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Ellis Crawford

@elliscrawford.bsky.social
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Scientific Editor, RSC. Views my own. Background in computational chemistry and education. Sci-fi, blackgaze, queer horror books, MMOs

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Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
All this, 😒:
Human sees a crow and says, "Ahh! A bad Omen".
Crow says, "Oh yeah, dude! We're the ones who fucked the planet and put a continent of garbage in the ocean."..."Prick!"..."You know what? YOU'RE the bad omen." https://bsky.app/profile/eastcoastitnotes.bsky.social
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 27/09/2026
Ignore for a moment the question about whether Anthropic trains on user sessions. I am I right in reading this as saying that Anthropic's "never-before-discovered" reverse transcriptase was *patented* three years ago?
Dr. Mestre first encountered the enzymes in jumbo phages in 2022 while searching for new reverse transcriptases. He worked briefly as a consultant for ReNegade Therapeutics, which filed a patent in 2023 on a number of reverse transcriptases, including the ones Dr. Mestre found. He is listed as a co-inventor on the patent filing.
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Brendan @chemscrapes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It was the basis of this for Sketch Chemistry....but I can't find the pitch.
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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 24/09/2026
Donate to Category Is's fix-it fund: gofund.me/8591b840c
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Donate to Help Category Is Books Get Shutters!, organized by Category Is Books
For the past eight years, Category Is Books has been able to comfortably oper… Category Is Books needs your support for Help Category Is Books Get Shutters!
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Them Fatale, @mxthemfatale.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Category is Books just had its window smashed in AGAIN. Fuck every person on the fence. Fuck every Just Asking Questions. Fuck every Labour MP, MSP, councillor and member.
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Royal Society of Chemistry @rsc.org · 23/09/2026
We’re delighted to announce Professor Robert House as the winner of the 2026 EES Lectureship, which recognises exceptional emerging talent in energy science! Learn more 👉 rsc.li/47dQZeE @kebleoxford.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk @oxfordmaterials.bsky.social @raeng.org.uk #ChemSky
The image shows a promotional graphic for the Royal Society of Chemistry's Energy & Environmental Science 2026 EES lectureship winner. It features a person smiling, with an abstract geometric background. The highlighted text reads "Professor Robert House" in an orange box.
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 18/09/2026
What on earth is happening?
  This had become the new normal. RNLI crew members had been forced to take their permits off their cars after their tyres have been repeatedly slashed. Most of them have been pilloried at the school gates or turned away from local pubs. One man who worked in search and rescue had been beaten unconscious and hospitalised, recognised for TV interviews he had done.
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Ellis Crawford @elliscrawford.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I appreciate the banana for scale
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The Journal of Immaterial Science @immaterialscience.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
An article examining under what conditions you could do NMR spectroscopy on a human. PDF: www.immaterialscience.org/2026/humannmr
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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Solidarity with this Piddington resident ♥️✊ #Newsnight
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Scott Bagley @bagphos.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I see you are attempting to join #ChemSky Please mark all images containing a sandwich
Images in a 3x3 square showing different types of sandwiches ( or not). Top row a stack of pancakes; dppf catalyst, a sandwich, second row: a plate of tacos; a hot dog; a Ford F140 and row 3 a lead sandwich plate battery, a pizza and finally the famous Ham Sandwich road sign in Kent UK
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Chemistry World @chemistryworld.com · 18/08/2026
Complexes with multiple metal–metal bonds are rare because there needs to be the right balance of atomic size, electron configuration and available orbitals. Read about the latest advances, with researchers developing a new uranium-based complex: #ChemSky www.chemistryworld.com/news/uranium...
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Turing Police Andúnië Branch 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
One thing that I find is cool about Monica is that in this piece she is completely unafraid of speaking about trans people as actual voters that exist and not some weird child.
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Lennon criticises 'nasty' Scottish Labour as leadership bid fails
Michael Marra and Joe Fagan secured enough to support to run to replace Anas Sarwar.
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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
In Britain minorities are lined up to demonise and destroy. We humiliate and abuse and we long for ruin. The desperate horror of this moral collapse is that it’s us being ruined: our society, our values. How many more victims do we need before we look in the mirror and realise we’ve become monsters?
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The persecution of minorities has reached bloodthirsty levels
Even in death, Jason Arday is hounded, writes Neil Mackay: the cruelty isn’t just immoral and disgusting, it is making Britain look like a nation…
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Gregory Kohn @kohngregory.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
In the wake of Arday's death, Nathan Cofnas (who led the X mob against him) states his motivation. Beyond whistleblowing, he states that after a 'revolution' removes professors like Arday, it will open opportunities for him to become 'head of the department of eugenics and race science at Harvard'.
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Marty Hades 🔥💀 @smartypantsmarty.com · 14/08/2026
It’s just so wrong. We need to revisit the need for a public inquiry into press standards. No one should have to endure the hounding that Jason Arday experienced. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Jason Arday: Former Cambridge university professor found dead
Jason Arday was found "unresponsive" at an address in Battersea, south London, on Friday afternoon, officials said.
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Kay Severin @kay-severin.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Metal-organic B-N networks. Work by @atenasolea.bsky.social and co-workers, published #openaccess in @chemicalscience.rsc.org: pubs.rsc.org/sc/article/d...
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Chemistry World @chemistryworld.com · 27/07/2026
Even if many of the antibodies with manipulated data do work, science sleuths tell Chemistry World’s Frankie Macpherson the broken trust will take a long time to repair. @elisabethbik.bsky.social @reeserichardson.bsky.social @sholtodavid.bsky.social #ChemSky www.chemistryworld.com/news/thermo-...
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Thermo Fisher antibody data manipulation is a breach of trust, say researchers
Science sleuths say the problem is impacting research progress and Thermo's response falls short
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Commander Sterling @commandersterling.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
I can’t get enough of Count Binface. As miserable as everything has become, a man with a bin for a head promising to build one affordable house is what I need in my news feed. That he’s made such a joke of Farage is just the cherry on top.
Count Binface, the one credible candidate.
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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 09/07/2026
Okay. This is a big deal for me Three years ago, writer Henry Bean told me he had a short story he'd finished in 2020, which he felt needed to be published He'd been turned down everywhere I read it I was stunned I took it to @jewishcurrents.bsky.social It's up now, and it will change you:
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The Event
“Something has taken place that we cannot speak of or know or even fully perceive, yet the fact of which sits before us.”
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Tuta @tuta.com · 08/07/2026
One-Click Migration is now in closed beta 🎉🥳 This means that if you or your business would like to switch to Tuta & bring all existing emails and folders with, it will soon be an automated & hassle-free process. 😎 That's not all that's new & improved! Find out more 👉 tuta.com/blog/tuta-on...
Tuta One-Click Migration. Gmail and Outlook app icons with arrows pointing to the Tuta Mail app icon.
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Kenny Logins @kennylogins.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
yoshimi red
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Japanese sci-fi: two robots in space, yearning

