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Adam Rutherford

@adamrutherford.bsky.social
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I had a marvellous time ruining everything. Professor of Genetics @UCL, Public Humanities Fellow @SAS. Ex-President of @Humanists_UK Genetics, race, eugenics, books, cricket, +–=÷× @kbjmanagement adamrutherford.com

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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 13h
One day, we will look back on the musings of these egomaniacal showboating cranks who somehow convinced first academia and subsequently the world that they had some sort of philosophical wisdom beyond the reach of mortals.
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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Books are woke.
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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
<are we the baddies meme> www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Wait what, Tom Watson went to work for Palantir??
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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
<Adam has entered the chat>
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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Absolute trash, by trash people who are not scientists
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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Oh good find!
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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I think this might be a new category: metamansplaining
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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Well done to the science Nobel Prizes, awarded to six men. Finally, this tragically under-represented demographic getting the recognition they need. If you want to hear what i REALLY think about the Nobel Prizes, try this with @ppfideas.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNQh...
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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Can't believe the rejected mine. The Doctor and companion to be played by Lauren Layfield and Hacker T. Dog. Davros is back but he's Grotbags. The Master played by Pinky from Pink and the Brain.
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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I have similar complaints about Best Kebabs in Catford.
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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Quote RT is switched off on my last RT, but let me say that @matthewcobb.bsky.social’s commentary on the new Rosalind Franklin DNA Photo 49 article is a chef’s kiss history of science explainer by a true expert. A he real events are so my CV more interesting than the legend.
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Matthew Cobb @matthewcobb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
A lot of excitement on here about the article in Science summarising the discoveries of @alistairsponsel.bsky.social and Brian Sutton, just published in the Journal of the History of Biology. Some people have asked, so here is what I think they show, and what are the implications:
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Photograph 49 is the Key to Understanding the History of Rosalind Franklin’s DNA Photograph 51 - Journal of the History of Biology
This essay, co-authored by a historian of science and an X-ray crystallographer, sheds new light on Rosalind Franklin’s Photograph 51. We refute the infamous claim that, unlike James Watson, Franklin ...
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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I don’t know which one came first, but he uses whistles of varying frequencies as part of the anthropomorphic lab.
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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
And the weather map. Sort of. And new way to cut round cakes. And a hat with ventilation.
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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I so do. Wasn’t there some crazy stat about how much he ran that game?
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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It was a good day.
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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
That's it! Thank you, and not to all the VERY FUNNY suggestions from everyone else.
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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
What do you call the insert into a dimmer switch which makes it a non-dimmer?
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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Knowingly doing crime to develop your product.
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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
'Hits out' is one of those headline phrases that no-one outside of headline writers ever says. See also 'dubbed', to name something.
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Now do everywhere else www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Meta glasses banned from courts in England and Wales
Exclusive: Court service says anyone trying to enter buildings with glasses will have them confiscated and returned when they leave
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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
What a treat!
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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
He did not say that did he? Really? Cos that means he’s insane. And probably going to jail.
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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The environmental costs of AI is mostly in the infrastructure required to build these unwanted sinks, and here are these avaricious ghouls avoiding paying for their environmental desecration.
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Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Who will speak for me when I can no longer speak for myself? So enjoyed talking to David Runciman about the politics of old age and Beauvoir's astonishingly prescient 1970 book on Old Age - La Vieillesse.
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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Do it.
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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
My students often ask me how I got into writing for the Guardian. The answer is 'I emailed Georgina Henry and she said yes. It was a very different time'.
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Past Present Future Podcast @ppfideas.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
NEW EPISODE OUT NOW! For the final episode in our series on living in an ageing world David talks to @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social about one of the most interesting and challenging of all writers on the subject of old age – Simone de Beauvoir. Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
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Simon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Today marks the 25th anniversary (😯) of our publication on discovery of FOXP2. To commemorate, I’ll repost a few prior threads about the gene. Here’s my explainer of how we tracked down FOXP2 & implicated it in speech/language deficits, in the days before completion of the human genome project.🗣️🧬🧪👇
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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Can I have it? To complete my pimp look.
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Charlotte Houldcroft @virologyhouldcroft.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Fantastic outgoing third year Cambridge Genetics student Chris Leung has turned his prize-winning project on ARG methods for DNA viruses into a preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... @aylwyn-scally.bsky.social & I welcome your feedback.
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Statistical inference of virus evolution using ancestral recombination graphs
Ancestral recombination graphs (ARGs) represent the coalescent history at every locus in the genome, subject to mutation and recombination. Modelling viruses using the coalescent with recombination re...
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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I sleep talk: My wife recorded what I said in my dream this morning: 'Christopher Columbus. In a basement. Too many pigs. No, they are actually swine. Feral swine. Many feral swine.'
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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
misophonia
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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I found an error on every other page for the first 40. It's comically bad.
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Not surprised in the least. It’s a masterpiece.
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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Part time is also great, meaning 5 days a week rather than the usual 9.
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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
But that's such bullshit too! They make such a song and dance abut practical effects, but it's crammed with digital. (I know you know this, but I am humourless about Nolan.)
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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
See also: vfx for Jurassic Park are still incredible after 30 years, vfx for Jurassic Park inferior sequels: arse.
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ET Heisenberg @utdheisenberg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Man City when asked to provide their “irrefutable evidence.”
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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Random: I’ve got a pair of tix for First Aid Kit tonight at the RAH, 70 each. We can’t go.
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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Also: men getting out of cars.
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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Do the stats for women! It’s 5.
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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Remember: the hype IS the product.
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Velour Shirt @object.works · 29/09/2026
This is a metaphor for so many things these days that I couldn't choose
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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
My prediction - and I am happy to wrong about this - is that this will soon turn out to be inconsequential and will be quietly forgotten, in the overgrown garden of forgotten big claims. The hype IS the product.
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Secret Agent Number Six @designationsix.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Elon Musk as he really is and he is pissed about it. boingboing.net/2026/09/25/o...
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Official trailer for "Musk" documentary
If you haven't figured out the deal with Elon Musk, yet, a blockbuster documentary is on its way to explain it in detail. Filmed by Alex Gibney (Enron: The Smartest…
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Sarah Elizabeth Cox @oispooky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed; Second, it is violently opposed; and Third, it is 4 for £1.00.
Sign in a Clacton charity shop which reads Books 99p each. Fact based books 4 for £1.00
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