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Dr Chris Earl (MOL-BIO) @drcsearl.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

🧪 Enemies of Science In 1919, the U.S.A. had 179,829 measles cases annually! A vaccine was introduced in the 1960s, and by 2004 there were just 37 cases per year. Now, in 2026, there have been 3,887 cases of measles through October 1st. The video explains (partly) the vaccine hesitancy 👇 #science

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Dr Chris Earl (MOL-BIO) @drcsearl.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Great job congratulations on your 55th birthday

Dr Chris Earl (MOL-BIO) @drcsearl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hey Yasmine, your message didn't go through. Did you have a suggestion?

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Dr Chris Earl (MOL-BIO) @drcsearl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Love it! This is a new name for me I'm going to have to do some research.

Dr Chris Earl (MOL-BIO) @drcsearl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

🧪 Who is the Greatest Genius of all time? I am asking YOU because I have my own selection, and I'd love to know if anyone else has the same one. Please include both familiar and unfamiliar names, if you have them! From any walk of life artists, musician, scientist, philosopher... #science #philsky

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Dr Chris Earl (MOL-BIO) @drcsearl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Lyrics include things like: “Tatterdemalion and a junketer There's a thief and a dragonfly trumpeter” it’s a fantastical painting. The artist Richard Dadd was institutionalised after a psychotic episode led him to stab his own father.

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Dr Chris Earl (MOL-BIO) @drcsearl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The painting described here inspired an amazing song by Queen on their album Queen II, a phenomenal album and Brian May’s favourite Queen album (mine too). The lyrics describe the characters and events in the painting it’s very clever. youtu.be/IGNILpVcgz4?...

Queen - The Fairy Fellers Master-Stroke (Official Lyric Video)

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Dr Chris Earl (MOL-BIO) @drcsearl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My new article "Non-toxic Masculinity" is free to access 👇 I explore a new breed of positive male role models from TV and film, including Ted Lasso and Walter Mitty. I also explore toxic power dynamics and the work of psychologist Alfred Adler, who tackled it. #science #MentalHealth #psychology

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Non-toxic masculinity

From Ted Lasso to Alfred Adler: the value of positive male role models

Dr Chris Earl (MOL-BIO) @drcsearl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“Had to take your hand, and feel your breath. For fear this someday will be over, I pull you close, so much to lose. Knowing that nothing lasts forever, I didn’t care, before you were here. I danced in laughter, with the ever after. But all things change, let this remain”. Sirens by Pearl Jam

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Pearl Jam - Sirens

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Dr Chris Earl (MOL-BIO) @drcsearl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This song captures the deteriorating health of Freddie Mercury as he suffered from HIV/AIDs. It was released on 14th October 1991; Freddie Mercury died a month later, on November 24th 1991, aged 45.

Queen - The Show Must Go On (Official Video)

YouTube video by Queen Official

Dr Chris Earl (MOL-BIO) @drcsearl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I took some inspiration from the lyrics of both Queen ("The Show Must Go On") and Pearl Jam ("Sirens) which both have really existential lyrics, wonderful songs and good inspiration for this article about confronting the nature of our transient existence. #philosophy #philsky #existentialism

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Life on Earth: An Island of Meaning Amidst the Darkness of Space

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Dr Chris Earl (MOL-BIO) @drcsearl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

And if anyone appreciates the podcast epsiode please share, I'm currently losing traction with the algorithms. But what do they know eh?

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Dr Chris Earl (MOL-BIO) @drcsearl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

For anyone who has experienced loss or confronted their own mortality, I hope these words 👇 give you comfort. This one means a lot to me. Earth is an Island of Meaning in the Vast Darkness of Space (my contribution from science to the world of existential thought). #philsky #philosophy #science

Life on Earth: An Island of Meaning Amidst the Darkness of Space

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Dr Chris Earl (MOL-BIO) @drcsearl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

…You don’t think that impacts your identity? It can completely dominate and destroy it. Stop talking about stuff you don’t know and listen to people for once. Unfortunately intolerance has a capacity for virulence that compassion probably doesn’t have.

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Dr Chris Earl (MOL-BIO) @drcsearl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

To those who have recently been saying young women are making disability their identity as some sort of online trend. You have no fucking idea. Chronic illness can dominate your life degrading the quality of your experience in every moment…

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Dr Chris Earl (MOL-BIO) @drcsearl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

(1/2) It has been said: without delusion life can be a pretty “grim enterprise”. But when it comes to climate change and disability injustice (to name just 2) our inability to confront reality has gone too far. Note my own delusion in writing this comment by relying upon the words of…

Dr Chris Earl (MOL-BIO) @drcsearl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Thanks for repost. We don’t want our current time to be known -by future scientists- as an unreliable historical epoch in the scientific record.

