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Elon Musk FRS directly supporting an enemy of the UK in the largest European war since 1945? Its just an opinion, though, isn't it, RS?

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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 7h

As both a certified CAR GUY and an economist-ish, I cannot imagine a headline more designed to drive me, personally, insane. This "flying car" technology is neither new nor novel. It is not practical and would not sell. Let me tell a story of actually useful car tech that never made it to market.

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Ed Hollox @edhollox.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

University academics are a loss leader to localise students on campus to spend money at profit-making catering outlets.

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Ed Hollox @edhollox.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

The former definitely. But BBC - Quality Street crossover always, in the past and especially now that Cadburys have ruined chocolate.

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Ed Hollox @edhollox.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Was that a predicted outcome of this grant application?

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Ed Hollox @edhollox.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Lewin's Genes is pretty definitive, has more detail.

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Ed Hollox @edhollox.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

The textbook Genomes by Terry Brown is good for this. Now on 5th edition, but older editions fine for fundamental stuff.

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Genetics Society of America @genetics-gsa.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

📣 Attention all educators! The latest Primers published in #GENETICS in 2026 cover mitochondrial protein cleanup, epigenetic inheritance, neuronal lipids, and QTL mapping. Explore these resources for bringing genetics concepts into the classroom: buff.ly/UKcDiR4

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Andrew Rambaut (🐏🎀) @arambaut.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Version 1.3.2 of PearTree released: github.com/artic-networ... Fixes many of the remaining niggling bugs. WebApp updated at peartree.live

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Ed Hollox @edhollox.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

New title for a review: Epigenetics and accumulated misery

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Ed Hollox @edhollox.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Reminded of this paper from @profsimonfisher.bsky.social though a discussion with @genotripe.bsky.social a couple of weeks ago. Great one for teaching. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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RTarlinton.bsky.social @rtarlinton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Ah well you’ve given me permission now… first up the “ orange/not orange” gene is in the X chromosome and cats like many other mammals display a fairly random x inactivation so if you are female and have one orange and one not orange gene you end up with patches of both ( tortoiseshell )

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Ed Hollox @edhollox.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It's deluded linked-in speak to fill space. What does "Finally, evaluation must evolve beyond performative box-ticking to values-based rigour." actually mean? How do you measure "values-based rigour"? Nevermind, sounds good.

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Ed Hollox @edhollox.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

As well as recycling old tropes, stating the vaguely obvious as profound ("use smarter tools, universities!), this article seems to be in cloud cuckoo land about what universities can realistically afford.

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Ed Hollox @edhollox.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The classification of pre-92 unis into research intensive and not seems nebulous. The REF is not perfect, but if a distinction was really needed for the analysis, a REF-based metric might have been fairer.

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Ed Hollox @edhollox.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Some decent recommendations in the report. Many of these were actually implemented in our WelIcome DTP, like the support for masters programmes in a 1+4 idea. But it is difficult to reconcile geographic variation in research funding with equality in PGR training.

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Ed Hollox @edhollox.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The full report is here. martingale.foundation/about-us/rep... chutzpah in the quote from Wellcome, the same Wellcome that cut all geographically-spread Doctoral Training Programmes a couple of years ago.

martingale.foundation

The Path to PhD - Martingale Foundation

report Socioeconomic Background and Barriers to STEM Postgraduate Study October 2026 SUPPORTED BY About the Report Martingale and partners have carried out the largest piece of research ever into the ...

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Ed Hollox @edhollox.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Agreed, but more than this. Judicial murder justifies killing as retribution.

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Ed Hollox @edhollox.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

That's really not helpful. Murder is a crime, and should be prosecuted. The point being, misogyny meant that previous crimes were left unprosecuted, and the sentence for this crime was cruel, vindictive and wrong.

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Kirsty Grainger @kirstygrainger.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This was entirely predictable yet swept under the carpet seven months ago bsky.app/profile/kirs...

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Ed Hollox @edhollox.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Will Reform? Not taking part will scupper many candidates chances of a seat. Taking part, working with Labour and the "establishment". Irrespective of whether one likes ER or not, seems a canny move by Burnham.

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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

HOLY SHIT I am watching Channel 5 again at my mums house and I just learned that Salvador Dali designed the Chupa Chups logo. Did you know this??

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Ed Hollox @edhollox.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Dreadful, I'm sorry. The obvious next step is to sell those LLMs to universities who can then churn out grant applications perfectly tailored to these models without any academic input at all. A triumph of efficiency...

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Ed Hollox @edhollox.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

And they don't damage the book!!!