American sci-fi: man gets the author's beliefs on polygamy confirmed by the aliens of ramalama IV

french sci-fi: two horny bounty hunters visit the Galaxy of Breasts

British sci-fi: nuclear war. Everyone dead.
America's fault
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Andrew Martin @andrewmartin.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Political ideology is the strongest predictor of Messi-Ronaldo preference. Authoritarians who like short-form video are more likely to think Ronaldo is the GOAT.
plot predicting messi-ronaldo preference
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Ellis Crawford @elliscrawford.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
The cover of the album Sunbather by Deafheaven showing a salmon pink background with the word Sunbather written in a white partial font that in a 3 x 3 grid of SUN BAT HER
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University of St Andrews @uniofstandrews.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
St Andrews researchers catch sperm whale dialects evolving in the Mediterranean Sea 🐳🌊🥳 Read more...👇 ow.ly/zIou50Zg9S5 #EverToExcel
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GeekOnALeash 🏳️‍⚧️ @geekonaleash.co.uk · 22/06/2026
Decided to write to Heir Harmer one final letter after he announced his resignation
Dear Keir,

I was sorry to hear of your resignation as Prime Minister. Not because I wanted you to remain in office, obviously. That would be a strange hobby, akin to collecting wasps or voluntarily doing EHRC consultations.

