Chris Surridge

Scienceophile, editor, occasional writer; will blog for food.

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@Synchangel @tsucheta @v_courdavault @NaturePlants @LouisMeteignier @AnneOsbourn1 @NicolasPapon49 @BBVEA2106_Tours @JohnInnesCentre @UniofBath There is a free to read version available on this link: https://t.co/KbSCNFlLWg

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@JennyRohn You mean Science?

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@dinosaurcomics θm! It's just magic.

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@_ganeshb_ @NaturePlants @HelloGarglers @aliterative @kewgardens The link takes you to the recording. The part about the coffee study begins 19 mins and 40 sec into the podcast (not at almost twenty past seven in the evening).

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@philipcball My Physics teacher at school had a degree in Glass Technology. Along with being an excellent physics teacher (and clog dancer, although that is another story), he was an excellent glass blower. He was forever fixing or making glassware for the school labs.

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@sarita @wilbanks Just wait till they find the video of that talk you gave in 2006! (A personal milestone in my parenting journey).

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@AdamRutherford I'm currently rereading Malcolm Bradbury's 'The History Man'.

'No Platforming', 'Cancel Culture', none of this is new.

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@RoystonTownBand can always be relied on to join in on an interrnet meme:
https://t.co/07fNqL4s1l

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@metricausa @philipcball @DrMichaelBrooks @LindaGeddes @guardian @Monica_Gagliano @NaturePlants I'm mostly interested in how the beans are detecting the pole rather than how that signal is processed.

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@metricausa @philipcball @DrMichaelBrooks @LindaGeddes @guardian @Monica_Gagliano @NaturePlants I don't think these results are moving the plant intelligence/sentience/biopsychism discussion in either direction. The bean's nutation (searching behaviour) is different in the presence of a support pole even before the plant makes contact with the pole.

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@IKEAUKSupport We know that you have a lot of people DMing you as this is the only way to contact any Customer Support at the moment. But could you tell us how quickly you are able to respond?

I DMed you 2 days ago, which is quite recent compared with others.

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@philipcball @Ananyo I think you just won 'Understatement of the Week'

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@Ananyo @philipcball I'm not sure the headline here concentrates on the most significant result. https://t.co/tJ0DwoNIXq

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@Ananyo @philipcball Fair point.

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@Ananyo @philipcball I wouldn't be so sure. You don't read the papers I read!

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@LesleyHustler1 @exitthelemming I only remember Jack Douglas: https://t.co/PHZBjXFDPU

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My brass band (@RoystonTownBand ) just finished a lockdown version of The Great Escape. Huge thanks and Congratulations to @stevearley for doing all the hard work.

https://t.co/8cSc2btsVr

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@cutlersr Don't you dare!