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Nick Fisher
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Biochemist (respiratory & photosynthetic bioenergetics). Ph.D., Visiting Fellow, bibliophile, Mahlerian, feral cat dad. Also other things. Google Scholar: http://bit.ly/2vpjBP1

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · Nov 6
Hello new folks! Thanks for stopping by. Sometimes I post about biochemistry, but it’s mostly cats/classical music/books/things in my garden here. Live from Cornwall. Beardy, generally worn down by academia.

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 1d
I'm a big fan. It's a ridiculously heavy biennial cropper. Scruffy apples, sweet, lots of esters, popular with the village!

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 1d
Still a few scruffy apples around - Pitmaston Pineapple I think? - which at this time of year, and after a couple of hard frosts, taste more of pear than anything else.
Yellow apples on a bare tree. Very sweet, esters.

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 1d
Similarly, last night I dropped an extremely buttery piece of toast on my trousers, and it landed the right side up.

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 2d
Memories of an antimalarial conference years ago when one decorated researcher accused another of being a 'mouse doctor'.
zenbrainest.bsky.social Bryan Roth @zenbrainest.bsky.social · 2d
My favorite from an @hhmi.org scientist: “the great thing about optogenetics is it keeps the riff raff out of the field.”
bita137.bsky.social Bita Moghaddam @bita137.bsky.social · 8d
Heard an established successful neuroscientist dismissing junior scientists as "people at the bottom" 🤦‍♀️

You folks with lots of research funds & power: young scientists more than ever need our respect and support even if you don't agree with their ideas and approaches
#sfn2025

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Bryan Roth @zenbrainest.bsky.social · 2d
My favorite from an @hhmi.org scientist: “the great thing about optogenetics is it keeps the riff raff out of the field.”
bita137.bsky.social Bita Moghaddam @bita137.bsky.social · 8d
Heard an established successful neuroscientist dismissing junior scientists as "people at the bottom" 🤦‍♀️

You folks with lots of research funds & power: young scientists more than ever need our respect and support even if you don't agree with their ideas and approaches
#sfn2025

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 4d
There's a Nick Drake tribute concert from 2010 on BBC4 at 2215 tonight, which might be your cup of tea.

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 5d
No greater danger according to my nan than slightly damp clothing.

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 6d
He’s decided that the best way to negotiate the staircase is by sliding down on his head, and I say don’t knock it until you’ve tried it.
A malfunctioning cat.

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 8d
Welcoming in the cold snap with a spritz aperitivo, because why not, damn your eyes.

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 8d
Definitely colder, the cats have moved in for the evening.

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 8d
Alert for growlers from the settee.

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 8d
Always good to read about a live beaked whale sighting (especially this one).

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 8d
These rare whales had never been seen alive. Then a team in Mexico sighted two
These rare whales had never been seen alive. Then a team in Mexico sighted two
The search for a gingko-toothed beaked whale had taken five years, when a thieving albatross nearly ruined it all
www.theguardian.com

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 9d
Yes I had one catch a nesting house martin a year or so ago. Not on, stick to pigeons!

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 11d
No room for Merv Hughes, and David Boon, who heroically drank 52 cans of beer on a flight from Australia to the UK, at 94? Scandalous.

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 13d
Interesting chap Borodin. He was also a very accomplished organic chemist (and professor of such).

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 13d
A rare appearance of Mozart in Wadebridge (Cornwall) this weekend. I'll be there, but not singing, THANK HEAVENS.
Mozart Vespers and Missa Brevis (K. 194) by the Wadebridge Choral Society + soloists, Sat. 15 Nov.

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 14d
Not all bad mind you, it's a LD/Lab/Green/Ind/MK alliance running the county council.

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 16d
I’ll DM you my details. You should let me cover the cost of postage, at least. Or let me know a favourite charity of yours.

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 16d
Hey, that's awesome, you've definitely captured him there. Let me know if you want to sell it.

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 16d
Morning Alan, delighted with my recent purchase, thank you.

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 18d
That's interesting. Is it the same for 'loan' and 'borrow' for native German speakers? (I've had various German colleagues over the years asking me to 'borrow them' something).

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 19d
Do we need to rethink the QA quenching model of chlorophyll fluorescence? Probably not, but here's a provocative chin stroker from Győző Garab.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Revisiting the QA model of chlorophyll-a fluorescence induction: new perspectives to monitor the photochemical activity and structural dynamics of photosystem II - Photosynthesis Research
The technique of chlorophyll-a fluorescence induction (ChlF) is widely used in plant biology. The ‘mainstream’, so-called QA model of ChlF, posits that the reaction centers (RCs) of Photosystem-II (PS...
link.springer.com