Jonathan Coxhead
@4130chromo.bsky.social
Head of #Genomics Core Facility at NCL 🧬 Single-Cell 🧬 Spatial-Transcriptomics 🧬 Next-Generation Sequencing 🧬 MTBing 🚵🏻♂️ Dad & Husband 👨👩👧👦 | ⚽🔴⚪ SAFC 🎫 | 🦋 own views.
It's that time of year again - thank you @yorkrose73.bsky.social 🙏🏼 for the delicious @nigella.bsky.social Guinness Cake 🎂😋
Day off, so went to play in the woods for a bit 🌲🚵🏼🌤️🌳
Burnham unveils £1bn pension fund to ‘reindustrialise Britain’ share.google/Vi79E0IIcRq0...
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Research finds that long stretches of populist rule leave a deep mark: after 15 years with populist leaders, GDP per capita is on average about 10% lower than under a non‐populist counterfactual cepr.org/voxeu/column...
Don’t drain the swamp! Populism, bureaucracy, and economic performance
Populist leaders increasingly cast public sector experts, oversight bodies, and career civil servants as illegitimate ‘elites’ standing in the way of the popular will. But bureaucratic institutions ma...
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#RecipeOfTheDay is Catalan Toast or, as it actually is in Catalan, Pa amb tomaquet. The correct procedure is to rub the olive-oiled dampened toast with garlic and a halved tomato, but I grate it. If we had better tomatoes I’d have more trust in the dabbing-approach! www.nigella.com/recipes/cata...
Catalan Toast
I first came across this in a tapas bar in Barcelona about 100 years ago. Rather different than, say, Italian bruschetta, where the tomatoes are chopped and tumbled on toast, Pa amb tomaquet (as this ...
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How do you determine what people in a community are eating? DNA samples from wastewater! A study of 21 wastewater plants serving 2.1 million people in North Carolina detected 184 plant and 116 animal foods, at a cost of less than one cent per person. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/kQW150ZsmfU
Genome Science UK 2026 nerve centre 🧬🧬 - Manchester share.google/aFa3SxwFvhtt... @pathogenomenick.bsky.social
Burnham announces 20% cut in business rates for pubs, clubs and music venues - live updates - BBC News share.google/JzpISb9eQMwP...
Burnham announces 20% cut in business rates for pubs, clubs and music venues - live updates
The cut will take effect from April, saving the average pub about £1,100 in tax next year, No 10 says.
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🚨 Abstract submission deadline closes this Friday 📝🏃🏼🚨
Jonathan Coxhead@4130chromo.bsky.social · 3w agoAre you going to Genome Science UK 2026 in Manchester 14th-16th September? We know life can get extra busy 😧 before the summer holidays 🏖️ so we've extended abstract submission deadline to 24th July & early bird registration deadline to 10th August 😁 Check out the agenda 🧬🧬 www.genomescience.org.uk
Just had a Teams meeting about Spatial Transcriptomics that included Prof Sir John Burn (Newcastle) and Prof Riccardo Fodde (Erasmus MC). Both had a huge +ve impact on me during my PhD and it was an absolute joy to be chatting with them both about Colorectal Cancer all these these years later 😍
Well done Spain 🇪🇸 TFFT - I cannot wait to get back to domestic football after that nonsense.
Decent day on the Surly Troll - Hartlepool and back along [Sustrans] @walkwheelcyclet.bsky.social route 1 and 14 ☀️🌊 🚴🏼
Read Stewart’s brilliant piece here: www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
Stewart Lee: In a world full of Farage’s ‘pure cold rage’, are we surprised that politicians are being killed?
The shocking death of Ann Widdecombe was greeted by the kind of incendiary far-right speculation and rhetoric that only increases the risk to those in public life
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Goat Passanda 🍛😋 meat c/o a very good friend 🙏🏼 ধন্যবাদ
Collecting data for a study into artificial light at night (ALAN) last night. Slightly flimsy traps but it just goes to show you can make a moth trap out of pretty much anything and on any budget! #TeamMoth
Just bought a sale price nano-air ultralight p/o #bargain 😁
Well done for passing your driving test Dan 🚘🪪😍🥳 Another success for 'CLEUGHY School of Motoring' 🫡👏🏼
Have you registered for Genome Science yet? www.genomescience.org.uk Its going to be in mad for it Manchester September 14th-16th 2026. Lots of great microbial genomics and bioinformatics speakers so make sure you secure a place. Early bird registration ends on 31/7/26.
Liam Gallagher: Oasis Rooftop Walk
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Are you going to Genome Science UK 2026 in Manchester 14th-16th September? We know life can get extra busy 😧 before the summer holidays 🏖️ so we've extended abstract submission deadline to 24th July & early bird registration deadline to 10th August 😁 Check out the agenda 🧬🧬 www.genomescience.org.uk
Genome Science UK 2026
Manchester University
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