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Ralf Schmid

@ralf_schmid

molecular modeller & bioinformatician, counterculture nostalgist, punk & indie rock appreciationist

 The Midlands
Joined February 2013
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Replying to @CrossCountryUK
@CrossCountryUK with the 18.18 leicester service to Hinckley cancelled, will you add additional stops for the 18.50 service?
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Nil information available at Leicester Station. 18.50 still shown as running. Rumours of replacement bus service. And it's effing cold here.
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‼️TWO DAYS‼️ Get those posters, placards & cold drinks ready for our pickets 🪧☀️ Management have walked out of negotiations & left us no choice. Here’s why we’re striking in defence of cruel wage deductions ➡️ tinyurl.com/mshn3bfd RT if you too say NO to wage theft ✊
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The human ability ChatGPT emulates absolutely best, an makes it so amazingly humanlike, is plain bullshitting.
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By picking on David Attenborough and Gary Lineker, the BBC has effectively declared war on Leicester.
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sigh
nixCraft 🐧 (@nixcraft) profile picturenixCraft 🐧@nixcraft4 Feb 2023
Who here remembers these two?
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Now that #ChatGPT has been shown to produce inane documents indistinguishable from those produced by actual associate deans, vice presidents and other administrators at universities, will these people lose their jobs?
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Very happy to see this paper finally out in @embojournal Congratulations to everyone involved! Want to have the short version? 🧵 The E3 ubiquitin ligase RNF115 regulates phagosome maturation and host response to bacterial infection embopress.org/doi/10.15252/e…
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Stansted airport. People with cold symptoms >>> people wearing masks. What could possibly go wrong.
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what is your personality type?
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#pleasuresofmarking not sure whether the "ATP-synthase asymmetrical monetary gamma subunit" will make up for recent HE pension and salary cuts.
#pleasuresofmarking just encountered the concept of "proton pimping"
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Let them eat cake
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@SkyNews16 May 2022
A government minister has suggested that people struggling with the cost of living should take on more hours or move to a better-paid job. Read more: trib.al/2ygvWaw

Get 'better paid job' for protection

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@xkcd11 May 2022
Selection Bias xkcd.com/2618
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.@USSEmployers institutions combine the worst of both worlds: public sector pay increases and private sector pensions.👇 xitter.gq/LEMacKz/status/1523652…
Lewis MacKenzie (@LEMacKz) profile pictureLewis MacKenzie@LEMacKz9 May 2022
Replying to @NormaCohen3 @BallABDN @MikeOtsuka
If only salary is was comparable to the private sector eh? 🙄 I seem to recall our salaries get compared to the public sector often.
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I may be a little biased here, but I can strongly recommend our MSc in #Bioinformatics
CLS PGT (@cls_pgt) profile pictureCLS PGT@cls_pgt8 Apr 2022
Any of our postgraduate courses take your fancy? For more info 👇 le.ac.uk/cls
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CLS PGT@cls_pgt7 Apr 2022
Hey 👋 We’re new to Twitter!! Give us a follow if you’re interested in taking one of our College of Life Sciences PGT taught courses @uniofleicester 🎓 #masters #courses #highered
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It is vital that the chair of the USS JNC notes that UUK’s cuts are not necessary and recognises her role in remedying the current situation and ensuring a fair outcome for members of the USS scheme. Sign the petition today #OneofUsAllOfUs speakout.web.ucu.org.uk/uss-…
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@ucu31 Mar 2022
🚨‼️ BREAKING: USS trustees have confirmed that the basis for cuts has disappeared, as assets hit £88bn. We need you to urgently: ❌ Lobby your VC to ask UUK to revoke the cuts: ucu.org.uk/article/12114/Ema… 📝 Sign the emergency petition to the JNC chair: speakout.web.ucu.org.uk/uss-…
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In his reply👇to an Open Letter, @UniversitiesUK @USSEmployers CEO @AlistairJarvis writes: "It is regrettable that a @UCU proposal was formally tabled at the JNC so late in the day..." 🧵documenting the impressive quantity of bad faith & mendacity packed into Jarvis's words. 1/
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