#ImissBristol

I had an email from someone who works in a virology testing lab, about why their lab is experiencing shortages of reagent. I found it really interesting and informative, so I thought I'd share it, in case you do to unherd.com/thepost/a-glim…

Who's still using Webex? Not even Cisco: Judge orders IT giant to use rival Zoom for virtual patent trial reg.cx/2Ztv

Morning gang! We are going to open source the code behind the Android and iOS "Contact Tracing" apps. Busy day today, so apologies in advance if I can't answer all of your questions.

❗ Stayed at home? Not used your season ticket? Please be aware that Monday is the last day you can get your season ticket refund backdated to 17 March. We've now refunded more seasons since #lockdown than in all of 2019, so thank you for your patience. nationalrail.co.uk/coronavirusref…

Common Cold xkcd.com/2306/ m.xkcd.com/2306/

🙃 Make sure to rickroll people trying to break into your site

Now this is an obit.

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On the New York Times’ decision to name a pseudonymous blogger, Scott Alexander of Slate Star Codex, and why I think that’s disastrous unherd.com/2020/06/slate-…

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One of the most exciting sentences I've ever tweeted: Zach Weinersmith has made a comic version of my book on science's problems - and I'm in it! nautil.us/blog/you-want-…

I wrote this in response to Owen Jones suggesting we suspend the patents on Covid vaccines. There are real problems with pharma market incentives, but if we want *more* vaccines in future, we probably don't want to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs unherd.com/2020/11/should…

This bloke spent £300 on vets fees and X-rays and it turned out nothing was wrong with the dog, was just copying him out of sympathy 😂😂😂

Happy father's day...

❗ NEW: Lines blocked via #Hockley due to a vehicle hitting a railway bridge. 🛠 Network Rail are aware and en route to the location.

The weekend hasn't got off to a good start.

Bollocks

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I've been getting AI to write poems for my wife. She thinks they're beautiful, that I must think long and hard about them and that I'm in touch with my feminine side. They take two minutes while I'm sat on the loo.