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Craig Winstanley @cwinstan.bsky.social · 14h

#NowPlaying William Shatner by the Bodines. Timing is everything. If they’d started up a few year’s later, I reckon they could have hitched a ride on the Madchester bandwagon & been a lot bigger.

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Craig Winstanley @cwinstan.bsky.social · 16h

Pity he was never in a position to do anything about it…

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Craig Winstanley @cwinstan.bsky.social · 17h

Think I saw Infinite Personalized Music at the Band on the Wall in the late 70s…

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Craig MacLean @craigmaclean.bsky.social · 19h

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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Craig Winstanley @cwinstan.bsky.social · 22h

I have no doubt that they can churn out shit pop for people who like shit pop, so it might be bad news for shit pop makers…(though some young jiggly things to front it will still be needed, until robot technology improves massively)

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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 29/09/2026

The rush to speculate that asylum seekers are responsible for every crime in the news is a sort of opportunistic informational terrorism. Until it’s disproved it stokes fear and hatred. When it is disproved there are no adverse consequences and they know that they only have to be lucky once.

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Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · 27/09/2026

How do Burkholderia multivorans bacteria adaptively evolve during infections of the cystic fibrosis airway? A longtime collab and intensive study of 8 patients links bacterial adaptations to disease progression. Our findings also unite prior studies. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Convergent genetic evolution within Burkholderia multivorans chronic infections correlates with lung function decline in cystic fibrosis patients

The patterns and pathways of pathogen adaptation during chronic infections can reveal the gateways microbes must unlock to colonize and persist. In chronic lung infections of cystic fibrosis (CF) pati...

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Craig Winstanley @cwinstan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Never saw the B-52s. I don’t know why. My past self needs to have a serious word with himself. Unacceptable!

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Craig Winstanley @cwinstan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I’m on B already & transported back to the Cyprus Tavern circa 1981…

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Craig Winstanley @cwinstan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#NowPlaying On my trawl through the vinyl collection, I’m on 12 inch singles 🎵 ACR…

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Craig Winstanley @cwinstan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Enid Blyton books are certainly getting darker…

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Scarred For Life Books @scarredforlife.bsky.social · 07/10/2024

CAPTAIN SCARLET (1967): Gerry & Sylvia Anderson's brilliant puppet show was one of the most deliriously violent children's series ever. Enjoy this lovely death scene montage!

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Nereide @drnereide.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This extraordinary image was created by reprocessing & merging 16 frames from Voyager 1's flyby of Jupiter in 1979. Just right of center, you can see the Great Red Spot, a huge storm system. ➡️ apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap20062... Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/A. Tranchandon 🔭🧪⚛️ #histsci #planetsci

Voyager 1 view of Jupiter. Banded clouds wrap the planet in beige, cream & pale brown. Just right of center sits the Great Red Spot, an oval storm flushed orange-red. Lower left, the bright disk of Europa is visible. Upper right, a round dark patch marks Io’s shadow on the cloud tops.

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Craig Winstanley @cwinstan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

#NowPlaying deluxe red vinyl more money than sense Boards of Canada…

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Kate Baker @ksbakes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

We have an open Assistant/Associate Professor position in Pathogen Biology at the Department of Genetics - come and join us! 🦠 🧫 🧬https://www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assistantassociate-professor-in-pathogen-genetics-pc51175

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Assistant/Associate Professor in Pathogen Genetics

Applications are invited for an Assistant or Associate Professorship in Pathogen Genetics to be held in the Department of Genetics. We are searching for a talented individual with a track record of fu...

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Alistair Coleman @alistaircoleman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I would suggest that interested parties should look up into the sky after dark. It will be the round white thing.

Where to see the September Corn Moon in
Sussex this week

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Craig Winstanley @cwinstan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

TBH we’ve only had the flooring done, but weirdly MES never wrote a song called My New Flooring… #FallFriday youtu.be/afRX8t53yeA

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My New House

YouTube video by The Fall - Topic

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Viz Comic @vizcomic.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

subscriptions >>> shop.viz.co.uk/viz358bs

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Craig Winstanley @cwinstan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

‘The Vomiting Toff plate shows the Lancaster elite who feared abolition so much they led campaigns to keep the slave trade. Lancaster was the fourth largest slave port in Britain.’ Harris Museum, Preston

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Craig Winstanley @cwinstan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Preston market. I didn’t ask how much but I recognised quite a few names…

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Craig Winstanley @cwinstan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The propaganda war against Universities is succeeding. University senior management (generally) isn’t…

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Craig Winstanley @cwinstan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This, in a nutshell, is why politicians should pay far less attention to opinion polls.

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Craig Winstanley @cwinstan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

‘Are you not going to give the nice man a romantic smile, Sandra? He’s taking a photo.’ ‘Bog off. I’m looking enigmatic and contemplative, as if reflecting on the interaction of humans with their environment.’

