@jgrgilbert

Bicycles, typing, biology, food; JAPH 🐪 OΛ

Joined May 2011
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Trust is gained in drops and lost in buckets.
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Replying to @LarrySabato
“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” ― Martin Luther King Jr.
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Replying to @FryRsquared
@FryRsquared @AdamRutherford "Banana-flavored candy was not intended to mimic the taste of a formerly popular variety of banana. The reason banana candy tastes different from bananas is that it is mainly flavored with only one of the many flavors a banana has, isoamyl acetate."
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From Wikipedia's list of common misconceptions. Gros Michel bananas do have more isoamyl acetate though, so they do taste more like the artificial flavour. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o…

List of common misconceptions - Wikipedia

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Say Hello to Ivory. Our Mastodon client for iOS available on the App Store! If you liked Tweetbot, you'll love Ivory and feel right at home. Go download it, try it free for 7 days, and experience it for yourself! apps.apple.com/us/app/ivory-…
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Last chance to apply for a PhD to investigate the mechanism of clathrin coat formation using cryo-EM, neutron scattering and other cool biophysical techniques. Deadline 20th Jan. Collaboration between my group and @_Nikola_ . Informal enquiries welcome! warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/…
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NEW: Britain’s grim winter of strikes, falling incomes and a worsening NHS crisis is not some unfortunate series of events It’s the inevitable result of a decade of Tory austerity that steadily weakened the state’s capacity to respond to shocks enterprise-sharing.ft.com/re… Thread:
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Washington Post tech reporter Taylor Lorenz @TaylorLorenz has been suspended from Twitter by Elon Musk, seemingly for asking right-to-reply questions for a story. You can follow her on Mastodon: spacekaren.sucks/h2xod
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Today is the first day of winter and I want you to watch this video of Christmas #Mariupol as it was a year ago, when the city and its residents didn’t yet know what awaited them in 2 months.

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In 1970, there were still around 20,000 capercaillie in Scotland. The latest survey suggests as few as 542 birds remain. What has happened? The answer is by no means black and white. Read our latest rewilding story: bit.ly/3NB4PNB – at Skye of Curr, Scotland
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Phenomenal. Bar-tailed Godwit has broken its own record: a first-year bird (five months old!) has flown 13,560 km—just shy of the direct flight limit of a Boeing 787—from Alaska to Tasmania, seemingly non-stop, in just 11 days (avg. speed: c.51 km/hr). facebook.com/437949496218757…
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The Liquidambar styraciflua looking splendid at @CUBotanicGarden Apple Day today.
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Crystal jellyfish living up to its name
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This would be wonderful. theguardian.com/environment/…

Lost rainforest could be revived across 20% of Great Britain

Exclusive: campaigners call for protection and careful tree-planting to help restore the temperate rainforests that once covered swathes of the country

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So @AdamRutherford is receiving a lot of skepticism about his tweet saying that if Cheddar Man has any genealogical ancestors today, he is the common ancestor of all present-day humans. Adam is correct about this — I think this is such a cool finding, so I'll explain it below.
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Born this summer in southwest Finland, this juvenile Honey Buzzard's life came to a sudden end last Saturday, illegally shot in Malta. This bird was part of a study on migration and was followed from its birth to its death. @BirdLife_Malta tells us more: flightforsurvival.org/gps-tr…
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"How sad on this October day, To see our hedges shorn away. Small creatures would have liked to eat, The hawthorn berries, rose hips sweet, Blackberries & nuts & sloes, But through the blades the banquet goes. Won't somebody heed our words, And leave the berries for the birds."😢
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So there we have it. It is confirmed that Scotland is snow-free yet again. The last patch, the Sphinx, disappeared sometime in the last 24 hours. The Sphinx has now vanished four times in the last six years, having done so only five times in the last 300 years. (1/2)
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Secure Data Environments (SDE) policy published by @NHSTransform today - builds on Trusted Research Environments (#TREs) concept - i.e. privacy by design where analysts & researchers access data inside SDEs, instead of having data distributed to them. A major change in policy.
Transforming health and care@NHSTransform6 Sep 2022
Access to health & care data speeds up the discovery of life-changing treatments, helping staff to plan better NHS services. Published today, our Secure Data Environments policy guidelines sets out the future for data access & protection. gov.uk/government/publicatio… #DataSavesLives
Harnessing health & care data, we’re able to speed up the discovery of life-changing treatments & plan better services.

ALT Harnessing health & care data, we’re able to speed up the discovery of life-changing treatments & plan better services.

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#HabitatRestoration works. In 2012, the Spey Catchment Initiative implemented a project to restore the Allt Lorgy, lowering floodbanks and allowing the burn to find its own natural course. Here are the results... @AST_Salmon @CNPnature @nature_scot #AtlanticSalmon
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