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Dr Joby Hollis

@jobium.bsky.social

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Postdoc at the Natural History Museum studying microplastic pollution on Earth and looking for life on Mars. opinions are my own. he/him 🏳️‍🌈

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Dr Joby Hollis @jobium.bsky.social · Aug 15

Possibly the greatest achievement of my career: having one of my photos on display in the Natural History Museum’s Images of Nature gallery, showcasing how we can use photography to do science!

Photo of a photo print on display in a museum gallery, showing about 200 bits of assorted plastic of different sizes, shapes, and colours against a black background, with a rectangular colour reference card below.

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Dr Joby Hollis @jobium.bsky.social · 1h

I was an artist before I was a scientist. Art is as much about communication as it is creation, and I've certainly found both to be essential pillars of doing good science. Most the praise my work has gotten over the last 10 years has been for the clarity of my writing and figures.

👻 Prof. Ghosty Neilsen 👻 @joeyneilsen.bsky.social · 10h

I think scientists are sometimes dismissive of creative work. It's sad for a lot of reasons, one of which is certainly that creative work makes the world a richer place to live. Another one is that scientists are extremely dependent on the idea machine and ought to celebrate all its many dispensers.

Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 10h

questions which are stupid because they're asking for magic shortcuts. They want to know how to do a thing without work.

Which is why also creatives are often treated like what we do isn't work

NOT REALLY.

When skull sweat is labor and laborous.

Anyway when all else fails, sleep on it.

Dr Joby Hollis @jobium.bsky.social · 22h

Yesss they can feel awkward and uncomfortable for a change

Dr Joby Hollis @jobium.bsky.social · 1d

Invited to a job interview for the first time in years, and it's smack dab in the middle of my honeymoon. *cries*

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 1d

Imperial staff have had enough.

A 2% below-inflation offer from one of the wealthiest universities in the UK is an insult to every worker who keeps it running.

Today we strike for fair pay, decent conditions, and respect ✊🔥

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Dr Joby Hollis @jobium.bsky.social · 7d

I’m staring at the weather forecast for the weekend and regretting my decision to have an outdoor wedding.

Screenshot of a BBC Weather article showing a synoptic map of the United Kingdom, overlaid with barometric lines, large clouds of rain and the label “Storm Amy”. The rain clouds and storm fronts cover most of the UK and Ireland and reach as far south as Paris. A caption beneath the map says “Storm Amy moves in to the UK on Friday”

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Dr Joby Hollis @jobium.bsky.social · 8d

Take my word for it, it’s not worth watching in the slightest.

Dr Joby Hollis @jobium.bsky.social · 10d

If medbeds were real, Bryan Johnson wouldn’t have to be such a creepy weirdo about living forever

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Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com · 10d

Seriously though, imagine demanding anyone else in this country to not only work to pay the bills, but also charge them an increasing amount every year or so to remain in the country, AND also demand they do unpaid labour?

Really need non-immigrants to tell Labour that this isn’t okay either.

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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 10d

Because paying tens of thousands of pounds for visas and the "NHS surcharge", being ineligible for ANY benefits for 10 years, and therefore working tax-paying jobs constantly, and daring to want a better life is not enough.

Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 10d

"Migrants will have to carry out community work or volunteering to qualify to permanently remain in the UK, according to the Home Secretary." [Telegraph]

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Max von Thun @maxvonthun.bsky.social · 11d

“We studied more than 70 different elections that took place in 12 western European countries over several decades, and found that when mainstream parties take more anti-immigration positions, it leads to more support for the radical right, not less.”

Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 12d

For the Guardian, @turnbulldugarte.com and I discuss our research that clearly shows one thing: Labour's anti-immigration strategy will only strengthen Reform and weaken its own electoral prospects. It won't win voters back but ultimately normalizes the far right

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Our research makes it clear: by capitulating to the right, Labour is driving voters to Reform UK | Tarik Abou-Chadi and Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte

Mimicking Farage on immigration is senseless. Labour voters feel betrayed; anti-immigration voters see through the ruse, say academics Tarik Abou-Chadi and Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte

www.theguardian.com

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Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline) @divyampersaud.com · 12d

Six families evacuated, two families left to help flee—please share! We’re matching £3,000 ($4,000)🚨

The last we heard, one family was trapped, surrounded by tanks before we lost contact.

Help them flee. Every radical hope needed. 93/7000 by Tuesday night.

Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle

We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…

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Dr Joby Hollis @jobium.bsky.social · 12d

We got our boiler serviced when we moved into our flat and ended up paying a lot more to fix the damage that had accrued over the 7 years previously. So I'd recommend it.

Dr Joby Hollis @jobium.bsky.social · 13d

A lot of education policy makes more sense when you realise that the people making the decisions hate and mistrust children

Schools Week @schoolsweek.bsky.social · 13d

Exclusive: The government plans to introduce a mandatory reading test for year 8 pupils in its upcoming schools white paper, amid fears poorer children are disengaging in the early years of secondary school

schoolsweek.co.uk/year-8s-to-s...

White paper to usher in year 8 reading test

Move to ensure poorer pupils are not shut off from wider curriculum

schoolsweek.co.uk

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Elise Cutts @elisecutts.bsky.social · 15d

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin ✨ figured out what stars are made of ✨ when she was just 25. 🔭🧪

Her PhD thesis basically established the Harvard astro department — at a time when Harvard didn't officially allow woman students.

I wrote this little profile to mark the 100th anniversary of her thesis:

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Nadine, Haunter of Rocks 👻 @nadwgab.bsky.social · 14d

267 of #365Minerals 🧪⚒️

Fluorapatite:
- Common phosphate mineral
- Can be found in tooth enamel because fluoride in toothpaste causes the hydroxyapatite in teeth to remineralise into fluorapatite
- Its name comes from the Greek "ἀπατάω/apatao" (to deceive) because it's confused with other #minerals

A pale greenish-blue botryoidal crust of carbonate fluoratptie in a rock. From Kovdor Massif, Murmansk Oblast, Russia.

Specimen on display in the Natural History Museum, London.

Pale yellow, translucent botryoidal fluoraptite on phosphorite. From Staffel, Germany.

Specimen on display in the Natural History Museum, London.

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MAREcus 👻/ 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 15d

The racists were marching and committing violence against people of colour when there were tiny numbers here. You simply cannot deport your way out of this so why not commit to anti-racism instead

David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 15d

It's alarming how many people need to hear this: racism is not the natural and inevitable response to the presence of (the wrong number of) racialised Others. It is a learned response, and as such it is contestable and replaceable.

This is anti-racism 101. Entry level stuff.

Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · 15d

This is first time I’ve heard the govt making the Labour argument for controlling immigration.

Mahmood argues that controlling our borders is good for race relations, because uncontrolled immigration is feeding far right rhetoric and tensions.

Expect to hear a lot more of that.

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Dr Joby Hollis @jobium.bsky.social · 15d

Maybe if you only think of housing in terms of profit margin

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Dr Joby Hollis @jobium.bsky.social · 15d

Dead bread

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Lego Lost At Sea @legolostatsea.bsky.social · 15d

Not sea glass but fragments of plastic car tail lights, indicators and brake lights, probably washed into storm drains after heavy rain, eventually making their way to the sea. #oceanplastic

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Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline) @divyampersaud.com · 15d

A call to action—please share! 6 hours left!

We are running daily drives to help eight families flee Gaza City. The other families in the giving circle also need urgent support with shelter & supplies as the cold approaches.

Anything helps. 857/1000

Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle

We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…

chuffed.org

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Dr Joby Hollis @jobium.bsky.social · 15d

It’s my lab* and I’ll cry if I want to

* it’s not, but I’m the only one in here

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Dr Joby Hollis @jobium.bsky.social · 15d

Truly I feel seen

stage7 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @stage7.bsky.social · 16d

Happy #Bisibility Day to those who celebrate. 💙💜❤️

The Bisexual Manifesto: We are tired [the rest is redacted].

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stage7 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @stage7.bsky.social · 16d

Happy #Bisibility Day to those who celebrate. 💙💜❤️

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Dr Joby Hollis @jobium.bsky.social · 16d

Something to be said for single author papers: it's so much easier to submit to a journal when you don't have 50+ coauthors to add line by line on a janky author web portal

Dr Joby Hollis @jobium.bsky.social · 17d

The only comfort I can take is that we do not have an independently powerful executive like in the US, anything the Government wants to do here requires substantial support in Parliament. But FPTP means there's every chance Reform could nab a majority in 2029 and run roughshod over our laws.