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	<pubDate>Wed, 04 Oct 2006 16:21:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Short 2513</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:07:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Steele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just met with David Willetts and Graham Reid at <abbr>BIS</abbr> about <a href="http://scienceisvital.org.uk/2013/06/17/legacy-of-the-2010-science-budget-cash-freeze-final-report/">the new Science is Vital report</a>.
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		<title>Short 2512</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:40:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/political-science/2013/jun/18/science-policy" title="Guardian: Open Access inaction">What should academics actually <em>do</em> about open access?</a> An excellent train of thought as Jack Stilgoe wonders aloud…]]></description>
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		<title>Short 2511</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:05:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whoever writes whatever mind-bending meta-language which must be used to parse regular expressions is probably the world’s cleverest person.]]></description>
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		<title>Short 2510</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:50:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Steele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sharing the lift with someone carrying a petri dish full of tiny fishies is a new one. I still feel like a physicist in a biology lab…]]></description>
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		<title>Short 2509</title>
		<link>http://andrewsteele.co.uk/shorts/2509</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:53:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Steele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Monday photo: <a href="http://andrewsteele.co.uk/photography/795776/">distressed dresser</a>.]]></description>
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		<title>Short 2508</title>
		<link>http://andrewsteele.co.uk/shorts/2508</link>
		<comments>http://andrewsteele.co.uk/shorts/2508#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 11:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Steele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.nature.com/news/spanish-scientists-protest-to-save-research-1.13207" title="Nature News: Spanish scientists protest to save research">The science funding situation in Spain looks pretty terrible…39% cuts since 2009 is astonishing, and short-sighted.</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Short 2506</title>
		<link>http://andrewsteele.co.uk/shorts/2506</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jun 2013 11:16:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Steele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22845865" title="BBC News: Call to ‘let UK government scientists off the leash’">Government scientists are being implicitly and explicitly muzzled.</a> Worrying given the importance and complexity of the issues…]]></description>
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		<title>Short 2503</title>
		<link>http://andrewsteele.co.uk/shorts/2503</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jun 2013 10:17:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Steele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Friday photo: <a href="http://andrewsteele.co.uk/photography/012711/">standing stone</a>.]]></description>
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		<title>Short 2500</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2013 15:51:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Steele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Textbook: ‘Cloning by nuclear transfer has many applications in agriculture, medicine and sports.’ What?! Did I miss an ethics memo?]]></description>
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		<title>Short 2497</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2013 08:30:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Steele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The whole of London smells of petrichor. And breathing deeply to catch that has allowed me to locate several other local smells too.]]></description>
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		<title>Short 2489</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2013 15:05:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Steele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apparently <a href="http://1percentblog.com/is-the-shard-a-success-part-3/">the Shard is completely empty</a>. Is this true?!]]></description>
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		<title>Short 2487</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2013 12:43:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Steele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Monday photo: <a href="http://andrewsteele.co.uk/photography/866039/">a lovely sunset in a meadow from a couple of weeks back</a>.]]></description>
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		<title>Short 2485</title>
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		<comments>http://andrewsteele.co.uk/shorts/2485#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jun 2013 12:05:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Steele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Friday photo: <A href="http://andrewsteele.co.uk/photography/005798/">the last of the bluebells, from a couple of weekends ago</a>.]]></description>
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		<title>Short 2484</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jun 2013 19:50:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Steele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I’m going to be at the Cheltenham Science Festival tomorrow. Who’s about?]]></description>
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		<title>Short 2483</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 May 2013 08:23:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Steele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Friday photo: <a href="http://andrewsteele.co.uk/photography/030613/">Tuesday's photo, by night</a>.]]></description>
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		<title>Short 2478</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 May 2013 15:31:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Steele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I'm reading about the nematode worm 'defecation motor programme'. I imagine Jeremy Clarkson could present it.]]></description>
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		<title>Short 2476</title>
		<link>http://andrewsteele.co.uk/shorts/2476</link>
		<comments>http://andrewsteele.co.uk/shorts/2476#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 May 2013 12:16:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Steele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tuesday photo: <a href="http://andrewsteele.co.uk/photography/013314/">beautiful Turville, from a Bank Holiday trip to the Chilterns</a>.]]></description>
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		<title>Short 2473</title>
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		<comments>http://andrewsteele.co.uk/shorts/2473#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 08:51:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Steele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Friday photo: <a href="http://andrewsteele.co.uk/photography/909829/">largely because I'm hoping the weather might one day be like this</a>.]]></description>
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		<title>Short 2469</title>
		<link>http://andrewsteele.co.uk/shorts/2469</link>
		<comments>http://andrewsteele.co.uk/shorts/2469#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 14:43:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Steele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Afternoon replug: <a href="http://scienceogram.org/blog/2013/05/tedxhull-talk-video/">check out the Scienceogram talk at TEDxHull and find out why more spending on science makes sense</a>!]]></description>
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		<title>Short 2466</title>
		<link>http://andrewsteele.co.uk/shorts/2466</link>
		<comments>http://andrewsteele.co.uk/shorts/2466#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 15:58:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Steele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This just in: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FxklEl7dXs" title="YouTube: The Scienceogram—Why more spending on science makes sense">me talking about the Scienceogram (why more spending on science makes sense) at TEDxHull last month</a>.]]></description>
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