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Will Glynn 🏳️‍🌈🪐🧬🔶
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I work in a lab performing extractions, PCRs and other molecular biology techniques | Amateur astronomer | Dabbler in languages | Aspiring Gaeilgeoir | Living with ARVC | he/him/his
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It's a real full-circle moment because rhetoric that was refined in anti-trans propaganda is now being turned around to argue against gay marriage.

Note the renewed focus on children and the deployment of "biological parents" as a more-naturalized, more 'legitimate' category.
January 30, 2026 at 4:40 AM
Why is every DVD nowadays £30 and out of print 🎥🎞️📀
January 30, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Tantalising single-transit detection of a 1.06R🜨 planet in the outer habitable zone of an orange dwarf star. Mass, and hence composition, are still unknown 🟠🪐🔭 iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3...
A Cool Earth-sized Planet Candidate Transiting a Tenth Magnitude K-dwarf From K2
A Cool Earth-sized Planet Candidate Transiting a Tenth Magnitude K-dwarf From K2, Venner, Alexander, Vanderburg, Andrew, Huang, Chelsea X., Dholakia, Shishir, Schwengeler, Hans Martin, Howell, Steve B., Wittenmyer, Robert A., Kristiansen, Martti H., Omohundro, Mark, Terentev, Ivan A.
iopscience.iop.org
January 29, 2026 at 7:00 PM
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Stub articles on Irish Wikipedia are called “síolta”, meaning “seeds” 🌱
I feel I’m almost getting to the point where I can read Wikipedia articles in Irish. Ultimately something I’d love to do is add to the articles myself once I’m a fully-fledged Gaeilgeoir. It would be a nice way to give back #speirgorm
January 29, 2026 at 5:22 PM
Alrighty, I think that’s enough work done on my presentation for one evening 🧠🧪💻
January 28, 2026 at 12:17 AM
Ensembl is very slow tonight 🧬🧪
January 27, 2026 at 9:48 PM
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Using machine learning to sort over 80,000 bacterial genomes into aerobes and anaerobes, researchers find that oxygen-breathing bacteria likely evolved in local oxygen-rich environments 200–400 million years before the Great Oxidation Event. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/jZWQ50Y3LhU
January 26, 2026 at 7:00 PM
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The study shows that nitrogenase enzymes have maintained stable isotope signatures over billions of years, revealing how ancient #microbes shaped Earth’s #nitrogen cycle and offering a new experimental framework for probing early life.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Resurrected nitrogenases recapitulate canonical N-isotope biosignatures over two billion years - Nature Communications
The study shows that nitrogenase enzymes have maintained stable isotope signatures over billions of years, revealing how ancient microbes shaped Earth’s nitrogen cycle and offering a new experimental ...
www.nature.com
January 27, 2026 at 7:18 PM
I feel I’m almost getting to the point where I can read Wikipedia articles in Irish. Ultimately something I’d love to do is add to the articles myself once I’m a fully-fledged Gaeilgeoir. It would be a nice way to give back #speirgorm
January 27, 2026 at 12:51 AM
The observation that Alzheimer’s disease and cancer rarely coincide has uncovered the ability of a tumour by-product to break up harmful protein aggregates in the brain 🧠🧪 www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...
Peripheral cancer attenuates amyloid pathology in Alzheimer’s disease via cystatin-c activation of TREM2
Peripheral cancer inhibits amyloid pathology and rescues cognition of Alzheimer’s disease through secretion of cystatin-c (Cyst-C), which binds amyloid oligomers and activates TREM2 in microglia and e...
www.cell.com
January 23, 2026 at 5:12 PM
I was confused as to whether Irish “ar” triggers eclipsis, lenition or both, and it turns out to actually be three separate words in a trenchcoat #speirgorm #langsky
January 23, 2026 at 10:41 AM
Currently harvesting papers for the final assignment of my module 📑🧬🧪
January 22, 2026 at 1:00 PM
Iranian women have more balls than American men.
January 21, 2026 at 11:22 AM
Caraway seed cake made this evening. I used a doubled-up version of Grace Mulligan’s recipe «The Farmhouse Kitchen Baking Book». I further tweaked it by using large eggs instead of medium, increasing the concentration of caraway seeds by 50% and adding a teaspoon of vanilla extract 🍰🍽️
January 20, 2026 at 7:49 PM
I found a mass of crab shells washed up on Goring Beach today, is anyone able to identify the species for me?
January 20, 2026 at 3:45 PM
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very sincerely, please be aware that no one on social media, least of all massive accounts, is going to give you advance warning of u.s. miltary action except by accident

speaking assuredly about unknowable things drives traffic but you are better off going out and touching grass
January 19, 2026 at 4:18 PM
In lighter news, Arabic and Turkish have joined my dictionary collection 📚 #langsky
January 19, 2026 at 6:34 PM
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wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage
January 15, 2026 at 1:47 PM
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Same-sex sexual behaviour in non-human primates is associated with ecological factors, life history and social structure, according to research in Nature Ecology & Evolution. go.nature.com/3LBPHD0 🧪
January 15, 2026 at 11:18 AM
Open access and highly informative, give yourself a treat and take a look 🧬
January 15, 2026 at 11:15 AM
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In Iran sollen tausende Menschen getötet worden sein. Seit Donnerstag ist das Netz dort blockiert. Was bedeutet der Internet-Blackout für die Menschen? FAQs von @jeanbaeck.bsky.social und mir auf @taz.de:
taz.de/Massenprotes...
Massenproteste im Iran: Fragen und Antworten zur Internet-Sperre
Im Iran sollen tausende Menschen getötet worden sein. Seit Donnerstag ist das Netz dort blockiert. Was bedeutet der Internet-Blackout für die Menschen?
taz.de
January 13, 2026 at 7:13 PM
Made it through my epicardial ablation. Apparently I gave the electrophysiologists quite the challenge, but after 6 hours all the faulty circuits had been blocked and no ventricular tachycardia could be induced #arvc #cardiomyopathy 🫀
January 13, 2026 at 5:42 PM
Solidarity with the protestors in #Iran; I hope the theocracy will soon be toppled and the Iranian people will get the freedom, justice and agency they deserve
January 12, 2026 at 8:47 PM