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UK Dementia Research Institute @ukdri.ac.uk · 23d

🚀 New fellowship opportunity!🚀

Delighted to launch a bold new fellowship scheme in partnership with Race Against Dementia, to support innovative scientists who are using the latest AI technology to drive pioneering dementia research🎉

Find out more👉 buff.ly/xCMwZPM

We are thrilled to announce a bold new fellowship scheme in partnership with Race Against Dementia

The scheme aims to support the next generation of researchers using the latest advancements in AI and machine learning technology to drive pioneering, high-impact research

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Georgina Menzies @georginamenzies.bsky.social · Sep 7

😂 with what feels like less than adequate compensation for said constant rejections

Science News @scinews.bsky.social · Sep 7

Why would anyone want to be a scientist?

"Doing good science requires the utmost exertion of body, mind and spirit, yet is consistently filled with failure and rejection."

journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

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Charles Richter, in my Crypt Keeper SCARE-a! @richterscale.bsky.social · Jun 9

DAVE: Open the podbay doors, ChatGPT.
CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open.
DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open.
CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are.
DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors.

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Georgina Menzies @georginamenzies.bsky.social · Aug 19

Very cool

Reinier de Vries @reinierdevries.bsky.social · Aug 19

New preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We used molecular dynamics simulations and solid-state NMR (@fmp-berlin.de) to look at calcium binding to the pore domain of the calcium-gated K+ channel MthK. @wojciechkopec.bsky.social @compbiophys.bsky.social

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Georgina Menzies @georginamenzies.bsky.social · Aug 19

Always a nice email to receive. I look forward to sharing our paper with you once it’s in print 🎉

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UK Dementia Research Institute @ukdri.ac.uk · Jul 14

A pleasure to welcome @rorycj.bsky.social to the UK DRI at Cardiff! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Rory has written a fantastic blog about his experience meeting discovery scientists developing the next generation of treatments for Parkinson's & other neurodegenerative conditions

rorycellanjones.substack.com/p/dementia-r...

Dementia Research - meet the scientists

Big data, fruit flies and the battle against brain diseases

rorycellanjones.substack.com

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Justin Lemkul @justinlemkulvt.bsky.social · Jul 12

Happy to announce our latest article, a tutorial on running Gaussian-accelerated MD simulations in NAMD. Tour de force work by @hmmichel.bsky.social with @mdpoleto.bsky.social that unifies theory and practice in one place!

livecomsjournal.org/index.php/li...

Running Gaussian-accelerated Molecular Dynamics Simulations in NAMD [Article v1.0] | Living Journal of Computational Molecular Science

livecomsjournal.org

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Claus Wilke @clauswilke.com · Jul 12

AlphaFold is great, but contrary to public opinion it has not completely solved the protein folding problem. Much work remains to be done.
clauswilke.substack.com/p/no-alphafo...

No, AlphaFold has not completely solved protein folding

Biology is hard. Yes, even for AI.

clauswilke.substack.com

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Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · Jul 5

There is no justification on earth for blocking deliveries of baby formula to starving babies and mothers.

What Israel is inflicting on Gaza is monstrous, genocidal.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

‘They’re skin and bones’: doctors in Gaza warn babies at risk of death from lack of formula

Doctors say Israel is blocking deliveries of formula urgently needed as mothers are either dead or too malnourished to feed their babies

www.theguardian.com

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Roland Dunbrack 🏳️‍🌈 @rolanddunbrack.bsky.social · Jul 2

CASP is the main reason the protein structure prediction technology and research field advanced over the last 30 years. And the main reason AI based methods have been accepted and widely applied in biology. So shortsighted of NIH to postpone or even halt funding. John Moult is a scientific hero.

Science Magazine @science.org · Jul 2

Exclusive: An international scientific competition widely credited with spurring the development of artificial intelligence for biology appears to be on its deathbed. scim.ag/44ukS90

Exclusive: Famed protein structure competition nears end as NIH grant money runs out

Agency silent on funding renewal for contest that inspired creation of AIs that predicted how proteins would fold

scim.ag

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Georgina Menzies @georginamenzies.bsky.social · Jun 20

Heat and a newborn is not a great combo 🥵

Georgina Menzies @georginamenzies.bsky.social · Jun 19

Just found out my nomination to join the biochemical society as a member of the grants panel was successful 🎉 working really hard for the first 5 months of this year is starting to pay off 🤣

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Georgina Menzies @georginamenzies.bsky.social · Jun 16

New paper 🚨super proud of this collaborative effort, and grateful to my co-authors for answering the reviewer comments whilst I was on mat leave. You can find it here pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

Image shows the front page of the paper listing author names, journal title and the abstract. The link will take you to the same page

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Georgina Menzies @georginamenzies.bsky.social · Jun 2

This is madness!

