Girl holding a cat, Manchester or Salford, 1960s, photo by Shirley Baker (Mary Evans Picture Library).

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A Brit in the semis of Wimbledon, England still in the World Cup and Nigel Farage spending the summer arguing with a bin. Oh this happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea

I’m starting a new job this fall! I will be launching a new lab to develop AI methods to predict disease risk and progression using the nationwide biomedical research datasets here in Finland.

Apparently there are some things AI can’t change…

"in our present, scoundrel-blasted time, when all the saboteurs that George Washington warned against ... seem irreversible, it’s worth returning to the moment when irreversibility was suspended and the world did change." giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... Simon Schema is glorious

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Maija Isola (1927– 2001) Finnish designer of printed textiles who created over 500 patterns, including Unikko ("Poppy") #womensart

All experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But...it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security

@petridishes.bsky.social downed a can of Phorm Energy Screamin’ Freedom and had a surreal day at the Great American State Fair: theatln.tc/iC3tvNcF 📸: Akshita Chandra / The Atlantic. Source: petridishes.bsky.social."

Finally a WC match I care about at a very friendly time in Finland. Come on England! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

I would read letters like Emily’s every night in the White House. They were powerful reminders of why the work we did mattered, and who we were fighting for.

Grateful to have contributed to this @nejm.org work led by the amazing Uhlig group: linking anti–IL-10 autoantibodies to HLA-DRB1*01:03 and highlighting a potential HLA-linked biomarker for IBD. Truly inspiring to work alongside such brilliant scientists! www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

As Richard Feynman almost said, “Algae cannot be fooled”

Kind of riffing off of good and bad science, I wonder about a few other types. 1.) Useful vs. Useless: Regardless of the accuracy, errors, or otherwise is the science *useful* at moving the needle forward. A provocative wrong idea that moves us to the right one for example.. #metascience

good little thread, imo

Traditionally on Father’s Day I have posted about my own father, but today I am going to post instead about becoming one. /1

Now this is a story all about how My trip got flipped — turned upside down, And I’d like to take a minute, just sit right there, To tell you how I found a plinth of the king, ye mighty: despair!

Since I did do my PhD in cyanobacteria growth and treatment optimization modeling AND work in the water treatment industry, I’m gonna share my theory as to what’s happening here and how to fix it. People are focusing on the painted bottom of the pool increasing residual heat, and while that 1/19

Happy to share that this work led by @mihkeljesse.bsky.social has now been published at PLOS Genetics! journals.plos.org/plosgenetics... A couple of thoughts below.

Leah Gardner, contemporary Chicago-based oil painter #WomensArt

How to get out of bed. “There is no 28 point shot in basketball. The only way to come back from a 27 point deficit is one shot at a time. Two points here. Two points there. A few three pointers sprinkled in.” [buttondown.com]

For those of you at #ESHG, check out Elisa Moreno's talk on Saturday, June 13! She will be presenting our work on the genetics of urinary incontinence (C08.2) at the 18:45 CEST session!

The only thing I have asked Gemini is how to turn off automatic AI support in all of Google Workspace's products. It's pretty good at handling that question to be fair.

Nature research paper: Cell-type-resolved genetic variation shapes inflammatory bowel disease risk go.nature.com/4o3hSJS

Yuck, Australia. Must be the best placed country in the world to go 🍌 for solar: wealthy and vast tracts of empty sunburned country

I think this paper is an example of a coming wave of blood biomarker discoveries for prediction of many different diseases and responses to therapies. It's an amazing paper, though I think there are some important issues of interpretation. A few thoughts in the thread. www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

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Question answered: daringfireball.net/2026/05/wh...

look how much craftsmanship we've lost in clothing in just a hundred years

Money is fungible, there's no "shifting the burden." This is just another way to defund American science.

The leadership and clarity of @MIT President Sally Kornbluth www.bostonglobe.com/2026/05/26/o...

Easy solution - move to Kagi.com for searching the internet. It's worth the cost to take control of your searches and the data they generate.

Just a shout-out to the folks over at @pathoplexus.org and, importantly, all the scientists sharing genomic data with such amazing speed. It's great to see the field having moved to a new platform, with non-transparent platforms being a thing of the past. Fantastic.

Here's looking at you, Stephen!

I feel like I hated this style even before ChatGPT saturated it. It was the style of salesman and hucksters. It is summarizing facts in the tone that a fitness influencer would use to sell you branded supplements.

'Morning conversation', linocut by Olesya Dzhurayeva, contemporary Ukrainian printmaker #WomensArt #Monday

Happy to live in the little cold green corner of this map. 🇫🇮

And…90 days are up from the original tweet. Add a ☑️ to the “AI bro is wildly miscalibrated” tally.

Contrast the Philips resignation with Davies-Jones, below. She wrote clearly and gave concrete examples. She believes paragraphs can have more than one sentence. He fills a side of A4 with mostly carriage returns. And sounds like a robot.

What an amazing artifact: simultaneously ratifying the new world order and misspelling Pennsylvania. Particularly apt timing to review treaties that abase great powers that are not as powerful as they seemed.

She's really very good at this. Worth watching both clips -- total's only about 5 minutes.

I'm declaring the term "eGenes" to refer to genes for which a study has found an eQTL is over the line. It perpetuates a clumsy acronym we'd be better off without, and the e ultimately stand for "expression" which applies to all genes. Just say "genes" -- plenty clear in the context of your paper.

How to make sense of what's happening in the UK? Why not join one of the most acute observers of British politics & society, the historian @helenebismarck.bsky.social, who'll be launching her new book "Fantastic Kingdom" at QMUL on 17 June? Free tickets here! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/fantastic-...

I only met Craig Venter once or twice, so have no personal opinion on his personality. But his impact on science - and how it gets done (or at least got done) in this country - was tremendous. Success in science is not just about intellectual prowess but also about drive.

Trump said that his mother had a "crush" on Charles when he was Prince of Wales. But Trump is _older_ than the King! His mother was 36 years older than him! WTF was he talking about?

If you’re feeling low, just remember that you probably didn’t spend 15 years and £6 billion building an armoured vehicle that causes vomiting and hearing loss to the soldiers using it. www.ft.com/content/4cd6...

This is brilliant #coffee

The difference in the UK vs US meaning of the word “mentalist” can cause confusion, but really either works here: