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@lithologuy

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Planetary Science Life in the Universe Science fiction & epic fantasy author 🇬🇧 Trinity College, University of Cambridge ETH Zurich

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I am excited to reveal the new cover art for my debut novel!! Look at that singularity BURN! 👽🤯🔥🚀☄️ Get the book here --> #indieauthors #sciencefiction #authorcommunity Artwork credit to the talented Tom Edwards
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@EYakoby @loffredojeremy That's not an exponential decrease.
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@metpoliceuk @TPointUK "Two opposing groups" That says it all, really. Pro-British and ANTI British groups. Yet you take the side always of the anti British group and present it as justice.
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@visegrad24 Waiting for the BBC to run a glowing obituary about how he had a wicked sense of humour and liked to bake cakes for the elderly
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@JustStop_Oil Defacing shared cultural heritage is shameful. Stonehenge belongs to everyone. It is not a canvas for activism. What might be more effective is convincing people with compelling logical argument and data...
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@DrewPavlou It's fascinating to watch the narrative evolve in real time. A week ago many anti Zionists were rabidly egging on Hezbollah to destroy Israel. Now they are crying about the fact the attacks were replied to and weapons stashes destroyed. Another week until it's genocide? 🤔
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@drflynn @Rob_ThaBuilder Lol - knowing biology is transphobia eh? Sounds like a winning line of attack
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@jonburkeUK Stop comparing randomly vandalising ancient monuments to the suffragettes.
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@jtworr And threatening anyone who even shares posts about these things with prosecution and arrest "think before you post" meanwhile, mobs with knives and masks? all fine and barely worth commenting on, apparently. It's genuinely terrifying to see.
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@jgo34 If wager that most academics who self identify as leftists wouldn't be able to explain the first thing about why they hold their positions. They do it BC they have a vague sense that it is "the good side" and that to disagree would make them "bad people".
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@richardosefton It's rather lazy to consider anything right of center as racism.
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@brainrotpol @TheOmniLiberal @RubinReport Destiny spent the entire debate saying "if the other side gets to be evil so do I", as if this means he isn't being evil. He is being evil - by his OWN ADMISSION.
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@Nature The Nobel Prizes sample the most extreme outliers. Unless men and women were absolutely identical in their statistical distributions of effort, talent, interest, and so on in STEM, there would be an extreme bias one way or the other. Nothing to sweat about
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@GSpellchecker Exactly. I'm not Christian, I don't believe in god, and I think religions are fair game for jokes... But I'm not sure here what the joke was. It just seemed intentionally provocative towards the majority religion of France itself.
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@Telegraph Are we surprised?
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@ScotNational Worst ever "leader" of Scotland (which is saying something)
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@socialistworker @AntiRacismDay Hamas are some of the biggest racists on earth lol
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@gensiniwx @John_Poelwyk @ChrisMartzWX I have served on federal funding review panels. I don't do climate science, but I know how the review process works. If a proposal came in that said it was going to pursue non-human explanations for climate change and the people reviewing thought "no way" it would be dead.
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@guardiannews Lol - they can't handle criticism and can't respond to it and they can't shut it down, so they just leave because they are cowardly scumbags. You can just taste the authoritarianism on the air - it's coming off them in a thick steam.
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@ShrewsburyCops Why not donate the bikes? Why destroy them? Seems a bit odd
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@salltweets also, "it" seems like an odd way to refer to a person!
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@JustStop_Oil @PunishedHoots Intentionally making everyone polarised and angry is the opposite of a positive contribution.
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@Rob_ThaBuilder If so, will be important to make this story as big as possible. So many people took sides on this and the reckoning must force people to acknowledge whatever the evidence shows.
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@tom_watson Tom, you do not speak on behalf of the UK - certainly not me. Anyone willing to condemn UK gov on their authoritarian overreach is on the right lines in my mind.
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@Kathleen_Tyson_ @OdysseusDr That's not really a rebuttal to the point being made about history and it is also exactly what people are complaining about lol
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@dwallacewells The fact that this is the first lines of an abstract of an academic article is, not to put too fine a point on it, a total disgrace. It's the opening to a dystopian thriller, not a scientific assessment of anything. The paper contains nothing to support such a claim, either.
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@arusbridger @SamFowles Ah so people are just stupid and brainwashed by their own lying eyes! I knew it! 🤣
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Delighted to announce my latest work on the origins of life has just been published in @NatureAstronomy ! This time we are thinking about whether cosmic dust played a role in supplying the elements needed for life! Open access at:
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@campbellclaret @RoryStewartUK You are insane. Islam is no friend of liberal democracy. I believe in: Separation of church and state. Women's rights. Gay rights. Intellectual freedom. Freedom of speech. What do you stand for Alastair? Idiocy?
