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Robin Sen 🇬🇧🇫🇮🇮🇳🇪🇺 @rsen5.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Congratulations to the @spun.earth consortium on their @science.org paper providing the first global estimate of plant root symbiotic arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal biomass and hyphal length in soils. Great review in @theguardian.com on global implications. www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

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Subterranean fungi networks more than 100 quadrillion km in length, study finds

First ever global mapping of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi shows scale of hyphal systems that sustain plant life

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Robin Sen 🇬🇧🇫🇮🇮🇳🇪🇺 @rsen5.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

@mrjamesob.bsky.social Just back from enjoying old Dutch Masters, tulips and canal trips in sunny Amsterdam. A point of discussion with our Dutch friends was why 10 years on from voting Brexit, UK still voting Nigel Farage. I had only one answer "British free-range turkeys keep voting for Xmas" 😳

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Robin Sen 🇬🇧🇫🇮🇮🇳🇪🇺 @rsen5.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Reminded of my plant-microbe-soil research re. shifting dogma in teaching climate impacts on soil carbon/nitrogen turnover. Recalcitrant C RIP? Three decades of continuous warming in temperate forests destabilizes persistent forms of soil organic matter - ScienceDirect share.google/kHEIC1uJtOCJ...

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Three decades of continuous warming in temperate forests destabilizes persistent forms of soil organic matter

Rising temperatures have altered the balance of soil carbon stored versus respired in forest ecosystems worldwide. Yet, the molecular-level mechanisms…

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Robin Sen 🇬🇧🇫🇮🇮🇳🇪🇺 @rsen5.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Lovely early spring day walking in the grounds of #ChatsworthHouse. Just the tonic in these troubled times.

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Robin Sen 🇬🇧🇫🇮🇮🇳🇪🇺 @rsen5.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

@mrjamesob.bsky.social Re. Starmer's disastrous "Strangers" speech (by a McSweeney approved speech writer?), check out the seminal, now viral, US broadcasting moment on Stephen Colbert's late show last week. @theianmckellen.bsky.social Shakespeare "Strangers" masterclass. bsky.app/profile/thei...

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Robin Sen 🇬🇧🇫🇮🇮🇳🇪🇺 @rsen5.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

@mrjamesob.bsky.social Looking forward to tomorrow morning's #LBC show James. Just a reminder of an old tweet. #Starmer must now personally "take responsibility" as he promised and resign as PM. After the shattered Ming vase, we've lost count of the U-turns, the latest this evening. Broken Britain?

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Ed Conway @edconway.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

🚨Our film is up We spent months making this👇 About how Britain shut down many of the factories we need to feed us and defend us. Will have more to say on it in due course but in the meantime - pls watch, share and let me know what you think youtu.be/PQ3hT8tqZgo?...

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The UK is losing the industry that makes everything

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Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement @tylerprize.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

The Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement names Toby Kiers as the 2026 Laureate. Her research reveals how underground fungal networks support life on Earth. Explore the hidden world beneath our feet: tylerprize.org/laureates/toby-kiers spun.earth/underground-atlas @spun.earth

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Robin Sen 🇬🇧🇫🇮🇮🇳🇪🇺 @rsen5.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

"You can’t claim to be a high-tech, connected nation if people can’t stay connected for a two-hour journey outside of London. And you certainly can’t compete on the global stage if the very backbone of your country, your transport and telecoms network, is stuck in the past". George Icke @lbc.co.uk

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Britain wants to be a global tech powerhouse - but I can’t get phone signal on the M42?

Barely a day goes by without a Government Minister confidently declaring that the UK is on track to become a global powerhouse of industry and technology.

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Robin Sen 🇬🇧🇫🇮🇮🇳🇪🇺 @rsen5.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

No surprise, being the son of a distinguised NIH Physician and Immunologist, that Stephen @colbertlateshow.bsky.social brought long-serving NIH Director Francis Collins back on the late show last night. But now talking about the "gutting of the NIH and brain drain" 😱 youtube.com/watch?v=lW9c...

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A Scientific Brain Drain Has Followed Trump’s Gutting Of The NIH - Dr. Francis Collins

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

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Kefa Hyder @yhwhrulz.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Former ITN presenter Sandy Gall dies: A look back at a legendary career | ITV News - YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXu1...

