“Paying prisoners money to destroy stuff we never needed but bought for billions from ministers’ friends feels like a Mafia TV series plot. In fact, it’s just everyday life in the UK under this government.” Jolyon Maugham, Good Law Project
⚠️🇺🇦Russians have already killed 449 children in Ukraine (more) https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/3635343-russians-have-already-killed-449-children-in-ukraine.html #Ukraine #News #War #Russia
RT @chrischirp@twitter.com
With over 2 million currently reporting ongoing symptoms after Covid in the UK, with hundreds of studies into Long Covid showing many physiological markers and the challenges of living with it, adding stigma - and denial - to the mix has to stop. Now.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/covid-university-of-southampton-fear-hiv-b2231697.html
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/chrischirp/status/1595740381659922432
@peterbrown Exactly right. This was posted by Guy Verhofstadt and shows how UK is bottom of the pile for growth for next 2 years well behind EU and rest of countries listed.
Some thoughts on the genesis of our recent paper on why biology uses both sulfate and phosphate in different yet overlapping functions https://ferniglab.wordpress.com/2022/11/24/sulfate-or-phosphate/
@JennyRohn @DMHardc It is tricky to find people. One thing I’ve done is look at the list of people followed by the people I follow - but often you only see a subset.
I didn’t realize that the Dutch fought for their bike lanes. There’s a lot of history within this that I’m currently naive about but excited to learn!
Here’s the article I’m starting with — How the Dutch got Their Cycle Paths: https://www.pps.org/article/how-the-dutch-got-their-cycle-paths
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RT @riotgrandma72@twitter.com
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How about this for a ‘radical’ idea:
There are vacancies in hospitality ~ so many that pubs/ cafes are going under
There are vacancies in the care industry ~ so many that care homes are closing.
There are #refugees dying to start work .
Erm .. #ToryChaos
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/riotgrandma72/status/1593264362562768896
CW - longish ramble
@DaveFernig @peterbrown @ClimateHuman Um, archaeologist who studied climate change impacts here -- and that is absolutely NOT what we say.
Yes, individual polities have been decimated by climatic events, and many historical crises have an environmental component. (I myself have made that exact case regarding the role of megadrought in the rapid decline of the Neo-Assyrian Empire.)
But as nearly any archaeologist who is versed in the subject will tell you, "collapse" is kind of a meaningless and badly-defined term. There are literally dozens of articles and books out there which explicitly lay out WHY "collapse" is a bad term, because it creates the false impression of a total destruction that almost never happens. (Karl Butzer's PNAS piece is a great introduction to that literature: https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.1114845109)
Case in point, for example: obviously the *polity* of the Roman Empire is dead and gone. But is Roman culture really "dead" when the Latin language, Roman philosophical and legal ideas, Roman iconographies of power, Roman religion (at least from the later Empire), Roman architectural style, and so on, are very much still with us? Even the word "empire" is itself a Roman term still in use today (just like the titles "kaiser" and "tsar" were in fact direct continuations of "Caesar"). So is Roman culture and/or Roman "civilization" (whatever that means) actually "dead," or not? Well, that kinda depends on who you ask, and how you define "dead".
Anyway, my point is this: polities come and go, sure. But "cultures" rarely die unless they are actively killed by other human cultures (as in the case of Spain's brutal colonial conquest of the so-called "New World", for example). And even in those cases, at least some cultural habits or preferences tend to stubbornly cling to life in the new sociopolitical order.
Biological Chemist. Blog https://ferniglab.wordpress.com
#Polysaccharides, #ExtracellularMatrix, fibroblast growth factors, #FGF, #Glycotechnology, #Sulfation.