Jeffrey Barrett
@jeffbarrett.eu
USA->UK->Finland. Posting about 'omics technologies and the great outdoors (among other things).
Polar night begins in Finnish Lapland. Forecast for Utsjoki notes the next sunrise is January 17th. 😣
November 25, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Polar night begins in Finnish Lapland. Forecast for Utsjoki notes the next sunrise is January 17th. 😣
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Great map of European soil -- so many different things to pick up on.
November 25, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Great map of European soil -- so many different things to pick up on.
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Amazing, depressing article about RFK Jr by Michael Scherer in The Atlantic. This graf at the end stayed with me. Our national policy is now based on the difference between 17 and 21 outcomes out of populations of 22000. As usual, hard to know if it is stupidity or dishonesty.
November 24, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Amazing, depressing article about RFK Jr by Michael Scherer in The Atlantic. This graf at the end stayed with me. Our national policy is now based on the difference between 17 and 21 outcomes out of populations of 22000. As usual, hard to know if it is stupidity or dishonesty.
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Boston's Mayor Wu playing with Yo-Yo Ma at Symphony Hall
November 23, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Boston's Mayor Wu playing with Yo-Yo Ma at Symphony Hall
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Sad to hear about reductions at the MIT Libraries… I have happy memories of digging around in the ancient, musty-smelling stacks to find an obscure journal article, or going looking for a single oddball book & finding even more interesting things on nearby shelves.
libraries.mit.edu/about/vision...
libraries.mit.edu/about/vision...
Our approach to budget reductions at the MIT Libraries | About us
November 19, 2025 Dear members of the MIT community, I write to share important information about the ways MIT Libraries will reorganize to take account of budget pressures facing the Institute and ...
libraries.mit.edu
November 21, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Sad to hear about reductions at the MIT Libraries… I have happy memories of digging around in the ancient, musty-smelling stacks to find an obscure journal article, or going looking for a single oddball book & finding even more interesting things on nearby shelves.
libraries.mit.edu/about/vision...
libraries.mit.edu/about/vision...
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Broad Street featuring some red ivy 🍂
📷 Instagram | Luis_Louis_Lewis (November, 2023)
📷 Instagram | Luis_Louis_Lewis (November, 2023)
November 19, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Broad Street featuring some red ivy 🍂
📷 Instagram | Luis_Louis_Lewis (November, 2023)
📷 Instagram | Luis_Louis_Lewis (November, 2023)
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Happy birthday to David Ortiz, who is 50.
Still can’t figure out why the Cardinals kept pitching to him in ‘13.
Still can’t figure out why the Cardinals kept pitching to him in ‘13.
November 18, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Happy birthday to David Ortiz, who is 50.
Still can’t figure out why the Cardinals kept pitching to him in ‘13.
Still can’t figure out why the Cardinals kept pitching to him in ‘13.
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The Ashes - known to me as my biennial attempt to pass myself off as a cricket fan - gets underway this week.
There's something really very wonderful about 5 day, unlimited over test cricket that, for me at least, cannot be reproduced in T20, ODIs or any other audience friendly format.
There's something really very wonderful about 5 day, unlimited over test cricket that, for me at least, cannot be reproduced in T20, ODIs or any other audience friendly format.
November 17, 2025 at 8:35 AM
The Ashes - known to me as my biennial attempt to pass myself off as a cricket fan - gets underway this week.
There's something really very wonderful about 5 day, unlimited over test cricket that, for me at least, cannot be reproduced in T20, ODIs or any other audience friendly format.
There's something really very wonderful about 5 day, unlimited over test cricket that, for me at least, cannot be reproduced in T20, ODIs or any other audience friendly format.
This is the way.
relatedly, your images, text, and especially graphs/figures can almost always be bigger than you're making them
one thing I force myself to do is never present multi-panel figures in talks. just put each panel on its own slide then it will be huge. it's hard to read graphs from far away!
eg:
one thing I force myself to do is never present multi-panel figures in talks. just put each panel on its own slide then it will be huge. it's hard to read graphs from far away!
eg:
November 18, 2025 at 7:37 AM
This is the way.
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Welcome to our webinar “Multiomics from a single blood sample: combining Nightingale metabolomics with NULISA proteomics to brain health research and beyond” on 25 November at 3 p.m. CET!
The webinar will be run jointly by experts from Nightingale and Alamar.
Sign up: www.lyyti.fi/reg/webinar-...
Sign up: www.lyyti.fi/reg/webinar-...
November 17, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Welcome to our webinar “Multiomics from a single blood sample: combining Nightingale metabolomics with NULISA proteomics to brain health research and beyond” on 25 November at 3 p.m. CET!
The webinar will be run jointly by experts from Nightingale and Alamar.
Sign up: www.lyyti.fi/reg/webinar-...
Sign up: www.lyyti.fi/reg/webinar-...
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Saturn’s rings remain disconcertingly thin
November 16, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Saturn’s rings remain disconcertingly thin
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Stopped in the Rockwell museum in western Mass a few years ago. Surprisingly great.
65 years ago on Nov. 14, little Ruby Bridges was escorted into an all-white elementary school in New Orleans. Norman Rockwell, renowned for blissful depictions of Americana, did this remarkable painting for Look magazine. Printed as a double page, over-size spread, it's his masterpiece.
November 15, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Stopped in the Rockwell museum in western Mass a few years ago. Surprisingly great.
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Congratulations to Richard Durbin on being awarded our Genetics Society Medal!
