Stu Cantrill

Four tall bottles of wine from Alsace sitting on a kitchen counter

This was today’s haul:

Ooof! Will actually be in the Jura in roughly 12 hours time… so will be picking up one or two* bottles of something.

*This is a lie/woeful underestimate

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Meh. Close enough.

A photo of bottles of wine on a shelf. Price is €32.95

Inflation…

Happened to see the 2021 in a wine shop in Cheltenham yesterday - £45…

Off to FR soon - will look out for that 😀

Every day, the same story, the same moral pit. The fall of this murderous government can't come soon enough. The only suitable place for Netenyahu is in court for war crimes.

Mechanically interlocked molecules This Collection aims to bring together the latest research on mechanically interlocked molecules, including with respect to their design, construction, ...

Delighted to present our Collection on Mechanically interlocked molecules! #Chemsky

Congratulations and thank you to Guest Editors
@fschaufelberger.bsky.social, Jose Berna and Serena Silvi for expertly editing this Collection of exciting content.

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Would you pay $150 per article to post your preprint on @bioRxiv @aRxiv @medRxiv @chemRxiv etc.? Currently it’s free but a small cost could help offset running costs and also work as a barrier against paper mills and AIs just posting all the time and filling these sites up.

Clearly!!’

A screenshot of part of an article in The Guardian. Below part of a panel depicting the death of King Harold, the text reads: "All the expertise we have developed and shared with the [French] ministry of culture is now a major contribution to making the loan a reality." The tapestry, which depicts how William, Duke of Normandy, and his army trounced Harold II, the Anglo-Saxon king, and his forces in the Battle of Hastings, features 58 scenes created in four different stitches and thread in 10 natural dye colours, including 623 figures, 994 animals, 37 buildings and 41 ships and other vessels, plus 93 or 94 male genitalia depending on which expert is counting. It is displayed hanging on rails behind glass in a climate-controlled atmosphere. It will be moved by extending the rails and placing it on a structure similar to a foldable…

Thank you @theguardian.com for this delightful detail about the Bayeux tapestry…

‘The tapestry features … 623 figures,
994 animals, 37 buildings and 41 ships and other vessels, plus 93 or 94 male genitalia depending on which expert is counting.’

I feel there is a story within a story here 😂

This is gonna end up in a ‘what is a sandwich?’ debate and be like 2010s Twitter…

I hope you’re about to do a magic trick and switch the order to the proper one…

And in lighter news…

Ministers did not listen to infected blood victims, says UK inquiry chair Brian Langstaff urges overhaul of compensation system, which report says was designed without consulting victims

A government spokesperson said: “This additional report reflects the unprecedented nature of the infected blood scandal and the thoroughness of the inquiry’s investigation.”

Erm - nope. It reflects the utterly woeful and inadequate response by the Government in delivering compensation to victims

Blood scandal victims 'harmed further' by compensation delays Payments need to be made fairer and faster, the chair of the public inquiry into the disaster says.

'Sir Brian's new report found victims had been "harmed further" by the way they had been treated over the last 12 months.'

#ContaminatedBlood

Hey Harry - brilliant; thanks for the explanation! Lovely structures BTW

Amazing.
Gen Z has invented vacation.
I’m dead.

A list of Runkeeper walking activities; from top down, 12.41 km, 12.27 km, 10.16 km and 10.67 km.

A road heads off into the distance. Fields either side; trees in the distance and white fluids in a blue sky.

There are worse ways to spend the first of 12 weeks off work…

People were so friendly - and yeah, the vibe is great. Wanna go back soon!

Agreed!

A 3 x 3 grid of pictures of assorted wine bottles

A 3 x 3 grid of pictures of assorted wine bottles

I picked up some white port, moscatel & carcavelos (which I had never heard of before and is hard to get outside of Portugal apparently). Here’s a selection of what we drank while there…

Also the Time Out Market is a good place to try lots of local food/wine www.timeout.pt/time-out-mar...

This place! novawinebar.pt

A bottle of red wine - the name on the off-white label is ‘Felix Rocha’

Hard to keep track to be honest… we tried about 20 (including port) in 2 days. It was all Portuguese and all really good. This 20 year old Merlot wasn’t bad!

Rainbow coloured umbrellas hang above a street with apartment buildings either side. Bright blue sky above the umbrellas.

A view across rooftops in Lisbon with the sea in the distance

A row of four glasses of port on a wooden board

A hand holding a flattened small paper bag on which sits a pastel de nata

So long Lisbon, it’s been lovely!

Four panel cartoon. Top-left, Sauron stands at a counter in a coffee shop and the barista asks him for his name. Top-right, he replies to say ‘I have been awake since the breaking of the first silence - in that time I have had many names’. Bottom-left, barista says ‘Pick one’, Sauron replies ‘Sauron’. Bottom-right, a close-up of the coffee cup on which is written ‘Sharon’

Hey @chemistcraig.bsky.social - saw this and thought of you 🤣

Judge rules against NIH grant cuts — and calls them discriminatory The decision means that the US biomedical agency has to restore funding to hundreds of research projects, but the government will likely appeal.

After ruling the NIH grant cuts were illegal yesterday, Judge Young, a Reagan appointee on the bench since 1985, ended the hearing with a blistering 15-minute speech.

I've cleaned up my notes — here are his remarks in full. 🧵