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Peter Scott

@peterscott.bsky.social
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Chemist at Warwick, interested in self-assembling peptide mimetics, circular economy plastics (Interface Polymers Ltd), industry collab, guitar, golf.

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Peter Scott @peterscott.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Cancer cells are greedy for glutamine. Our amazing collaborators show how CRISPR-guided metallohelices can help redirect this nutrient away from tumour cells and towards immune cells, boosting dendritic cell activation and strengthening anti-tumour T cell responses. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
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Regulation of Tumor-Immune Cell Communications via Enantioselectively Targeting SLC G-Quadruplexes
Compelling evidence shows that amino acids can influence tumor-immune cell communication. Their transfer across the plasma membrane involves multiple amino acid transporters within the solute carrier ...
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Peter Scott @peterscott.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Done properly, with the aim to deploiticise the BBC, this protects Labour and democracy alike by weakening the populist ratchet rather than feeding it, and by restoring the BBC’s distinctive role as trusted democratic infrastructure rather than a slower version of social media.
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Peter Scott @peterscott.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Yes this is just the BBC, but you don’t need to control the whole system to shift the centre of gravity. And the BBC has a lot of weight.
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Peter Scott @peterscott.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
The opportunity now (this year) is to change the BBC charter, redefining impartiality as equal standards of evidence and proportionate scrutiny, insulating funding and editorial judgement, and backing explanation-first public service journalism. In other words, help BBC catch up with C4.
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Peter Scott @peterscott.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Doing what you suggest here, as well as being impossible, is just going to create a backlash, and rightly so. The issue is the model, and that the trad media merely completes with social media rather than innovating past it.
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Peter Scott @peterscott.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
That unintentionally advantages grievance-based populism. It delivers airtime for e.g. Reform without accountability while at the same time placing governing parties under constant scrutiny without credit for seriousness or delivery - two things that Labour is good at.
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Peter Scott @peterscott.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
I too was pissed off with the BBC but I think I understand it more now. There’s a structural problem in the media ecosystem that Labour should address carefully, and also a way forward. Trad broadcasters like BBC are merely competing with social media on attention rather than innovating...
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Peter Scott @peterscott.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
I really appreciate your work. Labour is frankly so productive it is hard to keep up.
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Peter Scott @peterscott.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
1930s Germany didn’t lack warnings. Rome? The French Revolution? Plenty of examples of minorities being scapegoated by strong men.
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Peter Scott @peterscott.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
A G-quaduplex we found in Rabies RABV genome is targeted by one of our metallohelices, suppressing a vital protein translation and viral replication. doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...
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Exploring RNA G-quadruplex in the rabies virus genome and its potential against RABV infection
Rabies virus (RABV) is a prototypical neurotropic RNA virus that can cause rabies with an almost 100% fatality rate. Despite great efforts having been made to identify an effective therapeutic target ...
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Peter Scott @peterscott.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Saying "crying x" implies that x, like the wolf, does not exist. That's a fundamental flaw here.
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Peter Scott @peterscott.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Crikey I now have to listen to this then unsubscribe.
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Peter Scott @peterscott.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Oh how slow of me. I will henceforth get my name changed!
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Peter Scott @peterscott.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Not sure I understand tbh.
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Peter Scott @peterscott.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Had a great afternoon baking. Inspired by that hilarious Battenburg graffiti I'm calling this "Less Cross of St. George" Cake. Delicious.
Battenburg cake with a rather more distinctive than unusual red jam cross in the middle. Looks like a George Cross with the quadrants coloured pink and yellow.
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Peter Scott @peterscott.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
The existence of coordination chemistry was demonstrated through understanding of chirality. Just saying.
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Peter Scott @peterscott.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Terrible golf course though.
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Peter Scott @peterscott.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
All time classic
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Peter Scott @peterscott.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
What is ‘Far-Right’? 99-percent.org/what-is-far-...
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What is ‘Far-Right’? - 99%
Why we need to be able to call it out now There is no simple, agreed definition of far-right, but we urgently need one: We know what ‘right-wing’ means – […]
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Peter Scott @peterscott.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Troutayes #Geordie #funty
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Peter Scott @peterscott.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
An army of #Clownshirts.
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Peter Scott @peterscott.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
I love you man, but it's obviously no 'additional' cost. Not his fault that councillors get an allowance.
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Peter Scott @peterscott.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Maybe not. Just found it on the hellsite. Works well though I think.
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Peter Scott @peterscott.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Yep. I think I just invented that word. #hategrooming
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Peter Scott @peterscott.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Hategrooming.
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Peter Scott @peterscott.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
What they are calling stochastic terrorism.
