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Chris Pook

@drchrispook.bsky.social
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Biochemistry, mass spectrometry, metabolomics, chromatography, health, nutrition, physiology, chemoinformatics, computational mass spec. Personal account. #SexMatters #SexNotGender projectnettie.wordpress.com

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Chris Pook @drchrispook.bsky.social · 10h
For context, here is how this pervert is being used to deny women and girls their sex-based rights. genderblog.net/peggie-v-rcn... #SexMatters #ScienceMatters
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Peggie v RCN Day 5: Gillian Tait
Gillian Tait, RCN Senior Officer Most of today was taken up with the evidence of RCN Senior Officer Gillian Tait, but the first hour and forty minutes was dedicated to finishing the cross-examinati…
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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
German chemist Dr. Ida Noddack co-discovered Rhenium (element 75) in 1925. She died #OTD in 1978. She was the first to propose the concept of nuclear fission (1934). Her theory was met with fierce skepticism and outright dismissed by contemporary physics giants. But 4 years later...🧵 #WomenInSTEM
A close-up, black-and-white portrait of Dr. Ida Noddack (1896–1978), the pioneering German chemist and physicist who co-discovered the chemical element rhenium and was the first to propose the concept of nuclear fission in 1934. Dr. Noddack is positioned at a slight three-quarter angle while turning her face toward the camera, establishing a direct connection with the viewer. Her light-colored hair is styled neatly, swept up and away from her face in a soft, textured wave arrangement typical of the mid-20th century. Her expression is composed and contemplative, marked by a subtle, knowing half-smile that conveys an aura of quiet confidence, intelligence, and academic resolve. She wears a simple, dark-toned V-neck blouse or jacket, drawing focus directly to her facial features. The portrait is set against a completely dark, minimalist background devoid of any objects or setting context, creating a formal studio aesthetic. The lighting is soft yet deliberate, illuminating the left side of her face to emphasize her expression while casting gentle shadows across her right cheek. The composition relies on high-contrast monochromatic tones and a grainy, vintage texture characteristic of early photographic film, reinforcing its archival and historic nature. The overall mood is dignified and deeply intellectual, honoring her enduring legacy as a foundational pioneer of nuclear and atomic science.
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Chris Pook @drchrispook.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Mum's garden. 🥀🪻💮🌼
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Chris Pook @drchrispook.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
More disinformation about puberty blockers in the NZ press. #SexMatters #ScienceMatters wrpnz.substack.com/p/the-listen...
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The Listener magazine publishes a puberty blockers’ article that cites errors of logic.
Some medical professionals seem to revert to faulty logic in their advocacy of puberty blockers.
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Chris Pook @drchrispook.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
#RowlingDerangementSyndrome
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Colin Lawson @colindlawson.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Important response to the draft conversion practice bill from Gay Men's Network: "This bill is broad, unnecessary and offers poorer protection to gay people than existing laws. It is a bill about gender ideology, not gay rights." cdn.prod.website-files.com/6a3cfe99e7bc...
Important response to the draft conversion practice bill from Gay Men's Network
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Veronika Meduna @veronikameduna.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Two years ago, I joined the Tairāwhiti Ngutukākā Trust to celebrate one of NZ's rarest plants in the wild (as rare as kākāpō). Each of us was gifted a few seeds (from the wild plants, not the commercial variety), and this is what happened in my tiny urban garden.
Ngutukākā grown from a seed, now in full flower.
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Chris Pook @drchrispook.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Magic-mushroom compound blocks a severe side effect of chemotherapy in mice (!!!) #ScienceMatters www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Magic-mushroom compound blocks a severe side effect of chemotherapy in mice
Study shows that psilocybin acts on nerves to prevent the painful condition called peripheral neuropathy.
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Chris Pook @drchrispook.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
My daughter just took an English written CAA exam at school. The exam was completed on a computer. The exam interface had a *spell checker*. I am dumbfounded.
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Chris Pook @drchrispook.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Against the racialization of reason: Science as a universal method of problem-solving. #ScienceMatters www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Against the racialization of reason: Science as a universal method of problem-solving
A growing body of critical scholarship in psychology contends that its standard research methods, including randomized controlled trials, correlationa…
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seabeastie.bsky.social @seabeastie.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
‘I don’t know what sex my mum is’ is weapons grade gibberish dressed up as sophistry. Absolutely mental.
