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Jim Thomas

@homomoleculus.bsky.social
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In my hidden laboratory, I enjoy playing God and meddling with powers I can't possibly comprehend. Most of the time I just potter about. #actuallivingscientist.

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TeeDixie ✊🏼 @teedixie.bsky.social · 11h
Chris Dixon posted this on LI and I had to share it here. It’s just too good, the @jonronson.bsky.social twist is superb…
The image shows a film poster “The men who stare at Boats” featuring, Nigel Farage, Tommy Robinson, Danny Tommo, Ruper Lowe and Angry Balaclava man.
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Jim Thomas @homomoleculus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The #DailyMail's headline writer scans the news for tomorrow's knocking copy anti- #labour headlines on #Burnham
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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Worrying scenes in the Channel today, for all interested in asylum policy and maritime tactics. A small boat from Normandy spent more than 30 hours at sea. Those on board now on their 2nd rescue vessel as Border Force forced to play cat and mouse with far-right activists who have their own boat.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Here’s the head of Compass - a notable milquetoast Labour progressive pressure group - explaining that the entire Starmer project was an insulting and idiotic fraud, actively inflicted upon the public in pure black-hearted bad faith neallawson2u.substack.com/p/starmerism...
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Starmerism: An Autopsy
The king is dead, long live the king.
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Chris Millard @chrismillard83.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“Universities have managed staff costs significantly below inflation,[between 2016-17 and 2023-24] increasing only 14% compared to the 41.2% increase in RPIX [measure of inflation]” Substantial real terms pay cut, which continues a trend existing years before that…
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Cost of undergraduate provision and qualifications in England
A study of the full economic cost of providing undergraduate-level higher education and other qualifications in England.
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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Alt text describes images for blind and low-vision users, and helps give context to everyone.
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Jim Thomas @homomoleculus.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Minor spookiness: Just started watching Ep6 of Widow's Bay which starts with the female narrator writing a 1702 diary entry, dated 16th Sept. I am watching on the 16th Sept 2026...
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Jim Thomas @homomoleculus.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Oh, genuinely saddened.
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BUCKERS @deathofbuckley.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Piddington Community Choir are supporting Ed Sheeran on tour x
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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Bravery.
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@bobhudson.bsky.social @bobhudson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Listening to #r4today. Lots on Piddington. Nothing on Thomas.
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Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Paul Nurse: science ‘has fewer friends in Treasury’ than in past. Royal Society president expresses concern over political support and brands Dsit abolition “a big mistake”. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-p...
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Paul Nurse: science ‘has fewer friends in Treasury’ than in past - Research Professional News
Royal Society president expresses concern over political support and brands Dsit abolition “a big mistake”
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
'“Such awards tend to favour more established researchers and those at research institutes who are not required to take on the additional and vital task of teaching undergraduates,” said Stephen Curry, director of strategy at the Research on Research Institute.'
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Jim Thomas @homomoleculus.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
"But, but... we were the ones who said Hooray for the black-shirts"
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I know I have now said this three times in the last hour, but what do you mean they still haven't arrested Daniel Thomas? This is his third incident, the first two were definitely illegal, the last is clearly a breach of the peace, he is identifiable and has literally recorded himself planning it!
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This BBC claim that Mr Thomas "drummed up support for 'mass resistance' but without violence" seems like an editorialisation of the news that lacks context/accuracy Firstly, Mr Thomas was clearly very pro-violence in summer 2024 + 2026 Secondly, Mr Thomas calls for disruption + threat
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
NEW | On fascism on the streets and the front-pages… STOP THE BLOKES With fascism on the streets of England again, The Times uses its front-page to deliver the same message beneath a thin veneer of respectability. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/stop-the-b...
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Stop The Blokes
With fascism on the streets of England again, The Times uses its front-page to deliver the same message beneath a thin veneer of respectability.
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Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Food so good you grow an extra finger!
