Dr Rich Boden FLS #FBPE          

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. Editor. Trustee. Reader in & . metabolism. My views, not UoP. Aging hippy. . Pro-EU. (he/him)

Plymouth, UK
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    Apr 25

    I will be closing this account in the coming 48h as I cannot continue to use Twitter under their new ownership. I do not trust Mr Musk with my data nor do I want to add to his coffers. My Instagram account is “” too and I’ll be there from now on.

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    Jan 12

    🎉 Boris Johnson finally admits he took part in boozy-lockdown-parties. ❌ Some Tory MPs condemn his “humiliating” behaviour. 📺 Andrew Polson, Tory Joint-Leader of East Dunbartonshire Council, jumps at the chance to go on Politics Scotland to defend the indefensible. 🤦🏼🤦🏼🤦🏼

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    Jan 12

    Most strange. If only there were some kind of theory to explain such phenomena.

    Dozens of books written by Black authors are being pulled from school libraries under the pretext that they’re teaching critical race theory. Most of the books don’t teach critical race theory but are written by and about people of color.
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  4. Jan 12

    < KT Scott at and her quite remarkable final year undergraduate students who did the bulk of the bench and informatic work under our direction over the past few years.

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  5. Jan 12

    We had a paper accepted just before Christmas - two more species in my (2017) genus - T. heinhorstiae and T. cannonii (named for Prof Sabine Heinhorst and Prof Gordon Cannon of to honour their contributions to carboxysome research) in collab. with>

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    Jan 12

    Nicola talking about the amazing DEI work she and her team have done at the Royal Society of Chemistry. I've read all the reports she is referencing at the moment, and everyone in our business should IMO (all available on their site).

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  7. Jan 12

    Just realised I left exactly 10 years ago today. Didn’t start here until 1st Feb though.

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  8. Jan 12

    < subdiscipline. Sadly I see it more and more. The number of people who tell me the folly that “everything is online” is probably part of the cause - monographs, articles in long-dead journals, articles not written in English, Ph.D theses etc are VERY valuable and not all online!

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  9. Jan 12

    < in great detail and with the same general approach (albeit different methods), it’s somewhere between “a shame”, “inexcusable” and “sad”. I’m sad for anyone who doesn’t understand the importance of the history of our noble profession OR the history of work done in their own >

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  10. Jan 12

    < already been done, in its entirety, back in the 1920s to 1980s and not a single mention of it or citation of it. Sure, nothing wrong with doing further work and going deeper but when a study is pitched as “the first” to examine X ecosystem type that was examined 100 years ago >

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  11. Jan 12

    < the importance of our history - sadly. As the late Mr Sondheim said “with any art form, you’ve got to know the past to be any good. You have to know what has been done before you.” and science IS an art form. I’ve reviewed grant applications recently where ALL of the work had >

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  12. Jan 12

    < thoughts etc. The reasons I ensured his books were kept by someone in the field were 1) so they’d be USED, 2) so they would not be binned and 3) so that his marginalia and notes would stay among people who understand them. Scientists too often forget our cultural heritage and >

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  13. Jan 12

    < “yellow book” (1975) or Roy and Trudinger (1970 but somehow he dated it in 1969!) or Krebs’ monograph, littered with HD’s pencil marginalia, and of course Chris Anthony’s (1982) Biochem of Methylotrophs, with profuse annotations, marginalia and tucked in pieces of paper with >

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  14. Jan 12

    He was just shy of 64 when he died but looked much younger. Very nice man - I remember how devastated his postdoc Natalia was and my then-Supervisor Colin Murrell who’d done his Ph.D under Howard. As he was my “academic grandfather”, I love using every day his copy of Pirt’s >

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  15. Jan 12

    14 years ago today we lost one of the great microbial physiologists and biochemists, Professor Sir Howard Dalton FRS. Yesterday PM I opened my copy of Roy and Trudinger (I inherited most of Howard’s books), saw his name and realised I last saw him 14 years ago to the hour.

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    26 Oct 2021

    thematic issue in Microbiology letters with a collection of articles relevant to many fields in .

    Our most recent FEMS Microbiol. Lett. Thematic Issue is on education in a pandemic and beyond and has content useful across all of higher education not just !
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    25 Oct 2021

    Catch , Dr Z. Petek Cakar and my paper on analysis of student responses to the pandemic in formal in the latest thematic issue on education in a pandemic.

    Our most recent FEMS Microbiol. Lett. Thematic Issue is on education in a pandemic and beyond and has content useful across all of higher education not just !
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    26 Oct 2021

    - teaching in and beyond the pandemic thematic issue in Microbiology letters has a collection of article relevant to other fields in

    Our most recent FEMS Microbiol. Lett. Thematic Issue is on education in a pandemic and beyond and has content useful across all of higher education not just !
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  19. 25 Oct 2021

    Whenever I get called “an idealist”, “difficult”, “opinionated” etc etc I know I’m doing something right ;)

    I got called an "idealist". It scares me that wanting to make academia inclusive for ALL, is idealistic.
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  20. 25 Oct 2021

    Our most recent FEMS Microbiol. Lett. Thematic Issue is on education in a pandemic and beyond and has content useful across all of higher education not just !

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