This is a SUPERB thread. Both in terms of educating but also as an indictment of the anti-rational/pseudoscientific cult that is ‘MAHA’. I’m ashamed to say throughout my scientific career I’ve never considered why E. Coli is so named. And now I’m a better person for knowing.

c0nc0rdance@c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 4d ago

The headlines are still covering the cyclosporiasis outbreak from lettuce, but let's talk about a different summer, long ago. The headlines in Bavaria would have called it "summer diarrhea" & it was killing babies. Enter our hero, Professor Theodor Escherich of the Julius Hospital, Würzburg.

Last day of the Strathclyde Optical Microscopy Course & during @hannah-superres.bsky.social’s seminar on Smart Microscopy, one slide advised that we & AI should all aspire to imaging as well as @christlet.bsky.social. Or perhaps encode his brain into AI? Either way that’s the bar been set ….

“They”?!

#Dr.AnthonyFauci #AWorldHero

Kids playing road hockey on the brand-new Gordie Howe International Bridge 🏒🇨🇦 Canada celebrated the opening the only way we know how with hockey on the deck of the longest cable-stayed bridge in North America. Built by Canadians, paid for by Canadians.🤝🇨🇦 🎥 Gray_Mackenzie on 𝕏 🇨🇦TEAM CANADA FOREVER🇨🇦

Representing @mvls-srf.bsky.social while attending the fabulous & full on Strathclyde Optical Microscopy Course 2026 making sure my knowledge base is up to date with lectures from experts like the legendary Brad Amos among others.

This 2012 electron microscope video is from James Tyrwhitt-Drake, a scientist at University of Victoria’s Advanced Microscopy Facility. In order, you're looking at: An amphipod (~5 mm = 5000 microns) A diatom (50 microns) A bacteria (1 micron). Life at every scale! (📷: James Tyrwhitt-Drake)

Nico Williams Jr. presenting his World Cup medal to his mother She crossed the Sahara while pregnant with his older brother, Iñaki, to make a better life for her children

Her parting “Fuck off” 😘🤌🏽

Gravel Influencer@gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 2w ago

This video of a woman telling an anti-abortion asshole to, "Shut the fuck up" is exactly what I needed to see on a Monday morning

#Fact

Local plumbers two steps ahead of every university administrator in america 👏

Metin Seven (Moon Child's dad 🌝)@seven.eurosky.social · 2w ago

Canadian plane dropping water on the Los Angeles forest fire. Neighbors helping neighbors. Thank you so much Canada, we are sorry our current leader is an idiot.

Angine de Poitrine to Play Toronto's FIFA Fan Festival Finale

Angine de Poitrine to Play Toronto's FIFA Fan Festival Finale

Once again harnessing the alien magic that enables them to defy the laws of physics and be in two places at once (like the night they opened

dlvr.it

I’m considering returning to my previous post-grad supplementary occupation - employing the only other skill set I have. Nightclub bouncer. 60’s the new 20 right?

Stephen Royle@steveroyle.bsky.social · 3w ago

A list of exit strategies (or pipe dreams) that colleagues have mentioned in the case of further HE crisis. - tea/coffee shop - bike shop - book/record shop - bed & breakfast - taxi driver - climate activism/social campaigning Tea/coffee shop seems to be the most popular dream. What's yours?

This juvenile Seagull has been hanging around our building the past couple of days. Yesterday I encountered him out front clearly fascinated by his own reflection. Today it was asleep in the middle of the ramp to the car park/loading bay & only got up (grumpily) & out of the way as I cycled past.

I hope they got a receipt. You know what the British Museum is like.

Jill Lawless@jilllawless.bsky.social · 4w ago

The Bayeux Tapestry is in this box. It arrived overnight at the British Museum after leaving France for the first time in 900 years.

They do pub quizzes at their conferences. Another reason that - in another life - I would have been a Zebrafishilist … Zebralist … Zebrafishist … what the hell is the right term?!

YoRC of EZS & IZFS@yorc-ezs-izfs.bsky.social · 4w ago

The Long Hall Pub was flooded with early career scientists that joined our social event for #EZM2026 🐟🍻 Special thanks to our Pub quiz master aka György🙏🏻 and of course everyone of you that joined us. 🩵 Congrats to the Fintastics teams,our Pub quiz winners 🏆 🐟

Checking in on UK politics...

#VoteBinface

Farrukh@implausibleblog.bsky.social · 4w ago

People of Clacton, you know who to vote for 😆

Nigel Farage resigned to force a by-election in a desparate attempt to distract from corruption investigations he should lose (given he's been caught hiding multi-million pound bribes from crypto billionaires and more). No other party will run in his distraction. Count Binface will. #UKpoli

Farrukh@implausibleblog.bsky.social · 4w ago

People of Clacton, you know who to vote for 😆

Binface vs Binfire - Count Binface will run in Clacton. “Labour, Tories, Lib Dems and Greens: … stand down in Clacton. I will be a unity candidate & pledge to build at least one affordable house. Nigel Farage says he wants ‘The People versus the Establishment’. So be it. Leave him to me.”

Here's How Nigel Farage's Decision To Trigger A By-Election Could Backfire Spectacularly — HuffPost UK

It looks like the Reform UK leader will end up going head-to-head with Count Binface.

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Cheer up, USA. One of your soccer teams has won 4 World Cups.

FENS2026 attendees - I highly recommend you checking out Matthew Broadhead’s Poster on the visually stunning & functionally intriguing HONEYCOMB SYNAPSE. PS03-08AM-034 THE HONEYCOMB SYNAPSE: A STORY OF SYNAPTIC DIVERSITY AND VULNERABILITY #FENS2026 @fens.org

Hey look - a new low! We keep saying Trump & his acolytes can’t debase themselves any further and they consistently prove us wrong. America - you must be so proud.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.

Trump is now using his platform to attack kindergarteners because they are Muslim

I don’t know the rules…but the rules weren’t broken…anyway the other guy was cheating…probably a Democrat libtard…I don’t know what they meant…but I fixed it…thank you for your attention on this matter. Now - I won. When do I get another award?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.

Trump on Balogun: "That wasn't even an infraction...this referee, who is a little bit suspect if you check his past. He made a call nobody could believe...he's our best player, or one of our best players. And he gave him a red card. I didn't know what that meant...yes, I asked for a review by FIFA."

OK sure, great, but I don't that helps much. He's 80 years old, woefully out of shape, and probably doesn't even know the rules.

The Tartan Army prepares for the England vs Mexico game.

This is a great rollercoaster ride of a thread. On par , I would say, with @nameshiv.bsky.social rice delivery extravaganza or @musicologyduck.bsky.social bus ride to hell. Well worth the read. Happy 4th Of July ‘Murica!

Laura Jedeed@laurajedeed.bsky.social · last mo.

Hi hello I was going to do a full thread on the Great American State Fair later but it seems I'm starting early: why in the fuck are PragerU, Patriot Academy, and other far right groups the ENTIRETY of the Department of Education booth