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Dr Darren R Flower

@drdarrenrflower.bsky.social
4.9K followers 4.2K following 4.6K posts

Freelancer. Still ranked 517 in the UK & 6701 in the world in Biology & Biochemistry, apparently. Citations 26K+. H-index 69. i10-index 179. All meaningless.

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Dr Darren R Flower @drdarrenrflower.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Wishing everyone well on International Wear Something Gaudy Day!
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Dr Darren R Flower @drdarrenrflower.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
"It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it." attributed to Joseph Joubert
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Dr Darren R Flower @drdarrenrflower.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Life is process not outcome.
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Dr Darren R Flower @drdarrenrflower.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Life is process not outcome.
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Dr Darren R Flower @drdarrenrflower.bsky.social · 2h
I agree the political left is always bitterly divided, in a constant arms race for purity, the political right by contrast is always united by its core values of hate & greed.
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Dr Darren R Flower @drdarrenrflower.bsky.social · 2h
But it used to be solely down to trotskyites if thats how its spelt rather than god fearing far right evangelicals...
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Dr Darren R Flower @drdarrenrflower.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
LGBT+ Conservatives. There is an oxymoron if ever I heard one.
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Dr Darren R Flower @drdarrenrflower.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
LGBT+ Conservatives. There is an oxymoron if ever I heard one.
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Dr Darren R Flower @drdarrenrflower.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
"You can safely assume you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do." attributed to Anne Lamott
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Dr Darren R Flower @drdarrenrflower.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
"You can safely assume you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do." attributed to Anne Lamott
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Dr Darren R Flower @drdarrenrflower.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
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Dr Darren R Flower @drdarrenrflower.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
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Dr Darren R Flower @drdarrenrflower.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
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Dr Darren R Flower @drdarrenrflower.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
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Dr Darren R Flower @drdarrenrflower.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
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Dr Darren R Flower @drdarrenrflower.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
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Dr Darren R Flower @drdarrenrflower.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Forgive me if this sounds like a conspiracy theory, but I sometimes feel that every left wing organisation - even centre-right ones like the BBC & the Labour Party - have been infiltrated by far-right libertarian interventionists dedicated to destroying them.
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Dr Darren R Flower @drdarrenrflower.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
I would agree with those on the poltical right who say that the left are often not sufficiently sceptical about human motivation but that is no excuse for seeing a tainted world & spending your life trying to make it worse.
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Dr Darren R Flower @drdarrenrflower.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
We have more to fear from Human Stupidity than we do from Machine Intelligence.
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Dr Darren R Flower @drdarrenrflower.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Unfortunately, the bleedingly obvious needs stating, often. Emperors new clothes & all that. People are too ignorant or invested to see things as they are. Most of my pronouncements - about 1 in 10 I actually post - are there to assuage my existential dread more than for the benefit of others.
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Dr Darren R Flower @drdarrenrflower.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Xitter seems increasingly full of propaganda posts lauding AI results in Maths & Science, doubtless paid for by AI companies. They forget how science works, the need for funding, & for experimental validation. Much is finding things no one was ever funded to look for & which need no validation.
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Dr Darren R Flower @drdarrenrflower.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Wishing everyone well - but especially all hard working &/or tenaciously studying Teddy Bears - on Bring Your Teddy Bear To Work & School Day 2026!
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Dr Darren R Flower @drdarrenrflower.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Wishing everyone well - but particularly all fat cats & other corpulent companion animals - on National & International Pet Obesity Awareness Day 2026!
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Dr Darren R Flower @drdarrenrflower.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Its over 12 hours since someone blocked me.
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Dr Darren R Flower @drdarrenrflower.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Between them, the relentless lies promulgated by the MSM & the social media echo chamber reinforcing said lies somehow manage to mesmerise people into voting against their own best interests.
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Dr Darren R Flower @drdarrenrflower.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Farage says Andy Burnham is a liar. If there is something Farage knows about - & there is probably only one - then it is lying.
