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This is a fantastic place! If you are a postdoc - apply! If you are a PI - send your postdoc! Happy to answer questions... Come to Berlin! 🌈

Conservatives: Winston Churchill is the greatest ever Briton, despite being a racist, sexist, cigar-smoking drunk. Also Conservatives:

"I'm a 2000 year old retired pharaoh. I've voted Labour all my life, but on Thursday I will be voting Reform UK

The new Science Minister is one of the country's top scientists The new Attorney General is one of the country's top KCs The new Prisons Minister is one of the country's top prisons reform specialists The era of "had enough of experts" seems to be at an end

Sterling up nearly 1% against the dollar since Sunak called the election. Whilst angry right-wingers and the Daily Express might not trust Labour with the economy, business and investors very much do.

Siri, show me the vibe in England in early July 2024

📢 Global PhD opportunity: very happy to update that our advertised project on maternal behaviour and larval environment in mosquitoes is now open to applicants from *any* country and the deadline has been extended to 31 August! with Fleur Ponton Ajay Narendra Dr Helena Stage

Whatever you think about the #CASS report, a union is supposed to be about improving working conditions for its members, not a campaign group in culture wars nor a political pressure group. I'm glad I left when it became apparent this was the way it was heading UCU

Why ResearchGate is a boil on the face of academia.

Interested in intergroup conflict? Evolutionary game theory? Animal strategies? Join us for a talk by Dan Sankey (Dan Sankey) on his new Nature Communications paper: "The evolution of democratic peace in animal societies" Thurs 29th August 4pm UK time Link: tinyurl.com/animal-democra…

Carol Vorderman, "Still today I can't get over how deferential we are to certain politicians who are a disgrace" "Kwasi Kwarteng was on GMB this morning.. Chatting about the newspapers.. What?!?" "You crashed the economy mate.. You went off from the House of Commons to a

I’m seeing a lot of anger and disappointment in badger circles today that the badger cull is ending, but not ending fast enough. Apologies for the long thread 🧵, but tet me explain why I think the news is the best it could be 1/25

Do you have lab experience with Drosophila, and an interest in experimental evolution? I'll soon be recruiting for a postdoc and technician to work on the evolution of memory in the People and Nature lab at UCL East. 2 bee posts also coming soon! [email protected]

Postdoc position on my FriendOrigins project. 10mos but could be 16mos with lots of low-hanging (but interesting!) fruit to be tackled in this replacement post for someone who got a permanent job elsewhere. See here, ref # S73438: jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecrui…. Due Sept 18, start Jan

Ideal for kids just starting to read: Teach Your Monster to Read is FREE on Android, iOS and Amazon devices until Wednesday 11th only. It's fantastic, our son loved it and learnt a lot! teachyourmonster.org/teachyourmonst… Please RT! MoneySavingExpert Martin Lewis

My new piece looks at the hard-to explain variations in train ticket prices in Britain. Why do people travelling similar distances pay massively different amounts? I have crunched a load of data and the results are baffling. (1/7)

Dodgy publisher FrontiersIn made the mistake of asking my opinion on them in survey