Des Higgins Official

Birds and Bioinformatics/genomics/molecular evolution. 1st as amateur twitcher; 2nd since 1985 in TCD, EMBL, EBI, UCC and UCD; Clustal. Now mainly at bluesky

[Paul Schleifer @PaulSchleifer]

We can and should make this true.

[Des Higgins Official @HigginsDes]

@WhiteRabbit1984 @MRitterman @AhmadRehanKhan There is a strong genetic component in autism spectrum disorders. Those genes were always there. I know lots of autistic people because we are all now much more aware than in previous eras. Many of them also have autistic relatives.

[Des Higgins Official @HigginsDes]

@WhiteRabbit1984 @MRitterman @AhmadRehanKhan I'm autistic in my 60s. I always was auti stic and so was my father. I knew quite a few other "weird" kids and none of us had a diagnosis. The underlying levels have probably not changed.

[Des Higgins Official @HigginsDes]

@WildDerrynane @NatureNymph @BirdWatchIE Trawlers don't catch fish that small

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

If Anne Frank had lived in the digital age, would Meta have deleted her account to avoid embarrassing those carrying out a genocide?

Today, we got our answer.

[Bibi blackwood @Bibiblackwood7]

@ArnoldCarton I don't know what to say any longer....🤬🤬🤬🤬💔☘

[Burkitt. a documentary film. @burkitt_film]

As part of @ScienceWeek "Burkitt" will be screening for the first time in Dublin on 16th Nov at @DundrumTC Cinema. 🧑‍🔬

In partnership w/ @AlCRIproject 🧬

After the film, there will be a QnA with the Writer & Director, Éanna Mac Cana.

Tickets!👉 https://t.co/3JgQeeUyRE

[Susie Dent @susie_dent]

Word of the day is ‘recrudescence’ (17th century): the return of something terrible after a time of reprieve.

[Dom Joly @domjoly]

RIP Janey Godley - she was one of a kind and a lovely, funny person. #janeygodley

[Nour Odeh 🇵🇸🍉 #FreePalestine @nour_odeh]

I’ve run out of words & tears today after offering my condolences to so many friends who lost loved ones in northern Gaza in the past 48 hours. What is happening is simply unfathomable. Israel is burning northern Gaza, slaughtering its starved population & detaining men & boys

[Dr. Jennifer Cassidy @OxfordDiplomat]

If you listen to anyone this morning, let it be Gideon Levy. A phenomenal Israeli journalist who has been speaking truth to power for decades. Share his words. Far and Wide.

[Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @IrishRainforest]

The genocide being rolled out by Israel DEMANDS a response.

Not just because it's the worst war crime of our age.

If the mass slaughter of innocents is seen to be allowed, it sends a clear message to all other existing and future monsters that they can get away with the same.

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

Israel killed four aid workers in a marked car who had coordinated their movements with the Israeli authorities.

Here’s what Israeli general - and advisor to Israel’s defence minister - Giora Eiland wrote one year ago.

[Des Higgins Official @HigginsDes]

@catherinemilk @NatureNymph @BirdWatchIE I was away for a week. Yes you get flocks of golden plover on the Curragh.

[Dr Zahira Jaser زاهرة جاسر @ZahiraJaser]

I have been shadow banned.

[Howard Beckett @HowardRBeckett]

The Israeli 🇮🇱 army has ordered the evacuation of 3 hospitals in Northern Gaza 🇵🇸 before they then bomb them to rubble.

This is the ICU for Kamal Adwan Hospital.

It is full of children barely alive after Israeli 🇮🇱 attacks.

It’s genocide.

[TV Football 1968-92 @1968Tv]

BBC World Cup Grandstand
July 1990
The final credits and the end of a great World Cup, which brought so many memories.
For one more time, cue Luciano!

[Des Higgins Official @HigginsDes]

@PeepulEconomics @gylesnamopaleen Every single country in Europe, bar 3, uses proportional representation. Why single out France?

[Patrick Dexter @patrickdextervc]

Zombie by The Cranberries (1994) an Irish anti-war song first released 20 years ago today

[Des Higgins Official @HigginsDes]

@kevintoconnor @RoseAlannis @LordWellington6 Because the Catholic hierarchy were afraid that Catholics would be corrupted by liberal ideas. Catholics could always freely go to Trinity but risked excommunication if they did