I don't think either side believes the system is for for purpose.

It did cross my mind that Perhaps Robbins passed him because if he failed him, he'd have to tell someone, and he believed he wasn't able to do that.

He did pass vetting. Whether or not someone passes vetting is not decided by UKSV, but by the PUS (Robbins in this case). He passed because Robbins said he passed. Robbins is now claiming that even he didn't have the details, AND that this is completely normal and is what always happens.

Robbin's line is that it would have been illegal for him to tell Starmer.

Both Starmer and Robbins agree that Robbins had the power to make this decision without telling the PM. They just disagree with whether he also had the option of telling the PM.

Senate House Passage, Cambridge

So, although official guidance isn’t law, in effect it is, for any PUS in a situation such as Sir Oliver’s. He can’t turn around and say “please change the guidance (or the primary legislation), so that I can more easily solve this knotty problem I have on my desk”. /5.

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Feels like this paper on protein-templated DNA synthesis by a natural enzyme warrants some comment.
So here's a 🧵. /1
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The glams have a storing enough reputation that they don't need to bother cheating like this, but that doesn't mean you're paper will actuality be in print any quicker with a society journal.

I'm not convinced we are not reading the submission to publication time data wrong. Lots of second tier journals that
massage the data by rejecting and inviting resubmission, of papers they eventually publish. But the revision time no longer counts in the stats.

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Great Post Heng! One thing - the card in the post points to the wrong page (the link itself works).

Reposting this old thread on the "Pervasive findings of directional selection" from ancient DNA. While the authors extended their results in various ways, I think many of these points still stand.

Is a 55% Replication Rate Too Low, Too High, or Just Right? Tyner et al.

Is a 55% replication rate too low, too high, or just right? Some thoughts on Tyner et al.’s (2026) recent study.

#MetaSci #PhilSci

Must papers these days are Intro, Results, Discussion, Methods. Even where the Methods comes first, I rarely see a paper that doesn't contain enough context in the Results to allow the methods to be used as reference material.

Like you need to say you did a qPCR, what the target eas and what the control was for the results to make sense, but you don't need to know the brand of master mix, the annealing temperature, or the number of cycles to understand the results, and those details would get in the way.

I'm not sure I've ever read a paper that completely separates the two, nor have a read a paper that doesn't have some seperation.

Doesn't help that dispite having £300 dictation software, it doesn't seem to be able to understand me.

I think when I'm going back and changing a word I've just written over and over, I'm actually changing what I'm thinking, not just the language. I actually do it while talking sometimes, correcting myself mid sentence.

Unsurprisingly I'm also a chronic over preparer for talks and lectures etc.

As a dyslexic and dyspraxic person I have twice tried to make the switch to dictation and... I just can't do it.

It doesn't help the my writing style to rewite every word and phrase 3 times before I even get to the end of a sentence. A "get the first draft down" person I am not.

Move slow and fix things

2. I suspect most PC manufacturers make their money through selling fleets of laptops to business. The price we pay for dell laptops through our corporate supply deal is often less than half the sticker price.

My 2c on this are:

1. Absolutely correct that PC laptop males should stop cutting corners with crappy screens, keyboards and track pads.

This is terrible news! So sad.

During my PhD Greg shared his shRNA library with me, completely without expectation. I don't think I appreciated at this time how rare such generosity was.

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Social media apps as Lord of the Rings characters, a thread:

Twitter: Twitter is Gollum. Began as a normal halfling. Overexposure to evil left it thin and stretched and bitter.

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What I most want employers to understand is that writing code and performing meaningful data analysis are not the exact same skillset. #rstats