Thanks so much to members of Cambridge University Labour Club for coming to join myself and Cllr Elisa Meschini in King’s Hedges this evening for the PCC elections and for Jenny Gawthrope Wood in the local elections.

Lots of support for more visible neighbourhood policing.

Our Cherry Hinton Labour candidate is Mark Ashton, a local councillor for the past 13 years with a track record of getting work done in and for the local community. In particular, supporting the development of the Community Hub and the new council housing on Colville Road 👇🌹

How wonderful it is to celebrate science and scientists in the age of rampant science denialism - thank you #TIME100 TIME #science

.Waitrose & Partners 8 months ago one of your partners caused £5k worth of damage to my car (& shouted at me). I have a letter admitting liability. Yet your insurers refuse to respond to mine - I have had to give consent to attend court if necessary as this seems the only option!

Excited to see this up close and wondering if it could be a male Chironomus plumosus, non-biting midge? On a leaf today in Little St Mary’s churchyard, Cambridge. #WildWebsWednesday

🚨 BREAKING: This Government's cruel Rwanda Bill has just passed

Today will forever leave a stain on the UK’s moral reputation.

The UK has an obligation to provide safety to refugees. It's now vital that flights to Rwanda do not leave the tarmac.

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Article in Varsity about the student candidates in this year's Cambridge City Council elections varsity.co.uk/news/27422

Unlikely that many of my followers are directly able to help, but please amplify this if you can to try and find a match for another kid with aplastic anaemia.

Congratulations to my amazing friend Priyamvada Natarajan !!

TIME's list of the 100 Most Influential People in the world is out. I'm honored, delighted, and grateful to be a part of this incredible group #TIME100 TIME

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We are really please to have our paper on Long Covid subtypes out today in Nature Immunology. This project worked with PHOSP-COVID study cohort to delve into what is different in those with persistent symptoms. nature.com/articles/s4159…
Here's a short thread on what we found:

Tim is an absolutely brilliant councillor, who works so hard for Coleridge residents. If you're in Coleridge, vote for Tim in the City Council elections!

In 1971 the Post Office deemed that post-war university buildings were architecturally and culturally significant enough that they should appear on stamps. Four were issued: Aberystwyth, Southampton, Leicester and Essex.

A little Ladybird sits in a tiny opening flower of Mexican fleabane.

.London Stansted Airport hi, I am *very* shortsighted & wear daily disposable lenses.I always thought these did not count as liquids for carry on. Today I had to dispose of unworn lenses & throw away hay fever medication just to fit my lenses in the plastic bag. Surely this is not correct?

EXCL: UK taxpayers have paid out more than £34,000 to cover cost of science minister Michelle Donelan’s libel case - more than double the sum the government previously admitted.
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Labour mayor Nik Johnson delivering on his campaign promise to improve our buses.
🚐 Littleport to Cambridge service saved
🧑‍🦰 £1 fares for young people coming soon
🆕 30 new and improved routes
#GoodThatLabourDoes
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How wonderful and moving for the headlines to be about astronomy instead of, well, any of the other possibilities.