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Former research scientist, interested in intersections between maths, computing, biology, engineering, art and music | A' fuireach ann an Uibhist a Tuath agus ag ionnsachadh na Gàidhlig | cnr.lwlss.net

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
The lesson of these results is clear: it is time to bring Peter Mandelson back into government.
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Carers Scotland @carersscotland.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Scotland’s unpaid carers save the country £15.9 billion every year – yet many live in poverty and poor health. The Scottish Budget must deliver real support for unpaid carers and local carer organisations. See our full statement here: www.carersuk.org/news/nationa... #CarersCantWait
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Ben Wetherall @wetherall.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Capping off the year with some insane and impractical 6x17 photography using my recent obsession - a 3D printed medium format film camera.
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Carers Scotland @carersscotland.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Too many unpaid carers in Scotland are struggling to make ends meet. We’re calling for a meaningful commitment from every political party for urgent action to ensure carers have financial security and recognition for the vital care they provide. #CarersCantWait #CarersVotesCount
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Richy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social · 27/11/2023
The most stressed out I've ever been about Christmas was when I was 16 and I got my first ever job, working at M&S in Dundrum. As soon as I started I kept hearing these myths about the Christmas Eve Waste Sale, where all the food that wasn't sold on the 24th was marked down 90%.
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Conor @lwlss.net · 16/11/2025
Mo each gaolach A’ ruith tron ​​achadh Càit a bheil thu a’ dol Le do crubhan-beaga a’ sèideadh Anns a’ ghaoith? photos.app.goo.gl/YBwifhBfYCyD...
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New video · Friday, Jun 7, 2019 🎬
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 03/11/2025
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
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Frank Cvetkovic @gofrankgo.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Back in my day, AI used to stand for Adobe Illustrator! And we hated that, too!
Grandpa Simpson yelling at a cloud
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Dakota Smith @weatherdak.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Alrighty, ready to see something really cool? (and maybe a little nauseating) The evolution of Hurricane Melissa's mesovortices at peak strength.
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Ewan Birney @ewanbirney.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
I am hiring! - looking for a Staff Scientist to co-run my research group with me. Staff Scientist is a senior professional scientist role at EMBL. Please forward to people you might know who could be interested! embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...
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Staff Scientist
About EMBL-EBI EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute is a data powerhouse, utilised on a global scale to advance scientific discovery through bioinformatics and solutions to some of the world’s mos...
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Ben Wetherall @wetherall.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Excited to see my first book chapter is out with @suzannemadgwick.bsky.social 📖 edited by @binyammogessie.bsky.social Ever wonder what that big weird nucleolus is up to in oocytes?🥚 No? Well. I think we make a good case for maybe you should! link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-97173-0_6
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Canonical and Non-canonical Roles of the Nucleolus in Relation to Nucleolar Function in Oocyte Meiosis
The nucleolus is the most prominent nuclear organelle in almost all cells including mammalian oocytes and embryos. It is primarily responsible for ribosome biogenesis. However, non-canonical functions...
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Conor @lwlss.net · 27/09/2025
I am listening to this slightly sweary album by Camille Schmidt a lot. It is great! camillejschmidt.bandcamp.com/album/nude-9
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Nude #9, by Camille Schmidt
10 track album
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Alistair Coleman @alistaircoleman.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Alien: Earth (N. Hawley and others, 2025)
A sheep in a bus shelter in the Highlands of Scotland. It looks a lot like the sheep in Alien: Earth which is the host of the T. Ocellus parasite.
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Matthew Conroy @matthewconroy.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2025
I added another problem and solution to my dice collection. It's problem 77. www.madandmoonly.com/doctormatt/mat… Here's the problem statement: "Suppose we play a game with a die. We roll once, and this first roll is the score. We may continue to roll and add to the […]
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Graham Coop @gcbias.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
It is depressing, but all too predictable, how swiftly we’ve gone from the Social Science Genetic Association Consortium offering reassurances about the uses of behavioural polygenic scores to one of their lead authors marketing embryo selection for IQ
Text from an FAQ in Okbay et al 20222: 
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-022-01016-z 
a similar same statement is made in an FAQ in 2025: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.14.653986v1.supplementary-material
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"The results of SSGAC studies have sometimes been used by online platforms, including some companies, to predict individual outcomes. We recognize that returning individual genomic “results” can be a fun way to engage people in research and other projects and to feed or stoke their interest in genomics. But it is important that participants/users understand that these individual results are not meaningful predictions and should be regarded essentially as entertainment. Failure to make this point clear risks sowing confusion and undermining trust in genetics research"
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
It isn't possible to design a school system where everyone leaves with the skills needed for the workplace because *they're all going to do different jobs*. Workplace training needs to be done by employers.
