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We have a fully funded PhD position advertised, 👶😭deadline for application of 15th December 2024: aru.ac.uk/research/postg… Please R/T You can find details of the project under the title: "Male stress responses to infant crying" 1 / 3

Got anything on on Monday evening? I'm giving a talk in Bristol at St George's Bristol on Nov 11th at 7pm! Come hear me chat about surnames, genetics, genealogy and, of course, Richard III 😊🧬 Tickets here ⬇️ stgeorgesbristol.co.uk/whats-on/profe… University of Bath Bristol Libraries BBC Bristol BBC Gloucestershire

My take on scientists leaving Twitter/X: It's great to see communities really developing on other platforms and there are lots of good reasons to boycott this place... 1/n

Visiting Bye-Fellowship for Scholars from the Global South: applications now sought from scholars with posts in the Global South, this year 2025-26 in arts and humanities only, for a one-year research fellowship at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. cai.cam.ac.uk/vacancies/visi…

80% of cancers could be prevented in principle, but we don’t know how to prevent the large majority & this hasn’t changed in 40 yrs. 21st Nov 5pm I'll say why we are failing to identify novel causes of disease, with drinks reception, tho' not if online forms.office.com/e/g2LQpSrt66

I ask environmental & social justice scholars & activists esp. from the Global South to not abandon this platform even as many others do. This is where your voice is needed most, because the vast majority of Global South folks here are not going to switch to any other platform.

Joe Ecker Joe Ecker, Joseph Swift Joseph Swift, and team have revealed the genetic details of 30-million-year-old question: How did some plants evolve from less-efficient C3 photosynthesis to C4 photosynthesis? Their findings pave the way for the creation of more robust,

Some of the English coverage of the Irish general election is quite amusing. This misleading map, presented by the The Guardian, shows the electoral landscape as if it was a first-past-the-post system, like that of the UK.

In case anyone still here is interested in anything other than bitcoin; in the latest Naked Genetics podcast we talked about ancient DNA, from aurochs and from Mayan sacrifical victims.. thenakedscientists.com/podcasts/naked…

Wow this place has gone down the shitter. My feed is nothing but cryptocurrency enthusiasts, toxic posts about gender politics, and weirdos asserting that Irish people are antisemitic. I followed none of these freaks.

1/6 The Man Who Would be King was on over Christmas. Watching it for the first time in many years, I was struck by the differences between Kipling’s morality & that of today’s apologists for Empire. In many ways Kipling & the film’s makers were more honest.

Really fed up with ITV News. I did a pre-recorded interview in which I expressed strong scepticism about the 'coffee only good in the morning' story. But they cut all that out, leaving me apparently supporting their credulous story. I really should not be so naive.

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david lynch was something of a hero of mine, a creative visionary probably unmatched in his lifetime and able to use dark subjects to spread warmth and joy in his art we used to get together and watch his weather reports on my streams, and he will be missed dearly

The Codes show is almost here! Prof Simon Peyton Jones kick starts Codes, promising 'joy, beauty & creativity', instead of algorithms. Come & hear what Simon says! Free to all! No need to book. Lady Mitchell Hall 5.30 Fri 24 Jan talks.cam : Bits with Soul 🖥️🖌️

Lots of interest in this new paper, but I'm going to highlight this: visual specialisation contributed to human cortical expansion across extra-striate areas - temporal, parietal and frontal. Because, I told you so! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39805017/

The Tories put this person in charge of their country.

Turns out Donald Trump isn't the only world leader with a tech billionaire "first buddy" who gets to serve as an unaccountable, self-interested de facto business regulator. UK PM Kier Starmer has just handed the keys to the British economy over to Jeff Bezos. 1/