Thankfully shes fine so it wasn’t too upsetting, but would’ve been pretty harsh if not. People’s finances can be personal in all sorts of emotional ways, feels badly-suited to any sort of jokey ‘wrapped’ type thing imo
Gotta admit, while it’s clearly supposed to be lighthearted fun I hated the year I opened my Monzo wrapped: it gave me some light teasing about how much I spent on Pret and M&S food over a discrete few months… because I was in the JR hospital a tonne as my baby was intensive care.
A little PSA, there’s a new rule. If you initiate conversation with someone who’s carrying a sleeping toddler:
I feel 99% sure I’d hate it, but I’m still curious…
[China looking to Taiwan, then to the gulf. Then back to Taiwan, then back to the gulf]
That’s the one, yeah
I read reports that suggested that the exercises required all attending ships be sans ammo, and that the US navy would have known that. Can see if I can find them
Isn’t the distinction here that because of the exercises it was on it was carrying no ammunition?
Cutting air pollution should form part of government strategies to reduce cancer rates
My latest piece for @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
New preprint! We developed a qPCR assay for detecting degraded DNA from Anopheles gambiae-complex mosquitoes (the main malarial vector sp) in mixed material such as predator faecal samples. Ultimately helping us better understand their place in their broader ecosystem 🧪
biorxiv.org/lookup/doi/1...
Climate change in the WHO Pandemic Agreement negotiations: a qualitative study. Graph shows the evolution of different topics over different articles.
NEW PREPRINT! 🦠⚖️🌡️ The Pandemic Agreement is the first global health treaty to name climate change, and behind the scenes, the UNFCCC was a source of both inspiration and conflict. Cristina Arnés-Sanz and team tracked climate issues through three years of negotiations: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?
I love doing big interesting ecological work asking big questions about how the world all works and how we're tweaking it.
This preprint is kinda the opposite, but an important means to those ends: a little method that helps us to ask those big questions (stay tuned...)
New preprint! We developed a qPCR assay for detecting degraded DNA from Anopheles gambiae-complex mosquitoes (the main malarial vector sp) in mixed material such as predator faecal samples. Ultimately helping us better understand their place in their broader ecosystem 🧪
biorxiv.org/lookup/doi/1...
I uh, may need to know what book this is… no reason
The idea we could ever be in on a conspiracy to suppress forbidden knowledge is always hilarious to me. Between our adorable nerdy compulsion to tell people what we know, and the career incentives to be the ones breaking any *big* news… we’re the leakiest of tubs.
A headline from GB News stating: Motorists switch to using public transport to avoid paying £5 daily congestion charge
In shock news, motorists have switched to public transport to avoid paying the Oxford Congestion Charge.
A spokesperson* said: "This is exactly what was meant to happen, and it did."
Manuscript submitted! Wild to think that despite being a 'brief report' I've been working on this one on and off (definitely mostly 'off') since ~2019
Three year postdoc fellowship working with bats in Mexico 🦇🦇(with fieldwork)
Project title: Quantifying the socio-economic consequences of losing bat guano services
Led by: Dr Veronica Zamora-Gutierrez
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LOOKIT THE LITTLE SEA BUNNY
LOOKIT THE LITTLE SEA BUNNY
We got the “we’ve had a lot of cases of sickness, please don’t send your kids to nursery if they’ve had D&V!” message from our nursery today. This is fine
Velvet Dorid - Jorunna tomentosa
Velvet Dorid - Jorunna tomentosa
Velvet Dorid - Jorunna tomentosa
Velvet Dorid - Jorunna tomentosa
One of our cutest rockpooling finds recently. Those rhinophores are definitely giving sea bunny. This guy was just sliding along the bottom of a shallow pool out in the open.
#Nudibranch #SeaSlug #Rockpool #TidePool #MarineLife #SeaLife #Shetland
I don’t wanna say that we brits have no chill when the sun decides to come out, but I did just see my first bbq of the year
Ironing funeral clothes. If you're able to support my @mariecurieuk.bsky.social fundraiser, today would be a good day for it. Thanks again to everyone who's given so far. www.justgiving.com/page/richard...
that they have kept their relationship intensely private to the point that this is how we find out is probably the best sign they might actually make it
anyway, rules are rules, here is the exact moment she fell in love
🚨Long read klaxon🚨
Last week, Baroness Amos published her interim report into maternity & neonatal care in England. Vocal campaigners have catapulted Oxford University Hospitals Trust to the top of the investigation's agenda. We took a look at Oxfordshire's maternity care, the data, and the claims.
I personally believe that this ability is innate, ancestral. Wish we could hand Tiktaalik a controller, see how he would do
so many of the very first photos my parents took of me are taken in Iran. I was born in India, but lived in Iran, before during and after the Revolution. My father worked in a remote rural hospital for 8 years.
These are real people, not the bogeymen of silly Hollywood films.
Its always real people.
they bombed an elementary school and killed a bunch of little girls, man
fuck this shit
