Chris Cole

My wife’s favorite coffee cup

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Only 6% less belief in vaccines than the actual seasons is a win for me.

The 25% of people who aren't convinced by the seasons is a genuine worry, however.

This (from OpenAI's official demo) is one of the worst chart crimes I've ever seen

I bet @susiedent.com has contributed many unique ones.

Sausages!

Lol. Nice try...

There’s renewable energy ads and there’s mother**cking wind farm ads. This, blissfully, is the latter.

❓Have you ever thought about getting involved in research for #dementia #parkinsonsdisease #motorneuronedisease #HuntingtonsDisease?

✅ We are the NHS clinical trials team in Scotland and conduct research trials in the above disease areas.

💙 One of our study participants tells why they got involved

I guess I should also get locked up. Just in case.

The amazing win by the Lionesses is no doubt a huge lift for women's sport and inspirational for young women and girls across the country.

It should also be something that boys and men in football should look up to. The heart, spirit and togetherness of the team is the rarely seen strength.

I'm going to with "How long will you wait for your partner to fix their DIY disaster before calling in the professionals?"

All these meetings are going to interfere with the real business at hand this weekend 🏌️

Lives and life-Years Saved From COVID-19 Vaccination This comparative effectiveness study analyses the number of lives and life-years saved worldwide among those who had been vaccinated during the COVID-19 pandemic 2020-2024 years.

Covid vaccination saved ~2.5 million lives between 2020-2024
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I wonder what the question was?

Wrong answers only.

I honestly don't understand why people like slack so much. Every time I'm persuaded to go back, I'm reminded how poor it is.

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RAIN!-just stood out in it bc HEAVENLY but also to sniff that delicious scent from the parched ground-petrichor.
The scent of petrichor consists of geosmin, a molecule released by bacteria & blue-green algae in the soil &plant oils (phytoncides) released when rain hits leaves.
Human noses can... (🧵)

Crap. That means I'm just going old.

Who said peer review was broken?

I saw that once too and despite being fluent in French I couldn't understand a word he was saying because I was so accustomed to him speaking English with the exact same accent.

I saw it in Chile one year. Couldn't believe how stunningly vivid it was.

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That feeling when certain airlines are "boarding" a flight yet there's no plane.

The visualisations are cool and everything, but it would be very helpful if SHAPE were defined on the page.

I was in the NSF building once. I went to serve on a review panel: I and six other scientists put aside our own work to travel to the NSF HQ and evaluate our peers' research proposals, working together for two intense days to prioritize support for the most impactful new science.

I'll miss it.

Comes as a surprise to no-one who's been online over the last few years... #smdh

Don't forget the 10 year exemption from UK tax. So more than likely this will be net negative even before you start giving money to those in need.

We already do! @dataloch.bsky.social

Also worth noting that these massive AI data centres being planned and built also require huge amounts of water to keep them cool.

Some people think AI is the answer to climate change, it's not.

A low carbon energy tipping point. The climate is getting so warm that we cannot use nuclear power as efficiently as possible.