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Martin Humphries

@martinhumphries.bsky.social

Professor of Biochemistry, University of Manchester. Career interest in mechanisms of cell-matrix adhesion. Current interest in mechanosensing in pancreatic cancer and vascular dementia.

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Katie Mack@astrokatie.com · last wk.

A reminder, because it is almost that time of year: More children are killed by cars on Halloween than any other day of the year, by far. www.vox.com/future-perfe... If you're a parent, I hope you'll do what you can to keep kids safe. If you're driving on Saturday, PLEASE exercise extra caution.

A graph from Vox titled "Halloween is the deadliest day of the year for child pedestrians" with a graph showing a huge spike at October 31.
Christabel Cooper@christabelcoops.bsky.social · last wk.

Really worth noting that even in Red Wall constituencies which backed Leave, most *Labour* voters back rejoining the EU. Over 90% of Labour considerers back rejoin - opposition to EU membership is mainly coming from non-Labour voters in these seats. Was on Times Radio yesterday making this point.

Andrew Curry@andrewcurry.com · last mo.

10,000-year-old #GobekliTepe has it all: Massive stone pillars, elaborate carved reliefs and hundreds of fragmented human bones. Now @dai-weltweit.bsky.social researchers have uncovered burials, too – and they point to a new, natural explanation for the scattered remains at the site. @science.org

Bones link 10,000-year-old temple complex to a village, not a ‘skull cult’

Landslides, not rituals, may have scattered skulls and bones at Turkey’s famed Göbekli Tepe site

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Lauri Myllyvirta@laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social · 2mo ago

NEW from us: India's rapid clean power expansion has kept power sector emissions flat for two years, for the first time in over 50 years, and sharply reduced fossil fuel imports. Oil and gas consumption have also fallen for two years in a row, helping alleviate the Hormuz shock.

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Carbon Brief@carbonbrief.org · 2mo ago

NEW – Analysis: India’s power-sector emissions flat for two years due to clean-energy surge ✍️ Written by @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social and Anubha Aggarwal @creacleanair.bsky.social Read here: buff.ly/JIwsTKV

Chart titled "India’s power-sector emissions flat for two years due to clean-energy surge" and subtitled "Power-sector emissions, MtCO2 per half-year". Source: Analysis for Carbon Brief by CREA. H1 and H2 emissions rise from around 500 MtCO2 in 2020 and level off between 600–660 MtCO2 from 2024 to 2026. (alt text generated by Google Gemini)
Luke Sibieta@lukesibieta.bsky.social · 2mo ago

NEW: The latest international education comparisons from PISA 2025 have just been published Scores in England remain high relative to other countries – while in many other countries, scores are falling Across the UK, scores remain lowest in Wales www.gov.uk/government/p... @theifs.bsky.social

PISA 2025: national report for England

England’s PISA 2025 results, with an international comparison of the mathematics, reading and science performance of 15-year-old pupils.

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Sam Freedman@samfr.bsky.social · 2mo ago

New PISA data out England is now top ten in all three areas (reading, maths, science) and the second highest performing country outside of east Asia (after Estonia). This is a huge public policy success.

Ember@ember-energy.org · 2mo ago

#Africa’s solar boom is spreading across the entire continent, with 36 out of 54 countries set for record solar installations in 2026 🌍☀️ 19 countries saw YoY growth of over 100%, including DRC 🇨🇩 (+544%), Zimbabwe 🇿🇼 (+282%) and Egypt 🇪🇬 (+176%) ember-energy.org/lat...

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Ed Douglas@calmandfearless.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Pretty good going from BBC R4's Today to talk for 15 minutes about the disaster in Nepal and not once mention the impact of climate change A massive chunk of glacier collapsed and fell 1.2km, reduced to 'flash flood'.

Alice Roberts@profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The fallout from the collapse of this glacier - a torrent of mud surging down the valley - killed hundreds of people. Gone, in a flash. Those people were wiped out by anthropogenic climate change. Our governments are simply not responding quickly enough to this disaster which is already upon us.

Nahel Belgherze@wxnb.bsky.social · 2mo ago

An incredibly well-timed Landsat 9 pass captured the effects of yesterday’s catastrophic glacier collapse near the Nepal–Tibet border. The event was so massive that it was detected by seismometers around the world.

Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran.com · 2mo ago

Dolly Parton is credited in at least 37 research papers on the COVID vaccine, including the first phase I trial results published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2020.

Martin Humphries@martinhumphries.bsky.social · 3mo ago

We tried, and failed, to sort ours. As I remember, the University Outlook can't sync with someone else's iPhone. Very inconvenient.

Ewan Birney@ewanbirney.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Geek bat signal: I wear many hats but one of them is IT support for the Birney family - and I have a calendar integration tangle to untangle. We have the holy trinity of Google calendar (my work, shared family, invisible computer) outlook (my wife’s small co) and iCloud (we’re Apple device family)