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KateW @kateweb.bsky.social · 5h

Ha! Not that big a fan forums.

KateW @kateweb.bsky.social · 5h

I think you already know the answer.

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KateW @kateweb.bsky.social · 5h

Looking gorgeous!

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KateW @kateweb.bsky.social · 6h

Maybe you're just a natural. I made one lockdown loaf of soda bread and it looked as though a dough bomb had exploded in my kitchen...

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KateW @kateweb.bsky.social · 6h

If I'd ever worried my walls aren't solid, drilling holes in them would have entirely dealt with those qualms. It's taken over an hour to get three holes deep enough for rawlplugs and I had to recharge the drill twice.

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 1d

This is our dog Nutmeg.

She will be 12 this month. She lost her eyesight gradually a couple of years ago. We knew she had cataracts from her milky eyes, but one day we realised they had got pretty bad. (How we realised how bad they had got is another story I will post on here at some point).

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KateW @kateweb.bsky.social · 8h

Rumpole's had an argument with She Who Must Be Obeyed, tried to sleep in chambers and ended up setting fire to Erskine-Brown's kitchen. "Whoopsie..."

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Nearly Legal @nearlylegal.co.uk · 8h

Definitely autumnal here…

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KateW @kateweb.bsky.social · 11h

I've got some questions about how well "anxiety-like behaviour" in mice matches anxiety in humans. The paper suggests the main measures are time in the light area of a dark/light box, and in the centre of an open field, so...

thetranscendedman @atranscendedman.bsky.social · 1d

Florey Institute scientists found that male mice infected with SARS-CoV-2 before conception produced offspring with higher anxiety, linked to RNA changes in their sperm.

The study suggests COVID-19 infection in fathers may affect future generations.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Paternal SARS-CoV-2 infection impacts sperm small noncoding RNAs and increases anxiety in offspring in a sex-dependent manner - Nature Communications

Whether paternal pre-conceptual SARS-CoV-2 infection impacts sperm RNA content, or effects offspring phenotypes, has not been previously investigated. Here authors report changes in sperm noncoding RNAs in SARS-CoV-2 infected sires and increased anxiety-like behaviors in offspring.

www.nature.com

KateW @kateweb.bsky.social · 11h

Shop on my local high street that's always 'Closing Down!' but he er closes has found a more irritating way to proclaim that. Instead of a guy standing by the door shouting, they now play a computer voice with really strange emphasis, saying "Last week, huge sale - come and look!".

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KateW @kateweb.bsky.social · 12h

That's something, I guess.

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 13h

Today I learned there’s a penguin called Jane Goodall and she’s travelled 5000km since April.

A map of the east coast of South America, with several tracking lines, each representing a penguin. Jane Goodall’s line is highlighted in pale pink. There is also an inset with her facts and figures: body weight 4600g, tagged 25th April 2025, distance travelled 4769.3 km, average speed 2 kmh.

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KateW @kateweb.bsky.social · 13h

Oh, that's frustrating! Sorry.

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Gabby HC, but a ghost, hiding in a corner @scriblit.bsky.social · 13h

I'm doing the children in read auction again this year! Signed & inscribed paperbacks of Cursed Under London and Cursed in the Lost City up for grabs! www.jumblebee.co.uk/auction/deta...

Children in Read 2025

'The Largest Signed Book Auction In The World'Authors and Illustrators around the globe, sign, dedicate, and send their books to their successful bidders.All Postage & Packaging is free.All proceeds a...

www.jumblebee.co.uk

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KateW @kateweb.bsky.social · 13h

Hard to find a clearer example of administrative incompetence than firing people on Friday, belatedly realising they do something really important, and having to un-fire them on Saturday.

Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 1d

Source:

Trump Administration Will Rehire Scores of Experts Fired in Error

www.nytimes.com

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 14h

“More than half of the work done by women in the period between the 16th and 18th centuries took place outside of the home, and around half of all housework and three-quarters of care work was conducted professionally for other households” [England]

phys.org/news/2025-10...