Miles Collier
@milescollier.bsky.social
…I make no errors, mistakes or blunders…
#DJ 🎶 #Genomics 🧪 #epigenetics 🧪 #epigenomics 🧪 #funky #indie #Gigs Anti- #ParentalAlienation 👨👩👧👦 Pro #EU 🇪🇺; #DJMilesy 🎶 #Cambridge, UK. Life is real good
#DJ 🎶 #Genomics 🧪 #epigenetics 🧪 #epigenomics 🧪 #funky #indie #Gigs Anti- #ParentalAlienation 👨👩👧👦 Pro #EU 🇪🇺; #DJMilesy 🎶 #Cambridge, UK. Life is real good
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‘The most dangerous man in America’: how Paul Robeson went from Hollywood to blacklist
‘The most dangerous man in America’: how Paul Robeson went from Hollywood to blacklist
The groundbreaking singer, actor and athlete became a victim of McCarthyism and saw his shining career destroyed and his legacy tarnished
www.theguardian.com
January 21, 2026 at 5:31 PM
‘The most dangerous man in America’: how Paul Robeson went from Hollywood to blacklist
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Beavers are back in London 🦫
Here's how (and why) we did it ⬇️
Here's how (and why) we did it ⬇️
January 21, 2026 at 7:18 AM
Beavers are back in London 🦫
Here's how (and why) we did it ⬇️
Here's how (and why) we did it ⬇️
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Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.
January 20, 2026 at 6:44 PM
Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.
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Review: Genome assembly in the telomere-to-telomere era www.nature.com/articles/s41... ReadCube (free) rdcu.be/dFqYo 🧬🖥️
April 22, 2024 at 3:34 PM
Review: Genome assembly in the telomere-to-telomere era www.nature.com/articles/s41... ReadCube (free) rdcu.be/dFqYo 🧬🖥️
I'll be at #FoG2026 in London, for @dtgenomics.bsky.social . I look forward to seeing many familiar faces there and hope to meet some new ones. Let me know if you are attending and would like to catch up?
#3DGenomics #Epigenomics #StructuralVariants
#3DGenomics #Epigenomics #StructuralVariants
January 20, 2026 at 2:30 PM
I'll be at #FoG2026 in London, for @dtgenomics.bsky.social . I look forward to seeing many familiar faces there and hope to meet some new ones. Let me know if you are attending and would like to catch up?
#3DGenomics #Epigenomics #StructuralVariants
#3DGenomics #Epigenomics #StructuralVariants
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Mural of Syd Barrett in the Grand Arcade, not sure the artist has seen any pictures of Syd.
January 20, 2026 at 11:21 AM
Mural of Syd Barrett in the Grand Arcade, not sure the artist has seen any pictures of Syd.
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"Look, I get it, he's mental but what the fuck do you want me to do?"
- Labour +45%
- Labour +45%
January 20, 2026 at 10:31 AM
"Look, I get it, he's mental but what the fuck do you want me to do?"
- Labour +45%
- Labour +45%
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Who said it: the Robert Jenrick memo or David Brent?
Who said it: the Robert Jenrick memo or David Brent?
Memo on how ex-Tory should act after Reform defection seems to channel Ricky Gervais character from The Office
www.theguardian.com
January 19, 2026 at 2:39 PM
Who said it: the Robert Jenrick memo or David Brent?
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It's "Blue Monday", which is a load of nonsense, but it is an excuse for a thread about New Order and the UK's best-selling 12-inch single of all time #BlueMonday (THREAD 1 of 10)
January 19, 2026 at 8:10 AM
It's "Blue Monday", which is a load of nonsense, but it is an excuse for a thread about New Order and the UK's best-selling 12-inch single of all time #BlueMonday (THREAD 1 of 10)
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NEW BLOGPOST Astra Zeneca are back with their conference centre plans cambridgetownowl.com/2026/01/18/a... #Cambridge on the biomedical campus. Note their public art programme and their outline travel plan
Astra Zeneca submits planning application for long-awaited conference centre
Have your say on what they are proposing – noting their documents on the travel plan and on public art See the Greater Cambridge Shared Planning application page and type in Ref: 26/00092/FUL…
cambridgetownowl.com
January 18, 2026 at 9:28 PM
NEW BLOGPOST Astra Zeneca are back with their conference centre plans cambridgetownowl.com/2026/01/18/a... #Cambridge on the biomedical campus. Note their public art programme and their outline travel plan
Managed my first half marathon in quite a few years, yesterday (god, injuries suck at my age). It may be January, but it was a perfect running day!! 🏃♂️
January 18, 2026 at 2:04 PM
Managed my first half marathon in quite a few years, yesterday (god, injuries suck at my age). It may be January, but it was a perfect running day!! 🏃♂️
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“Whilst Bluesky is unlikely to gain the kind of traction X did in a wider setting, it has made inroads among the research community” blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...
