Looking forward to the launch of daughter Lucinda Hartley’s book at the State library - tickets still available. Price include a copy of the book (which is trending on Amazon) #ProudMum
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She’s better at proof reading than me 🤣
So priud of my daughter writing this book about hiw to find your pkace to live - sort of like the barefoot investor but for housing
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Bad move
There is still time to register for tomorrow’s ME Voices Wales self-management webinar: Wed 22 April 12.30-1.30pm
ABUHB's Symptom Management service will explain what support they can give people with ME/CFS.
Register here: tinyurl.com/mwkvbnp9
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A Cavendish banana plantation in Latin America. Note the blue plastic bags covering the bunches.
We are pleased to highlight that @danbebber.bsky.social (doi.org/10.1002/ppp3...) has been cited in a policy report 'The impact of voluntary sustainability standards on banana exports' by the FAO: openknowledge.fao.org/handle/20.50...
@fao.org #PlantScience #PlantsInPolicy
Even Apple is now enshittifying interfaces - the new mail is awful and even worse, the watch workout app
Or imagination. The lack of safety for women charging in dodgy lonely car parks in the dark is a disaster waiting to happen
Nuts
I really don’t understand the UK being so restrictive about vaccines and antivirals. Australia’s bad enough but UK is a whole new level of
"COVID vaccines tied to less hospital care, long COVID, and economic burden."
"People vaccinated against COVID in Germany in 2023 experienced reduced hospitalization rates, fewer long-COVID diagnoses, and lower all-cause mortality than those who weren't vaccinated, according to a new study"
I wonder if it’s an issue with getting high levels of power to these otherwise pretty remote places? 🤷🏻♀️
The government could demand that all servos on highways have a charger. Problem solved. Successive governments have not planned this at all.
Burning stuff is so cave man
A break through for authors and creative artists / we need original humans more than ever
@tryangregory.bsky.social
Linocut portrait of Keeling in teal with geochemical sampling tools with the Keeling curve in copy and axes (vertical: CO2 fraction micro-mol/mol from 325 to 400 and horizontal: Year 1960 to 2000).
Happy birthday to #geochemist Charles David Keeling (1928 - 2005) 🧪🐡⚒️ #histsci whose decades long observations of CO2 in air samples from Mauna Loa Observatory were some of the 1st direct data to show the human contribution to greenhouse effect & global warming. The ‘Keeling Curve’ (in copper & red)
True. I have reviewed papers that despite what’s said are clearly full
Of AI slop and I happily reject them. Agreed. It is a waste of our time
I’ve used it to say “ reduce abstract from 250 to 200 words” and it’s come up with some interesting solutions - that i then rewrite
What if AI like copilot was used to condense the abstract? Word always had a summarise function and this is essentially the same . Of that is then edited by the authors I see no problem. If we have a blanket “no” one result could drive more insidious use underground
VACANCY - We’re searching for a Postdoctoral Researcher to join the newly appointed group of Dr @hassansalem.bsky.social, to explore the developmental biology of host-microbe symbiosis
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Deadline - 25 March 2026
Salary - £37,500 - £45,350
Contract - 3 years, full-time
Note #AusPoll
*the festival was fantastic - I’ll be going to the next one in 2 years, hopefully with improved charging options
I drove to Cavendish in west Vic for the Red Gum Festival. Charging stations are not on the highway but in quiet car parks in towns with no toilets or cafes, and in the dark - not female friendly. I used the ‘facilities’ offered by bushes and gutters. Yet we have fabulous highway stops! #AusPol #EV
So true. “driving in Australia … you'll find a service station…The same can't be said of EV chargers” - so why not make service centres have a few chargers? #AusPol #EV www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...
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This post was prompted by hearing from a former AFE who is starting their own lab, yay! If you've been in one of these mentored programs and have moved on, drop me a line and I'll update my spreadsheet. Or drop me a line just to say hi 😀.
Makes sense. And Australia, where a lot of the country is already too hot to be outside in the middle of the day for much of the year
