Christopher Collins

Abilene

Writer and Editor at Freelance

Writer and editor. Rural Texan. Wildlife enthusiast. Reach me at [email protected]

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HM Treasury And FCA Proposals To Reform Regulation Of UK AIFMs

3 weeks ago | mondaq.com | Neil Robson |Edward Tran |Christopher Collins |Ciara McBrien

On 7 April 2025, HM Treasury (HMT) published a consultation(Consultation) on the reform of the UK regulatory regime foralternative investment funds (AIFs) and their managers, alternativeinvestment fund managers (AIFMs[CM1] ), and the Financial ConductAuthority (FCA) simultaneously published a call for input (Call forInput) on how to create a more proportionate, streamlined andsimplified regime (the Call for Input and the Consultationtogether, the Proposals).
FCA Consults On Second Phase Of Enforcement Investigation Proposals

Jan 27, 2025 | mondaq.com | Carolyn Jackson |Nathaniel W. Lalone |Neil Robson |Christopher Collins

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Exploration of Chemical Space Through Automated Reasoning

Oct 22, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Judith Clymo |Christopher Collins |Katie Atkinson |Matthew S Dyer

1 Introduction The discovery of new materials drives advances in technology through new properties or property combinations that enhance performance in applications. Materials discovery also expands our understanding of chemical bonding through the realisation of new structures, thus opening unexplored paths to property generation and control.
Their Ancestors Survived the Battle of Palo Duro Canyon. 150 Years Later, Native Americans Danced to Pay Tribute.

Oct 8, 2024 | texasmonthly.com | Christopher Collins |Rose Cahalan

Woody Taptto wouldn’t have been in Palo Duro Canyon last month, shaking a metal rattle to the pulsing beat of a drum, if history had played out just a hair differently. The 83-year-old was among the eldest of two dozen dancers gathered at a pavilion on the canyon floor for the gourd dance, a Southern Plains tradition with roots going back to at least the nineteenth century.
Texas State Police Gear Up for Massive Expansion of Surveillance Tech

Aug 26, 2024 | archive.is | Francesca D’Annunzio |Francesca D'Annunzio |Christopher Collins |Naveena Sadasivam

Everything is bigger in Texas—including state police contracts for surveillance tech. In June, the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) signed an acquisition plan for a 5-year, nearly $5.3 million contract for a controversial surveillance tool called Tangles from tech firm PenLink, according to records obtained by the Texas Observer through a public information request.
The Epic Texas Panhandle Fire Is Just a Preview

Apr 17, 2024 | texasobserver.org | Christopher Collins

Editor’s Note: This article is reprinted with permission from the Sierra Club magazine. On February 26, a tiny flame sparked a mile north of the ranching community of Stinnett, Texas. This part of the Texas Panhandle is sparsely populated—Hutchinson County has 20,000 people and roughly the same number of cows—so no one saw the smoldering patch of tall, dry grass where two county roads intersect.
MuhdoAge: A Novel Saliva Based Epigenetic Clock that Has a Strong Association with Ageing in a Healthy, Disease‐Free Cohort

Apr 16, 2024 | preprints.org | Christopher Collins |James Brown |Nathan Berkley

Preprint Article Version 1 This version is not peer-reviewed Version 1 : Received: 12 April 2024 / Approved: 15 April 2024 / Online: 16 April 2024 (07:23:40 CEST) Collins, C.; Brown, J.; Berkley, N. MuhdoAge: A Novel Saliva Based Epigenetic Clock that Has a Strong Association with Ageing in a Healthy, Disease‐Free Cohort. Preprints 2024, 2024040985. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202404.0985.v1 Collins, C.; Brown, J.; Berkley, N.
This Texas Scientist Trains Dogs to Sniff Out Invasive Species

Oct 25, 2023 | texasmonthly.com | Christopher Collins |Rose Cahalan

Two and a half years ago, at the ripe old age of one, Charlie found his calling. Before that spring day in 2021, the German shepherd and golden retriever mix had been cooling his paws inside an animal shelter in Lubbock alongside a multitude of other dogs that had been lost but not yet found. Day after day Charlie was overlooked as his compatriots were whisked away to new owners. Then, just when Charlie thought he’d never be adopted, it happened.
Emerald Ash Borers Are Decimating Texas Trees. Wasps Might Help Defeat Them.

Jul 25, 2023 | texasmonthly.com | Christopher Collins |Rose Cahalan

On an early summer day in 2016, entomologist Jian Duan arrived at a nondescript office building in north Houston to deliver some bad news—and some good. Texas forestry officials had notified Duan a few days before that they’d made an alarming discovery in Harrison County, four hours to the northeast: they had trapped four adult emerald ash borers in a forested area just south of the East Texas hamlet of Karnack.
A New Chapter Is Unfolding in Greenville

May 30, 2023 | texashighways.com | Christopher Collins