Stephen Mulvey
@stephenmulvey.bsky.social
Journalist and mature student (Conservation MSc at UCL). In the distant past reported from Kyiv and Baku.
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Her sister wrote my favorite essay about her. She points out that RF would have been famous even if she'd never looked at DNA
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Remembering my sister Rosalind Franklin
Rosalind Franklin died of ovarian cancer in 1958 aged 37 years. Sympathy and feminism
have combined to give us her familiar image as a downtrodden woman scientist, brilliant
but neglected, a heroine t...
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November 7, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Her sister wrote my favorite essay about her. She points out that RF would have been famous even if she'd never looked at DNA
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"What Ukraine’s campaign has exposed about Russia is really a deeper vulnerability: an energy superpower whose strength lies in infrastructure built decades ago, maintained through improvisation, and preserved by command rather than innovation." www.foreignaffairs.com/russia/slow-...
The Slow Death of Russian Oil
Why Ukraine’s campaign against Moscow’s energy sector is working.
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November 7, 2025 at 12:26 PM
"What Ukraine’s campaign has exposed about Russia is really a deeper vulnerability: an energy superpower whose strength lies in infrastructure built decades ago, maintained through improvisation, and preserved by command rather than innovation." www.foreignaffairs.com/russia/slow-...
No, sorry, this is Amanita solitaria (previously A. echinocephala) I was informed today by @fungiflowers during the very educational, and fun, Haringey fungi foray.
October 26, 2025 at 6:25 PM
No, sorry, this is Amanita solitaria (previously A. echinocephala) I was informed today by @fungiflowers during the very educational, and fun, Haringey fungi foray.
"While debate rages over how to change the planning bill, the environment secretary, Emma Reynolds, is drawing up a separate nature bill that officials say would also help speed up the planning system." www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Ministers to announce significant changes to UK’s planning system
Exclusive: Differences over changes to environmental and legal provisions to prompt economic growth hint at chaos at heart of government
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October 20, 2025 at 10:41 AM
"While debate rages over how to change the planning bill, the environment secretary, Emma Reynolds, is drawing up a separate nature bill that officials say would also help speed up the planning system." www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
When I was growing up, by coincidence, our number was Abingdon 603.
October 13, 2025 at 9:27 PM
When I was growing up, by coincidence, our number was Abingdon 603.