Jim Whiting @jimwhiting_sci
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All other diplomats take note
All other diplomats take note
This will obviously not be full of nutters like Anti-vax crank Aseem Malhotra who has been given a prime time slot at their current conference.
This will obviously not be full of nutters like Anti-vax crank Aseem Malhotra who has been given a prime time slot at their current conference.
A lot of this is explained by social contagion, and how that was amplified by the pandemic. Online communities always existed but with everyone locked down they exploded in popularity. Lots of paranoid people sharing a forum and patting each other on the back for mad ideas
A lot of this is explained by social contagion, and how that was amplified by the pandemic. Online communities always existed but with everyone locked down they exploded in popularity. Lots of paranoid people sharing a forum and patting each other on the back for mad ideas
Starlings have always been and remain the best UK bird
Say it louder for the policymakers with their heads in the sand at the back
Say it louder for the policymakers with their heads in the sand at the back
Imo, public investment of general funds at a city level should be directly tied to the quality of said city's train station pub. Just my (expert) opinion.
Imo, public investment of general funds at a city level should be directly tied to the quality of said city's train station pub. Just my (expert) opinion.
Was not prepared for the graphical abstract
Was not prepared for the graphical abstract https://t.co/QaGOLSu3bd
This platform has become an appalling cesspit, and yet I think this is still the worst thing I have seen on the platform formerly known as Twitter.
This platform has become an appalling cesspit, and yet I think this is still the worst thing I have seen on the platform formerly known as Twitter.
In the UK if you're under 34 years old you're less likely to own a home than a 65+ year old is to own a SECOND home. Today the UK government has decided to give the majority of people in the second category a £200 handout, funded by the taxes paid by the former category.
I wouldn't do so unless invited, but since I am invited to do so tomorrow, if I had to give Postdoctoral academics advice on how to get jobs outside of academia I'd say,...
Excited to release a huge evolution project on the works for many years: An experimental evolution project across climates to understand rapid adaptation Preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2025.0… All data available: grene-net.org/data #MOILAB @UCBerkeley @HHMINEWS 🧵👇
"There is a replication crisis in biology...therefore scientists don't want to vote for my mad party". Very normal discourse
"There is a replication crisis in biology...therefore scientists don't want to vote for my mad party". Very normal discourse
🚨 New paper alert 🚨 🪶 Evolutionarily distinct lineages of a migratory bird of prey show divergent responses to climate change 🪶 👉 rdcu.be/ehvAA #LesserKestrel #ornithology #ClimateChange #Conservation 🧵👇 1/6
Meet Neka Kayda, the world’s first cloned Red ‘Ghost’ Wolf. She is a rare coyote + Red Wolf, carrying ancestral DNA once thought lost.
OH MY FUCKING GOD. YOUR ENTIRE BUSINESS RUNS ON MASSIVE AMOUNTS OF UNPAID LABOUR YOU HYPOCRITICAL SHITGIBBONS.
OH MY FUCKING GOD. YOUR ENTIRE BUSINESS RUNS ON MASSIVE AMOUNTS OF UNPAID LABOUR YOU HYPOCRITICAL SHITGIBBONS.
Winston Churchill visiting the WH in 1942. Not wearing a suit. 🇬🇧 🇺🇦
Winston Churchill visiting the WH in 1942. Not wearing a suit. 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 https://t.co/xNw27I8zny
Sounds like we're about to be invaded
Few things worse at the moment than how emboldened these complete and total losers are now.
Few things worse at the moment than how emboldened these complete and total losers are now.
New paper out in PNAS with @sam_yeaman and @jimwhiting_sci! We’ve uncovered several gene families linked to global adaptation across multiple plant species. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

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