Boris Lenhard
@borislenhard.bsky.social
Professor of Computational Biology, Imperial College London
MRC Investigator, Computational Regulatory Genomics, MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences
Interested in eukaryotic promoters, enhancers and long-range developmental regulation
MRC Investigator, Computational Regulatory Genomics, MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences
Interested in eukaryotic promoters, enhancers and long-range developmental regulation
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Watching BBC News and it's striking to hear the presenters repeatedly referring to the AfD as "far-right" whilst refusing to ever say the same about the hundreds of actual masked blackshirts currently swarming British ports
September 7, 2026 at 11:55 AM
Watching BBC News and it's striking to hear the presenters repeatedly referring to the AfD as "far-right" whilst refusing to ever say the same about the hundreds of actual masked blackshirts currently swarming British ports
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A very useful guide from @stephenkb.bsky.social to the difference between legitimate concerns and racism, and how that muddled approach leads to muddled policy.
Also. Racist thuggery isn’t protest.
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Also. Racist thuggery isn’t protest.
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Labour’s muddled migration policy won’t stop thuggery
A government that can’t distinguish between ‘legitimate concerns’ and open racism is only making things worse
giftarticle.ft.com
September 8, 2026 at 5:25 AM
A very useful guide from @stephenkb.bsky.social to the difference between legitimate concerns and racism, and how that muddled approach leads to muddled policy.
Also. Racist thuggery isn’t protest.
giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
Also. Racist thuggery isn’t protest.
giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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Richard Tice is going to pop up any minute to tell the people of Nepal they should just enjoy the swim
August 27, 2026 at 10:19 AM
Richard Tice is going to pop up any minute to tell the people of Nepal they should just enjoy the swim
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Pahahahahah Cofnas
August 26, 2026 at 8:15 AM
Pahahahahah Cofnas
This. If you are trying to rehabilitate a hypothesis that the overwhelming consensus has thoroughly buried, the minimum requirement is to have new data to support that rehabilitation attempt. Writing essays and blogs based on the reasoning of debunked racist cranks will just make you one of them.
Sometimes society at large rejects certain ideas because they’ve been thoroughly shown to be wrong and also because they suck and the people who espouse them suck and when someone comes around arguing those ideas should be part of some edgy modern debate we can and should shun them and move on.
August 24, 2026 at 9:14 AM
This. If you are trying to rehabilitate a hypothesis that the overwhelming consensus has thoroughly buried, the minimum requirement is to have new data to support that rehabilitation attempt. Writing essays and blogs based on the reasoning of debunked racist cranks will just make you one of them.
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adelphigenetics.org/events/annua... put Thursday 22 October in the diary and register for engaging and exciting free one day conference: “Complexity of neural function - the brain in charge” Must register.
July 23, 2026 at 2:42 PM
adelphigenetics.org/events/annua... put Thursday 22 October in the diary and register for engaging and exciting free one day conference: “Complexity of neural function - the brain in charge” Must register.
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Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface
July 19, 2023 at 8:48 AM
Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface
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Singapore is funding a generous Visiting Professorship — I'm recruiting AI researchers (academia or industry, based outside SG) to join @astar-gis.bsky.social for 20% of their time.
We're tightly integrating AI with wet-lab experiments for training + validation.
Deadline soon. DM me. Please share!
We're tightly integrating AI with wet-lab experiments for training + validation.
Deadline soon. DM me. Please share!
July 15, 2026 at 1:27 PM
Singapore is funding a generous Visiting Professorship — I'm recruiting AI researchers (academia or industry, based outside SG) to join @astar-gis.bsky.social for 20% of their time.
We're tightly integrating AI with wet-lab experiments for training + validation.
Deadline soon. DM me. Please share!
We're tightly integrating AI with wet-lab experiments for training + validation.
Deadline soon. DM me. Please share!
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The whole Neville Chamberlain thing is working out about as well as expected for the National Academies.
Have politics finally come for the National Academies of Science?
A pending report on climate attribution may be setting the stage for conflict.
arstechnica.com
June 13, 2026 at 8:26 AM
The whole Neville Chamberlain thing is working out about as well as expected for the National Academies.
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Voting for Brexit or Boris Johnson did not, in the great scheme of things, demand support for anything truly toxic. Voting for Farage, by contrast, absolutely & obviously does. This is why the people who brought you the first two disasters are working so hard to detoxify him, in two main ways… 1/2
June 7, 2026 at 12:00 PM
Voting for Brexit or Boris Johnson did not, in the great scheme of things, demand support for anything truly toxic. Voting for Farage, by contrast, absolutely & obviously does. This is why the people who brought you the first two disasters are working so hard to detoxify him, in two main ways… 1/2
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Trying to hold demons to account over in Never Never Land.
May 30, 2026 at 3:34 PM
Trying to hold demons to account over in Never Never Land.
