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drjoecain

  1. Good review of Brendan's PhD: Cancer and Causality: dissertationreviews.org/archives/1306 - who's next? #stsucl 3:19 AM May 25th via Tweet Button
  2. Wow! UCLers can read Brian Balmer’s new book Secrecy and Science FREE online ISBN 140943057X tinyurl.com/balmer2012 #stsucl @stsucl 1:17 AM May 25th via web
  3. Student asks: what evidence exists that kids learn science from board games. Anyone? #stsucl 12:47 AM May 25th via web
  4. @SciSpy Come talk with me about this if you want - we want to know what needs to be fixed and are happy to listen - so email, phone, stopby 10:25 AM May 22nd via web in reply to SciSpy
  5. @jessyruthhelen Recovering from bakefest. Many thanks. Need insulin now. Have tin at office - left with JoP. A few made it home, honest 12:14 AM May 21st via web in reply to jessyruthhelen
  6. RT @jessyruthhelen Planning my line of baking attack for tomorrow's gin'n'cake extravaganza with @drjoecain et al. Mini muffins for all! 6:43 AM May 17th via HTC Peep
  7. @bbc Radio4 goes extinct - bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01… Real discussion of extinction in history of life - big picture stuff @darwin @evolution 3:14 AM May 15th via web
  8. Documentary about the Antikythera Mechanism: "The Two-Thousand-Year-Old Computer" - a genuine mystery now sorted. bbc.in/ISBla8 1:39 PM May 12th via Tweet Button
  9. Guess what's heading this way? "Student Debt at Colleges and Universities Across the Nation" nyti.ms/Ki6ww2 12:00 PM May 12th via Tweet Button
  10. Science and politics: chalk and cheese? | Adam Smith | Talking science to power gu.com/p/37b33/tw via @guardian 1:16 PM May 5th via Tweet Button
  11. I want to smack parents and save child. Why? US toddler unfazed by hungry lioness bbc.in/IwQQot 6:16 AM May 5th via Tweet Button
  12. new Kew Economic Botany catalogue: apps.kew.org/ecbot 85K objects 1847-now by explorers/officials/soldiers/sailors/missionaries/MDs/etc 12:25 AM May 4th via web
  13. Student says: "perhaps the best science 'toy' ever produced" Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Lab (1950-1951). Holy smokes! orau.org/PTP/collection… 12:18 AM May 4th via web
  14. Off to quiz. "what quiz?" @GrantMuseum quiz of course. Don't be silly. Or, do be silly. Starts at 6:30 ucl.ac.uk/museums/whats-… #CallMyBluffalo 10:11 AM May 1st via web
  15. Smart work at Social Media town hall #uclsmp last night. Big ideas. Good fun.@uclnews @stsucl 10:53 PM Apr 30th via txt
  16. Possible Worlds and Other Essays by JBS Haldane – review | Tim Radford | Science Book Club gu.com/p/376eq/tw via @guardian 2:34 PM Apr 29th via Tweet Button
  17. CALL MY BLUFFALO @grantmuseum May 1st What’s a thagomizer? Why was trilobite scientifically named Han solo? ucl.ac.uk/museums/zoolog… 2:30 PM Apr 29th via web
  18. Endless forms most beautiful and wonderful: Spotless cheetah snapped in wild gu.com/p/376vz/tw @guardian @darwin @bshsnews @grantmuseum 2:32 PM Apr 25th via Tweet Button
  • Name Joe Cain
  • Location London
  • Web http://www.ucl.ac...
  • Bio Senior Lecturer in History and Philosophy of Biology at UCL. Research on history of evolutionary biology, museums, and paleontology.
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