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Laurence Pearl 🔥
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Has-been structural biologist FRS (no really) reinventing himself as a computational cancer geneticist in the post-AlphaFold world. Hooked on boats. Picture - outside Leonard Cohen's house on Hydra after sailing there. ORCID 0000-0002-6910-1809
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Tom Shakespeare @tomshakespeare.bsky.social · 5h
NEVER CHECK YOUR WORK EMAILS ON SUNDAY NIGHT.
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Laurence Pearl 🔥 @laurencepearl.bsky.social · 5h
Food and weather
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Laurence Pearl 🔥 @laurencepearl.bsky.social · 5h
Hoping you didn’t set fire to the harpsichord
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 10h
In the superb Handel/Hendrix house in Mayfair. They let me dress up as both at once. As they point out, they are celebrating two immigrants to London
Me sitting wearing a blue frock coat with gold decorations.
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Malcolm Quinn @malrog.bsky.social · 9h
The frogs are back in town.
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God @thegodpodcast.com · 9h
FROGS TOGETHER STRONG!
Bless The Frog Proving Kristi Noem Wrong
It's raining frogs! Hallelujah!
www.thegodpodcast.com
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Laurence Pearl 🔥 @laurencepearl.bsky.social · 5h
Great food styling !!
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David K Smith @professor-dave.bsky.social · 7h
Blackberry & Apple Crumble
Enjoying the fruit from the allotment.
#allotmentlife
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 19h
Yes but it’s been Halloween in the US for months now.
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Faith M. Jackson @kissedbythesun.bsky.social · 23h
🚨BREAKING🚨: Portland Frog receives Nobel Peace Prize.
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Bertrom. @bertrom.bsky.social · 6h
Carrie Fisher sitting on a stool and watching her mum Debbie Reynolds on stage at the Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas in 1963.

Lawrence Schiller.
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Laurence Pearl 🔥 @laurencepearl.bsky.social · 13h
Adapted from this : www.hairybikers.com/recipes/view...

I went heavier on the beetroot and only one onion, and honey rather than sugar
Red onion and beetroot tarte tatin - Recipes - Hairy Bikers
Who says a tarte tatin is just for pudding? With their rich sweet flavours, beets and red onions make good partners and they’re lovely in a buttery tarte tatin – or upside down tart if you prefer. We ...
www.hairybikers.com
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Laurence Pearl 🔥 @laurencepearl.bsky.social · 15h
It was even better than expected - the flavour in this years beetroots is amazing - especially the golden ones. Done as a tart Tatin with honey and lemon thyme.
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Nat Cassidy @natcassidy.bsky.social · 1d
This photo of Robert Bloch is the most writer photo to have ever writer photo’d. It is Pure Writer Photo.
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Karen Masters @karenlmasters.bsky.social · 17h
Jess Wade is amazing, and it's my absolute honour to be one of the more than 2000 women in STEM whose wikipedia page she started: mymodernmet.com/jessica-wade... 🧪🔭👩‍🔬
Meet the Physicist Who Wrote Over 2,000 Wikipedia Biographies for Women in STEM
After noticing a lack of entries on Wikipedia for incredible women throughout history, this incredible woman decided to take matters into her own hands.
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Laurence Pearl 🔥 @laurencepearl.bsky.social · 1d
Advice we in The Royal Society have taken to heart

royalsociety.org/news/2024/10....
Paul Nurse elected as next President of the Royal Society | Royal Society
Paul Nurse has been confirmed as President Elect of the Royal Society. He will take over from Adrian Smith, the current President, on 1 December 2025.
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Baggage @carrieonbaggage.bsky.social · 1d
That's not mentioned, but they found hits to 2 compounds that interact with nicotinic‬‭ cholinergic‬‭ receptors, and a hint towards an effect of caffeine‬‭ "but its effect did not reach statistical significance."

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Laurence Pearl 🔥 @laurencepearl.bsky.social · 1d
Fun Fact : Berlin could only play the piano in
F-sharp and had a special piano made with a lever that transposed his fingering into other keys. GBA was written in C-major so the lever was definitely in play
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Pam Nash @pamnashes.bsky.social · 1d
a man in a military uniform with a mustache is wearing a beret and making a funny face .
Alt: A man in a British army uniform says “Oh dear. How sad. Never mind.”
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 1d
12 October 1920 | Italian Jewish woman Virginia Montalcini was born in Turin.

On 30 January 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz. After the selection she was murdered in a gas chamber.
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A short video about gas chambers and crematoria of the Auschwitz camp: https://youtu.be/-A05i25j9Ck
Vintage black and white portrait of a woman wearing a veil, looking directly at the camera.
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Laurence Pearl 🔥 @laurencepearl.bsky.social · 1d
It always surprises me when I encounter scientists with a religious faith. Very rare amongst biologists in my experience, but more common amongst astronomers. I guess it’s possible to fantasise about a creator if you don’t understand evolution.
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Laurence Pearl 🔥 @laurencepearl.bsky.social · 1d
Just stumbled across The Fall on MUBI - delightful film - can’t think how I missed it when it came out in 2006
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Laurence Pearl 🔥 @laurencepearl.bsky.social · 1d
It’s as though the Israeli public detest the monstrous war criminal - who knew ?
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 1d
Really sad news. Goodbye Diane Keaton.

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Diane Keaton, star of Annie Hall and The Godfather, has died aged 79 - US media reports
Keaton was awarded an Oscar, a BAFTA and two Golden Globes in a career spanning more than five decades. Her unexpected death was greeted with shock around the world.
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Laurence Pearl 🔥 @laurencepearl.bsky.social · 1d
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Laurence Pearl 🔥 @laurencepearl.bsky.social · 1d
I have no idea what one of those is
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