Mick Watson
Professor of bioinformatics @ Edinburgh. (Meta)genomics, bioinformatics, some politics. Tweets are my own.
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Exclusive: McCluskey Blames Labour Defeat On 'Metropolitan' Manifesto And Anti-Semitism Failures
Unite general secretary blasts pro-Remain MPs Keir Starmer and Emily Thornberry for Jeremy Corbyn's defeat in exclusive op-ed.
Corbyn catastrophe: It went exactly as wrong as critics said it would
For years, Corbynites were warned that their leader was electorally toxic. And so it proved.
Opinion polling on Scottish independence - Wikipedia
Mick Watson
@lizworthey why depend on what you hear when you can have data?
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WATCH: John McDonnell says Labour 'won the argument' despite election loss
The shadow chancellor John McDonnell has claimed that Labour 'won the argument' in this election campaign, but lost as a result of not being able to get through on Brexit.
Simple Gantt charts in R with ggplot2 … and Microsoft Excel
making Gantt charts is a form of self-care — Colin J. Carlson (@ColinJCarlson) November 26, 2018 If you’ve ever had to explain how all the elements of a big, multi-part project come together…
Five reasons why Labour lost the election
Corbyn’s unpopularity, a muddled manifesto and its Brexit stance cost the party dear
The polling that shows Corbyn is to blame for Labour’s decline
The reason Jeremy Corbyn is not preparing to lead the first majority Labour government since 2010 is Jeremy Corbyn. The Labour leader is proving the falseness of the cliché that ‘oppositions don’t win…
Conservatives on course to win majority - exit poll
The Tories are set to win a majority of 86 with Labour losing 71 seats, the general election exit poll suggests.
Mick Watson
My sub-200 seat projection for Labour looks like being right.
Disaster.
General election 2019: Tories on course to win majority - exit poll
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I Have a Beef With Phony Meat
Deceptive labels and marketing practices lead consumers to think it’s better than the real thing.
Hundreds cannot vote after giving wrong addresses
A total of 1,000 people, many of them believed to be students, filled in their addresses wrongly.
McDonald's could sell over 250 million Beyond Meat burgers in U.S. annually: UBS
McDonald's Corp is selling only 20-30 plant-based Beyond Meat burgers per d...
Eagle v octopus: Canadians rescue bird locked in battle with giant mollusc
Employees at a fish farm in Vancouver intervened when an eagle tried to eat a large octopus, resulting in a battle
Mick Watson
Pub quiz: answered
Eagle v octopus: Canadians rescue bird locked in battle with giant mollusc
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Scared of Corbyn? As a black Jewish woman I’m terrified of Johnson | Nadine Batchelor-Hunt
Of course I’m angry about antisemitism. But the Tory party has a hostile agenda towards people of colour, says Nadine Batchelor-Hunt
DSM files for EU authorization of methane-reducing feed additive | DSM
Feed additive scientifically proven to cut methane emissions from dairy cows by +/-30%, with its efficacy confirmed in 26 global peer-reviewed studies.
Mick Watson
@cshperspectives Absolutely. It's actionable. And we can do tons with genetics and feed additives e.g.
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One-third of recent global methane increase comes from tropical Africa
Concentrations of methane, a greenhouse gas about 28 times more potent than carbon dioxide, have risen steadily in Earth's atmosphere since 2007. Although several potential explanations, including an increase in methane emissions from the tropics,...
Laura Kuenssberg may have broken electoral law by speculating about postal votes, Electoral Commission indicates
Corporation’s political editor disclosed live on air what sources had told her about votes already counted
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Final combined forecast for the 2019 general election
By Stephen Fisher, John Kenny and Rosalind Shorrocks Since our first combined forecast at the start of the campaign, the number of forecasts for this general election has grown substantially. All o…
Phagocytosis-like cell engulfment by a planctomycete bacterium
Phagocytosis is a typically eukaryotic feature that could be behind the origin of eukaryotic cells. Here, the authors describe a bacterium that can engulf other bacteria and small eukaryotic cells through a phagocytosis-like mechanism.