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Singing Science
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Purveyor of melodies with hues of science, nature, and humanism. Visitor of schools and performer of the above with snatches of light entertainment.
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What did Watson and Crick discover in 1953?”
“Rosalind Franklin’s notes!”
Now would be a good time to listen to my interview with the brilliant @matthewcobb.bsky.social about Franklin, Watson, Crick and the discovery of the double helix. geneticsunzipped.com/blog/2023/8/...
What really happened between Franklin, Watson and Crick in the discovery of the DNA double helix? — Genetics Unzipped
Kat Arney chats with Professor Matthew Cobb about what really happened between James Watson, Francis Crick and Rosalind Franklin during the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA.
geneticsunzipped.com
November 8, 2025 at 8:53 AM
singingscience.bsky.social
A lazy morning rating 100 #nintendo games, with Fire Emblem Three Houses coming out on top. www.ign.com/faceoffs/the...
The 100 Best Nintendo Games Ever Faceoff - IGN
68/100 Mario? Zelda? Metroid? With so many great games to pick from its not going to be easy, but we want you to vote in this IGN Faceoff and decide the best Nintendo release of all time.
www.ign.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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ewanbirney.bsky.social
British electricity grid is on a real renewable (windy) roll this week and at the moment, during the day, we're exporting more electricity (to Norway, Ireland, Belgium and Denmark) than we're producing in fossil fuel generation. We often do this overnight - during the day is ... a bit more novel!
November 1, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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karmadillorocks.bsky.social
Donate for the #NHS YOUR blood! singingscience.org/all-you-need...
All You Need Is Blood – Singing Science
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November 1, 2025 at 11:55 AM
singingscience.bsky.social
Second viewing of #Tron:Ares confirms it is of the most properly cinematic experiences I have ever enjoyed on an IMAX screen. Thumping #NIN soundtrack, superb light cycle chase, something old, something new. Just needed a line about big doors to get perfect.
October 28, 2025 at 9:31 AM
singingscience.bsky.social
I hadn't realised Louis Pasteur had discovered molecular chirality edition.cnn.com/2025/10/17/s...
Meet the scientists sounding the alarm about the doomsday risks of mirror life | CNN
Kate Adamala started work on a cell in which the natural molecular structure is reversed. Then a possible doomsday scenario became clear.
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October 18, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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humanists.uk
Humanism has always been global. 🌍✨

From philosophers like Epicurus in ancient Greece, to Cārvāka in India, Mengzi in China, the goðlauss of the Nordic sagas, and the philosophy of ubuntu in Africa — humanist ideas can be found in traditions all over the world.
Humanism: a global history
Humanism is not just a modern Western phenomenon but has roots across the globe
understandinghumanism.org.uk
October 7, 2025 at 12:42 PM
singingscience.bsky.social
#NobelPrize announcement time: Immunology, and why our immune system doesn't just shred us to pieces, is the theme for this one! www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Nobel prize in medicine awarded to scientists for immune system research
Mary E Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi win for work on preventing immune system harming body
www.theguardian.com
October 6, 2025 at 12:49 PM
singingscience.bsky.social
#chimps drink #alcohol from fruits... Did they invent the pina colada?! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Chimps 'lager a day' in ripe fruit fuels drunken monkey theory
Scientists say chimps consume the equivalent of a bottle of lager a day from dining on ripe fruit.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 18, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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andrewcopson.bsky.social
No one should have to make a journey like this alone.

Let's hope the House of Lords continues along the historic path towards giving terminally ill people the choice, dignity, and compassion they deserve at the end of their lives.

It's time to end to this cruelty.
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Dame Esther Rantzen: I am making arrangements to travel alone to Dignitas
The 85-year-old Childline founder and former broadcaster, who is terminally ill with cancer, says she is 'afraid of dying badly.'
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September 16, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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stealth40k.bsky.social
Nintendo revealed there is an easter egg in the 'change grip/order' section of the Controller settings.

Sounds will play when you press the L/R buttons and you can even create a musical scale.
May 15, 2025 at 3:18 PM
singingscience.bsky.social
More on the link between fine particulates from car emissions and dementia www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Air pollution can drive devastating forms of dementia, research suggests
Airborne particles cause toxic clumps of proteins in brain that are hallmarks of Lewy body dementia, study indicates
www.theguardian.com
September 5, 2025 at 12:02 PM
singingscience.bsky.social
Love this from Humanists UK! #Thatshumanism is the perfect introduction to the humanist approach to life, featuring four animations narrated by Stephen Fry, and brand new posters all about humanism for schools. Have a look for yourself! humanists.uk/thatshumanism/
That's humanism!
We've teamed up with our patron Stephen Fry, to explore humanist ideas about some of life’s big questions in four animated shorts.
humanists.uk
August 26, 2025 at 5:51 AM
singingscience.bsky.social
Wow, an orange #shark! #Albino beings. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Extremely rare bright orange shark with white eyes discovered in the Caribbean
The shark also showed traits of albinism, including a pair of striking white eyes
www.independent.co.uk
August 20, 2025 at 8:10 PM
singingscience.bsky.social
This post about mosquitoes should generate a lot of .... buzz...
sangerinstitute.bsky.social Wellcome Sanger Institute @sangerinstitute.bsky.social · Aug 20
Are there any pink mosquitoes?

For #WorldMosquitoDay, we answered four deceptively difficult mosquito questions from 7-year-olds. 🦟

Find out how genomics can answer them all ⤵️

sangerinstitute.blog/2025/08/20/h...

