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Darren Green @pinkmongoose.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Happy to now be able to announce our transdisciplinary project on AMR! The 48-month transdisciplinary study explores the causes and complexity behind the AMR issues recognised in freshwater environments. www.stir.ac.uk/news/2026/oc...

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University of Stirling secures £2.4m grant for major aquaculture project | About | University of Stirling

University of Stirling secures £2.4m grant for major aquaculture project

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Darren Green @pinkmongoose.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Mum's been looking at those walker things with four wheels that can go in any direction. "Oh! Like in Ezekiel's vision?" Taking too long to explain...

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Darren Green @pinkmongoose.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I'm unpacking a Next shirt and I feel like I'm in an episode of The Adventure Game here.

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Darren Green @pinkmongoose.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Stirling Institute of Aquaculture currently has a new academic post available in aquatic animal health. See here for details... www.stir.ac.uk/about/work-a...

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Vacancy details | About | University of Stirling

Job vacancy at the University of Stirling.

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧🇬🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The media could have not platformed Nigel Farage and discredited him 15 years ago. Instead Farage got them what they wanted - Cameron agreeing to a Brexit referendum, Labour and the Tories dragged to the right. Now they want two party politics back with the Tories in power. He’s served his purpose.

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Darren Green @pinkmongoose.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

New paper landed recently! doi.org/10.3390/aqua... Economic Modelling of Mouth Rot in British Columbia Atlantic Salmon Farming Always nice for students (here Matt Yau) to get an output from their UG or MSc project! Well done Matt!

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Darren Green @pinkmongoose.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I just checked the box of the Moving Mountains burgers I bought yesterday, and had one for tea. I was suspicious of the grease left in the pan. Nearly 20g of saturated fat in one burger. Oil being the top non water ingredient. The other is in the bin. Disgusting. #vegan

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Darren Green @pinkmongoose.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

The music in IKEA: It's like someone's died on EastEnders.

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Darren Green @pinkmongoose.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Amazon Prime Video be like "Want some Toilet Duck? Only £35.50".

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Darren Green @pinkmongoose.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

So hear me out: Yoghurt on toast. Not just any yog though. But skyr works as a low fat spread alternative. This is my most important science discovery this week.

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Darren Green @pinkmongoose.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Mandelson is a 72yo bloke. I'm not quite sure, in the absence of public toilets in most places at night, what councils expect people to with their piss. Wee their pants? Some sort of teleportation?

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Olaf Falafel @ofalafel.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Surely I’m not the only one who thinks this whenever they see a map of The Strait Of Hormuz on the news?

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Darren Green @pinkmongoose.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Kellogg's Start was discontinued back before The Event. But High Protein Bites look suspiciously similar! Same trefoil shape, same main ingredients, same target market.

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Darren Green @pinkmongoose.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

New review on genetics and marine disease just landed! doi.org/10.1098/rstb... My first paper in Phil Trans! ("You're a _scientist_ if you've got an ology...") No I'm not in Maths now. Will get that fixed...

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Darren Green @pinkmongoose.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

New paper just landed! link.springer.com/article/10.1... Measuring consideration of aquatic ecosystems in national biodiversity conservation planning through text analysis

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Darren Green @pinkmongoose.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Psalms 109:7-9 is a sick burn isn't it. 7 When he is tried, let him be found guilty, and may his prayers condemn him. 8 May his days be few; may another take his place of leadership. 9 May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow. (NIV)

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Darren Green @pinkmongoose.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

So my evening is being with the help of Gemini doing digital archaeology on Amiga samples that had been converted to Archimedes raw sound format, converting them to WAV. Bit 0 being the sign bit? That was a surprise.

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Darren Green @pinkmongoose.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

I might not have remembered to post this new book chapter this year... link.springer.com/chapter/10.1... The Global Approach: Aquaculture and National Action Plans for Antimicrobial Resistance Darren M. Green & Andrew P. Desbois

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Darren Green @pinkmongoose.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Erm... Who allowed "Storm Claudia"? What next? Hurricane Gail or Typhoon Misty?

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Darren Green @pinkmongoose.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Designed to create anger... Except when you look at the numbers. They're talking about... school buses. So 6% of pupils get funded transport, and of those 40% of those have special needs, but of THOSE, 9% travel alone. That's 2 in every 1000 pupils. Not a drama.

