Zoe Vance
@zoev22.bsky.social
🇮🇪 post doc-ing in Bath, living in Bristol. Political complaining with flavours of bioinf and evol bio. Interested in gene dosage evolution and polyploids
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Happy Nollaig na mBan! Here's a piece celebrating some of Ireland's most interesting women, with a thread about each of them here:
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Prints also available (currently on sale):
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Prints also available (currently on sale):
www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...
January 6, 2026 at 8:27 AM
Happy Nollaig na mBan! Here's a piece celebrating some of Ireland's most interesting women, with a thread about each of them here:
bsky.app/profile/ciar...
Prints also available (currently on sale):
www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...
bsky.app/profile/ciar...
Prints also available (currently on sale):
www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...
My pre-Christmas self watching me read the January to-do list she left me
January 5, 2026 at 4:54 PM
My pre-Christmas self watching me read the January to-do list she left me
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How likely is ‘likely’? Does ‘likely’ have a higher probability than ‘probable’? I put together a quick quiz so you can see how you interpret probability phrases, then see how you compare with others: probability.kucharski.io
January 3, 2026 at 4:15 PM
How likely is ‘likely’? Does ‘likely’ have a higher probability than ‘probable’? I put together a quick quiz so you can see how you interpret probability phrases, then see how you compare with others: probability.kucharski.io
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That whistling sound you hear is all of the things I said I'd circle back to in January getting ready to crush me like Wile E Coyote.
January 4, 2026 at 2:27 PM
That whistling sound you hear is all of the things I said I'd circle back to in January getting ready to crush me like Wile E Coyote.
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Oh and drunk driving of course. Essential to rural Ireland, they say
I think when these guys say "rural Ireland" you can mentally swap it for the words "me and my friends" and things start to make more sense
I think when these guys say "rural Ireland" you can mentally swap it for the words "me and my friends" and things start to make more sense
January 2, 2026 at 1:07 PM
Oh and drunk driving of course. Essential to rural Ireland, they say
I think when these guys say "rural Ireland" you can mentally swap it for the words "me and my friends" and things start to make more sense
I think when these guys say "rural Ireland" you can mentally swap it for the words "me and my friends" and things start to make more sense
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4 extra seconds of daylight let's goooooo
December 22, 2025 at 4:05 PM
4 extra seconds of daylight let's goooooo
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Americans & Europeans needlessly exposing African babies to preventable diseases just to see if they can find something that would justify their preexisting antivaccine beliefs is not only unscientific and actually anti-science, it is very much reminiscent of colonialist, racist human rights abuses
“It is not clear what the research question is. It seems to be about the safety of the vaccine rather than its effectiveness, but both are already well-established, and to undertake such a study in a population where almost 1/5 of the adult population has a marker of infection seems extremely risky”
US plan for $1.6m hepatitis B vaccine study in Africa called ‘highly unethical’
Experts decry ‘neocolonialist’ Guinea-Bissau study after Trump administration changed advice for US babies
www.theguardian.com
December 21, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Americans & Europeans needlessly exposing African babies to preventable diseases just to see if they can find something that would justify their preexisting antivaccine beliefs is not only unscientific and actually anti-science, it is very much reminiscent of colonialist, racist human rights abuses
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If only 2% of people polled have ever taken part, just *who* wants to retain fox hunting, asks Saoirse McHugh
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
Saoirse McHugh: There is no urban-rural divide on a fox hunting ban
Polling conducted by Ireland Thinks shows that 72% are against fox hunting, while only 2% of us have ever engaged in it, writes Saoirse McHugh
www.irishexaminer.com
December 17, 2025 at 9:40 AM
If only 2% of people polled have ever taken part, just *who* wants to retain fox hunting, asks Saoirse McHugh
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
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In my case, this painstaking labor in the process through which the science gets done. Science isn't measuring stuff in a lab. It's thinking deeply, extracting the heart of idea from the soup of thoughts running through my mind, molding it, and finding a way to communicate that idea to others.
December 16, 2025 at 11:46 PM
In my case, this painstaking labor in the process through which the science gets done. Science isn't measuring stuff in a lab. It's thinking deeply, extracting the heart of idea from the soup of thoughts running through my mind, molding it, and finding a way to communicate that idea to others.
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They've done it again, they've cut more rail projects. The most criminal one for me is cancelling the reopening of the Waterford-Wexford/Rosslare line. On the left is the All-island Rail Review published by the last government and on the right is the plan published today.
December 15, 2025 at 4:13 PM
They've done it again, they've cut more rail projects. The most criminal one for me is cancelling the reopening of the Waterford-Wexford/Rosslare line. On the left is the All-island Rail Review published by the last government and on the right is the plan published today.