Artwork & inspiration from @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social ‬
Cartoon image with a larger mosquito and five mosquito larvae, all with speech bubbles and images to represent different questions. Credit: Petra Korlević Wellcome Sanger Institute.
August 20, 2025 at 9:41 AM
singingscience.bsky.social
Happy International #Tiger Day!
Rishi with his funny face in a tiger cut out photo
July 29, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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thevariables.bsky.social
A comedic take on the History of Science from our fab set of comedians! Demonstrating that science is not a steady stream of progress, but instead a series of mishaps, bad ideas and general confusion that somehow, sometimes, leads to understanding! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-variab...
The Variables Present: A Loose History of Science in 7-ish Comedians
Join Cambridge's Science Comedy group "The Variables" as we turn the science of the past into the laughter of today
www.eventbrite.co.uk
July 4, 2025 at 12:00 PM
singingscience.bsky.social
This institution keeps it's most important ring binders next to each other.
May 22, 2025 at 5:40 AM
singingscience.bsky.social
One of the most important xkcd comics
xkcd.com/3081/
PhD Timeline
xkcd.com
April 28, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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humanists.uk
Yesterday was Shakespeare day, but before Shakespeare, there was another great Renaissaince playwright with the soul of a humanist: Christopher Marlowe.

HIs bio is now on the #HumanistHeritage website.
heritage.humanists.uk/christopher-...
Humanist Heritage: Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593)
I count religion but a childish toy,And hold there is no sin but ignorance. Christopher Marlowe, The Jew of Malta, […]
heritage.humanists.uk
April 24, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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science.esa.int
Happy anniversary, Hubble! 🎂

Celebrate 35 years since this NASA/ESA space telescope was launched into orbit with four anniversary images! They roam from the planet Mars to dramatic images of stellar birth and death to a neighbouring galaxy.

Read more 👉 www.esa.int/Science_Expl...

#Hubble35 🔭 🧪
Two views of planet Mars on a black background of space observed by the Hubble Space Telescope. At left, text: December 28, 2024 20:00 UT. At right, text: December 29, 2024 13:18 UT. In both images, its atmosphere is clear and the surface appears detailed. Most of the planet is shades of orange. At left, the brightest orange area appears in the left half. At right, the brightest orange area is centered and takes on the rough shape of a sleeping mask. In both views, darker surface features are noticeable on the lower half of the planet. These have a mix of orange, blue, and gray hues. At the top and bottom, white regions mark the planet’s polar caps. The entire limb of the planet, its visible edge, has a blue hue. The blue doesn’t form an even circle at the edges, and appears thinner toward the left and right, and thicker in some areas. The planetary nebula NGC 2899 is shaped like a single macaroni noodle, with its edges pointed up, but its edge-on central torus is semi-transparent in the middle. The top and bottom edges are thick and orange. The center is semi-transparent blue and green. The wider central region looks roughly like a moth, also filled with semi-transparent blue and green. There are two pinpoint-like white stars with diffraction spikes toward the center. Immediately below them, slightly toward the right, is a smaller blue orb, a central star. The next layer of gas and dust is whiter, with some thicker pillars that look like they are rising up at bottom center. The colour fades into reds and purples, and then to orange. A tiny portion of the Rosette Nebula. Very dark gray material shaped like a V extends from just below top left all the way down to the lower right corner and back up toward the top right. It looks like thick smoke that has billowed out irregularly, thicker along the line from top left to bottom right, and looser on the piece that goes toward the top right. Behind the dark gray on the left side, from the bottom left to top center, there is dust that looks like arced claw marks that appears in light orange and yellow. The background at top left is hazier and some blues are covered in semi-transparent orange wisps, which makes sections take on green hues. In the bottom right, the background is bluer. There are a few bright red and purple stars scattered along the right half, most toward the bottom. The largest star is at right-center, just at the edge. It is red and has four diffraction spikes. Barred spiral galaxy NGC 5335 observed by the Hubble Space Telescope takes up the majority of the view. At its center is a milky yellow, flattened oval that extends bottom left to top. Within the oval is a bright central region that looks circular, with the very center the brightest. In the bright central region is what looks like a bar, extending from top left to bottom right. Around this is a thick swath of blue stars speckled with white regions. Multiple arms wrap up and around in a counterclockwise direction, becoming fainter the farther out they are. Both the white core and the spiral arms are intertwined with dark streaks of dust. The background of space is black. Thousands of distant galaxies in an array of colors are speckled throughout.
April 23, 2025 at 2:05 PM
singingscience.bsky.social
A worn out doggy and Easter Bunny.
April 21, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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humanists.uk
'I don’t think you realise until you see someone close to you going through the pain and the agony, it changes your opinion,' she said. 'That’s what did it for me.' Jacqueline, who is suffering from incurable cancer, shares her story 👇
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'I'm terminally ill - I should have the freedom to choose a dignified death'
Jacqueline, who has incurable cancer, says she wants the right to choose when to end her own life ahead of Scotland's assisted dying vote.
news.stv.tv
April 16, 2025 at 9:57 AM
singingscience.bsky.social
I will be performing a short set here next month! With a theme I hope you can really dig! 😅
March 13, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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humanists.uk
This #InternationalWomensDay, we celebrate the remarkable women who shaped humanist history – women who challenged convention, fought for equality, and championed reason, compassion, and social progress. heritage.humanists.uk/article/hero...
Humanist Heritage: Heroines of Freethought
Borrowing the title of an 1876 work by feminist freethinker Sara Underwood, this article celebrates the many brave women who have populated and propelled the humanist movement.
heritage.humanists.uk
March 8, 2025 at 9:09 AM