UK academia’s presence on X is reaching a tipping point - Impact of Social Sciences
Data collected on UK universities’ use of social media shows academic engagement with X is at a tipping point with more institutions off the platform than on.
blogs.lse.ac.uk
January 16, 2026 at 12:57 PM
“Whilst Bluesky is unlikely to gain the kind of traction X did in a wider setting, it has made inroads among the research community” blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...
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SCAM ALERT – IMPORTANT
The cat has already been fed.
The cat has already been fed.
January 16, 2026 at 11:35 AM
SCAM ALERT – IMPORTANT
The cat has already been fed.
The cat has already been fed.
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The Pemberton Medicine Company, which would later become the Coca Cola company, was formally incorporated #OTD in 1889.
This previous edition of #PeriodicGraphics in @cenmag.bsky.social highlights unexpected substances our favourite sodas once contained: cen.acs.org/food/food-in...
#ChemSky 🧪
This previous edition of #PeriodicGraphics in @cenmag.bsky.social highlights unexpected substances our favourite sodas once contained: cen.acs.org/food/food-in...
#ChemSky 🧪
January 15, 2026 at 5:45 PM
The Pemberton Medicine Company, which would later become the Coca Cola company, was formally incorporated #OTD in 1889.
This previous edition of #PeriodicGraphics in @cenmag.bsky.social highlights unexpected substances our favourite sodas once contained: cen.acs.org/food/food-in...
#ChemSky 🧪
This previous edition of #PeriodicGraphics in @cenmag.bsky.social highlights unexpected substances our favourite sodas once contained: cen.acs.org/food/food-in...
#ChemSky 🧪
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Good fer nuthin! This month's MPFREE is 'The Beat', taken from Promised Land on @jalapenorecords.bsky.social. Enjoy: theallergies.bandcamp.com/track/the-be...
January 15, 2026 at 12:12 PM
Good fer nuthin! This month's MPFREE is 'The Beat', taken from Promised Land on @jalapenorecords.bsky.social. Enjoy: theallergies.bandcamp.com/track/the-be...
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Morning. Stacks of dubs and more on its way next week. Subscribe here rentparty.substack.com
For those who aren’t subscribed to Dubstack, here’s a few tracks you may have missed over the last year or so…
My unsanctioned dub mix of Jagger The Dagger by Eugene McDaniels rentparty.substack.com/p/chapter-21...
My unsanctioned dub mix of Jagger The Dagger by Eugene McDaniels rentparty.substack.com/p/chapter-21...
January 15, 2026 at 8:07 AM
Morning. Stacks of dubs and more on its way next week. Subscribe here rentparty.substack.com
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🚨🇪🇺 Brexit WOW moment 🇪🇺🚨
The Brexitgraph Telegraph published a full-blown obituary for Brexit:
📉 GDP down 8%
📉 Investment down 18%
📉 Productivity down 4%
📉 Employment down 4%
❌ No trade benefits
❌ No regulatory freedom
❌ No upside whatsoever
Do you agree it’s time to end Brexit?
The Brexitgraph Telegraph published a full-blown obituary for Brexit:
📉 GDP down 8%
📉 Investment down 18%
📉 Productivity down 4%
📉 Employment down 4%
❌ No trade benefits
❌ No regulatory freedom
❌ No upside whatsoever
Do you agree it’s time to end Brexit?
January 14, 2026 at 8:06 AM
🚨🇪🇺 Brexit WOW moment 🇪🇺🚨
The Brexitgraph Telegraph published a full-blown obituary for Brexit:
📉 GDP down 8%
📉 Investment down 18%
📉 Productivity down 4%
📉 Employment down 4%
❌ No trade benefits
❌ No regulatory freedom
❌ No upside whatsoever
Do you agree it’s time to end Brexit?
The Brexitgraph Telegraph published a full-blown obituary for Brexit:
📉 GDP down 8%
📉 Investment down 18%
📉 Productivity down 4%
📉 Employment down 4%
❌ No trade benefits
❌ No regulatory freedom
❌ No upside whatsoever
Do you agree it’s time to end Brexit?
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Movement matters in the fight against cancer.
Muscles actually outcompete tumors for glucose, starving them of the fuel they need to grow. Even modest activity — like regular walks — reshapes metabolism in ways that may slow tumor progression.