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Jim Thomas @homomoleculus.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
That contemporaneous social media backed Arday’s claims should have been easy to find by any journalist really interested in investigating their veracity.
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Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Royal Society fellowship scheme branded ‘a policy failure’ Awarding of mid-career Faraday Discovery Fellowships exclusively to professors is “genuinely disappointing”, critics say www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-c...
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Royal Society fellowship scheme branded ‘a policy failure’ - Research Professional News
Awarding of mid-career Faraday Discovery Fellowships exclusively to professors is “genuinely disappointing”, critics say
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Jim Thomas @homomoleculus.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Have we already reached the rats in a sack threshold?
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Jim Thomas @homomoleculus.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
#blackcatappreciationday these two cuties are mine
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Jim Thomas @homomoleculus.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
As the used to say in more innocent times in the other place; thread.
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Jim Thomas @homomoleculus.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Compare and contrast. #jasonarday
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14/08/2026
This is the coverage of Arday **just in the Telegraph** in the UK. This is only the first four pages of results, just in one outlet.
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Jason Arday found dead
2 hours ago — Mr Arday was found •unresponsive• at an address in Battersea. south London. on Froy
afternoon. He was uter pronounced dead at the scene. A Read rnore
Jason Arday says he was an illiterate, mute child. His .
6 hours ago — Jason Arday says he was an i&erate. mute child. Cambridge's youngest-ever black
professor in 2023. Arday attended from the age of four to 11
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A PhD is no longer a sign of brilliance — take it from Dr Arday
1 day aeo — Juon Arday resigns from the Unwersity of Cambrdge after The Telegraph reports he had
falseb• claimed to have pubåshed a book
We are all Jason Arday now
S days ago — Jason Arday resons from the University of Cambridge after The Telegraph reports he had
falsew cGimed to have published a book Aug 7.2028. Read more
Cambridge professor claimed he was on Seven Up..
2 Aug 2026 — He was not bom until 1985. Prof Arday is at the centre of a row about academk
plagiarism after The Tekgragh that he had been accused
The Jason Arday 'memoir' that now appears to be more .
7 days ago — Instead of tales of triumph over adversity. the now-fomer Cambridge professors
autob"qraphy is a case study in self-rnythobgising,
Arday failed to mention 'months-long coma' in autobiography
8 days ago — Jason Arday toz publishers he was k•ft a three-month coma fohwhg a car gash. but
never wrote about the ordeal his memoirs_
Jason Arday is living proof that you reap what you sow
6 Aug 2028 — The Cambridge professor feed plagiarism alegations and made fantastical clä'ns about
his life. so what did he expect woUz happen? Read rmre
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Arday 'accused student of Miite privilege' after she
4 days ago — Forrner Cambrdge professor alleged* htplied that Roehamptm student was racist after
cornplaint about essay SOOre.
Jason Arday is rnerely a symptom of the Leffs corruption
Aug 2026 — Lab-curs on school standards is on the same toxic assumptions that created his
academic career.
Cambridge hired Arday after 'listening to black stu…
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Jim Thomas @homomoleculus.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Watch - this thread is what will happen next
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K M Flett @keithbeard.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I expect to be reading of the resignation of the Vice Chancellor of Cambridge University very shortly at the very least.
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LBC Watch @lbcwatchuk.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
They killed Caroline Flack, so what chance did Jason Arday stand?
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Ian Quayle @ianhquayle.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Isn't it strange that the whole world believes scientists when they predict a solar eclipse with microsecond accuracy, but not when they predicted the existential threat of global heating due to the emission of greenhouse gases.
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Jim Thomas @homomoleculus.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Theory: The real reason for Europe burning is not anthropogenic Global Warming, but Socialist "Eco-dogma"....according to the #DailyFail. 😂
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
This billionaire is accidentally making the case for why we need a wealth tax better than anyone else could.
