@matthewcobb
Professor Emeritus (University of Manchester), writes on biology, history of science & French Resistance. Most recent book: a biography of Francis Crick. Now writing THE IDEA OF HEREDITY. Link to publications: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8258-4913
No, Claude is not anxious.
Anxiety requires two components:
1. Awareness of the possibility of annihilation of self.
2. An autonomic nervous system.
Mimicry of the words of an anxious person is not being anxious.
A dog can be anxious. Your plagiarism machine cannot.
I could try and say something relevant, topical, profound even on the general state of everything. However what I feel I need is a small, purple, Sea Lavender Weevil. So here it is. #Nature
Quick plug for our new resource, the Drosophila Species Stock Exchange. This is a database and mailing list that documents species currently in culture and the labs holding them. If you want to know more or sign up then please get in touch. See attached for more info and please share!
A lane rolls gently down a hill towards a small farmstead in early spring. The first trees are in blossom.
Other work by the Ladybird artists
‘Spring Landscape’
Artist: Ronald Lampitt
There's a common misconception that zoonotic viruses require significant adaptation to jump from animals to cause human epidemics.
Not so 👇.
Further, we see clear signs of 1977 flu experiencing cell passage, prior to epidemic.
SARS-CoV-2? Business as usual.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Don’t have access to the chapter
And this one
Mailed you this one
My daughter discovered we have a Chardonnay (not my thing)
🐜🔬 Researchers at the University of Maryland and KIT in Germany are using a synchrotron particle accelerator and AI to build a massive 3D library of #ants. #science
👉 scitechdaily.com/ai-and-x-ra...
This is a new one.
We authors for a while were plagued with scams disguised as book clubs. "Hi we picked your book for our book club" followed by "we need a lot of money."
Today: I got an email purportedly from another AUTHOR.
It's definitely a scam. These are so painfully cruel.
Very thoughtful review of CRICK from Angela Creager in @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social lareviewofbooks.org/article/fran...
With us in the #Cotswolds in May @matthewcobb.bsky.social #Crick #🧪 @profilebooks.bsky.social 💙📚 #booksky and @timcoulson.bsky.social
Tickets and more info here: www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/literature/e...
Six women bale hay with a red hay baling machine
Evelyn Dunbar was the only woman commissioned by the War Artists' Advisory Committee.
Discover D in our A-Z of women artists 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/curations/an-a-z-of-1000-women-artists-represented-on-art-uk-dabis-to-dwight-18093
🧑🎨 Evelyn Mary Dunbar (1906–1960) 📸 Museum Wales
Sending it by post!
Gosh!
Sounds like a plan.
Same, Sam, but for me it’ll be a train to Sidcup to see my aunt.
Have spent 25+ years teaching and communicating science, often to people who have little interest or knowledge of science. Have helped many prominent scientists and science institutions communicate their work to the public. Wrote this book for people who didn‘t understand / enjoy science at school:
Icymi last night, I was surprised and honoured to win the Hatchard’s First Biography Prize for CRICK. I even got a big cheque!
Photo of a few square inches of tree trunk. Growing on the tree trunk are several grey lichens (growing flat on tree), a lichen that looks like a bunch of tiny egg yolks, and a bright red fungus that looks like a half dozen or so round/oval red blobs.
A few square inches of tree trunk. At least 4 species of lichens (Parmelia, two Physcia species and Caloplaca) plus Red Tree Brain Fungus. #lichen #fungi #fungifriends.
First light at Salisbury, where spire, sky, and meadow meet in perfect harmony. Taken from Harnham Water Meadows, where John Constable created his masterpieces.
Some gold from the Staffordshire Hoard which was discovered in 2009 near the village of Hammerwich in Staffordshire - the largest collection of Anglo-Saxon gold & silver metalwork ever found. This item is from the Potteries Museum & Art Gallery in Stoke. 📸 My own. #FindsFriday
Black-and-white photograph of a girl smiling gently at the camera, with one hand to the side of the head, wearing a striped top.
6 March 1931 | A French Jewish girl, Esther Tukarski, was born in Paris.
She arrived at #Auschwitz on 23 August 1942 in a transport of 1,000 Jews deported from Drancy. She was among the 892 people murdered after selection in gas chambers.
No no no. It needs to be connected to the internet, a way of turning your sewing into a podcast and a load of cookies so that it can steal your personal data. Needle 2.0
Pls re-post: My department @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social are recruiting for several new faculty positions (links below). Broad search in molecular biology/biochemistry, across prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Interested in understanding life at the molecular level, this job might be for you!
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Admiring this skilful mosaic of a jellyfish in a sparkling sunlit sea, from Great Houses of Havana, by Hermes Mallea (Monacelli Press) www.greathousesofhavana.com/purchase.html
lol yes!
I won! I have a big cheque!
Redon was rather strange