Jim Whiting
@jimwhiting_sci
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Simpsons, Nintendo, Baking & Cat enthusiast
Joined June 2010
🚨🚨🚨 New Evolutionary Repeatability Paper Klaxon 🚨🚨🚨. Very happy to share this study in which we explore the repeatability of local adaptation to climate across 25 plant species. ☘️🌱🌵🌾🌿🪴☀️🌧️🌡️.
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A lot of this is explained by social contagion, and how that was amplified by the pandemic. Online communities always existed but with everyone locked down they exploded in popularity. Lots of paranoid people sharing a forum and patting each other on the back for mad ideas.
Really is hard to shake the feeling that at some point in the last 5 years, a decent chunk of the population went completely and irredeemably mad. Like, properly insane.
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Starlings have always been and remain the best UK bird.
Bird saves and reproduces data: A PNG image of a bird ( photo of a bird -> spectral synthesizer ) was reproduced by an adult Starling bird It seems to have reproduced the sound in conjunction with some additional notes which made it not detectable.
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Say it louder for the policymakers with their heads in the sand at the back.
London, Oxford, and Cambridge are pampered places within the UK that have for far too long enjoyed high public spending on science and transport while they refuse to accommodate the growth that stimulates. We must move investment to where it will generate the most return. North.
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Imo, public investment of general funds at a city level should be directly tied to the quality of said city's train station pub. Just my (expert) opinion.
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This platform has become an appalling cesspit, and yet I think this is still the worst thing I have seen on the platform formerly known as Twitter.
We need to talk about how American airport timetable screens are alphabetically ordered by destination. While Europeans ones are ordered by departure time. And the American ordering is just way faster to find your flight and gate
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In the UK if you're under 34 years old you're less likely to own a home than a 65+ year old is to own a SECOND home. Today the UK government has decided to give the majority of people in the second category a £200 handout, funded by the taxes paid by the former category.
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RT @thomasforth: I wouldn't do so unless invited, but since I am invited to do so tomorrow, if I had to give Postdoctoral academics advice….
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RT @MExpositoAlonso: Excited to release a huge evolution project on the works for many years:. An experimental evolution project across cli….
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"There is a replication crisis in biology. therefore scientists don't want to vote for my mad party". Very normal discourse.
There is an extraordinary "reproducibility crisis" in the sciences, particularly in biology, where most published papers fail to replicate. Most universities have massive bureaucracies that inhibit the translation of basic research into commercial adoption. The voting.
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RT @JoanFerrerObiol: 🚨 New paper alert 🚨. 🪶 Evolutionarily distinct lineages of a migratory bird of prey show divergent responses to climat….
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RT @colossal: Meet Neka Kayda, the world’s first cloned Red ‘Ghost’ Wolf. She is a rare coyote + Red Wolf, carrying ancestral DNA once thou….
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RT @mbeisen: OH MY FUCKING GOD. YOUR ENTIRE BUSINESS RUNS ON MASSIVE AMOUNTS OF UNPAID LABOUR YOU HYPOCRITICAL SHITGIBBONS.
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Sounds like we're about to be invaded
❗️ Russia poses no threat to the UK: neither in its waters, airspace, nor streets & certainly not to Britain's long-suffering NHS. We have no need to do so. It is the UK government that needs these fabrications to avoid dealing with the country’s real social & economic problems.
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Few things worse at the moment than how emboldened these complete and total losers are now.
Utterly surreal. Victoria Derbyshire repeatedly asks, Jacob Angeli Chansley to explain his views on the january 6th insurrection . He repeatedly speaks down to her, demeans her, insults her, insults the BBC, repeatedly hints about conspiracy. And yet when she repeatedly asks her
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RT @gabnoc_genomics: New paper out in PNAS with @sam_yeaman and @jimwhiting_sci! We’ve uncovered several gene families linked to global ada….
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Will be using this picture to explain why the UK is an absolutely brilliant place.
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Fun fact, the tabletop game Subbuteo takes its name from the raptor Falco subbuteo or "Hobby". The game's creator couldn't trademark it's original name of Hobby, so borrowed Subbuteo from the bird. FUN.
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