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Councils paying school transport costs for 470,000 pupils in England

Local authorities say the cost of providing school transport is becoming

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Darren Green @pinkmongoose.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Remember Picture Box? With the spooky revolving box in soft focus? Sitting in front of the massive telly with the big flaps? Here's the guy who played the theme tune playing the actual instrument... www.youtube.com/watch?v=awaF...

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Les Structures sonores Lasry-Baschet

YouTube video by Nicolas de Laprade

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Darren Green @pinkmongoose.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

It does make my eyelid twitch that @woahglobal.bsky.social is the world organiSation for animal health, but @who.int is the world health organiZation. :D

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Darren Green @pinkmongoose.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Trying to get Copilot to help me with some settings issues on O365, and it can't. It admits openly that it's less use than Clippy was 25 years ago.

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Darren Green @pinkmongoose.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

We had this same mumsy nonsense from Labour twenty years ago. ID cards are a threat to the law abiding and mean nothing to the underworld.

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Darren Green @pinkmongoose.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

I can find no mention of the phrase "Geordic Noir" on the internet, so after having just said this I'm documenting it here. #Vera

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Darren Green @pinkmongoose.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

I see there's a convicted sex offender in the news whose opinion on whether another convicted sex offender sex offended or not with her other sex offender friend is being reported.

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Darren Green @pinkmongoose.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

I love the idea that the bosses of Temu are all about twenty, and randomly hang about in car parks.

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Darren Green @pinkmongoose.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

So I grew up with "Is the Pope Polish?" as a stock reply to an obvious question. I still use this despite obviously they haven't been for years. We need an update. Can I suggest "Does the Pope know Paddington?" This keeps the alliteration belovèd of British and Irish constituencies.

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Darren Green @pinkmongoose.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

A tariff on foreign movies is sneaky, because what it is is a tax on overseas English-language media. Once you've done it for films, why not news channels? I.e. it contributes to #trump 's fascist agenda by controlling flow of information.

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Darren Green @pinkmongoose.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

From the perspective of someone in Lincolnshire, I was wondering what might be a complete list of cities that could reasonably be considered "the capital" in some way. Have I missed any? Leicester Rome Milan Trier Lincoln Tamworth York Winchester London Northampton Angers Poitiers Oxford

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Darren Green @pinkmongoose.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

I love a nice wander in Holyrood Park or up Arthur's Seat, but the erosion up there is getting really bad. No wonder there's no bloody skylarks, as the signage says. It's really apparent when you look at the aerial view.

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Darren Green @pinkmongoose.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

My first foray into the world of micro controllers. Finally using some of the electrical spares I've stripped off junk years ago lol. ESP32 off screen.

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Darren Green @pinkmongoose.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Harvard has been around 400 years. It can cope with one nazi in a nappy.

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Darren Green @pinkmongoose.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

A sunny day in the office in Britain means turning on the British aircon: A bin stuck in the doorway.

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Darren Green @pinkmongoose.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Took this photo only two years ago while on holiday in NYC. Also visited Ellis Island and found it very moving: that sense of the USA having offered safe harbour and new opportunities to millions. But that's all in the past, isn't it?

The New Colossus poem plaque at the Statue of Liberty.

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Darren Green @pinkmongoose.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Did the old libgen search for how much of my oeuvre Zuckerberg stole via LibGen to power his word-salad generators. 20 papers apparently.

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Darren Green @pinkmongoose.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

I've just asked our administrator if the fourth-year exam can be moved, because the suggested date clashes with Ed Balls Day. I hope he knows I'm joking.

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Darren Green @pinkmongoose.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Darren's R Top Tips! A simple way to avoid the failing of "table" in the previous tip would be to sum over a testable condition and use sapply over a range, effectively like a column of SUMIFs in Excel. sapply(1:10, \(i) {sum(c(1,1,2,3,4,5,6,6,6,8,1,2)==i)})

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Darren Green @pinkmongoose.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Darren's R Top Tips! Overlooked R function: table() Table can tabulate a vector, which is handy, but also there is pitfall potential: table(c(1,1,2,3,4,5,6,6,6,8,1,2)) Notice here that there are gaps in the tabular output, and it doesn't leave a gap for 7.

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Darren Green @pinkmongoose.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Darren's R Top Tips! Overlooked R function: replicate() This is quite different to rep(), and is basically a wrapper for sapply, e.g. replicate(3,list("a",2,3)) Note it produces here a matrix, not just a longer list or vector.

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