Dr Chris Earl (MOL-BIO) @drcsearl.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

(2/2) Ultimately all of this creates an unreliable scientific record and your going to get a lot less for your money as it’ll be harder and harder to sort the wheat from the chaff; to sort the reliable from the unreliable. #philsky

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Dr Chris Earl (MOL-BIO) @drcsearl.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

🧪 (1/2) Reducing funding for medical and scientific research creates an environment of scarcity. This puts researchers into survival mode. That pressure gets in the way of reliable science which needs the freedom to fail and to have negative results. #science

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Dr Chris Earl (MOL-BIO) @drcsearl.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

We are concerned that A.I. may pose an existential threat but our history with technology is already fraught. WW1 the first post-industrial global conflict and then WW2 ending with the atomic bomb. Machines have always carried existential risk as well as a hope for a better present/future.

Dr Chris Earl (MOL-BIO) @drcsearl.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

News stories this week warn that there is a 10% chance A.I. will wipe out all of humanity. But my concern isn't A.I. versus humans; instead, I'm worried about A.I. plus unscrupulous, self-serving humans who will sell out humanity for their own benefit. #AIApocalypse #Skynet #FutureOfHumanity

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Dr Chris Earl (MOL-BIO) @drcsearl.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

🧪 The World's Smallest Infectious Entity? The coconut cadang-cadang viroid (CCCVd) is the smallest known infectious pathogen: a tiny loop of RNA that causes a fatal disease in coconut palms. It isn't a virus; it is just a short piece of RNA, some 246 nucleotides long. #science #biology #genetics

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RCSB Protein Data Bank @rcsbpdb.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Ada Yonath obituary: Crystallographer who overcame ‘impossible’ challenge of mapping the ribosome Nobel laureate persisted despite widespread derision and revolutionized structural biology by protecting fragile crystals.

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Ada Yonath obituary: Crystallographer who overcame ‘impossible’ challenge of mapping the ribosome

Nature - Nobel laureate persisted despite widespread derision and revolutionized structural biology by protecting fragile crystals.

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Dr Chris Earl (MOL-BIO) @drcsearl.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Thanks for sharing you know one of the clips I mentioned that textbook but I had to cut it out to make it under 3 minutes! Glad you brought it in and you did a better job than I did when I attempted to remember what was said in the textbook.

Dr Chris Earl (MOL-BIO) @drcsearl.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

What’s your best popular science book of all time? Curveballs and left-field shouts welcomed! I’ve given lots of answers to this in the past but Dawkins’ “Ancestors Tale” has to be up there. #science #booksky #writersky

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Dr Chris Earl (MOL-BIO) @drcsearl.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Are you a fan of Lane's books? Sounds like you've explored it quite a bit. Cheers, Chris.

Dr Chris Earl (MOL-BIO) @drcsearl.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

It’s a great question. An example of one of Life’s ratchets prob the best example. Lane might say its origin is synonymous w/ the origin of life itself, of a separation of charge/geothermal energy gradient powering the transition to life. For me I’m not sure but it’s a remarkable machine.

Dr Chris Earl (MOL-BIO) @drcsearl.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

(2/2) Peter M. Hoffmann is currently at Northern Kentucky University, USA. His book is called “Life’s Ratchet: How Molecular Machines Extract Order from Chaos”. It is a fantastic intro to the thermodynamics and physics of life. www.waterstones.com/book/lifes-r... #physicsoflife #thermodynamics

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Life's Ratchet by Peter M. Hoffmann | Waterstones

Buy Life's Ratchet by Peter M. Hoffmann from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.

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Dr Chris Earl (MOL-BIO) @drcsearl.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

(1/2) 🧪How does life emerge from the chaos of the molecular storm at the level of atoms and molecules? In this Podcast Episode, physicist Peter M. Hoffmann explains how life creates order from chaos through impressive molecular machines. #science #philsky #philosophy #physics #biology

The Physics of Life, Chaos and the Molecular Storm with Peter Hoffmann

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Dr Chris Earl (MOL-BIO) @drcsearl.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Acid rain as well and its link to coal power stations and other sources. With willingness problems can be addressed at times.

