Jason Arday, ex-Cambridge professor at centre of plagiarism row, found dead Please please everyone I’ve experienced this up close and personal. There is always a way out, no matter how bad it gets. I just wish we had better ways of showing this. 😢 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Jason Arday: Former Cambridge university professor found dead

His family said it was "in shock to have lost this amazing father, partner, brother, uncle and son" after the academic was found dead in London on Friday.

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Blimey !! 8 years ago today !! When I was still pretending to be a scientist 🙃

The “egg” is out for the first time this summer. Just been too hot to oven cook outside.

Some people occasionally ask how I spend my days now I’m retired-well-a toy we’d ordered for our grandson arrived today but it also included a free gift of 3 tiny figurines that needed to be put together. As they’d contain bits too small for him-well-that’s how I spend my days 😂

We went to see The Odyssey last night. Our opinion. Maybe not everyone’s opinion or even the la-de-da film critics. But we found this 3 hour so called epic just dull to average. Christopher Nolan seems to have swallowed his whole ego and drank his own inflated hype.

Professorship Plant-Soil Interactions. Stuttgart, Germany. #plantscijob #plantscijobs #plantsciencejob www.academics.de/jobs/profess...

Professur (W3) für Pflanze-Boden-Interaktionen - Universität Hohenheim

Universität Hohenheim bietet Stelle als Professur (W3) für Pflanze-Boden-Interaktionen in Stuttgart - jetzt bewerben!

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He was a great footballer but also a really really nice man. RIP.

Congratulations to the government on saving 2700 jobs by nationalising British Steel. Now, about the 18,000 university jobs lost in the last 18 months, with more coming…

Pot planted onions. First harvest. Red, yellow and white onions 🧅. Amazing what you can generate from a pot.

We are currently recruiting an Independent Junior Research Group Leader in the field of biotic and/or abiotic stress biology in plants at the University of Göttingen (starting in January 2027). www.uni-goettingen.de/de/644546.ht... Best, Salma Balazadeh & Volker Lipka

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I feel like I should be marching somewhere 🙃

35 years !! 35 bloomin years. As of today that’s how long this wonderful woman has put up with me as her hubby. Don’t know how or why she’s done it but I’m very pleased that she has. Happy wedding anniversary Diana ❤️

Have any of you watched the Norn Iron movie called “Nowhere special “. It’s on ITVX. Starring James Norton. Can highly recommend but have box of tissues ready.

Well blow me over with a feather !! Having worked with Chenopodium amaranticolor for over 30 years as a plant virologist I never ever knew it was called tree spinach and sold as a herb !! Am I the only stupid plant virologist/plant pathologist/ plant scientist out there.

Well blow me over with a feather !! Having worked with Chenopodium amaranticolor for over 30 years as a plant virologist I never ever knew it was called tree spinach and sold as a herb !! Am I the only stupid plant virologist/plant pathologist/ plant scientist out there.

Find out which university degrees could earn you most across your lifetime www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Find out which university degrees could earn you most across your lifetime

New data suggests which university degrees have the highest and lowest financial returns over a lifetime.

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Holly shit 😱 Bristol !! Feels like 49oC. And as sure as hell it does. And more.

One week to go! 📅 Join the @globalplantgpc.bsky.social & @theplantjournal.bsky.social Webinar: New Insights from Plant Structural Biology on 30 June 2026. Hear from leading researchers and explore current perspectives in plant science. Book now: www.sebiology.org/resource/gcp...

Only one Week to register for the “New Insights from Plant Structural Biology" webinar

Join on 29 June 2026 for the GCP & TPJ webinar "New Insights from Plant Structural Biology".

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😱😱😱⚡️⚡️⚡️ It’s coming 😱 Look out Bristol !!!

You know you’ve made it in academia when several hundred undergrads sing your name in a song at their leaving Ball (Wonderwall)

Essentially found my life bio in alcoholic miniatures Buckfast - aka Lurgan Champagne Potato vodka- Ireland Liverpool vodka- mighty reds Sweet potato rum & Sweet potato gin - I’ve worked in sweet potato viruses in my job Challenge anyone else to manage this 🤪

Before the horrible portacabin things appeared. Those beautiful gardens designed by me. Ruined by others. 🙃

Not a bad days discovery. Now time to wack them on the barby. 🎣

Happy 100th to the big man.

When I appeared on hit BBC podcast #Uncanny on my time in Alanbrooke Hall QUB that was weird enough. But now a band has many an album based on it all & Room 6:11 You can listen to the album from the link below tinyurl.com/3zv8j574 Come on @danny_robins time for the movie🎥

Thanks for all the birthday wishes. Seems like a blink of an eye for 21. Well well well, 61 and still having fun. Some tried to stop the fun but they never won. Best birthday ever.

So many of you have asked similar questions of why “Whatever happened to Sir Professor Gary Foster FRS CBE?!” On this particular day 🤔

Do I do an Aprils Fool joke this year. Nah. You’re all too gullible.