Daniel Rigden

Great to have this in the @narjournal.bsky.social 2026 Database Issue

After this weekend's racist attacks on the EU, I've written a column about the moral obligation to stop posting on X.

Oh no, wait, I wrote it *two years ago* when it was blatantly obvious what was going on and how it would get much much worse.

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Putin should have accepted Trump’s deal. Now Russia’s collapsing economy could lead to his downfall | Simon Tisdall The war against Ukraine has hit ordinary Russians hard, and the deteriorating situation is likely to inflame tensions, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall

Russia cannot be beaten.

"But Putin can. He’s losing, not winning. And sooner or later, like the tsars and totalitarians of old, that same eternal Russia whose name he glorifies will chew him up and spit him out."

Outstanding piece on Putin's deluded gambit.

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Starmer accuses the Brexiters of selling Brexit on lies and false promises. He’s guilty of pretence and obfuscation now. The EU won’t trust us or even consider major changes to the current deal if British politicians continue to lie, hedge and mislead. Act like a leader, Starmer. Damnit, man. LEAD.

Rant alert: Trump’s national security strategy trashing the EU and core values at heart of transatlantic alliance makes it all the more urgent for Starmer to pursue bolder reset with EU. His timidity loses valuable time and risks leaving us even more subject to events rather than shaping them. 🧵

The European Nucleotide Archive in 2025 Abstract. The European Nucleotide Archive (ENA; https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena), hosted at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory’s European Bioinformatics I

From the @ebi.embl.org team published in the @narjournal.bsky.social #NARDatabaseIssue | The European Nucleotide Archive in 2025 | #Bioinformatics #Database #FAIR #Proteomics #Genomics #OpenScience #OpenData #ENA #INSDC 🧬 🖥️🧪🔓
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UK farmers lose £800m after heat and drought cause one of worst harvests on record Many now concerned about ability to make living in fast-changing climate after one of worst grain harvests recorded

"The price of some foods hit by extreme weather are rising more than four times faster than others in the average shop...the price of butter, beef, milk, coffee and chocolate had risen by an average of 15.6% over the year"

Climate change is not a problem for our grandchildren, it's today's crisis

Delighted to see this in the upcoming 2026 @narjournal.bsky.social Database Issue!

Net migration is plummeting. Why can’t Labour say so? | Heather Stewart An honest debate is needed on this polarising topic as sectors such as social care struggle with recruitment

Here's this week's column. Please - please - can we stop talking about migration in a way that's completely detached from the facts? www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Every damn time.

Wow - this guy must be really, REALLY bad with money if an extra £208 per month will “ruin” his retirement.

Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph

Because this does NOT add up!

No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…

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Happy Thanksgiving! Seven members of our coffee klatch gathered to connect together before we went our separate ways today, and they voted for this photo looking slightly north taken 8 minutes before sunrise. Tap for full size. I hope you have a great day!

Sad thing is he's not, but even he has to go along with the demonstrably stupid and insulting party line

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.

They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

New: Boris Johnson’s ‘Brexit Titanic success’ was half right Nearly ten years on, the first full assessment of Brexit confirms what millions warned: Britain made itself poorer

🔥 Rachel Reeves says there’s a “hole” in the public finances.

A new decade-long Brexit study quantifies it:

A 6–8% hit to GDP

That's £180bn-£240bn a year

It means less tax revenue and so less money for everything.

Brexit made Britain MUCH poorer.

AlphaFold Protein Structure Database 2025: a redesigned interface and updated structural coverage Abstract. The AlphaFold Protein Structure Database (AFDB; https://alphafold.ebi.ac.uk), developed by EMBL–EBI and Google DeepMind, provides open access to

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Grand opening, grand closing.

X quietly disabled a new feature that showed which country an account was posting from when it revealed that lots of popular right wing MAGA accounts were being run from foreign countries like India and Nigeria.

Former Reform in Wales leader Nathan Gill jailed for pro-Russian bribery Nathan Gill, 52, is sentenced to 10 and a half years in prison after admitting taking bribes while an MEP.

Ex-leader of Reform UK in Wales sentenced to 10.5 years in prison for taking bribes for pro-Russia interviews and speeches.

Who else was involved,?

Party can now add treason to racism, misogyny, islamaphobia, economic illiteracy as its electoral credentials.

Farage can now be easily boxed in to a corner where his only ‘defence’ becomes: “Yes I spouted Kremlin propaganda & Putin worship but, unlike Nathan Gill, I didn’t need bribes to do it.”
It is, once again, a question of whether interviewers have the temerity to shut down his whining obfuscations.

Brexit Hit to UK Economy Double Official Estimate, Study Finds Brexit has caused almost twice as much damage to the UK economy than estimated by official forecasts, according to new paper from a group of experts including a senior Bank of England economist.

Brexit has caused almost twice as much damage to the UK economy than estimated by official forecasts, according to new paper from a group of experts including a senior Bank of England economist

This was a great event. Really enjoyed talking to the participants about all sorts of interesting biology, and compliments to the organisers.

Opinion | The Sad and Dangerous Reality Behind ‘Her’

I agree that emotional addiction to chatbots is the number one risk of AI today. Here is a gift link to an important OpEd in the NYTimes:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/o...

The UCSC Genome Browser database: 2026 update Abstract. Now in its 25th year of operation, the UCSC Genome Browser (https://genome.ucsc.edu) provides a central location for researchers around the world

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A few py2Dmol updates 🧬

py2dmol.solab.org
Integration with AlphaFoldDB (will auto fetch results). Drag and drop results from AF3-server or ColabFold for interactive experience! (1/4)

ICE-style raids on Britain's streets: that's all Labour's brutal asylum reforms will achieve | Stella Creasy If we want to ‘stop the boats’, we need to stop the BS when it comes to what creates refugees, and how to respond to them, says Labour MP Stella Creasy

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Sad, but it's a pleasant surprise these days to hear anything humane and sensible from Labour on immigration. Thank you

Labour pumping the accelerator in the race to the bottom.

The Danish policy confiscates jewelry from asylum seekers to cover costs.

I'm married to the daughter of a refugee and by far the most important objects in the in-laws house are the handful of pieces of jewelry her family arrived here with.

God I'm so sick of this stuff. Cruel and incompetent even in terms of winning votes

Vasilisa Romanenko’s Lush #Portraits Wrap Common #Birds in Decadent Patterns #flowers #art

Vasilisa Romanenko’s Lush #Portraits Wrap Common #Birds in Decadent Patterns #flowers #art

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