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Michael Hiller @hillermich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Happy to share results of the @bat1kgenomes.bsky.social phase 1, providing reference genomes covering 21 bat families. New insights into bat phylogeny, ancestral genome reconstruction, European origin & ancestral echolocation. Great work by a team of 100+ colleagues www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Reference genomes and fossils revise bat family phylogeny and biogeography - Nature

An updated phylogeny of bats is presented, based on new genome assemblies and many ancient fossils and including all known bat families.

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Ed Hollox @edhollox.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Whoever it is, I hope he has his own small bottle of salad dressing.

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Christophe 🔬 Leterrier @christlet.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

As they are not active here, I left a comment on the LinkedIn post from Nikon Small World about the concerns I think I share with many (first screenshot is their post, second screenshot is my comment) lnkd.in/p/ecdT6saZ

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Ed Hollox @edhollox.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I mean, shouldn't they be speaking Italian?

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The difference between the performance of immigrants in England and Western Europe is staggering. (20 pts equals a year of learning.) I looked at this in detail in the post - it can't be explained away by language or relative advantage of different immigrant communities. There is a policy factor.

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Ed Hollox @edhollox.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Joy unconfined! @originstorypodcast.bsky.social - two blokes talking about John Rawls for an hour! Brilliant.

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

literally thousands of jobs in higher education were cut *last year alone* and there's been almost no media coverage and no government action

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Ed Hollox @edhollox.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"The sort of chap who was always doing someone else's crossword." 🤣🤣💀

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Willem van Schaik @wvschaik.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I missed this last month The University of Southampton 'will no longer use ubiquitous anti-cheating tools provided by Turnitin because of concerns that the company might use students’ work to train artificial intelligence.' www.timeshighereducation.com/news/southam...

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Southampton dumps Turnitin over use of students’ work to train AI

Academic integrity giant denies accusations as university declines to renew contract in favour of ‘other options’

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Ed Hollox @edhollox.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Sad news. Still going strong is Richard Wilson who was only 54 when he started playing legendary old grump Victor Meldrew (who in character was only 60 at the start...)

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Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 18/09/2026

Lads I think we've peaked

Jane Austen's 8-bit Adventure

Classic literature meets classic gaming in Jane Austen's 8-bit Adventure! This 2D platformer stars Jane Austen herself, the beloved English novelist, who finds herself transported into an 8-bit video game.

Explore 8-bit England, battle characters ripped straight from Austen's novels, and defeat enemies the only way a proper author knows how — with a quill. Collect the scattered pages and restore Miss Austen's books to the 8-bit library before it's too late!

- Battle characters from Jane Austen's novels

- Explore 8-bit England

- Defeat enemies with a quill

- Restore Miss Austen's books to the 8-bit library

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Ko-Fan Chen 陳克帆 @kofanchen.biologists.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

Interested in understanding how environmental light control #sleep in #Drosophila and other #Diptera species? Two potential #PhD opportunities to work in my lab from 2027 September, please see details in www.kofanchenlab.net/come-join-us and spread the words

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Ed Hollox @edhollox.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

He did go on a bit of a roadshow around the county before reinterment, which I thought a bit odd, but a good excuse for a bit of pageantry and show. He probably would have understood that.

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Ed Hollox @edhollox.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Hahaha- I remember the argument at the time. For KR3 Greyfriars dig, the Burial Act permission was followed www.bajr.org/how-the-buri... A condition of permission was that any remains (KR3 or not) were to be reinterred in the nearest parish church. Which was Leicester Cathedral.

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How the Burial Acts aid professional archaeologists - BAJR - British Archaeology Jobs and Resources

Section 25 of the Burial Act of 1857 states that it is an offence to remove buried human remains without a licence from the Secretary of State, or, in relation to consecrated religious grounds (i.e. C...

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Ed Hollox @edhollox.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

It wasn't a battlefield burial but by the monks at Greyfriars, on consecrated ground.

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Ed Hollox @edhollox.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"Reorganise the data in figure 3 to give a statistically significant result" ...

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Ed Hollox @edhollox.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Oh the irony. I have consistently argued that although Willetts intended different universities to specialise in different things, the actual result is that they chase the same students by offering only popular subjects. The market doesn't care about UK linguistic capacity and intelligence.

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Ed Hollox @edhollox.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Ok next on the list. Read Engleby recently and it was outstanding, really stays with me. Wondered why I had not read his books earlier.

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Ed Hollox @edhollox.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The phrase "lost your faith" like it is the car keys and you just need some help finding them.

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