The UK higher education sector delivers world leading education & research delivering real impact. Until UK governments fund it properly & end reliance on international student fees, Universities will keep having to make these kinds of devastating decisions in order to stay afloat.

Panicked headlines about a “fertility crisis” are not being driven by experts who understand fertility trends 👇 Next time you see such a headline, worth thinking about whose interests “demographic collapse” narratives serve

And if the midterms don't go well I don't see civic society as it's existed in America surviving...

It feels like a very dangerous time in America right now. Like the fascism and corruption and cruelty and treason and stupidity and intimidation and gaslighting are all being turned up to eleven in recent weeks...

One of my favorite papers from our lab. Not only does it show heterogeneity is important in development, but it also points to division of labor: clones divvy up tasks in the organism based on their relative ability to perform well at a given fate! I like to think of it as "embryo economics".

Remember this the next time you read another idiotic piece asking "wHy dO pRoFesSorS aLL vOtE foR DeMoCraTs?" It's a real mystery why more faculty don't back the party that's actively working to destroy them and their work.

Hey, I’m just asking questions. Ignorant questions, bigoted questions, questions that have been repeatedly answered for many years. Sorry, but I’m not listening to answers right now; I’m far too busy asking questions. It’s called being intellectually curious.

Waddington joined Center for Theoretical Biology at Buffalo in 1970. Although Dad had left UB by then he went to his lecture & spoke highly of him, & followed his publications. I reread both books in late 1980's's with a better understanding & credit them w/ a life-long interest is complex systems.

Me, too. As a 10 yo (early 1960's) I asked my father (biochemist) why we don't have gills like fish do. W/o a word he pushed Waddington's book into my hands, saying when I was done with that he'll give me Waddington's next book, "New patterns in genetics and development".

"In a word, it can be said here what National Socialism means intellectually: the replacement of the educated by the type of soldier." Alfred Baeumler, Nazi Philosopher, in his 1933 inaugural lecture in Berlin.

This is how you write a headline.

Australopithecus 3 million years ago: