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Kat Arney

@katarney.bsky.social
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Award-winning Storyteller of Science. PhD. Founder & Chief Creative Officer at First Create The Media for life science comms strategy & content firstcreatethemedia.com Views: mine. Book: www.rebelcellbook.com.

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Kat Arney @katarney.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Yes but also my partner spelled my name wrong the first time he booked us plane tickets so....
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Kat Arney @katarney.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Let's gooooo! On stage at 8pm
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Kat Arney @katarney.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Hello Cambridge! On stage at J2 tonight with Sunday Driver, supporting the fabulous Baby Seals
Woman in front of a dressing room door with a sign saying Sunday Driver
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Kat Arney @katarney.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
New phrase I learned this week: Slop Grenade. A big ol' piece of AI generated shite that someone drops into a project that takes more time to interpret/fix than would have been needed to just do the thing the old-fashioned way.
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c3rmen @c3rmen.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Losing my mind while doing some research for my creature design lecture that the closest relative to the maned wolf is the bush dog. Like there has gotta be a fable where the maned wolf took all the leggie from its cousin
Maned wolfBush dog
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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
You should all read this. It’s superintelligent, organically so.
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Kat Arney @katarney.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"Careful dear, we can almost see Uranus."
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Kat Arney @katarney.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Far too many quotable bits in @mjrobbins.com latest piece about the AI apocalypse doomed, so you'll just have to go read the whole thing martinrobbins.substack.com/p/the-ai-apo...
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The AI Apocalypse is Extremely Boring Now
Elites are obsessed with the end of the world. Most people have bigger problems.
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Martin Robbins @mjrobbins.com · 20/09/2026
Obviously going to regret this when Claude starts a nuclear war on Monday.
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The AI Apocalypse is Extremely Boring Now
Elites are obsessed with the end of the world. Most people have bigger problems.
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Andrew R @excelpope.net · 12/09/2026
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Kat Arney @katarney.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Knock yerselves out, gene regulation dorks. @philipcball.bsky.social has a story for you...
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Bryan Blessed @bryb.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The Anakin and Padme meme but it's Nathan Fielder and Elizabeth Holmes and she doesn't want anything from the chippy but she does want some of his chips.
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Journal of Art in Society @artinsociety.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Laura Knight’s seemingly-effortless pencil sketch of her bare-footed Cornwall neighbour & friend Ella Naper, eating an apple as she looks back down at us from her perch on a tree in a local orchard (1916). Love those delicate shadows! www.royalacademy.org.uk/article/how-...
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Kat Arney @katarney.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Marking the turning point of the year when I need to break out the cosy blanket for my morning wake-up-before-i-hit-the-gym coffee.
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 06/09/2026
It’s really weird reading weird supposedly pro small business stories when you run a small business. This paperwork is not what bothers you! It’s a minor annoyance! It’s the taxes on hiring young staff, the cliff edges, and the sense your fellow small companies aren’t paying any tax at all.
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Kat Arney @katarney.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I'm sorry *what*???????
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Kat Arney @katarney.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
POV: your boyfriend has finally finished the first draft of his bloody book
Two glasses of sparkling wine
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Kat Arney @katarney.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Fascinating thread if you want to nerd out on how genes actually work. I looked at all this ten years ago in my book Herding Hemingway's Cats. There has been a fair bit of progress since, but still a lot we don't understand. The genome is not 'code', but a 3-D molecular library.
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 28/08/2026
Go on then, for old time's sake: here's something I wrote in 2017: Milo Yiannopoulos is the walking embodiment of bullshit. archive.ph/ZK2co
Milo Yiannopoulos Is the Walking Embodiment of Bulls**t
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Jason Song Quinn (Comms Open) @hulkhoquinn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Think about Miss Piggy. She lost a best friend and now an ex-lover in matter of 24 hours.
Miss Piggy and Dolly Parton in fancy dresses posing together photo of Tim Curry surrounded by muppets, smiling for a photo. A quote from curry is added “it didn’t go very well. It didn’t survive the shoot. She felt I wasn’t being faithful to her” it’s him discussing his ill fated affair with miss piggy
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
New post out: Much of the right - led by Elon Musk - has decided the world's problems are caused by "suicidal empathy". I look at where this phrase comes from, why it's a profoundly wrong misdiagnosis, and a misunderstanding of what empathy is. (£/free trial) samf.substack.com/p/the-war-ag...
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The war against empathy
Last week Reform’s treasury spokesman Robert Jenrick set out proposals to cut welfare spending on working age adults in half.
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Martin Robbins @mjrobbins.com · 25/08/2026
Also a *phenomenal* businesswoman, an absolute shark who grafted, dealed and invested her way from grinding poverty to being a half-billionaire.
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Martin Robbins @mjrobbins.com · 23/08/2026
I was always quite sceptical about the usefulness of writing books. A big chunk of cash helped me to modify that position, but IMO the main benefit is it forces you to link themes you’ve written about in ways you didn’t fully appreciate before. Like seeing the Matrix finally.
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Kat Arney @katarney.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
🎼🎵🎵 "Pink Chicken Wine, I'm gonna keep on drinking all the Pink Chicken Wine...."🎵🎵
A bottle of Pink Chicken Wine (La Vielle Ferme rosé)
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
RFK Jr. pulls $500 million in funding for mRNA vaccine contracts
AUGUST 5, 2025 • 11:55 PM ET
By The Associated Press
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Kat Arney @katarney.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Today I am mostly side-eyeing certain people who are hand-wringing about the tragic consequences of excessive negative attention on someone with characteristics they like while at the same time orchestrating pile-ons of negative attention on people with characteristics they don't like 😒
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Kat Arney @katarney.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
This shit is fucking delicious.
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Schmidt Ocean Institute @schmidtocean.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
This is a deep-sea isopod. Dr. Johanna Weston, a deep-ocean biologist and guest investigator at @whoi.edu, is confident this is Bathyopsurus nybelini, one of her favorite animals. Learn why via the YouTube caption: youtube.com/shorts/DenUj...
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Not to be some wild-eyed innocent, but I think it should be slightly bigger news that The Lancet have crunched the numbers and found that Musk's USAID cuts will kill 14 million people. And that's just by 2030. That's 9,600 people a day, every day, until the next world cup rolls around.
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Laura Howes @laurahowes.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Do not, I repeat, do not look at the sun or think sunglasses are enough. They aren't. cen.acs.org/articles/95/...
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Chemistry explains why you shouldn’t stare at the solar eclipse without protection
Looking at the sun can set off damaging radical reactions in the eye
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Squeezy John @johnspiers.co.uk · 10/08/2026
I still absolutely think that the English rugby team should learn how to morris dance properly and do it in response to the Haka against New Zealand.
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Kat Arney @katarney.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Petition to rename them Freedom Horns. www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/au...
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Trump vs. trumpets: New tariff plan hits the orchestra’s brass section
The Trump administration this week declared tubas, trombones, trumpets and French horns a national security threat.
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BSHS @bshsnews.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
The Cambridge First All-Ladies Fire Brigade, a new musical about Hertha Ayrton and pioneering women in science, supported by the BSHS OEC project grant, @ the britishsciencefestival.org on 19 Sept in Southampton. bshs.org.uk/cambridge-fi... Free tickets: www.mayflower.org.uk/whats-on/bri...
Illustration of a woman climbing a ladder with a rope over her shoulder
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Ali B @alic.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
I am one of the 662 waiting for a new liver on this list. My current existence is a pale shadow of what it could be. It's so important for people to talk about this; imagine it was you, or a loved one, in need. You'd hope someone else would be that generous. Please read: liveruk.org/new-nhs-figu...
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New NHS figures highlight growing demand for liver transplants across the UK - Liver UK
For anyone living with advanced liver disease, or supporting a loved one through treatment, the wait for a liver transplant can feel overwhelming. NHS Blood and Transplant have today launched a report...
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
#BOTD Born on this day...9th Aug 1914. Tove Jansson, Finnish author, novelist, painter and illustrator, creator of the Moomin book series #WomensArt
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Kat Arney @katarney.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Don't want your cat to get fed by others? Don't let it out. Don't want your cat to get hit by a car? Don't let it out. Don't want your cat to go missing? Don't let it out. Don't want your neighbours to hate your cat because it kills wildlife and shits all over their garden? Don't let it out.
