Boris Lenhard
@borislenhard.bsky.social
Professor of Computational Biology, Imperial College London
MRC Investigator, Computational Regulatory Genomics, MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences
Interested in eukaryotic promoters, enhancers and long-range developmental regulation
MRC Investigator, Computational Regulatory Genomics, MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences
Interested in eukaryotic promoters, enhancers and long-range developmental regulation
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We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.
Just days into 2026, the killing of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good by a federal immigration officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, has sparked protests around the US.
If you’re planning to protest, here’s how to safeguard your digital security.
If you’re planning to protest, here’s how to safeguard your digital security.
How to Protest Safely in the Age of Surveillance
Law enforcement has more tools than ever to track your movements and access your communications. Here’s how to protect your privacy if you plan to protest.
www.wired.com
January 8, 2026 at 6:35 PM
We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.
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I call on my party and my government to remove themselves entirely from X and communicate with the public where they actually participate online and can be protected from such illegality.
January 8, 2026 at 12:31 PM
I call on my party and my government to remove themselves entirely from X and communicate with the public where they actually participate online and can be protected from such illegality.
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The current situation of NIH science is a tragedy. So much was lost in 2025. Many of us are struggling to keep afloat. I only hope that in 2026 more people wake up to the fact that USA science has been deeply damaged. We are resilient, but we are in grave danger of losing ourselves./end
January 2, 2026 at 3:58 AM
The current situation of NIH science is a tragedy. So much was lost in 2025. Many of us are struggling to keep afloat. I only hope that in 2026 more people wake up to the fact that USA science has been deeply damaged. We are resilient, but we are in grave danger of losing ourselves./end
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There should be literally no circumstances, ever, where citizenship is can be revoked. If you literally sign up to fight for an opposing army in a war, then we should prosecute you for treason not revoke citizenship
December 29, 2025 at 10:40 AM
There should be literally no circumstances, ever, where citizenship is can be revoked. If you literally sign up to fight for an opposing army in a war, then we should prosecute you for treason not revoke citizenship
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Lovely review by @adrianwoolfson.bsky.social of my book ‘The Tree of Life’ in the Wall Street Journal today. Free guest link if you’re interested. www.wsj.com/arts-culture...
‘The Tree of Life’ Review: The Ancestor at the Root of It All
Properly deciphering the branching pathways of evolution could unlock the history of every component of natural biology.
www.wsj.com
December 27, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Lovely review by @adrianwoolfson.bsky.social of my book ‘The Tree of Life’ in the Wall Street Journal today. Free guest link if you’re interested. www.wsj.com/arts-culture...
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Interested in cell adhesion, evolution of multicellularity, or developing tools for emerging marine models?
My lab at UM is hiring a postdoc, and the application is now open:
🔗 tinyurl.com/28jvu4aa
If you know anyone looking for a postdoc, please pass this along!
My lab at UM is hiring a postdoc, and the application is now open:
🔗 tinyurl.com/28jvu4aa
If you know anyone looking for a postdoc, please pass this along!
December 8, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Interested in cell adhesion, evolution of multicellularity, or developing tools for emerging marine models?
My lab at UM is hiring a postdoc, and the application is now open:
🔗 tinyurl.com/28jvu4aa
If you know anyone looking for a postdoc, please pass this along!
My lab at UM is hiring a postdoc, and the application is now open:
🔗 tinyurl.com/28jvu4aa
If you know anyone looking for a postdoc, please pass this along!
I am delighted that my group will be a part of this.
1. We start a major consortium programme funded by the sLoLa of BBSRC (shorturl.at/aUbnt) to decipher the semantic rules of enhancer arrangements driving regulator genes of development (shorturl.at/6qcjW).
shorturl.at
November 18, 2025 at 1:20 PM
I am delighted that my group will be a part of this.
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Good to see the peer reviewed version of this in print
The cis-regulatory logic integrating spatial and temporal patterning in the vertebrate neural tube
A global temporal chromatin program operates across the vertebrate nervous system to control neural cell diversity
www.cell.com/developmenta...
The cis-regulatory logic integrating spatial and temporal patterning in the vertebrate neural tube
A global temporal chromatin program operates across the vertebrate nervous system to control neural cell diversity
www.cell.com/developmenta...
The cis-regulatory logic integrating spatial and temporal patterning in the vertebrate neural tube
Zhang et al. identify a global temporal chromatin program that operates across the
developing vertebrate nervous system to control neural cell diversity. This mechanism,
which involves Nr6a1 and NFIA/...
www.cell.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Good to see the peer reviewed version of this in print
The cis-regulatory logic integrating spatial and temporal patterning in the vertebrate neural tube
A global temporal chromatin program operates across the vertebrate nervous system to control neural cell diversity
www.cell.com/developmenta...
