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Of course the Times would put ‘misinformation’ in quotes…

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There is no contradiction. Nothing he does is science. It does not even come close.

The very aggressive marketing of “dietary supplements” to healthy people by the supplement industry (an industry that was worth around $200 billion last year) is a scam

They used to be, according to old textbooks of systematic botany :) Even viruses were in the class Virophyta.

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May 5th: if you are around London, please join the London #EvoDevo symposium at QMUL / Charterhouse campus, as usual we will have selected talks and post-event 🍻. A warm up for #EED2026 in Glasgow. Registration £0, more info here: londonevodevo.co.uk

The Great Barrington Declaration is one of the most wrongheaded, shortsighted, cruel, callous, and villainous arguments ever made.

Literally ever.

Representing the interests of big business, its authors ought to be remembered in infamy. So too should their allies.

It is likely that we wouldn’t know how to interpret the results, any more than we can for the some of the existing modifications when we perturb or eliminate them.

We don’t even know with confidence what most of the naturally occurring DNA decorations do.

Campolina: a deep neural framework for accurate segmentation of nanopore signals - Genome Biology Nanopore sequencing enables real-time, long-read analysis by processing raw signals as they are produced. A key step, segmentation of signals into events, is typically handled algorithmically, struggl...

Transformer-based AI has boosted
@nanoporetech.com
sequencing accuracy, but at a cost to portability due to GPU demands.
Our new work, spearheaded by
Sara Bakic, introduces Campolina link.springer.com/article/10.1... to improve nanopore signal segmentation for event-based mappers.

Delighted to see this published: H3K115 acetylation is associated with fragile nucleosomes at CpG island promoters and active regulatory sites. Great work from all contributors; Yatendra Kumar, @illingworth-lab.bsky.social @eliasfriman.bsky.social @helink.bsky.social

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You can always buy a seed variety without patent protection - there are many available. Farmers buy commercial seeds (GMO and non-GMO) because they realise their yield is sufficiently better to cover the purchase costs, even when buying seeds every year.

He is Labour’s Robert Jenrick and proud of it.

Reform: Stop the boats! Deport people!
Starmer: OMG we have to beat the Reform Party! STOP MORE BOATS! DEPORT MORE PEOPLE! ISLAND OF STRANGERS!
Hannah Spencer: Everybody deserves a nice life.
Starmer: Hannah Spencer is more interested in dividing people than uniting them.

“We need a debate” = “We want to be able to spout unscientific nonsense unchallenged”

She is Labour’s Suella Braverman.

The Labour does not need a Suella Braverman. No decent party does.

Michael is a terrible disappointment - a climate science hero fighting against bad climate science and climate change deniers, yet promoting notoriously bad science outside his expertise here, and blocking people who dare to point it out.

Since Michael blocked me, I will put it here:

The study paper is published in a journal whose founding editors and current senior editors are Collegium Ramazzini Fellows). The paper only had two reviewers, one being Peter Clausing, an activist from the Pesticide Action Network NGO.

Lovely.

P.S. There are also peer-reviewed, comprehensive looking studies with climate change-denying conclusions. You refute their conclusions, and rightly so. This is a biomedical equivalent of such studies. Trust the consensus - don’t act like a biomedical equivalent of a climate change denier.

Exactly that.

Ramazzini institute and the foundation that funds it is an infamous place dedicated to proving toxicity of everything - failing to do so is a mission failure for them. It peddled bad studies of aspartame toxicity for years. This is another such study with conditions irrelevant for human exposure.

It hasn’t. The studies supporting adverse effects have been really poor. It is better to leave it to toxicologists and medical researchers to judge the evidence.

The @steinaerts.bsky.social lab is looking for a postdoctoral researcher to develop next-generation sequence-to-function models for glioblastoma, one of the most aggressive brain cancers.

More info & how to apply 👉 https://vib.ai/en/opportunities#/job-description/130090

New paper from my group in @science.org : "A small polymerase ribozyme that can synthesise itself and its complementary strand" www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Outstanding work by @edogia.bsky.social

There is. A Dubai-based one.

Wasn’t this how Jim Hacker became Prime Minister?

But he comes across like somebody designed by McSweeney and Mandelsson. Performative cruelty, Palantir, rows with NHS doctors - he is everything the traditional Labour voters are rejecting at the moment.

He does look a bit like Sir Humphrey Appleby…

People keep confusing benefits of (any kind of) handwriting over no handwriting (for which there is some evidence) with benefits of cursive over block letters (for which there is none).