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Daniel Rigden
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Professor of Bioinformatics. Executive Editor of the Database Issue at @narjournal.bsky.social. Proud Dad. Views my own.
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mikecookson.bsky.social
Just checking, it's now ok to flee your homeland, because you're afraid for your safety, and seek refuge in another Country?

Glad we've cleared that up. Let's hear no more about immigration and refugees then.
Screenshot of Tommy Ten Names, claiming he's afraid and fleeing the UK.
February 14, 2026 at 7:55 AM
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danlwarren.bsky.social
I cannot overstate how good this account is
February 13, 2026 at 4:29 AM
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mclem.org
This colossal loss to all Americans was caused by the extremists who gave seized control of our public health system.

It will cause Americans to suffer and die.
February 13, 2026 at 5:17 AM
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nick-pettigrew.bsky.social
I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
dancow.bsky.social Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social · 6d
VC, founder, dumbass
@Nick_Davidov Asked Claude Cowork organize my wife's desktop, it stated doing it, asked for a permission to delete temp office files, I granted it, and then it goes "ooops" Turns out it tried renaming and accidentally deleted a folder with all of the photos my wife made on her camera for the last 15 years. All photos of kids, their illustrations, friends' weddings, travel, everything. It's not in trash, it was done via terminal It's not in iCloud, it already synced the new file structure. She didn't have Time Machine. Disc recovery tools can't see anything. I called Apple and they pointed me to a feature in iCloud allowing to retrieve files that were saved before but are no longer on iCloud Drive (they keep them for 30 days). I'm now watching it load tens of thousands of files. I nearly had a heart attack. Nick Davidov • @Nick_Davidov VC, founder, DVC.ai - backing repeat founders with a community of 200 engineers. e/acc/OSS. Perplexity, Higgsfield, Animation, Etched. Husband to @msdavidova
February 8, 2026 at 10:23 PM
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redpeter99.bsky.social
Anyone who enjoys a splenetic review will appreciate Mark Kermode in full sail.
drpam.bsky.social Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 7d
‘Absolutely repugnant’ - Mark Kermode. It’s running to empty cinemas in the U.K.
Mark Kermode reviews Melania
YouTube video by Kermode and Mayo's Take
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February 8, 2026 at 7:55 AM
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hw1o9.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
So the Epstein scandal is about politics? Silly me for thinking it’s about the mass abuse of women and girls | Marina Hyde
Obsessing over individual players and political chaos leaves less time to focus on the misogyny. And that’s for the best, isn’t it guys, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
www.theguardian.com
February 7, 2026 at 7:23 AM
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timbale.bsky.social
"It’s the pussy-grabbers’ world – we just live in it. The only difference is you can now see it laid out in black and white." #IfYouReadOneThingToday
So the Epstein scandal is about politics? Silly me for thinking it’s about the mass abuse of women and girls | Marina Hyde
Obsessing over individual players and political chaos leaves less time to focus on the misogyny. And that’s for the best, isn’t it guys, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
www.theguardian.com
February 7, 2026 at 9:02 AM
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lalahaenzy.com
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
February 5, 2026 at 11:50 AM
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premnsikka.bsky.social
Zero net migration would shrink UK economy by 3.6%.

Higher taxes to maintain public services.

UK has 3 working age people for every one pensioner, could be 2:1 by 2050. Low birth rate. Can't sustain economy without immigration.

Xenophobia preventing honest debate.
Zero net migration would shrink UK economy by 3.6%, says thinktank
Jump of £37bn in budget deficit by 2040 would force government to increase taxes, NIESR predicts
www.theguardian.com
February 4, 2026 at 7:41 AM
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pastpostcard.bsky.social
Had to buy more biscuits today.
February 1, 2026 at 10:58 AM
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kityates.bsky.social
Three UK research councils suspend funding opportunities
“Temporary block on grant applications by MRC, BBSRC and EPSRC heightens concerns over funding cuts”
Three UK research councils suspend funding opportunities
Temporary block on grant applications by MRC, BBSRC and EPSRC heightens concerns over funding cuts
www.timeshighereducation.com
January 31, 2026 at 11:18 AM
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thatrosenoir.bsky.social
This sums it up.
January 26, 2026 at 12:37 PM
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georgeeaton.bsky.social
Sadiq Khan calls for progressives to “fight back and champion the benefits of legal migration” in Fabian conference speech.

