@matthewcobb.bsky.social
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
@seethroughcanoe.bsky.socialReposted by @matthewcobb.bsky.social@matthewcobb.bsky.socialSurvey aircraft from Bioflight tootling around south Manchester r.n.:
@duncanwilson78.bsky.socialReposted by @matthewcobb.bsky.socialCan't wait for the match later, where fans of the club owned by a predatory US hedge fund take the moral high ground over fans of the club owned by a murderous petrostate. Maybe there'll be some carefully worded banners. The whole system of club ownership is rotten and needs dismantling asap
@matthewcobb.bsky.socialHard to care about any of it. There is talk of the City fans taking blow-up bananas, which is about the only way we can deal with decently. Bring on Div 2!
@auschwitzmemorial.bsky.socialReposted by @matthewcobb.bsky.social11 October 1887 | An Austrian Jew, Rudolf Samec, was born in Graz. An upholsterer.
In #Auschwitz from 6 June 1942.
No. 38174
He perished in the camp on 25 June 1942.
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Online lesson about Jewish prisoners at KL Auschwitz: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/29_zydzi_en/
@samuelpepys.bsky.socialReposted by @matthewcobb.bsky.socialMy wife forebore to make herself clean today, but continued in a sluttish condition.
@gugunderwater.bsky.socialReposted by @matthewcobb.bsky.socialIt’s hard to imagine that this stunningly beautiful larval-stage cardinalfish will metamorphose into one of the most average, common, and most overlooked fish of Bali’s reefs. In other locations, this would be a once-in-a-lifetime prize find on any blackwater dive, but here in Bali, it’s common-ish
@rami.spaceaustralia.comReposted by @matthewcobb.bsky.socialWOT?!?!?! 🌟💥
Did you see this image of supernova remnant Pa 30?!
Bet you'll never look at fireworks the same way again!
📸 International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/T. Cunningham/J. Miller & M. Rodriguez /T.A. Rector /D. de Martin & M. Zamani
@matthewcobb.bsky.social@davidallengreen.bsky.social Genuine q: What does Lord Pannick make of the Abu Dhabi attack=defence strategy? He seems a sensible bloke, so he must know it's a mistake (unless the evidence really is 'irrefutable', which it would appear not to be). Does he just shake his head and trouser the money?
@janerushtonart.bsky.socialReposted by @matthewcobb.bsky.socialSoft morning light and a calm sea after yesterday’s wind and weather #morningdip
@rsmythfreelance.bsky.socialReposted by @matthewcobb.bsky.socialHello to crosswordy followers who've found me through the #cryptic starter pack. I'm Trurl in @newscientist.com and I set the quiz crosswords in History Today, BBC Wildlife and a bunch of others. I also do THIS. bsky.app/profile/rsmy...
@auschwitzmemorial.bsky.socialReposted by @matthewcobb.bsky.social11 October 1937 | A French Jewish girl, Monique Preigher, was born in Neuilly.
In December 1943 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.
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A short video about gas chambers and crematoria of the Auschwitz camp: https://youtu.be/-A05i25j9Ck
@matthewcobb.bsky.social3 olives for £9 is not much better…
@theseaning.bsky.socialReposted by @matthewcobb.bsky.social'Ambient Earth'
Perspective is lost when the world speeds by.
This ambitious 7.5hr 4k compilation, crafted over months of meticulous restoration, invites you to slow down and experience Earth in real time just as astronauts do.
Butch Wilmore / ISS / NASA / ESRS / Seán Doran
@matthewcobb.bsky.socialEating alone
@matthewcobb.bsky.socialGenuine lol! I was a bit surprised, but decided it was a cheery offer! Will read your book and pester you if needed…
@matthewcobb.bsky.socialSome are. Your average web ider wouldn’t care about the klaser.
@matthewcobb.bsky.socialNostalgia for an age I *did* know (both the coal cart and Cuthbert).
@matthewcobb.bsky.socialSometimes (= far too often) the music on R3 is like the soundtrack to Brexit - pompous nostalgia for a time the listeners never actually knew.
@gilbertwhite.bsky.socialReposted by @matthewcobb.bsky.social1777: No swallows or martins. Gossamer. Insects abound on the ivy-bloom, & on the late blowing annuals, & perrenials. A squirrel in my hedges. Insects retreat into the roof of my new building. Found the Sphinx atropos, or death's-head moth, a noble insect, of vast size: it lays it's eggs on the...
