I am suddenly furious that we never got to see Stephen Jay Gould writing for Marvel

One fun thing about being in the faculty union is you get to hear what administration tells the STEM faculty and what they tell the humanities faculty. Turns out we're both too expensive and costing the university money and can't be afforded. Just for completely opposite and contradictory reasons.

Amazing that Liz Truss has become international shorthand for total incompetence, a lasting global legacy across generations beyond any British Prime Minister since Churchill.

expertly titled to make anthropologists go "oh god not another one— wait, literally bedouins? okay, I'm in"

Today I found out that Umberto Eco crafted a version of this meme in the 1980s…

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Addendum @zkadodz.bsky.social spotted a post in local FB group (thanks!) asking after me, so I was able to connect online and thank this guy. Hoping our paths cross again under better circumstances in future. 🤞

So now the top of my humerus bone is in 3 pieces... Somehow I've gotten to this stage of life without ever breaking a bone before. What should I expect? Hints, tips on managing with this kind of injury v welcome indeed

Cycling into work Mon morning, I came off my bike, fell badly and landed on my shoulder in the middle of the road. Dazed and confused, a passerby picked me & bike up, helped me get to NHS walk-in, lock bike safe, insisted on staying until medics saw me, must have taken ages. Wonderful human being ❤️

A solid cooking rule to follow is to remember that when recipes say "add two cloves of garlic" is is always a misprint and what they actually mean is six.

It is almost a consortia of food editors? writers? who hate seasoning. Who puts just one clove, or two in anything? It's why that head gives you many cloves.

I’m blessed to be in many public health, medicine & science “group chats” & wow has there been an outpouring of deep sadness today. Helen was a one-off. We’ve been sharing anecdotes of how awesome it was to be interviewed by her. This mass outpouring & the reminiscences signal a life well lived. RIP

I worked with—and deeply admired—Helen for almost 30 years. She was hands down *the best source* about emerging infectious diseases that I've ever known. My first warning of COVID was when on Dec 28, 2019 she reposted a ProMED mail report of an atypical pneumonia cluster: "This doesn't look good."

Helen Branswell was one of the greatest health journalists on the planet; she will be missed In April 2020, Duke Today interviewed me about where I was turning to for reliable information about COVID. This is what I said.

'UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) is launching an organisation-wide voluntary exit scheme after announcing that it needs to lose hundreds of roles within its Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC).'

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