Mick W@tson ↙️
@BioMickWatson
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Bioinformatics | (meta) genomics | Data science. Some politics. Views are all my own and do not represent past, current or future employer.
Edinburgh
Joined December 2010
I have big news!. I will be leaving @roslininstitute and @EdinburghUni at the end of September to take up a new position as Principal Data Scientist at @DSM!.
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Idea: Nuts About You, a chain of shops and restaurants where every single employee has a nut allergy, thus guaranteeing all food and produce is safe to eat for customers with an allergy to nuts.
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RT @GeneticLiteracy: Organic farming sounds green 🌱—until you do the math. EU policymakers pushed for 25% organic under Farm to Fork, chasi….
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RT @TDataScience: If you’re still using Euclidean distance or plain correlations to compare economic time series, you’re missing the plot.….
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RT @GMFHx: Could microplastics contribute to explaining our failure to combat the rise in immune-mediated diseases and lifespan?. Nanoplast….
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Hi @BelhavenBrews why does the website for The Merlin in Edinburgh list it as being open and why are you taking bookings when it's literally being gutted by workmen as we speak? Are you ok? 🤣.
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RT @JoeWStanley: ‘My Beef is Greener Than Your Avocados’ . The case for rehabilitating the reputation of ruminants, those much maligned age….
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RT @NoFarmsNoFoods: This farmer gives a reporter a proper schooling on the importance of cows within the natural carbon cycle. https://t.co….
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RT @LuizaJarovsky: 🚨 New study reveals that when used to summarize scientific research, generative AI is nearly five times LESS accurate th….
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RT @mbeisen: Never heard a room go quiet as fast as when someone suggested to a room of aging HHMI Investigators that they should retire so….
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RT @strnr: Predicting gene expression from DNA sequence using deep learning models (read free: .
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RT @jakphd: Carl Sagan was really ahead of his time. Absolutely prescient quote from one of his final interviews.
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Hello @edinhelp the portable toilets on Portobello prom. @KateC_SNP @AlysGreens @ChrisMurrayMP - I want you to look at every single photo please - each one a different portaloo
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How most people implement "agile" is anything but agile 🤣.
I always thought morning Standups were hilarious. We get in a room first thing in the morning and talk about what you're going to get done, any roadblocks, etc. - and it's almost always the same thing. Except when you're first starting out and you want to show how much you're.
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Laughable. Why would you ever want to pay the brightest minds in society over £100k, hmm?
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"We found that nearly 70% of vegans and vegetarians had iron deficiency".
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