“A lot of advances in science build on decades of curiosity-driven experimentation by people that just have a passion for understanding nature. That is the story of CRISPR.”

- Chemistry laureate Jennifer Doudna of UC Berkeley

'Carnivore MD' now realises that long term ketosis is not good for him and he has moved away from it. Suprise suprise. Thoughts high priests of LCHF = Ivor Cummins Tim Noakes Gary Fettke Dr Aseem Malhotra et al...? (-;

Richard Feynman's mother, Lucille Feynman, after Omni magazine named him the world's smartest man.

These are baby stingrays. They look like aliens stuck in ravioli.

#NoMowMay is back at the University. We are acting for nature by letting the grass grow tall, allowing the wildflowers bloom and watching nature move in. We hope you enjoy seeing our campus flourish throughout the month and beyond.

A paper published last week reminded me of the #FragilityIndex concept to assess the stability of the results of clinical trials 1/7
#MethodologyMonday #86

Midwives rock! Happy International Midwives Day to all my old colleagues in the discipline... (-:

📷Astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell in 1968.

In 1967, Bell Burnell (aged 24) was working on her Ph.D. at Cambridge when she discovered Pulsars. The discovery was one of the greatest breakthroughs in the history of astrophysics.

Would you rather encounter a bear's body with a human brain, or a human body with a bear's brain?

I can only belief that someone has hacked the account of my old lab leader and colleague and is putting out this utter swill..... ?

Word of the day is ‘fudgel’ (18th century): to make a big show of working hard whilst actually doing very little.

As much as I enjoy social media, this is my wise tweet of the month...

Use 'entropy' and you can never lose a debate, von Neumann told Shannon - because no one really knows what 'entropy' is.

-- William Poundstone

Did you know that Santiago Ramón y Cajal wanted to be an artist as a boy but his father wanted him to study medicine? He put his artistic skills to good use in the detailed and beautiful pictures of the nervous systems he studied.

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Just heard that The Man on the Street, the book that started it all off for me by winning the CWA New Blood Dagger, is a Kindle Monthly Deal this month. Worth a punt, surely? amazon.co.uk/Man-Street-Tre… Northern Crime Writing Syndicate TheD20Authors

Surely its always nb to remember in academia how much fun it is, and how lucky we are to do it as a career, even on tough days. One meets so many great folk along the way, and find out new things that hopefully make a positive difference to the world. Science is beautiful! (-:

One of the best international captains of all-time

Never lost a Test match

Played club rugby for Ocean's XV

Gabriel's Horn, also known as Torricelli's Trumpet, is a geometric figure that has the paradoxical property of having infinite surface area but finite volume. It is formed by revolving the curve y = ¹⁄ₓ around the x-axis from x = 1 to infinity.

My wise tweet of the week....