C. R. Walton (Earth Scientist & Sci-fi + Fantasy) @lithologuy Twitter profile

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C. R. Walton (Earth Scientist & Sci-fi + Fantasy)

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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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C. R. Walton (Earth Scientist & Sci-fi + Fantasy)

@lithologuy

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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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@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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@Sorelle_Arduino @Mr_Minchin @JennyGilruth A fanatic, not a teacher

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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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@artursozolins @samofsamshire @Crispy75 yuck

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@EYakoby @loffredojeremy That's not an exponential decrease.

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@lithologuy

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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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@lithologuy

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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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@lithologuy

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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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@lithologuy

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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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@JustStop_Oil @PunishedHoots Intentionally making everyone polarised and angry is the opposite of a positive contribution.

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@Beldin28 @samofsamshire @Crispy75 It looks horrible lol

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@ColumboPolitics @elonmusk Just continuing his legacy of going after people for 'hate crimes'

Hate crime law targets a 'rising tide of hatred'

Scotland's first minister said the new law has been designed to deal with a "rising tide of hatred" in society.

www.bbc.co.uk

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@lithologuy

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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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@lithologuy

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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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@lithologuy

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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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@lithologuy

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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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@lithologuy

7 months

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:

Cosmic dust fertilization of glacial prebiotic chemistry on early Earth

Nature Astronomy - According to astrophysical and geological models, cosmic dust rich in bioessential elements could have accumulated on the surface of early Earth in arid environments (such as...

www.nature.com

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@lithologuy

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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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@TPointUK Nobody is illegal is up there with the stupidest things ever said

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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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@lithologuy

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@AntiRacismDay Sounds peaceful as fuck. Sounds like your labour councillor friend

Suspended Labour councillor arrested after video emerges urging crowd to cut throats

Party says speech in Walthamstow ‘completely unacceptable’ as a man in his 50s is arrested for incitement

www.independent.co.uk

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@lithologuy

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@shirleymush Islam is a religion, not a race.

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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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@lithologuy

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@UnmaskedAntifa Frosty the snowman: white

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@lithologuy

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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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@lithologuy

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@postcarbonsteve For the love of god, stop spreading anti scientific fluff about an unliveable planet!!

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@lithologuy

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@MForstater lol transgender itself is now offensive and needing replaced. unreal!

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C. R. Walton (Earth Scientist & Sci-fi + Fantasy)

@lithologuy

5 months

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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@lithologuy

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@JustStop_Oil Shame.

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@lithologuy

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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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C. R. Walton (Earth Scientist & Sci-fi + Fantasy)

@lithologuy

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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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@lithologuy

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@wesstreeting Careful you don't threaten to throw her under a train or something Wes. We all know your history with these things!

JAN MOIR: Wes Streeting and his threat to throw me under a train

Wes Streeting and me. We go back a long way. We go back nearly fifteen years, me and Wes, so we do. We have never met yet still here we are trapped as one.

www.dailymail.co.uk

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@lithologuy

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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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@lithologuy

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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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@lithologuy

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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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@lithologuy

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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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@lithologuy

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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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@lithologuy

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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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@lithologuy

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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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@lithologuy

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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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@lithologuy

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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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@lithologuy

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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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@lithologuy

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@believeinscot I guess democracy is meaningless to you... ?

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@lithologuy

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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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@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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@lithologuy

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My paper on phosphorus in the highly shocked Chelyabinsk meteorite is now out in MaPS!

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@lithologuy

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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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@lithologuy

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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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@lithologuy

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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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@lithologuy

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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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@HumzaYousaf @JohnSwinney You are a racist. You stoke division. You personally benefited from creating it.

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@lithologuy

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@ChrisMartzWX @gensiniwx @John_Poelwyk Cheers Chris - love that you share data with your posts so often🔥

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@lithologuy

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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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@lithologuy

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So excited to being working at ETH on the origins of life, supported by NOMIS foundation! Stay tuned...

ETH Foundation

@ETHFoundation1

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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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@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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@AngelaHaggerty The campervan thing has definitely impacted the party image badly.

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@lithologuy

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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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@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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@lithologuy

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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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@lithologuy

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@briebriejoy @h_haltam @RepRitchie Bad faith is a rather curious choice of name for the podcast.......

