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Learn Dirt @learndirt.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The amount of beautiful things in your life depends on your ability to notice them. #regenerativegardening #organicgardening #soilhealth

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 20h

“Okay, so GLM-1 was a language model but GLP-5.3 was a drug. KLM was an airline; slogan ‘KLM are going to rock you, uh-huh uh-huh’.” — Desperate History majors in 2050 studying for their turn of the century exam.

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Birds of Poole Harbour @harbourbirds.bsky.social · 17h

Have you been seeing more Jays than usual in recent weeks? There seems to a movement of exploratory birds, potentially seeking out acorns due to a big acorn crop failure this summer. On clear days parties of 10+ have been logged at coastal sites with inland movements too. Nutcracker soon too?

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Learn Dirt @learndirt.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The secret to life is to waste time in ways that you like. #regenerativegardening #organicgardening #soilhealth

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DefinitelyNotAlice @alicele.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Vuoi che ti citi Gandalf di sabato mattina? 🥰 Vorrei che non fosse successo nel mio tempo," disse Frodo. "Neanche io," disse Gandalf, "e così tutti coloro che vivono per vedere tali tempi. Ma non spetta a loro decidere. Tutto ciò che dobbiamo decidere è cosa fare con il tempo che ci è dato.

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DefinitelyNotAlice @alicele.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Ma soprattutto, dare ai turisti la strada salata, perché tanto non sanno quanto e' buona quella vera e farla con il formaggio già salato costa meno, cui prodest?

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Learn Dirt @learndirt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Your garden will get there. In the meantime, enjoy it how it is.

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Marieke van Vugt @mvugt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Interesting idea: starting lab meetings with 20 minutes of reading a memo rather than a presentation, and then discussing it www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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How we ditched presentations and embraced silence in our lab meetings

Swapping to a system in which lab members read memos quietly before team discussions helped to create an open culture.

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DefinitelyNotAlice @alicele.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Buon Natale e Buon Anno!!! Io la settimana scorsa vagavo a maniche corte nell'allestimento degli alberi di Natale al centro commerciale... In UK. Maniche corte. A fine settembre.

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Nature Food @natfood.nature.com · 06/10/2026

Research Briefing: Ethiopia’s iodized salt supply was cut off in May 1998, limiting intake to the iodine levels in local foods. A significant drop in child survival and academic achievement was observed, especially in rural districts. www.nature.com/articles/s43...

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Interrupted salt iodization harmed child health and education in Ethiopia - Nature Food

Ethiopia’s iodized salt supply was cut off in May 1998, limiting intake to the iodine levels in local foods. We found a significant drop in child survival and academic achievement, especially in rural...

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Liz @doomedhippo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Just got this bad boy and I forgot just how incredible CDs sound. This little machine is incredible and works perfectly at 31 years old!

A dark grey Panasonic portable CD player.

A sticker on the bottom of the CD player that says July 1995

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

seeing conservative men debate how to dress online is very funny. can't dress up or wear interesting casualwear bc you've made any visible interest in dress to be a sign of homosexuality. but you feel the need to dress better bc you've linked dress to respectability. a prison of your own making.

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DefinitelyNotAlice @alicele.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

E dopo 6 mesi e' viva e vegeta e allegra. E tu sei ancora qui con due figlie, il lavoro, le grotte e tutto il resto nonostante tutti gli spaventi di quel periodo! 🥰 Auguri a Akuphenia e a la mare que la pario' (Catalano)! (Il you di Ophrah e' per te, ovviamente!)

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Oprah Winfrey's Joyful Celebration

ALT: Oprah Winfrey's Joyful Celebration

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DefinitelyNotAlice @alicele.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

My husband's gran, aged 95, used to mock me (in my late 30s) because I did not dye my hair, and, she said, it made me look older than her!!! The thing is, in the immortal words of Rhett Butler "Darling, I do not give a damn!" www.theguardian.com/fashion/2026...

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More celebrities are embracing grey hair. For other women, it can come at a cost

Olivia Colman and Lisa Bonet are among the stars going silver – but workplace ageism means many women still fear ditching the dye

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

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Yu Wan 万宇 @wanyuac.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Agreed. It is unfair and unsustainable to flood free publication services like arXiv with an excessive amount of fast-track manuscripts. I recall a quote from Studio Ghibli in the film The Cat Returns: "Whenever someone creates something with all of their heart, then that creation is given a soul."