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Former ITN presenter Sandy Gall dies: A look back at a legendary career | ITV News

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Sarah Watkins @minilebowski.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

If you get the chance to see @willdalrymple.bsky.social speak live, grab it! He was fantastic.

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Robin Sen 🇬🇧🇫🇮🇮🇳🇪🇺 @rsen5.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Our 6th @hayfestival.bsky.social 📚 and 1st on the @bsky.app. Here for the whole festival this year. Great to see so many primary school pupils from around the country enjoying the first day.

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Francis M. Martin @fmartin54.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Delighted to announce the publication of our new study on N assimilation pathways in Laccaria bicolor & poplar ECM in PlantPhysiology. Special thanks to Feng and Xinyin for their key contributions to this work, which builds upon research I initiated in 1985! academic.oup.com/plphys/advan...

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Robin Sen 🇬🇧🇫🇮🇮🇳🇪🇺 @rsen5.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Took advantage of the continued spring drought to complete my 70th birthday project - a present to family and neighbours. Eschewing hiring a JCB digger, Paul and I spent 10 days digging out composted leaves and peaty soil runoff accumulation in the old Mill pond. Pond plants delivered next week.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

It's hard to get your head around the scale of the environmental vandalism the Labour government is hoping to unleash. The Planning and Infrastructure Bill is up there with Trump's executive orders. And the reason is the same: corporate power. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Labour’s great nature sellout is the worst attack on England’s ecosystems I’ve seen in my lifetime | George Monbiot

The horrifying planning bill, which rips up environmental protections, was drafted with CEOs in mind. We know because Keir Starmer told us, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Alexandra Witze @alexwitze.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

We polled Nature readers to ask if they were thinking of leaving the US for jobs abroad. Three-quarters of them (who said they were US-based scientists) said yes. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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75% of US scientists who answered Nature poll consider leaving

More than 1,600 readers answered our poll; many said they were looking for jobs in Europe and Canada.

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Robin Sen 🇬🇧🇫🇮🇮🇳🇪🇺 @rsen5.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Memo to, and brain food for, our parachuted High Peak MP on plans to transfer his Derbyshire @peakdistrict.bsky.social constituency to an expanded Manchester council. Like him I once was a southerner but after 20 years living here and working in Manchester, I will 🗳 No www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Historians urge caution over High Peak county switch

The High Peak could follow in Mosborough's footsteps by no longer being part of Derbyshire.

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Alastair Campbell @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Well that was good timing … on the day the UK govt sets out its AI strategy we have one of its pioneers as guest on @therestpolitics.bsky.social LEADING. Google VP James Manyika on the history, the threats and the opportunities and his own fascinating journey alastaircampbell.org/2025/01/116-...

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116. Is AI the answer to human suffering? (James Manyika)

How can AI help solve global problems such as poverty, hunger, and disease? Is there a hidden dark side to this new technology? What is in store for the future of artificial intelligence? Rory and Ala...

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Robin Sen 🇬🇧🇫🇮🇮🇳🇪🇺 @rsen5.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

My first Christmas on BlueSky and I'm pleased to continue a festive season #christmascake tradition. This year our ameretto liqueur infused cranberry and pistachio cake has pride of place on our dinning table. Season's Greetings to one and all. 🎇🎄🕯

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Robin Sen 🇬🇧🇫🇮🇮🇳🇪🇺 @rsen5.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

As always, so enjoying Christmas music on @classicfm.com at home and out and about in the car. But still waiting for the definitive English version of the Austrian Christmas carol "Stille, Stille, Stille" sung by Bryn Terfel. youtube.com/watch?v=AbFo...

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Robin Sen 🇬🇧🇫🇮🇮🇳🇪🇺 @rsen5.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Poignant re-working of Pink Floyd's classic #ComfortablyNumb set to cutting 21st century lyrics penned and sung by Ice-T with Body Count & David Gilmour reprising his iconic guitar solos. Appreciation to David and @rogerwaters0.bsky.social for agreeing to the release. youtube.com/watch?v=xVH6...

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Robin Sen 🇬🇧🇫🇮🇮🇳🇪🇺 @rsen5.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

First posting on @Bluesky the morning after celebrating Finland's 107th Independence Day, including the Presidential Ball on TV, and our annual visit to see the Christmas decorations at #ChatsworthHouse, the home of the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire. So enjoyed the Henry Cavendish themed displays.

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