And this is a silly Joy Division-related picture I made a few years ago...

On a busy Inverness to Aberdeen train. It’s unbelievably hot and muggy - no air con, and these modern carriages have no windows you can open! Not exactly climate change ready.

#45 from my Women in STEM series: Emmanuelle Charpentier

#WomeninSTEM #NoblePrize #diversitymatters #CRISPR #microbiology #biochemistry #genetics

Making cherry wood shingles for the walls of our porch this week. Its an incredibly satisfying, stress relieving experience - taking a log, split, split, split…

#OnThisDay 1868 in our Faculty Hall, Joseph Lister presented his findings on antiseptic surgery. The Glasgow Medico-Chirurgical Society minutes record that momentous occasion.
#histmed #historyofmedicine #JosephLister #Lister #Glasgow

Sipping my coffee ☕️ thinking about these marvellous Minoan cups!

So modern-looking it’s incredible to think they were made by Bronze Age potters 3,800 years ago!

Known as Kamares Ware, these luxury ceramics were made in palace workshops. Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me

#Archaeology 🏺

Had a busy couple of days on our land project near Edinburgh - planting alder, Rowan, and re-guarding trees getting browsed by deer. Luckily had a wee helper!

Venga. Cerrar fronteras. 50 años y se extinguen.

27yr old CHARLIE CHAPLIN in 1916.

One of THE great self-made men and Artists of the 20thC - Charlie was born in South London 136yrs ago today.

It’s my birthday next week! My wish list includes radical action on climate change, a minority Labor Government pushed left by Greens and indies, and higher taxes on billionaires and corporations - but I will settle for a small donation to one of these two charities, both of which are close to my ❤️

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.

-FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.

Bluesky has overtaken its flailing rival X in hosting posts related to new academic research, indicating the platform is fast becoming the go-to place for scholars to share their work

#AcademicSky #EduSky

Paul Robeson was born on this day. So here is when he sang Joe Hill to British miners. Listen up ...

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Just when I am about to fall into a black hole of despair at the demise of serious journalism and public discourse capable of improving humanity, comes a podcast like this: marktwainstudies.com/newspapers/

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.

No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.

1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.