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I will be leaving @roslininstitute and @EdinburghUni at the end of September to take up a new position as Principal Data Scientist at @DSM!
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Mick W@tson ↙️
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Mick W@tson ↙️
@BioMickWatson
Bioinformatics | (meta) genomics | Data science. Some politics. Views are all my own and do not represent past, current or future employer.
Edinburgh Katılım Aralık 2010
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@StufferSuitcase @RobWearne You can't retcon reality because it doesn't fit your model. Reality is always correct
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Some people still believe that taxes pay for government spending
They are wrong, government spending is not dependent on the amount of taxes raised.
ClarksonsFarm@ClarksonsFarm1
In the 2025–26 financial year, the UK Treasury received £331 billion in Income Tax. In the same period, the Government spent £333 billion on welfare. This situation is clearly unsustainable and requires urgent change. For the first time ever, we’re now spending more on welfare than we raise from those who are actually working. We need to change course: cut the burden on hard-working taxpayers, reward their effort, and create real incentives for more people to get into work and contribute. The current path isn’t fair — and it can’t last. What do you think needs to happen? 👇
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@CraigHope_DM Craig it's tactics!!
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@tfalex1892 100% agreed. We go in front. The opposition coach changes tactics to exploit our set-up. Everyone can see what's coming, but Howe is unable to change things - no plan B, ineffective substitutions. Repeat, repeat, repeat.
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A league high 25 points lost from winning positions for NUFC now this season.
They are soft. Gone is the nastiness & smarts to defend a lead.
For Brian Brobbey last time out, see Jean-Philippe Mateta this time. They can be bullied. Mentality minnows.
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@dm180914 What's outrageous is you expecting to ask the same question over and over until you get the answer you want
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Good line of questioning here - repeated denial to consider a referendum regardless of election results is absolutely outrageous.
High and mighty London-based politicians think they can tell Scotland what to do.
We’ll show them exactly what we think on the 7th of May. 🏴
LBC@LBC
"The country has had enough of chaos!" Wes Streeting rules out Scottish independence, telling @Lewis_Goodall that there will be no fresh referendum even if the SNP get a majority.
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@SkySports_Keith Howe insisted on premier league ready players - we got Wissa, Elanga, and Ramsey. £140m wasted. Our successes have come from the European market!
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The more you think about last summer’s transfer window, the more it has killed Newcastle’s season - and will also hamstring them in future windows.
£222m worth of talent signed last summer (4 players) on the bench today, only getting a handful of minutes between them.
If even two of them had been an immediate success (like Isak, Bruno G, Trippier, Burn etc were) #NUFC would be in a much stronger position and IMO in European places.
In addition to the psychological problems when they go in front (25 point dropped from winning positions), it feels like there’s a real issue with staleness in the team.
You can get away with one big-money signing not working out…but not 4 in one window.
(NB. I think Ramsey is a player btw, but he’s not played enough due to injury).
Craig Hope@CraigHope_DM
💰 Eddie Howe when asked why £124m strikeforce Nick Woltemade & Yoane Wissa again started on the bench 🗣️ "I don't pick the team based on transfer fees. I have to pick the team based on what I see. I thought Will Osula was training well and deserved to start. I thought he played well. He took his goal well. He's got the physical attributes, the determination to do really well."
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@mcarle17 @Gordy1967 People in the Highlands don't want Edinburgh MPs making decisions for them. Do you support independence for The Highlands?
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@Gordy1967 He can say what he wants and I can repeat I want a future where the thoughts of a London MP are of no material concern to me.
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Not an SNP supporter but young Wesley here demonstrates why I'll continue to vote for pro Indy parties at every single election, until I no longer have people like him having any material say in my day-to-day life.
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"The country has had enough of chaos!" Wes Streeting rules out Scottish independence, telling @Lewis_Goodall that there will be no fresh referendum even if the SNP get a majority.
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@mcarle17 There's not going to be a referendum. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.
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@Bob_Helpful @tfalex1892 He's creating tactics where players are not available for the pass
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@tfalex1892 Howe’s getting a lot wrong this season, but the players can’t escape from criticism. Howe isn’t telling Botman to grab shirts in the box or Gordon / Murphy to be unable to pass to their own team
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Beaten by a half arsed side who rested all their good players and played on Thursday. Beaten by one of the worst home teams
In the league.
Our issue is coaching. Not the transfer window. Not fatigue. Not two games a week. Not lack of time on the training ground. Coaching.
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@tfalex1892 100% agreed. We go in front. The opposition coach changes tactics to exploit our set-up. Everyone can see what's coming, but Howe is unable to change things - no plan B, ineffective substitutions. Repeat, repeat, repeat.
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I’ve just seen the penalty decision. You can blame a manager for that if you want, but why are you grabbing a player’s shirt to defend a long throw? It’s soft, very soft but still…. #nufc
Luke Edwards@LukeEdwardsTele
As for Newcastle, I wasn’t at the game but that’s 25 points dropped from winning positions and the defeat will only crank up the pressure on the manager. Troubling times and more individual errors in defence. They are an accident waiting to happen at the back Season imploding? #nufc
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@OlafSNP SNP offers nothing but more failure, and a referendum that will never happen.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing and expecting a different result.
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John Swinney head and shoulders above the other party leaders in the #bbcdn Scottish debate.
Others tie themselves in knots in desperately trying to deny people in Scotland a say over their future, while the SNP is offering hope and a positive vision in this election.
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@dm180914 You don't get to keep asking the same question until you get the answer you want
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@dm180914 There won't be one because the last one was once in a generation, agreed by all parties and all politicians.
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Not a single unionist politician can outline what constitutes a mandate for a second independence referendum.
They don’t want one because they know they’d lose.
Not one of them cares what the people of Scotland have to say.
We’ll show them on the 7th of May.
#bbcdn
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@davidbirkettsnp @ArmstrongT97969 @paulhutcheon Why would Edinburgh hold onto the Highlands after independence?
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@ArmstrongT97969 @paulhutcheon Why so keen to hang on to us then?
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Lots of claims have been made that refusing indyref2 in the event of an SNP majority would be anti-democratic.
But isn't it anti-democratic for the FM to refuse to explain his "secret" plan when Labour says no?
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@JustOneWeeWorld @paulhutcheon Only if all of their votes are from independence supporters, which they're not
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@paulhutcheon It would be anti democratic to ignore the majority of votes being for parties opposed to independence.
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Why is there a wait time for Bea, my GP’s AI assistant who they’ve actively made look like all the evil receptionists I’ve encountered?
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@meIisactu I wonder if they have to have a person checking the answers 🤣
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@CraigHope_DM His tactics have been found out and he has no answers
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On Woltemade/Wissa... I come back to, "managers don't pick teams, players do". Howe sees far more than any of us in training. He is picking the best team to win a game, of course he is. He referenced Osula training well when asked about Woltemade/Wissa absence - what does that tell you? It's not on Howe to pick them because they cost a lot of money, it's on any player to make himself selectable ahead of rivals in his position. Yes, he signed them last summer (albeit panicked & for inflated fees in final week) but a manager is allowed to change their mind based on what he sees. If Woltemade/Wissa want to play, it's on them.
Craig Hope@CraigHope_DM
📺 Where has Newcastle's nastiness gone? 👇 Video reflections from Selhurst Park (and yes, I still think Eddie Howe is the right manager for NUFC) 🔗 youtube.com/watch?v=ry0WKN…
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@jazzyrussell59 @mscott7612 Published by SNP Scottish government
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@mscott7612 GERS is a lot of shit
Wishaw, Scotland 🇬🇧 English
It shows how the SNP is doing precious little wrong when the major topic the BBC calls them out on is ferries only operating at 95% availability in some of the most difficult waters in Europe. Meanwhile from Westminster ….soaring child poverty, sewage in rivers, tuition fees etc
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@paulhutcheon Dear Paul,
Are ye raging...
This is a bona-fide MANDATE for Scottish independence!
#ScottishIndependence 🏴
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An appalling attempt at censorship.
Rebecca McCurdy@_RebeccaMcCurdy
Kaukab Stewart condemned the single-sex guidance for schools policy during Equality Network hustings this week. I went along but was asked to leave because I was a journalist. Given the org is publicly funded, I refused. Story here. @heraldscotland 👇 heraldscotland.com/news/26012115.…
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Sam Altman has admitted he is on a waitlist for a procedure that would digitize his brain.
The procedure would kill him. He considers this an acceptable trade for digital immortality.
This is the person making decisions about the future of artificial intelligence for hundreds of millions of users. A man who views ending his own biological life as a reasonable step toward uploading his consciousness to the cloud.
These are not the priorities of a stable leader.
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