The cis-regulatory logic integrating spatial and temporal patterning in the vertebrate neural tube
A global temporal chromatin program operates across the vertebrate nervous system to control neural cell diversity
www.cell.com/developmenta...
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Our study on mdka transcriptional regulation during zebrafish brain regeneration has been accepted in FEBS Journal and will be online soon! 🚀 A related review from our group on immunity & inflammation in zebrafish brain regeneration is also available in FEBS Journal: doi.org/10.1111/febs...
doi.org
November 17, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Our study on mdka transcriptional regulation during zebrafish brain regeneration has been accepted in FEBS Journal and will be online soon! 🚀 A related review from our group on immunity & inflammation in zebrafish brain regeneration is also available in FEBS Journal: doi.org/10.1111/febs...
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@andreaserio.bsky.social and I are recruiting a postdoc to lead an exciting MNDA-funded project using multi-omics to study long axons in motor neurons and how they shape susceptibility to #ALS.
Get in touch for any questions and apply by 2 December:
my.corehr.com/pls/kclrecru...
Get in touch for any questions and apply by 2 December:
my.corehr.com/pls/kclrecru...
November 4, 2025 at 5:33 PM
@andreaserio.bsky.social and I are recruiting a postdoc to lead an exciting MNDA-funded project using multi-omics to study long axons in motor neurons and how they shape susceptibility to #ALS.
Get in touch for any questions and apply by 2 December:
my.corehr.com/pls/kclrecru...
Get in touch for any questions and apply by 2 December:
my.corehr.com/pls/kclrecru...
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Why far from being a disadvantage, hostility to people from different races and cultures has now become an active requirement for career advancement on the right of British politics
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-racism...
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-racism...
The Racism Premium
Far from being a disadvantage, hostility to people from different races and cultures has now become an active requirement for career advancement on the right of British politics
www.adambienkov.co.uk
November 1, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Why far from being a disadvantage, hostility to people from different races and cultures has now become an active requirement for career advancement on the right of British politics
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-racism...
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-racism...
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Tl;dr: The first sentence.
October 21, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Tl;dr: The first sentence.
This is the state in which waste collectors have left the bins at 14-19 Lichfield Gardens this morning. It has been like that for the past several weeks, after years of (mostly) no issues.
This is not haste. This is passive aggression.
@richmondcouncil.bsky.social Please report to Serco.
This is not haste. This is passive aggression.
@richmondcouncil.bsky.social Please report to Serco.
October 21, 2025 at 11:05 AM
This is the state in which waste collectors have left the bins at 14-19 Lichfield Gardens this morning. It has been like that for the past several weeks, after years of (mostly) no issues.
This is not haste. This is passive aggression.
@richmondcouncil.bsky.social Please report to Serco.
This is not haste. This is passive aggression.
@richmondcouncil.bsky.social Please report to Serco.
It turns out that "Idiocracy" was way too optimistic.
Trump posts AI video showing him literally dumping shit on America
October 19, 2025 at 1:12 PM
It turns out that "Idiocracy" was way too optimistic.
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new lab preprint 👇
Ever wondered how sperm are formed? Spermatogenesis is a microscopic marathon that starts in the testes and ends with fully functional sperm! Our new preprint bitly.cx/jC4Qg takes a deep dive into zebrafish spermatogenesis, mapping out every fascinating step. 🧵👇 1/7
A single-cell multiomics roadmap of zebrafish spermatogenesis reveals regulatory principles of male germline formation
Spermatogenesis is the biological process by which male sperm cells (spermatozoa) are produced in the testes. Beyond facilitating the transmission of genetic information, spermatogenesis also provides...
bitly.cx
March 13, 2025 at 12:47 PM
new lab preprint 👇
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First work on kinases from my lab! Working on this project, I often remembered the late Cyrus Chothia who said that if the data doesn’t fit a beautiful model, maybe it’s not the model, maybe you just need more data. :)
Mechanism of MEK1 phosphorylation by the N-terminal acidic motif mediated asymmetric BRAF dimer https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.26.678760v1
September 28, 2025 at 10:33 AM
First work on kinases from my lab! Working on this project, I often remembered the late Cyrus Chothia who said that if the data doesn’t fit a beautiful model, maybe it’s not the model, maybe you just need more data. :)
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“Let’s call it for what it is: bullshit. The truth is, politicians have talked about little else but immigration for decades and in the most dehumanising ways.
