Research Highlight: A pack of rings. Two recent papers (Summerfield et al Nature Communications and Gnan & Zaccarelli Nature Physics) demonstrate the importance of deformations for how particles pack and how their packed configurations slowly evolve nature.com/articles/s4225…

Here is the bench

I believe another future is possible – but we have to fight for it. That’s why I’m standing to be leader of the Labour Party. Join me and together we can – and we will – win: keirstarmer.com

I wonder if David Cameron (PPE, Oxford), Philip Hammond (PPE, Oxford), Matt Hancock (PPE, Oxford), Jeremy Hunt (PPE, Oxford), Rory Stewart (PPE, Oxford), Liz Truss (PPE, Oxford), Nick Robinson (PPE, Oxford), Robert Peston (PPE, Oxford) or Evan Davis (PPE, Oxford) agree?

Wouldn’t consider myself whatever it is people mean when they use the word ‘Blairite’ these days, but please for the love of God take a look at this response to a person telling him the Labour government hadn’t done enough in power x.com/joeIjoeIjoel/s…

Maybe next time don’t vote for a fucking cunt to lead the fucking country theguardian.com/world/2020/mar…

Turned on BBC1, caught the end of Big Night In. Ending with a song by Andrew Lloyd Webber (£6m tax avoidance scheme) and Gary Barlow (£20m tax avoidance scheme) to encourage the public to donate to charities or order to fill a *mysterious void* in the public purse. 🙃

Good piece of work @uklabour ... the charlatans will be hoping media and public get bored and it all goes away by time Parliament back. Do not let it. Every candidate/MP/CLP Should be generating pressure on every Tory in every part of the country. This is not about Cummings 1/2

Post about our new Nature Nano paper go.nature.com/3b3CzyG

The conservative parties main agenda when in government has always been to siphon taxpayers money into the off-shore bank accounts of themselves and their backers. Useless PPE, Garden bridges, and none existent starter homes. Watch Liz Truss squirm in this interview.

Here is an academic (preprint) paper describing the methods in the DNA sequencing tech for one of the two companies that the Gov have procured to test for COVID-19. 1/x

I will say this again & again... The MPs expenses scandal of 2009 represented £0.01 from every man, woman & child in the UK. (£650,000) most recovered. Test & Trace represents £570 for every man, woman & child in the UK (£37,000,000,000). Achievement??? #CorruptToriesOut

With David Frost, for Boris Johnson, tweeting 1 am threats at Ireland’s government … what’s up? “Ever bought a fake picture?” Smiley asks Esterhase, in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. “The more you pay for it the less inclined you are to doubt it”. A (very long)🧵/1.

Those that can, do. Those that can’t, ‘influence’. x.com/CharlysBobby/s…

Brexit was dumb