Laurence Pearl 🔥
@laurencepearl.bsky.social
Has-been structural biologist FRS (no really) reinventing himself as a computational cancer geneticist in the post-AlphaFold world. Hooked on boats. Picture - outside Leonard Cohen's house on Hydra after sailing there.
ORCID 0000-0002-6910-1809
ORCID 0000-0002-6910-1809
Oh where are the Budgets of my youth ?
A penny off purchase tax, a halfpenny on pipe tobacco, half a crown on a bottle of whisky …
A penny off purchase tax, a halfpenny on pipe tobacco, half a crown on a bottle of whisky …
November 26, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Oh where are the Budgets of my youth ?
A penny off purchase tax, a halfpenny on pipe tobacco, half a crown on a bottle of whisky …
A penny off purchase tax, a halfpenny on pipe tobacco, half a crown on a bottle of whisky …
Hogwarts now into predatory publishing
November 23, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Hogwarts now into predatory publishing
Great buzz at the @gdsc-sussex.bsky.social Annual Retreat where amongst other things we are celebrating the career of our ex-Director Tony Carr
November 7, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Great buzz at the @gdsc-sussex.bsky.social Annual Retreat where amongst other things we are celebrating the career of our ex-Director Tony Carr
I love a journal that really cares …
November 6, 2025 at 10:39 AM
I love a journal that really cares …
Lewes boarding up for the annual display of violent noisy anti-Catholic sentiment that is Bonfire Night
November 5, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Lewes boarding up for the annual display of violent noisy anti-Catholic sentiment that is Bonfire Night
Combination of 45 mph winds and rain-swelled high tide have enabled the dock pontoon to ‘quantum tunnel’ through an aluminium guide pole.
Going to be a trick to get it back into place.
Going to be a trick to get it back into place.
October 24, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Combination of 45 mph winds and rain-swelled high tide have enabled the dock pontoon to ‘quantum tunnel’ through an aluminium guide pole.
Going to be a trick to get it back into place.
Going to be a trick to get it back into place.
The Management
October 19, 2025 at 5:14 PM
The Management
Borlotti are not only one of the tastiest beans to eat, they are defo the most attractive to grow and harvest. Won’t
keep us through winter, but a few good meals here.
keep us through winter, but a few good meals here.
October 13, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Borlotti are not only one of the tastiest beans to eat, they are defo the most attractive to grow and harvest. Won’t
keep us through winter, but a few good meals here.
keep us through winter, but a few good meals here.
I am going to learn how to splice loops in dock ropes - a man needs a hobby
October 13, 2025 at 8:21 AM
I am going to learn how to splice loops in dock ropes - a man needs a hobby
Lots of royalties for Sellar and Yeatman accruing in the responses to this. The old jokes are the best
October 11, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Lots of royalties for Sellar and Yeatman accruing in the responses to this. The old jokes are the best
It’s probably the last time this year, but everything on the plate for tonight’s supper except the feta and pastry was grown by us - beetroots, mizuna, rocket, tomatoes and all the herbs - tastes wonderful !!
October 11, 2025 at 6:39 PM
It’s probably the last time this year, but everything on the plate for tonight’s supper except the feta and pastry was grown by us - beetroots, mizuna, rocket, tomatoes and all the herbs - tastes wonderful !!
And here it is riding up and down on its poles - still needs a few fittings and fenders - but it does the business
October 11, 2025 at 5:21 PM
And here it is riding up and down on its poles - still needs a few fittings and fenders - but it does the business
Might be some nominative determinism playing out here
October 3, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Might be some nominative determinism playing out here
Looking forward to the Bernal Lecture at Birkbeck College this afternoon which is dedicated to the work of the late, great and very intellectually distinct Alan Mackay, who I was taught by in the 1980s.
September 23, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Looking forward to the Bernal Lecture at Birkbeck College this afternoon which is dedicated to the work of the late, great and very intellectually distinct Alan Mackay, who I was taught by in the 1980s.
This just may be the best thing I’ve ever read
September 20, 2025 at 1:07 PM
This just may be the best thing I’ve ever read
Not at work - can confirm
September 13, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Not at work - can confirm
A new David Byrne album is a precious thing - just like a new Thomas Pynchon novel, but this year we’re getting both !!
September 9, 2025 at 6:29 PM
A new David Byrne album is a precious thing - just like a new Thomas Pynchon novel, but this year we’re getting both !!
While my Caroline is at the boat doctors, the wonderful Ben Fowler has lent us Hector, which he designed and built.
August 17, 2025 at 7:37 AM
While my Caroline is at the boat doctors, the wonderful Ben Fowler has lent us Hector, which he designed and built.
Old Hari Seldon in Foundation is the spitting image of Sir Paul Nurse
August 8, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Old Hari Seldon in Foundation is the spitting image of Sir Paul Nurse
There is order in my universe
July 26, 2025 at 8:12 PM
There is order in my universe
Dame Cleo Laine RIP
July 25, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Dame Cleo Laine RIP
Disappointed that Macron did not also take the opportunity to recognise Kurdistan, whose recognition as a free independent nation is long overdue بژی کوردستان
July 25, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Disappointed that Macron did not also take the opportunity to recognise Kurdistan, whose recognition as a free independent nation is long overdue بژی کوردستان