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Dr Chris Earl (MOL-BIO) @drcsearl.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

🧪 I read the 50th anniversary edition of Richard Dawkins' The Selfish Gene (TSG) and made this podcast episode, now on Spotify. Co-host Maria is still drawn to TSG, but I have abandoned it altogether. What's everyone's thoughts? Is it still a good description of life? #science #philsky #evolution

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The Selfish Gene- Dawkins' famous book at 50

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Dr Chris Earl (MOL-BIO) @drcsearl.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

aww thank you that's very kind. I would genuinely like to make an extra long episode where it might help someone get to sleep, talk really slow about cell biology. I listen to podcasts/videos about philosophy science to get to sleep. The best of all time is the old tv series "The Ascent of Man"

Dr Chris Earl (MOL-BIO) @drcsearl.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

If you are struggling to sleep this will help 😅

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Dr Chris Earl (MOL-BIO) @drcsearl.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

🧪 The Illusion of Meaning explores how philosophical understandings of life have missed major advances in molecular biology. If you like science, philosophy, and podcasts, then please follow me on Spotify (with Maria Briggs, too). #science #philsky #philosophy #existentialism

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The Illusion of Meaning

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Dr Chris Earl (MOL-BIO) @drcsearl.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

There seems to be a huge inadequacy in terms of feeding back that information from patient experience to medical professionals and pharma. Similar thing with finasteride for male pattern baldness and suicide risk.

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Dr Chris Earl (MOL-BIO) @drcsearl.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

🧪 Alive by Melanie Challenger. An incredible book so far. It captures the changing way biologists are seeing life. But it’s written poetically, more like narrative non-fiction (but in science which is cool 🧬 ). Highly recommend. #booksky #writersky #science

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Alive by Melanie Challenger - published by Canongate Books.

Alive by Melanie Challenger - published by Canongate Books. A bold and beguiling journey into the unexpected interactions between organisms on our planet by award-winning researcher Melanie Challenger

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Dr Chris Earl (MOL-BIO) @drcsearl.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Wow that looks great I got the ebook. Wouldn’t have known about if you hadn’t shared. It’s a bit more narrative non-fiction as is the new one Alive by Melanie Challenger which I’m enjoying a lot!

Simon Glendinning @simonglend.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

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If you haven’t already done so, please sign the petition to save the Philosophy programme at Dundee. c.org/5Smh96VnfG

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Sign the Petition

Save the Philosophy Programme at Dundee University

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Dr Chris Earl (MOL-BIO) @drcsearl.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Thanks Claudia me too I’m no social media expert. Made great meaningful connections on Bluesky. And could probably look back into how this platform works and the starter pack stuff as not looked into that much. Hope you are well 😃

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Dr Chris Earl (MOL-BIO) @drcsearl.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

None of my articles have gone viral but I’m still holding out that the AI rip off version (intellectual theft) of my work will have more success 🤣 I’m sure it’ll be more search engine optimised and have a catchier click bait title 🙄

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Dr Chris Earl (MOL-BIO) @drcsearl.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

🧪 Today, my copy of the book "The Mortal Atheist: A Secular Guide to Death and Meaning" by author V. Spohn arrives. I cannot wait. After checking out The Mortal Atheist website, it's right up my street: meaning, purpose, science, atheism. I think you'll love it. #atheism #science #meaning

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The Mortal Atheist

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Dr Chris Earl (MOL-BIO) @drcsearl.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I think a large part of those misunderstandings too aren't just about creationism but that a lot of people genuinely don't care about natural history and focus on living there lives. But I am obsessed with natural history and hopefully we can get more people interested in it too.

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Dr Chris Earl (MOL-BIO) @drcsearl.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

🧪 Is our inability to solve the origin of life evidence that it cannot be explained? Some think life is impossible and that a supernatural intelligence must have been responsible for its origins. In the free article I explain why this way of thinking is erroneous 👇 #science #atheism

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The Origin of Life on Earth

How Cells Emerged from Lifeless Matter

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Dr Chris Earl (MOL-BIO) @drcsearl.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

New article (free)👇I discuss how life may have originated on Earth🌏. I also make the important distinction between the actual emergence of life versus our capacity, within the limitations of our current science, to actually describe those events. #science #philsky #philosophy

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The Origin of Life on Earth

How Cells Emerged from Lifeless Matter

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Dr Chris Earl (MOL-BIO) @drcsearl.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

The enormous difficulties at Dundee University will have impacted so many lives and during a cost of living nightmare too 🥺💚