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Chris Pook @drchrispook.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Father's Day adventure to Te Waha and White's Bay.
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Chris Pook @drchrispook.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
West Auckland man jailed for 13yrs after raping young daughter; sexually abusing & filming friends during sleepovers. This guy's daughter went to the same sports training as mine. Don't think I've spoken to him but its an example of how they walk among us. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/crime/fat...
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'Profound sense of betrayal': Girl's life changed forever by father's 'horrific' sexual abuse
The man also sexually abused some of her young friends and recorded some of it.
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Jesse Singal @jessesingal.com · 03/09/2026
I find this maddening. People on Bluesky are caping for the most insanely condescending, transparent, cynical form of neoliberal benevolent racism. And getting mad at the journalists who helped uncovered it! jessesingal.substack.com/p/nature-you...
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Nature, You Need To Figure Out What You Do
You had allllllllll summer to think of it
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K.Flynnx (St.) @kflynny369.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
So tell me again why women are supposed to welcome these people into our spaces.
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Jerry Coyne @evolutionistrue.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The prestigious journal Nature has an editorial on Jason Arday, blaming everyone but him on his downfall and death. Nobody is exculpated, including the media, Cambridge, and the rest of us. They don't mention his fabulism beyond the accusations of plagiarism. whyevolutionistrue.com/2026/09/03/n...
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Nature extols Jason Arday
I thought I was through writing about Jason Arday, but I didn’t anticipate that he would become some kind of hero, or at least that many people would emphasize how he was hounded to death—alw…
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Chris Pook @drchrispook.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
A New Zealand journal deleted a paper for potential harm to Māori months after publishing it retractionwatch.com/2026/08/19/n... #ScienceMatters
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A New Zealand journal deleted a paper for potential harm to Māori months after publishing it
When Arna Mitchell submitted her article critiquing a proposal for different standards of practice for Māori and non-Māori clients in clinical psychology, she thought it would be too controversial …
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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I knew this would be bad, but it's awful. Malpractice even. I'll limit my criticism to 9 posts. The Herald have added together the gross debt of NZ public & private sectors and called this debt 'we collectively owe the world'. Pure unadulterated nonsense. Literally untrue. [🧵1/n]
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Chris Pook @drchrispook.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
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Freya @saintdagny.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Well?
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Chris Pook @drchrispook.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Post something random or you’ll have an awful September.
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Pennyjs @pennyjs.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
A multicolored Coleus plant that makes me think of the word zany. The visual equivalent of caffeine? Definitely high energy.
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Chris Pook @drchrispook.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
#RowlingDerangementSyndrome
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Brap @brap.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
They always like to quote post a gotcha. It’s never about truth but winning the argument. The pink triangle was for gay men not lesbians.
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
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K.Flynnx (St.) @kflynny369.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
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Gender Surgery's Incontinence Problem
“This data is shocking, but they’re carrying on. Chelsea and Westminster are training up new surgeons.”
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Chris Pook @drchrispook.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Okay, this might be the largest inflorescence I have ever seen. In Auckland Domain. I couldn't get close enough to get a pic of a single flower and they haven't opened yet.
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Chris Pook @drchrispook.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Politicians need to learn to do politics. The aim is not to advocate for your utopia. The aim is to win. Kamala Harris gave America to Trump for the second time with this absurd nonsense that had virtually no support, let alone a majority, in any electorate. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamala_...
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Kamala is for they/them - Wikipedia
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Chris Pook @drchrispook.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
#RowlingDerangementSyndrome
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The Cottage Garden @simonecannon.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
#Himalayan whorlflower, a striking perennial known for its tall spikes of color-changing #flowers. It thrives in the rugged mountain foothills and alpine meadows of the #Himalayas at staggering altitudes of 9,000 to 13,000 ft (3,000 to 4,000 m) #Nepal #Tibet #BloomScrolling #Gardening #Floral
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Chris Pook @drchrispook.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
US Democrats don't understand that this man, and his trans-identified cousin, are why they lost the last election. If they lose the next I think it will probably be for the same reason.
