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Robert Insall @robinsall.bsky.social · 5h

For the Bambu P1S - 10.3mm square hole; 2.5mm wide and 2mm depth pegs (could be deeper than this, I didn't try)

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Robert Insall @robinsall.bsky.social · 14h

testing the exact 3D printer settings to retain a #makerbeam

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Robert Insall @robinsall.bsky.social · 4d

Read this today. All of it. It will make you happy.

Dr Delyth Badder @folklorewales.com · 4d

Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet.

After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵

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Robert Insall @robinsall.bsky.social · 6d

Aha. So my future is instead as a multinational bollard arbitrageur & sanctions-buster. Noted.

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Robert Insall @robinsall.bsky.social · 6d

You think there's a future fortune for me to make? Importing honking great iron bollards from London into the cities where drunk teens and demented 85-year olds drive F150s?

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Robert Insall @robinsall.bsky.social · 7d

Interesting feature of posdoccing in Baltimore - nobody knew what the word "bollard" meant. I had to explain "you know, those metal posts in the road...". The reply? "call them posts, then".

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Robert Insall @robinsall.bsky.social · 8d

Indeed. Ick.
Actually I think Ma'am sounds poor too. "Dear Professor Walden" for me every time.

Or alternatively "Your Holiness, I humbly implore you...". That fits well.

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Robert Insall @robinsall.bsky.social · 8d

Sigh indeed.
But "Dame" sounds like something from a pantomime...

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Robert Insall @robinsall.bsky.social · 8d

Ooooh coool

APS DSNP @aps-dsnp.bsky.social · 8d

📌 Join us for the next klogW seminar on October 21st at 12PM EST (register below) by Erwin Frey @physicsoflifelmu.bsky.social on "Emergence and Self-organization in Biological Systems".
Registration link:
apsphysics.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Robert Insall @robinsall.bsky.social · 8d

Very true. There's no part in Hanlon's razor saying "what if you *know* they're acting maliciously?"

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Robert Insall @robinsall.bsky.social · 8d

Yikes.
Interesting paper but a terrible news report.
Skin cells are chock full of mutations. It's brilliant to show that you can use skin cell nuclei to make an embryo, but you'd have to be insane to make a human out of one.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Human skin DNA fertilised to make embryo for first time

US scientists testing the technique say it could help people overcome infertility and potentially allow same-sex couples to have a genetically related child.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Robert Insall @robinsall.bsky.social · 13d

You missed out "two spaces after a full stop". You are obviously a libtard or Nazi or some similar criminule, so I am reluctantly invoking a dogpile and full cancellation.

Robert Insall @robinsall.bsky.social · 16d

I find the fungi often take over at that point

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Robert Insall @robinsall.bsky.social · 16d

The excellent Lucija Mijanovic & I write a piece musing on electrotaxis, collective migration, and @calinacopos.bsky.social & the Mogilner lab's nice PNAS paper.

Have a look!
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lpaB3QW8S...

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Robert Insall @robinsall.bsky.social · 20d

ahhh I see you're at the dinner in Robinson (know it well, Laura is a fellow there...).

Send me an email ([email protected]) if you fancy a beer after the dinner, I could come to the bar and say hello

Robert Insall @robinsall.bsky.social · 20d

Didn't know this meeting was on! We dined with Nick Hill last night who's at a whole nother math and healthcare meeting in Cambridge.
Are you free this evening at all? I could come for a drink...

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Robert Insall @robinsall.bsky.social · 20d

OMG, had no idea you were in Cambridge. What are you both doing tonight? We're taking the lab for a retreat tomorrow morning, back Sunday

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Robert Insall @robinsall.bsky.social · 20d

Always wonderful to see Paul speak 😀

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Robert Insall @robinsall.bsky.social · 26d

Just at a meeting telling Rob Jones about your article. He sends best wishes. Small world.

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Robert Insall @robinsall.bsky.social · 27d

If he actually used the term "hobbyist", then he's even more of an idiot than he seems from the rest of the report...

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Robert Insall @robinsall.bsky.social · 27d

University manager confuses "quality" and "being funded". Shock horror.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

Ministers ‘want to shift funds away from low-quality research’ - Research Professional News

Universities UK president says institutions cannot afford “unfunded hobbyist research”

www.researchprofessionalnews.com

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Robert Insall @robinsall.bsky.social · 27d

Don't blame the math. It's a language like others, and much better than words at expressing many complex and interacting things.
...but do blame anyone who uses math to obscure clarity. They are going to the same dark hell as people who obstruct real science by calling for "gold standard" science...

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Robert Insall @robinsall.bsky.social · 28d

Old biologist problem. When I was a postdoc it was people calling any assembly of 2 or more proteins a "....some".

We have a regrettable habit of trying to break up our fields into silly, over-specified headings...

Robert Insall @robinsall.bsky.social · 28d

Was your lovely brain I was asking about.

When you dream to people talk in English or American accents?

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Robert Insall @robinsall.bsky.social · 29d

But to answer your question - fine, thanks, and down south (UK) again after a break to raise a family in Scotland.

Are you American now?

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