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Ben Krishna @benjaminkrishn3.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I was with my Godson at the weekend. He's a huge Star Wars fan but hasn't seen the movies (has loads of merchandise) has all the Harry Potter wands etc but hasn't read the books. Wondering how many children now don't even interact with pop culture but only with a simulacra of it?

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Ben Krishna @benjaminkrishn3.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It’s quite alarming how many targeted videos I’ve had in the last few days asking me not to join the army

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Ben Krishna @benjaminkrishn3.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I'm glad the journals have two factor authentication. It would be awful if a hacker got in and wrote all those reviews for me

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Ben Krishna @benjaminkrishn3.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Woke my fiancé up this morning, told her the news and then had to say “it’s ok, he did very well for a bin”

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Marc Veldhoen @marcveld.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Well, it is SARS-CoV-2 infection, and no, it does not damage "the immune system". Immune weakening (stress, medication, old age) and inflammatory mediators (any infection, trauma) can all awaken latent viruses. This is NOT SARS-CoV-2 specific.

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Ben Krishna @benjaminkrishn3.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I’m amazed that some students turn up able to write code and others can’t use excel. I genuinely can’t figure out if they’re better or worse on average than my generation of students

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Ben Krishna @benjaminkrishn3.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Remembering this quote: "Climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you’re the one filming it." www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/ce...

bbc.co.uk

Suffolk wildfire not yet under control, fire service says, but no risk to nearby nuclear plant

A major incident has been declared - one holidaymaker tells us he was woken up by "hammering" on his door and told to evacuate immediately.

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Ben Krishna @benjaminkrishn3.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Cambridge City council's website is purposefully difficult to get into, because I'd hate if someone hacked my account and paid my council tax for me

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Ben Krishna @benjaminkrishn3.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

There's basically at least one long review article for every gene under the sun, all published in late 2020 because so many scientists were locked out of the lab during the early pandemic

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Ben Krishna @benjaminkrishn3.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Fun fact, we've had 5 Prime Ministers since 2016. We also had 5 Prime Ministers between 1979 and 2016.

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Ben Krishna @benjaminkrishn3.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

"Everyone remembers COVID-19 for its early work but I think the later albums are the where the real genius should be appreciated"

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Ben Krishna @benjaminkrishn3.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

I don't think we factor viral dosage in enough when we consider symptoms. A toddler sneezed in my face 9 days ago and it's the worst I've felt since getting COVID in 2021. I bet the sheer amount of virus I was inoculated with played a role in the severity of disease!

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Ben Krishna @benjaminkrishn3.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Let my dad choose the family Christmas film. Last year was Blue Velvet, this year it’s Contagion

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Ben Krishna @benjaminkrishn3.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

The early phase of AI image generation was artistically brilliant. Prompt: Boris Jonhson observing a toilet

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Ben Krishna @benjaminkrishn3.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Not as far as I can tell but the email only addressed “Benjamin” so…

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Ben Krishna @benjaminkrishn3.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

I'm so incompetent that I just got a rejection letter for a job I didn't apply to. At least I apparently performed well at the interview?

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Ben Krishna @benjaminkrishn3.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Oddly was discussing this last night, I don’t think I rented a place with a living room between 2009 and 2017. I doubt it’s got better! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

Houses without lounges are a reality for renters

Nearly a third of homes advertised on a property sharing website had no living room.

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Ben Krishna @benjaminkrishn3.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

I love how you can word a sentence clearly, but reviewer 1 and 2 don't like the sentence so you carefully reword. Then it comes back and gets carefully reworded again. Months of back and forth before acceptance. Then the copyeditor says "correct for clarity" and it goes back to how it was!

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Ben Krishna @benjaminkrishn3.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Tidying out my parents place, this folder has every western blot I ran during my PhD

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Ben Krishna @benjaminkrishn3.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

I'd love to know whether... 1. I'm just getting old 2. UX no longer exists 3. UX as a concept has changed ...because I really struggle to log into websites these days

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Ben Krishna @benjaminkrishn3.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Hope you're doing well! I don't have the same compulsion to come on here as I did with twitter.

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Ben Krishna @benjaminkrishn3.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

I opened this app just to see if you'd say this, and you didn't disappoint!

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Ben Krishna @benjaminkrishn3.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

I'd love to understand why my local neighbourhood's section of NextDoor needs so many posts about Jeffrey Epstein

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Ben Krishna @benjaminkrishn3.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

... so the public-facing literature seems really convincing UNLESS you're in the field and chat with researchers. But I have no idea how many people have failed to find X in disease Y. Maybe it's just my mates? Publication bias muddies academic fields a lot more than people realise.

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Ben Krishna @benjaminkrishn3.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

I'm reading a very persuasive review linking disease Y to mechanism X. The issue of publication bias is so interesting though as I've spoken with plenty of people who failed to find X in disease Y. The negative data is either unpublishable or goes into small journals that people don't read....

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Ben Krishna @benjaminkrishn3.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

My favourite part of #ihw2025 was the student explaining their poster who said: "This is the mechanism we propose, which is supported by the data. I don't think we have it right really but its the best explanation we have". Quite appreciated the honesty!

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Ben Krishna @benjaminkrishn3.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Having to explain Yu Gi Oh to an Emeritus Professor #ihw2025

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Ben Krishna @benjaminkrishn3.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

…I got an email today from the SLC asking why I paid my student loan in 2021 when I wasn’t earning anything

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Ben Krishna @benjaminkrishn3.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Back in 2021 I was unemployed so I asked the SLC if I could stop repaying my student loan until I got a new job. They would only recognise me as unemployed if I took unemployment benefits. I actually got a job before I managed to get unemployment benefits….

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Ben Krishna @benjaminkrishn3.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Doing chemical safety training today, not sure why the videos all have a jazzy intro but I'm thoroughly enjoying it www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyxB...

youtube.com

How to tackle a laboratory spillage.

YouTube video by James Leith

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Ben Krishna @benjaminkrishn3.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

This is probably the most exciting result I’ve had in about 18 months!

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Ben Krishna @benjaminkrishn3.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Update, I asked them to discuss similar work in the field. They said no! What a weirdly convoluted way to get your manuscript rejected

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Ben Krishna @benjaminkrishn3.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

I'll be honest, I've read this so many times and can't work out what you mean!

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Ben Krishna @benjaminkrishn3.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

I’m amazed how many papers I read which don’t compare their data to similar studies. “We found xyz”. Ok but similar studies found wxz, why? It feels so fundamentally incurious that you wouldn’t discuss this after doing 2-3 years of work?

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Ben Krishna @benjaminkrishn3.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Adobe's stupid AI agrees with me

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Ben Krishna @benjaminkrishn3.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

I note that when you agree to review a paper within a week, they don't tell you how long the paper is beforehand

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Ben Krishna @benjaminkrishn3.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

The apheresis cone price has gone up. Feels weird that the cost of human blood is subject to inflation

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Ben Krishna @benjaminkrishn3.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

It feels so tacky now that the queen’s death was first announced on twitter. It shows how important boring, stable institutions are

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Ben Krishna @benjaminkrishn3.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

If you'd like to see more of my Dad's work, he's on Flickr (www.flickr.com/photos/18841...)

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Ben Krishna @benjaminkrishn3.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

I think it came out really nicely AND it was chosen for the front cover of Pathogens! My Mum's convinced this is his breakthrough into the big leagues.

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Ben Krishna @benjaminkrishn3.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

And after quite a bit of back-and-forth, given I have no creative skills and Dad didn't quite get what information needed to be conveyed, he made this! I think it's a really nice art/science collaboration. 3/4

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Ben Krishna @benjaminkrishn3.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

The last paper I was writing (tinyurl.com/bkback5290), I realised how useful it would be to put in a diagram showing the evolutionary tree. Pictures say thousands of words and frankly, I don't know how best to explain how things are related.... ...so I asked my dad. 2/4

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Ben Krishna @benjaminkrishn3.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

When my father retired, he decided to take up art as a hobby. I don't know much about art and he doesn't know much about science so we both just sort of nodded and said "very nice" at each other's work. The most I can say is that he seems to like chalk and pastels, like the piece I've attached 1/4

My dad's pastel drawing of a Portugese cistern in El Jadida, Morocco

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Ben Krishna @benjaminkrishn3.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

30 years after the end of the Cold War and Greece is still considered Western Europe and Poland Eastern Europe

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Ben Krishna @benjaminkrishn3.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Luckily in this case it turned out the English was a pretty minor problem compared to the data!

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Ben Krishna @benjaminkrishn3.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

I always wonder how best to review manuscripts with suboptimal English. Like I understand what they mean but it's not how it ought to be said. I refuse to correct English line by line, and I really think it's the journal's job to sort out

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