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m.yale.edu/dd8j
Muscles actually outcompete tumors for glucose, starving them of the fuel they need to grow. Even modest activity — like regular walks — reshapes metabolism in ways that may slow tumor progression.
🧪
m.yale.edu/dd8j
How Exercise Slows Tumor Growth
In her latest study, Rachel Perry, PhD, of Yale School of Medicine, reveals one of the clearest mechanisms to date behind a question patients often ask: Why
m.yale.edu
January 14, 2026 at 1:10 PM
Movement matters in the fight against cancer.
Muscles actually outcompete tumors for glucose, starving them of the fuel they need to grow. Even modest activity — like regular walks — reshapes metabolism in ways that may slow tumor progression.
🧪
m.yale.edu/dd8j
Muscles actually outcompete tumors for glucose, starving them of the fuel they need to grow. Even modest activity — like regular walks — reshapes metabolism in ways that may slow tumor progression.
🧪
m.yale.edu/dd8j
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FIFA will be along shortly to award him one.
January 12, 2026 at 6:27 PM
FIFA will be along shortly to award him one.
Bring it on!!!
From all of us at Dovetail Genomics, thank you for an incredible 2025. We’re grateful for a year shaped by innovation, collaboration, and customer-driven discovery. To our researchers, partners, and teams — your work inspires everything we do. Here’s to building together in 2026. 🧡
January 13, 2026 at 12:15 PM
Bring it on!!!
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🧵A political/media guide to the "truth" about net-zero
1) Add up costs to install & run a net-zero energy system
2) Pretend fossil-fuelled alternatives wld be free
3) Do say "eco zealots are bankrupting us"
4) Don't say "free cars if we scrap net-zero" cos it sounds ridiculous
5) That's it!
1/10
1) Add up costs to install & run a net-zero energy system
2) Pretend fossil-fuelled alternatives wld be free
3) Do say "eco zealots are bankrupting us"
4) Don't say "free cars if we scrap net-zero" cos it sounds ridiculous
5) That's it!
1/10
January 12, 2026 at 4:18 PM
🧵A political/media guide to the "truth" about net-zero
1) Add up costs to install & run a net-zero energy system
2) Pretend fossil-fuelled alternatives wld be free
3) Do say "eco zealots are bankrupting us"
4) Don't say "free cars if we scrap net-zero" cos it sounds ridiculous
5) That's it!
1/10
1) Add up costs to install & run a net-zero energy system
2) Pretend fossil-fuelled alternatives wld be free
3) Do say "eco zealots are bankrupting us"
4) Don't say "free cars if we scrap net-zero" cos it sounds ridiculous
5) That's it!
1/10
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We’re heading to PAG 33! 🧬
📍 Booth# 322
Check out this Scientific Workshop:
From Genotype to Phenotype: Chromosome-Scale Assemblies
🗓️ Tue, Jan 13 | 1:30–3:40 PM
📍 Pacific D
Meet us or book time 👉 cantatabio.com/event...
#PAG33 #Genomics #GenomeAssembly #T2T #PlantGenomics
📍 Booth# 322
Check out this Scientific Workshop:
From Genotype to Phenotype: Chromosome-Scale Assemblies
🗓️ Tue, Jan 13 | 1:30–3:40 PM
📍 Pacific D
Meet us or book time 👉 cantatabio.com/event...
#PAG33 #Genomics #GenomeAssembly #T2T #PlantGenomics
December 31, 2025 at 6:00 PM
We’re heading to PAG 33! 🧬
📍 Booth# 322
Check out this Scientific Workshop:
From Genotype to Phenotype: Chromosome-Scale Assemblies
🗓️ Tue, Jan 13 | 1:30–3:40 PM
📍 Pacific D
Meet us or book time 👉 cantatabio.com/event...
#PAG33 #Genomics #GenomeAssembly #T2T #PlantGenomics
📍 Booth# 322
Check out this Scientific Workshop:
From Genotype to Phenotype: Chromosome-Scale Assemblies
🗓️ Tue, Jan 13 | 1:30–3:40 PM
📍 Pacific D
Meet us or book time 👉 cantatabio.com/event...
#PAG33 #Genomics #GenomeAssembly #T2T #PlantGenomics
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There’s just something so repulsive and patronising about the people who’ve been running the country (directly or indirectly) for the past 10 years now queuing up to tell us everything is shit and only they can fix.
Fuck all the way off!
Fuck all the way off!
January 12, 2026 at 1:59 PM
There’s just something so repulsive and patronising about the people who’ve been running the country (directly or indirectly) for the past 10 years now queuing up to tell us everything is shit and only they can fix.
Fuck all the way off!
Fuck all the way off!