HannibabbleAlphaB
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Non-binary, bi, & trans
e/em/emself/eir/eirs (just say it in Cockney)- I exist, just like you do.
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Oh, and I like moss. :)
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A plate from Anatomie générale des viscères by Jacques-Fabien Gautier D’Agoty (1752). It is an early example of colour printing, using engraved metal plates to make four separate impressions in black, red, yellow, and blue inks to produce the final image
November 8, 2025 at 5:19 PM
A plate from Anatomie générale des viscères by Jacques-Fabien Gautier D’Agoty (1752). It is an early example of colour printing, using engraved metal plates to make four separate impressions in black, red, yellow, and blue inks to produce the final image
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I'm probably not gonna be drawing the comic with Pebbles of the Many Legs soon, I just wanted to share Pebbles.
November 9, 2025 at 5:55 AM
I'm probably not gonna be drawing the comic with Pebbles of the Many Legs soon, I just wanted to share Pebbles.
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Sorry to stop by with some joy, I'm pretty anxious myself too, but luckily I found the ducks I was looking for. Backlit which can be better for editing later on. Just some quick edits. 🪶
November 9, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Sorry to stop by with some joy, I'm pretty anxious myself too, but luckily I found the ducks I was looking for. Backlit which can be better for editing later on. Just some quick edits. 🪶
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Any seen Dracula a love tale yet? Looks so good! And you can’t go wrong with Caleb ⛓️
a man with long red hair is wearing a silver armor
ALT: a man with long red hair is wearing a silver armor
media.tenor.com
October 24, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Any seen Dracula a love tale yet? Looks so good! And you can’t go wrong with Caleb ⛓️
The Gig Trap
www.hrw.org/report/2025/...
www.hrw.org/report/2025/...
The Gig Trap
The 155-page report, “The Gig Trap: Algorithmic, Wage and Labor Exploitation in Platform Work in the US” focuses on seven major companies operating in the US: Amazon Flex, DoorDash, Favor, Instacart, ...
www.hrw.org
November 10, 2025 at 4:45 AM
The Gig Trap
www.hrw.org/report/2025/...
www.hrw.org/report/2025/...
Earthquakes Canada website. Seismographs galore!
www.earthquakescanada.nrcan.gc.ca/index-en.php
www.earthquakescanada.nrcan.gc.ca/index-en.php
Earthquakes Canada
www.earthquakescanada.nrcan.gc.ca
November 9, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Earthquakes Canada website. Seismographs galore!
www.earthquakescanada.nrcan.gc.ca/index-en.php
www.earthquakescanada.nrcan.gc.ca/index-en.php
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She was a religious skeptic, Jewish, and moved in Communist circles, largely because of her association with JD Bernal, a pioneer in X ray crystallography.
She was adventurous, climbing mountains and visiting the US. Reportedly funny and sunny with friends, dark and gloomy at work.
She was adventurous, climbing mountains and visiting the US. Reportedly funny and sunny with friends, dark and gloomy at work.
February 11, 2024 at 2:33 PM
She was a religious skeptic, Jewish, and moved in Communist circles, largely because of her association with JD Bernal, a pioneer in X ray crystallography.
She was adventurous, climbing mountains and visiting the US. Reportedly funny and sunny with friends, dark and gloomy at work.
She was adventurous, climbing mountains and visiting the US. Reportedly funny and sunny with friends, dark and gloomy at work.
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It's International Women in Science Day ♀️, and I want to talk briefly about Rosalind Franklin.
A conventional choice for unconventional reasons: Dr. Franklin was one of the FIRST STRUCTURAL VIROLOGISTS. Let's talk about her work outside of the Crick & Watson debacle.
A conventional choice for unconventional reasons: Dr. Franklin was one of the FIRST STRUCTURAL VIROLOGISTS. Let's talk about her work outside of the Crick & Watson debacle.
February 11, 2024 at 2:31 PM
It's International Women in Science Day ♀️, and I want to talk briefly about Rosalind Franklin.
A conventional choice for unconventional reasons: Dr. Franklin was one of the FIRST STRUCTURAL VIROLOGISTS. Let's talk about her work outside of the Crick & Watson debacle.
A conventional choice for unconventional reasons: Dr. Franklin was one of the FIRST STRUCTURAL VIROLOGISTS. Let's talk about her work outside of the Crick & Watson debacle.
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I would love to have seen what she accomplished with 20-30 more years.
It's International Women in Science Day ♀️, and I want to talk briefly about Rosalind Franklin.
A conventional choice for unconventional reasons: Dr. Franklin was one of the FIRST STRUCTURAL VIROLOGISTS. Let's talk about her work outside of the Crick & Watson debacle.