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Dr Darren R Flower @drdarrenrflower.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
"Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed." attributed to Francis Bacon
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Dr Darren R Flower @drdarrenrflower.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
"Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority." attributed to Francis Bacon
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Dr Darren R Flower @drdarrenrflower.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
"Knowledge itself is power." attributed to Francis Bacon
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Dr Darren R Flower @drdarrenrflower.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
If you are evil enough to sanction capital punishment you are certainly evil enough to televise it.
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Dr Darren R Flower @drdarrenrflower.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Sir Kier Starmer came late to politics. We have grown used to people who have spent their whole life learning to lie convincingly. Unfortunately, his centrist transphobic the-ends-justify-the-means approach proved his undoing.
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Dr Darren R Flower @drdarrenrflower.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Xitter vs BlueSky
Xitter also-known-as X formerly-known-as Twitter visualised as a pack of hyenas & flock of vultures tearing into & picking over the mutilated carcass of a wildebeest.BlueSky visualised as windswept desert utterly devoid of human interaction.
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Dr Darren R Flower @drdarrenrflower.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The courts will soon decide that genocidal fascism is a protect characteristic under equality law, much as they have other, equally abhorrent so-called beliefs.
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Dr Darren R Flower @drdarrenrflower.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Modern life is a PsyOp propelling us towards a global fascist future where despots & psychotic billionaires can give free reign to their insanities.
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Dr Darren R Flower @drdarrenrflower.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Were one ever so slightly paranoid, one might imagine that we were already living in some incipient cryptofascist dystopia, where equality commissions make society less equal & social mobility tsars make it less socially mobile. But that would be absurd.
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Dr Darren R Flower @drdarrenrflower.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
As well as being awash with loons, Xitter is now increasingly awash with fascists in sunglasses...
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Dr Darren R Flower @drdarrenrflower.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Of course. It is surprising how many non-spaceship book covers he did.
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Dr Darren R Flower @drdarrenrflower.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
If people haven't understood & accepted the message about environmental damage imperilling the future, they probably never will. The time to act was 40 years ago...
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Dr Darren R Flower @drdarrenrflower.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
A more obviously left leaning Labour Party would be better for everyone, rich & poor alike. The media did for Corbyn & is doing the same for polanski. If the UK had a fair & unbiased media, Brexit, Boris, & Truss would never have happened.
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Dr Darren R Flower @drdarrenrflower.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This used to be called blasphemy. "There is bo evidence of this." You can't go to a place that does not exist & meet a figment of your imagination, so certainly no evidence.
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Dr Darren R Flower @drdarrenrflower.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
A Labour Party imbued with a more obviously left leaning perspective would be better for all of us. A media-led "conspiracy" did for Corbyn. If we had a fair & unbiased media, Brexit & Boris would never have seen the light of day.
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Dr Darren R Flower @drdarrenrflower.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Nor does it apply to me, but it clearly applies to lots people as they age, which has always been my expectation. The only problem with the graphic is defining Labour as the most left wing party, which it hasn't been for so long.
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Dr Darren R Flower @drdarrenrflower.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
They did for Corbyn. Now, they are doing for Polanski in the same way. Israel's iron grip on all aspects of the British Establishment is just getting tighter.
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Dr Darren R Flower @drdarrenrflower.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
If people haven't already got the message about environmental damage imperilling the future they probably never will. The time to act was 40 years ago...
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Dr Darren R Flower @drdarrenrflower.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Wishing everyone well on National & International I Love Yarn Day!
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Dr Darren R Flower @drdarrenrflower.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
People prefer propaganda to facts.
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Dr Darren R Flower @drdarrenrflower.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Again.
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Dr Darren R Flower @drdarrenrflower.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Truss blames an independent Bank of England, Human Rights Act, Tax Credits, Equality Act, Supreme Court, & climate measures for breaking Britain. These are good things that make Britain better. She should look at all the privatized companies doing the opposite to what Keith Joseph promised.
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Dr Darren R Flower @drdarrenrflower.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Rats often leave sinking ships, but seldom cease to be rats when they do.
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