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Putin’s murderous reign of terror continues. Glad to see the U.K. foreign secretary in Kyiv today though I wish his announcement of support had more steel… www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Russian strike on buses kills at least 30, say officials, as deadly attacks on Ukraine surge

Ukraine accused Russia of targeting two crowded vehicles in the front line city of Kramatorsk to kill as many civilians as possible.

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Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · 19h

Grateful for this post as I confess I haven’t read a word of Anne Carson.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

'According to analysis by social mobility charity the Sutton Trust, those who were eligible for free school meals (FSM) earn 55 per cent more than non-graduates from a similar background. In contrast, graduates who aren’t from an FSM background earn only 43 per cent more.'

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Disadvantaged ‘gain more from degrees’ than better-off peers

Social mobility charity urges universities to double down on access efforts after releasing new analysis showing benefits of higher education

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Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 07/10/2026

20 years ago, Anna Politkovskaya was murdered for speaking truth to power in Putin’s Russia. She exposed the brutality of war. She gave a voice to its victims. And she refused to be intimidated into silence. This cost her life. But her memory is carried by so many to this day.

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Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It’s funny because it’s not true. (From the New Yorker).

A man and a woman sitting together in a café. The woman says “I can't believe how much more relaxed I feel since you told me to calm down.”

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Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

True, though some ‘truths’ about human nature are just broad generalisations. I do think that fiction is a powerful way to explore/understand human truths but would also highlight how our understanding of what it means to be human has been hugely influenced by science eg astronomy, evolution etc

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Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The subject is a bit technical but the key point is that the DNA ‘crystal’ has 2-fold symmetry, meaning it can be rotated 180° and looks the same. For that to be true, the DNA molecule needs at least 2 strands running in opposite directions.

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Outline of Crystallography for Biologists

Abstract. Outline of Crystallography for Biologists is intended for researchers and students in the biological sciences who require an insight into the met

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Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

You’re vastly understating it. It hasn’t just changed - it’s improved. Our theories may yet change further, but our knowledge of the properties of atoms will only increase in magnitude and reliability. That reliable knowledge is an important body of truth, not ‘just a fact’.

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Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

“Just a fact.” Hard disagree! It was an ancient idea that took a huge theoretical and empirical effort to understand and exploit.

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Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Wait… Ice Cube won the nobel prize for physics?

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Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Interesting - history never ends, does it? Will read the paper closely.

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Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Great thread explaining the significance of a new finding about Franklin’s (and Gosling’s) work on DNA.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The utter shamelessness of Kemi Badenoch boasting at Conservative party conference about 'defending press freedom' and berating Reform for banning critical journalists from their conference, just days after banning Byline Times journalists from her own

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David Anderson @bricksilk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Letter printed in The Times today

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Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It’s funny because it’s not true. (From the New Yorker).

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Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Fuck – and I can’t emphasise this enough – off.

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Kindra Crick 🧩 @kindracrick.com · 05/10/2026

One of today’s Nobel Prize winners, Karl Deisseroth, said he was inspired by Francis Crick’s original call for precision targeting of neurons in a Scientific American called "Thinking about the Brain" and kept a copy of the original 1979 issue on his desk. 🧪 stanfordmag.org/contents/new...

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New Light on the Brain

By combining genetics with fiber optics, Karl Deisseroth has given researchers a powerful tool with which to probe our most enigmatic organ.

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Laurence Pearl 🔥 @laurencepearl.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Sorry @greenparty.org.uk @carolinelucas.bsky.social @zackpolanski.bsky.social @georgemonbiot.bsky.social I cannot be a member of a party that supports a one-state ethnonationalist solution to the Palestine-Israel conflict, whether it’s led by Netanyahu or Polanski.

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Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

23rd A re-read of Roddy Doyle’s Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha. A novel told from the perspective of a 10 year old boy grappling with the delights and horrors of school, friendship and the collapse of his parents’ marriage. Miraculously convincing. #BooksOf2026

Paperback copy of Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle. A boy in red shorts hangs by his right arm form a high wall, about to let go.

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Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Mum would have been 93 today. Gone but not forgotten. Never.

My mum, in a yellow coat, on the left; me in a grey jacket on the right. Taken in 2018.

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Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Pride and prejudice – first line! ;-)

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Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Her argument isn’t tenable for the deeper recesses of physics, chemistry and biology but when it comes to understanding what it means to be human, or what we experience as reality, she’s on much firmer ground.

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Hugh Young-Bish @hughyoung-bish.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I'll say it's bollox, & I write fiction. Fiction gives free reign to the imagination to explore all possibilities, but also impossibilities, with no reliable way to tell them apart. Science is confined to the possible by reality, & there is only one reality, though we may never fully comprehend it.

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Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I’m sure you’ve used it at least as wisely Oliver!

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Cian O'Donnell @cianodonnell.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I'd see a sliding scale between flexibility and freedom to examine things vs rigour and empirical grounding: fiction - philosophy - mathematical modelling - experiments

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Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Arguably true and I say that as a scientist). Discuss. (By Kathryn Schulz in the New Yorker).

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With due respect to the innovations of science, fiction remains the most powerful microscope, telescope, seismograph, X-ray machine, and particle accelerator we've ever discovered a way to examine the world at every scale, to reverse causality, to alter time, to identify fundamental properties, to reveal our inner workings and control the conditions of the universe.

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Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Worth sticking with them to the end ?

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Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Is it a peculiarly oxbridge thing to offload your lectures onto your grad students? I would never have countenanced it as Director of UG Studies in my old dept.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Today, 8 years ago, my friend, Saudi Journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered.

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Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

22nd Deighton’s ’Mexico Set’, the second book of the first of his trilogy of trilogies featuring cynical MI6 field agent Bernard Samson, is a satisfying mix of plot, place and betrayals large and small. #BooksOf2026

Paperback copy of Mexico Set, with a creased spine. Cover shows two black 1980s Mercedes superimposed on a red striped silhouette of buildings in Mexico City.

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Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Yes, though that wasn’t such a big part of Crick’s life after the 1960s. There’s a new biography of Watson from @nccomfort.bsky.social due out soon.

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Alom Shaha @alomshaha.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Grateful that my brother, and indeed me and the rest of my siblings, have benefitted from living in a society where there are some safety nets and provisions for people who are disadvantaged through no fault of their own. It’s a mark of a civilised country. Tragic that some would have it different.

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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I volunteered for Childline for a decade at uni and I know firsthand a snapshot of how many lives Esther Rantzen changed. Her later years were known for assisted dying but her legacy will be giving vulnerable children someone to listen to and care. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

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Esther Rantzen, TV presenter and Childline founder, dies aged 86

Rantzen announced lung cancer diagnosis in 2023 and became a vocal assisted dying campaigner

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Robin Bisson @robinbisson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The Labour Party conference didn’t deliver any surprises on R&D, but it was possible to feel which way the wind is blowing I sat down with Emily Darlington MP to talk about it. As an adviser during the New Labour years, both on science and within the Treasury, she had some important insights

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Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

About as effectively as credit rating agencies regulated the banks?

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Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Obviously the details matter ultimately, but rhetoric and storytelling are powerful political tools (as we saw in the Brexit debates).

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Joël Reland @jreland.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

What's that Andy? You want to look at the different options for the UK's relationship with the EU? If only someone had set them out already... ukandeu.ac.uk/introducing-...

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

'In his [Ivison's] view, the government is avoiding the bigger issues of what universities are for and who should pay for them.' It would help if universities would ask (and answer) that 1st big question in public rather than just parroting government. That's what institutional autonomy is for.

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To save UK higher education, start talking about knowledge - Research Professional News

Until debate on universities foregrounds their core purposes, their woes will deepen, says Margot Finn

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Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

New mapping app: Google War Crimes

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Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

To be fair, she’s always been stupid and irresponsible.

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Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

So the movie didn’t quite carry on the momentum of the series (not enough Camille or Gabriel or Hervé for my liking), and it replays some plot lines, but it was still great to be back in the company of characters I love so much!

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