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Wrote my first blog post! if you like #cephalopods have a read @MResBEC mresbec.wordpress.com/2019/11/17/cam…

You should see what British made explosives have done to babies and small children in Gaza.

The heroes at Forensic Architecture have mapped Israel's every move in Gaza and found what's going on: "a deliberate effort to render the territory incapable of supporting life." Every state arming Israel is, simply and literally, an enemy of life.

TAFIRI and the University of Cambridge Conduct Research on the Effects of Water Light Changes on Fish in Lake Kisiba, Located in Rungwe District, Mbeya.

We have new lab members this week! Tropheops macrophthalmus! They will be joining @patrsduarte and @C__gw on a quest to uncover mechanisms underlying cranial neural crest divergence and phenotypic plasticity #cichlids @CamZoology

We celebrated our 2nd lab retreat in Morston, Norfolk. Lots of productive discussions about science and the lab's future. Plenty of seal sightings, good food, and the weather almost held up!! #GreatBritishSummer! @C__gw @marconi_aleks @JoelElkin416 @AaronHicke62497 @patrsduarte

When Starmer admitted he spoke to Israeli 🇮🇱 President Herzog before colluding with the Speaker to block the SNP Gaza 🇵🇸 ceasefire motion Herzog signs bombs before they are dropped on Gaza children Starmer has enabled genocide Do not vote Labour today.

Eighty seconds of pure pleasure as GB News brings Suella Braverman to Cambridge for a 'dialogue' on Gaza

Fucking dystopian this. Upbeat electronic music over videos of people getting dragged from their homes and put in handcuffs. Treated like criminals and shipped off to a country they have no connection to. Posted the day before an election in a bid for votes. Fucking Tory scum.

So much goodness in one paper only! Cichlid neural crest, comparative genomics, gene duplications, sox10s and craniofacial skeleton. All led by brilliant @marconi_aleks and @gregverne with an amazing team of collaborators. She is on the look out for postdocs...just saying...

@fieldinghope Also The Baths in Hackney Wick!

Quite a lot of people made suggestions yesterday of places that welcome weird/experimental livemusic in London. Here they are compiled below:

1/14 🚨🚨 New preprint! Very excited to share our new study on the evolution of sexual parasitism and the invasion of the deep sea by anglerfishes! biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #biology #evolution #teamfish

It’s completely shattered my perception of human rights/international law. I knew there was still so much inequality in the world but I didn’t realise the extent to which human rights are conditional, that there is a massive asterisk about who is actually considered human

Devastating to hear that Benjamin Zephaniah has passed. As a writer, activist and patron of PSC he always stood steadfast with the Palestinian people and fought against racism and for justice for all his life. Rest in Power ✊🇵🇸

Could it be that there’s a ubiquitous form of violence that is overwhelmingly committed against women and girls, the healing from which is inhibited by stigma, victim blaming, and widespread social indifference to or support for perpetrators? No; it’s that women have bad brains.

🚨 The vote is happening THIS WEDNESDAY! Contact your MPs and urge them to support the King's speech amendment calling for a ceasefire in Gaza! 76 percent of adults in the UK support a ceasefire in Gaza! MPs must listen to the public’s demands. 🔗 Automated email template at the end! Guys I genuinely believe this is important. We need more governments to be pressuring Israel and that’s our only way of getting a ceasefire. The amount of love I have for every single one of you who has been posting nonstop, protesting since day 1, emailing their representatives and above all standing against genocide. We need you now! Send this to everyone you know in the UK, tag celebrities and big accounts! Let’s overwhelmed them with our demand for a ceasefire! Let’s together stop this genocide. Also please let us know in the comments if you’ve done so! So we keep the engagement of this post and it can reach a wider audience. palestinecampaign.eaction.online/gazaMPaction

We know there are differences between the left and right sides of the brain, known as brain asymmetry. But it’s not yet clear how or why this comes about. @stevewilsonfish and @ibianco3 from @ucl aim to find answers, with support from our Discovery Research Awards ⤵️

Emergence of novel cephalopod gene regulation and expression through large-scale genome reorganization nature.com/articles/s4146… @NatureComms

Beef 🥩 requires 20 times more land & emits 20 times more GHG emissions per gram of bean 🫘 plant protein It causes of deforestation 🌳 It causes many health issues in a western diet Time to switch flexitarian or vegetarian diet Long answer below 👇 wri.org/insights/6-pre…

In case you missed it: Women are less likely to be credited for their scientific contributions than men. It’s true across multiple fields & at all stages, with important repercussions for career progress. #WomenInSTEM #WomenInMedicine #MedTwitter nature.com/articles/s4158…