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Kat Arney @katarney.bsky.social · 1d

Yep. The best messaging and comms can't save a duff strategy, although it might mask it for a while.
Also, as a comms pro, I find that if it's really hard to figure out how to talk clearly about a company or an idea, it's a dead giveaway that there's something strategically missing.

Martin Robbins @mjrobbins.com · 1d

One thing that marks out good founders/CEOs in start-ups is they get that communication *is* strategy, in much the same way that writing *is* thinking. So it's not just that they don't have a clear strategy IMO; they're not engaged in the process of developing strategy.

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Kat Arney @katarney.bsky.social · 1d

Good to see our Burning Bush (euonymus alatus) living up to its name .. such a glorious bright red pop of colour in the fading autumn garden. Also, very glad I went big on asters last year!

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Hayley Gullen @hayleygullen.com · 2d

My Amazon reviews so far are simply wonderful!

Have a look (and then buy my book - ask at your local bookshop or check out online alternatives if you don’t fancy Amazon)

www.amazon.co.uk/This-Might-S...

#cansky #graphicmedicine

This Might Surprise You: A Breast Cancer Story

Buy This Might Surprise You: A Breast Cancer Story by Gullen, Hayley (ISBN: 9781399424745) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.

www.amazon.co.uk

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 2d

Big presence on the beaches of Normandy in 1944 too.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 2d

From Donald Trump's Roundtable on Antifa just now —
"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."
— special guest Jack Posobiec

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Kat Arney @katarney.bsky.social · 3d

Oh fuck off with your owl army, Duo

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Kat Arney @katarney.bsky.social · 3d

RIP John Gurdon, it was a privilege to meet you and work in your institute. I hope there is a packet of biscuits waiting for you in the heavenly tea room.

University of Cambridge @cam.ac.uk · 4d

It is with great sadness that the University shares the news of the death of Professor Sir John Gurdon, founder of the @gurdoninstitute.bsky.social

Read our tribute to the visionary Nobel Laureate and watch an interview from 2012, just after he won: https://bit.ly/4mM8o3r

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 3d

I'm not an economist but seems worrying that the whole US economy is seven companies in a trenchcoat, passing the same $20 up and down

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3d

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Kat Arney @katarney.bsky.social · 3d

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Kat Arney @katarney.bsky.social · 4d

Hurrah! Am intrigued to see if we do get any money at all, and how much it is at the end of the day. But worth a shot.

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Alan Beattie @alanbeattie.bsky.social · 4d

Henceforth the red robes will only be worn as an away kit when the Canadian Supreme Court is playing the US one.

Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 4d

Tragic news from Canada where the Canadian Supreme Court has gone from the official dress on the left to the one on the right

Canadian Supreme court. Everyone is dressed in bright red wooly gowns, with a beige trim. It looks sort of like a Santa robe

The Canadian Supreme court. Everyone is dressed in black gowns with a bright white kravat, and two thin red vertical lines on the side of the robe

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 5d

An astronaut, looking at the Earth: “Wait, it’s all social care obligations?”
Behind them, another astronaut, drawing a gun to shoot them in the back: “Always has been.”

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Kat Arney @katarney.bsky.social · 6d

I struggle with hotel pillows as I am a side sleeper and have a tempur memory foam neck pillow at home. I got a travel version that rolls into a little cylinder and it has been brilliant once I got used to it

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Bryan White, MS Bio, MPH 🧬 @crvscience.com · 6d

Homie got 229 pairs of chromosomes

www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

This tiny butterfly has the most chromosomes of any animal on Earth

Scientists have confirmed that the Atlas blue butterfly carries the most chromosomes of any animal, with 229 pairs. Unlike duplication, its chromosomes split apart, reshaping its genome in surprising ...

www.sciencedaily.com

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KE Salisbury @kesalisbury.bsky.social · 6d

An extract from Cory Doctorow's book with an explanation of why "enshittification" doesn't only infect the online world.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?

Sick of scrolling through junk results, AI-generated ads and links to lookalike products? The author and activist behind the term ‘enshittification’ explains what’s gone wrong with the internet – and ...

www.theguardian.com

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🪾santiago, phd 🐈‍⬛ @santiagokique.bsky.social · 6d

These changes + the new loyalty compact + university-directed extortion that has been going on and off for the better part of 6 months now all paint a pretty clear picture that the industry of knowledge production is genuinely under a new Lysenkoism, except there isn't any scientific content to it.

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🪾santiago, phd 🐈‍⬛ @santiagokique.bsky.social · 6d

Like...this is the biggest corruption scandal the NIH has experienced in its entire history and its not even close. Half of a BILLION dollars to a single project as a result of political spoils. That's the equivalent of several hundred R01s.

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Kat Arney @katarney.bsky.social · 7d

Success! I switched to using Microsoft browser rather than Chrome, and leaving no spaces in postcodes, and it worked.

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Kat Arney @katarney.bsky.social · 7d

Well, they've now added an option for non us bank transfer but I still got an error when submitting

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Keith Hornberger @krhornberger.bsky.social · 7d

If true, this really worries me a lot. It fuels my worst fears that AI tools will drive brain rot by encouraging us to take our hands off the wheel and not worry so much about what’s right or wrong anymore.

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Keith Hornberger @krhornberger.bsky.social · 7d

I recently visited a PUI where some faculty told me that AI tool use to complete homework is rampant and the students are getting (wrong) info from “studying” with chemistry YouTubers. And then totally failing exams because no homework practice and no studying. Thoughts? Corroboration?

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Kat Arney @katarney.bsky.social · 7d

Not yet as I've been out,will give it.another go and let you know

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Kat Arney @katarney.bsky.social · 7d

This may be a very niche classical music observation, but once you have realised that the 3rd movement of Mahler's symphony no. 4 sounds like Variations on a Theme of Don't Cry For Me Argentina you can never unhear it.

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Kat Arney @katarney.bsky.social · 7d

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Kat Arney @katarney.bsky.social · 8d

I emailed them, not terribly hopeful.

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Kat Arney @katarney.bsky.social · 8d

It is incredible how robust life is, really.

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