Fantastic to see this paper on development and deployment of an air quality measurement system to study personal exposure in trains. Very important work!

Evidence grows on the health harm inside the homes of people spending an evening in front of the fire. New research from the University of Lisbon in my latest piece for The Guardian theguardian.com/environment/20…

Six brilliant writers behind the six brilliant books on the 2024 Women's Prize for Non-Fiction shortlist: bit.ly/4aeMal9 Laura Cumming Naomi Klein Noreen Masud @TiyaMilesTAM Madhumita Murgia Safiya Sinclair #WomensPrize #NonFiction

The Prom queue has just sped up massively. I can only assume that Florence and the Machine has sold out.

Saw her four hours after reading this. Funny old world.

The irony of insomnia is, for me, the small hours are time of greatest clarity and focus.Much of my PhD thesis was written between 2300-0400, and I get at least twice, if not thrice, as much done per hr. Of course it's also highly antisocial and by early pm I'm paying big time.

Match postponed here. Tooting Bec have forgotten their kit.

Mea culpa...

An absolute icon

Doing good science is 90% finding a science buddy to constantly talk to about the project.

A 1,000,000th reminder the crucial importance of basic research. Ambros and Ruvkun were looking into understanding nematode genetics and development, not looking for a drug, and ended up opening an entire new area in biology

PhD student: "please don't be excited yet, these are just preliminary results, I still need to repeat the experiment multiple times" PI:

#AcademicChatter #AcademicX

Shows how the vaccines always kill you in the end. Jimmy Carter got the diphtheria vaccine in 1934 and died just 90 years later

Bloody hell, calm down Angles. It's just a rest!

You can’t take our country — and you can’t take our game.

Clown

Why are Asda Service Team trying to help themselves to people's bank accounts by making up new charges for items? I called this morning and still nothing has changed.

research is beautiful because for a brief moment in time you know something that no one else in the world knows

Grant fates are shockingly stochastic. Last year, my ERC-AdG proposal was shredded at step #1, resulting in a humiliating ban for the following year ("never come again with this junk!"). I then resubmitted to Swiss NatFonds, and it made the top percentile (1M CHF award)🤷