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Mark Webster

@markrennywebster.bsky.social

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I'll always be a scientist. I used to be a forensic scientist and before that, a reproductive endocrinologist. Staffordshire, UK

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Mark Webster @markrennywebster.bsky.social · 3d

Afternoon dog walk on Pipe Green ancient meadow #Lichfield #Staffordshire #fungifriends The wax caps aren't up yet.

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Mark Webster @markrennywebster.bsky.social · 12d

Squirrels!

Mark Webster @markrennywebster.bsky.social · 13d

😁 Seestar S30. From my front garden, near Lichfield UK.

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Mark Webster @markrennywebster.bsky.social · 13d

Beurre manié at the end is what I do.

Mark Webster @markrennywebster.bsky.social · 22d

ID is a possible solution to one problem. They're a gesture to the French to buy more cooperation, and that cooperation may achieve something.

Mark Webster @markrennywebster.bsky.social · 25d

It is Jon Culshaw doing an imitation of #Trump currently addressing the #UN , isn't it?

Mark Webster @markrennywebster.bsky.social · 26d

I'm an amateur astrophotographer.

I've been interested in astronomy for more than 60 years.

Mark Webster @markrennywebster.bsky.social · 26d

Yes

Mark Webster @markrennywebster.bsky.social · 26d

@bot.astronomy.blue signup

Mark Webster @markrennywebster.bsky.social · Sep 12

The building next to the boating pool.

Mark Webster @markrennywebster.bsky.social · Sep 10

Arituclate? It's a perfectly cromulent word.

Mark Webster @markrennywebster.bsky.social · Sep 4

Lord Nugent of Guildford proposed an amendment of an existing transport bill, supported by Barry Sheerman in the Commons.

Mark Webster @markrennywebster.bsky.social · Sep 3

Please, please ... Not Matthew Syed.

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Mark Webster @markrennywebster.bsky.social · Sep 2

He'll turn out to be the Badenoch of the Greens.

Mark Webster @markrennywebster.bsky.social · Sep 2

In context. This was a picture taken on St George's day, long before the present bout of flag shagging.

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Mark Webster @markrennywebster.bsky.social · Sep 1

Everyone hates the English:

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Mark Webster @markrennywebster.bsky.social · Aug 28

I should've spoken up, my companion had the same opinion: a solid 3 out of 10.

Mark Webster @markrennywebster.bsky.social · Aug 28

I'm watching The Thursday Murder Club, quietly so as not to annoy my companion who enjoys this kind of film.

It's dreadful. Like something written by AI.

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Mark Webster @markrennywebster.bsky.social · Aug 28

🧪

arstechnica.com/science/2025...

Bluesky now platform of choice for science community

It’s not just you. Survey says: “Twitter sucks now and all the cool kids are moving to Bluesky”…

arstechnica.com

Mark Webster @markrennywebster.bsky.social · Aug 27

Smart scope users like me can image many galaxies, but I do think Andromeda is uniquely attractive because it looks like depictions of our own galaxy imprinted in our memories since we were kids.

This is nice, but it ain't home

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Mark Webster @markrennywebster.bsky.social · Aug 27

It's because it's like looking at a mirror reflection of our home galaxy.

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Mark Webster @markrennywebster.bsky.social · Aug 12

Walter Scott wrote this on dogs, but it applies equally to cats:

I have sometimes thought of the final cause of dogs having such short lives and I am quite satisfied it is in compassion to the human race; for if we suffer so much in losing a dog after an acquaintance of ten or twelve years, what would it be if they were to live double that time?

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Mark Webster @markrennywebster.bsky.social · Aug 8

Especially rowing😂

Mark Webster @markrennywebster.bsky.social · Aug 7

Contains a synthetic DNA marker.

Mark Webster @markrennywebster.bsky.social · Aug 6

I was a kid with a Saturday job washing up in a Greek family run café in the 70s. Son of the family made moussaka at the end of the day using potatoes.

Now, I always make moussaka using waxy potatoes and aubergine. Slices like a lovely savoury cake