The family of silly-sounding hydrocarbons featuring cyclobutanes, like basketane, cubane, housane, and ladderane, has a new member. Meet mousane—a dispirodecane made of three cyclobutanes that resembles a mouse’s head, according to the chemists who made it and named it. #chemsky 🧪

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Getting ready for #starmusVIII on Teneriffe. It's a hard job but someone has to do it.

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Sigh.

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The Battle of Hastings was fought this day in 1066. The English were defeated by an army chiefly comprising Normans, Bretons and Flemish. To the victors the spoils - Bretons ➕ were granted land in Kernow 〓〓 whence their ancestors had once fled in the face of English invasion. Distroet omp!!

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A lot of excitement on here about the article in Science summarising the discoveries of @alistairsponsel.bsky.social and Brian Sutton, just published in the Journal of the History of Biology. Some people have asked, so here is what I think they show, and what are the implications:

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