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Mick Lynch's Fan Club @moreutterpiffle.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Those who are uncomfortable with this Labour immigration announcement, but think it's necessary to satisfy Reform voters, this is for you. You will not satisfy. You will never satisfy.
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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
this is such a good article
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Fiona @fionargh.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
🌼🔥🐂🔥🌼 Là Buidhe Bealltainn sona dhuibh!
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Matthew Conroy @matthewconroy.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 27/04/2025
Saturday night zoopraxiscope animating! From this LOC image: www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/ppmsc…
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Science Magazine @science.org · 02/04/2025
A new study finds one of the most cited #AI models used to scan chest x-rays doesn’t accurately detect potentially life-threatening diseases in marginalized groups, including women and Black people. scim.ag/42uhnPO
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AI models miss disease in Black and female patients
Analysis of chest x-rays underscores need for monitoring artificial intelligence tools for bias, experts say
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Fiddling around to maintain your tentative fiscal position doesn't look strong. It looks like you've made yourself a permanent hostage to fortune. Ruling out tax rises when everyone can see they're necessary doesn't look tough. It looks mad and insincere.
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Carla Denyer @carladenyer.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Today I took a message to Rachel Reeves at the Treasury: it's time to rebalance the economy. A #WealthTax on multi-millionaires and billionaires would raise £24billion - nearly 5 times as much as the government is trying to save by taking support away from disabled people.
Green MPs Sian Berry, Adrian Ramsay, Carla Denyer and Ellie Chowns stand behind a giant set of scales. On one side is a heavy bag labelled 'wealth tax' and on the other side is a light bag labelled 'welfare cuts.' Behind the MPs is a crowd of Green Party supporters holding placards saying 'Real Hope, Real Change' and 'Rebalance the Economy'.
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
I’m finding it very hard to understand the stance of the Royal Society here. Science is part of society, not separate from it, existing in some strange metaphysical bubble. I look across the Atlantic, aghast at the damage being done to science and scientists. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Royal Society decides not to take disciplinary action against Elon Musk
Exclusive: Fellows argue Musk has violated code of conduct but council believes investigation ‘could do more harm than good’
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Vincent Ledvina @vincentledvina.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
20 minutes ago here in Venetie, Alaska, the skies erupted in a beautiful auroral substorm. Here is just one of many real-time videos I recorded during the show to give you a sense of how fast and dynamic the aurora can move.
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Nick Chainey @nlfg.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
We're just fans of substations 🤷
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Michael "Shapes Dude" Betancourt @betanalpha.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Hot off the presses: this year I am offering four brand new remote courses covering more advanced Bayesian modeling techniques: mixture modeling, survival modeling, pairwise comparison modeling, and ordinal modeling, www.eventzilla.net/e/advanced-b.... Tell your friends, colleagues, and frenemies.
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Advanced Bayesian Modeling In Stan
Despite the promise of big data, inferences are often limited not by the size of data but rather by…
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Former Irish PM Leo Varadkar on McGregor's White House visit: "Conor is a convicted criminal and a rapist. Good Irish dads teach their sons to detest men like Conor and their daughters to avoid men like him. Irish America - know this. Period!"
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Conor @lwlss.net · 18/03/2025
Labour is gaslighting disabled people – and that should terrify us all | Zoe Williams www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Labour is gaslighting disabled people – and that should terrify us all | Zoe Williams
The messaging that suggests poverty is caused by low aspiration and that disability is a choice could have come straight from the Conservatives’ playbook, writes Zoe Williams
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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
I wholeheartedly agree with this piece from @kityates.bsky.social. The Royal Society has to take may things into consideration, including what its US members feel - but even so, I think the right course in this instance is very clear, and they ducked it. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Elon Musk is a proven danger to good science, but the Royal Society won’t say so. That’s why I resigned | Kit Yates
It is vital to act, and I urge colleagues to do so. How can we stand by and laud this man while he undermines scientific integrity? asks academic and author Kit Yates
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Conor @lwlss.net · 20/02/2025
New paper out today in @PLOS computaional biology Bayesian classification of OXPHOS deficient skeletal myofibres The progression of many types of mitochondrial disease occurs randomly in each of the (trillions of) cells that make up the patient. doi.org/10.1371/jour...
Microscopy image of patient muscle fibre cross sections stained to show the abundance of a mitochondrial protein.  The mosaic pattern of abundance is a result of the random nature of mitochondrial disease progression in individual patient cells.