November 14, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Congratulations to Richard Durbin on being awarded our Genetics Society Medal!
Congratulations Hilary!
Congratulations @hilarycmartin.bsky.social from @sangerinstitute.bsky.social on being awarded the 2026 Balfour Lecture!
November 14, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Congratulations Hilary!
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Congratulations @hilarycmartin.bsky.social from @sangerinstitute.bsky.social on being awarded the 2026 Balfour Lecture!
November 14, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Congratulations @hilarycmartin.bsky.social from @sangerinstitute.bsky.social on being awarded the 2026 Balfour Lecture!
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Personal favourites:
* Smedley Crooke, MP for Birmingham Deritend
* Seymour Cocks, MP for Broxtowe
* Waldron Smithers, MP for Chislehurst
* Dingle Foot, MP for Dundee and Ipswich
* Bartle Bull, MP for Enfield
* Isidore Salmon, MP for Harrow
* Smedley Crooke, MP for Birmingham Deritend
* Seymour Cocks, MP for Broxtowe
* Waldron Smithers, MP for Chislehurst
* Dingle Foot, MP for Dundee and Ipswich
* Bartle Bull, MP for Enfield
* Isidore Salmon, MP for Harrow
November 10, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Personal favourites:
* Smedley Crooke, MP for Birmingham Deritend
* Seymour Cocks, MP for Broxtowe
* Waldron Smithers, MP for Chislehurst
* Dingle Foot, MP for Dundee and Ipswich
* Bartle Bull, MP for Enfield
* Isidore Salmon, MP for Harrow
* Smedley Crooke, MP for Birmingham Deritend
* Seymour Cocks, MP for Broxtowe
* Waldron Smithers, MP for Chislehurst
* Dingle Foot, MP for Dundee and Ipswich
* Bartle Bull, MP for Enfield
* Isidore Salmon, MP for Harrow
😱
Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
November 10, 2025 at 4:19 PM
😱
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Flying Squirrel Loves It Every Time
November 5, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Flying Squirrel Loves It Every Time
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The Sandwich Guy’s prosecutor seems unfamiliar with both baseball and the meaning of the verb “spike”
We have reached the moment the footlong was flung. “He spikes it, throws it like a baseball.” It strikes Agent Lairmore in the chest — “he says he could feel it.” Government acknowledges prosecution is not alleging he needed medical treatment.
November 5, 2025 at 6:47 PM
The Sandwich Guy’s prosecutor seems unfamiliar with both baseball and the meaning of the verb “spike”
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🚨 NEW: The majority holder of the world's genetic sequence data is a bad actor who can cut off access to critics and competing services. We've tolerated this for years, and now it threatens the pandemic treaty. Time for WHO to step in. With @ctrlalttim.com: www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/to-f...
To Finish the Pandemic Agreement, WHO Needs a Trustworthy Viral Database | Think Global Health
Online platforms for sharing virus sequences are in disarray. The World Health Organization has a chance to build something new
www.thinkglobalhealth.org
November 5, 2025 at 3:31 PM
🚨 NEW: The majority holder of the world's genetic sequence data is a bad actor who can cut off access to critics and competing services. We've tolerated this for years, and now it threatens the pandemic treaty. Time for WHO to step in. With @ctrlalttim.com: www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/to-f...
WHAT A SPEECH. Read the whole thing via the link. My fave:
“More than a million of us stood in our churches, in gymnasiums, in community centers, as we filled in the ledger of democracy. And while we cast our ballots alone, we chose hope together.”
“More than a million of us stood in our churches, in gymnasiums, in community centers, as we filled in the ledger of democracy. And while we cast our ballots alone, we chose hope together.”
The full transcript of Zohran Mamdani's acceptance speech is very much worth reading in full. Even if you don't agree with your politics, it's very beautifully put together.
archive.is/8VqQJ
[this is a useable link to the NYT transcript]
archive.is/8VqQJ
[this is a useable link to the NYT transcript]
November 5, 2025 at 12:35 PM
WHAT A SPEECH. Read the whole thing via the link. My fave:
“More than a million of us stood in our churches, in gymnasiums, in community centers, as we filled in the ledger of democracy. And while we cast our ballots alone, we chose hope together.”
“More than a million of us stood in our churches, in gymnasiums, in community centers, as we filled in the ledger of democracy. And while we cast our ballots alone, we chose hope together.”
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😎😎😎😎 GOOD THINGS CAN STILL HAPPEN 😎😎😎😎
November 5, 2025 at 5:22 AM
😎😎😎😎 GOOD THINGS CAN STILL HAPPEN 😎😎😎😎
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Have you registered for our annual Scientific Conference on 8th December?
Join @jeffbarrett.eu from @nightingalehealth.com and many more researchers, industry experts and the UK Biobank team for a day of innovation and discovery.
Join @jeffbarrett.eu from @nightingalehealth.com and many more researchers, industry experts and the UK Biobank team for a day of innovation and discovery.
November 4, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Have you registered for our annual Scientific Conference on 8th December?
Join @jeffbarrett.eu from @nightingalehealth.com and many more researchers, industry experts and the UK Biobank team for a day of innovation and discovery.
Join @jeffbarrett.eu from @nightingalehealth.com and many more researchers, industry experts and the UK Biobank team for a day of innovation and discovery.
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Collyhurst cowboy, Manchester, January 1968, photo by Dennis Hussey.
November 1, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Collyhurst cowboy, Manchester, January 1968, photo by Dennis Hussey.