Katherine Fidler
@KatEllenFidler
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Journalist @thetimes, formerly science and tech editor @MetroUK 🧬 and feats ed @racingpost 🐴. Geordie, runner, science and nature nerd 🏳️🌈 Own opinions etc
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Joined February 2012
Can I change my bio to ‘award-winning writer’ now? Hilarious - and very dark - school poem. Either I didn’t know what absurd meant, or I was SUPER committed to that rhyme. #nationalpoetryday2020
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RT @thetimes: EXCLUSIVE: Elsie Dot Stancombe and Bebe King were two children full of life and joy, before their deaths in the Southport att…
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There are so many negatives to deep sea mining (biodiversity loss, ecosystem disruption and the release of carbon to name just three) but for decades now, the US has been positioning itself to go big on it in the future…
“You’d be forgiven for thinking that America’s continental shelf couldn’t get any bigger. It is, after all, mostly rock,” Jack Truesdale writes. But the government declared that it grew—a lot—and potentially claimed trillions of dollars in undersea riches:
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RT @thetimes: 📞 Speak to your favourite journalists in our charity phone-in today Between 10am and 6pm, readers can call charity ambassado…
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Well I didn’t see that happening second year on the trot! Better get a lottery ticket too… #GNR2025
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“To most Romans, it’s the fact that women hold power that makes the Britons irredeemably barbaric.” Rude. Women held the power in Celtic Britain, archaeologists suggest
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Finally, an answer! I always suspected - I mean, Shakespeare didn't write the complete works of Shakespeare, so what are the chances monkeys could? 🙈 (JOKE)
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And this is exciting - more intel on the Large Hadron Collider’s (not so) little brother💥
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Made it, with hours to spare! A book a week for a year, starting with The Catcher in the Rye and finishing with The Man in the High Castle. Best book: Horse, by Geraldine Brooks. Most surprising find: Shark Heart by Emily Habeck.
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RT @KatEllenFidler: “I guess there are never enough books.” So said John Steinbeck. Well, I guess John never attempted to read a book a wee…
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