life sciences, systems, neuroscience,mental hlth, wine,gardens,gargoyles, wales may intrude. I cross boundaries. Speaking in my own voice. @johnhuww.bsky.social
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SLC can’t process repayments correctly and they can’t process complaints on a timely way!
“escalated his complaint about the repayment process to the SLC’s panel of independent assessors but has been told there will be a delay of around four months.”
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Wales is there to be exploited and despoiled!
There are reasonable solutions that avoid destroying areas of outstanding natural beauty!
Britain's growth problem is a grid problem.
We paid almost £2bn last year to switch wind farms off because the grid couldn't carry the power. Households are struggling under weight of rising bills and British industry pays more than double what US firms pay for electricity. Investors make decisions worth billions based on that.
So much gets unlocked once there's a national consensus to throw everything at the grid. Planning. Capital. Just go at it. Winning that argument, while taking the decisions now to speed up the rollout, should be the political priority.
Which is why it's crazy for Wales to even contemplate making it slower and more expensive.
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National Museum confirmed at Senedd Culture Committee this week:
- Closure a "matter of when not if".
- Two years needed for planning alone.
- £66m needed just for mechanical, plumbing and electrical work.
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Professor @LauraMcAllister looks carefully at the causes of Welsh Labour's election disaster in her latest WalesOnline column and the mistakes it has made since
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“The reality is something beautiful is being extinguished. It feels like the sporting arm of a process that has been called the enshittification of modern life, where the bottom line is the only line, where everything must be reduced to stupidity..”
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Different circumstances but given the negativity re Palantir should we question this “investment” and the “influence” it buys?
“Narayan said the lab — to be backed by up to £200mn worth of AI model credits from US developers OpenAI and Anthropic”
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“The government's policy would allow for wooden poles or "equivalent, less intrusive infrastructure" to be used to support overhead cables where undergrounding isn't feasible.”
An important issue for the Tywi valley ….
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“But when you try to strip away all the freight that wine has been compelled to carry, what is left?”
“A beautiful, delicious beverage that can quench a thirst, delight those gathered around a dining table” nytimes.com/2026/10/15/dinin…
“over a dozen companies are developing products based on ketamine, the generic anesthetic that in recent years has become a popular treatment for mental health conditions.”nytimes.com/2026/10/20/scien…
“We need a new clinical vocabulary to talk about this diagnostic blurriness.”
A thought provoking reflection on a complex issue.
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“Over the past 18 months pharma groups, including AstraZeneca, Sana Biotechnology and Tempest Therapeutics, have pursued so-called investigator-initiated trials (IITs) with Chinese partners to take advantage of a fast-track route into clinical testing.”
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“the Chinese IIT system still provides an unusually rapid path to human testing for certain cutting-edge treatments, allowing companies to generate preliminary data before committing to the more extensive trials needed to bring a drug to market.”
“Centre of Research Excellence for Human Neural Development, hopes to transform understanding of start-of-life neurology and suggest possible therapies for use before debilitating neurodevelopmental difficulties become entrenched.”
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Nobel laureate @KarlDeisseroth came to neuroscience through words. His love of literature and writing drew him toward the human brain, and a required psychiatry rotation in medical school set him on the path to developing optogenetics. Here, he traces that journey.
A picture that tells you all you need to know about the efficacy of the product
He looks like a character in Thunderbirds !
111SKIN: the origins of the serum loved by the A-list
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