Still, it feels only right to write to you as one of the trans women your government spent several years treating as a constitutional emergency. We have, after all, shared a relationship of sorts. You attempted to erase me from public life, and I stubbornly continued existing, which must have been enormously frustrating.

When you first became Labour leader, many of us made the mistake of assuming you possessed political principles. This now feels rather like buying a ticket for a train that turns out to be a bus, except the bus is on fire and is being driven by a chimpanzee.

Your government discovered a remarkable political strategy: identify one of the smallest, least powerful minorities in the country, blame them for absolutely everything, and then act surprised when none of the country's actual problems disappear. The NHS remained broken. Housing remained unaffordable. Public services continued to collapse. Rivers still contained more sewage than fish. Yet somewhere in Whitehall, somebody was apparently convinced that the real barrier to national renewal was me quietly trying to buy shampoo.

I particularly admired the constant insistence that none of this was about trans people. Restricting our healthcare was not about trans people. Restricting our rights was not about trans people. Removing us from public life was not about trans people. It was an impressive achievement in political communication, rather like insisting that rain is not about getting wet.

You spent years assuring the public that trans women represented a danger to women, despite the complete absence of evidence that people like me posed any threat whatsoever...Meanwhile, the actual violence women experience remained stubbornly committed by the same men it has always been committed by. Hell you even hired some of them. Somehow, however, I became the problem because I have the audacity to want to take a piss in peace.

The strange thing about being the target of a moral panic is that one eventually develops a certain affection for one's own resilience. Every newspaper column predicting my disappearance merely confirmed that I was still here. Every speech about "common sense" served mainly to demonstrate how uncommon it had become. Every attempt to legislate me out of existence required first acknowledging that I exist.

This must have been tremendously irritating.

Your political career increasingly resembled a man attempting to extinguish a fire by pouring petrol on it while insisting that he was merely asking difficult questions. The result was neither clarity, nor public confidence, nor social cohesion. It was simply a great deal of cruelty dressed up as moderation.

The irony, of course, is that governments come and go. Prime ministers resign. Cabinet ministers vanish into consultancy firms...

Trans people remain.

We remained before your government. We remained during it. We will remain long after your speeches have been archived and your former colleagues have started appearing on panel shows explaining why they privately disagreed with everything all along.

You attempted to make my existence negotiable. Unfortunately for you, I never signed the contract.

So enjoy your retirement. Take up gardening. Learn pottery. Perhaps finally visit one of these women's toilets that apparently determined the fate of the nation, because after years of hearing about them, I assume they must contain either the Ark of the Covenant or the Crown Jewels.

As for me, I intend to continue doing the one thing your politics could never quite account for: existing.

Yours sincerely,

A trans woman who declined to comply with the bullshit
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UnicornsRockUK @unicornsrockuk.northsky.social · 23/06/2026
Depressing but very much worth a read and share. www.erininthemorning.com/p/starmers-r...
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Starmer's Resignation And Labour's Collapse Shows Why Democrats Must Avoid Abandoning Trans People
Throwing trans people under the bus will not help the party.
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Charlotte Garden @charlottegarden.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Irony is dead.
Extreme Heat: Improving governance and strengthening action around the world - cancelled
Date: 24 June 2026, 9:30 am - 12:00 pm Venue: LSE Shaw Library, Houghton St, Old Building, London, WC2A 2AE
We regret that this event has been cancelled due to the red extreme heat warning issued by the UK Met Office.
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Sam Smith. Not That One. @scsmith4.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
There's a whole series of books about this. Let's not, eh?
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James Holden's Frustration: God Dammit
Alt: The TV version of James Holden looking at a monitor, face crumpling in frustration before saying "God Dammit" and walking off
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Dan Whitehead @danwhitehead.net · 10/06/2026
A three panel meme of Fred Armisen in Parks & Rec as Raul.