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LS @vatskills.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
The evidence is stacking up that these kids were rushed into surgeries without proper consideration. If you think safeguarding children from this harm is important please consider supporting Nick's work with a donation/subscription.
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Bloomineck @bloomineck.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
New research just dropped.
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barbaralavelle.bsky.social @barbaralavelle.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
These are primary sex characteristics. The article also implies variations in secondary sex characteristics (breast size, hairiness, voice, etc) determines whether we’re male or female. This is just sexism.
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WildAsparagus @wildasparagus.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
How to lose credibility in one post. I'm a bit shocked they would publish this as if it's not in any way anti-science. Science is being politicised and that should never, ever be tolerated.
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Bryan Blessed @bryb.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
People be criticising the BBC for not screening edgy new comedy but they low-key be dropping content like this:
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Colin Lawson @colindlawson.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Researchers who hounded Jo Phoenix at the OU and who lost in court have been given a research grant to study “transphobia” in employment tribunals. Grant approved by an ethics committee led by one of those who signed the letter against Jo. h/t @BevJacksonAuth jophoenix.substack.com/p/update-to-...
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Update to the update on The Open University's research project into the world wide transphobia conspiracy as made obvious in Employment Tribunals: STOP PRESS
Interesting and fun fact I discovered today…..
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Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Daniel would consider himself very progressive and here he is arguing against women’s sport or the paralympics or even age group sports. There’s something about the trans issue that makes progressives park their brains outside before engaging. Truly bizarre.
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
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K.Flynnx (St.) @kflynny369.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Can you imagine growing up and finding out that a male family member breastfed you to get his jollies.
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Gudule Martens @gudulemartens.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
It's the first time TERFs stopped a venue from hosting an event. The event: a man who teaches men to lactate if they want to "breastfeed" babies, for "curiosity, fun or sexual gratification." His words. (I don't have any.)
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Chris Pook @drchrispook.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Absolutely hosing it down out here in West Auckland. 🌺🌼🌺🌼
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Chris Pook @drchrispook.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Amathia. From insta. www.instagram.com/reel/DZf2LaA...
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Chris Pook @drchrispook.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
#RowlingDerangementSyndrome
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Matthew Collins @matthewcollins.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
There is fun to be had in *not* reviewing a manuscript. @pciarchaeology.bsky.social @cos.io #openaccess
Thank you for your invitation to review a manuscript.  While I value the scholarly community's efforts to disseminate research, I have growing concerns about the publishing model many commercial publishers, including Springer Nature, employ. In my view, the current system heavily relies on taxpayer-funded research, often conducted at public institutions, yet places the resulting work behind expensive paywalls. This practice limits access for scientists and the general public in the Global South, who often cannot afford subscription fees or open-access charges.

To put this in perspective, Springer Nature's most recent financial results (for the fiscal year ending December 2025) show total revenue of €1,926.4 million, adjusted operating profit of €543.6 million, and net income of €356 million. The Research division, which includes its journals, generated €1,517.2 million of that revenue. Shareholders received dividends of approximately €25.9 million, a significant increase from the previous year. These figures show that the current model is highly profitable, but much of that profit goes to investor returns rather than making research accessible to the global scientific community.

I have worked unpaid for you in the past, but this unpaid labour, combined with publicly funded research, generates enormous profits for a publishing industry that gives back relatively little to the public or to scientists in under-resourced regions. I do not believe this is fair or sustainable. I therefore have become a champion of Diamond Open Access and an editor at PCI.
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Chris Pook @drchrispook.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Yup.
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Chris Pook @drchrispook.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
#ScienceMatters www.somewhatgreener.com/explainers/t...
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The science of wellbeing within planetary boundaries | Somewhat Greener
In this post we reflect on a graph by Giorgos Kallis on the science of wellbeing within planetary boundaries. Take a look and give it a read, because it&#03 ...
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Chris Pook @drchrispook.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I don't think you understand how sport works. #SexMatters www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
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Freya @saintdagny.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
🥰
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Chris Pook @drchrispook.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Hibiscus at the Auckland Domain from my lunchtime walk. 🌺🌺🌺🌺
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