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Nigel Brown

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Em. Prof of Molec Microbiology & former Vice-Principal, Univ Edinburgh. FLSW, FRSE, etc.. Allegedly retired, but still doing science-related stuff. Trustee FairFrome charity. Pro-EU Brit. #iPhobe. Editor #AccessMicrobiology

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Nigel Brown @nigel-brown.bsky.social · Dec 14

If you want me to follow you back, please complete your bio. (I like to know what I am getting into! 😉)

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 3d

We flounced out of the EU on the say-so of politicians who lied to us. And what a total shitshow that’s turned out to be. The polar opposite of what they promised. Now the call to flounce out of the ECHR. By the same people. Telling the same lies. Has the country been kicked in the head by a horse?

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Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · 7d

Here I am in 2020 in the flimsiest, most pitful PPE - like so many other NHS staff, some of whom died from the Covid they caught in their hospitals.

Tory peer Michelle Mone - who today lost her legal case & must repay the govt £122m - dares to claim she’s been ‘scapegoated’.

What, Michelle? 🧵

Rachel wearing very flimsy looking apron, mask and visor in NHS setting

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Nigel Brown @nigel-brown.bsky.social · 7d

PPE fraud comes home to roost!
(Or one of the VIP lane frauds, anyway)
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cy...

Firm linked to Baroness Michelle Mone must pay £122m after breaching Covid PPE contract, judge rules

The government wins its case against PPE Medpro - part of a consortium led by Baroness Mone's husband - after it supplied non-compliant gowns in 2020.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 23d

Only those bought by billionaires
would think
#TaxTheRich
was a 'tough choice'

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 29d

🔴BBC Accused of Pro-Reform Bias as Lib Dems Launch Campaign to End ‘Wall to Wall’ Farage Coverage

They accuse the BBC of “following Farage around like a lost puppy” and have complained to Ofcom to demand fair coverage

bylinetimes.com/2025/09/09/b...

BBC Accused of Pro-Reform Bias as Lib Dems Launch Campaign to End 'Wall to Wall' Farage Coverage

They accuse the BBC of "following Farage around like a lost puppy” and have complained to Ofcom to demand fair coverage

bylinetimes.com

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Parody Keir Starmer @parodypm.bsky.social · 29d

It's no surprise that Nigel Farage hardly ever bothers to visit Clacton or turn up at Parliament. When he was an MEP, his attendance record was 748th out of 751. He's a workshy grifting gobshite.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · Sep 6

This too should be in the Media non-stop for a week until Nigel Farage is forced to resign.

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · Sep 2

This is how dictatorships behave

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Nigel Brown @nigel-brown.bsky.social · Aug 29

Bluesky is better than Twitter for academic research discussions.
(and for lots of other reasons! 😁)
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Research posts on Bluesky are more original — and get better engagement

Bluesky posts about science garner more likes and reposts than similar ones on X.

www.nature.com

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Nigel Brown @nigel-brown.bsky.social · Aug 28

38d.gs/z4fz

I thought this headline was a joke when I first read it, but no…it's real.

I've signed a petition telling Ofgem to reject Musk's application to supply electricity to British households. Will you join me and add your name?

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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · Aug 27

I am sickened by the relentless demonisation of refugees.

No refugee underfunded a school.

No refugee closed a hospital.

No refugee took away support from the sick and disabled.

We need solutions not scapegoats. Stop blaming refugees and tax the rich instead!

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Nigel Brown @nigel-brown.bsky.social · Aug 21

But a non-horsey one!

Nigel Brown @nigel-brown.bsky.social · Aug 21

Hope it continues to go well! My 10-year-old metal/ceramic hip is great.

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keyser soze @keysersoze2024.bsky.social · Aug 15

FIFA should pull all of the 2026 World Cup matches scheduled to be played on US soil & reassign them to venues in Canada.

That includes the World Cup final scheduled to be played at the Meadowlands.

This is not a country suited to host an international event now & won’t be until 2029.

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Nigel Brown @nigel-brown.bsky.social · Aug 15

Feeding Britain is circulating a petition to urge the Government to extend the Holiday Activities and Food (HAF) programme during the school holidays in England through to the next general election.

Please do sign and circulate the petition:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Petition to extend The HAF Programme

Dear Prime Minister, We are writing to urge you to extend the Government’s support for the provision of meals and activities, for children and young people during school holidays, through to the next...

docs.google.com

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Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · Jul 25

A *third* of the Commons has called on the PM to recognise Palestine as a state. Never seen anything quite like this.

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · Jul 25

The way that I was raised, being Jewish meant believing that every human life was sacred; to save a single human life meant saving all of humanity. That no law or ritual was more important than saving a single human life.

It's unfathomable that any Jew can accept what Israel is doing in Gaza.

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · Jul 25

This article…

… is, by a long way, the clearest account of the UK government’s complicity in Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza that I have ever read.

Please read and share.

In all but name: is Gaza Britain’s undeclared war?

Britain isn’t just watching Gaza burn – it’s helping fuel the fire, with weapons, intelligence, and silence

yorkshirebylines.co.uk

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Nigel Brown @nigel-brown.bsky.social · Jul 24

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Stephen Kinsella @stephenstroud.bsky.social · Jul 22

The story I heard concerned a Japanese businessman who was told we were going to make our universities more businesslike.

His response: why would you do that? Your universities are excellent and your businesses are rubbish.

But we appointed the wrong people and pressed ahead.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · Jul 21

Looting at Thames Water

Net assets in 1990, £1,329m;
2024, £1,301m;
2025, £359m negative - liabilities exceed assets

NO shareholder investment since privatisation?

Dividends £10.4bn.

Can't rebuild water services without ending privatisation.

Water Commission didn't spot looting,

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · Jul 21

I really don't want to go through the whole rigmarole of seeing Farage win power and then fuck everything up and have loads of sympathetic voxpops with dismayed Reform voters expressing their regrets when it was extremely fucking obvious what would happen because his platform is incoherent garbage

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Nigel Brown @nigel-brown.bsky.social · Jul 19

Never bought it, but Everly Brothers Cathy's Clown.
youtu.be/xRPQa8IqsPw

Everly Brothers - Cathy's Clown [Americana] HD

YouTube video by DocRock1007

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Nigel Brown @nigel-brown.bsky.social · Jul 18

What a fantastic thought! (For the non-microbiologists among you, there is such a thing as the Epstein-Barr virus, which is linked to certain cancers, but not discovered by Jeffrey Epstein and William Barr))

KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · Jul 18

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · Jul 17

Yorkshire Water’s hosepipe ban is a symptom of a broken system

Last week, Yorkshire Water announced a hosepipe ban that will affect over five million people across Yorkshire, with a threat of £1,000 fines.

– it’s time to take back control of our water.

By Jon Trickett MP

Households are tired of carrying the can for water companies

Yorkshire Water’s hosepipe ban is a symptom of a broken system – it’s time to take back control of our water

yorkshirebylines.co.uk

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