Viraj Alimchandani

It is quite fun watching baseball where the superstars are actually older than me, unlike hockey where skaters in their late 20s are veterans who are on their last legs #GoJaysGo

Minority representation on TV causes outrage

From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

Given the party's refusal to act on Pochin's brazen racism, it should be as socially unacceptable to vote for Reform as it was in the early 2000s to vote for the BNP.

And we should be prepared to say this to people's faces.

If you ever used napari in your research, take a moment to read this.
Napari, like many other resources in the bioimaging world, is freely available despite the fact that it costs many people much time and efforts to develop and maintain it.
Now you get a chance to give back, don't miss it :)

Remember:

- The Legault admin doesn't give a fuck if #Montreal's transit doesn't work

- They, like all other neoliberal govts, purposely defund public transit in order to break it

- At which point they then privatize it, enriching their friends & donors

Know your enemy: it isn't the union

London really, really needs this

Long commutes linked to higher stress, study finds A new study shows longer commutes can affect mental health — but not simply because of the stress of traffic. The issue, researchers say, is the personal time it takes away.

*cries in 3 hours commuting each day*
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My dream of taking the train to work this year has yet again been shattered

📢🌱 Job alert: Assistant Professor in Plant Molecular Genetics (Tenure-track)
Join our interdisciplinary research environment, in Montréal Botanical Garden!
📅 Deadline: October 13, 2025
📍 Université de Montréal, Canada

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Ohhhh, Lanky Lanky!
Lanky Lanky Lanky Lanky
And I Cannot Stress This Enough
Lancashheeeeeer!

Season double! What a team!

Hugely thrilled for them and Crossy and Ellie T in particular.

🌹🏏

#OneDayCup

Over the weekend, the world's richest man appeared on screens in central London to call for a race war and for the UK government to be overthrown. No arrests were made in connection with that communication.

New preprint!
"Understanding Shape and Residual Stress Dynamics in Rod-Like Plant Organs" 🌱
with @merozlab.bsky.social and @routierlab.bsky.social
👉 doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Labour won't be using First Past the Post to choose its new Deputy Leader.

So why does the government keep telling us that it's the best system for electing MPs? 🤔

Entertaining final from Lord's and well deserved for the Superchargers, though absolutely wild that the result is nowhere to be found on the BBC Sport homepage #TheHundred

On the train to a conference and adrenaline is pumping with the final day of the test match, cricket and drama at its best #EngvInd

Three vinyl stickers of the game changer loop-de-loop in progress pride, trans, and non-binary colours respectively. The stickers also have the words "we've been here the whole time"

Game Changer pride stickers are out now 🎉 (with massive thanks to @samreich.bsky.social for giving me permission to sell them!)

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International: canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/4333...

Listened to the fantastic feature on the 2005 Ashes with music at lunch on TMS on the bus to work and was reminded of the magic as cricket captured the nation. Clearly test cricket on free-to-air TV contributed a great deal, and such a feeling seems unlikely in current times.

Film photo (Kodak Ultramax) of a landscape on the Citadel Pass in BC, forest in the foreground, a lake in the midground, and mountains in the distance.

Film photo (Kodak Ultramax) of a mountain in Banff national park with a lake reflecting below in cloudy conditions.

Film photo (Kodak Ultramax) of Lake Louise with heavy cloud cover on the mountains and some small red boats in the distance.

To celebrate my PhD defence, I entered into a new obsession—here are some film shots from my post-thesis trip to the Canadian Rockies 🇨🇦🏞️

#filmphotography

Please don’t ignore this the next time you’re told “it’s either these guys or Reform” coz this is also what Reform would do and you should rail against it no matter what colour the tie is.

Building a #Lego #microscope #mmc2025 @royalmicrosoc.bsky.social‬ @virajalim.bsky.social @niamh-deburca.bsky.social

the game changer loop-de-loop design as a sticker in trans colours with the words "we've been here" above it and "The whole time" below it.

I created a thing! I was inspired by @gamechangershow.bsky.social to create these loop-de-loop stickers which celebrate trans identities and the fact that We've Been Here The Whole Time!

Fab opportunity here, great lab in a vibrant city! 🌱

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

Important thread from Adam here. Public space - especially in towns and cities - isn't just there for the fast, efficient movement of motor vehicles and we mustn't let that motonormative thinking enable another generational landgrab as automated driving slides in

Every day I ask myself: what the hell is happening in Starmer's inner circle? It seems determined to stamp out every spark of hope.

The modern condition of waking up to horrible news from all over the world and just having to shove that all back down and get on with your silly little job 😞

Appalling to see how quickly this is spread from the US (the British term is EDI) and it’s telling that people always use the acronym so they don’t have to spell out that what they are against is literally just “equality”…

On the morning of the final week of my doctorate, reading the headlines from home mired in MAGA-esque rhetoric from the so-called Labour party and lobby groups, it's no wonder my desire to return to the UK is at an all-time low

Dear breathless, gullible types in the UK eager to jump on the populist RW bandwagon:

It’s illegal in the UK to hire anyone on any grounds other than merit.

And it’s EDI, not DEI.

HTH

Enough of this racist fiction. Enough. Not a single non-white person in England is in a job in the NHS *because* they are non-white. Not a single one. And as for the idea that England's criminal justice system goes easy on non-white people because they are non-white.

Well. Just think about that.