He warns of the “construction sector grinding to a halt, care homes left understaffed, our universities badly hit, and even greater challenges for the national finances”.
January 24, 2026 at 12:55 PM
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ledbydonkeys.org
Board of Peace - Season 1
January 24, 2026 at 7:45 AM
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milot.bsky.social
My time in @martinsteinegger.bsky.social's group is ending, but I’m staying in Korea to build a lab at Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine. If you or someone you know is interested in molecular machine learning and open-source bioinformatics, please reach out. I am hiring!
mirdita.org
Mirdita Lab - Laboratory for Computational Biology & Molecular Machine Learning
Mirdita Lab builds scalable bioinformatics methods.
mirdita.org
January 20, 2026 at 11:07 AM
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pastpostcard.bsky.social
Just spotted that 25k of you here are now receiving these. So thanks for keeping your letterboxes open and your doormats clear.

You keep reading them, I’ll keep sending them. Cheers, T.
January 10, 2026 at 9:03 AM
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narjournal.bsky.social
🌟 2026 Nucleic Acids Research Database issue 🧬
182 papers, 84 new databases, plus Breakthrough Articles on JoGo (global long‑read haplotypes) and So3D (3D spatial genomics). Browse the issue and Editorial: academic.oup.com/nar/issue/54...
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January 19, 2026 at 9:06 AM
danielrigden.bsky.social
The new 2026 NAR Nucleic Acids Research Database Issue is now out! 🎉

Take a look at the Editorial here academic.oup.com/nar/article/...
and browse the whole Issue here
academic.oup.com/nar/issue/54...
The 2026 Nucleic Acids Research database issue and the online molecular biology database collection
Abstract. The 2026 Nucleic Acids Research database issue has 182 papers from across biology and neighbouring fields. Eighty-four of these papers describe n
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January 18, 2026 at 11:37 AM
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explaintrade.com
1/ Something which I don't think gets articulated clearly often enough is that a system where countries generally respect international sovereignty and territorial integrity is not pure charity or morality by the United States, but in its direct interests.

Despite it being the strongest bear.
January 17, 2026 at 10:24 AM
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edwardmarcotte.bsky.social
Very sad to hear about the passing of Peer Bork, one of true giants of computational biology

www.embl.org/news/embl-an...
In remembrance of Peer Bork  | EMBL
EMBL and its community are deeply saddened by the death of Peer Bork, the organisation’s Interim Director General.
www.embl.org
January 16, 2026 at 7:44 PM
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rubenbolling.bsky.social
🔵 This week's Tom the Dancing Bug
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A BUSY, BUSY ICE ENFORCEMENT OPERATION
with apologies to Richard Scarry
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Brought to you by the rough and ready Inner Hive, including long-time member Brady Marsh and new member SquirrelSaver7. ( bit.ly/theInnerHive )
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READ IT RIGHT HERE👇
January 15, 2026 at 4:03 PM
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adambienkov.bsky.social
This from former British diplomat @alexhh.bsky.social, who now is now based in the US, really hits home about the nightmare currently playing out in Trump's America

bylinetimes.com/2026/01/15/a...
A Year of Living Dangerously in Trump's America
I no longer feel safe to speak or act freely in a country where people are being arbitrarily detained and killed and where the truth is becoming whatever Donald Trump says it is, reports Alexandra Hal...
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January 15, 2026 at 10:06 AM
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roberthutton.co.uk
If the UK government had a Culture Secretary, that person would be in a position to take a view about whether child porn on demand was a good thing, or a bad thing. thecritic.co.uk/brin...
Or there’s X, the website formerly known as Twitter. Its owner is committed to removing the government, and seems keen to encourage violence on Britain’s streets. Now its 2026 update lets users create what are politely called “sexualised images” of anyone, including children. A Secretary of State for Culture, if Britain had one, could take a view on whether this was a welcome development. They could, if they had been appointed and went into work every day, offer Starmer advice on whether X should be one of the government’s main channels of communication, effectively supporting a site that produces on-demand pornography of real people including, let’s say it again, children.
January 7, 2026 at 9:49 AM
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zoegrunewald.bsky.social
It's now unconscionable for the government to be posting on X.

X is not a neutral utility, it is far, far darker: an environment that shapes behaviour, rewards cruelty, and normalises abuse.

@theleaduk.bsky.social

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Abuse thrives where the government tweets – why it's time to quit X now
The use of AI tool Grok to generate en masse intimate images of real women and girls is sickening.
open.substack.com
January 6, 2026 at 1:21 PM
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Translated from the original German
bluegeorgia.bsky.social Blue Georgia @bluegeorgia.bsky.social · Jan 5
Stephen Miller goes on a rant defending Trump's imperialist aggression against Venezuela: "We’re a superpower… we are going to conduct ourselves as a superpower."

Jake Tapper: "I don't even know what you're talking about right now."
January 6, 2026 at 6:52 AM