Peter Scott

@peterscott.bsky.social

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Chemist at Warwick, interested in self-assembling peptide mimetics, circular economy plastics (Interface Polymers Ltd), industry collab, guitar, golf.

Battenburg cake with a rather more distinctive than unusual red jam cross in the middle. Looks like a George Cross with the quadrants coloured pink and yellow.

Text reads -I'm really sorry for any incontinence this has caused

Two enantiomers (mirror images) of a helix made by wrapping moelcules around a couple of iron atoms. The left handed one binds ten times more strongly to a G-quadruplex in Mpox virus than the right.

Ian Hislop as editor of private eye magazine on his meeting with the disgraced archbishop of Canterbury, Welby.

Even though the tweet is funny, his followers, in a spontaneous hive-minded act based on deep understanding of the underlying concept, realised that they should not respond in any way.