Professor Lesley Stark
@lesleys20.bsky.social
Chair of nucleolar signalling and cancer prevention. University of Edinburgh. Views my own and not my employer. Interested in politics and the science of senescence, the nucleolus and ageing.
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EXCLUSIVE: Scotland's food and drink export value per capita stands 'shoulder-to-shoulder' with some of Europe’s biggest economies and outperforms England’s, new figures show
Read here: www.thenational.scot/news/2...
Read here: www.thenational.scot/news/2...
February 14, 2026 at 4:05 PM
EXCLUSIVE: Scotland's food and drink export value per capita stands 'shoulder-to-shoulder' with some of Europe’s biggest economies and outperforms England’s, new figures show
Read here: www.thenational.scot/news/2...
Read here: www.thenational.scot/news/2...
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A court has ruled that the government's authoritarian ban on Palestine Action was unlawful.
Time to stop criminalising the people protesting a genocide - and start ending the UK's complicity.
Time to stop criminalising the people protesting a genocide - and start ending the UK's complicity.
February 13, 2026 at 10:22 AM
A court has ruled that the government's authoritarian ban on Palestine Action was unlawful.
Time to stop criminalising the people protesting a genocide - and start ending the UK's complicity.
Time to stop criminalising the people protesting a genocide - and start ending the UK's complicity.
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BREAKING: Police Scotland have issued a statement following the High Court ruling that the UK Government’s terrorism ban against Palestine Action is unlawful
February 13, 2026 at 4:54 PM
BREAKING: Police Scotland have issued a statement following the High Court ruling that the UK Government’s terrorism ban against Palestine Action is unlawful
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🟡The SNP has scrapped peak rail fares for good.
🐎It’s a 2-horse race between the SNP and Tories in Edinburgh Central.
🗳️Vote SNP and Angus Robertson to keep travel cheaper and greener for all.
🐎It’s a 2-horse race between the SNP and Tories in Edinburgh Central.
🗳️Vote SNP and Angus Robertson to keep travel cheaper and greener for all.
February 13, 2026 at 4:39 PM
🟡The SNP has scrapped peak rail fares for good.
🐎It’s a 2-horse race between the SNP and Tories in Edinburgh Central.
🗳️Vote SNP and Angus Robertson to keep travel cheaper and greener for all.
🐎It’s a 2-horse race between the SNP and Tories in Edinburgh Central.
🗳️Vote SNP and Angus Robertson to keep travel cheaper and greener for all.
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Scotrail - Scotland’s publicly owned railway - is seeing record numbers of passengers returning to rail travel with high satisfaction levels and lower fares thanks to the support of the SNP Government.
February 13, 2026 at 7:36 AM
Scotrail - Scotland’s publicly owned railway - is seeing record numbers of passengers returning to rail travel with high satisfaction levels and lower fares thanks to the support of the SNP Government.
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Viewers have slammed Fiona Bruce's claim that Jim Ratcliffe is 'creating jobs' in the UK after Grangemouth closed under his ownership
Viewers slam Fiona Bruce claim Jim Ratcliffe 'creating jobs' after Grangemouth shut
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February 13, 2026 at 7:17 PM
Viewers have slammed Fiona Bruce's claim that Jim Ratcliffe is 'creating jobs' in the UK after Grangemouth closed under his ownership
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Picture of Anas Sarwar opposing the appointment of Mandelson
February 11, 2026 at 1:10 PM
Picture of Anas Sarwar opposing the appointment of Mandelson
Sawar position untenable. He believes we should be a United Kigdom but agrees mistakes at Westminster are affecting lives of Scottish families and that uk leadership should go. He is making the case for independence.
'Keir Starmer's name's not on the ballot paper. My name's on the ballot paper'
Anas Sarwar asked if he will stand by Keir Starmer ahead of May's election if the Prime Minister comes north of the border 👇
𝘝𝘐𝘋𝘌𝘖: 𝘕𝘦𝘸𝘴𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘵
Anas Sarwar asked if he will stand by Keir Starmer ahead of May's election if the Prime Minister comes north of the border 👇
𝘝𝘐𝘋𝘌𝘖: 𝘕𝘦𝘸𝘴𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘵
February 11, 2026 at 6:01 PM
Sawar position untenable. He believes we should be a United Kigdom but agrees mistakes at Westminster are affecting lives of Scottish families and that uk leadership should go. He is making the case for independence.
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Total, abject humiliation.
The snp can safely say that a vote for labour is a vote for direct rule
The snp can safely say that a vote for labour is a vote for direct rule
February 11, 2026 at 5:12 PM
Total, abject humiliation.
The snp can safely say that a vote for labour is a vote for direct rule
The snp can safely say that a vote for labour is a vote for direct rule
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Independence is the door to that and so many other benefits of being an independent country. It's essential we get there pdq.
Labour sleaze and its dangerous association with Palantir. Anas Sarwar's incessant attacks on NHS Scotland are an attempt to soften up the Scottish public for private company involvement in NHS Scotland. Only indy parties will protect NHS Scotland.
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Labour sleaze and its dangerous association with Palantir
To paraphrase Shakespeare, Oh what a revolting web we weave when we mire ourselves in sleaze. Labour’s self inflicted paedophile adjacent chaos continues. Starmer has now belatedly removed th…
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February 11, 2026 at 5:12 PM
Independence is the door to that and so many other benefits of being an independent country. It's essential we get there pdq.
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Strike action avoided in Scotland yet again but the English Health Secretary , Streeting doesn’t care about patients and waiting lists in 🏴Well done the adults in the Scottish govt.
Resident doctors in Scotland vote to accept pay offer and avoid strike action
www.thenational.scot/news/2584444...
Resident doctors in Scotland vote to accept pay offer and avoid strike action
www.thenational.scot/news/2584444...
Resident doctors in Scotland vote to accept pay offer and avoid strike action
RESIDENT doctors have voted to accept a revised pay and contract reform offer and call off strike action
www.thenational.scot
February 11, 2026 at 3:22 PM
Strike action avoided in Scotland yet again but the English Health Secretary , Streeting doesn’t care about patients and waiting lists in 🏴Well done the adults in the Scottish govt.
Resident doctors in Scotland vote to accept pay offer and avoid strike action
www.thenational.scot/news/2584444...
Resident doctors in Scotland vote to accept pay offer and avoid strike action
www.thenational.scot/news/2584444...
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Sarwar must resign.
February 9, 2026 at 3:35 PM
Sarwar must resign.
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ICE agents! Keep quitting, spill the beans and help us take down the institutuon that's not going to pay you anyway.
February 8, 2026 at 3:29 PM
ICE agents! Keep quitting, spill the beans and help us take down the institutuon that's not going to pay you anyway.
🤣🤣🤣 trying to save himself and failed!
By his dramatic intervention calling for Keir Starmer to resign, Anas Sarwar has drawn attention to himself in ways likely to be deeply unhelpful to his own chances of survival in office and to Labour’s electoral prospects in Scotland.
Amazing.
Amazing.
February 9, 2026 at 7:38 PM
🤣🤣🤣 trying to save himself and failed!
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This is good news, but to be in the position to make that choice we need to vote SNP1/Greens2 in May 26 to get a pro-Indy majority, not for any Your Party candidates who might stand in Scotland. Post Indy there will be a Your Party or equivalent to vote for then. #Scotland #Holyrood26 #Holyrood2026
If the people of Scotland want to hold an independence referendum, 'that is their choice', Jeremy Corbyn has told Your Party's first Scottish conference
Independence referendum is 'Scotland’s choice', Jeremy Corbyn tells conference
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February 8, 2026 at 1:44 PM
This is good news, but to be in the position to make that choice we need to vote SNP1/Greens2 in May 26 to get a pro-Indy majority, not for any Your Party candidates who might stand in Scotland. Post Indy there will be a Your Party or equivalent to vote for then. #Scotland #Holyrood26 #Holyrood2026
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Wow, NBC edited out the audience booing JD Vance at the Olympics. And this is one of the few remaining news outlets NOT owned by right-wing billionaire Trump sycophants
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
NBC appears to cut crowd’s booing of JD Vance from Winter Olympics broadcast
The US vice-president, JD Vance, was greeted by a chorus of boos during when he appeared at the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics in Milan on Friday
www.theguardian.com
February 7, 2026 at 3:01 PM
Wow, NBC edited out the audience booing JD Vance at the Olympics. And this is one of the few remaining news outlets NOT owned by right-wing billionaire Trump sycophants
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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In honour of the woman who, more than anyone, is responsible for this moment of transparency with the #EpsteinFiles, we're removing the paywall from this profile
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Amy Wallace spent four years collaborating with Virginia Roberts Giuffre on her memoir, Nobody’s Girl, which has had a far-reaching impact in the fight for justice for the victims and survivors of Jef...
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February 7, 2026 at 4:33 PM
In honour of the woman who, more than anyone, is responsible for this moment of transparency with the #EpsteinFiles, we're removing the paywall from this profile
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UNICEF: 37 Palestinian children have been killed in the Gaza Strip since the beginning of the ceasefire.
Imagine if this was Israeli children - would we call it a ceasefire?
Imagine if this was Israeli children - would we call it a ceasefire?
February 7, 2026 at 2:56 PM
UNICEF: 37 Palestinian children have been killed in the Gaza Strip since the beginning of the ceasefire.
Imagine if this was Israeli children - would we call it a ceasefire?
Imagine if this was Israeli children - would we call it a ceasefire?
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Use your ballot to send the message that hate and bigotry has no place in Scotland.
February 7, 2026 at 2:30 PM
Use your ballot to send the message that hate and bigotry has no place in Scotland.
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Three months until Scotland’s choice.
On May 7, vote SNP to choose hope, fairness and real action on the cost of living.
Let’s escape the broken Westminster system and choose our own future with the fresh start of independence. 🏴
On May 7, vote SNP to choose hope, fairness and real action on the cost of living.
Let’s escape the broken Westminster system and choose our own future with the fresh start of independence. 🏴
February 7, 2026 at 7:32 PM
Three months until Scotland’s choice.
On May 7, vote SNP to choose hope, fairness and real action on the cost of living.
Let’s escape the broken Westminster system and choose our own future with the fresh start of independence. 🏴
On May 7, vote SNP to choose hope, fairness and real action on the cost of living.
Let’s escape the broken Westminster system and choose our own future with the fresh start of independence. 🏴
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There are 848 'sitting' members in the House of Lords, with 27 non-sitting members. This fluctuates. There's no fixed maximum. Eh?
It consists of life peers (Mandy, Mone), 92 hereditary peers (their Dad got them it), and ...26 ENGLISH BISHOPS!
No sensible person can justify the House of Lords.
It consists of life peers (Mandy, Mone), 92 hereditary peers (their Dad got them it), and ...26 ENGLISH BISHOPS!
No sensible person can justify the House of Lords.
February 4, 2026 at 9:08 AM
There are 848 'sitting' members in the House of Lords, with 27 non-sitting members. This fluctuates. There's no fixed maximum. Eh?
It consists of life peers (Mandy, Mone), 92 hereditary peers (their Dad got them it), and ...26 ENGLISH BISHOPS!
No sensible person can justify the House of Lords.
It consists of life peers (Mandy, Mone), 92 hereditary peers (their Dad got them it), and ...26 ENGLISH BISHOPS!
No sensible person can justify the House of Lords.
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In this week's column I seek to explain Keir Starmer's flat refusal to change our electoral system, even though its gross unfairness could put Reform UK in power on <30% of the vote. The reasons, I believe, are deeply cynical and disturbing. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
If Reform ever wins power in Westminster, it will be because of Labour’s cowardice | George Monbiot
Starmer could improve our unfair electoral system to stop the hard right, but he won’t. All the party has left are threats about ‘splitting the vote’, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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February 4, 2026 at 8:26 AM
In this week's column I seek to explain Keir Starmer's flat refusal to change our electoral system, even though its gross unfairness could put Reform UK in power on <30% of the vote. The reasons, I believe, are deeply cynical and disturbing. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...