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@lithologuy

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Really good fun working with @bjwmills and @LewisAlcott on their cool ideas about the emergence of Earth's oxygenated atmosphere! Check it out here:

Crustal carbonate build-up as a driver for Earth’s oxygenation

Nature Geoscience - The accumulation and subsequent recycling of carbonate in the crust may have helped to drive the oxygenation of the early Earth, according to an ocean and atmosphere box model...

www.nature.com

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@lithologuy

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@aashisjo 🤣 washing machines are colonialism Sheeeshh

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@lithologuy

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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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@lithologuy

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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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@DavidReid01 @JohnMasonMSP @SandraWhiteSNP @HeraldPols @AngusRobertson @DanielaGrudsky @JohnSwinney @PeteWishart What's your response to his statement, though?

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@lithologuy

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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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@lithologuy

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@DrJulietteBrown Stop normalising attacking shared cultural heritage. Thanks.

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@lithologuy

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@ThomasWillett9 ....and what would gender affirming care be for the condition? .... A proposed cure? ...?

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@lithologuy

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Paper alert! Our study of the Chelyabinsk meteorite helps us to refine the collision history of asteroids - read it for free here:

Ancient and recent collisions revealed by phosphate minerals in the Chelyabinsk meteorite

Communications Earth & Environment - Shocked phosphates can record the collisional history of asteroid parent bodies, according to texture-age relationships from microstructural observations...

www.nature.com

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@lithologuy

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Much excitement to be the first user of the new @JEOLEUROPE HyperProbe @EarthSciCam !! Iris and Alex were amazing in figuring out how this beauty works - and data are already looking cool!

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@HumzaYousaf But what if they commit the mortal sin of being white?

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@arcticnead But that's... bad. It would also become immensely bad if English-only colonies spread and took over large swathes of the land, as happened in the past? I thought people largely all agreed this to be bad these days.

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@Telegraph This would incentivise people to commit crimes to get housing 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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@AdamJSchwarz @danwootton It is definitely illegal and should be prosecuted. But: 1) the labour councillor who called to cut people's throats should have the same outcome 2) words are not as severe as physical crimes, especially if it is a one off thing not a pattern. If these sentences are longer than

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@Glinner They literally pay salaries to protestors using donated money - 30 quid an hour

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@xIYFAx @ConceptualJames Atheism doesn't promise shit. it is merely not believing in god (whatever your god is, there is no good reason to believe in it, sorry). There's nothing else attached to that at all. My lack of belief in dragons doesn't mean I think star trek will happen, either.

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@danielmup @piersmorgan

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@ThierryAaron @LarryMcVA @JustStop_Oil Did you read the article? It specifically argued that JSO backfired!

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@AFrazzledScot Why do you love authoritarianism?

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@x25e0 @PunishedHoots Stonehenge isn't historically significant? What are you smoking? Is your view that the world will end within, say, 50 years?

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@Rothmus @eyeslasho I agree. Then again, we are doing a lot of reading into a headline of "experts baffled". What did the actual scientists say?

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@CharlesTTHF In other words, society is only held together by the fact that people are terrified to show what they think. Rather than engage at that level, youd prefer people to stay scared and never resolve anything... So instead it festers and boils over. The riots don't have anything to

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@lithologuy

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@ETH_en Thank you for taking swift action in my place of work. Universities are supposed to be about reasoned civil discourse, not shouting matches.

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C. R. Walton (Earth Scientist & Sci-fi + Fantasy)

@lithologuy

4 years

If you are interested in seeing some cool new phosphate microtextures in a highly shocked meteorite, head over to check out my preprint just posted on ! @oshorttle and @ma235camb

Microtextures in the Chelyabinsk impact breccia reveal the history...

The geochemistry and textural associations of chondritic phosphate minerals can provide insights into the geological histories of parental asteroids, but the processes governing their formation...

arxiv.org

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C. R. Walton (Earth Scientist & Sci-fi + Fantasy)

@lithologuy

3 months

@JulianCribb The paper predicts 14% reduction in food output in the absolute worst case scenario (least likely) without seeming to account for any technological innovation in the meantime. But, happy to be corrected.

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C. R. Walton (Earth Scientist & Sci-fi + Fantasy)

@lithologuy

5 months

We completely believe in free speech. This is why we stand against the occupations, which create spaces on campus where the freedom of speech and movement of others is limited by those who have no right to do so.

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C. R. Walton (Earth Scientist & Sci-fi + Fantasy)

@lithologuy

16 days

@RobinBoardmanUK What is this image supposed to be showing? Half of South America is not on fire. Seems like pure disinformation. The wildfires are huge but not at the scale shown in this fake image. 2024 saw 32,000 hectares burn of the Amazon's total 525,000,000.

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