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• Post #4276499

  Time for a #FridayMusicQuiz The following songs are linked in sequence. Can you suggest a song that comes next in this sequence? There is more than one correct answer. Friend or foe? Wouldn't it be nice? Do you really want to hurt me?

• Post #3933485

  A machine for solving differential equations, made from Meccano. Built in 1947 by Nicholas Eyres and pupils of Radley school #CentreForComputingHistory

• Post #1817576

  I just made myself a Post It holder for my desk and am feeling pretty pleased with myself (I feel sure I must have stolen this idea from someone at some point... if anyone knows who please let me know so that I can credit them) #LifeOfPI

• Post #1782354

  What was the sky like when you were young?

• Post #1455552

  My beautiful city #Edinburgh

• Post #1282623

  Just look at that graph. Amazing. Congratulations to the Pollard lab and all authors. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10329-6

• Post #1282619

  RE: https://biologists.social/@CellySally/116098705360265955 My #MicroBookReview of Elizabeth Alker's book The subheading"How 20th-Century Classical Music Shaped Pop" really undersells this book. It it is somehow also about how things become connected, and how culture emerges in response to particular social or political situations, and how making strange new sounds can help us understand how to exist in strange new times, and how to find joy. And it has a good cover,...

• Post #1282618

  Good #Edinburgh things: today, the cherry blossom is out, and so is this new track from Boards of Canada 😍 Inspired by @brianbilston I tried to turn this post into a Haiku but find myself defeated by the impossibility of determining how many syllables there are in the word Edinburgh. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bghDcbzfEU #Music #Syllables

• Post #1282617

  Time passes. 😢 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5equKrVo3zE #Nostalgia #AndyKershaw

• Post #953497

  Favourite talk so far at BSDB2026 was from Cliff Tabin, entitled 'Quack science': Proper hardcore dev-bio airway-patterning mechanisms... explaining distinct vocalisations in birds! Estrogen modulates developmental signalling, explaining why male (but not female) ducks can whistle as well as quack. Left-Right asymmetry during development of airways explains why some songbirds can harmonise with themselves. #DevBio

• Post #953494

  It's #GoodFridayMusicQuiz day! What links: Whole Lotta Love by Led Zep Please Go Home by the Rolling Stones Race for the Prize by Flaming LIps If you think know the answer, can you name another song with the same link? A further clue will be provided upon request

• Post #953492

  Roni Size: there was drum, there was bass, there was dancing, it was ace.

• Post #890185

  The ABC of my fave things in this paper: * ABOLISHING both silencing AND leakiness of SynNotch (check out the DTA-based demo of this 😍) while preserving high efficiency, in pluripotent & differentiating cells * BOOSTING signal during #PUFFFIN neighbour-labelling * CITING Robbie Burns (1786) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.22.713470v1 #DevBio

• Post #890181

  "Why we won’t be funding open access publishing any more" - Cancer Research UK (h/t @@earthowned but on BlueSky) "We want to see the academic publishing industry change in a way that benefits science, not just profits" - Cancer Research UK, and also all the rest of us https://news.cancerresearchuk.org/2026/04/01/why-we-wont-be-funding-open-access-publishing-any-more/

• Post #712983

  MASSIVE turnout. Well done #Edinburgh. We are the people.