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Fergus O'Farrell
@fergusofarrell.bsky.social
Doctor (Histopathology Trainee) & Neuroscience postdoc. Neuropathology. Autopsy.
Neuroscience PhD via UCL MBPhD. Neuron-glial-vascular interactions, physiology, literature, classical music, microscopy.
🌿📚🏳️‍🌈 he/him. Cambridge (and hopefully London again..)
Medium rare. Vanishingly common. Not rare but not not uncommon.
April 27, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Prescient urban planners installed this lovely sculpture of the Down Jones index in Cambridge 😌.
#stockmarketcrash
April 6, 2025 at 12:46 PM
This is how post-mortems should be documented 😉. From: Descriptive catalogue of the pathological series in the Hunterian Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (1966) #PathSky
February 17, 2025 at 3:30 PM
"The drowsy stillness of the afternoon was shattered by what sounded to his strained senses like G.K. Chesterton falling on a sheet of tin." P. G. Wodehouse
February 15, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books #BookSky #BookChallenge

Day 13 (ish)

Cancer Ward, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
January 1, 2025 at 12:11 PM
My neuroscience Christmas decorations c. 2013
December 25, 2024 at 11:57 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books #BookSky #BookChallenge

Day 12

War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
December 25, 2024 at 11:55 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books #BookSky #BookChallenge

Day 11

Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray
December 24, 2024 at 11:32 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books #BookSky #BookChallenge

Day 10

Middlemarch, George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)
December 23, 2024 at 6:51 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books #BookSky #BookChallenge

Day 9

A Manual for Cleaning Women, Lucia Berlin
December 22, 2024 at 10:05 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books #BookSky #BookChallenge

Day 8

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark
December 21, 2024 at 7:24 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books #BookSky #BookChallenge

Day 7

The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
December 20, 2024 at 7:03 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books #BookSky #BookChallenge

Day 6

Bleak House, Charles Dickens
December 19, 2024 at 3:51 PM
Suitably miniature mince pies for the microscopist in your life.
?asteroid bodies
#pathsky
December 19, 2024 at 2:32 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books #BookSky #BookChallenge

Day 5

Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs
December 18, 2024 at 3:58 PM
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Day 4

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman. Laurence Sterne
December 17, 2024 at 1:06 PM
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Day 3

The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
December 16, 2024 at 10:11 PM
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Day 2

The Unnatural Nature of Science, Lewis Wolpert
December 13, 2024 at 3:46 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books #BookSky #BookChallenge

Day 1

A Dead Man in Deptford, Anthony Burgess.
December 12, 2024 at 8:10 AM
Today's mood:
December 9, 2024 at 7:20 PM
Today's library highlight: laryngeal carcinoma cells. Wood carving, Lionel Beale (1861).
December 9, 2024 at 7:18 PM
BBC Breaking News 🔉
December 1, 2024 at 12:23 AM
When you live in Cambridge, this constitutes excitement.
November 29, 2024 at 8:57 PM
Mood.
November 25, 2024 at 11:35 AM
This is, erm, quite the Amazon review for The Washington Manual of Surgical Pathology. Recommended for ALL children. Without any doubt... #PathSky
November 24, 2024 at 10:33 PM