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Jim Thomas @homomoleculus.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
An oligarchy that is slowly warping its fist around the UK
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
America has experienced oligarchy thrice in its brief history. The first was under the slaveholding founders The second, the robber barons, a century later. A third American oligarchy emerged around 1980 — and has only gotten more powerful.
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The Enshittification of Everything (Part 2)
And how to disempower the oligarchy
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Jim Thomas @homomoleculus.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
www.ft.com/content/5ab3... Not worrying at all. I wonder if the obvious next step, a spin out, will be called SkyNet.
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AI creates first synthetic viruses
Genomic language model has huge potential to redesign organisms such as bacteria
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Jim Thomas @homomoleculus.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
The best Liddle obituary by someone who knew him
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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
The Guardian once asked me 'what one change would you make to achieve Black equality in Britain?' and it feels appropriate to share my answer again
Athena Kugblenu: Allow Black people to be mediocre too!
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I would like to replace #blackexcellence with #blackmediocrity. True equality is when our talent:recognition ratio is allowed to be as broad as white people’s. Lewis Hamilton had to win two Formula One titles before he bagged BBC Sports Personality of the Year in 2014; Greg Rusedski only had to get battered by Pat Rafter to win his. Kwasi Kwarteng steered the economy towards an iceberg and got sacked. Jeremy Hunt drove the NHS over a cliff, now he’s chancellor. Don’t get me started on how many football clubs get ruined by freshly retired white footballers while very qualified Black managers are overlooked. When the arc of the moral universe bends towards Black people failing upwards as their peers do, we will be in the promised land.
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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
This is hands down the best opinion piece you will read on the Arday case. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The takedown of Jason Arday has overjoyed the right, and must be a wake-up call for the left | Jason Okundaye
The Cambridge academic has rightly now resigned. But that won’t end the targeting of senior black figures or the lazy way institutions promote faux equality, says Guardian columnist Jason Okundaye
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Jim Thomas @homomoleculus.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
#r4today Prof Stock says Cambridge is using Prof Arday for political means and he is a victim. Seems to me it is the Right that is doing that.
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Jim Thomas @homomoleculus.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
#r4today so Rod Liddle was SWP and passing himself off as comprehensive educated when young? Yet given breadcrumbs of power he punched down? Common people by Pulp rings in my ear. Followed by C**ts are still running the world.
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Jim Thomas @homomoleculus.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
The cognitive dissonance of The Times continues. I guess when it comes to Rupert Murdoch, a variant of the Upton Sinclair quote holds; "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his investment portfolio depends upon his not understanding it" #fires
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Jim Thomas @homomoleculus.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Again, the Economics Foundation is flagged as a "left-wing think-tank." Never hear presenters saying that the ASI, IEA or the Taxpayers Alliance are right-wing think-tanks" #r4today
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Jim Thomas @homomoleculus.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
#R4Today "Can the government afford a £2 cap on bus fares?" That is an interesting framing.
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davidc1935.bsky.social @davidc1935.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
There is that small percentage of "celebrities" who convey a personal depth and decency which makes their passing all the more painful. Watch his eyes at the beginning; watch the memories flooding back; watch the pause to keep his emotions from overpowering him. www.youtube.com/watch?v=__7n...
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The question that shook Sam Neill | The Assembly | ABC iview
YouTube video by ABC Entertainment
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Jim Thomas @homomoleculus.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Man of the people?
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Jim Thomas @homomoleculus.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Did Dave Allan get resurrected as a Eurocrat?
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Jim Thomas @homomoleculus.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
The University of Sheffield statement to Robert's comment really is a collection of management speak. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/univers...
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University of Sheffield’s Nobelist brands chemistry cuts ‘insane’
Genetics pioneer Richard J. Roberts criticises plans to cut posts at ‘brilliant’ department that launched his scientific career
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Jim Thomas @homomoleculus.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
It would be nice to see something similar coming from @royalsociety.org
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