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Pietro Spanu @pietrospanu.bsky.social · 11h

Whatever infectious madness spread to UK lawmakers, first evident with Brexit, continues to wreak a self-harm spiral with this. Goodness knows what the apparent logic of it all is...

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Pietro Spanu @pietrospanu.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Exactly this. This exceptionalism is exhausting.

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Medieval Illumination @medieval-illuminations.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Mushroom initial. breviary, France 15th century. Draguignan, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 2, fol. 190r. #medieval #MedievalArt

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Pietro Spanu @pietrospanu.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You don't need luck. You already have had it. Enjoy the next chapter in your life & work.

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Pietro Spanu @pietrospanu.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

One day, perhaps, "Legitimate Concern" will go into the OED as a prime example of Dog Whistle.

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Pietro Spanu @pietrospanu.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It may be time to really put Legitimate Concerns under the spotlight.

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Pietro Spanu @pietrospanu.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Or supporters of the criminalisation if gays have Legitimate Concerns about the corruption of "innocent minds".

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Pietro Spanu @pietrospanu.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Or opponents of universal suffrage have legitimate Legitimate Concerns about allowing the riff-raff (and women!) to vote?

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Pietro Spanu @pietrospanu.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Or did the 18th-19th C investors in slave trade have Legitimate Concerns about loss of revenue.

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Pietro Spanu @pietrospanu.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I reckon every time anyone utters those words (legitimate concern), they should pause and reflect. Ask yourself: "Would I have said that in 1933 Germany, as the national socialists took power. In relation to the Jewish Question?"

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Pietro Spanu @pietrospanu.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Are you sure about that? Looks a bit like a pantherina to me. Judging merely by the colour.

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Pietro Spanu @pietrospanu.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Because he has been wiping that off the face of the universe. Essentially he has convinced the rest of us that's an oxymoron

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Lambros Frantzeskakis @lambrosf.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If you’re a graduate student and interested in fungi please apply, this a great opportunity to experience research in an industry setting jobs.bayer.com/job/Chesterf...

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Fungal Discovery & Genomics Co-Op

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Pietro Spanu @pietrospanu.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Butyriboletus appendiculatus... Probably. It's cooking now and the perfume is beyond description... 😍😍

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Pietro Spanu @pietrospanu.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Goodbye, CH. You are not a real country. You are wonderland.

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Pietro Spanu @pietrospanu.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I am not a Labour voter... But the *good ones* (see also S Khan) make a difference

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Pietro Spanu @pietrospanu.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Here bsky.app/profile/piet...

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Pietro Spanu @pietrospanu.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

... and today we climbed up one of those

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Pietro Spanu @pietrospanu.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

This somehow reminds me of Alica in Wonderland

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Remco Stam @rstam.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

New preprint! There have been quite a few papers about RLP and RLK receptors, but none of them have a truly reproducible annotation pipeline (including my own...)... We finally made such a pipeline and look more systematically at RLPs within tomato. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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PlantLRR-PRR:A Reproducible Annotation Pipeline Reveals Contrasting Evolution of Developmental and Defense Receptor-Like Proteins in Tomato

Plants perceive external and internal signals via receptors to modulate their growth, development, and defenses. Leucine-rich-repeat receptor-like-kinase (RLKs) and receptor-like-proteins (RLPs) are t...

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Pietro Spanu @pietrospanu.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

On my way back home. Good bye amazing Hebrides. See you again next year.

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Pietro Spanu @pietrospanu.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

And to end the day, dolfins playing in the sunset (Ulva)

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Pietro Spanu @pietrospanu.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

This year we got Fingal's retreat...

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Pietro Spanu @pietrospanu.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Gliding into Glaceriska Bay (Loch Creran)

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Pietro Spanu @pietrospanu.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Like finding where your foot is and saying "shoot"

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Pietro Spanu @pietrospanu.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

This is particularly noticeable as decreased variety of locally produced fruit and veg, and a poorer variety of fish (references to local/Cornish fishermen has mostly gone, and quality of "fish" has dropped)

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Pietro Spanu @pietrospanu.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

And quality on the shelves has dropped regularly...

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Pietro Spanu @pietrospanu.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

On the Walls. Through the Trees. Eclipse

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Pietro Spanu @pietrospanu.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Works well when combined with the green variegated variety too.

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Pietro Spanu @pietrospanu.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

"a handful of privileged, outspoken voices dominating..." Sure. Whenever has it been different (I am not saying it's a good thing)

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