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Just in case you’re feeling even vaguely optimistic about anything right now, please note that two UK political parties populated & led by profoundly racist people are currently being described as merely ‘right-wing’ in pretty much every corner of the UK media. This is how the worst stuff happens…
May 26, 2026 at 8:15 PM
Just in case you’re feeling even vaguely optimistic about anything right now, please note that two UK political parties populated & led by profoundly racist people are currently being described as merely ‘right-wing’ in pretty much every corner of the UK media. This is how the worst stuff happens…
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In normal times, the fact that government officials at HHS blatantly lied to the public and got caught would be a scandal of unusual size.
Everyone involved in this disinformation scheme against the people of the United States should be held accountable.
Everyone involved in this disinformation scheme against the people of the United States should be held accountable.
No child deaths definitively linked to Covid shots, FDA says
The agency’s analysis contradicts claims made by former vaccine chief Dr. Vinay Prasad.
www.nbcnews.com
May 23, 2026 at 9:30 PM
In normal times, the fact that government officials at HHS blatantly lied to the public and got caught would be a scandal of unusual size.
Everyone involved in this disinformation scheme against the people of the United States should be held accountable.
Everyone involved in this disinformation scheme against the people of the United States should be held accountable.
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#RIP Pierre Chambon (1931-2026)
1963 PARP
1970 RNA Pol II
1975 Nucleosome
1977 Split genes
1980 Promoter
1983 enhancer
1986 Nuclear receptor
1963 PARP
1970 RNA Pol II
1975 Nucleosome
1977 Split genes
1980 Promoter
1983 enhancer
1986 Nuclear receptor
May 7, 2026 at 10:39 AM
#RIP Pierre Chambon (1931-2026)
1963 PARP
1970 RNA Pol II
1975 Nucleosome
1977 Split genes
1980 Promoter
1983 enhancer
1986 Nuclear receptor
1963 PARP
1970 RNA Pol II
1975 Nucleosome
1977 Split genes
1980 Promoter
1983 enhancer
1986 Nuclear receptor
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Don’t. Outsource. Your. Morality. To. “How is this playing in a West Midlands marginal”. It is corrosive.
May 3, 2026 at 10:47 AM
Don’t. Outsource. Your. Morality. To. “How is this playing in a West Midlands marginal”. It is corrosive.
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Two (or more) PhD student positions are open with me in protein structure evolution (using AI). Please apply/spread the word.
su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
PhD student in Bioinformatics
The Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics SciLifeLab ( SciLifeLab ) is a national center for molecular biosciences with a focus on health and environmental research. The center combines frontl
su.varbi.com
April 7, 2026 at 8:14 AM
Two (or more) PhD student positions are open with me in protein structure evolution (using AI). Please apply/spread the word.
su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
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Germ cells have their own versions of core transcription factors and fertility depends on them.
We're hiring a PhD student to figure out how! 📢
Fly genetics + proteomics + genomics. Fully funded.
Aarhus University 🇩🇰
Deadline May 1 👇
Please share with anyone who might be interested!
We're hiring a PhD student to figure out how! 📢
Fly genetics + proteomics + genomics. Fully funded.
Aarhus University 🇩🇰
Deadline May 1 👇
Please share with anyone who might be interested!
phd.nat.au.dk
April 1, 2026 at 7:51 AM
Germ cells have their own versions of core transcription factors and fertility depends on them.
We're hiring a PhD student to figure out how! 📢
Fly genetics + proteomics + genomics. Fully funded.
Aarhus University 🇩🇰
Deadline May 1 👇
Please share with anyone who might be interested!
We're hiring a PhD student to figure out how! 📢
Fly genetics + proteomics + genomics. Fully funded.
Aarhus University 🇩🇰
Deadline May 1 👇
Please share with anyone who might be interested!
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The very aggressive marketing of “dietary supplements” to healthy people by the supplement industry (an industry that was worth around $200 billion last year) is a scam
What's something that experts/practitioners in your field universally agree upon, but that remains a "hot take" among the general public?
March 29, 2026 at 3:50 PM
The very aggressive marketing of “dietary supplements” to healthy people by the supplement industry (an industry that was worth around $200 billion last year) is a scam
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May 5th: if you are around London, please join the London #EvoDevo symposium at QMUL / Charterhouse campus, as usual we will have selected talks and post-event 🍻. A warm up for #EED2026 in Glasgow. Registration £0, more info here: londonevodevo.co.uk
LondonEvoDevo
meeting's website
londonevodevo.co.uk
March 23, 2026 at 3:40 PM
May 5th: if you are around London, please join the London #EvoDevo symposium at QMUL / Charterhouse campus, as usual we will have selected talks and post-event 🍻. A warm up for #EED2026 in Glasgow. Registration £0, more info here: londonevodevo.co.uk
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The Great Barrington Declaration is one of the most wrongheaded, shortsighted, cruel, callous, and villainous arguments ever made.
Literally ever.
Representing the interests of big business, its authors ought to be remembered in infamy. So too should their allies.
Literally ever.
