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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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Laurence Pearl 🔥 @laurencepearl.bsky.social · 8m
Interesting portfolio day in prospect - morning on internal panel reviewing applications for MRC Centres, afternoon assembling and launching floating pontoon dock into Sussex Ouse
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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 1d
We have built a society in which people of different skin tones, religious backgrounds & cultures get along, share power, work alongside each other, procreate with each other, recognise the each other’s humanity and democratic rights. It is a STUNNING ACHIEVEMENT OF WORLD HISTORIC PROPORTIONS.
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Omar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social · 2d
I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter

Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 25m
Absolutely that. The real 'silent majority' in this country are extremely tolerant on a range of issues and the British Attitude Survey demonstrates it. The angry noise created by Reform is certainly not reflective of the whole.
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 20m
10 October 1922 | A Ukrainian, Anton Sas, was born. A farmer.

In #Auschwitz from 24 July 1942.
No. 51496
He perished in the camp on 22 February 1943.
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Video about the history of Auschwitz: https://youtu.be/Fxnl5HTygrs
A mugshot registration photograph from Auschwitz. A man with a shaved head wearing a striped uniform photographed in three positions (profile and front with bare head and a photo with a slightly turned head with a hat on). The prisoner number is visible on a marking board on the left.
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Mark @markio.bsky.social · 2h
Reform "spread misinformation & fear"
Zack Polanski neatly sums up everything Reform UK does.
If you want to push back against the hatred & divisiveness of Reform & Farage, share this message with your friends & family.
If you want to be even more amazing, join @greenparty.org.uk
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 11h
“You can’t blame austerity on one hand, but then say it’s the immigrants. The immigrants haven’t caused austerity.”

Zack Polanski takes on Reform’s Zia Yusuf over spreading of misinformation on #BBCQT
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 13h
If you think Professors are absent minded wait until you meet an Emeritus Professor.
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Laurence Pearl 🔥 @laurencepearl.bsky.social · 10h
And Islamophobia - Muslim men are also circumcised
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 12h
Today I arrived on the red eye to London Heathrow, took the Tube to my hotel, dropped my bags, hopped on a Lime Bike to cross town, recorded a podcast with New Scientist, then walked an hour (through Hyde Park) back to my hotel. This city is wonderful and I am so tired.

See you tomorrow, London! 😴
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Laurence Pearl 🔥 @laurencepearl.bsky.social · 17h
If you’d have made it out of dough you could have fried it, sprinkled it with sugar and eaten it
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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 1d
Make no mistake. Those who spearheaded the Gaza genocide will try to relaunch it in a more ruthless manner, at the earliest opportunity.
They will fail only if there will be an alternative vision, one of recognition, life and equality for everyone.
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BUCKERS @deathofbuckley.bsky.social · 20h
Just seen a headline which asks "Thatcher was born 100 years ago and her reign feels a lifetime away. Why is her effect on the country still so huge?"

It's because she was a massive bastard. Hope that helps x
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Laurence Pearl 🔥 @laurencepearl.bsky.social · 17h
Unlikely they’ll breed
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Alexis Barr @alexisbarr.bsky.social · 19h
Many of you know, we lost Béla Novák this year. John Tyson, Francis Barr & I tried to capture his wonderful character & great mind so that those that didn't know him can see what a fantastic person he was.

Thanks to @jcellsci.bsky.social for publishing.

journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
Béla Novák (1956–2025) – a legacy of scientific discovery and personal charm
In February 2025, we were shocked and deeply saddened to hear about the death of Béla Novák, Professor in Integrative Systems Biology at the University of Oxford, UK, and a beloved grandfather, father...
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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 19h
Hey Microsoft, before you transform humanity with artificial general intelligence, can you just get the search to work on Outlook?
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Laurence Pearl 🔥 @laurencepearl.bsky.social · 17h
She sleeps with an equally unqualified man who inherited his ‘authority’ from brutal land thieves
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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 17h
Turn not thy back to the compass
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Laurence Pearl 🔥 @laurencepearl.bsky.social · 21h
Sure - before that you hand wrote manuscripts and typed them up - huge inertial barrier to writing a review unless you were really motivated.
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Laurence Pearl 🔥 @laurencepearl.bsky.social · 22h
Just defect to @greenparty.org.uk
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Laurence Pearl 🔥 @laurencepearl.bsky.social · 22h
I’m thinking - Word Processors
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Laurence Pearl 🔥 @laurencepearl.bsky.social · 22h
Fibreglass body - revolutionary for its time. Hard to believe the same people made Del Boy’s Reliant Robin
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 1d
Can’t believe I have to say this, but in Minnesota you will continue to have the freedom to get your COVID and flu shots.
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 23h
9 October 1906 | A Dutch Jew, Jacob Muijs, was born in Amsterdam.

In April 1943, he perished in #Auschwitz.
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Learn about the fate of Jews deported from the German-occupied Netherlands to Auschwitz: http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/32_en/
Black and white portrait of a man wearing a suit and a fedora hat.
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Laurence Pearl 🔥 @laurencepearl.bsky.social · 23h
Still can’t handle people offering me a seat on the tube - I do not feel old enough
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Claus Wilke @clauswilke.com · 2d
Biology is much more complicated than most non-biologists can imagine. And AI is not going to change this anytime soon.
blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/we-still-c...
We still can’t predict much of anything in biology
Biology is hard. Yes, even for AI.
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 1d
9 November 1891 | Czech Jewish woman, Eliška Budlovská, was born in Benešov.

She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 26 January 1943. She was murdered in a gas chamber after the arrival selection.
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Video about the history of Auschwitz: https://youtu.be/Fxnl5HTygrs
Vintage black and white portrait of a woman wearing a hat and a light-colored shirt, with the name inscribed at the bottom.
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