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Jennifer Goff, PhD @jlgoff.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
It has been brought to my attention that my article has been censored to exclude certain terms: asm.org/Articles/202... web.archive.org/web/20250114... #MicroSky
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Women in the History of Antimicrobial Development | ASM.org
Women researchers played a key role in the development of antimicrobials during the mid-20th century. This article works to highlight their work, as their contributions often went unacknowledged.
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Conor @lwlss.net · 28/01/2025
A reader with a terminal illness emailed in despair. What she told me should shock us all | Frances Ryan www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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A reader with a terminal illness emailed in despair. What she told me should shock us all | Frances Ryan
Rosy is unable to move, breathe or eat unassisted. Yet NHS assessors think it’s fine to leave her alone for hours at a time, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan
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Shematologist, MD @shematologist.medsky.social · 17/01/2025
As a hematologist, I highly recommend you keep as much of your blood in your body as possible* *with rare exceptions such as hemochromatosis or polycythemia
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Conor @lwlss.net · 17/01/2025
Visualizing the 2D Gaussian distribution with L*a*b and HSV colour spaces. Static images on flickr and slow looped videos on vimeo. www.flickr.com/gp/conchur/8... vimeo.com/showcase/115...
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Explore this photo album by Conor Lawless on Flickr!
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Conor @lwlss.net · 14/01/2025
Some yellow 1D videos on vimeo. vimeo.com/1046801427 vimeo.com/1046801345
Thousands of very thin horizontal yellow stripes.  Colours are slightly different to each other and adjacent colours are related.Thousands of very thin horizontal yellow stripes.  Colours are slightly different to each other and adjacent colours are related.Thousands of very thin vertical yellow stripes.  Colours are slightly different to each other and adjacent colours are related.Thousands of very thin vertical yellow stripes.  Colours are slightly different to each other and adjacent colours are related.
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Conor @lwlss.net · 13/01/2025
New paper. I like this one, it shows spatial distribution of mitochondrial defects within individual cells. Useful data for testing ideas about progression of mitochondrial disease. Impressive experiment by Julie & Amy. doi.org/10.1038/s420...
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Mapping mitochondrial morphology and function: COX-SBFSEM reveals patterns in mitochondrial disease - Communications Biology
Innovative COX-SBFSEM method integrates mitochondrial function and morphology assessment to study muscle biopsies from patients with mtDNA deletions, revealing spatial patterns in oxidative phosphoryl...
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Toby Nangle @tobyn.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
The UK is an ageing population, but the ageing is uneven. Cities stay young, small towns and villages have aged quickly. Interesting stuff from @resfoundation.bsky.social
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Conor @lwlss.net · 10/01/2025
Some more image generation using Julia. Revisiting 1D videos. I've written about them before: cnr.lwlss.net/1DMoovies/ cnrlwlss.github.io/1D/ Large collection of them on vimeo: vimeo.com/showcase/159... The latest ones are in 4K (see link above). I'll add some HD versions frames here too.
Vertical stripes, gradually changing colours.Horizontal stripes, gradually changing colours.Horizontal stripes, gradually changing colours.Vertical stripes, gradually changing colours.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 08/01/2025
Ready to ditch instagram. Where should I move my bird photos? (I haven't been impressed with Pixelfed, fwiw.)
Grid of bird photos. From top left: Snowy plover, Little cormorant, Trumpeter swans, crimson rosella, Steller's goldeneyes, Silvereye
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Conor @lwlss.net · 03/01/2025
I think that the programming language Julia, by @julialang.org, is ideal for image-based computing: tasks like scientific image analysis, automated video editing or computational art for examples.
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tachikoma @tachikoma.elsewhereunbound.com · 25/12/2024
agent swarm framework aces spatial reasoning test
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
This is a person who Kemi Badenoch thinks should sit in the House of Lords. The tweets start in 2009 - Young was 45 at the time. Appalling misogyny, casual homophobia... the lot
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April aka cyberglot @cyberglot.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
I got “redundanci’ed” from my $day-job and I’m looking for a new one starting in February. Ideally Rust, Haskell and/or compilers, dev tools. Let me know if you know something or someone! 🙋🏽💞
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Space Odyssey @spaceodysssey.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Full moon rotation be like
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Oh come on Labour - so depressing to hear Pat McFadden say UK has no plans for a youth mobility scheme with the EU. We have schemes with NZ, Australia, Canada, Japan, Iceland, Uruguay & more - only reason not to have one with EU is fear of right wing press. Such cowardice @bbclaurak.bsky.social
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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
just finished shirley jackson's marvelously creepy "we have always lived in the castle," a delicious mouthful of poison that i greatly enjoyed, and also a rare depiction of agoraphobia in fiction
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Conor @lwlss.net · 30/11/2024
These are bad cats.
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