Showing support for Palestine? Straight to jail.

Protesting about climate change? Jail.

Inciting racist riots? Believe it or not, straight to Radio 4 Today programme.
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Alan Woke 2 @mrpostsgood.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Pro-Palestine marches will openly be called "hate marches" in the press, but these arsonist pogroms, illustrated by a burned-out bus, are simply "disorder"
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Absolutely wild how right-wing commentators and politicians are just completely ignoring the attempted pogrom in Belfast. Families with kids rescued from homes set on fire. And these same people who smear peaceful protests against genocide as hate marches say NOTHING
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 10/06/2026
I've been a broken record on this for three years and I'll be a broken record for as long as that fucking website exists: X is a viciously racist far-right organising platform that ONLY WORKS because a huge number of centrists, lefties and progressivs cannot stop propping it up
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Elon Musk accused of fuelling unrest after Belfast knife attack
The use of social media in planning violent protests over the Belfast knife attack has drawn condemnation, with Britain's ruling Labour Party accusing Elon Musk of stoking divisions. The tech billiona...
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Alistair Davidson @moh-kohn.eurosky.social · 10/06/2026
Sick of "legitimate concerns". "I'm scared of black people" isn't a "legitimate," it's just racism. "LGBT people make me irrationally angry" isn't "legitimate," you just fear difference. It's not legitimate to wish you lived in a country with only people who are exactly like you.
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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
this should frighten you
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Molly McKew @mollymckew.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
It’s a pretty weird week when a guy who wants to be a trillionaire is simultaneously getting headlines for the economy-shattering IPO expected Friday and the racist pogroms he is accused of stoking — but these stories are viewed as separate and in no way connected or prescient of the future.
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Conor Sewell @ccsewell.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
There’s an increasingly scary question as to whether certain Labour MPs are merely ill-advisedly pandering for votes, or if they’ve become so mired in a toxic social media information ecosystem that they’ve actually fallen prey to far-right radicalisation.
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Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 10/06/2026
It is now openly irresponsible for UK politicians and Government institutions to continue using Twitter/X as their primary communication platform. There should instead be serious conversations about banning it.
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John Swinney @johnswinney.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
The scenes we saw in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Ayr last night are unacceptable. Scotland is a welcoming nation and those who choose to make their lives here are valued members of our communities. Racism, hatred and intimidation have no place in Scotland. We must stand against it.
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Andrew Bissette @andrewbissette.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Ban X in the UK. It serves no public good. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Chinese activist in UK told by X that abusive deepfakes do not breach rules
Apple Peiqing Ni targeted by account portraying her as promiscuous drug addict after posting about Tiananmen Square
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 10/06/2026
Keir Starmer has condemned the riots in Belfast, encouraged and promoted on X by the platform's owner, by posting his statement on X.
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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
British government: good golly gosh we understand and agree with the legitimate concerns of the pogrommers but my goodness we must all come together and to our racist ethnic cleansing with Dignity and Respect through boring bureaucracy
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Rob Davies @byrobdavies.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
You can't "legitimate concerns" a pogrom.
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Peter Coles 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇮🇪 @telescoper.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Elon Musk is a Fellow of the Royal Society. Judge people by the company they keep. bsky.app/profile/polp...
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Jack McGovan @jackmcgovan.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
If anything was going to make me a doomer, it would be the failure of the progressive left to leave X in the face of this stuff. It genuinely feels like progressive public intellectuals think their hot takes and pithy tweets are more powerful than a billionaire-backed misinformation algorithm.
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Annika Brockschmidt @ardenthistorian.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Media: Stop calling the people setting fire to the homes of people of colour in Belfast “protesters”. This is a pogrom.
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chiller @chiller.eurosky.social · 10/06/2026
It's time for the UK to ban X and Facebook.
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