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Prof Julian Burton 🌈 @julianburton.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Curried turkey drogheda - just like mum used to make.

Prof Julian Burton 🌈 @julianburton.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Winner Winner Christmas Dinner With thanks to @nigella.bsky.social brine recipe - I think this is the first time I have had turkey that was not dry. It was delicious!!!! www.nigella.com/recipes/spic...

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Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 16/08/2025

I'm here to chew gum and shitpost about science and I'm all out of gum. cartoon via @xkcd.com

Cell Organelle diagram by XKCD's Randall Monroe
Among the identified cell parts are: Smooth Endoplasmic reticulum, rought er, cellophane, natural flavor, pleiades, sticky er, norton antivirus, golgi apparatus, drain plug, evil er, ...

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Alistair Coleman @alistaircoleman.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

That’s it lads, 36 years five months and four days, and it’s my last day at the BBC.

WE DO THIS NOT BECAUSE IT IS EASY,
BUT BECAUSE WE THOUGHT
IT WOULD BE EASY

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Prof Julian Burton 🌈 @julianburton.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

It is wonderful here. It is also very hot. Like being air fried.

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Prof Julian Burton 🌈 @julianburton.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

As a Brit, I have seen a lot about this on Bluesky in the last 24 hours. But I have seen nothing from the President denouncing the violence at all. Has he not said anything, or am I in an echo chamber? (It would be hard to imagine the UK prime minister )saying nothing if an MP were killed.)

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AndrewFolpe @folpe-mn-st.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

#PathSky 53F with shortness of breath and “ground glass” pulmonary opacity. Not a hard dx, but a spectacular (if very unfortunate) case.

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Prof Julian Burton 🌈 @julianburton.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Life has a way of keeping one down to earth. Yesterday I found out I am getting a medal. Today - well, it looks like I need a colonoscopy. Delighted about the former. More than a little anxious about the latter.

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon

Title:
SOME GRAMMATICAL VOICES FOR USE IN SCIENTIFIC WRITING

ACTIVE VOICE
e.g.
Our team collected samples and then we tested them.

CLICKBAIT VOICE
e.g.
We collected some samples...
You won't believe what happened next!

PASSIVE VOICE
e.g.
Samples were collected and tested.

HAIKU VOICE
e.g.
Quiet science lab.
Workers arrive with samples.
The testing begins.

PASSIVE-AGGRESSIVE VOICE
e.g. We did all the collecting and testing.
No need to thank us.
Just doing our job.

CONSPIRACY VOICE
e.g.
Mysterious "Samples" were harvested and covertly "tested" by so-called scientists.

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

I did a thing about being chopped in half that none of you will like, so you probably shouldn't read it. Especially not over lunch. Don't say I didn't warn you. www.bylinesupplement.com/p/russell-jo...

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Russell Jones's Week Moment: My Cancerversary

15 years after the removal from his kidney of the biggest tumour in Stockport, Russell Jones commemorates the agony and reflects on the heroism of the NHS doctors and nurses who saw him through

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Cardiovascular Pathology @cardiovascularpath.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Autopsies are still absolutely necessary to advance our understanding of disease, and better treat living patients. Full article available here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

It's time to start reminding people: LILIES ARE DEADLY FOR CATS. The leaves, the petals, the stem, even drinking a bit of vase water or licking a few grains of pollen from their fur can cause fatal kidney failure. ⚠️ www.fda.gov/animal-veter...

Color photo of a white lily blossom, overlaid with a black skull and cross bones and text that reads “no lilies for kitties”.

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Prof Julian Burton 🌈 @julianburton.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Sitting here in the UK, I'd never heard of Senator Cory Booker until tonight - he's not a big name here, but I suspect that may change now. I've been listening to him for the last few hours (and you can too as his speech, which has been going on for more than 22 hours now is being streamed ...

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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 24/03/2025

An education, which isn't limited to the textbooks being sold to students, is how you learn what questions to ask, and what answers to challenge. LLMs are biased data, not knowledge, generation machines and function closer to a search engine than a person who can reason.

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 23/03/2025

Nice! Forbidden Planet was released 69 years ago today!

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

"Poverty in Britain exists not because we don't have enough money to satisfy the needs of the poor, but because we don't have enough money to satisfy the greed of the rich." My bit for @bylinetimes.bsky.social on wealth tax and the new austerity. www.bylinesupplement.com/p/russell-jo...

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Russell Jones's Week Moment: Billionaires, Miscarriages of Capitalism, and Bin Collections

In the week the Government cut £5 billion in benefit payments, Russell Jones takes the UK's tax-dodging billionaires to task and urges Labour to get on with imposing a wealth tax

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Prof Julian Burton 🌈 @julianburton.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

The golden rule to remember is that gifts should be either sticky, noisy, or contain indelible ink. Bonus points for gifts that meet two or more criteria.

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Prof Julian Burton 🌈 @julianburton.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Esme is not at all impressed at having had her deworming treatment. PARASITES??!! I AM VENOM!!

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Joe @joe-pathology.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Not commonly seen without a clinical mass! #PagetsDisease of nipple with associated invasion. Also #HGDCIS in subareolar ducts. Usually #ERNegative & #Her2Positive. #pathsky #Pathology #BreastPath 😉

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Prof Julian Burton 🌈 @julianburton.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Epic Lasagna. The hard part in making this is the 20 minute wait now before serving.

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Prof Julian Burton 🌈 @julianburton.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

What should we see in Kuala Lumpur? My list so far (in no order): Batu caves Bird park Butterfly park Petronas towers KLCC fountains (right by our hotel - easy) Central market and chinatown KL tower (likely for lunch and/or dinner) Royal Selangor visitor centre

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Prof Julian Burton 🌈 @julianburton.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Summer hols booked and, shock, NOT a cruise! We're going to Kuala Lumpur and Georgetown in Malaysia. I've been to KL before but hubs hasn't. Neither of us have been to Penang. Very exciting!

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

You can tell antivaxxers don’t actually care about children because a child died and these sickos are using it as an excuse to share juice recipes and promote their supplements. There’s more aluminum in a cup of carrot juice than in the two-dose MMR series. And carrot juice doesn’t prevent measles.

Post from “the.holistic.mother” on Instagram:

Concerned about the measles?

Sip on this a few times per week

Carrot juice! An absolute powerhouse

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Prof Julian Burton 🌈 @julianburton.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

My left shoe felt odd all day. Finally caved and took it off to see and what did I find? One of the cat's toy mice lodged in the toe. Wasn't expecting that.

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Prof Julian Burton 🌈 @julianburton.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

A wonderful start to the day - received my copy of my mentor, Kim Suvarna’s book. I authored ch 10. Published after his death - he is much missed. #autopsy

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

ADVENTURER: Dragon! We are here for your gold! Prepare to die! DRAGON: My gold? ADVENTURER: Yes! We climbed this great mountain, swam it's flooded caverns and- DRAGON: Fair enough ADVENTURER: Wait, what? DRAGON: It's yours ADVENTURER: DRAGON: How are you carrying it out of here? ADVENTURER: Um... /1

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Prof Julian Burton 🌈 @julianburton.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Today’s excursion was an ‘African market experience’. Certainly an experience - first time we’ve needed a guide and security to see a market. most interesting part an area we couldn’t take photos - traditional medicine market where it’s believed that taking photos steals the essence of the medicine.

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Prof Julian Burton 🌈 @julianburton.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

The port of Durban is one of the largest in Africa, but not the largest. The others must be HUGE! This is only part of it.

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Prof Julian Burton 🌈 @julianburton.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Today we are in Durban and have taken a trip to PheZulu and the Valley of a Thousand Hills. Was excellent!

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Prof Julian Burton 🌈 @julianburton.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Today’s visit to Port Elizabeth and Addo elephant park has been aborted due to high winds preventing docking.

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Prof Julian Burton 🌈 @julianburton.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Good morning from the Cape of Good Hope!

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Prof Julian Burton 🌈 @julianburton.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Today we have mostly been in the Namib desert. Saw the national plant, and also moon valley.

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Prof Julian Burton 🌈 @julianburton.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

We’re on our way to Walvis Bay and the Skeleton Coast in Namibia. View this morning is more reminiscent of Greenland…

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Prof Julian Burton 🌈 @julianburton.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

On #regentsevenseas cruises, a Sunday sea day means brunch. And OMG!!

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Prof Julian Burton 🌈 @julianburton.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

What am I missing? Isn’t the point of the saying that it is an excuse to drink BEFORE 5pm? 😆

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Prof Julian Burton 🌈 @julianburton.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

It’s a hard life. We have left Cape Town and now cruising to Walvis Bay in Namibia. Caviar and mimosa for breakfast - a light start as it’s brunch at 10am and apparently that’s something of a showstopper.

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Prof Julian Burton 🌈 @julianburton.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Well it turns out we’ve had a new experience. A sail away party without sailing away. Too windy apparently. Still it is lovely here in Cape Town.

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Prof Julian Burton 🌈 @julianburton.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Cruising in Splendor. Some of the best burgers ever. ⅔ of our cases have arrived and been unpacked. Met our room attendant. Now quite warm. Loving it.

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Prof Julian Burton 🌈 @julianburton.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Lots of queues but we are now aboard the Regent Seven Seas Splendor for our South African odyssey.

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Prof Julian Burton 🌈 @julianburton.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Awoke to clear blue skies and sight of our cruise ship. Can even see our room. It is a balmy 20-something degrees, getting up to 26 later. First time solstice in the southern hemisphere!

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Prof Julian Burton 🌈 @julianburton.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Arrived in Cape Town after many hours flying. Table Mountain has its cloth on so spent the afternoon at V&A waterfront. Bought new hat. Tried the local wine.

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Prof Julian Burton 🌈 @julianburton.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Well we have made it to Dubai. Flight from Manchester was slightly delayed but we have some time before our connecting flight to Cape Town. Business class lounge is very comfortable

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Prof Julian Burton 🌈 @julianburton.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

I have reached the packing stage where I no longer want to go. But another 10 mins faffing about and it will be done.

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Prof Julian Burton 🌈 @julianburton.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Out of office on. Flight checked in. Car confirmed. HOliday HOliday HOliday

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