A conventional choice for unconventional reasons: Dr. Franklin was one of the FIRST STRUCTURAL VIROLOGISTS. Let's talk about her work outside of the Crick & Watson debacle.
November 8, 2025 at 1:22 PM
I would love to have seen what she accomplished with 20-30 more years.
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My ask of any science enthusiasts who tell the story of Rosalind Franklin:
Don't make her life be about the DNA debacle. She died far too young, but she was a promising scientist in her own right, a mentor and scientific author.
Not for Watson or Crick, but for her legacy.
Don't make her life be about the DNA debacle. She died far too young, but she was a promising scientist in her own right, a mentor and scientific author.
Not for Watson or Crick, but for her legacy.
Her sister wrote my favorite essay about her. She points out that RF would have been famous even if she'd never looked at DNA
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Remembering my sister Rosalind Franklin
Rosalind Franklin died of ovarian cancer in 1958 aged 37 years. Sympathy and feminism
have combined to give us her familiar image as a downtrodden woman scientist, brilliant
but neglected, a heroine t...
www.thelancet.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:17 AM
My ask of any science enthusiasts who tell the story of Rosalind Franklin:
Don't make her life be about the DNA debacle. She died far too young, but she was a promising scientist in her own right, a mentor and scientific author.
Not for Watson or Crick, but for her legacy.
Don't make her life be about the DNA debacle. She died far too young, but she was a promising scientist in her own right, a mentor and scientific author.
Not for Watson or Crick, but for her legacy.
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I love this not-entirely-a-joke:
Q: What did Watson and Crick discover?
A: Rosalind Franklin's notes!
Q: What did Watson and Crick discover?
A: Rosalind Franklin's notes!
August 7, 2024 at 3:45 PM
I love this not-entirely-a-joke:
Q: What did Watson and Crick discover?
A: Rosalind Franklin's notes!
Q: What did Watson and Crick discover?
A: Rosalind Franklin's notes!
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The Nobel Prize used to tweet about Franklin every year. They never missed an opportunity to point out that it wasn’t their fault, they surely would’ve given Franklin a share of the prize awarded to Watson and Crick if only she’d lived a little longer. 🙄
You can't award posthumously, right? Wrong!
You can't award posthumously, right? Wrong!
July 25, 2024 at 2:20 PM
The Nobel Prize used to tweet about Franklin every year. They never missed an opportunity to point out that it wasn’t their fault, they surely would’ve given Franklin a share of the prize awarded to Watson and Crick if only she’d lived a little longer. 🙄
You can't award posthumously, right? Wrong!
You can't award posthumously, right? Wrong!
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Rosalind Franklin was born #OTD in 1920. Her X-ray diffraction work was critical for establishing the helical nature of DNA. 👩🔬 🧪
Work carried out by Franklin (with doctoral student Raymond Gosling) was given to Watson and Crick without her consent.
Image: Vittorio Luzzati / Jewish Women’s Archive
Work carried out by Franklin (with doctoral student Raymond Gosling) was given to Watson and Crick without her consent.
Image: Vittorio Luzzati / Jewish Women’s Archive
July 25, 2024 at 2:13 PM
Rosalind Franklin was born #OTD in 1920. Her X-ray diffraction work was critical for establishing the helical nature of DNA. 👩🔬 🧪
Work carried out by Franklin (with doctoral student Raymond Gosling) was given to Watson and Crick without her consent.
Image: Vittorio Luzzati / Jewish Women’s Archive
Work carried out by Franklin (with doctoral student Raymond Gosling) was given to Watson and Crick without her consent.
Image: Vittorio Luzzati / Jewish Women’s Archive
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Rosalind Franklin went to the same school - St Paul‘s in Brook Green, West London - as Cecilia Payne, who wrote the most important astrophysics PhD of the 20th century and discovered what the Universe is made of. Payne’s name is largely unknown, though she became the 1st woman professor at Harvard.
Raising a glass for Rosalind Franklin tonight. James Watson absolutely did her dirty.
But beware...
But beware...
November 8, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Rosalind Franklin went to the same school - St Paul‘s in Brook Green, West London - as Cecilia Payne, who wrote the most important astrophysics PhD of the 20th century and discovered what the Universe is made of. Payne’s name is largely unknown, though she became the 1st woman professor at Harvard.
