Robert Insall

Thanks for any data. i want Scar/WAVE complex scroll waves you see...

look at the highlight?

For the Bambu P1S - 10.3mm square hole; 2.5mm wide and 2mm depth pegs (could be deeper than this, I didn't try)

testing the exact 3D printer settings to retain a #makerbeam

Read this today. All of it. It will make you happy.

Aha. So my future is instead as a multinational bollard arbitrageur & sanctions-buster. Noted.

You think there's a future fortune for me to make? Importing honking great iron bollards from London into the cities where drunk teens and demented 85-year olds drive F150s?

Interesting feature of posdoccing in Baltimore - nobody knew what the word "bollard" meant. I had to explain "you know, those metal posts in the road...". The reply? "call them posts, then".

Indeed. Ick.
Actually I think Ma'am sounds poor too. "Dear Professor Walden" for me every time.

Or alternatively "Your Holiness, I humbly implore you...". That fits well.

Sigh indeed.
But "Dame" sounds like something from a pantomime...

Ooooh coool

Very true. There's no part in Hanlon's razor saying "what if you *know* they're acting maliciously?"

Human skin DNA fertilised to make embryo for first time US scientists testing the technique say it could help people overcome infertility and potentially allow same-sex couples to have a genetically related child.

Yikes.
Interesting paper but a terrible news report.
Skin cells are chock full of mutations. It's brilliant to show that you can use skin cell nuclei to make an embryo, but you'd have to be insane to make a human out of one.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

You missed out "two spaces after a full stop". You are obviously a libtard or Nazi or some similar criminule, so I am reluctantly invoking a dogpile and full cancellation.

I find the fungi often take over at that point

The excellent Lucija Mijanovic & I write a piece musing on electrotaxis, collective migration, and @calinacopos.bsky.social & the Mogilner lab's nice PNAS paper.

Have a look!
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lpaB3QW8S...

ahhh I see you're at the dinner in Robinson (know it well, Laura is a fellow there...).

Send me an email (r.insall@ucl.ac.uk) if you fancy a beer after the dinner, I could come to the bar and say hello

Didn't know this meeting was on! We dined with Nick Hill last night who's at a whole nother math and healthcare meeting in Cambridge.
Are you free this evening at all? I could come for a drink...

OMG, had no idea you were in Cambridge. What are you both doing tonight? We're taking the lab for a retreat tomorrow morning, back Sunday

Always wonderful to see Paul speak 😀

Just at a meeting telling Rob Jones about your article. He sends best wishes. Small world.

If he actually used the term "hobbyist", then he's even more of an idiot than he seems from the rest of the report...

Ministers ‘want to shift funds away from low-quality research’ - Research Professional News Universities UK president says institutions cannot afford “unfunded hobbyist research”

University manager confuses "quality" and "being funded". Shock horror.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

Don't blame the math. It's a language like others, and much better than words at expressing many complex and interacting things.
...but do blame anyone who uses math to obscure clarity. They are going to the same dark hell as people who obstruct real science by calling for "gold standard" science...

Old biologist problem. When I was a postdoc it was people calling any assembly of 2 or more proteins a "....some".

We have a regrettable habit of trying to break up our fields into silly, over-specified headings...

Was your lovely brain I was asking about.

When you dream to people talk in English or American accents?

But to answer your question - fine, thanks, and down south (UK) again after a break to raise a family in Scotland.

Are you American now?

Mostly working on immune cells these days  😱🙀😱🙀😱🙀😱🙀

That and maths (we still use Dicty for mathematical biology experiments).

Did you know Laura, my other half? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Wil...

Ross! What a piece. An amazing article about dreadful news. Seems like people are looking after you very well, which is a bit of good news, but I'm ever so sorry to hear.
Will have to go and do a challenge of some sort.