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Kat Arney @katarney.bsky.social · 9h

"Binnui" - the emotion you experience lying in bed as you hear the bin lorry and realise you forgot completely

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Stu Cantrill @stuartcantrill.com · 20h

‘Economics Nobel prize won by researchers who showed how science boosts growth’ by @philipcball.bsky.social in @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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The award "underlies the importance in investing in science for innovation and long-term economic growth", says economist Diane Coyle of the University of Cambridge. "It's great to see the Nobel prize recognize the importance of this topic," adds innovation policy researcher Richard Jones of the University of Manchester, UK. "It's important that economists understand the conditions that lead to technological progress," he adds. The winners, says Coyle, "have long been on people's list of potential candidates".

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 11h

Trump doesn’t like the photo lol

Trump: Time Magazine wrote a relatively good story about me, but the picture may be the Worst of All Time. They "disappeared" my hair, and then had something floating on top of my head that looked like a floating crown, but an extremely small one.
Really weird! I never liked taking pictures from underneath angles, but this is a super bad picture, and deserves to be called out. What are they doing, and why?
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Kat Arney @katarney.bsky.social · 21h

If the covid pandemic taught us anything, it's that unmonitored viruses don't respect borders.

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Kat Arney @katarney.bsky.social · 21h

Cool. Cool cool cool.

Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 1d

The newsletter from agricultural producer news site WATT Poultry is now a primary source of my anxiety. H5N1 is exploding in North American poultry. Every day, a headline like this.

But no human cases. Either there aren't any or there's no testing. Given CDC's dismantling, I can guess.

Headline: "Avian flu invades flock of nearly 2 million Washington hens"

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Kat Arney @katarney.bsky.social · 1d

"CEO has some suggestions"

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 4d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Prof Jenny Rohn @jennyrohn.bsky.social · 3d

People often dismiss cell biology as just “looking at stuff”, which makes seminal discoveries like this even sweeter. Congrats @drannecarpenter.bsky.social and team

Anne Carpenter @drannecarpenter.bsky.social · 4d

15 years in the making, we confirmed that mitochondria - the powerhouse of the cell - have an unusual localization in patients who experience psychosis (including schizophrenia and bipolar disorders). You’ll never guess what kind of patient cells we used to make this discovery… 🧵

mitochondria from bipolar patients are closer to the nucleus in these images; control patients' are spread out further

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Kat Arney @katarney.bsky.social · 1d

"News-flavoured content" is such a good way of putting this

Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 1d

I've been blaming memes for this, and I think it fits. A lot of the angriest people out there aren't actually consuming news, they're consuming news-flavored content, and the content is a funhouse mirror version of reality that they're mistaking for being real.

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Kat Arney @katarney.bsky.social · 1d

This (apocryphal) story about Virchow that I snuck in as a footnote into my book Rebel Cell remains my proudest pun in print.

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Kat Arney @katarney.bsky.social · 2d

IN MICE.

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Kat Arney @katarney.bsky.social · 2d

GPs are going to be hard... most people don't realise that every NHS GP practice is actually a private business.

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Kat Arney @katarney.bsky.social · 4d

Yep. The best messaging and comms can't save a duff strategy, although it might mask it for a while.
Also, as a comms pro, I find that if it's really hard to figure out how to talk clearly about a company or an idea, it's a dead giveaway that there's something strategically missing.

Martin Robbins @mjrobbins.com · 4d

One thing that marks out good founders/CEOs in start-ups is they get that communication *is* strategy, in much the same way that writing *is* thinking. So it's not just that they don't have a clear strategy IMO; they're not engaged in the process of developing strategy.

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Kat Arney @katarney.bsky.social · 4d

Good to see our Burning Bush (euonymus alatus) living up to its name .. such a glorious bright red pop of colour in the fading autumn garden. Also, very glad I went big on asters last year!

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Hayley Gullen @hayleygullen.com · 5d

My Amazon reviews so far are simply wonderful!

Have a look (and then buy my book - ask at your local bookshop or check out online alternatives if you don’t fancy Amazon)

www.amazon.co.uk/This-Might-S...

#cansky #graphicmedicine

This Might Surprise You: A Breast Cancer Story

Buy This Might Surprise You: A Breast Cancer Story by Gullen, Hayley (ISBN: 9781399424745) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.

www.amazon.co.uk

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 5d

Big presence on the beaches of Normandy in 1944 too.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 5d

From Donald Trump's Roundtable on Antifa just now —
"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."
— special guest Jack Posobiec

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Kat Arney @katarney.bsky.social · 6d

Oh fuck off with your owl army, Duo

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Kat Arney @katarney.bsky.social · 6d

RIP John Gurdon, it was a privilege to meet you and work in your institute. I hope there is a packet of biscuits waiting for you in the heavenly tea room.

University of Cambridge @cam.ac.uk · 6d

It is with great sadness that the University shares the news of the death of Professor Sir John Gurdon, founder of the @gurdoninstitute.bsky.social

Read our tribute to the visionary Nobel Laureate and watch an interview from 2012, just after he won: https://bit.ly/4mM8o3r

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 6d

I'm not an economist but seems worrying that the whole US economy is seven companies in a trenchcoat, passing the same $20 up and down

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 6d

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Kat Arney @katarney.bsky.social · 6d

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Kat Arney @katarney.bsky.social · 7d

Hurrah! Am intrigued to see if we do get any money at all, and how much it is at the end of the day. But worth a shot.

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Alan Beattie @alanbeattie.bsky.social · 7d

Henceforth the red robes will only be worn as an away kit when the Canadian Supreme Court is playing the US one.

Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 7d

Tragic news from Canada where the Canadian Supreme Court has gone from the official dress on the left to the one on the right

Canadian Supreme court. Everyone is dressed in bright red wooly gowns, with a beige trim. It looks sort of like a Santa robe

The Canadian Supreme court. Everyone is dressed in black gowns with a bright white kravat, and two thin red vertical lines on the side of the robe

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 8d

An astronaut, looking at the Earth: “Wait, it’s all social care obligations?”
Behind them, another astronaut, drawing a gun to shoot them in the back: “Always has been.”

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Kat Arney @katarney.bsky.social · 9d

I struggle with hotel pillows as I am a side sleeper and have a tempur memory foam neck pillow at home. I got a travel version that rolls into a little cylinder and it has been brilliant once I got used to it

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Bryan White, MS Bio, MPH 🧬 @crvscience.com · 9d

Homie got 229 pairs of chromosomes

www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

This tiny butterfly has the most chromosomes of any animal on Earth

Scientists have confirmed that the Atlas blue butterfly carries the most chromosomes of any animal, with 229 pairs. Unlike duplication, its chromosomes split apart, reshaping its genome in surprising ...

www.sciencedaily.com

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KE Salisbury @kesalisbury.bsky.social · 9d

An extract from Cory Doctorow's book with an explanation of why "enshittification" doesn't only infect the online world.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?

Sick of scrolling through junk results, AI-generated ads and links to lookalike products? The author and activist behind the term ‘enshittification’ explains what’s gone wrong with the internet – and ...

www.theguardian.com

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