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Boris Lenhard @borislenhard.bsky.social · 5d

This or similar notice appeared on PubMed and other NIH sites during every US government shutdown I remember (this is the fourth one since 2013).

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Tina Perica @glukozica.bsky.social · 10d

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. :)

bioRxiv Biochemistry @biorxiv-biochem.bsky.social · 12d

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

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Boris Lenhard @borislenhard.bsky.social · 10d

I have many colleagues in Sweden, most of them non-Swedish, and none of them has ever said anything like this. Some are right now saying it is BS. But OK, slander on.

Boris Lenhard @borislenhard.bsky.social · 10d

You are GUESSING what it is driven by. I disagree. I might change my mind upon seeing evidence to the contrary, but for now you have nothing but a cloud of free associations of things that have nothing to do with national IDs.

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Boris Lenhard @borislenhard.bsky.social · 10d

And even the brave resignation to tedium and time wasting will not prevent surveillance if your compatriots vote like morons.

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Boris Lenhard @borislenhard.bsky.social · 10d

You have a gut dislike for mass surveillance, and it makes you see it everywhere.
In reality, these kinds of systems empower others to avoid the time, the tedium, and often chaos of doing things the way they have to be done in their absence.

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Boris Lenhard @borislenhard.bsky.social · 10d

Everything else is just conspiracy theorising to justify your gut dislike of it.

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Boris Lenhard @borislenhard.bsky.social · 10d

“It is a system for control” - no, it is a system for efficient bookkeeping, first and foremost, and has worked admirably for decades. There are laws to prevent its misuse, and those who want to circumvent the laws don’t need national IDs to do so (see UK, Cambridge Analytica & Palantir).

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Boris Lenhard @borislenhard.bsky.social · 10d

Mate, check the Baroness Casey Report to learn to which depths and lengths name and race discrimination by the police can go in a country without national ID cards.

I will not go on because clearly you cannot be reasoned out of a position that you have adopted with no reason.

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Boris Lenhard @borislenhard.bsky.social · 10d

You have no evidence that the ID system is used for this. And also that discrimination is more widespread than in the UK.

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Boris Lenhard @borislenhard.bsky.social · 10d

What does this have to do with national ID ? You think discrimination by name doesn't exist in the UK?

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Boris Lenhard @borislenhard.bsky.social · 11d

I don't know what you are talking about. I am not Swedish, I lived in Sweden for more than five years, and the trust was real. I did not feel excluded.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 12d

“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...

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

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Boris Lenhard @borislenhard.bsky.social · 11d

A much more effective way of controlling immigration would be to start having passport control upon leaving the country. All other countries have it. The UK is the only one that doesn’t have a reliable ay of knowing who overstayed their visa.

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Boris Lenhard @borislenhard.bsky.social · 11d

Why do benefits outweigh the risks in e.g. Sweden? Why not look how they do it - if any of the implementation details is more high-risk in the UK, focus on fixing it instead of resigning yourself to the lifetime of antiquated inconvenience?

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Boris Lenhard @borislenhard.bsky.social · 11d

Exactly. Our data is already in multiple places. More places = more opportunity for data breaches.

Boris Lenhard @borislenhard.bsky.social · 11d

Yes, and the Swedes prefer it that way - because they trust their government - and each other - much more than Brits do. Which is sad for the Brits.

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Boris Lenhard @borislenhard.bsky.social · 11d

With a heavy heart, I tend to agree.

Boris Lenhard @borislenhard.bsky.social · 11d

Did you need a mortgage? Did you need to be checked for Swedish debt collection history? For other existing mortgages, loans and debts? For employment history? I needed all that, and in Sweden it was all centralised and automatic back in 2003. For me it took 2 phone calls and two signatures.

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Boris Lenhard @borislenhard.bsky.social · 11d

So your answer to my question is “Yes”?

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Boris Lenhard @borislenhard.bsky.social · 12d

Most European countries have had it for years, some for decades, with increased convenience and no issues. Are you suggesting that the UK is so much more corrupt and/or incompetent than them that it is unable to do the same properly?

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Boris Lenhard @borislenhard.bsky.social · 12d

So, your answer to my question is “Yes”?

Boris Lenhard @borislenhard.bsky.social · 12d

How? It is basically a unique database identifier that works for healthcare, tax, pension, housing and education purposes. Without it, you would still have to run around collecting disparate information in different places.

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Boris Lenhard @borislenhard.bsky.social · 12d

Most European countries have had it for years, some for decades, with increased convenience and no issues. Are you suggesting that the UK is so much more corrupt and/or incompetent than them that it is unable to do the same properly?

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Boris Lenhard @borislenhard.bsky.social · 12d

I bought flats in Norway and Sweden, in 2007 and 2002, long before the one in London, and I needed none of that. With my approval and my ID number, my lender could get everything they needed without me collecting anything, and with no solicitors involved. It is unbelievable how much simpler it was.

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