Mikhail Spivakov
mspivakov.bsky.social
Mikhail Spivakov
@mspivakov.bsky.social
Genomics biologist. Group leader at MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences, Hon. Senior Lecturer (Associate Prof.) at Imperial College London.

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https://functionalgenecontrol.group
Voice isn't enough either. I'm going to watch the voting record closely...
November 17, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Congratulations Alexi and team!
October 31, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Reposted by Mikhail Spivakov
The costs of the UK’s Global Talent Visa looks a trifle high in comparison to competitor countries - largely through the Immigration Health Surcharge (which critics say is a form of double taxation as they contribute to the NHS through normal tax on their earnings)
October 21, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Our departing flight was once moved to a different airport in France, because at the small airport it was supposed to take off from, firefighters went home.
October 19, 2025 at 7:49 AM
If you are interested in studying enhancers, enhancer-promoter communication and/or enhancer-based gene regulatory networks using multidisciplinary approaches, feel free to send an informal inquiry or watch the space on findAphd.com and lms.mrc.ac.uk, where the ads will go live soon!
October 9, 2025 at 7:17 AM
A great collaboration between Marina Nocente and Monica Della Rosa in our lab, and human naive pluripotency experts Maria Rostovskaya and Peter Rugg-Gunn in Cambridge.
October 3, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Sounds cool, thanks for sharing!
September 21, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Hi Alexis, not sure if I'm on your list - would love to be added if not. Thanks!
August 28, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Congrats Arnaud and team, exciting stuff!
August 19, 2025 at 10:27 AM
...and a welcoming Ryanair check-in gate with no queue!
August 14, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I have no doubt about that - but this in itself is commendable :)
June 24, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Wow. Saying this as someone trained in classical piano...
June 24, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Sounds cool!
June 9, 2025 at 4:39 PM
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This is all a painful deja vu from 2007. And it's important to remember that despite all the suffering and literal lives lost (www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this...) Labour had lost hopelessly then to the party whose policies it tried to mimic.
I got British citizenship via the five-year route. Labour’s new 10-year rule will cause untold pain | Nesrine Malik
Starmer claims to want integration. Yet denying people safety, belonging and the right to vote for a decade amounts to the exact opposite, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
www.theguardian.com
June 2, 2025 at 6:51 AM