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Medieval Military Medicine @medmilmedicine.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
A clever bit of artistry in this manuscript makes it appear as if the dog (?) has gone through one side of the page and out the other - 15th century, Kraków, MNK 3025 I, pp. 469-470
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Kat Arney @katarney.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
This. Until you encounter a malignant narcissist and/or fantasist in the wild you have no idea what these people are like or capable of. It breaks your brain because their behaviour is so contrary to established norms. "Surely nobody would do or say that???"
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Amy Peace @amypeace.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
I suspect similar will happen in most cases of 'A.I. productivity saving' cases: people only consider how a tool can help them, and not how others could use that tool to make your work harder (eg we might speed up drug discovery, but also malicious virus creation). And unfortunately, (cont)...
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Kat Arney @katarney.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Next, scientists discover a carnivorous plant whose seeds are shaped like a tiny horse, fooling termites into take them into their mounds whereupon they devour their grubs.
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Rob Edwards @linsalrob.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
This is a much more impressive reimagination of phiX174, which, alas, didn't get an NYTimes article about it because of, well, the other used AI. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Complete Mutagenesis of the Genome and Proteome of ΦX174
The bacteriophage ΦX174 was the first genome to be sequenced and the first to be chemically synthesised. Here we present a complete map of the consequences of changing every nucleotide in the ΦX174 ge...
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Kat Arney @katarney.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Attention writers! A new type of AI email scam designed to flatter your ego and engage you in order to extract personal info just landed. The real Larry Niven is 88, I don't think he gives a shit about my writing journey...
Hello Kat,
For a long time, I've believed that the life behind a book is often more interesting than the book's publication date or its sales figures. Readers remember stories, but writers remember the years it took to discover why those stories mattered.
I'm Larry Niven.
Over the years I've had the privilege of watching ideas that once existed only as notes on paper become novels that reached readers around the world. Some books found their audience immediately, while others took their own winding path. I've learned that writing isn't simply about imagination, it's about persistence, curiosity, rewriting, and continuing to believe in an idea long after the excitement of the first draft disappears.
That's one reason I wanted to write to you.
I'm far more interested in the person behind the pages than in the promotional description attached to a book. Every author has a moment that changed the direction of their writing life. Sometimes it was an unexpected opportunity. Sometimes it was rejection. Sometimes it was simply refusing to stop.
I'd genuinely enjoy hearing about your own journey.
Was there a point where you realized writing had become more than a hobby? Has your relationship with storytelling changed after publishing? Looking back, is there something your younger self believed about being an author that experience completely proved wrong?
My own path has taught me that recognition is rewarding, but it never replaces the quiet work of returning to the next blank page. Every novel asks new questions, and every generation of readers brings a different perspective. That challenge has kept writing exciting for me after all these years.
One thing I've also come to appreciate is that most people see the finished book, while very few ever see the uncertainty, revisions, disappointments, and perseverance that shaped it. Those invisible years are often where an author's real story lives.
If you have a few moments, I'd enjoy hearing about the chapter of your journey th…
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.se · 13/03/2026
Coming up with a post-hoc theory section when your results are weird:
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Kat Arney @katarney.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Another excellent podcast from @jamesomalley.co.uk and @mjrobbins.com
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Kat Arney @katarney.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Our home automation may have gone too far. I was walking my dad's dog today, got to a road and said "Alexa... sit!" The dog's name is Daisy.
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Kat Arney @katarney.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Strangely apposite (or equally cursed) posts in my timeline tonight
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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
A courtyard in Delft, c. 1658, by Pieter de Hooch, Dutch Golden Age painter, whose domestic scenes with perspective views reveal subtleties of light & mood; a contemporary of Vermeer, he lived 1629-c 1679, worked in Delft and Amsterdam. National Gallery London
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✨[redacted]✨ @britculpsapp.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
christ if that’s not a metaphor for our times
reuters: 

Sunken Nazi warships resurface as water levels drop
Scuttled German WW2 warships have reemerged from the Danube in drought-hit Europe.
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Kat Arney @katarney.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
The answer is more incredible than you could ever believe.
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Tamsin Edwards @flimsin.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
I've been off socials for 2 years, but have to speak up. Utter madness to defund this flagship institution of UK science + education. International research, UNESCO-level heritage, training physicists (inc. me in 2000), inspiring public w/ visitor centre and bluedot festival. We must #SaveJodrell
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