My book, The Essential Guide to Evolution, is now out and you can pick up a copy on Amazon: tinyurl.com/pallen-book For those willing to provide an impactful review, happy to send you a review copy free of charge. Please spread the word!

My book, The Essential Guide to Evolution, is now out and you can pick up a copy on Amazon: tinyurl.com/pallen-book For those willing to provide an impactful review, happy to send you a review copy free of charge. Please spread the word!

Happy Darwin Day! This from @ nightwish will blow away any cobwebs. youtu.be/qrMwxe2ya5E

NIGHTWISH - The Greatest Show on Earth (with Richard Dawkins) (OFFICIAL LIVE)

YouTube video by Nightwish

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@profaliceroberts.bsky.social you in brum perchance tomorrow?

🆕 Blog! Our experts Prof @mjpallen.bsky.social Dr Falk Hildebrand @bioinf.bsky.social and Dr Aimee Parker explain that there is no evidence for a brain microbiome 🧠 https://buff.ly/40gVxNH

Is there a “brain microbiome”? No - Quadram Institute

There is no scientific evidence of a brain microbiome, including no imaging, DNA-sequence-based or culture-based or immunological evidence.

quadram.ac.uk

My latest letter to @theguardian.com

Sad news. Jimmy Carter, former US president, dies aged 100 www.bbc.com/news/article... Frustrating that he didn’t live long enough to outlive the guinea worm. But nearly gone now thanks to him and a tremendous team. www.cartercenter.org/resources/pd... Donate here www.cartercenter.org

Jimmy Carter, oldest of all US presidents, dies aged 100

The Democrat served a single term as president, a late 1970s period of economic and diplomatic crises.

bbc.com

A ceasefire is needed now to save lives and move humanitarian aid into #Gaza. Our latest report has the details: www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/gaza-death-t...

Gaza death trap: MSF report exposes Israel’s campaign of total destruction  | Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ...

Repeated Israeli military attacks on Palestinian civilians over the last 14 months, the dismantling of the health care system and other essential infrastructure, the suffocating siege, and the systema...

doctorswithoutborders.ca

@theguardian.com has eventually published an edited version of our letter. www.theguardian.com/science/2024... @pathogenomenick.bsky.social but behaved disingenuously in adding a title we didn’t agree to. There is *no* evidence of a brain microbiome.

@theguardian.com still not addressed its unbalanced reporting on non existent brain microbiome (failure of substance) but now presenting failure of style with regressive reversion to online offering aping printed version rather than built for mobile devises. 🤦🏻‍♂️

Revisiting this old paper journals.asm.org/doi/pdf/10.1... which proposed the acronym YATM for "yet another typing method", might I suggest YALB1S pronounced yal-biss for "yet another low-biomass 16S study"?

updated version of letter to the guardian in reponse to word limit.

Letter sent in to the Editor of the Guardian on brain microbiome nonsense.