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"It is evidently easier to invent a system of writing or learn to predict the eclipse of the sun than it is to invent the bow and arrow."

@noodlebrett Even more horrific, we knew that before then. I seem to remember Haldane (so 20s or 30s) wrote “Even the Archbishop of Canterbury is 70% water”. No scientific payoff, just torture.

The reason we know how much water is in a human body is because in WWII, Japan would take POWs, weigh them, then bake them alive until the corpse had no moisture left, then weigh the remains.

@DavidBrin Hate to say it as I love the books but if ethics-free assholes read Sundiver looking for ideas it’ll be a horror show.

Ooooh! Can't wait till it's my turn!

@NaOHBartfield Nah, I don’t think he’s got the guts to do it.

trump could own elon by funding NSF and NIH to twice their previous levels

Our review on chlorophototrophic bacteria with @CanniffeLab dedicated to Don Bryant: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

On this day in 1991, Helen Sharman made history as the first Briton in space, spending eight days onboard the Mir space station. A chemist by profession, she conducted important research in biology, physics, and chemistry during her time in orbit. @Rob_Coppinger @Victrix75 #BIS

Please avoid Froggatt Edge. Damping down operations still ongoing and lots of vehicles and staff very busy. Avoiding the area would be appreciated. Thank you.

@tpltravelled @DerbyshireFRS Oh shit.

Froggatt edge alight. @DerbyshireFRS aware

@alexmassie Wise, simply wise

It hasn’t rained for a month which means it is time, once again, for ‘Scotland’, by Alastair Reid.

I salute the person who complied this.

@holland_tom Check out the British Embassy for a bit of a Buck House in Tokyo vibe.

Most impressed by the moat around the imperial palace, and feel that Buckingham Palace frankly needs to up its game

Pre-War, I am told, no building in Tokyo was allowed to be taller than the clock on this clock tower

Nice to see our CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing work addressing Cyclic electron transfer in Chlamydomonas published @ThePlantCell Congrats @emrich_z @HitchcockLab @mackinderlab @PPS_UoS 🌱🌞 academic.oup.com/plcell/advance…

@fesshole Cheese and marmalade. The finest of sandwiches

My dad introduced me to cheese and jam sandwiches as a child. Still one of my favourites today in my 50s and I've still never heard of another person eating this combination. Please tell me it's not just me now. RIP Dad.

@faisalislam Difficult when many research intensive universities are going through redundancy rounds as a result of government funding choices

Things like 👇🏽 mean many in frontier science research think UK has one off once in lifetime oppo to attract frontier science research from Trump’s USA given top UK universities rep. But does Govt agree? Is it capable of moving/acting quickly enough? Is there the funding/ visas?

@DamonLisch @fuulu92 I love that Westerns were named as a joke on his name.

@fuulu92 My hero.

I was lecturing to a graduate class and not one of them had even heard of a Southern blot. Used properly (with genetics), they are the haikus of molecular biology.

@andrewsduncan1 @DaveThroup Or scale Snowden and need rescue off Ben Nevis

@DaveThroup No doubt some idiot/s will try to scale Snowdon or Ben Nevis and need rescuing.

Not the day to be in a boat tomorrow. Hurricane force winds and phenomenal seas.

@MigueldOliveira A pile?

Loads of shags gracefully diving into a super cold Thames today - There should be a collective noun for a group of shags 😎🪶.

@pchaiyen @TischlerLab @PhinthaA @AprilLukowski Looks like a great read-thanks for this.

Very excited to share our latest work in solving flavin mechanisms in a single-component halogenase. Great team work by @PhinthaA @AprilLukowski. Unlocking the catalytic precision of ligand-controlled enzymatic halogenation | PNAS pnas.org/doi/epub/10.10…