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Research genetic counsellor. PhD in Science Communication. Researching equitable genomic testing & genetics of neurdevelopmental disorders. https://substack.com/@jonathanrob1985?utm_source=user-menu
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submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

Second breakfast hurts Hobbits and their causes: Opinion - Sauron

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

A future where AI has taken away the ability to tell our own stories is a proper existential threat.

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

I've sold AI training to Basingstoke, Braintree and Stourbridge!

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

I'm still amazed someone went: 5.4% increase pay for resident doctors, 4% for consultants aaand 3.6% for the nurses. Yup. That's looks good. Can't see any issues here. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 22 hours ago • 1 comment

These companies use polygenic scores. Although they are a 'genetic test' they are complex, with deceptively simple numeric scores masking a complex interplay of biology, environment and chance. Polygenic predictions are uncertain and their use in this context - IMO - should not be allowed.

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

We thank reviewer 2 for their thoughtful comment and have amended the title to "Mission quite challenging"

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

As Michel de Certeau noted, consuming culture is a creative act.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Research universities are quite good actually.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Starting to make sense why Labour seem willing to sell higher education and the creative arts down the river.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Frog: Sometimes I think she's only with me because I eat the bugs that are attacking her babies Tarantula: That's just not true! Therapy snake: no, no. Let him finish.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Frog: Sometimes I think she's only with me because I eat the bugs that are attacking her babies Tarantula: That's just not true! Therapy snake: no, no. Let him finish.

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submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

The standard measure in the US is a Scaramucci which I think is equivalent to about 1.2 lettuces

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

I do find it difficult with different countries using different measurements. For those of us in the UK, does anyone know any easy way to convert Elon's time in government to lettuces?

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

It's a good day for these scientists to answer any detractors who suggested their research would have no real world applications. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Where once there was the Rumble in the Jungle. Now we have the Embitter on the Twitter.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Trump immediately putting a 100% tariff on popcorn.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Bread or alive, you're coming with me.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Look, I'm all for scientific institutions and scientists engaging in ways to foster trust. But it's hard to "rebuild trust" when you have a national government and international propaganda machine working against you. That's quite a large couple of elephants in the room that could do with a mention.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

To be fair, it can be hard to contradict your line manager.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

The police are investigating a large theft of duvets It's an undercover operation.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment