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Robin Sen 🇬🇧🇫🇮🇮🇳🇪🇺

@rsen5.bsky.social

Retired Soil Microbial Ecologist, PhD, Reader, Docent, FRSB, FHEA, Director and Custodian of a piece of Derbyshire industrial heritage that we call home. VMO

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Robin Sen 🇬🇧🇫🇮🇮🇳🇪🇺@rsen5.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Congratulations to the @spun.earth consortium on their @science.org paper providing the first global estimate of plant root symbiotic arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal biomass and hyphal length in soils. Great review in @theguardian.com on global implications. www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

Subterranean fungi networks more than 100 quadrillion km in length, study finds

First ever global mapping of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi shows scale of hyphal systems that sustain plant life

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Robin Sen 🇬🇧🇫🇮🇮🇳🇪🇺@rsen5.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Reminded of my plant-microbe-soil research re. shifting dogma in teaching climate impacts on soil carbon/nitrogen turnover. Recalcitrant C RIP? Three decades of continuous warming in temperate forests destabilizes persistent forms of soil organic matter - ScienceDirect share.google/kHEIC1uJtOCJ...

Three decades of continuous warming in temperate forests destabilizes persistent forms of soil organic matter

Rising temperatures have altered the balance of soil carbon stored versus respired in forest ecosystems worldwide. Yet, the molecular-level mechanisms…

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Robin Sen 🇬🇧🇫🇮🇮🇳🇪🇺@rsen5.bsky.social · 3mo ago

@mrjamesob.bsky.social @lbc.co.uk Do get Stanford's Brit Prof. Nick Bloom on James! Economics behind "The only country to vote to impose sanctions on itself". Result 8% hit to GDP or £240bn poorer= lost funding to #NHS. Rest Is Money on Global Player - share-lbc.globalplayer.com/podcasts/epi...

274. Would rejoining the EU be the best growth strategy? - Podcast Episode | Global Player

How much did Brexit cost the UK? Would rejoining make us much richer? And if US managers are PSG players, are British ones more like Aston Villa’s? Robert talks to Stanford Professor Nick Bloom abo...

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Robin Sen 🇬🇧🇫🇮🇮🇳🇪🇺@rsen5.bsky.social · 6mo ago

@mrjamesob.bsky.social Re. Starmer's disastrous "Strangers" speech (by a McSweeney approved speech writer?), check out the seminal, now viral, US broadcasting moment on Stephen Colbert's late show last week. @theianmckellen.bsky.social Shakespeare "Strangers" masterclass. bsky.app/profile/thei...

Ian McKellen@theianmckellen.bsky.social · 6mo ago

My extended interview with Stephen Colbert wrapped up with words widely attributed to William Shakespeare, from "Sir Thomas More" m.youtube.com/watch?v=2l2R...

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 11mo ago

‘It’s been quite a ride!’ Melvyn Bragg to step down from Radio 4’s In Our Time after 27 years

‘It’s been quite a ride!’ Melvyn Bragg to step down from Radio 4’s In Our Time after 27 years

The broadcaster is leaving the hit BBC programme after presenting more than 1,000 episodes and having ‘enriched the lives of millions’ Melvyn Bragg has announced that he will be leaving BBC Radio 4 show In Our Time after hosting it for 27 years. He launched it in October 1998, after being asked to present a programme during what was known as “the death slot” because of its low Thursday morning audience figures. The show, which explores the characters, events and discoveries that have shaped our world, has proved extremely popular. It celebrated its 1,000th episode in 2023 and is regularly one of the BBC’s most listened to on-demand programmes worldwide. Continue reading...

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Robin Sen 🇬🇧🇫🇮🇮🇳🇪🇺@rsen5.bsky.social · last yr.

"You can’t claim to be a high-tech, connected nation if people can’t stay connected for a two-hour journey outside of London. And you certainly can’t compete on the global stage if the very backbone of your country, your transport and telecoms network, is stuck in the past". George Icke @lbc.co.uk

Britain wants to be a global tech powerhouse - but I can’t get phone signal on the M42?

Barely a day goes by without a Government Minister confidently declaring that the UK is on track to become a global powerhouse of industry and technology.

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Robin Sen 🇬🇧🇫🇮🇮🇳🇪🇺@rsen5.bsky.social · last yr.

No surprise, being the son of a distinguised NIH Physician and Immunologist, that Stephen @colbertlateshow.bsky.social brought long-serving NIH Director Francis Collins back on the late show last night. But now talking about the "gutting of the NIH and brain drain" 😱 youtube.com/watch?v=lW9c...

A Scientific Brain Drain Has Followed Trump’s Gutting Of The NIH - Dr. Francis Collins

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

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Robin Sen 🇬🇧🇫🇮🇮🇳🇪🇺@rsen5.bsky.social · last yr.

Took advantage of the continued spring drought to complete my 70th birthday project - a present to family and neighbours. Eschewing hiring a JCB digger, Paul and I spent 10 days digging out composted leaves and peaty soil runoff accumulation in the old Mill pond. Pond plants delivered next week.

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George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · last yr.

It's hard to get your head around the scale of the environmental vandalism the Labour government is hoping to unleash. The Planning and Infrastructure Bill is up there with Trump's executive orders. And the reason is the same: corporate power. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Labour’s great nature sellout is the worst attack on England’s ecosystems I’ve seen in my lifetime | George Monbiot

The horrifying planning bill, which rips up environmental protections, was drafted with CEOs in mind. We know because Keir Starmer told us, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Robin Sen 🇬🇧🇫🇮🇮🇳🇪🇺@rsen5.bsky.social · last yr.

Memo to, and brain food for, our parachuted High Peak MP on plans to transfer his Derbyshire @peakdistrict.bsky.social constituency to an expanded Manchester council. Like him I once was a southerner but after 20 years living here and working in Manchester, I will 🗳 No www.bbc.com/news/article...

Historians urge caution over High Peak county switch

The High Peak could follow in Mosborough's footsteps by no longer being part of Derbyshire.

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Alastair Campbell @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social · 2y ago

Well that was good timing … on the day the UK govt sets out its AI strategy we have one of its pioneers as guest on @therestpolitics.bsky.social LEADING. Google VP James Manyika on the history, the threats and the opportunities and his own fascinating journey alastaircampbell.org/2025/01/116-...

116. Is AI the answer to human suffering? (James Manyika)

How can AI help solve global problems such as poverty, hunger, and disease? Is there a hidden dark side to this new technology? What is in store for the future of artificial intelligence? Rory and Ala...

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Robin Sen 🇬🇧🇫🇮🇮🇳🇪🇺@rsen5.bsky.social · 2y ago

The "writing was on the (red) wall" for Starmer 2 months into government, the dog-end of my X journey. I bit the bullet and moved to Bluesky. Starmer needed to do a "Bluesky" or joins the ranks of #HowTheyBrokeBritain. It's now or never. @mrjamesob.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Many great prime ministers overcome a shaky start – but Keir Starmer’s window is closing fast | Anthony Seldon

Successful PMs learn on the job, and Labour’s leader needs to start 2025 by showing his party and the country he has done so, writes biographer Anthony Seldon

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