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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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Claus Wilke @clauswilke.com · 1d
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.
blog.genesmindsmachines.com
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 3h
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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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 11h
Thank you for all the wonderful birthday messages - had a busy but fun day - and don’t look a day over 25 (I got ID’d for Prosecco yesterday, I swear!) 💕✨🥳
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Laurence Pearl 🔥 @laurencepearl.bsky.social · 11h
Unlike most ‘celebrity’ TV shows, I have actually heard of many of the people in Celebrity Traitors
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Laurence Pearl 🔥 @laurencepearl.bsky.social · 19h
All very experimentally derived this year
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Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · 22h
@anjahuja.bsky.social captures precisely the dangers lurking in the @royalsociety.org’s mishandling of Musk’s reckless disregard for scientific values. “The Royal Society risks looking like a bystander as reason and rationality come under sustained global assault from populism.”
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The Royal Society should be protecting science, not Musk
The esteemed club risks becoming a bystander as reason and rationality come under attack
on.ft.com
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Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · 20h
A Chemistry Nobel that many had anticipated: metal-organic frameworks! Writeup coming on the blog later this morning:
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025 was awarded jointly to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi "for the development of metal–organic frameworks"
www.nobelprize.org
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Roger Highfield @rogerhighfield.bsky.social · 1d
Nobel committee unable to reach prize winner who is ‘living his best life’ hiking off grid www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Nobel committee unable to reach prize winner who is ‘living his best life’ hiking off grid
Fred Ramsdell was among those honoured with a 2025 Nobel Prize in Medicine but might not know because he is somewhere in Idaho and uncontactable
www.theguardian.com
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Malcolm Quinn @malrog.bsky.social · 1d
The best thing about chairing a viva is that you get a front row seat for new research. This one was a delight.
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Malcolm Quinn @malrog.bsky.social · 2d
Off to Norwich to chair a PhD viva. 😇
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Laurence Pearl 🔥 @laurencepearl.bsky.social · 23h
I’m going for NextGen DNA sequencing
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 1d
8 October 1881 | A Pole, Stanisław Nycz, was born in Lwów. A teacher.

In #Auschwitz from 5 May 1942.
No. 34767
He perished in the camp on 28 May 1942.
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Lekcja online „Polacy w KL Auschwitz”: http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/pl_2020_06_polacy/
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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Laurence Pearl 🔥 @laurencepearl.bsky.social · 1d
Rooting for David Klenerman and Shankar Balasubramanian for today’s Chemistry Nobel
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Laurence Pearl 🔥 @laurencepearl.bsky.social · 1d
Love to see NextGen get it - Shankar B. is a superstar and a delightful man
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Grant Jacobs BioinfoTools/NotJustDNA 🔬🧬🖥️✍️📚 @notjustdna.bsky.social · 1d
Way to go!

“Fred Ramsdell was among those honoured with a 2025 Nobel Prize in Medicine but might not know because he is somewhere in Idaho and uncontactable.”

Nobel committee unable to reach prize winner who is ‘living his best life’ hiking off grid:
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Nobel committee unable to reach prize winner who is ‘living his best life’ hiking off grid
Fred Ramsdell was among those honoured with a 2025 Nobel Prize in Medicine but might not know because he is somewhere in Idaho and uncontactable
www.theguardian.com
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 1d
I know this is uncomfortable to admit, but there is a small area in England's second city where people are just not integrated with the rest of society. Many of them hold views that arguably go against British values.

Yes, we need to talk about the Tory conference in Manchester.
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Jason Moore @moorejh.bsky.social · 1d
control panel of the day #HCI
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d
did i eat this entire plate of ethiopian? yes, i did.
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Pam Nash @pamnashes.bsky.social · 1d
Not good news, hope Dolly is OK.
‘Dolly Parton's sister asks fans to pray for country singer’
Dolly Parton's sister asks fans to pray for country singer
The message comes a week after the 79-year-old musician postponed gigs due to health issues.
www.bbc.com
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d
I'm never actually going to need to write another comment piece again am I?

The right wing shit rags are just going to keep recruiting for us.

Folks - want a better country?

Join.greenparty.org.uk
The party even more dangerous than Starmers labour - UK's answer to Putin's communists
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fravery.bsky.social @fravery.bsky.social · 1d
Scott Prior
(American painter b. 1949)
Summer Window, 2022
Oil on panel
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 1d
“If I can’t dance to it I don’t want to be part of your revolution.” Emma Goldman
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Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 1d
Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 1d
Worth reading. And a sharing link for 3 non-subscribers: on.ft.com/3IYbvaK
The Royal Society should be protecting science, not Musk
The esteemed club risks becoming a bystander as reason and rationality come under attack
www.ft.com
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Laurence Pearl 🔥 @laurencepearl.bsky.social · 1d
We know how it’s spelt, but how’s it pronounced ?

(Here all week)
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Laurence Pearl 🔥 @laurencepearl.bsky.social · 1d
It’ll self destruct on launch
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d
Jenrick could have visited Handsworth to listen to residents – he chose to pass through and make a judgement based on the colour of their skin. Instead of getting to know our nation of neighbours, he chose racism.

The Tories, Reform and Labour want to divide us.

The Greens say enough is enough.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2d
Robert Jenrick complained of ‘not seeing another white face’ in part of Birmingham
Robert Jenrick complained of ‘not seeing another white face’ in part of Birmingham
Shadow justice secretary criticised for suggesting he could tell how integrated Handsworth was based on 90-minute visit Robert Jenrick complained about visiting an area of Birmingham where he “didn’t see another white face” and said it was not the kind of country he wanted to live in. After highlighting the lack of white people, the shadow justice secretary said it was not about “the colour of your skin or your faith” and he wanted people to live alongside each other. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
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