Polanski added: “Stop the boats’ is all we hear. Well, today I'm saying ‘stop the bullshit’.”
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Polanski added: “Stop the boats’ is all we hear. Well, today I'm saying ‘stop the bullshit’.”
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
UK faces ‘battle for the soul’ of the country, says Starmer amid Reform threat
In a rallying cry to progressives around the world, the Prime Minister said allies must stop the ‘politics of predatory grievance’.
www.independent.co.uk
September 26, 2025 at 1:34 PM
“Let’s call it for what it is: bullshit. The truth is, politicians have talked about little else but immigration for decades and in the most dehumanising ways.
Polanski added: “Stop the boats’ is all we hear. Well, today I'm saying ‘stop the bullshit’.”
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Polanski added: “Stop the boats’ is all we hear. Well, today I'm saying ‘stop the bullshit’.”
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
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Vichy Labour. Deliberately and repeatedly affirming and amplifying the inflammatory far right *lie* of "uncontrolled migration".
“The belief that uncontrolled legal migration was nothing but good news for an economy should never have been accepted on the Left,” writes Starmer “fighting” populism. What does even mean “uncontrolled” in the case of legal migration? www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/f9444c6...
The Left ignored immigration fears for too long. It’s time to give communities back control
Only a plan for patriotic national renewal led by Labour will counter the rise of the populist Right
www.telegraph.co.uk
September 26, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Vichy Labour. Deliberately and repeatedly affirming and amplifying the inflammatory far right *lie* of "uncontrolled migration".
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Useful reminder from Peter Kellner on the problems we refuse to acknowledge are getting better, and the politics of hopelessness that this breeds
open.substack.com/pub/kellnerp...
open.substack.com/pub/kellnerp...
September 23, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Useful reminder from Peter Kellner on the problems we refuse to acknowledge are getting better, and the politics of hopelessness that this breeds
open.substack.com/pub/kellnerp...
open.substack.com/pub/kellnerp...
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Retrospectively removing indefinite leave to remain would be immoral and economically damaging. It would tear families apart.
Attacking it as ‘potentially illegal’ is completely beside the point.
Argue with the (awful) idea. Don’t try ’well, actually you can’t do that’.
Attacking it as ‘potentially illegal’ is completely beside the point.
Argue with the (awful) idea. Don’t try ’well, actually you can’t do that’.
September 22, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Retrospectively removing indefinite leave to remain would be immoral and economically damaging. It would tear families apart.
Attacking it as ‘potentially illegal’ is completely beside the point.
Argue with the (awful) idea. Don’t try ’well, actually you can’t do that’.
Attacking it as ‘potentially illegal’ is completely beside the point.
Argue with the (awful) idea. Don’t try ’well, actually you can’t do that’.
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mRNA vaccines are one of if not the most studied human inventions in history at this point. It's madness to say that they are somehow not well-understood!
September 2, 2025 at 11:03 PM
mRNA vaccines are one of if not the most studied human inventions in history at this point. It's madness to say that they are somehow not well-understood!
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Interested in a sabbatical in Lyon? The Collegium de Lyon provides accommodation and attractive interdisciplinary environment for 1 or 2 semesters. Open to all disciplines. You can be affiliated with any local department/lab. Apply now for 2026-27. collegium.universite-lyon.fr/2026-2027-un...
September 2, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Interested in a sabbatical in Lyon? The Collegium de Lyon provides accommodation and attractive interdisciplinary environment for 1 or 2 semesters. Open to all disciplines. You can be affiliated with any local department/lab. Apply now for 2026-27. collegium.universite-lyon.fr/2026-2027-un...
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And now government doctors got my entire channel removed.
Don’t worry.
I won’t base my entire identity around this or claim it is worse than covid. 😂
Don’t worry.
I won’t base my entire identity around this or claim it is worse than covid. 😂
August 29, 2025 at 9:49 PM
And now government doctors got my entire channel removed.
Don’t worry.
I won’t base my entire identity around this or claim it is worse than covid. 😂
Don’t worry.
I won’t base my entire identity around this or claim it is worse than covid. 😂
If anybody needs advice on good fountain pens, I’d be happy to help.
So far, the main businesses that have been financially benefited from AI have been the producers of blue books
www.wsj.com/business/cha...
www.wsj.com/business/cha...
They Were Every Student’s Worst Nightmare. Now Blue Books Are Back.
Cheating with ChatGPT has become a huge problem for colleges. The solution is painfully old-school.
www.wsj.com
August 26, 2025 at 9:07 PM
If anybody needs advice on good fountain pens, I’d be happy to help.