Rob Richards
@robrichards.bsky.social
Retired Professor of Genetics. Mid-century modern. Interest in an autoinflammatory mechanism for neurodegenerative diseases https://academic.oup.com/hmg/article/27/R2/R108/4976601
HEARING AID USERS The national alert that is going off today at 2pm will affect hearing aids if they’re connected via Bluetooth to your phone. It is advisable to disconnect your hearing aids from Bluetooth temporarily because the alarm is very loud. #NationalAlert /nicked from FB
#Medsky🧪 #neurosky Confined migration induces non-lethal DNA damage in developing neurons. As neurons migrate to their final destinations in the forming 🧠 , their DNA gets damaged. 🧠 has evolved a fix,but there can be lasting consequences if repair fails. @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Navigating a crowded developing brain leaves neurons with broken DNA
As neurons migrate to their final destinations in the forming brain, their DNA gets damaged. The brain has evolved a fix, but there can be lasting consequences if repair fails.
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Exploration of the genetic neuroinflammatory environment in the human midcingulate cortex in Huntington’s disease idp.nature.com/authorize?re...
Exploration of the genetic neuroinflammatory environment in the human midcingulate cortex in Huntington’s disease - Communications Medicine
Ferguson et al. analyze transcriptomic changes in the midcingulate cortex from Huntington’s disease (HD) brain samples. Authors find that neuroinflammation-related transcripts are overrepresented in H...
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@senatorwong.bsky.social actions speak much louder than words. Please do something.
Zohran Mandani is consistently proving that if your politicians wanted to help you, they absolutely could.
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Under the cover of budget night, Government rejects recommended gambling ad ban
The Government has now released its formal response to the Australian parliament’s inquiry into online gambling and gambling advertising. The response was tabled in Parliament at about 4pm on the Tues...
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Fossil fuel industry degree program - everyone on the planet gets their first degree on us. No need for a tertiary education. Indeed the FFI is working on a second free, compulsory degree as a parting gift for the world.
The late Pet Murphy MP's gambling harm report "You win some, you lose more" was released on 28 June 2023. The Albanese government's response to her report was released today, 1,049 days later. It was timed to hit during the Budget lock-up, when nobody is paying attention.
“Just do it, and stop the crap.” 💥🔥 You can see why gas giants are worried. When the guy who wrote the book on Australian tax reform calls for a 25% gas export tax this bluntly, it would be gross negligence for the government to ignore it. Thank you, Ken Henry. #auspol
This is incredible news. @marquelawyers.com.au any chance of getting this sort of thing in Australian legal system? www.facebook.com/share/p/1L4M...
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Even if it’s not true, it’s still very funny.
Bluesky Fanatic@blueskyfanatic.bsky.social · 4mo agoSEEN ON ANOTHER PLATFORM: (Hope it happened!) "BREAKING: The Hungarian Association of Banjo Players protested JD Vance's campaign for Viktor Orbán by playing the "Dueling Banjos" song from the movie Deliverance through electric amplifiers outside his hotel each morning starting at 5am. ===========
AI Poetry Rage, rage against the extinguishing of the photons. Poor old lady she swallowed a Lucilia caprina If you can retain your cranium when those about you, are losing theirs and blaming it on you.
You might think that the people running our tertiary education system would be familiar with Aesop’s Fables, especially this one en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Goo... www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...
The 'enshitification' of the system has left Australia's unis at a crossroad
A generation ago, studying in Australia opened doors. Today rising costs and falling satisfaction are making international students think twice, and locals feel sidelined.
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FINALLY! 1000 days since Peta tabled her Parliament Inquiry, Albo is supporting and implementing the Murphy report - Gambling Harms! recommendations. Read now www.afr.com/politics/fed... #auspol #Australia #GamblingHarms #Australia #Sports #EndSportsBetting
This is all too real. These days, satire is just news but in teaser format.
@jasonclaremp.bsky.social you’ve had nearly 5 years to “eat the elephant”, why don’t you take it out of the room and replace it with a watchdog with teeth to accredit tertiary education institutions so their funding is dependent upon the delivery of clear, beneficial community expectations?
This morning @edhusicmp.bsky.social told media that the government should call gas companies’ bluff on export tax live.thepoint.com.au
The Point Live: National cabinet to discuss fuel, food affordability and supply, Andrew Hastie pushes Coalition to embrace reality
The nation's leaders will meet today to discuss the next steps in keeping fuel supplied to Australians and tackle the coming food affordability crisis, as the energy wars come back to bite. Meanwhile...
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Minister @jasonclaremp.bsky.social your tertiary education sector is infected with parasites. What are you doing about this?
@jasonclaremp.bsky.social why is it taking you so long to do something effective to return tertiary education to a functional state? www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...
'Out of the pocket of taxpayers': Unis spend $1.8b on consultants and contractors
Consultancies have been accused of infiltrating universities and wasting scarce public funds on questionable advice about cutting courses and jobs.
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“War is an easy thing to talk about” www.instagram.com/reel/DVoR7D4...
The British Silo on Instagram: "Remembering the words of Tony Benn this morning, I’m struck by how powerful simple humanity can be in political debate. In his speech to the House of Commons on 17 Febr...
257K likes, 2,017 comments - britishsilo on March 5, 2026: "Remembering the words of Tony Benn this morning, I’m struck by how powerful simple humanity can be in political debate. In his speech to the...
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“More than 30 No Kings rallies took place across Montana, drawing more than 10,000 to Missoula and at least 5,000 in Billings, according to organizers.” dailymontanan.com/2026/03/28/p...
Protestors back at Montana Capitol, other ‘No King’ rallies double
Issues from No Kings protests across Montana ranged from threat of authoritarianism to war, healthcare and reproductive freedom
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