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New paper. Recording the female experience of UK archaeology 1990-2010. Anne Teather and I document how an industry EDI agenda evolved in the 1990s and was dismantled, uncovering the ramifications of that for women archaeologists over the next decade.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
#openaccess✅
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
#openaccess✅
Documenting the profession: Recording historic access and retention issues for women in UK archaeology | Archaeological Dialogues | Cambridge Core
Documenting the profession: Recording historic access and retention issues for women in UK archaeology
www.cambridge.org
September 26, 2025 at 10:56 AM
New paper. Recording the female experience of UK archaeology 1990-2010. Anne Teather and I document how an industry EDI agenda evolved in the 1990s and was dismantled, uncovering the ramifications of that for women archaeologists over the next decade.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
#openaccess✅
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
#openaccess✅
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(Yes, I’m talking about Tessa Verney Wheeler)
November 8, 2025 at 9:06 AM
(Yes, I’m talking about Tessa Verney Wheeler)
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Remembering that it was not unusual for men to publish women’s science, most usually the work of their wife, without putting their name to it. We have good evidence of it in 1940s archaeology. Luckily, the female students who survive those women have good memories.
November 8, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Remembering that it was not unusual for men to publish women’s science, most usually the work of their wife, without putting their name to it. We have good evidence of it in 1940s archaeology. Luckily, the female students who survive those women have good memories.
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In summary, the ‘thieving’ was a construct of Watson himself, to discredit Franklin’s contribution, as they took credit. She was very aware of the double helix structure, and her work was fundamental to its discovery.
November 8, 2025 at 9:05 AM
In summary, the ‘thieving’ was a construct of Watson himself, to discredit Franklin’s contribution, as they took credit. She was very aware of the double helix structure, and her work was fundamental to its discovery.
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Here’s the Nature paper: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
What Rosalind Franklin truly contributed to the discovery of DNA’s structure
Franklin was no victim in how the DNA double helix was solved. An overlooked letter and an unpublished news article, both written in 1953, reveal that she was an equal player.
www.nature.com
November 8, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Here’s the Nature paper: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Ah, the elusive mini-Stonehenge of Cheswardine! It has been there for a long time, at least since 2011 when we first posted about it. Good to see it again. (Note the 3-lintel stretch!)
#Stonehenge
#Stonehenge
November 8, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Ah, the elusive mini-Stonehenge of Cheswardine! It has been there for a long time, at least since 2011 when we first posted about it. Good to see it again. (Note the 3-lintel stretch!)
#Stonehenge
#Stonehenge
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Agrivoltaics & sheep a good combination www.thecooldown.com/green-tech/a...
Farmer makes surprising discovery after letting sheep graze under solar panels: 'It's such a blessing'
More farmers are turning to agrivoltaics for the agricultural and energy-generating benefits.
www.thecooldown.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Agrivoltaics & sheep a good combination www.thecooldown.com/green-tech/a...
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Turns out it was too big and hence a complex mix of crystal forms. Useless for crystallography. Colleague was furious.
He was grumpy for weeks.
Taught me a lesson. If you have anything at all (a crystal) it might be enough. A good crystal might be up to 1mm. More than that, probs forget it.
He was grumpy for weeks.
Taught me a lesson. If you have anything at all (a crystal) it might be enough. A good crystal might be up to 1mm. More than that, probs forget it.
November 8, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Turns out it was too big and hence a complex mix of crystal forms. Useless for crystallography. Colleague was furious.
He was grumpy for weeks.
Taught me a lesson. If you have anything at all (a crystal) it might be enough. A good crystal might be up to 1mm. More than that, probs forget it.
He was grumpy for weeks.
Taught me a lesson. If you have anything at all (a crystal) it might be enough. A good crystal might be up to 1mm. More than that, probs forget it.
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Yep. Chemist here. A lab colleague who was a good chemist (invented a very good therapeutic drug that didn't make it through all the trials) once had to crystallise a molecule, eventually had a great crystal (it was huge), for x-ray work.
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November 8, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Yep. Chemist here. A lab colleague who was a good chemist (invented a very good therapeutic drug that didn't make it through all the trials) once had to crystallise a molecule, eventually had a great crystal (it was huge), for x-ray work.
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Although ironically it was because she focused on the more crystalline form (because she wanted to *actually solve* the structure, rather than guess it from modelling) that she didn't get there - it's too complex for that; the hydrated form she neglected (of famous photo) is easier to interpret.
November 7, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Although ironically it was because she focused on the more crystalline form (because she wanted to *actually solve* the structure, rather than guess it from modelling) that she didn't get there - it's too complex for that; the hydrated form she neglected (of famous photo) is easier to interpret.
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Crystallography is notoriously hard, and she was *very* good at it.
November 7, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Crystallography is notoriously hard, and she was *very* good at it.