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Peter Scott @peterscott.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
... Oh sorry
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Peter Scott @peterscott.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Oh it gets a hard time. It's a wonderful place. Such history and culture... Wilberforce, Larkin, The Housemartins, the bridge...
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Peter Scott @peterscott.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
I chose crockery etc based largely on how efficiently they will fit.
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Robin Bedford @bedcatalysis.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Exited to announce the EPSRC drEAMcat Prosperity Partnership between bristoluni.bsky.social, AstraZeneca and Labman. This programme will explore replacing palladium catalysts with those based on Earth Abundant Metals in drug production. Postdoc posts (catalysis and computation) coming soon!
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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Expect a US exhibition of degenerate art any day now.
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Peter Scott @peterscott.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Finally have a paper with my awesome membrane biophys colleague Ann Dixon. Membrane lipid composition directs the cellular selectivity of antimicrobial metallohelices @rscmedchem.rsc.org pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
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Membrane lipid composition directs the cellular selectivity of antimicrobial metallohelices
Two enantiomeric pairs of iron(II) metallohelices, available as water-soluble, stable, and optically pure bimetallic complexes, differ principally in the length of the central hydrophobic region betwe...
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Peter Scott @peterscott.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Also, it is pretty efficient tax to collect, and is harder to evade than income tax. And the rate can be tweaked like interest rates, as we did recently. And being so targeted, big tactical changes like VAT on private education can be made quite easily. Tax what the rich buy but do not need.
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Peter Scott @peterscott.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Yes, as I say I am aware of that consensus. Some argue that VAT is mildly progressive when looking at lifetime income, since wealthier people eventually spend their savings and thus pay VAT at some point. For sure, it can be made to be more progressive.
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Peter Scott @peterscott.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Yes that's the way it seems to me but the consensus seems to be that it is regressive. I don't get it.
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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
We’ve been watching Wolf Hall, a fascinating study of how the fragile male ego of a fickle, greedy despot creates a culture of deep cruelty and mistrust, where everyone lives in fear of saying the wrong thing. Thank goodness we’ve moved on from those times.
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Peter Scott @peterscott.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
UK Politics: It's Time for a New Lens 99-percent.org/uk-politics-...
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UK Politics: It's Time for a New Lens - 99%
We tend to look at politics through the lens of a battle between parties – in particular, given our system, as a battle between the Conservatives (who usually win) and […]
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Colbobs.bsky.social "Col" he/him/his @colbobs.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Our traditional way of viewing politics no longer reflects reality. To safeguard our democracy we need to update our thinking. H/T @99organisation.bsky.social
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US & UK politics: it’s time for a new lens – part two
Our traditional way of viewing politics no longer reflects reality. To safeguard our democracy we need to update our thinking
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Peter Scott @peterscott.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
What if We Shrug? 99-percent.org/what-if-we-s...
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What if We Shrug? - 99%
There are many arguments for taxing the extremely wealthy more. Perhaps the simplest is that while most normal people pay tax of up to 40% on their income (or more), […]
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Oonagh @okeating.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Who will rid me of this -
Ad for a 'turbulence' fleece
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Peter Scott @peterscott.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
The impact on chemistry must be measurable in years per week.
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Paul J. Dauenhauer @pauldauenhauer.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Microsoft employee #1: We have changed the subscript hotkeys in Microsoft Word; should we also change the supersecript hotkeys in Word? Microsoft employee #2: No, leave that one the same; it will drive academic researchers insane
control and shift keys on a keyboard
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Peter Scott @peterscott.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Thank you God
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Peter Scott @peterscott.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Palette ❤️
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Peter Scott @peterscott.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Better than my failed idea of increasingly short haircuts.
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Dave Leigh @profdaveleigh.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Peng-Lai, @stefanborsley.bsky.social, Martin & our collaborators Alessandro and @giusepponelab.bsky.social demonstrate how a catalyst transduces chemical energy to perform mechanical work in www.nature.com/articles/s41... in @nature.com. tinyurl.com/jny7nen5. Animation @scicommstudios.bsky.social😀
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Peter Scott @peterscott.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Sitting here smiling and shaking my head. Lovely work.
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Peter Scott @peterscott.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Respect
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Sebastian Salek @sebastiansalek.com · 07/01/2025
Labour has been in power for six months. Here’s everything it’s achieved in that time: (Buckle up…)
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Paul J. Dauenhauer @pauldauenhauer.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Consider a broader interpretation to include science, engineering, art, and design, and the point of distinction becomes much more clear. Nobody would confuse design, art, product, and artwork with science or engineering (and knowledge and technology).
The process and outcomes of science, engineering, art, and design
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