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Arjan | That Poetry Guy

I'm a sad chimp today. RIP Jane Goodall. With her passing, the world has lost a hero and a ground breaking scientist. Someone how taught us not only about chimps, but also how science is key to a better understanding of the workings of our world. Real, serious science. Thank you Dame Jane Goodall for everything you taught us, and for being an inspiration to us and our son(s) and our daughter(s).

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Trees turning CO2 into stone?! Crazy!!

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@patriciaxlee.eth

if i ever become a crypto scammer i won’t tell anyone but there will be signs

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3 people can make a baby! Not sure of the logistics… but I’m willing to try! OK, no this isn’t that, but actually pretty nifty and valuable science. https://youtube.com/shorts/MkcS_thPGC4?si=jmJFHwVI0SIwcX5R

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Light-powered motor fits inside a strand of hair https://www.gu.se/en/news/light-powered-motor-fits-inside-a-strand-of-hair

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It’s been a sin that I haven’t gone to the natural history museum for the two years I’ve been at imperial given that it’s next door. Today I put things right and boy was it worth it. I used to go as a kid so often and it hasn’t changed at all. Pure rocket fuel for childish (and now adultish) curiosity. Very sure those visits played a significant role in me choosing to be a scientist. If you’re ever in London it’s a must. Pictured below is the most intact fossilised stegosaurus in the world and Dippy the diplodocus. Side note: architecture has totally regressed since Victorian times - you never get fish sculpted into archways or monkeys climbing up pillars nowadays and we totally should.

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Huge news for gene therapy coming out of the uk 🇬🇧 RNA ftw https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cevz13xkxpro?app-referrer=deep-link

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I don't give out medical advice, but here's some advice on medical advice: If you are advised not to take an over-the-counter medicine, make sure that the advice comes from someone who can pronounce the name of the medicine.

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today based @neynar informed me of @inaturalist's global roadkill observations project. I am going to use inaturalist a lot more now.

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I’m taking ornithology, and I can’t believe it took me this long to realize birds ARE dinosaurs!! Evolving from dinosaurs = in the same clade!! My latest unit is on aerodynamics. Crazy how birds flap asymmetrically to not cancel out their upward motion. Wasn’t discovered until after high speed cameras were made!

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Don’t bother with publishing scientific papers, just convince the prez of your theory. This is science now.

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Very interesting preprint out of Stanford circulating in the bioinformatics community. Turns out A.I. isn't a fraud. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.30.656746v1

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TL;DR: German students speak smoother Dutch when they're slightly drunk. https://uni-freiburg.de/en/dutch-courage-study-wins-the-ig-nobel-prize/

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@polluterofminds

This is fascinating. Seems entirely possible that Venus could have carried life at some point in its first billion years before it turned into the hellscape it is now. https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-is-venus-hell-and-earth-an-eden-20250915/

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@polluterofminds

I’m going to be spending the morning thinking about how invisibility is theoretically possible and how it actually makes sense when you look at the science of it. https://thepotentialsurface.substack.com/p/metamaterials-ai-and-the-road-to

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