Professor of Comp Biol at Imperial College London; Programme Leader at MRC LMS. I no longer post here. Find me on @borislenhard.bsky.social

London, UK
Joined February 2014
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If you want to keep people on ILR/ Visas for 10-15 years without any safety nets in a country where literally everything, from the government to the private sector, was designed with the idea that people will have that safety net, then you should exempt them from paying taxes that go that Welfare pot so that they can get private insurance & savings to protect themselves and their families. They cannot contribute their money to a large welfare system that they are not going to benefit from. What kind of extractive system is that? When will the British Empire stop trying to squeeze every last bit it can from people and leave them high and dry? This is not even taking into account that the same people that you want to exclude make up the bulk of the Labour keeping that Welfare system running.
No non-British citizen should be eligible for benefits. Not on a visa. Not on ILR. Never. And we should not grant British citizenship to anyone who is unlikely to be a net fiscal contributor. That should be a necessary condition for naturalisation, even if it is not sufficient.
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Needless to say, the teacher was not banned *because* they told a Muslim child that Britain is a Christian country🙄 I mean that was *one* of the things he said And he was banned *after* several incidences So technically the headline is true, but that’s not the actual story! 🧵 1/12
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If you're watching Reform-controlled Councils with their endless mishaps, resignations, fallouts, scandals, mismanagement and sheer comedic idiocy, but still thinking of making these clowns a national government, representing the UK on the global stage, you are literally insane.
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🚨 We’re hiring! Join our team at the Andalusian Centre for Developmental Biology (CABD, Seville 🇪🇸) as a Research Assistant / Lab Manager 🧬 Hands-on with zebrafish, CRISPR-Cas9, and molecular biology 🧪 👉 Apply / learn more: bogdanoviclab.org
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🔥 Today in @CellCellPress! Drs. Borzo Gharibi & Silvia Santos (@SantosLaB8) led this study showing that GATA3 is required and sufficient for #amniogenesis and BMP and Wnt signals from the amnion contribute to amniogenesis. @TheCrick bit.ly/45bJs0c
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Boris Lenhard retweeted
🌐We've implemented this annotation strategy on a user-hosted web platform, enabling easy data import, query, and export, making it perfect for both internal documentation and large-scale collaborations 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/…
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Our publication in  @genomeresearch presents a new paradigm in genome de novo assembly - using AI instead of classical algorithms. Here, we replace the Layout phase with Graph Neural Networks
GNNome was published in @genomeresearch! This is a novel paradigm for de novo genome assembly based on GNNs. Without explicitly implementing any simplification strategies, it can achieve results comparable or higher than other SOTA tools. Paper, code, and overview are 👇 [1/8]
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🧬 Our annotation structure covers everything from biological sample prep to library creation, sequencing, and processed files, ensuring data quality, comparability, and ease of use across experiments. #bioinformatics #dataquality Explore more: 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/…
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Boris Lenhard retweeted
Very proud to share this work just out in NAR: spearheaded by Jamie Auxillos and Arnauld Stigliani: TLDR-seq, a method for 5’ to 3’ end long-read sequencing of capped RNAs regardless of 3’ end polyadenylation, based on the @nanopore platform. (1/4) tinyurl.com/3c2ksdmr
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A great opportunity in a great group!
We have a postdoctoral opening for a researcher with experience in bioinformatics of DNA sequencing and machine learning to work on the development of new methods for cancer diagnostics related to nucleosomes, chromatin and more jobs.ac.uk/job/DMK060/senior…. Apply by 21st April 2025!
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A new FANTOM6 manuscript, a fantastic collaboration with @BienkoMagda lab. This is about transcontacting intronic RNAs (TIRs). Intron-derived RNAs specifically interact with chromatin, showing interesting patterns particularly, but not only, in neurons biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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A great opportunity - great science, great place to work and live, and an extremely knowledgeable and kind PI.
🚀We're Hiring a Computational Postdoc! Passionate about single-cell analysis? Join us as a Postdoc in Single-Cell Bioinformatics and drive cutting-edge research! For more details, please see below. We look forward to your application! 📢 Apply now: jobs.dkfz.de/en/jobs/167510/…
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🚨Job alert! 🚨 We are hiring a computational postdoc or PhD student focusing on - modeling gene regulation using single cell data - investigating the mechanisms of regulatory genetic variants PhD student: employment.ku.dk/all-vacanci… Postdoc: employment.ku.dk/faculty/?sh…
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Boris Lenhard retweeted
"I'm super excited that I got the EMBO Installation Grant," says new grantee Jelena Bujan @institutrb in #Croatia. She studies ants on Adriatic Islands to understand adaptations to #climatechange. Read more: embo.org/people/adriatic-isl…
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The award winning reporter, Andrew Norfolk, who broke the grooming scandal says that far from covering up the problem, Starmer made the prosecutions possible
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The ONLY way to restore firefighter confidence is to put an arsonist in charge of an evidence-based fire extinguishing agenda
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A PhD position in computational genomics is open in our group at Imperial/MRC LMS! 🌟 Join the DANIO-ReCODE Doctoral Network and work on gene regulation, evolution, development, and tissue regeneration. Deadline: 8 Jan 2025. t.ly/fDdDW
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The position is open to all nationals except those who have resided in the UK for the past year. More about the DANIO-ReCODE doctoral network: danio-recode.eu/
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