last meeting after all!
October 26, 2025 at 10:34 AM
We made it to the end of #ICG20 and Huanming Yang is talking about what next year should cover. Maybe this isn’t going to be the last meeting after all!
Make room for the mushrooms. Interesting factoid - China has 1789 edible and 798 medicinal mushroom species. Producing 80% of the world’s mushroom output #ICG20
October 26, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Make room for the mushrooms. Interesting factoid - China has 1789 edible and 798 medicinal mushroom species. Producing 80% of the world’s mushroom output #ICG20
Now up is Fuqiang Yu from KIB on a new project, the 10K Macrofungi Omics Initiative. Very under sampled. There are 2.2-3.8M fungi, but only 150K mushrooms and other macrofungi #ICG20
October 26, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Now up is Fuqiang Yu from KIB on a new project, the 10K Macrofungi Omics Initiative. Very under sampled. There are 2.2-3.8M fungi, but only 150K mushrooms and other macrofungi #ICG20
Harris taking about the scaling, phases and estimated cost recently updated. See the recent paper in Frontiers covering this in more detail ttps://doi.org/10.3389/fsci.2025.1514835
October 26, 2025 at 5:47 AM
Harris taking about the scaling, phases and estimated cost recently updated. See the recent paper in Frontiers covering this in more detail ttps://doi.org/10.3389/fsci.2025.1514835
Getting the origin story of the EBP from Harris, and the scoping meetings at the Smithsonian (I remember that first big meeting there well) #ICG20
October 26, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Getting the origin story of the EBP from Harris, and the scoping meetings at the Smithsonian (I remember that first big meeting there well) #ICG20
Roland saying the only decent health data resource in Germany is from insurance claims. Though can see biases in this of clinicians pushing more expensive prognoses. Used this data in their work validating their disease risk prediction models across 3 healthcare systems (UK, US and Germany) #ICG20
October 26, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Roland saying the only decent health data resource in Germany is from insurance claims. Though can see biases in this of clinicians pushing more expensive prognoses. Used this data in their work validating their disease risk prediction models across 3 healthcare systems (UK, US and Germany) #ICG20
Roland Eils, new Dean at the Fudan Imtelligent Medicine Institute, talking about AI models based on multi-omics and health data for disease risk prediction #ICG20
October 26, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Roland Eils, new Dean at the Fudan Imtelligent Medicine Institute, talking about AI models based on multi-omics and health data for disease risk prediction #ICG20
