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Flora Graham

@floragraham.bsky.social
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I write the Nature Briefing, a daily email for Nature (@nature.com) about all the science, which I hope you will enjoy.

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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 25/09/2026
We're publishing new guidance to support trans people who do fieldwork (any work outside the office)! Now we need your help to get them seen so please share! inclusivefieldwork.leeds.ac.uk/trans/
a cartoon of three fieldworkers. One has a small trans flag. The logos of the university of leeds, research england, and canopy robin are shown, as well as the URL: InclusiveFieldwork (dot) Leeds (dot) AC (dot) UK (slash) trans
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TekknoNerd - Commissions open @tekknonerd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Voyager, walking on those tiny legs.
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Flora Graham @floragraham.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Best of luck and solidarity to NUJ at The Lancet Group colleagues — hope to see fruitful negotiations happening soon. retractionwatch.com/2026/09/16/l...
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Lancet union declares first-ever strike over staff wages
Union members at The Lancet and its affiliated journals will go on strike Sept. 22 for one day with further action planned for the following week, after pay negotiations with parent publisher Elsev…
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Flora Graham @floragraham.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Am I going to get my free movement back... as a Canadian ?!?! 🥹
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Merrymac Farm Sanctuary @merrymacsanctuary.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
We thought you might enjoy ending the day with a peaceful midsummer moment with Babs 🧡 Please share kindness for all beings everywhere 💛 🙏
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Alex McKay @alexmckay.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Because this situation has come up frequently, before prior COPs and other time-sensitive events, we wrote about it in an Editorial about how to prepare proposals for Nature Reviews Biodiversity: www.nature.com/articles/s44.... End rant.
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Flora Graham @floragraham.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Mooching around ETH Zürich and the library has an earplug dispenser! It’s that quiet. My typing ECHOED LIKE GUNSHOTS
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Flora Graham @floragraham.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
They say Canada is not a science superpower but the 2026 Ig Nobel prize numbers DO NOT LIE ?!
Country	Number of winning teamsUSA	6
Canada	3
Germany	2
Japan	2
Australia	2
China	2
Switzerland	1
UK	1
Mexico	1
India	1
France	1
Brazil	1
Saudi Arabia	1
Egypt	1
Poland	1
Sweden	1
Argentina	1
Netherlands	1

Total country appearances across the 10 prizes: 27.
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Flora Graham @floragraham.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Possibly one of the best moments of my scientific life as Swiss astrophysicist Michel Mayor, on his home turf, dons a pair of Ig-Nobel-winning underpants on his head
What can I tell you it’s all in the post
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Flora Graham @floragraham.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Have you lived till you’ve watched Nobel prizewinners dressed as mushrooms perform an opera about fungi? NO
Fungi opera performed in Zurich
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Flora Graham @floragraham.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
“I hope this moment encourages people to look beyond the political rhetoric and learn whose lands and waters these have always been,” says Chief Margaret Sault of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation in Brandi Morin's excellent newsletter.
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Colonizer-in-Chief Tries to Erase an Indigenous Name
A trade war he’s losing, an executive order, and an Indigenous name Trump thought was his to take.
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Shane Burley (Blue Sky Edition) @shaneburley.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
This reinstatement happened for one reason: a union contract. She was brought back against managements wishes because she won the highest level of the grievance procedure, arbitration. This is how you can take the power back from people like Jeff Bezos: form a union.
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Flora Graham @floragraham.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I'm very sympathetic to the feelings underlying this post, but vaccine-questioning and vaccine-hesitant parents are ALSO trying their best to protect their children. Attacking each other is playing right into the hands of those who profit from anti-vaccine lies ❤️
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Flora Graham @floragraham.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Guys check out my homemade awnings I’m so proud of myself
Home-sewn awnings shade the top windows of a Victorian semi in London
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Flora Graham @floragraham.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Will forever be thinking of this letter (my own email style has sometimes been deemed ‘a bit harsh’)
Dear Mr. Burgess,

Herr Wenner has forwarded your useless letter from Rome to the National Affairs Desk for my examination and/or reply.

Unfortunately, we have no International Gibberish Desk, or it would have ended up there.

What kind of lame, half-mad bullshit are you trying to sneak over on us? When Rolling Stone asks for “a thinkpiece”, goddamnit, we want a fucking Thinkpiece… and don’t try to weasel out with any of your limey bullshit about a “50,000 word novella about the condition humaine, etc…”

Do you take us for a gang of brainless lizards? Rich hoodlums? Dilettante thugs?

You lazy cocksucker. I want that Thinkpiece on my desk by Labor Day. And I want it ready for press. The time has come & gone when cheapjack scum like you can get away with the kind of scams you got rich from in the past.

Get your worthless ass out of the piazza and back to the typewriter. Your type is a dime a dozen around here, Burgess, and I’m fucked if I’m going to stand for it any longer.

