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πŸ”¬Deputy Lead - Cellular Analysis Facility - Shared Research Facilities MVLS, University of Glasgow. Fly Geneticist that liked Microscopy - now a Microscopist that likes Genetics. All views - generally - my own. (He/Him) πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦πŸ΄σ §σ ’σ ³σ £σ ΄σ Ώ ORCID: 0000-0002-5228-2893

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I’d have that printed up & put on your lab wall for people ti see as they came in.

1) to show you made it, & not just alone but, as you say, with the help of others (like your parents).

2) to say that if you can make it so can others.

06.03.2026 22:02 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Where’s the button for β€˜Too late’?

06.03.2026 21:42 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

@stephenfgoodwin.bsky.social lab without question.

I know it’s my old lab - but the fact I would go back in a heartbeat should indicate how good a lab it is & how good the science is.

And if was FUN.

I miss it.

06.03.2026 21:40 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

And I would welcome my new overlord β€˜ Dolly, Trogdora the Burninator’.

What’s your point please?

06.03.2026 21:35 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The plasmid ligates the hole
Without incorporating
Try to select them all away
But end up false validating

06.03.2026 08:08 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Is this all part of their plan?

Or … wait … do they, perhaps, not have a plan? ….

06.03.2026 06:18 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It’s like a protozoan escape room.

06.03.2026 06:15 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

As the main ingredient is β€˜Choclaty Candy’ then at least it’s accurate I suppose ….

06.03.2026 06:13 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Willy Wonka & the Choclaty Candy Factory.

It has come to this.

06.03.2026 06:12 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A picture of PEW poll on global attitude survey, saying the % who rate the morality and ethics of people in their country as good vs bad, where the US has the worst rankings and Canada the best

A picture of PEW poll on global attitude survey, saying the % who rate the morality and ethics of people in their country as good vs bad, where the US has the worst rankings and Canada the best

Americans: we live in a fallen stateβ€”embroiled by sin, cheating, lying, and evil. You cannot trust anyone, not even those who claim to know you best

Canadians: I love my neighbors and my friends!

05.03.2026 16:09 πŸ‘ 5916 πŸ” 1544 πŸ’¬ 285 πŸ“Œ 525

I concur.

04.03.2026 20:13 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Serious question.

In between sorting users’ imaging issues I’ve spent ALL Day swapping Monitors over, checking PCs to see if they work, data ports to see if they were active etc etc.

Is this normal elsewhere in academia - like Economics or Philosophy - or is just a thing that happens in Science?

04.03.2026 19:41 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Trust me you DO NOT want to know about nuts and berries.

04.03.2026 19:25 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yep - this paper (& the work it encapsulates) is excellent.

04.03.2026 18:55 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

More importantly there’s an airport out there with a bookstore still?!
Everywhere I go these days you’re lucky if there’s a book kiosk.

03.03.2026 18:07 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Just take normal items like water hose gun, drills, vacuums, jet washers etc & imperial empire weaponise them (black, countered handles, needless sights).

03.03.2026 16:16 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

So. Scotland then.

03.03.2026 16:11 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Coming in to this late & obviously deeply confused already about how the β€˜Right to Free Speech’ thing works (or doesn’t) over there, but also … your a Professorial grade PI & you don’t have vacation or medical coverage?!
How? Are you on the equivalent of an Academic 0 hr contract?

02.03.2026 23:58 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I am a scientist because of the OSC.

In any other society this would be a Grade A Listed Bldg - with protection orders in place & a requirement it should be preserved.

My wife (a Glasgow School of Art graduate) cried when the Mackintosh Building burned down.

I now know how she felt.

02.03.2026 18:58 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I am a scientist because of the OSC.

In any other society this would be a Grade A Listed Bldg - with protection orders in place & a requirement it should be preserved.

My wife (a Glasgow School of Art graduate) cried when the Mackintosh Building burned down.

I now know how she felt.

02.03.2026 18:57 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The institutional buildings of 1960s Canada were extraordinarily well-built. Throwing them away would be madness.

The 1969 Science Centre is an incredible piece of architecture. It needs some work.

The new building complex is a kludge that will be inferior by any measure.

02.03.2026 15:30 πŸ‘ 83 πŸ” 32 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0

β€˜Stotting about’ is still used to describe someone swaggering about the place in Scotland.

01.03.2026 21:40 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Grammar - know you’re shit or know your shit.

Above stolen from someone else - but don’t know who. Or is that whom?

01.03.2026 20:34 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

@chrisdornan.bsky.social apparently this is real.

01.03.2026 12:22 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Actually I’ve just seen that Canadian PM Carney is backing these air strikes.

I take it back, it is β€˜the world continues to be a shitstorm’.

So much for Carney’s David speech.

28.02.2026 17:42 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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28.02.2026 13:28 πŸ‘ 9012 πŸ” 2772 πŸ’¬ 80 πŸ“Œ 75

I was being diplomatic with the use of the β€˜world’ is a shitstorm.

Being Canadian it seems our great scandal is double-touching the stones in curling.

28.02.2026 17:33 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ˜‚ 😭

28.02.2026 15:12 πŸ‘ 31 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Much like β€˜there’s always a tweet’, there’s always a Dead Kennedy’s track.

Mainly because the world continues to be a shitstorm.

28.02.2026 17:30 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0