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On this point, its worth remembering that
a) all families are as old as each other
b) everyone* in Britain is descended directly from Edward III
3) everyone in Europe is descended from Charlemagne, cos maths.
(*caveats in link)
waterstones.com/blog/family-fo… twitter.com/Otto_English/s…
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@amateuradam Adam, I spent weeks investigating a company that had won a £161m contract during covid, but two journalists dismissed it as ‘pocket change’ and not worth the bother.
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How can this possibly be true?
Even with my disbelief subroutine set to 'Current Government'. twitter.com/SoSowemimo/sta…
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Morning. Here is my @royalsociety Attenborough Lecture from last night. I enjoyed it enormously. youtu.be/hIIgAIB5AWw
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Well this is somewhat troubling. twitter.com/WritesBright/s…
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The extraordinary life of a scientist you've never heard of... twitter.com/whippletom/sta…
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A feature I wrote to er celebrate the 200th birthday of pea enthusiast Johann G. Mendel, whose brilliant scientific work 🧬🌸 was misunderstood, bastardised and co-opted to prop up racist, ableist and classist political ideologies throughout the 20th C. theguardian.com/science/2022/j…
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What has happened with the overturning of Roe v Wade is the shame of the democratic world. We must never risk the UK following that same slippery slope of injustice.
Please join me in petitioning
@DHSCgovuk & @MoJGovUK to protect abortion rights. RT pls
bit.ly/3yut22n
Back off man, I'm a scientist.
President of @Humanists_UK
Lecturer in Genetics @UCL
Genetics, race, eugenics, history of science, + movies, books, cricket.