Sincerely,

Hunter S Thompson
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Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
very very excited to be launching Wrong Number with my buds @christinezhang.bsky.social and @jdharden.bsky.social! It’s a newsletter dedicated to all of our weird data obsessions: our first posts cover Law & Order, trees, and theme park accidents wrongnumber.beehiiv.com/p/about-wron...
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About ‘Wrong Number’
What this newsletter is, who we are, and why we named it that.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 17/07/2026
Probably more helpful to think of them not so much as “Canadian wildfires” but rather “climate change wildfires currently consuming Canada”
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Flora Graham @floragraham.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
GOOD
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Flora Graham @floragraham.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Nine years since I started writing the Nature Briefing, and while searching for the very first issue I found this 😁 Thanks to my dad, my godfather and all the other dads who contact me via the Briefing inbox
Email from my dad saying he likes the newsletter :)
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Flora Graham @floragraham.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Bit harsh on that child, ice-cream van
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Flora Graham @floragraham.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Would anyone like to whinge about the Channel 5 Tour de France highlights with me.
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Flora Graham @floragraham.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
GET HEARING AIDS ❤️ stop worrying if they're cool they're like glasses just get them and wear them this one's for the dads out there (except my dad, he's cool and wears his aids)
Hearing loss is a significant risk factor for dementia
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Flora Graham @floragraham.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Says it all really 🤣 Well done lads take the rest of the day off
Globe and Mail headline 'After putting on a perfectly adequate World Cup, Canada can put its feet up'
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/soccer/article-after-putting-on-a-perfectly-adequate-world-cup-canada-can-put-its/
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Flora Graham @floragraham.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
ITS HAPPENING www.cbc.ca/news/enterta...
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Canada will enter the 2027 Eurovision Song Contest | CBC News
CBC/Radio-Canada and the European Broadcasting Union have announced Canada will participate in the 2027 Eurovision Song Contest in Bulgaria.
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Flora Graham @floragraham.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Bayeux Tapestry goin viral
Ticket website for Bayeux Tapestry at the British Museum has 46,326 people ahead of me
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Flora Graham @floragraham.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
OMG YOU GUYS www.cbc.ca/news/enterta...
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Canada can now enter Eurovision, but CBC won't say whether it will | CBC News
CBC/Radio-Canada became a full member of the European Broadcasting Union on Thursday, which means Canada is now eligible to enter the Eurovision Song Contest, but the country’s public broadcaster won’...
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another morgan @mheslin.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
imagining a grizzled hardboiled detective saying this while gripping some guy's lapels at a shady bar
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Flora Graham @floragraham.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Amazing that Canada is somehow going to still win the World Cup. Unprecedented
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Dan Vergano @danvergano.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Scientific American is being sold to LabX Media, publisher of Discover: group.springernature.com/gp/group/med... They've fired me and other union staff, ahead of June 26 vote ratification. My rates are suddenly more reasonable, if you need editing or reporting - Argonaut2026@gmail.com
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Springer Nature to divest its consumer media businesses | Springer Nature Group | Springer Nature
Strategic divestment of consumer media portfolio enables Springer Nature to focus on its core business Transaction supports the long-term development
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Flora Graham @floragraham.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Should you switch on a fan during a heatwave? The answer depends on both temperature and humidity. "The findings lend support to a simple public health message: Avoid fan use above ~40°C."
infographic summarises findings from a large dual-site randomised crossover trial conducted by the Heat and Health Research Centre at the University of Sydney and the Université de Montréal assessing older adults, including many with coronary artery disease. The findings lend support to a simple public health message: Avoid fan use above ~40°C.
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Flora Graham @floragraham.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
London’s foxes getting nutso. Last night a fox came into our house through an open window and stole our slippers. Real Birnam wood remove to Dunsinane shit
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Radio Lento @radiolento.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Prepping for the week ahead? Here's a playlist of episodes on YouTube for hot days and nights to keep handy. #Heatwave
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Sounds for a hot day (or night) - YouTube
Radio Lento episodes to help cool you down while you work, relax or sleep. Note only ones marked *sleep safe* are guaranteed quiet for night listening.
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Flora Graham @floragraham.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
BANGER
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Flora Graham @floragraham.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
The HPV vaccine is one of the greatest triumphs of science. It saves young women’s lives. And men’s! ❤️❤️❤️
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Flora Graham @floragraham.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Petition for the ladies' and mens' ponds to swap venues on Hampstead Heath. This is frikkin ridiculous. I am serious.
Men's pond lots of tickets but NOTHING FOR THE LADIESMen's pond is much bigger for historical reasons
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Flora Graham @floragraham.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
😍 back-on-track.eu/all-night-tr...
All night trains running in 2026 on one map by Back-on-Track.eu
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Flora Graham @floragraham.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
TIL "how to correctly use the sash windows"! "Open equally at the top and bottom [so that] cooler incoming air flushes the warm air out of the room. The warm air inside the room tumbles out of the top opening and the cooler air from the outside comes in through the lower opening."
'Open the window', scientists advise
This article is more than 22 years old
Donald MacLeod
Wed 6 Aug 2003 16.15 BST
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Tips ranging from the proper use of sash windows to taking a late lunch are amongst advice from scientists at Imperial College London on how to keep cool in the heatwave.