Representing the interests of big business, its authors ought to be remembered in infamy. So too should their allies.
The Covid-19 pandemic’s early death toll was much higher than the official US count, according to a new study that spotlights dramatic disparities in the uncounted deaths. https://cnn.it/3NtbZYM
March 19, 2026 at 3:06 PM
The Great Barrington Declaration is one of the most wrongheaded, shortsighted, cruel, callous, and villainous arguments ever made.
Literally ever.
Representing the interests of big business, its authors ought to be remembered in infamy. So too should their allies.
Literally ever.
Representing the interests of big business, its authors ought to be remembered in infamy. So too should their allies.
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Transformer-based AI has boosted
@nanoporetech.com
sequencing accuracy, but at a cost to portability due to GPU demands.
Our new work, spearheaded by
Sara Bakic, introduces Campolina link.springer.com/article/10.1... to improve nanopore signal segmentation for event-based mappers.
@nanoporetech.com
sequencing accuracy, but at a cost to portability due to GPU demands.
Our new work, spearheaded by
Sara Bakic, introduces Campolina link.springer.com/article/10.1... to improve nanopore signal segmentation for event-based mappers.
Campolina: a deep neural framework for accurate segmentation of nanopore signals - Genome Biology
Nanopore sequencing enables real-time, long-read analysis by processing raw signals as they are produced. A key step, segmentation of signals into events, is typically handled algorithmically, struggl...
link.springer.com
March 10, 2026 at 4:20 AM
Transformer-based AI has boosted
@nanoporetech.com
sequencing accuracy, but at a cost to portability due to GPU demands.
Our new work, spearheaded by
Sara Bakic, introduces Campolina link.springer.com/article/10.1... to improve nanopore signal segmentation for event-based mappers.
@nanoporetech.com
sequencing accuracy, but at a cost to portability due to GPU demands.
Our new work, spearheaded by
Sara Bakic, introduces Campolina link.springer.com/article/10.1... to improve nanopore signal segmentation for event-based mappers.
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Delighted to see this published: H3K115 acetylation is associated with fragile nucleosomes at CpG island promoters and active regulatory sites. Great work from all contributors; Yatendra Kumar, @illingworth-lab.bsky.social @eliasfriman.bsky.social @helink.bsky.social
doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
March 5, 2026 at 7:53 PM
Delighted to see this published: H3K115 acetylation is associated with fragile nucleosomes at CpG island promoters and active regulatory sites. Great work from all contributors; Yatendra Kumar, @illingworth-lab.bsky.social @eliasfriman.bsky.social @helink.bsky.social
doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
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Reform: Stop the boats! Deport people!
Starmer: OMG we have to beat the Reform Party! STOP MORE BOATS! DEPORT MORE PEOPLE! ISLAND OF STRANGERS!
Hannah Spencer: Everybody deserves a nice life.
Starmer: Hannah Spencer is more interested in dividing people than uniting them.
Starmer: OMG we have to beat the Reform Party! STOP MORE BOATS! DEPORT MORE PEOPLE! ISLAND OF STRANGERS!
Hannah Spencer: Everybody deserves a nice life.
Starmer: Hannah Spencer is more interested in dividing people than uniting them.
February 27, 2026 at 2:33 PM
Reform: Stop the boats! Deport people!
Starmer: OMG we have to beat the Reform Party! STOP MORE BOATS! DEPORT MORE PEOPLE! ISLAND OF STRANGERS!
Hannah Spencer: Everybody deserves a nice life.
Starmer: Hannah Spencer is more interested in dividing people than uniting them.
Starmer: OMG we have to beat the Reform Party! STOP MORE BOATS! DEPORT MORE PEOPLE! ISLAND OF STRANGERS!
Hannah Spencer: Everybody deserves a nice life.
Starmer: Hannah Spencer is more interested in dividing people than uniting them.
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The @steinaerts.bsky.social lab is looking for a postdoctoral researcher to develop next-generation sequence-to-function models for glioblastoma, one of the most aggressive brain cancers.
More info & how to apply 👉 https://vib.ai/en/opportunities#/job-description/130090
More info & how to apply 👉 https://vib.ai/en/opportunities#/job-description/130090
February 13, 2026 at 9:02 AM
The @steinaerts.bsky.social lab is looking for a postdoctoral researcher to develop next-generation sequence-to-function models for glioblastoma, one of the most aggressive brain cancers.
More info & how to apply 👉 https://vib.ai/en/opportunities#/job-description/130090
More info & how to apply 👉 https://vib.ai/en/opportunities#/job-description/130090
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New paper from my group in @science.org : "A small polymerase ribozyme that can synthesise itself and its complementary strand" www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Outstanding work by @edogia.bsky.social
Outstanding work by @edogia.bsky.social
February 13, 2026 at 10:57 AM
New paper from my group in @science.org : "A small polymerase ribozyme that can synthesise itself and its complementary strand" www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Outstanding work by @edogia.bsky.social
Outstanding work by @edogia.bsky.social