Sam Finnegan

@PolitlcsUK Under a Labour government, electric kettles will apparently work even when there's a power cut. Nice!

🚨 NEW: The Conservatives have released a new last-minute campaign video, supposedly set a year from now under a Labour government

Obligatory very-glad-to-have-just-been-stabbed-in-the-arm tweet.

To our surprise, meiotic drive does not cause a condition‐dependent reduction of the sexual ornament in stalk‐eyed flies onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/je…

Also, here are some gratuitous but poorly framed shots of my research assistant, Cooper.

Went #lookingforcowslips today as part of a citizen science project (nurmenukk.ee). Cowslips are an example of heterostyly. When viewed from above, either a long style is visible (L-morph, left) or five anthers are visible with the style hidden inside (S-morph, right).

@NintendoUK I've been playing it 5-6 days a week since it launched. It's become my new routine, and kept me sane through lockdowns and unemployment. And I've lost over 50lbs.

We'd love to hear some of your Ring Fit Adventure success stories <3

There are several reasons to think that the new UK #SARSCoV2 variant is an important one as it might be more contagious than other variants, but there are also some uncertainties. So much misinformation is being circulated, so this thread brings key data together. 🧵

My first paper is out! Together with @NJWhite_Evo and the stalkie lab, we show that meiotic drive in stalk-eyed flies reduces male and female viability. Feels good to see it out there. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

This stalkie has just been sitting, staring at me for at least the last half an hour. I'm starting to think he's plotting my demise.

@DMC_Ryan I absolutely love Unfiltered. It's fascinating and human and it's clear just how much hard work you put into it. Beyond just telling my friends, how can I help it get the numbers it deserves? Does it do better if I watch/listen on IGN proper vs on a podcast app?

Humor me one last rant of 2018. And FWIW this isn't really directed at you; if you're reading this, you're probably not part of this problem. ❤️But today's Unfiltered is another frustrating example of what it's like to make content in the video game space. 1/x

Come find me for a chat #eseb2017 ! Adaptive compensation in fertility to meiotic drive in a stalk-eyed fly (S18).

#eseb2017 Want to drink wine and see how meiotic drive impacts male mating behaviour in stalkies? Come say hi later! S18 P06

Dawn raid on stalkie sex town: caught in the act.

Huge stalkie lek in the wild. One male and many, many females. Lad.

@KnappRew Can confirm. When an itsy-bitsy spider gets into our stalkie cages, it's a massacre.

It's always awkward reading decades-old genetics research and seeing the E word...

The anonymous science rebel - a blog by @CarlosEcolEvol london-nerc-dtp.org/2016/07/04/the…

Hey look, I found some science at home on the kitchen ceiling!

First week of the first experiment of my PhD! Excited.

Something tells me this stalky male won't be winning any beauty contests.