Andrew Plested

Glad to hear real cells can be Goodsell-esque 😁

Very cool, congrats Claudia.

Richly deserved! Congrats Klaus!

Fair play, that phycobilisome looks big and tasty. #autophagy

In case you don’t know it, one of the greatest adverts of all time. Here’s to waiting.

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Bubble cascade in Guinness beer is caused by gravity current instability - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Bubble cascade in Guinness beer is caused by gravity current instability

Important work on bubble flow.

From observing cappuccino i thought that the fluid descends gradually through foam, but its much more complicated…

I just hear Leftfield. Here’s to you, Ahab.

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Missy Elliott, 2010

Nice collection. Particularly striking the wonderful shot of Missy Elliott. #HitMe

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I was told that being a good writer has less to do with being a native speaker, than being a clear thinker. With Bernard Katz as prime example.

Bonus points for starting your reply with "This <noun>"

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#keepEverything

You should not write:

"We are happy with this, and ..."

** because this what?

But how to describe this rule? Searched "PNAS author query", found the proof (from 2009!)

-PNAS mandates unambiguous pronoun antecedents. Please provide an appropriate noun [...] following “this” and “these”

#writing

Born on this day, 1906, Grace Brewster Hopper.

-Created one of the first compiler.

-Created COBOL, still in use in databases today!

-Coined the term debugging.

-Served in the U.S. Navy, reaching the rank of Rear Admiral.

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"there's a new serif in town"

Impact of demographic change in one image.

I am grateful and excited to receive the Humboldt-Forschungspreis (Humboldt Research Award) from the @humboldt-foundation.de I look forward to inspiring interactions with this amazing scientific community. Thank you to Prof Robin Hiesinger for the nomination and the award committee for selecting me.

I had intended to write something systematic about the Dutch train startup GoVolta that announced its plans today. But then I got bogged down in the oddities of their website, so consider this quoted thread a kind of on going investigation!

Their site: govolta.nl/nl/

#GoVolta #CrossBorderRail

Wissenschaftliches auf deutsch formulieren - nach ~20 Jahren Englisch als hauptsächliche Wissenschaftssprache furchtbar schwierig 😞… und nein - hier hilft keine KI …

Plot showing metabolic rate and brain size vs. body mass. Warm-blooded animals expend an order of magnitude more energy and have brain sizes an order of magnitude larger

Soapbox time: the problem with metabolic efficiency arguments in neuroscience is that they often confuse energy efficiency with energy expenditure. Biological systems are optimized for energy efficiency, but that does NOT imply they are optimized for low energy expenditure 🧵 1/

Poster calling for strike action on 18.12.2025

Berlin says no to cuts!

“There is no more ni hau, only ni howdy.”

I’m in tears y’all.

Very nice, Mario. I think this detailed review will be useful for our teaching! Regards from Berlin.

One of my Oxford visit highlights? I got to see these priceless slides that Ruffini sent to Sherrington of various sensory end organs. And yes, Ruffini had to excise these receptors from his own skin 😳🔬🧠

I won’t buy a lens from you after seeing you put it upside down. 🙃

I've been through the desert
On a

Cues, I suppose?

Or perhaps you are talking about stopping people queueing up for bread?

If this is "added value", maybe we can save a bit.

I thought I was doing quite well until I got to Gare Montparnasse and there are no TGVs.

Screenshot from the Guardian of the story that Martin Parr has died, accompanied by one of his most famous photos, the girl at the ice cream stall, from the New Brighton series.

Martin Parr died. What a shame. He was an incredible artist and documentarian. I have had this famous photo on my desk for 20 years.

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Excited to share our new article in @natneuro.nature.com with two amazing students in the lab, Vinh Nguyen and Capucine Gros! 🐭🕹️

We investigated how mice learn a joystick task to retrieve water rewards and adapt to sudden perturbations. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Very cool, Brandon. Congrats to you and the team.

Now I know how I learned to cut my own hair in the mirror.

This cerebellum is paying for itself!

TT in Experimental Biophysics

The Danish Institute for Advanced Study and the Dept of Physics, Chemistry and Pharmacy at the University of Southern Denmark is hiring a tenure track Assistant Professor in Biophysics or a related discipline

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