www.theguardian.com/society/2025... I still think this system should be turned around and make the MPs and civil servants the suspects. Withhold their salaries if they decide fraud but can't prove it 100% certain. They will suddenly be very cautious.

Howard Webb can prepare his excuses again for employing Stevie Wonders on VAR. That was such a clear penalty kick for Brentford after the foul from Burn. #BRENEW #PremierLeague

🟢🟡 The First Domino Falls, but Dark Clouds Still Hover Over NR1. 🗣️ @garygowers.bsky.social ▪️For 70 mins, a thunderous Carrow Road ▪️In the end, same old ▪️Knapper must be allowed *nowhere near* the recruitment process for new coach LINK: norwichcity.myfootballwriter.com/2025/11/09/t... #ncfc

This is interesting and sounds to me much more realistic than many other accounts... www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Delighted that our review on resistance to last-resort antibiotics in Enterococci has been published in FEMS Microbiology Reviews academic.oup.com/femsre/advan... (accepted manuscript version) TL;DR: the Enterococci are really good at evolving resistance to antibiotics in new and creative ways.

About 30 years ago, I read an autobiography of #Crick and later The Double Helix from #Watson. They left me with very different impressions of the characters. Crick was a genius and somewhat pompously seemed to agree with that. May have been the translation, may have been dry humour.

This.

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫

This obit of Watson is *amazing*.

Wouldn't this make a great present? Or just get one for yourself.. craftysharp.etsy.com/listing/4344...

Hoping for a secret reveal of the never before seen #Blakes7 musical episode at the BFI today...

Yes, some people's legacies are complicated. For example, Watson. After all, though he was racist, don't forget his other traits. For example, he was also sexist. And also anti-semitic. And a data / idea thief. So let's not forget all the different facets.

🧬 🖥️ #genomics/bioinformatics Anyone advice for a simple program to transpose large tab-delimited files. I have 50k columns and up to 5000 rows of alleles, and spreadsheets don't like that number of columns. Transposed it would be fine. The Transpose TSV websites struggle with the file size. Thanks!

It's irritating that they describe the effects of his racism as limited to causing controversy within science and reputational consequences for himself rather than giving an immeasurable boost, false veneer of legitimacy, and idiot-friendly prestige to modern scientific racism and eugenics.

Someone at a Russell Group university was moved to almost-poetry by their Faculty Meeting… Can anyone do better?

Chapter 1 Karen demands a rebate Chapter 2 Karen has a fit about "best by" dates Chapter 3 Karen demands to see the manager Chapter 4 Karen has a row with the self-checkout Chapter 5 Karen goes home empty handed and fuming THE END

"The Cuomintang government has fled to Staten Island and has vowed to retake the mainland after it fell to Mamdanism"

For 45h of work... And a long list of qualifications required.

After 5 years of waiting, the new #CRISPR classification by Makarova et al. is out @natmicrobiol.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New lap mats available www.etsy.com/uk/shop/Craf...

#microsky #phagesky CRISPR-cas galore www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Great to see this finally published! Metalog: curated and harmonised contextual data for global metagenomics samples now out in @narjournal.bsky.social academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...

In today's least surprising news. What did successive UK governments expect when they made universities financially totally dependent on foreign students paying extortionate tuition fees, al large proportion of whom coming from China?

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n... Why would anyone want to read a book by Gareth Southgate? Maybe if counting sheep won't get you to sleep, but seriously, take medication.

Happy birthday to Meg, 15 today. The new bag of chicken-flavoured Dreamies was deemed an acceptable gift 🎂🥂 #catsofbluesky #proofofcat

"Luke... I have noticed you're not wearing a poppy."

www.theguardian.com/politics/202... Well done, dipshit morons in Lancashire that voted Reform. Because of boats, but their grannies are going to pay the price.

Strong stuff, that Delusion.

www.theguardian.com/society/2025... We should stop any salary payment to #HMRC and #HomeOffice staff involved until they can conclusive prove they are 100% correct. That should make them more cautious, but unfortunately not more competent.

www.theguardian.com/technology/2... Hi Tony, I think you will find that history already had to recruit extra staff who are working overtime in not forgiving you for past deeds, let alone for all the current and future crimes you will commit, chasing the money from any blooded source possible.

This is why I could never be part of an SMT. I would not be willing to support anything like that, I suffer from too much ethics. The Sheffield Hallam leadership clearly doesn't.

Whoever at @bsky.app @support.bsky.team wrote the LLM parameters to label my post as adult content has some serious issues.

www.theguardian.com/fashion/2025... Ah, the Wonderpants. Badly needed by lots of angry car drivers overcompensating, as well as Reform voters, roundaboutpainters, hotelscreamers, MAGAts and other flagshaggers.

I've been getting back into the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series after many years, and the most relatable part is how everyday objects like doors and elevators have been imbued with artificial intelligence and it just makes them obnoxious and frustrating to use and everyone hates it.

Of the 6 cats I have been privileged to serve, 5 have been seniors ranging between 8 and 14 yrs old. They have all been wonderful (and Meg, who is about to turn 15 this month, still is!

November is Adopt A Senior Pet Month. Flower, age 15, is here to remind you that seniors are cute, have love to give, can learn your routine and would appreciate safe retirement. Kittens are cute too, but give a home to a senior. Adopt the Seniors ! #cats #CatsOfBluesky #gato

Lifestyles shape genome size and gene content in fungal pathogens. buff.ly/tec1Tds

Who did this?!

Yes, that could work.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Come on Avril Lavigne, this is your chance of a comeback. He was PM She was a star Can I make it any more obvious? He was so slick She kissed girls What more can I say? www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIy3...

I am watching Norwich City fumble against Hull City #EFL. First half was decent but nothing to convert chances, but the second half is so poor. Just painful to see how my old home town club is going to get relegated if they don't improve very soon.

Still using 16S/ITS profiling? You might want to reconsider👀 Our new paper presents pangenome-informed amplicons that provide up to 10× higher phylogenetic resolution than full-length ribosomal markers- while remaining cost effective and scalable! microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

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I think one of the reasons I am not asked to be chair of such sessions anymore, is that I am absolutely ruthless with those speakers. I warn them before the session that I will give them a 1 or 2 min warning, and I will cut them off after that. (And with some speakers, I will enjoy it)

I gave this advice earlier on this week to someone preparing a presentation for a job interview.. Don't use those horribe AI pictures. (or have the guts to use the infamous rat appendage to show you are a rebel 😇)

The amount of AI generated art in slides at this conference, primarily used by older scientists, is killing me. Scientists please. Don’t use these ai platforms to make your figures or slides. They look bad and I have yet to see them meaningfully improve the message of talks.

www.theguardian.com/society/2025... They should uspend all salaries of people in Home Office management positions and force them to first prove they are not dribbling incompetent fuckwits. The stupidity of this scheme is staggering, even for government standards.