Mick Watson
Professor of bioinformatics @ Edinburgh. (Meta)genomics, bioinformatics, some politics. Tweets are my own.
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Forestry Workshop on Genomic Selection
A workshop on implementation and impacts for the UK.
Amazon will pay $0 in taxes on $11,200,000,000 in profit for 2018
Amazon avoids paying federal tax — for the second year in a row, according to a new report.
Telomere-to-telomere assembly of a complete human X chromosome
After nearly two decades of improvements, the current human reference genome (GRCh38) is the most accurate and complete vertebrate genome ever produced. However, no one chromosome has been finished end to end, and hundreds of unresolved gaps...
Fruit vs Fruit
Prepare for total fruit annihilation as the guys capture some sweet 4K footage of fruit colliding. Check out The Super Slow Show, only on YouTube.
Snot on a parent's shoulders should be worn as a badge of honour | Séamas O’Reilly
This is my life now, says Séamas O’Reilly, territorially marked by a baby who produces snot as if he’s stockpiling for Brexit
Where did all the cod go? Fishing crisis in the North Sea
With an international council now on the brink of declaring the species unsustainable – and Brexit looming – what is the future for one of the nation’s favourite meals?
Top universities replace UK school-leavers with foreign students
Non-European Union recruitment likely to widen resources gap between elite and rest of sector
Jeremy Corbyn calls for crackdown on political donors
Jeremy Corbyn has proposed a crackdown on the "influx of big money into politics" as he accused the Conservatives of being captured by donors who are "corrupting democracy". The Labour leader said his party would ban donations or loans to political...
10 things you can’t put in your household recycling
After McDonald's says its paper straws cannot be recycled, what other items only go in general waste?
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Scottish Government fail to demand audit of Alex Salmond’s £500,000 legal fees
The taxpayer was forced to cough up the cash after a judge ruled the Government's actions “unlawful” but the bill wasn't checked despite law firm involved being at centre of overcharging allegations.
Operation Chaos: Whitehall’s secret no‑deal Brexit preparations leaked
Britain faces shortages of fuel, food and medicine, a three-month meltdown at its ports, a hard border with Ireland and rising costs in social care in the event of a no-deal Brexit, according to an...
The High Environmental Costs of Cruise Ships
Cruise ships pose many environmental concerns, from waste disposal to toxic paint to the creation of noise that can harm marine life.
Tories to raise state pension age from 67 to 75 over next 16 years
EXCLUSIVE: Government will raise age of state pension from 67 to 75 based on think tank findings from Iain Duncan Smith
A Tissue Sample From 1966 Held Traces of Early HIV
To understand the virus’s history, a team worked to reconstruct its genome from a time before anyone knew the virus existed.
'Plastic recycling is a myth': what really happens to your rubbish?
You sort your recycling, leave it to be collected – and then what? From councils burning the lot to foreign landfill sites overflowing with British rubbish, Oliver Franklin-Wallis reports on a global waste crisis
Bronze age meals in the marshes – seasoned with parasitic worms
Human faeces from 900BC Must Farm reveal widespread intestinal worm infection
Has this scientist finally found the fountain of youth?
Editing the epigenome, which turns our genes on and off, could be the “elixir of life.”
Raccoon gets stuck in Florida vending machine
Things didn't quite go to plan when the hungry animal tried to pilfer a snack.
Sequenceserver: a modern graphical user interface for custom BLAST databases
Abstract. Comparing newly obtained and previously known nucleotide and amino-acid sequences underpins modern biological research. BLAST is a well-established t
Maths and tech specialists need Hippocratic oath, says academic
Exclusive: Hannah Fry says ethical pledge needed in tech fields that will shape future