I just published: Leave the red shirt out: Scientists, stop complicating the story
Scientists are brilliant at finding details. We are less brilliant at knowing which details to shut up about.
medium.com/p/leave-the-...
Regardless, it still needs to be correctly understood, though.
And that is what's typically missing when calling its demise.
London 🇬🇧
Agreed 👍🏼
Gare du Nord 🇫🇷 #iphonephotography
Paris 🇫🇷
They can pose a threat to human health — yeast infections are but one example. Scientists say not enough attention is paid to their ability to develop resistance to medications that treat them.
I have concluded my peer review this morning with the following statement:
Sorry I’m towards the end of the 16 hours of a 16-8 fasting day and I’m probably grumpier than usual. But that’s my initial reaction. I’m happy to comment further if you wish.
Royal Society Africa Prize Winners 🥇: Past and Present
Prof. Steven Runo @Striga_Steve
Prof. Ara Monadjem @MonadjemAra
Ara Monadjem is highlighting the issue of visas that African scientists face when attending scientific conferences, visiting colleagues, examining type specimens in museums, etc.
This needs to stop.
This year’s @royalsociety.org Africa Prize Lecture is Prof. Ara Monadjem on bat biodiversity
I just published: TSL Alumnus wins Biochemical Society Award
Mauricio Contreras has been recognised as an exceptional Early Career Researcher by the Biochemical Society.
#CelebratingAlumni
medium.com/p/tsl-alumnu...
Fede @fede_mirkin highlighting Argentina 🇦🇷 on the map
Overrated 😝
My fave comment on the Don’t Perish post 😝
Thank you 🙏
Méditerranée : la culture des céréales par un groupe de femmes tunisiennes youtu.be/751Ak6fyUJo?...
I just published Don’t Perish! A Step-by-Step Guide to Writing a Scientific Paper (2026 edition)
Great science deserves to be read—not buried under unclear writing. This is the updated 2026 edition of your favorite guide to writing scientific papers.
medium.com/p/dont-peris...
Research Associate/Research Fellow on the discovery of resistance genes with effectoromics, with a focus on genes that lead to resistant plants for indoor farming systems for Brassica. #scijobs @VivianneTwit ntu.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/Careers/job/...
A search for my father’s name led me to a rare butterfly and across war-torn landscapes. It became my first feature documentary.
Now featured in @guardian culture and screening in 20+ UK cinemas.
UK friends, join me for Q&As this April: www.undergroundslate.com/searchingfor...
What a week to be JD Vance
The Home Office' anti-immigration agenda is strangling growth across the economy. It prevents a closer relationship with Europe, deprives us of the workers we need and undermines universities.
getting-out-of-the-hole.uk/labours-red-...
‘Everything is gone’ 🇱🇧 🇵🇸 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
A “war forever” — who benefits from the crime?
What’s new here? It should be noted that the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague 🇳🇱 has already issued an arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu on 21 November 2024.
“Kinderen folteren en vermoorden, wie doet dat? Benjamin Netanyahu, die doet dat” www.volkskrant.nl/columns-opin...
Otto von Bismarck’s 1884 Berlin Conference turned imperial land-grabbing into “diplomacy” — a polished mask for conquest, extraction, and theft by European powers. This is what happened to Africa afterwards👇🏼
Incredible what the peoples of the Levant have contributed to human history.
www.penguin.co.uk/books/457375...
Incredible what the peoples of the Levant have contributed to human history.
www.penguin.co.uk/books/457375...
