Simon Cook
@drsimoncook.bsky.social
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Researching Cell Signalling at the Babraham Institute @babrahaminst.bsky.social Walker; watching woodpeckers; tree hugger; listening to The Jam. European. Views my own. I could go on for hours and I probably will....
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sarahcalvert.bsky.social
Absolutely outrageous that a flagship BBC political programme's presenter won't interview a political leader. A public service disservice.
bladeofthes.bsky.social
Laura Kuenssberg has interviewed all the Party Leaders with more than 10% in the polls.

Except Zack Polanski.

She cancelled his interview and now refuses to do it.

They are scared of Zack, they are scared of you.
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drsimoncook.bsky.social
This 👇 Precisely this!
profmarciniak.bsky.social
Many things at play here, but hard to ignore the fact that the UK left an enormous trading bloc and raised barriers to commerce with its nearest neighbours for petty nationalist reasons based on disinformation.

Want economic growth and improved regional investment?

Rejoin the EU.
tomcalver.bsky.social
🇵🇱 My @thetimes column: Poland’s economic miracle

12 out of 17 Polish regions are now richer than West Wales. It has faster internet, cheaper electricity and more high speed rail than Britain

When it comes to regional development it’s the UK, not Poland, that needs to catch up

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profmarciniak.bsky.social
Many things at play here, but hard to ignore the fact that the UK left an enormous trading bloc and raised barriers to commerce with its nearest neighbours for petty nationalist reasons based on disinformation.

Want economic growth and improved regional investment?

Rejoin the EU.
tomcalver.bsky.social
🇵🇱 My @thetimes column: Poland’s economic miracle

12 out of 17 Polish regions are now richer than West Wales. It has faster internet, cheaper electricity and more high speed rail than Britain

When it comes to regional development it’s the UK, not Poland, that needs to catch up

1/3
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alisterburt.bsky.social
Don Fawcett’s big red book The Cell is available for free online!!

There are a bajillion cryo-ET projects in there, recommend a physical copy if you can find one - it’s my favourite coffee table book
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michaelemann.bsky.social
When Fox News lies, people die | We explain on PBS Newshour how the antiscience disinformation spread by the Murdoch media empire and especially Fox News, likely lead to hundreds of thousands of unnecessary deaths in the U.S. And that's just COVID-19. Their fossil fuel disinformation is as deadly.
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zackpolanski.bsky.social
Ever since I finished Question Time, Reform have massively been on the attack.

Including a rant from Richard Tice entirely designed to distract from Reform and Russia.

Everyone should know about Nathan Gill, the bribes from Russia and the link to Reform.
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angierasmussen.bsky.social
I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.
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drsimoncook.bsky.social
Always loved Frances MacDonald's work. In discussions of Glasgow art she is often overlooked in favour of Charles Rennie Mackintosh but her work is fabulous
womensartbluesky.bsky.social
Girl in the East Wind with Ravens Passing the Moon, 1893 by Glasgow School artist Frances MacDonald #WomensArt
Painting of a stylised white woman in a pale green dress standing facing left in front of a full moon as five or more ravens fly past to the left against a dark sky
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rbreich.bsky.social
Journalist Edward R. Murrow used his platform on CBS to criticize the witch hunts led by Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s.

This is what real journalism should do — hold power to account, not capitulate to it.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social
Elin Thomas, UK textile artist who uses embroidery/crochet to create unique work resembling petri dishes and bacteria spores #womensart
Photo looking down on four petri dishes, neatly arranged, with what resembles bacteria and mould growing inside created with crochet and embroidery
drsimoncook.bsky.social
Well this sounds pretty cool
science.org
In a new Science study, researchers show that lysosomes, degradative organelles activated by food limitation, stimulate epigenetic changes that contribute to transgenerational longevity in C. elegans.

📄: https://scim.ag/4gOlR9N
#SciencePerspective: https://scim.ag/3IOqNyH
From lysosome to longevity: Overexpression of the lysosomal lipase LIPL-4 in Caenorhabditiselegans results in methylation of lysine 79 on histone H3 (H3K79),which increases transcription of the gene encoding histone variantHIS-71. HIS-71 is shuttled from intestine to oocytes through association with yolk particles. On arrival, it is methylated and becomes associated with germ line DNA. These events promote longevity in wild-type descendants for several generations.
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simonbayly.bsky.social
Not what I predicted, but an important discovery that Brunkow and Ramsdell worked on while at a UK biotech company (Celltech Chiroscience)
nature.com
BREAKING: The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded jointly to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi "for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance"

Stay tuned for more.
#NobelPrize
A photo of a Nobel medal
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elmcitytree.blacksky.app
James Baldwin to Angela Davis in 1970, discussing white Americans:
Or, to put it another way, as long as white Americans take refuge in their whiteness— for so long as they are unable to walk out of this most monstrous of traps-they will allow millions of people to be slaughtered in their name, and will be manipulated into and surrender themselves to what they will think of-and justify—as a racial war. They will never, so long as their whiteness puts so sinister a distance between themselves and their own experience and the experience of others, feel themselves sufficiently human, sufficiently worthwhile, to become responsible for themselves, their leaders, their country, their children, or their fate. They will perish (as we once put it in our black church) in their sins—that is, in their delusions. And this is happening, needless to say, already, all around us.
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