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Mark Pallen
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Mark Pallen @mjpallen.bsky.social · Jun 29
My book, The Essential Guide to Evolution, is now out and you can pick up a copy on Amazon: tinyurl.com/pallen-book

For those willing to provide an impactful review, happy to send you a review copy free of charge.

Please spread the word!
The Essential Guide to Evolution: Amazon.co.uk: Pallen, Mark: 9798284529447: Books
Buy The Essential Guide to Evolution by Pallen, Mark (ISBN: 9798284529447) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.
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Mark Pallen @mjpallen.bsky.social · Sep 8
Hi Maya. Thanks for your interest. If you would like to know more, I have made some samples available from the book here: www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/2ecwj...
Hope you can access them okay?
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Mark Pallen @mjpallen.bsky.social · Jun 29
My book, The Essential Guide to Evolution, is now out and you can pick up a copy on Amazon: tinyurl.com/pallen-book

For those willing to provide an impactful review, happy to send you a review copy free of charge.

Please spread the word!
The Essential Guide to Evolution: Amazon.co.uk: Pallen, Mark: 9798284529447: Books
Buy The Essential Guide to Evolution by Pallen, Mark (ISBN: 9798284529447) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.
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Mark Pallen @mjpallen.bsky.social · Feb 12
Happy Darwin Day! This from @
nightwish will blow away any cobwebs. youtu.be/qrMwxe2ya5E
NIGHTWISH - The Greatest Show on Earth (with Richard Dawkins) (OFFICIAL LIVE)
YouTube video by Nightwish
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Mark Pallen @mjpallen.bsky.social · Jan 30
@profaliceroberts.bsky.social you in brum perchance tomorrow?
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Mark Pallen @mjpallen.bsky.social · Jan 17
Well done! Their score of 345 trumps our highest score of 325 playing for @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social in 1995-6 championship
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Mark Pallen @mjpallen.bsky.social · Jan 17
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Quadram Institute @quadraminstitute.bsky.social · Jan 17
🆕 Blog! Our experts Prof @mjpallen.bsky.social Dr Falk Hildebrand @bioinf.bsky.social and Dr Aimee Parker explain that there is no evidence for a brain microbiome 🧠
https://buff.ly/40gVxNH
Is there a “brain microbiome”? No - Quadram Institute
There is no scientific evidence of a brain microbiome, including no imaging, DNA-sequence-based or culture-based or immunological evidence.
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Quadram Institute @quadraminstitute.bsky.social · Jan 17
🆕 Blog! Our experts Prof @mjpallen.bsky.social Dr Falk Hildebrand @bioinf.bsky.social and Dr Aimee Parker explain that there is no evidence for a brain microbiome 🧠
https://buff.ly/40gVxNH
Is there a “brain microbiome”? No - Quadram Institute
There is no scientific evidence of a brain microbiome, including no imaging, DNA-sequence-based or culture-based or immunological evidence.
quadram.ac.uk
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Mark Pallen @mjpallen.bsky.social · Dec 30
My latest letter to @theguardian.com
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Mark Pallen @mjpallen.bsky.social · Dec 29
Sad news.

Jimmy Carter, former US president, dies aged 100 www.bbc.com/news/article...

Frustrating that he didn’t live long enough to outlive the guinea worm. But nearly gone now thanks to him and a tremendous team. www.cartercenter.org/resources/pd...

Donate here www.cartercenter.org
Jimmy Carter, oldest of all US presidents, dies aged 100
The Democrat served a single term as president, a late 1970s period of economic and diplomatic crises.
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Mark Pallen @mjpallen.bsky.social · Dec 28
„Die gefährlichste Weltanschauung ist die derer, die die (mikrobielle) Welt nie angeschaut haben.“ Humboldt (fast)
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Mark Pallen @mjpallen.bsky.social · Dec 28
Our letter was published. amp-theguardian-com.translate.goog/science/2024...
There’s little evidence of a ‘brain microbiome’ | Medical research | The Guardian
Letters: <strong>Prof Mark Pallen, Dr Aimee Parker, Prof Nick Loman </strong>and <strong>Prof Alan Walker </strong>take issue with an article that discussed the existence of a brain microbiome and its...
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Mark Pallen @mjpallen.bsky.social · Dec 28
Stimmt. Danke! Interessant, dass ihr critical thinking aus dem Englischen übernehmt, während wir Weltanschauung aus dem Deutschen übernehmen. 😉
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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · Dec 19
A ceasefire is needed now to save lives and move humanitarian aid into #Gaza.

Our latest report has the details: www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/gaza-death-t...
Gaza death trap: MSF report exposes Israel’s campaign of total destruction  | Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ...
Repeated Israeli military attacks on Palestinian civilians over the last 14 months, the dismantling of the health care system and other essential infrastructure, the suffocating siege, and the systema...
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Mark Pallen @mjpallen.bsky.social · Dec 19
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Mark Pallen @mjpallen.bsky.social · Dec 19
@theguardian.com has eventually published an edited version of our letter. www.theguardian.com/science/2024... @pathogenomenick.bsky.social but behaved disingenuously in adding a title we didn’t agree to. There is *no* evidence of a brain microbiome.
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Mark Pallen @mjpallen.bsky.social · Dec 17
@theguardian.com still not addressed its unbalanced reporting on non existent brain microbiome (failure of substance) but now presenting failure of style with regressive reversion to online offering aping printed version rather than built for mobile devises. 🤦🏻‍♂️
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Mark Pallen @mjpallen.bsky.social · Dec 14
Not claiming that pathogens cannot enter brain but that there is no resident normal commensal complex microbial community in the human brain.
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Mark Pallen @mjpallen.bsky.social · Dec 9
@katharineviner.bsky.social please could you give us courtesy of a response to this letter? Or better still publish it in full and/or retract the unbalanced article to which it refers. I have been @theguardian.com reader all my adult life and it would be shame to have to break that habit over this!
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Mark Pallen @mjpallen.bsky.social · Dec 4
@theguardian.com Could your editor please engage in the courtesy of a reply to our letter sent to you yesterday on this misleading article? You can see it has generated much interest here on BlueSky, but should reach your entire readership if you care about balanced and accurate reporting.
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Mark Pallen @mjpallen.bsky.social · Dec 3
I have injected AI generated Socratic dialogues into PhD student training. Eg mmbdtp.github.io/modules/meta... Students said they were surprised how polite such discussions were—even though AI generated they reflect the tone of the originals.
MMB DTP Training
A problem-based learning curriculum for the
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Mark Pallen @mjpallen.bsky.social · Dec 3
Well we didn’t get a transcript of all that was said between the two of them so choice of emotionally charged quote is nonetheless a choice particularly without balanced coverage. But will see what guardian editor makes of it. I expect revisions. But isn’t it nice to have reasonable discussion here?
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Mark Pallen @mjpallen.bsky.social · Dec 3
And any discussion of debates in Guardian article is unbalanced. Calling people dinosaurs? Is that really permissible in balanced scholarly discourse?
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Mark Pallen @mjpallen.bsky.social · Dec 3
More clear I hope in revised version of the letter, where we refer specifically to the non-peer-revioewed study led by Lathe. Not sure whether by original article, you mean the Guardian piece or something referred to therein?
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Mark Pallen @mjpallen.bsky.social · Dec 3
Revisiting this old paper journals.asm.org/doi/pdf/10.1... which proposed the acronym YATM for "yet another typing method", might I suggest YALB1S pronounced yal-biss for "yet another low-biomass 16S study"?
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