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This is f*cking disgusting
Rewarding property owners for letting their assets rot destroying our beautiful city
"it has been confirmed that this money (the €5m outstanding) will not be chased after the Revenue Commissioners take over its collection in 2027"
#DerelictIreland #speirgorm #corkcity
Rewarding property owners for letting their assets rot destroying our beautiful city
"it has been confirmed that this money (the €5m outstanding) will not be chased after the Revenue Commissioners take over its collection in 2027"
#DerelictIreland #speirgorm #corkcity
December 8, 2025 at 10:46 AM
This is f*cking disgusting
Rewarding property owners for letting their assets rot destroying our beautiful city
"it has been confirmed that this money (the €5m outstanding) will not be chased after the Revenue Commissioners take over its collection in 2027"
#DerelictIreland #speirgorm #corkcity
Rewarding property owners for letting their assets rot destroying our beautiful city
"it has been confirmed that this money (the €5m outstanding) will not be chased after the Revenue Commissioners take over its collection in 2027"
#DerelictIreland #speirgorm #corkcity
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On this, the last day of Michael D. Higgins' presidency, I think it's important to acknowledge that a 5'3 man deciding to be followed everywhere by two enormous Bernese Mountain dogs was a great bit.
November 10, 2025 at 1:15 PM
On this, the last day of Michael D. Higgins' presidency, I think it's important to acknowledge that a 5'3 man deciding to be followed everywhere by two enormous Bernese Mountain dogs was a great bit.
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biology is so cool because like every week someone is like "Dr. Smith is coming to campus! She is the world expert in blargyblarg!"
And i'm like A) never heard of blargyblarg, B) look it up, it's super important and interesting
And i'm like A) never heard of blargyblarg, B) look it up, it's super important and interesting
November 4, 2025 at 7:24 PM
biology is so cool because like every week someone is like "Dr. Smith is coming to campus! She is the world expert in blargyblarg!"
And i'm like A) never heard of blargyblarg, B) look it up, it's super important and interesting
And i'm like A) never heard of blargyblarg, B) look it up, it's super important and interesting
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Do they just presume everyone will have left the country by then?
November 4, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Do they just presume everyone will have left the country by then?
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If a PBP TD said that there were too many foxhunters in Ireland and then there was a arson attack on a hunting lodge that night, you can be damn sure that Simon Harris could join the dots.
He really should resign.
He really should resign.
Nash: “I'm in no way saying that there's any causal link between remarks made by politicians last week and a criminal act here at Drogheda, but people need to be sensitive with their language…. They need to be responsible.”
November 2, 2025 at 1:34 PM
If a PBP TD said that there were too many foxhunters in Ireland and then there was a arson attack on a hunting lodge that night, you can be damn sure that Simon Harris could join the dots.
He really should resign.
He really should resign.
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Microsoft hates computers AND everyone who uses them, whereas Apple only hates computers, and Linux only hates the people who use them. In this essay I will
October 16, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Microsoft hates computers AND everyone who uses them, whereas Apple only hates computers, and Linux only hates the people who use them. In this essay I will
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They’ll tell you that the arts & humanities aren’t practical and then …
October 7, 2025 at 6:25 AM
They’ll tell you that the arts & humanities aren’t practical and then …
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People shouldn't study rip off degrees like English, all you do is get to explore the towering beauty of the human spirit, how is that going help you slog away at a job you hate, working for vicious idiots until you die?
October 8, 2025 at 2:44 PM
People shouldn't study rip off degrees like English, all you do is get to explore the towering beauty of the human spirit, how is that going help you slog away at a job you hate, working for vicious idiots until you die?
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Regardless of one's views of the wider conflict, it is astounding that there are talking heads - including former TDs - that are claiming that the arrest of Irish citizens, including elected politicians, by a foreign military is simply not worthy of discussion
October 2, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Regardless of one's views of the wider conflict, it is astounding that there are talking heads - including former TDs - that are claiming that the arrest of Irish citizens, including elected politicians, by a foreign military is simply not worthy of discussion
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What is Micheál Martin for exactly?
October 2, 2025 at 9:06 AM
What is Micheál Martin for exactly?
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Non-Irish people should be told that Ireland is creased with national hilarity because the Catholic conservative candidate who failed to get enough support did a presser to talk about how Ireland had been cheated out of having a real 'people's candidate' while holding a €20K+ Hermes handbag.
September 25, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Non-Irish people should be told that Ireland is creased with national hilarity because the Catholic conservative candidate who failed to get enough support did a presser to talk about how Ireland had been cheated out of having a real 'people's candidate' while holding a €20K+ Hermes handbag.
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Phenomenal. In my 10 year update of A Brief History, I make the point that in the first edition, not one disease had been successfully treated using gene therapy. Today that number is at least 7.
September 24, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Phenomenal. In my 10 year update of A Brief History, I make the point that in the first edition, not one disease had been successfully treated using gene therapy. Today that number is at least 7.