"Many of us have forgotten how to correctly use the sash windows so carefully installed by the Edwardians and Victorians to maximise airflow," explains Dr Gary Hunt, of the department of civil and environmental engineering, who is leading research at Imperial on the fluid mechanics of natural ventilation.

"The trick to getting the maximum flow of air through the window is to slide the sashes so the window is open equally at the top and bottom. By separating the in-flow and out-flow, cooler incoming air efficiently flushes the warm air out of the room. The warm air inside the room tumbles out of the top opening and the cooler air from the outside comes in through the lower opening," he adds.
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Flora Graham @floragraham.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Some Yanks in this pub are setting their alarms to ET cause they think it means ‘English Time’ SHOUD I TELL THEM
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Flora Graham @floragraham.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
I see that staff at the The Institute of Cancer Research is to strike over pay. "Many currently earn barely over the London Living Wage of just £14.80 per hour." 😥 Solidarity to the workforce of 1,200 scientists and other staff 🍞 🌹 www.unitetheunion.org/news-events/...
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Flora Graham @floragraham.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
I quite liked this news coverage. Everything fine. Interviewed a bunch of stakeholders they said everything was fine. There were some worries but everything turned out OK www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Vancouver's first men's FIFA World Cup game saw no major incidents: police | CBC News
Hosting a global event brings a myriad of security concerns, including terrorism, rioting and conflict on the streets. Following the city's first match as a host city, police and organizers say there ...
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Flora Graham @floragraham.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
This is really lovely ❤️🥬🍅
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Flora Graham @floragraham.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Something I find fascinating is that surgeons say that they never know what they're going to find. Could be all reverso in there, or three kidneys, or anything. People are amazing and nobody, absolutely nobody, is exactly like the textbooks say. www.livescience.com/health/anato...
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Diagnostic dilemma: Man who donated his body after death had rare 'triple penis'
Supernumerary, or extra, penises are very uncommon. Medical students uncovered a particularly rare case while dissecting a cadaver.
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Beaver Trust @beavertrust.org · 09/06/2026
Join the Beaver Feed to keep up with the latest beaver science, news, and discussions! 🦫 You can contribute too - any relevant posts that include the word “beaver” or “beavers” will appear on the feed - so everyone can join the conversation. bsky.app/profile/beavertrust.org/feed/Beaver-Feed
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Flora Graham @floragraham.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Congrats to Italian @esa.int astronaut Luca Parmitano! I loved this pic of him doing survival training in Russia w NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg. "There is always the possibility that a Soyuz could land in a remote area. All crew have to learn to survive in harsh climates while waiting for rescue."
Nyberg and Parmitano stand around a fire in a snowy wood and appear to be keeping it very real
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Flora Graham @floragraham.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Hehehe I think many of us can sympathise with forever being the IT dept. "His brother, John Prevost, still calls the pontiff from Chicago for I.T. support. 'And Roberto says, ‘John, I’m the pope,’'." www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/w...
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One of the Pope’s Best Friends Works in Spain. They Often Talk Cars.
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Flora Graham @floragraham.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Readers, I love you, but please look up the British spelling before you write me an angry letter 💖
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Flora Graham @floragraham.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Joke's on you Copilot, I've been creating Word documents with just my words since before you were born
Copilot suggests an AI Agent with the tagline 'Create a Word document using just your words'
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Flora Graham @floragraham.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
This is so beautiful. oxfordamerican.org/magazine/iss...
Many donated items were old or in disrepair. Magazines in particular were worn, with pieces or whole pages torn out. In response to inadequate funding and such high demand for books, librarians tried to avoid throwing anything away. Rather, they salvaged unusable items by creating scrapbooks. Because these volumes were assembled by the librarians themselves, the content could be curated to include what was most valued or requested by their patrons. A manual written for WPA Pack Horse Library projects by Philip R. Blodgett says of the scrapbooks, “Make them according to demand, always trying to answer the questions most frequently asked.”
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 02/06/2026
Incredible! Scientists receive a rare standing ovation after announcing that a new treatment can double the survival time for pancreatic cancer, the deadliest cancer which was once considered “undruggable.” When we fund and support science, we can achieve anything! (Video: Dr. Wish Dhillon)
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Flora Graham @floragraham.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Wow — this young journalist is INCREDIBLY brave. Chapeau
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