Henry Scowcroft
@oh-henry.bsky.social
Science, music and dad jokes. You will be laughing 65% more of the time.
Guitars in @thisisdogunit.bsky.social.
Guitars in @thisisdogunit.bsky.social.
A piece I wrote got published 👇🏼
We each carry around six million variations in our DNA.
Henry Scowcroft explores how scientists like @gregfindlay.bsky.social and @carovinuesa.bsky.social are helping unravel the effects of these variants, where even a small change can have a big impact on our lives.
www.crick.ac.uk/news/2025-10...
Henry Scowcroft explores how scientists like @gregfindlay.bsky.social and @carovinuesa.bsky.social are helping unravel the effects of these variants, where even a small change can have a big impact on our lives.
www.crick.ac.uk/news/2025-10...
Variants: the typos turning loss into hope
Across the 3 billion ‘letters’ of our DNA, we each carry around 6 million variations. Researchers are unravelling their effects on our lives.
www.crick.ac.uk
November 24, 2025 at 11:51 PM
A piece I wrote got published 👇🏼
WE CAN STILL WIN THIS
November 21, 2025 at 2:30 AM
WE CAN STILL WIN THIS
Nearly as good as Midnight's Children.
November 15, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Nearly as good as Midnight's Children.
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A radio programme like the Shipping Forecast but it’s called Bin Day and it just reads out every single council in the country’s bin schedule
November 10, 2025 at 11:53 PM
A radio programme like the Shipping Forecast but it’s called Bin Day and it just reads out every single council in the country’s bin schedule
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Tarriffs are penne wise, pound foolish
The U.S. is threatening to hit Italian pasta with a punitive antidumping tariff — and one company said it would have to double its pasta prices to keep up.
Tariffs on pasta from Italy could soon soar to more than 100%
A routine Commerce Department probe into alleged “dumping” resulted in crushing 100% tariffs on Italian pasta that leave exporters shouting “Basta!”
www.washingtonpost.com
November 3, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Tarriffs are penne wise, pound foolish
Wonderful
The BBC are accidentally running the subtitles to Mrs Marple over the Mercury Prize, and it’s rather wonderful. A few of lines could plausibly have been written by Jarvis.
October 16, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Wonderful
Incredibly powerful writing. The phrase 'must-read' is an overdone cliché, but you must read this.
www.newyorker.com/news/essay/g...
www.newyorker.com/news/essay/g...
Gaza’s Broken Politics
Every movement that claimed to speak for Palestinians has failed them. The next chapter must belong to those who have endured the devastation.
www.newyorker.com
October 15, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Incredibly powerful writing. The phrase 'must-read' is an overdone cliché, but you must read this.
www.newyorker.com/news/essay/g...
www.newyorker.com/news/essay/g...
"... with a baby in her placenta... "
RFK Jr: "Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman at 8 months pregnant -- she's an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School -- and she is saying 'F Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta. The level of Trump Derangement Syndrome is now a pathology."
October 9, 2025 at 8:19 PM
"... with a baby in her placenta... "
Absolutely cracking article about AI, and how so far it has failed to replace radiologists. Despite consistent predictions that it will.
In 2016 Hinton predicted that AI would replace all radiologists in five years. Ten years later, why hasn't it happened? This post is a great explainer.
www.understandingai.org/p/ai-isnt-re...
www.understandingai.org/p/ai-isnt-re...
AI isn't replacing radiologists
Radiology combines digital images, clear benchmarks, and repeatable tasks. But demand for human radiologists is at an all-time high.
www.understandingai.org
October 1, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Absolutely cracking article about AI, and how so far it has failed to replace radiologists. Despite consistent predictions that it will.
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Please share this widely. There is simply nobody else doing what the Disability News Service does with such breadth, depth, regularity and rigour in the UK. There are so many stories of genuinely life-threatening import that would not have been told without its investigations.
For more than 16 years, Disability News Service has broken important stories about the discrimination disabled people face every day across the UK.
Now DNS is looking for new subscribers to help fund its work.
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/disability-n...
Now DNS is looking for new subscribers to help fund its work.
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/disability-n...
Disability News Service needs new subscribers
For more than 16 years, Disability News Service has broken important stories about the discrimination disabled people face every day across the UK. Now DNS is looking for new subscribers to help fu…
www.disabilitynewsservice.com
September 2, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Please share this widely. There is simply nobody else doing what the Disability News Service does with such breadth, depth, regularity and rigour in the UK. There are so many stories of genuinely life-threatening import that would not have been told without its investigations.
Absolutely the best thing I've read about AI hype to date. (ht @mjrobbins.com)
open.substack.com/pub/freddied...
open.substack.com/pub/freddied...
The Rage of the AI Guy
I'm only asking you to observe the world around you
open.substack.com
August 7, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Absolutely the best thing I've read about AI hype to date. (ht @mjrobbins.com)
open.substack.com/pub/freddied...
open.substack.com/pub/freddied...
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Motherfucking wind farms…
July 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Motherfucking wind farms…
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He's one of Britain's richest men. So why does Asif Aziz's property company keep leasing London gift shops to overseas students based in abandoned offices or flytipped car parks — before vanishing without paying millions of pounds in taxes? www.londoncentric.media/p/asf-aziz-l...
The billionaire and the tax evading gift shops
Asif Aziz's Criterion Capital manages a row of high-profile shops at Piccadilly Circus. So why does his team keeping renting them to students who vanish without paying millions of pounds in taxes?
www.londoncentric.media
July 22, 2025 at 6:48 AM
He's one of Britain's richest men. So why does Asif Aziz's property company keep leasing London gift shops to overseas students based in abandoned offices or flytipped car parks — before vanishing without paying millions of pounds in taxes? www.londoncentric.media/p/asf-aziz-l...
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I wrote about Trump, Epstein, TV, and why this scandal feels different johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/may-the-be...
May the Beast You Rode in on Eat You Alive
On Trump, Epstein, and TV
johnpaulbrammer.substack.com
July 18, 2025 at 8:09 PM
I wrote about Trump, Epstein, TV, and why this scandal feels different johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/may-the-be...
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New post just out:
"Optimism of the will"
In which I look at Labour's big plan for the NHS and why it's determination to wish problems away will undermine it.
(£/free trial)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/o...
"Optimism of the will"
In which I look at Labour's big plan for the NHS and why it's determination to wish problems away will undermine it.
(£/free trial)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/o...
Optimism of the will
Evaluating Labour's plan for the NHS
open.substack.com
July 9, 2025 at 7:20 AM
New post just out:
"Optimism of the will"
In which I look at Labour's big plan for the NHS and why it's determination to wish problems away will undermine it.
(£/free trial)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/o...
"Optimism of the will"
In which I look at Labour's big plan for the NHS and why it's determination to wish problems away will undermine it.
(£/free trial)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/o...
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June 22, 2025 at 12:09 AM
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH
The world is kind of bleak right now, so here's a Nice Thing to read: www.bmj.com/content/389/...
Asking patients to share a short biography establishes a better connection and improves care
Hearing a patient's story in their own words has changed our working culture, write Pietro Majno-Hurst and colleagues
For the past four years we have been asking patients who are scheduled for major...
www.bmj.com
June 19, 2025 at 10:08 AM
The world is kind of bleak right now, so here's a Nice Thing to read: www.bmj.com/content/389/...