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Craig Winstanley @cwinstan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

When the Sun is the most reliable media source, we must be close to rock bottom…

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Now talk about Musk and X. Every word applies to them, and you stay on his platform.

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Craig Winstanley @cwinstan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Bloody English. Personally, I’m definitely* of the Brigantes tribe. All hail Queen Cartimandua! (*probably just a mongrel like everyone else, but if we’re allowed to just make shit up…)

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

England is a made up thing. It has no basis in the ineluctable laws of nature. Its extent is defined by Edward II getting his arse handed to him. Athelstan conquering York. The Welsh of Cumbria were incorporated, the Welsh of Gwynedd were not. It is a political idea, an aspiration - not taxonomy.

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Evelyn Waughluigi @mattressisland.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Finally, a British conservative who remembers their Defoe

The True Born Englishman, by Daniel Defoe:

"Thus from a mixture of all kinds began,
That het’rogeneous thing, an Englishman:
In eager rapes, and furious lust begot,
Betwixt a painted Britain and a Scot.
Whose gend’ring off-spring quickly learn’d to bow,
And yoke their heifers to the Roman plough:
From whence a mongrel half-bred race there came,
With neither name, nor nation, speech nor fame.
In whose hot veins new mixtures quickly ran,
Infus’d betwixt a Saxon and a Dane.
While their rank daughters, to their parents just,
Receiv’d all nations with promiscuous lust.
This nauseous brood directly did contain
The well-extracted blood of Englishmen."

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I did say Shabana Mahmood would be on the side of the thugs. Burnham keeping her in post was an utter disgrace. Labour supporters should be brave enough to say so. So should Labour MPs.

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Craig Winstanley @cwinstan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I think I saw Swamp Ass at the Band on the Wall in the late 70s…

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Nick Davies @njdavies.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Quite the contrast between the PM’s words in NY last night (left) and those of the govt’s spokesperson in response to the latest Daniel Thomas outrage

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Peter Kay @theonlypeterkay.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

1/7 🧵 In 1934 Lord Rothermere’s Daily Mail proclaimed: “HURRAH FOR THE BLACKSHIRTS.” His great-grandson now owns the Mail. His great-grandson’s wife has donated £50,000 to Reform UK. History doesn’t repeat itself. But sometimes the echoes deserve examination. @mrjamesob.bsky.social @lbc.co.uk

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Ellie Jameson @elliejameson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

MScRes bursary of £2000 available at Bangor University to study Bacteriophages as natural biocontrols for plant pathogens. Deadline is 19th October. Please contact me for more details #PhageSky #MicroSky

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It is very hard to satisfactorily describe just how badly the BBC's journalistic standards have collapsed in recent years. Quite completely fucking useless.

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MP for Nature @mpfornature.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Data centres:how worried should we be?Here’s a handy comic explainer to use for local actions. Print from www.climatestorieslibrary.com/teaching @friends-earth.bsky.social @paulbernal.bsky.social @samillingworth.com @pinetencolin.bsky.social @charliejgardner.bsky.social

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Craig Winstanley @cwinstan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Some abstract art by the Mrs. ‘Coffee Spill on Carpet’. (The carpet is going on Tuesday so couldn’t be arsed to try & clean it up).

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Remembering Middlesbrough-born football manager Brian Clough, who died on this day 2004. ‘Rome wasn't built in a day, but I wasn't on that particular job.'

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Craig Winstanley @cwinstan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Elected representatives of hundreds of thousands of tax paying UK residents get nothing like the media exposure of one super-rich tax exile.

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Craig Winstanley @cwinstan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I listen to sport coverage on 5 live. Sometimes I’m not quick enough to switch it off when they go to news headlines & I have to say, every single time the BBC news summary is an absolute f**cking disgrace. Every time.

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Alan Rusbridger @arusbridger.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

If you add in £130m losses on “Reform TV” (aka GB News) the effective subsidy of Farage’s party from just four men tops £200m. You just have to join the dots app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/75017/...

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Farage and the £130m even his detractors have missed

GB news has provided relentless positive PR for Nigel Farage while racking up tens of millions in financial losses. And now there is a new channel in the offing

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Craig Winstanley @cwinstan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

His main residence is Monaco, so he’s not even one of Britain’s richest people. The BBC (& media generally) is obsessed with the views of filthy rich individuals, especially those who have fled to avoid tax. Another tiresome symptom of the right wing takeover of BBC News.

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

my brilliant colleague @robertshrimsley.bsky.social on the threat from Elon Musk’s X platform www.ft.com/content/f270...

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Always and forever my Batman. Though Lego Batman is good too. But Adam West is the ultimate. Most of the other Batmen take themselves far too seriously and are no fun at all

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Craig Winstanley @cwinstan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Really not a good idea to put morons in charge. But I guess that if there are enough morons to vote for them, it happens, which is very bad news for non-morons.

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