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If you leave your home to your spouse it's IHT exempt. If you leave it to your kids (or grandchildren), it raises the nil rate band to £500k.

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I was at a meeting at Imperial in 2001 which his wife, Mary, was presenting at. It was all a bit awks, but in a good way.

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Good luck with those pesky ligations. I used to electroelute bands onto Whatman paper in the days before gel extraction kits (I'm old).

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Yes, the cookers (Bramley) are very good. They get distributed around the village. Most of the eating apples are old varieties, of variable quality, but the local horses like them.

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It’s been a very agreeable afternoon’s pottering. Coco to scale.

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Always good to see your art.

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RCSB Protein Data Bank @rcsbpdb.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Explore images that structural biologist Irina Bezsonova (UCONN Health) created for #inktober in PDB-101's #sciart gallery

pdb101.rcsb.org

PDB101: Irina Bezsonova Gallery

PDB-101: Training, Outreach, and Education portal of RCSB PDB

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I worked on cyclic electron flow in the C4 pseudocereal Amaranthus for many years. The C4 pathway seems to evolved independently many, many times (~ 50!) over the years.

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The RAF Fairford incident, as plotted by Mick Herron.

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

You think you're having a good day, I've just had my first packet of crisps a week after having a tooth out. Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive.

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Ersatz Brown Windsor, by default.

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Same. I've been buying Apple kit since 1991, and the M1 MBA is probably the best computer I've owned, by some distance.

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Delighted to see Jonathan Meades get a mention (oft overlooked by many; not just a bloke in a suit & shades talking about Essex on the telly). And all the others, of course.

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Absolutely terrific. I mean, it's always a banger, but the performance, balance and quality of the sound were wonderful.

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Fabulous. The Beethoven was a triumph!

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Could be an immature horse/field mushroom (they have white/pink gills before turning brown), but the gills of some nasty Amanita species always stay white. If there’s a bag-like structure around the base of the stalk it’s Amanita.

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Need to have a closer look at the gills and the very base of the stem to be sure. It could be a field mushroom, a horse mushroom , or possibly Amanita ☠️. Look for yellow staining when cut too.

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I hope this email finds you well.

LEMAIRE (20th century), Brigitte Bardot, Graphite.

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It appeared underneath my bird table. The seeds can lay dormant in the soil for many years apparently. Interesting plant, but I don't want it in my garden!

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Thorn apple (Datura stramonium), known as jimson weed in the US, sprouting in my back garden, north Cornwall. Family Solanaceae, and packed with toxic alkaloids. It can seed rather prolifically, so I removed it. @bsbibotany.bsky.social #wildflowerhour

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Yes. I saw it a while back while recovering from the flu, which undoubtedly coloured and heightened the experience. Magical realist grave-robbing?

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

He lives in secure military housing in D.C. for a reason.

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

You've played Atic Atac, right? (Did that release on the C64?).

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

He spent a year thinking about moving in before he moved in 😆

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This old fellow was a tiny ginger kitten once.

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Standing down for getting arrested reasons.

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

One of those has sat on my shelves happily unread for decades, and we all know which one, don't we.

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Jumping spiders like laser pointers.

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It’s interesting, isn’t it. Mahler 7 was overlooked for years, and the British musicologist Deryck Cooke called it the ‘Cinderella’ of Mahler’s symphonies. It must be one of the most performed of his works at the moment. (I’m strictly on the fence about it!).

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

("Dagger of the Mind" if anyone's wondering, set in London's Theatreland. Wilfrid Hyde-White guest stars in it, but his scenes are shot in LA for tax-related reasons).

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The Lieutenant is, of course, a proms fan.

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Tom Service as outraged by the criminal act at last night's Mahler as I was.

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Thank you, I've learned something. The day has not been wasted.

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Shouting 'bravo' immediately after the final notes of the M9 Adagio die away, I ask you.

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

By tackling the garden for the most part.

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

There’s a very poor crop on my Pine Apple this year (not surprising, as last year was an absolute monster).

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Unlike Nansen's ship, it has a sauna.

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I have an e-bike for getting around in Cornwall (I don't drive, but rarely need to go very far). I hadn't touched a bike in 20 years prior to getting it, but I absolutely love it.

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The Proms bowing out on an absolute blinder this week. Strauss's Four Last Songs tonight; JSB's Mass in B minor tomorrow; Mahler 9 Friday.

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Cambridge Biochemistry @cambiochem.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Applications are invited to our programme supporting early career researchers to establish their own independent research groups. Please circulate and further details of how to apply by 25 September are here: www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/research/ind... #Biochemistry #EarlyCareer #Postdocs #Science

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

It is possible to create a convincing XI with poets who share their names with professional cricketers, but much like Fermat, I'll leave that as an exercise for the reader.

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

If you imagine a steamed heavy fruit cake with brandy in it you wouldn't be far off. This one was in the freezer from last year.

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Getting the Christmas pudding training in early, damn your eyes.

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

4.33 H+/ATP (1.39 ATP/NADPH) in Chlamy chloroplasts; v. interesting for the bioenergetics if that's your thing (helping to ease the energetic cost of the CCM?).

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I'm enjoying the Succession crossover episode.

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