Industrial PhD student at GSK/University of Strathclyde.
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Despite its fearsome reputation for danger and toxicity, fluorine is seen by medicinal chemists as an old friend. As columnist Derek Lowe explains, that’s because – like a criminal Godfather – it offers several benefits that no other element can match.
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BREAKING: Greenland’s prime minister slaps Donald Trump down after the MAGA maniac claims that America owning the island is “an absolute necessity.”
The world is already sick of Trump’s garbage…
“Greenland is ours. We are not for sale and will never be for sale,” said Prime Minister Múte Egede.
“We must not lose our long struggle for freedom,” he added.
The blunt statement comes in the wake of an utterly idiotic Truth Social post from President-elect Trump.
“For purposes of National Security and Freedom throughout the World, the United States of America feels that the ownership and control of Greenland is an absolute necessity,” he wrote.
This is what happens when you elect an ignorant manchild who sees the world as a game of Risk instead of a living, breathing place.
Trump is already a disaster and he’s not even back in the White House yet.
Please retweet and ❤️ if you think that Trump’s Greenland idea is idiotic — and consider joining the growing exodus to Tribel, a new pro-democracy social network that is exploding in popularity because Twitter and Facebook are trying to stop its growth — which is only making Tribel grow even faster. Please follow us on Tribel to get all of our breaking news alerts sent straight to your phone or computer by clicking the following link: tribel.app.link/okwPIHYCIqb
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Housing developers are failing to deliver the bat boxes , bird boxes , Hedgehog highways , bug bricks , trees and wildflower meadows they promised . And cash-strapped local authorities don't have the time or resources to check up on what has happened .
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This should be the final straw for the private sale of fireworks in Scotland. Councils must be able to limit displays to organised events.
Firework noise has long caused extreme stress for our pets and wildlife. It's unfair and dangerous to allow it to continue.
ALT BBC News. Baby red panda died from firework stress, says zoo.
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Climate protestors Phoebe Plummer & Anna Holland: jailed for 2 years & 20 months respectively after throwing soup at art covered in protective glass.
Huw Edwards: convicted of making indecent images of children & got a suspended sentence.
Sentencing laws aren’t fit for purpose.
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Strong evidence showing that getting a PhD is extremely bad for your mental health.
A new paper uses Swedish medical records and matches them to the full population of PhD students for which the authors could get gender and birth year data from 2006 to 2017. After some exclusion criteria, they end up with a sample size of 20,085 individuals.
The paper compares PhD students to those who have masters degrees and don't start a PhD program.
Before starting a PhD program, people who stop at a masters and those who go on to seek a PhD have similar rates of psychiatric medication use and hospitalization.
A few years into a PhD program, however, 40% more individuals are on psychiatric medications, before the number falls off as people leave or finish their studies.
You see the same pattern with psychiatric hospitalizations. PhD students are up to 150-175% more likely to be hospitalized after starting a program!
These are incredible numbers, too massive to be the result of chance or a flaw in the methodology. This is comparing the same people over time.
If you're considering a PhD program, and the terrible job prospects and waste of time aren't enough, here's yet another reason to stay away.
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Zing!
The Royal Society David Attenborough Award and Lecture is awarded to Professor Hannah Fry for her prolific science communication activity as the foremost populariser of maths in the country who continues to inspire young people to pursue maths and physics in fun and exciting ways. #RSMedals royalsociety.org/medals-and-…
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Redirecting Nature Restoration Fund money is a mistake the Scottish Government can't afford to make.🚫
In one of the world’s most nature-depleted countries, taking money away from nature restoration will cost us more in the long term. The Nature Restoration Fund is vital for local projects that restore ecosystems and help us fight climate change.
Diverting funds from these essential efforts jeopardizes Scotland’s biodiversity as well as our own future.
We urge the government to replenish the fund and commit to long-term support for nature’s recovery. 🌱
👉Read our full statement here. rewild.scot/nature-restorati…
ALT Four young children have a go at building a beaver dam across a burn, Abriachan
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Don't worry if you didn't get the GCSE results you hoped for. You're on Twitter, which means you're old and it happened ages ago.
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Joint Paris 2024 Boxing Unit/IOC Statement
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'It’s a rivalry between two neighbours. We wouldn’t expect mutual appreciation and respect between fans of Celtic and Rangers or Hearts and Hibs, so why the po-faced attitude towards Scotland fans not supporting England?'
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Starmer:
'I am delighted to have the support and the backing of The S*n.’
He’s backed by Murdoch
He’s backed by Mandelson
He’s backed by Netanyahu
•Vote Green, SNP, Plaid or Independent left.
•Do not vote Labour.
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We've been fed a myth.
Wildflowers - bad - dig out/spray/strim, replace with non native garden centre flowers.
But why?
Wildflowers are beautiful. Our wildlife feed & breed on them.
Answer - wildflowers are free, everything else costs money...
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Honestly - a few of the replies to this little tribute to engineering excellence exhibit a level of stupidity that suggests to me that it won’t be long before our spacecraft are the only thing that remains of our increasingly dim-witted civilisation. Until recently my guess has been that the answer to the Fermi Paradox might be found in biology - complex biological systems are rare. I’m increasingly of the view that the reason for The Great Silence is that civilisations are inevitably crushed by the weight of nobheads shortly after inventing the internet.
