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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 · 19/11/2025

Have you spoken to FIFA about this?

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Conor @lwlss.net · 16/11/2025

Mo each gaolach Chan eil thu nad phònaidh tuilleadh A’ ruith mun cuairt Le fear air do dhruim Mar thrèana san oidhche Mar thrèana san oidhche... - The Divine Comedy photos.app.goo.gl/p8mTVcypG3m4...

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New photo · Sunday, Sep 10, 2017 📸

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Conor @lwlss.net · 16/11/2025

Tha mi airson do fhrasadh le cnapan siùcair Agus do mharcachd thairis na feansaichean Do crubhan a grinnneachadh a h-uile latha Agus do thoirt chun fhiaclair each photos.app.goo.gl/tW4LZmCBuS8D...

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New photo · Monday, Oct 24, 2016 📸

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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!

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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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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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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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Conor @lwlss.net · 24/08/2025

Important to be sure about these things.

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Conor @lwlss.net · 12/08/2025

I want one but I don't want to give you a massive postage bill. Send .pdf to Scotland?

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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
Text reads:
"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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Conor @lwlss.net · 13/07/2025

Can report that it was a bit too hot for clegs on same track at 10.30am. Unfortunately also too hot for humans. Abair teas!

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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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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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Conor @lwlss.net · 02/04/2025

I like this one. How did you choose that frame rate/frequency?

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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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Conor @lwlss.net · 24/03/2025

Very mystery...

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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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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

It's been nearly a year since I've been employed as a research scientist now, so I am very impressed at the work of my former students Jordan and Tiago (with some help from my former colleagues) getting this publication over the line.

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Conor @lwlss.net · 20/02/2025

Here we present a new, Bayesian approach, using hierarchical modelling, which better accounts for abundances in variation and which results in more accurate measurements of the proportion of affected patient cells.

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Conor @lwlss.net · 20/02/2025

Naive comparisons between cells from healthy subjects and patients leads to very large overestimates of the proportions of affected cells, which leads to poor measurements of disease severity.

Scatterplots for visualising protein abundance per cell in order to classify cell OXPHOS status. x-axis values represent the abundance of general mitochondrial proteins, whereas y-axis values represent the abundances of specific proteins which we believe are affected by mitochondrial diseases. Points labelled yellow represent cells that have been manually annoted by experts as defective. Red points represent cells that have been classified as defective by a naive, historical approach. Blue points represent cells that have been classified as normal by the same approach.

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Conor @lwlss.net · 20/02/2025

However, it turns out that identifying affected cells from these data is difficult, because of the wide variation in protein abundances in all cells (affected and unaffected). Historically we have compared protein abundances in patient cells with those from known healthy control subjects.

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