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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 9h

Kathleen Lonsdale's notebook used while determining the crystal structure is also rather wonderful - such elegant handwritten calculations.

Notebook of Kathleen Lonsdale for determining the crystal structure of benzene.

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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 9h

Just popped into the Royal Institution for a coffee, to discover they have a lovely display on benzene to mark the bicentenary of Faraday's discovery of it. Here are his notes, his paper, and one of his first samples. Glorious.

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Mario González-Jiménez @mariogonzalez.es · 1d

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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 2d

Next time an institution tells you how seriously it takes research misconduct, ask them if it's *this* seriously. www.bmj.com/content/297/...

In 1916 the BMJ published an article about the work done by James Shearer, an American physician working in the British Army as a sergeant (because he had no British qualification). He had described a
"delineator" which was better than x rays for portraying gunshot wounds. This caused a sensation and a lot of interest — but on investigation the work was found to have been invented. The BMJ published a retraction, but Shearer was tried by court martial and sentenced to death by firing squad.

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El BOE nuestro de cada día @elboenuestrodecadadia.es · 2d

El Gobierno concede al divulgador científico Javier Santolalla la encomienda de Alfonso X el sabio: boe.es/boe/dias/202... #BOE

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Mario González-Jiménez @mariogonzalez.es · 3d

Salmon swimming upstream through the Scottish rivers

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James Chalmers @jameschalmers.bsky.social · 4d

The Fahrenheit Thermometer in Gdańsk, in honour of the scale’s inventor, features two important design choices:

- What did Daniel Fahrenheit look like? We don’t know but we’re guessing “ripped”

- look we have to put Celsius on the scale as well or people won’t understand it otherwise

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Mario González-Jiménez @mariogonzalez.es · 4d

Exactly! 🙂

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Mario González-Jiménez @mariogonzalez.es · 5d

The Argyle Street Ash, crowned Britain’s Tree of the Year 2025, this afternoon.

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Mario González-Jiménez @mariogonzalez.es · 7d

Everyone working on metal–organic frameworks today:

Mario González-Jiménez @mariogonzalez.es · 9d

As we say in Spain “This plan is perfect, no flaws at all”

www.politico.eu/article/eu-c...

Mario González-Jiménez @mariogonzalez.es · 9d

😂😂😂

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European Space Agency @esa.int · 11d

Estrack: tracking satellites at the speed of light ✨

Today, we expanded our deep space communication capabilities with the construction of a new 35-metre deep space antenna at New Norcia station, Australia, to help meet our fast increasing data download needs.

🔗 esa.int/Enabling_Sup...

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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 13d

Just caught up on this fascinating paper in Science in August. It reports evidence of strong selective pressure from breeding of horses around 5000-3000 years ago in Central Asia. One reason it's interesting is that the selection is *really* strong... /1
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Selection at the GSDMC locus in horses and its implications for human mobility

Horsepower revolutionized human history through enhanced mobility, transport, and warfare. However, the suite of biological traits that reshaped horses during domestication remains unclear. We scanned...

www.science.org

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 14d

The Royal Society has met to discuss Elon Musk – and they’re NOT removing his fellowship. They are criticising him publicly, but stopping short of actual removal.

This feels like the kind of compromise that will please *absolutely nobody*.

“I am increasingly concerned over threats to the values that allow science to flourish. Today at a meeting of the Royal Society’s Council, I led a discussion regarding some of those threats.

“Science thrives when individuals and institutions have the freedom to carry out research without fear of discrimination, censorship, or other restrictions that would hinder their work. In support of that, Council believes that it is not the role of the Royal Society to police the personal political opinions of individual Fellows and disciplinary procedures should not be initiated because of a Fellow’s social and political views.

“However, the Society can and will criticise Fellows who act in a way that runs counter to the values of tolerance, courtesy and respect for others that allow science to flourish. Elon Musk’s contribution to the ‘Unite the Kingdom’ rally is an example of a growing tendency towards the use of the language of violence, and narratives of division and polarisation. This language and these narratives threaten the values that enable science to thrive and the Royal Society rejects them, from wherever they originate.”

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Mario González-Jiménez @mariogonzalez.es · 16d

I’m really looking forward to the new Sims…

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 16d

The video game publisher Electronic Arts announced on Monday plans to be taken private in a deal valued at roughly $55 billion by a group of investors that includes Jared Kushner and Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund. The deal is among the largest buyouts ever.

$55 Billion Deal for Electronic Arts Is Among the Biggest Buyouts Ever

Jared Kushner’s private equity firm and Saudi Arabia’s sovereign fund are among the investors taking the video game giant private.

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Mario González-Jiménez @mariogonzalez.es · 17d

Sunday!

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Dinamita pa los pollos - Pandilleros

YouTube video by Arqueólogo Digital

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Edward Elderman @elderman.bsky.social · 19d

This only happens to you once

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Mario González-Jiménez @mariogonzalez.es · 20d

Watching this documentary about the last time scientists were really under fire

Mario González-Jiménez @mariogonzalez.es · 20d

🤤🤤🤤

Mario González-Jiménez @mariogonzalez.es · 21d

Juas! Lo hizo!

Jimmy Kimmel @jimmykimmel.com · 21d

As I was saying…

Jimmy Kimmel is Back!

YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live

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Mario González-Jiménez @mariogonzalez.es · 22d

Jimmy Kimmel debería regresar esta noche a lo Fray Luis de León y empezar su monólogo con un “Decíamos ayer…”

Mario González-Jiménez @mariogonzalez.es · 22d

[Cries in Spanish]

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European Space Agency @esa.int · 23d

Coming up tonight at 19:19 BST/20:19 CEST: the September #Equinox! This image from Meteosat-12, taken this morning, shows Earth near the equinox - when the terminator appears as a straight line dividing the planet into equal halves of light and dark.

@wmo-global.bsky.social @eumetsat.int

This image from Meteosat-12, captured this morning, 22 September 2025, shows Earth on the equinox — when the terminator line runs from pole to pole, dividing the planet into equal halves of light and dark. From space, it appears as a strikingly vertical line.

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Mario González-Jiménez @mariogonzalez.es · 23d

Last night I watched “All the President’s Men” again, as a tribute to Robert Redford, and it reinforced my long-standing theory about the film: something must have happened during filming, forcing them to conclude the movie by explaining the ending through some teletype messages

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