Dr Keith Walker @SteelFolk@qoto.org

Congress was a chaotic place yesterday, not only because the GOP Speaker once again had to rely on Democrats to keep the government from shutting down, but because threats and fights broke out in the open. It would be laughable if it weren’t so dangerous. https://open.substack.com/pub/statuskuo/p/failures-and-fisticuffs?r=1zr8b&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Hello science friends! Can anyone point me towards some resources that I could use learn how to do a de novo genome assembly from long reads (@nanopore)? Mammalian species, no reference genome exists. An equally exciting and daunting task.... Please share #neuroscience #genomics

Me on the Rwanda court decision at @FT

https://www.ft.com/content/c040946a-c294-4a89-808e-46c8b2f2f414

The UK government was told *one year ago* that the Rwanda arrangement should be a treaty and not a mere MoU

Here is the House of Lords report from October 2022: https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld5803/ldselect/ldintagr/71/71.pdf

The Home Office ignored this prescient report

The Supreme Court explicitly states that today's Rwanda appeal decision does not depend on ECHR.

In other words: UK leaving ECHR would not make a difference to this decision.

#UKPolitics
Enjoy the moment that the Rwanda deportation plan is stopped by the courts, by all means.

But this was always going to happen andbthey knew that at the start, they wanted to be seen to be stopped from fullfilling the will of 'the people'* by "Liberal judges" and the dastardly Human rights laws...because those laws are the true target. If they stay in power that's what comes next.

*gullible racist cunts

Pioneering female journalist Nellie Bly begins a successful attempt to travel around the world in less than 80 days #OTD in 1889.

In 1888, Bly suggested to her editor at the New York World that she take a trip around the world, attempting to turn the fictional Around the World in Eighty Days (1873) into fact for the first time. A year later, at 9:40 a.m. on November 14, 1889, and with two days' notice, she boarded the Augusta Victoria and began her 24,898 mile journey. via @wikipedia

#books

I’m sure appointing the man whose poor judgement led to Brexit is the best way to restore the nation’s international credibility ruined by Brexit.

Today a record-breaking 85,000+ people joined the #klimaatmars in Amsterdam! Among them were 200+ scientists who also refuse to remain silent.

The science is clear, and so are the demands of those who showed up today: we need immediate climate action!

#decrisisisnu #klimaatmars #climatecrisis

We now regularly hear that even conservative, Trump-appointed judges have ordered states like Alabama and Louisiana to redraw their Congressional maps. What this means is that these courts AGREED these state had engaged in racist gerrymanders to dilute Black votes. Shameful.

So it turned out that the real threat to the sanctity of Remembrance weekend came from the very far-right thugs first legitimised by the Home Secretary herself

https://www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-far-right-hate-marchers-whipped

Austrian Physicist Lise Meitner was born #OTD in 1878. She was the first to pinpoint the atomic phenomenon now known as the Auger effect, but it was credited to Pierre Auger who independently discovered it months after her. Years later when she made a breakthrough in identifying and understanding nuclear fission, her findings were published only under the name of her collaborator, Otto Hahn, who later also received the Nobel Prize for this discovery. via @IAEA

#science #physics