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Alternative headline: discrimination abounds as disproportionate number of privately educated pupils admitted to Cambridge, for the 700th year in a row.
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Denigrating modern art is from the standard fascist playbook. The Nazis held an exhibition titled Degenerate Art in 1937, including Van Gogh, Picasso and Matisse, hanging their works chaotically with slogans like “nature as seen by sick minds”. twitter.com/michaeljknowle…
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Well done to these guys in The Men’s Fellowship competition. The Women’s Fellowship happens at a later date presumably. twitter.com/Cambridge_Uni/…
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Without seeing the details, this seems like a potentially catastrophically bad idea. Antibiotic resistance through overuse is one of the greatest threats facing global medicine, and giving them out with less restrictions will feed that.
This policy runs contra to all expertise. twitter.com/dr_ayan/status…
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I love it when a newspaper confesses its prejudices so overtly. It's 'social engineering' when it positively affects state schools applications, not when the whole system is gamed to advantage private school kids?
Unless you truly believe the rich kids are somehow... better?
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‘The idea is if we don’t look out the white race will be will be utterly submerged, It’s all scientific stuff; it’s been proved.’
Tom Buchanan, The Great Gatsby (1925)
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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
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I love these SO MUCH. twitter.com/juanbuis/statu…
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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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See if you can guess who is right here. Is it
A) Science - a complex social process where thousands of people model, measure and test multiple scenarios and hypotheses using methodologies, advanced technology and statistics developed over centuries, or
B) Toby Young? 🧐 twitter.com/toadmeister/st…
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One of the true joys of my job is that I get to read books before they are published. So instead of dunking on funky ballsweat like Sapiens, here are 5 books coming out this year that I have read/am reading, that are splendid. 1/x
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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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I didn’t think this was possible, but Snoop’s voiceover is better than Attenborough’s. twitter.com/MichaelWarbur1…
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There isn't a kinder, funnier smarter or better dressed person alive.
DO you know, one time we were in a cab at night, and she stopped the taxi to help a drunk woman on the other side of the road. Men: be more Keanu; Everyone: be more Prof Fry.
bit.ly/3W2AYBL
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Well this is somewhat troubling. twitter.com/WritesBright/s…
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In 1144, Norwich had been the setting for a foundational event in the history of antisemitism when the family of a boy – canonised as St. William of Norwich - claimed that local Jews had murdered him: this became the first documented invocation of the hideous Blood Libel myth.
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‘I did my own research’ has peaked with this. And it was peer reviewed by Michael Green and Shant Grapps
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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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The ‘is Die Hard a Christmas movie’ question is fully resolved with my son’s Hans Gruber Nakatomi Tower Advent Calendar, and let that be the end of it. Welcome to the party, pal!
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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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This date aligns with a prominent mass murder in Norwich in 1190CE when many Jewish people were killed during antisemitic riots, following the beginning of the Third Crusade.
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BUT! The new study in @Nature shows that this story is not correct. It’s incredible, 360 work, combining archaeology, chemistry, genetics, epidemiology, and more than 500,000 people living and dead, to reveal the wild complexity of human evolution. 10/n
go.nature.com/3S85w31
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This is (like the lactose/milk paper last month) is another barnstorming piece of #totalscience led by @mt_genes, Ian Barnes (@NHM_London) and also @Boothicus et al,
Here’s the paper itself
bit.ly/3pYd0sl
Back off man, I'm a scientist.
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Lecturer in Genetics @UCL
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