Rob Cain @cain_rob@qoto.org

RT @AngrySalmond
Mhairi Black says she’d “close the pubs” in Westminster to help make parliament function properly.

RT @carolvorders
TORIES, VIP LANES, TEST & TRACE & £5BN
6 named after a YEAR of dogged work from @GoodLawProject
Matt Hancock, Liam Fox (got donation from company he recommended), Lord Prior,Lord Bethell, Lord Lansley, Dominic Cummings
Why the secrecy?
https://goodlawproject.org/revealed-the-names-of-those-who-referred-covid-testing-firms-into-the-vip-lane/ via @GoodLawProject

RT @david_conn
Tomorrow’s @guardian front page:

Government has accused PPE Medpro, the company linked to Conservative peer Michelle Mone, of supplying gowns that were not sterile and could have compromised the safety of NHS patients.

Government suing for the £122m it paid, plus £11.6m costs.

RT @zarahsultana
The richest 177 people in Britain added £55,000,000,000 to their fortunes last year.

Their combined wealth now stands at £653,000,000,000.

Don't let anyone tell you there's not enough money to fund our NHS, rebuild our public services, and give our key workers a fair pay rise.

RT @MeetJess
Coronavirus found in samples from 96% of flights

All totaled, "SarsCoV-2 was detected in 288 samples," or 95.7% of all flights ⚠️ https://www.audacy.com/wwjnewsradio/news/national/coronavirus-found-in-samples-from-96-percent-of-flights

RT @practically_sci
Follow us for science-infographics like: "The History of Math"

RT @practically_sci
Check out our new infographic on "A Timeline of Tumor Development" http://www.practicallyscience.com/model-tumor-development/

RT @curiouswavefn
Why is body temperature constant at around 36 degrees? Dunitz and Benner provide a potential explanation based on water's viscosity and hydrophobicity: 36 degrees is high enough for low viscosity, low enough so that important hydrophobic molecules don't dissolve easily (Nat 86).

RT @MathCancer
Here's what happens when you reach 10 hours of imaging data. (Just finished processing!)

RT @HuffmanLabDU
Nice mask study ~consistent w/ prev. results.
https://www.pnas.org/content/118/49/e2110117118

"... face masks sign. reduce the risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection compared to social distancing. We find a very low risk of inf. when everyone wears a face mask, even if it doesn’t fit perfectly on the face." 1/🧵

RT @MrJohnNicolson
Pleased and relieved that we’ve managed to stop Channel 4 privatisation again.

Robbing Channel 4 of its independence has been an obsession for some right wing Tories. But it's never made commercial or production sense.

RT @RajeshPNRao
Excited to announce my perspective article on a sensory-motor theory of the neocortex based on active predictive coding: each cortical area learns a sensory-motor of the world at a particular level of abstraction, with higher areas modulating lower areas.
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.12.30.522267v1

RT @johan_elf_
Our paper on how a significant fraction of bacteria keeps growing many generations at lethal concentrations of antibiotics, and how this contributes to resistance development, is freely available at PNAS https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2216216120

RT @MartinSLewis
A quick terminology explanation.

Inflation is a measure of how quickly prices rise. If you halve inflation prices will still rise, just less quickly.

So halving inflation would still mean things are more expensive than they are now.

RT @_StuNicol_
The full story of Russia's influence over the Conservative party and Brexit by the wonderful @peterjukes
Putin's Brexit Coup, by @BylineTimes https://open.substack.com/pub/bylinesupplement/p/putins-brexit-coup?r=1v0c0j&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

RT @mcsquared34
The war against the homeless and poor

RT @dave43law
Emily Maitlis just completely owned Grant 4 names over the prospective anti strike legislation
#ToriesOut182 #SunakOut73 #GeneralElectionNow
#NHSCrisis #NHSOnLifeSupport https://twitter.com/TheNewsAgents/status/1611039737795719168

RT @WiringTheBrain
A short thread on the thermodynamics of self-organisation 🧵 https://twitter.com/WiringTheBrain/status/1610728155613913091

RT @jeremycorbyn
The 1970 Equal Pay Act.

Higher wages.

A shorter working day.

Strikes have secured victories for us all. Today, a worker's fundamental right to withdraw their labour is under threat from arcane Tory legislation.

Sign the petition to fight back. https://wesayenough.co.uk/petition/

RT @PeterWillsman
Data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) -
*UK economy contracted by 0.3% in the three months to Sept.
*Average rents unaffordable at average incomes in three regions. *Business investment lower than previously estimated.