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@guardian People at my own College participated in this. I find it abhorrent - and I told them as much!
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@TPointUK Nobody is illegal is up there with the stupidest things ever said
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@GeorgeMonbiot Not according to the evidence.
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@shirleymush Islam is a religion, not a race.
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@ChrisMartzWX It's true. I've been labelled MAGA and I'm not even American lmao
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@UnmaskedAntifa Frosty the snowman: white
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@justdave89now It would be plausibly dangerous in parts of east London to walk around and be openly Jewish. At the very least, I know people who percieve that and take action accordingly.
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@postcarbonsteve For the love of god, stop spreading anti scientific fluff about an unliveable planet!!
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@vjgtweets As a Brit, I find it sickening that customers are expected to decide whether or not someone should be paid a proper wage. You guys should reject this madness and make companies pay proper wages to their staff.
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@MForstater lol transgender itself is now offensive and needing replaced. unreal!
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@Telegraph "newly acquired" This definition of gender is a fashion that can be worn or discarded at will. That's fine, but sex is inherent and immutable. Bathrooms denote spaces reserved for a particular sex.
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I wrote a book! If you like hard sci-fi space opera with a bit of a horror twist, check it out here: . Readers of The Expanse, Alastair Reynolds, and Iain Banks may enjoy. 🚀👽🌌
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@JMPSimor @beastlythoughts @Keir_Starmer @YvetteCooperMP @lisanandy Because you are intolerant with no ability to engage with people that disagree with you? Because your instinct is to crush dissent with authoritarian measures? Because you want to make everything 10x WORSE rather than listen to ordinary people?
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@gorskon @center4inquiry @rdfrs Your bio claims you promote science based medicine... Yet the foundations of one of your key moral medical stands will soon be banned as unsupported by evidence in most civilised nations. You also argue science based on 'morality', not reason, which is quite medieval. Shame.
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@ArchRose90 Ironically, it is the % of illegal immigrants who are religious extremists with no interest in womens or gay rights who more accurately fit the label far right!
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@KonstantinKisin My fave bit was: "There is pressure on the NHS - to help with that, we need as many low skilled immigrants as humanly possible"
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@gideonmack @SwipeWright You can't be "treated" for having Y chromosomes that have in fact manifested in male physical advantages. It is by itself a disqualifying factor to be in the women's competition.
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@y_alibhai The left would do well to heed this, given shouting fire! inappropriately is 99% of what I see come out of left media and activists
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@alvelda 40% of the working population is not missing work for 12 weeks....... The sample is clearly biased.
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@Glinner Their Wikipedia page describes them as a left wing party combating social inequality
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@ClimateBen Your Marxist propaganda is showing through the gaps in your argument Ben. Capitalism has and continues to bring more people out of poverty than any other system in history.
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@gideonmack @SwipeWright Yes, it is. if someone carries a Y chromosome but is insensitive to male hormones, they develop physiologically as a woman despite being genetically male and have no advantage. If someone is XY and has a DSD but is not insensitive to male hormones, they will develop with a
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@mattzarb @elonmusk Your words are contradictory. The same opportunity IS a fair opportunity. We should NOT give people different opportunities based on things they cannot control, like their skin colour. That is racist and it is fundamentally wrong.
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@AndyHearn09 Her argument was that this person has XY chromosomes and is potentially simply male with a DSD. Given the lack of evidence presented against this, it does remain on the table. But why bother to represent the argument properly, right?
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@chrltreelover @ChrisMartzWX Data is king. Believe in science, Charlie, not your new religion!
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@gensiniwx @ChrisMartzWX It pays your salary just as my grant pays mine. We are evidently doing the work for profit and we have a financial incentive to oversell our ideas to build a reputation and get more funding. That is why we mark each others work with peer review, though this is often almost
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@believeinscot I guess democracy is meaningless to you... ?
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@Dorianlynskey I agree it is illegal. But the claim is here that the sentences are disproportionate. Many years in jail for a few comments online definitely seems disproportionate to me. It also seems like it cannot possibly be applied equally, given how many wild comments I see from people
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My paper on phosphorus in the highly shocked Chelyabinsk meteorite is now out in MaPS!
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@DiannaLGunn Sorry to break it to you, but this is because people love his books. Celebrate it and all that these outstanding authors bring to the industry, rather than exuding jealousy and seeing the whole thing as a zero sum game. Vibe check: fail.
