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Nick Fisher

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Biochemist (respiratory & photosynthetic bioenergetics). Ph.D., Visiting Fellow, bibliophile, Mahlerian, feral cat dad. Also other things. Google Scholar: http://bit.ly/2vpjBP1

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · Nov 6

Hello new folks! Thanks for stopping by. Sometimes I post about biochemistry, but it’s mostly cats/classical music/books/things in my garden here. Live from Cornwall. Beardy, generally worn down by academia.

Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 1d

If you have foxes locally they will find a solution for you, no questions asked.

Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 2d

There's a lot of Britten about today. I sat with an elderly gent at a lunch organised in the village hall today, and apparently he performed as a boy soprano in the first amateur performance of Noye's Fludde in 1959 or so. Britten was supposed to be in the audience, but he couldn't confirm this!

Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 3d

The gills aren't white and I don't see any yellow staining, so that's a good start.

Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 4d

Mr Tough Guy doesn’t like the weather.

Edward Paws. A rough night out.

Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 4d

I'm glad Sellers made that movie. Relatedly - or is it? - Chauncey the dog was abandoned by the dastardly Duck Phillips in the leisurely ad-men drama Mad Men. I wondered if there was a tip of the hat from the writers here.

Goodbye Chauncey.

Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 4d

Oh ho. Which one and who?

Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 4d

I'm in the southwest, so out of the worst of it. A rough night ahead, though.

Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 4d

Well, that’s the bird feeder taken down. #StormAmy do your worst. (But take it easy on the roof, please).

Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 7d

A resistible offer arrives from Springer.

Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 8d

Morning David - happy to have received the full fat version. The solution, I suspect, is to compress your images into smaller files - i.e. the dimensions & appearance will be the same, they'll just use less data. Using Word or Pages on a Mac? Here's how!

Use 'Reduce File Size' on Pages

Search MS Word Help for 'compress images'

Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 10d

An unfortunate incident for a friend on vacation provides AMPLE OPPORTUNITY for a gag about photosynthetic control. Honestly, you can’t buy humour like this.

PQH2 oxidation by the cytochrome bf complex. It’s very pH sensitive, you see.

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 11d

I think voluntary digital IDs are a good idea. I don't have a driving licence and don't usually have my passport on me. A government ID on my phone could be very useful.

Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 13d

SimpleFold, a lightweight protein folding modeller from Apple (- I didn't see that coming). arxiv.org/abs/2509.184...

SimpleFold: Folding Proteins is Simpler than You Think

Protein folding models have achieved groundbreaking results typically via a combination of integrating domain knowledge into the architectural blocks and training pipelines. Nonetheless, given the suc...

Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 13d

Or if you prefer, an area equal to 3.16 x10-8 % of Wales, assuming an average loam density of 1.4 g/cm3.

Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 14d

I'd start by sending Dennis Lillee around with a rubber snake to put the frighteners on them.

Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 15d

Cheap Dunlop Danes, usually around £15 per pair. Whatever wellies I buy seem to last a year before they start to split, so why pay more?

Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 15d

$100k per annum per visa is small change for Nvidia and OpenAI. Public universities, not so much.

Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 15d

Oddly enough I was discussing those pineapples today (I have a tree in the garden). Very tasty! Small, sweet & flavoursome.

Pitmaston pineapples.

Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 15d

I wonder if this same variety. The tree is around 40 years old, dwarfing, very heavy crop of apples just coming to ripeness. Small, very sweet, plenty of esters. I hadn’t noticed the russeting until you mentioned it.

Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 16d

Needless to say, the postman took great delight delivering this to me.

A mysterious package arrives.

Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 16d

There’s a brook running behind it. It’s a good, peaceful place.

Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 16d

A somewhat tatty old fox has moved into his greenhouse, which he’s not pleased about. Still, nice enough evening.

Coco the cat sitting on a bench in the orchard. Hawthorn, apple. Early evening sun.

Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 17d

Thank you for getting back to me on that. NDH continues to be a slippery beast. (Superb work, btw).