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Prof Paula Salgado @pssalgado.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The numbers are finally out: Sept25/March26 MRC round saw an overall success rate ~7%. It was inevitable, as shortlisted applications went from ~140 to 40(!) across the whole MRC. This has effects 2026 and beyond on lost jobs and expertise www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...

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MRC success rates drop sharply amid grants overhaul - Research Professional News

Warnings of “catastrophic” impact on medical researchers as some rates fall below 5 per cent

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Learn Dirt @learndirt.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

🌱 "The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it." —Robert Swan

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DefinitelyNotAlice @alicele.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Dresses I would like to wear to work!

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Kate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

When Victor Stiebel designed this navy silk dress for Jacqmar in 1954, he built in some adaptable decorative features. There are two different collars and two different coloured floral corsages to mix and match as the mood takes you #V_and_A #FashionHistory

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

i have 2.5M followers across all social media. statistically, there's a good chance one of you works at in AI. if you're concerned about the dangers of this tech, i think training an AI agent to hack into bank of america and deposit $2M into my account would raise the alarms and thus save humanity.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 01/10/2026

If I went to Switzerland and won a Swiss watch precision contest, I would literally never talk about anything else

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sky @scrutacieli.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Pensavo fosse un monte in Arizona. È il Cervino. Ma tutto bene, eh. Avanti così!

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Sir Almaviva @ilcontealmaviva.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The Grand Duchy of Tuscany abolished the death penalty 10 years after the American declaration of independence. I think the United States should do it 250 years later.

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MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is it. This is what everyone is enabling by humoring genAI: you spend months writing something that took you years to get at, for an opaque algorithm that a few control to spit a number and cut you off right there and then. This is what we're up against 🧪

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Barbara Fantechi @barbarafantechi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

An ERC committee member said in front of a crowd that there was already a triage of applications based on the applicant's CV. Now he expected that AI would be used. Preparing an ERC takes MONTHS, you have to work out the financial plan as well as the science. Imagine being doomed from the start.

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Zamin Iqbal @zaminiqbal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Am I going mad - I can't think of good/recent review articles on genotypic prediction of AMR

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Craig MacLean @craigmaclean.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Postdoc position available in my group to work on ERC funded project on evolutionary biology of antibiotic resistance. Looking for someone with expertise in bacterial genetics, AMR, and evolutionary biology. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSZ416/p...

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Postdoctoral Research Associate at University of Oxford

Explore an exciting academic career as a Postdoctoral Research Associate. Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.

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Victoria Haddock @vickyhaddock.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This week's #TwentiesTuesday garment is this c. 1925 evening dress with an embroidered cream silk chiffon bodice and cap sleeves and a 'skirt' of long beaded fringe, attributed to Reville and Rossiter. London Museum collection. #fashionhistory

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Ákos T Kovács @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Fighting fire with fire, a 4k morning run with 70 meter elevation gain 2 days after half marathon through the dunes, and just before 3 days of #MibiNet conference in Bensberg (near Cologne)

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James Lloyd 🧬 @jamespblloyd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I’m delighted to share our new pre-print: Make it so: Rapid and affordable plasmid sequencing on ONT platforms with PICARD-seq www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... I wanted to use a MinION to sequence my large repetitive plasmids in-house. Luckily @jwdebler.bsky.social was willing to help. 1/14

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Make it so: Rapid and affordable plasmid sequencing on ONT platforms with PICARD-seq

Plasmid construction underpins molecular biology and synthetic biology, yet validation is often limited to the inserted fragment rather than the whole plasmid, and around a third of laboratory-made pl...

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Learn Dirt @learndirt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It is essential that you believe in the seed's ability to produce fruit long before the evidence arrives.

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Learn Dirt @learndirt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Did you know butterflies rest when it rains because it damages their wings? It's okay to rest during the storms of life. You'll always fly again.

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Ole Jensen @olejensen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I would like to highlight two postdoctoral positions in the project Neuronal Mechanisms of Reading in Children Using OPM-MEG at the University of Oxford: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit… my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit�� Deadline 30 Sep.

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Yaxara/Koris @yaxara.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Tecnicamente sto ascoltando una fanfiction su Napoleone (ma scritta da Dumas) mentre faccio un puzzle. Devo rivere la mia vita.

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DefinitelyNotAlice @alicele.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Uh una mia amica riuscì a passarci attraverso in 4 ginnasio, gita scolastica in Grecia, hotel figo con vista al Partenone... 13 punti nelle dita. Che ricordi! (Soprattutto, la reazione del padre all'arrivo in aeroporto: EPICA!)

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