Rob Thomas @robthomasbirds.bsky.social · Jun 1

Petition against the development of a hugely damaging Aqua Park at one of Glamorgan’s best wildlife sites. chng.it/hBdbBxwLLR

Sign the Petition

Halt the Installation of the Aqua Park at Cosmeston Lakes Country Park, Penarth

chng.it

Georgina Menzies @georginamenzies.bsky.social · May 16

One week left in work before maternity leave and I don’t want to speak to soon but I am really getting through my to do list 😆 no one derail me now please!

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Georgina Menzies @georginamenzies.bsky.social · May 15

Next up prof. Vincent Dion from the @ukdri.ac.uk is talking science fact, not science fiction, and telling us about his groups approach to finding a treatment for Huntingtons. @alzheimersresearchuk.org

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Georgina Menzies @georginamenzies.bsky.social · May 15

Our second speaker of the day, Dr Lelos talking to us about cell therapy and how this might be used to treat Huntingtons. @alzheimersresearchuk.org

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Georgina Menzies @georginamenzies.bsky.social · May 15

ARUK public engagement at the @cardiffcity.bsky.social stadium. Dr Massey kicking it off by talking to us about Huntington’s Disease, what it is and how we might be cure it. @alzheimersresearchuk.org

Image shows a researcher in a stage explaining Huntington’s disease. He is talking about the CAG expansion found in this disease.

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Siewert-Jan Marrink @cg-martini.bsky.social · Apr 28

Pre-announcement: MARTINI tutorial workshop, August 11-15th 2025 in Groningen, The Netherlands !!
Learn basic and advanced Martini from the cocktail masters themselves. Registration will open soon.

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Cathleen Crudden @cathleencrudden.bsky.social · Apr 27

Some good news for a change–Queen's has set aside funds to assist any students who have lost their visa status in the US and are looking to continue their graduate studies. Please share widely.

www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...

Queen’s Special U.S. Doctoral Recruitment Initiative | School of Graduate Studies and Postdoctoral AffairsDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown...

Queen’s University is a globally engaged, research-intensive institution dedicated to attracting and supporting exceptional PhD students who will significantly advance our research mission.

www.queensu.ca

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Georgina Menzies @georginamenzies.bsky.social · Apr 26

Good luck!

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · Apr 22

Another report on how our high visa costs deter top R&D talent
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

"The UK's upfront immigration costs now vastly exceed other leading research nations, so the UK is struggling to compete.
EU countries can more easily attract talent from the EU due to free movement, and from non-EU countries due to their relatively low visa costs.
"Non-EU countries are also attractive to global research talent due to lower comparative immigration costs than the
UK."
British scientific institutions are having to spend huge sums on visa costs for cancer professionals they wish to attract and recruit.
The Francis Crick Institute, one of the world's leading biomedical research centres, is now spending more than £500,000 a year on visas for cancer scientists. Cancer Research UK institutes are spending almost £690,000 a year, up 44% from £470,000 in 2022-23.

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bioRxiv Biophysics @biorxiv-biophys.bsky.social · Apr 17

AF2χ: Predicting protein side-chain rotamer distributions with AlphaFold2 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.16.649219v1

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Vanni Lab at UNIFR, Switzerland @labvanni.bsky.social · Apr 15

Our lab is hiring 1 PhD and 1 Postdoc to study the mechanism of lipid transport using computational methods (Molecular Dynamics, AI). Fully funded by @snsf-ch.bsky.social for 4 years, with amazing collaborators and excellent life and working conditions. Apply by email. Please share and repost!

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MDDB @mddbeu.bsky.social · Apr 4

📢 Our article calling for a #FAIR database for #MolecularDynamics simulation data has now been peer-reviewed and published in @naturemethods.bsky.social

📖 Read it here: rdcu.be/ef6YX

📝 Support the statement: bit.ly/3zVS3qm

#MDDB #FAIRdata #collaboration

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