James Catterson
Researching neurodegeneration using flies. Based at Edinburgh University. UKDRI.
Also Music. Politics. Ceramics. Leith4Life
- Reposted by James CattersonThis is the stranger’s case, And this your mountainish inhumanity
- Reposted by James Catterson🔴 BREAKING: Labour Together paid controversial PR firm £30k to investigate journalists who were digging into how its undeclared funding Reporters from Sunday Times, Guardian and other outlets targetted *And* Morgan McSweeney knew about it Full story: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/exclusive-...
- Reposted by James CattersonBut, as they say, there is no time like the present [OK, maybe the 1930s if you want to nitpick] But, with some data wrangling, my first NSF Funding Curves! 2/3
- Reposted by James CattersonWeird and almost universal revisionism today. Even at the time, it was pretty clear that Mandelson wasn't appointed *despite* his dodgy links but *because* of them. Trump's Washington is a dirty swamp. Mandelson was deemed a man able to swim in it. This wasn't a secret. Everybody said it out loud.
- Reposted by James CattersonI was a White House ethics lawyer. I used to advise people not to even accept a free cup of coffee from someone who had interests before them. And staff followed those rules. I can’t even find the words to describe the scale of Trump’s corruption here.
- Reposted by James Catterson'"We definitely screwed up" says King...she wishes she'd posted the study as a preprint so that the errors could have been caught sooner' www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- Reposted by James Catterson"AI is rapidly populating medical records with synthetic content, creating a feedback loop [that] drives a rapid erosion of pathological variability and diagnostic reliability...this renders AI generated documentation clinically useless after just two generations" www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...
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- Reposted by James CattersonIt's rare to see how lobbyists operate. But the Epstein-Mandelson correspondence shows us what happens all the time: plutocrats and government ministers conspiring against the public interest. This is why all lobbying should be in the public domain, but despite Labour and Con promises, it's not. 🧵
- Reposted by James CattersonA study using fruit flies as a model can explain aspects of neurodegenerative diseases that have baffled scientists for decades. @poppi62.bsky.social's research focuses on axons - which allow brains to control behaviour and movement. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Reposted by James CattersonMake your gene knockouts more efficient with multiplexed Cas12a sgRNAs. Our new paper is out now, with tools available from @addgene.bsky.social , www.plasmids.eu and @vdrc-flies.bsky.social. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #CRISPR #geneediting #Drosophila 🧪🧬✂️🔬🪰 Summary 🧵 below.
- Reposted by James CattersonTDP43 filaments in synapses
- Reposted by James CattersonSome initial reactions to the 'published on a Sunday afternoon' letter from the CEO of UKRI. 🧵 www.ukri.org/news/open-le...
- Reposted by James Cattersonand no I haven't put the Mandelson-Epstein-Reinaldo scoop on twitter we journalists *can* make Bluesky the place to break news
- Reposted by James CattersonFoldMason is out now in @science.org. It generates accurate multiple structure alignments for thousands of protein structures in seconds. Great work by Cameron L. M. Gilchrist and @milot.bsky.social. 📄 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🌐 search.foldseek.com/foldmason 💾 github.com/steineggerla...
- Reposted by James CattersonWe could have 4 JWST’s or a science mission at every planet. The NIH could be funded for two years. Or 1.5 years or so of USAID funding, if it still existed. This is how they’re spending our tax dollars. This is our money.
- Reposted by James CattersonWorking on two paper rejections/major revisions whilst teaching and fighting for your job with only five months left on your contract is....draining... #academia 🧪
- Reposted by James CattersonNow online! Peripheral cancer attenuates amyloid pathology in Alzheimer’s disease via cystatin-c activation of TREM2
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- Reposted by James CattersonWhat are we doing here Ed tech is profitable. It is also mostly useless economist.com/united-state... from The Economist
- Reposted by James CattersonAbsolutely cracking work here from Jim's team. I defend the BBC a lot, but when a small team is doing really solid work like this while BBC London is doing puff pieces about the Wicked films, it really does make you wonder what's gone wrong with the big news outlets.
- This is one of the strangest and most screwed-up stories I’ve worked on. www.londoncentric.media/p/tiktok-lon...
- Reposted by James CattersonThis week, an X user created an AI video of me being chloroformed and prepared for rape. Victims are told it's not real and they're getting offended for no reason. But nudification tools are weapons of sexual assault, and the harm they cause is real 👇 jessasato.substack.com/p/ai-nudific...
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- Reposted by James Cattersonwww.joxleywrites.jmoxley.co.uk/p/airport-bo... Great piece on “airport book brain” - the tendency of politicians to swallow simplistic solutions. Latest example the Jonathan Haidt book shaping policy on teens and social media
- Reposted by James CattersonI for one am extremely excited for the entire UK media to spend the next few months obsessing over a single constituency in the Westminster Parliament when general elections to Holyrood and the Senedd are rapidly approaching
- Reposted by James CattersonThis UK university finance dashboard is so good. Incredible public service.
- 📊 Just launched: An interactive dashboard for visualising UK university finance data published by HESA. Compare universities. Explore key financial indicators, trends and correlations. 🔗 shiny.psychology.nottingham.ac.uk/lpzjd/uni-fi... #UKHE #OpenData #rstats #AcademicSky
- Reposted by James CattersonGreens or Lib Dems should campaign on ditching all these contracts which are an abomination and a liability.
- Reposted by James CattersonClever new method for assembling DNA oligos into larger sequences without the need for unique overlap sequences. Can't wait for those 'this sequence is too complex' rejection messages from DNA suppliers to become a thing of the past. 🧬🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by James CattersonVery grim. www.ft.com/content/c894...
- Reposted by James Cattersonreading up on the Pitchfork subscription thing. apparently if you don't subscribe you can no longer read every review. and it sounds like their archive of reviews will not be open to non-subscribers anymore either.
- Reposted by James CattersonTrick Bag, Aquarium Drunkard, Stereogum, Hearing Things, a billion independent newsletters…just saying! if you cherish the spot where you read about music, especially if it’s eternally dangling on the precipice of financial oblivion because there’s not a corporation behind it, throw them some money.
- Reposted by James CattersonDeutsche Bank here with the good stuff. Game on.
- Reposted by James CattersonNorthern Lights over Greenland 🇬🇱
- Reposted by James CattersonWhat Europe could do is threaten to boycott the World Cup. It won't. But that might actually work. Trump wants his big show.
- Reposted by James Cattersonpretty sure he meant the other thing, grok, but very cool that those are your two things
- Reposted by James CattersonDelighted to see the vindication of Scotland's position here - not just ScotGov, the policy was approved by Parliament as a whole. It was deliberately wrecked by bully tactics of a right wing UK govt that was willing to sacrifice our environment, our economy and people's jobs, for petty politics.
- Reposted by James CattersonHats off to whoever did this (and the beautiful model).
- Reposted by James CattersonEverybody thinks 'https://' stands for 'hypertext transfer protocol secure' but it actually stands for 'head to this place, sucka' followed by a colon and two laser sounds
- Reposted by James CattersonOh wow: Cryo-EM structure of #TAF15 filaments from postmortem #FTLD brains by the group of Ben Ryskeldi-Falcon at the @mrclmb.bsky.social. What an amazing tour-de-force!! 🤯 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
- Reposted by James CattersonSkipping to one of the other devolved legislatures, if you are not watching the developing political earthquake in Wales, you need to start. A lot of the potential drama of the Holyrood election has evaporated, and good gods has the Senedd stepped up. www.itv.com/news/wales/2...
- Reposted by James CattersonYour occasional reminder that it's not the job of women to stay in toxic spaces in order to civilise men. (This piece is written by a woman, btw.) www.independent.co.uk/voices/grok-...
- Reposted by James CattersonI mean it’s gonna be really hard to top this one
- Reposted by James CattersonIt’s gonna be hard to top this one folks
- Reposted by James CattersonWith great reluctance I have to admit the Americans are being funny on the timeline, at the expense of the British staff cosplaying as pro-Trump US newspaper bosses.
- Checking in on the Washington Post editorial board’s take on the new RFK-approved food pyramid, and I really cannot believe how lazy these people are www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
- Reposted by James CattersonBIG FIGHT AT POLAND’S WROCLAW ZOO!!!
- Reposted by James Cattersonbanning X is a national security issue for every country, plain and simple its explicit goal is to amplify and empower the largest Nazi-adjacent party in every country in which it operates it is also the largest deepfake porn generator in the world this is not a difficult call to make
- Reposted by James CattersonThe world feels rough right now So please enjoy this shrimp, filmed off Cozumel, Mexico. It may be a larval reef shrimp, but we don’t know what species or how long it lives or what it eats. The world is still full of wonder and beauty and mystery. 🎥 @pedrovalenciam scuba diver on Insta
- Reposted by James CattersonAgain, "I only make CSAM for money" would not help an ordinary person's defence, but would aggravate their sentencing.
- Now only paying subscribers can make violent non-consenual sexual imagery of women and children - Grok turns off image generator for most users after outcry over sexualised AI imagery www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
- Reposted by James CattersonIn the week Grok produces images of child sexual abuse, its creator, xAI, has just announced it has closed a $20 billion funding round.
- Reposted by James Cattersonconde nast gave this guy pitchfork, and by my count, 19 staff from my time got cut or left. two years later, he's leaving to work with pharrell. remembering that pitchfork was sold to conde nast with the understanding that conde would be good stewards of the publication. just reminiscing, is all.
