Anthony Wilson

I love tsetse biology so much!

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‘Truly spectacular’ drug for sleeping sickness simplifies treatment, raising hopes for eradication European regulators greenlight new one-dose compound that could help African countries get rid of an ancient burden

European regulators have greenlit a new one-dose compound that could help African countries get rid of sleeping sickness. https://scim.ag/3MSxrG8

Sorry, pressed "send" too soon! The pieces do look fascinating but they're annoyingly light on detail.

Unique New Mexico Finds Find our entire collection of southwest art and sculptures. Video Translation: Hi, Jennifer here with City Farmhouse Antiques and I am here with the Find of the Week with an artist that is very well k...

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40.7, which is I suspect how the typo happened

Is there a reason some handles (like mine!) aren't there?

IMAV: International meeting on arboviruses and their vectors

Registration and abstract submission for the international Meeting on Arboviruses and their Vectors (a UK Microbiology Society event), Liverpool 1-2 September 2026, are now open!

Link:

microbiologysociety.org/event/full-e...

Honestly if they'd listened to that the whole thing would probably have been funded, I suspect - from what I remember it was pretty close

Goddamnit

Aaaaargh what the hell

Oh wow, where to start

I was not the lead applicant, but was part of a bid to eradicate invasive Cx. quinquefasciatus to save a bunch of bird species on Hawaii from extinction. Their current high altitude refuges are disappearing fast due to climate change. That one really hurt.

Could always follow up with The Snow Spider, which borrows a lot of elements from it
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mag...

HG Wells famously hated the place so much when he lived there he made it the first place the Martians destroy in War of the Worlds

It's not terrible, honestly, just also not very exciting

Exactly!
It's technically more like 40min but I know Americans think nothing of 3h so I rounded up...

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Pretty close! About an hour's drive?

If you're anywhere near Woking this place is the closest I've found, and the people are lovely
aracelis.co.uk

It's about chemicals not headphones tbh, I don't think there's *any* evidence in humans

(That doesn't mean it's not having an effect of course, human studies are just harder to run)

So tl;dr stop eating so many headphones - I've got it down to three pairs a week now!

She mentioned that tuna trapping was introduced to the region around then so the alternative is they were catching fish and... maybe preserving and exporting everything?

Jasmine Lundy (UoY) mentioned a similar finding for organic residue analysis of cooking pots in medieval Sicily in her talk at the York Café Scientifique last week, but we wondered if that might not simply be that fish wasn't typically cooked using pots?

youtu.be/Fpu5a0Bl8eY

Nerds assemble! I need recommendations for a speaker who can talk not only about the growth in awareness of ADHD/autism in the UK, and the importance of accommodations etc., but also the sociological aspects of underdiagnosis/stigma in women/minority communities etc.

Pls repost for wider reach, ta.

Anything in UK?

Wait what are smokies in this context?
Neither of the smokies I know seems likely

2026 is proving to be a wonderful year for first time fungi finds so far. Looks like this is the rarely recorded Henningsomyces candidus - tiny little macaroni-like tubes found on a very rotten piece of wood in Southeast England. #fungifriends #fungi #mycology #naturephotography

Hey everyone, this recall has been expanded. If you formula feed, please check your supply.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Oh I know - although I only knew it from E Mediterranean until that!

I did a copper smelting and casting course at @butserancientfarm.co.uk years ago
We started by smashing up a few kg of imported jewellery-grade malachite, which they explained was because basically all copper ore in the UK contains various nasties making it unwise to smelt

Mostly arsenic iirc?

Once in Oxford my now-wife and I attended a lecture by Jane Goodall. It massively overran so we snuck out before the end and bumped into Richard Dawkins and Lalla Ward doing the same thing. They gave us a sheepish look and my other half told Lalla she really loved her embroidery books.