The news has been more than a bit grim of late, so hooray for @carbonbrief.org providing some genuine and really meaningful **good** news: the UK's carbon emissions in 2024 were the lowest since 1872, because demand for fossil fuels just keeps decreasing.
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-...
Huge crowds in SF today for #standupforscience. inspiring stories, not only from scientists like @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social, but also people who have lived through life-saving/changing experiences as a direct consequence of federally-funded scientific research 💪🏽
NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.
I saw them at the Royal Festival Hall in London when they were doing their kids shows, it was incredible, I wish they would do some more I have another kid who would love to see them
That's one thing I don't miss about the UK I never seem to get bored of sunshine
Oh man that looks just like the canal that goes through the Staffordshire village I grew up in, makes me homesick
Brexit makes no sense in a world dominated by Trump. Britain’s place is back in the EU | Jonathan Freedland
Computational methods in biology opened a new world of insights and breakthroughs. 🌍 🖥️
EMBL has been at the forefront of innovations which have propelled the field forward and opened up access to bioinformatics data and resources for the entire scientific community.
🧬 www.embl.org/news/science...
As an expat Brit living in California I must admit I find it quite reassuring listening to debates from the UK around inheritance tax and farming. So nice to hear people discussing actual politics instead of learning about which sex offender is going to run which department of state
John Prescott used to say “when I die all they’ll go on about is that bloody punch!” Well no, they went on about a whole lot more. I did a dozen or so interviews paying tribute today and it was so nice to hear so many recalling him so fondly and recognising his enormous achievers and character
We're pleased to share our GENCODE 2025 NAR database paper: tinyurl.com/3etnfw4j Thanks to all our collaborators, friends and users. This is now the main citation for our resource, and hopefully also a good explanation of how and why we do what we do.
Validation of a wearable ultrasound sensor for continuous blood pressure monitoring, a key unmet need www.nature.com/articles/s41...
I am one of 100s of scientists in the the World that is Watching the U.S. Deal With Bird Flu, and It’s Scary! Today, my opinion piece on the NY Times. Let's hope we take more serious epidemics and pandemics and deal with them before they emerge. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/19/o...
Is David Spiegelhalter on here yet?
Name a better qualified doctor than Dr. Oz, we’ll go first:
Pikmin was definitely better with the Wii remote
Wii U launched 12 years ago today.
While the system may have failed sales-wise, Nintendo put out VERY good software for it.
The fact that many of Wii U's best games are now Switch's best (and most successful) games, speaks volumes.
Spent last weekend at the Olympic Village in Tahoe. I am now so Californian It never even occurred to me to check the weather. Started to snow and I don't have any snow chains for the car, just about got back down the mountain before they closed the highway. There is a lesson in there somewhere...
I left twitter for Mastodon ages ago but kind of missed the #bioinformatics community, I am hoping to find it again here.
@nickthewheel.bsky.social maybe I will just come over here instead
