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Mick W@tson ↙️

@BioMickWatson

Bioinformatics | (meta) genomics | Data science.
Some politics. Views are all my own and do not represent past, current or future employer.

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calendar_today20-12-2010 04:16:29

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Mick W@tson ↙️(@BioMickWatson) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Like it or not, we voted for this. There's an argument that British citizens need to feel the full pain of their decision before thinking about rejoining.

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Farmers Weekly(@FarmersWeekly) 's Twitter Profile Photo

👏🇬🇧 Discount retailer @LidlGB has introduced new contracts for pork producers that guarantee a margin for farmers above the cost of production.

READ MORE: fwi.co.uk/business/marke…

👏🇬🇧 Discount retailer @LidlGB has introduced new contracts for pork producers that guarantee a margin for farmers above the cost of production. READ MORE: fwi.co.uk/business/marke…
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Martin Lewis(@MartinSLewis) 's Twitter Profile Photo

AI is a threat to the coming election. I was happy to join with others, led my cross party think tank Demos, to call upon the parties to sign up to four steps to protect from misleading AI content...

Pls like if you agree.

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Matthew Holehouse(@mattholehouse) 's Twitter Profile Photo

At the time there was a lot of commentary that Jack would only make Indy ref 2 irresistible. But it was easily resistible, because only already-committed voters cared, and saying No created much harder questions for the SNP than it did the Tories.

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Isabel Hardman(@IsabelHardman) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Will be writing more on this later. I do think there has been a diagnosis creep and an unhelpful celebrity mental health culture but besides all of that we still have a very mentally unhealthy society which we are neither trying to treat properly or indeed prevent conditions…

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Duncan Hothersall(@dhothersall) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Enjoyable to watch the people who argued that the UK Tory party shouldn't choose the next UK PM without an election, and the Welsh Labour Party shouldn't choose the next Welsh FM without an election, now defending the SNP choosing the next Scottish FM without an election.

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Sonia Sodha(@soniasodha) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Not a flattering comparison, but there are some parallels between Conservatives nationally & the SNP. Speaks to dangers of populism - blaming everything that's going wrong on an external foe (Westminster/EU) while proffering up a magical-thinking solution (independence/Brexit).

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Kevin Maringer (he/they) 🏳️‍🌈🔬🦟🦠(@MaringerLab) 's Twitter Profile Photo

We're hiring new principal investigators (fellows and group leaders) who want to work on livestock and zoonotic viruses at The Pirbright Institute (The Pirbright Institute). Come join us! We have core funding, a collaborative approach to science, and access to some phenomenal facilities

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Science for Sustainable Agriculture(@SciSustAg) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Study published in nature estimates that, since 1960, advances in strawberry breeding have increased fruit yields by 2,974-6,636%, counts by 1,454-3,940%, weights by 228-504%, and firmness by 239-769%.

nature.com/articles/s4146…

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Jennifer Gunter(@DrJenGunter) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This reads like a dystopian novel -> The Tech Baron Seeking to “Ethnically Cleanse” San Francisco newrepublic.com/article/180487… Follow The New Republic

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Mick W@tson ↙️(@BioMickWatson) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This guy's entire defensive strategy is to defend on the half way line and have a centre half who is really fast

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Bioscience Today(@biosciencetoday) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The UK’s thriving life sciences and biotech sector showed resilience in 2023, securing £1.8 billion in equity investment despite a challenging global economic climate, according to the latest report by the BioIndustry Association (BIA). biosciencetoday.co.uk/resilient-uk-b…

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