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@kewgardens Deeply arrogant to think that disagreement means the other person is simply "intolerant and hateful" Besides, it's not an inclusive environment if you insist on promoting controversial politics over and above the study and preservation of nature 💚
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@ooilenthusiast @Beldin28 @samofsamshire @Crispy75 Each to their own :) To be specific, I mainly don't like how it is pretty featureless and bland. There are so many houses (not all expensive) that have character and I just vastly prefer that personally
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@HeidiBachram Most insane part of this is that Israel is engaged in a multi-front war with groups that were founded on explicitly genocidal charters. Jews opposing the genocidal intent of these groups is then itself framed as genocidal. Evil stuff.
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@GunjanJS @WSJmarkets How can you compare these two when COVID caused that gigantic drop at the end of trump's? You'd need to normalise for that somehow and you haven't.
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@Serena_Partrick @afneil Maybe go after the people who disagree and don't care than people highlighting the absurdity of a tyrannical regime who agree with you? Jesus - humour is a WEAPON against tryanny, not it's sword
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@PDScoach @JudyMurray I kind of lost the thread of this half way through. If the person is XY, that would be a male fighting as a "woman", no?
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@guardian How many times will the guardian use "musk looking evil" picture for their stories? So far I can count about 10
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@RupertLowe10 This is in fact simply paying people to: (1) Create a racist, sexist, and homophobic atmosphere in the NHS; (2) Deprioritise merit in favour of things people cannot control in hiring and promotion; and (3) Force people to spend time on frivolous matters instead of saving lives.
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@HumzaYousaf @JohnSwinney You are a racist. You stoke division. You personally benefited from creating it.
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@ChrisMartzWX @gensiniwx @John_Poelwyk Cheers Chris - love that you share data with your posts so often🔥
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@MrMatthewTodd I am angry at JSO. But also... there is no science behind this claim. I challenge you to provide models demonstrating an uninhabitable Earth from anthropogenic climate change.
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@Villgecrazylady @bankercartel @BasedTorba 80% of earth's oceans are pitch black abyssal plains with jack shit happening. Mars is MARS. Your lack of vision disturbs me
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So excited to being working at ETH on the origins of life, supported by NOMIS foundation! Stay tuned...
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Craig Walton @lithologuy is looking for the geological conditions on Earth before life began to find clues as to how it originated 🦠🔬; supported by the NOMIS Foundation and drawing on the great expertise at @ETH_COPL : #originoflife @ETH_en
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@BBCPolitics Bye bye SNP and greens
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@mehdirhasan That truly is an inconceivably stupid reply. Lol. Lmao, even.
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@AngelaHaggerty The campervan thing has definitely impacted the party image badly.
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@mattyglesias France really out there keeping detailed forest cover records in the year 1000 when they could barely draw maps of the place
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@aashisjo Q: Do you believe that climate change will make life on Earth impossible? Also word of advice to stop attacking monuments like terrorists do. It's turning literally everyone against you and ruining my reputation as an Earth Scientist by even vague association.
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@aashisjo 🤣 washing machines are colonialism Sheeeshh
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@BenJohnsonGeo @JustStop_Oil Oh, good - well, in that case, I'll hop on over to drag it into the sea to protest my favourite cause. What sort of an argument is that?
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@ClimateBen Your source is what? An ancient guardian article? This nonsense makes me think I should do my own survey, which would surely reveal the opposite (I have rarely met anyone that thinks this and I work in Earth Sciences at a uni)
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@khalidi79397 Because they simply watched left wing academics speak for a bit and realised that the west was infected with the same lunatic lefties as helped the Iranian Islamic revolution succeed.
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@Rob_ThaBuilder @blightersort they got you good here
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@briebriejoy @h_haltam @RepRitchie Bad faith is a rather curious choice of name for the podcast.......
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@mcharlesworth71 @JustStop_Oil What's facing collapse? The house of cards of claiming the world will literally end from climate change? Can we come back to reality here??
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@eyeslasho Science denial is an interesting one. You can reject a consensus, but that would not be a rejection of the method itself. Not much in science is established to the point where disagreeing is impermissible - often the greatest progress comes from those considered by the majority
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@renacido42 @BriannaWu That's BC in leftism the ends justify the means. Hence, the enemy of my enemy is my friend. In this case, the enemy is status quo capitalist western society, which is also opposed by Islamists.
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@gideonmack @SwipeWright There is a problem with her chromosomes and her hormones... The rest is just cope
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@DrJulietteBrown Stop normalising attacking shared cultural heritage. Thanks.
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Our exploration of phosphorus-bearing minerals on the prebiotic Earth is now out in Earth Science Reviews! exciting times :)
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@ThomasWillett9 ....and what would gender affirming care be for the condition? .... A proposed cure? ...?
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