@ProfBrianCox All racemic mixtures, so not evidence for life

@TheChiefNerd The fraudulent study was one that claimed that an assembly of 12 amyloid-beta molecules caused AD. Very many other results, including recent drug trials, support the involvement of amyloid-beta in AD. It was only the paper on 12-mers that was fraudulent.

@AdamRutherford But it's an acid!

@DrTregoning @jack_jmmcb One can extrapolate too far

Today I finished 18 weeks of chemotherapy, brachytherapy surgery and 4 weeks of chemotherapy. Many thanks to the staff at St James’s Hospital Leeds and the Huddersfield Royal Infirmary, as well as the scientists, companies and charities who made such brilliant treatments possible

@Evolutionistrue It’s not a tweet, it’s a crow

RT @AMAZlNGNATURE: This is what I came to the internet for

@LittleHardman Once again, it's all in 1984

RT @lymanstoneky: There are not many places on earth where we have detailed cause-of-death data from before the era of widespread vaccinati…

RT @gunsnrosesgirl3: Three-year-old Anish Sarker from India has become the youngest FIDE-rated chess player in the world, with a rating of…

RT @peter_tulip: It seems timely to repost one of my favourite tables:

@holland_tom @TheRestHistory Hopefully Fat Freddy's Cat gets a mention too

@jpfuenzalidaw Thanks very much

RT @Rainmaker1973: Robert Plant

RT @pash22: Why I no longer believe we can say academics are the smartest people via @arthurmloureiro

RT @parkrun: At the weekend, we reached 100 million 5k parkruns 🎊 That’s equivalent to our first parkrun, which had 13 finishers, being r…

@refinersfiremu1 @lefineder It’s the river Rhine

Quoted in today's Guardian #DNS_UOM