Great seminar in @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social today from Laura Landweber on the awesome world of ciliate DNA elimination- so many different gene regulation/repair pathways come together to achieve this remarkable feat
November 28, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Great seminar in @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social today from Laura Landweber on the awesome world of ciliate DNA elimination- so many different gene regulation/repair pathways come together to achieve this remarkable feat
baffled that Black Friday deals seem to have spread to companies selling PCR reagents.
November 27, 2025 at 6:54 PM
baffled that Black Friday deals seem to have spread to companies selling PCR reagents.
I’m fairly sure we don’t have to go back to Farage’s schooldays to find evidence of racism.
November 25, 2025 at 10:38 PM
I’m fairly sure we don’t have to go back to Farage’s schooldays to find evidence of racism.
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Climate change affects EVERYTHING. It’s mad that the issue has become left-coded when it should be just reality-coded
Climate change is a kitchen table issue. For most people a home is their largest investment, when climate change depresses their property values or makes their home uninsurable, it's a huge economic hit.
Rising Home Insurance Premiums Are Eating Into Home Values in Disaster-Prone Areas
Changes in the insurance market have started to affect home prices in the most disaster-prone areas, new research finds, pushing some homeowners’ finances to the breaking point.
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Climate change affects EVERYTHING. It’s mad that the issue has become left-coded when it should be just reality-coded
All you other swim shadies are just imitating
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Eminem sues Australian beach brand 'Swim Shady'
The rapper alleges the beachwear brand created a
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November 18, 2025 at 9:18 PM
All you other swim shadies are just imitating
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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The Greens don’t believe providing safe refuge for endangered asylum seekers is an “out-of-control” policy.
Nor do we believe making life more difficult for those in need is the way to unify British society.
Refugees are welcome.
Nor do we believe making life more difficult for those in need is the way to unify British society.
Refugees are welcome.
November 17, 2025 at 6:17 PM
The Greens don’t believe providing safe refuge for endangered asylum seekers is an “out-of-control” policy.
Nor do we believe making life more difficult for those in need is the way to unify British society.
Refugees are welcome.
Nor do we believe making life more difficult for those in need is the way to unify British society.
Refugees are welcome.
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Today we have our fantastic Autumn Meeting on Ancient Genomes @royalsociety.org !
November 14, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Today we have our fantastic Autumn Meeting on Ancient Genomes @royalsociety.org !
Reading this super biography of Crick right now. It's almost as fun to read as Crick's life seems to have been! @matthewcobb.bsky.social highlights and explains all the good, bad, and eccentric characteristics of Crick. So many contributions at the dawn of molecular biology.
If read the book, *please* post a review* of it on Amazon, even if you didn't buy it from there. For good or ill (mainly ill), that site continues to be a key factor in perception/visibility of books...
*Pls don't post one-star 'Cover creased' or 'Arrived late' reviews (I have had these...)
*Pls don't post one-star 'Cover creased' or 'Arrived late' reviews (I have had these...)
November 14, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Reading this super biography of Crick right now. It's almost as fun to read as Crick's life seems to have been! @matthewcobb.bsky.social highlights and explains all the good, bad, and eccentric characteristics of Crick. So many contributions at the dawn of molecular biology.
students, take note please. Your teachers also know how to use chatgpt even if we think TikTok is some kind of antelope.
October 20, 2025 at 5:04 PM
students, take note please. Your teachers also know how to use chatgpt even if we think TikTok is some kind of antelope.
This is a great tool for evaluating papers using AI, developed by Oded Rechavi- I've used the demo version and it has been really useful, spot on with its comments. Highly recommended!
BIG ANNOUNCEMENT📣: I haven’t been this excited to be part of something new in 15 years… Thrilled to reveal the passion project I’ve been working on for the past year and a half!🙀🥳 (thread 👇)
October 16, 2025 at 12:56 PM
This is a great tool for evaluating papers using AI, developed by Oded Rechavi- I've used the demo version and it has been really useful, spot on with its comments. Highly recommended!
A super opportunity!
New BBSRC funded PhD opportunity in my group with Inspiralis Ltd and @conradn.bsky.social. If you are interested in RNA - protein interactions and RNA modifications check the details below for how to apply. @nrpdtp.bsky.social @biouea.bsky.social @earlhaminst.bsky.social tinyurl.com/bdzvn4dr
How do RNA molecules shape genome regulation in the nervous system? (AKAY_U26CASE) | Doctoral Training Partnership
This PhD project will investigate how RNA modifications influence the activity of topoisomerase I (TOP1), a crucial enzyme that regulates DNA supercoiling during replication and transcription. Using C...
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October 13, 2025 at 7:08 AM
A super opportunity!
Bringing back an extinct hominid is a horrific suggestion; I would go further than this article and suggest that it is banned outright.
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
Should scientists be allowed to bring distant human ancestors back to life?
Recently, several attempts have been made to modify modern species with ancient DNA in the name of ‘de-extinction’. This Perspective argues that independent ethical oversight needs to be put in place ...
journals.plos.org
October 3, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Bringing back an extinct hominid is a horrific suggestion; I would go further than this article and suggest that it is banned outright.
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
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Rest in peace Jane Goodall, a true giant among scientists. Your breakthroughs into the secret lives of chimpanzees viewed through an anthropomorphic lens – without yet knowing that science had forbidden it – changed science forever, and with it how we see ourselves.
October 1, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Rest in peace Jane Goodall, a true giant among scientists. Your breakthroughs into the secret lives of chimpanzees viewed through an anthropomorphic lens – without yet knowing that science had forbidden it – changed science forever, and with it how we see ourselves.
Just listened to George Church on The Life Scientific. very brilliant guy but the idea that Mammothising elephants is going to save the environment is total fiction. It’s a cruel vanity project with no conceivable justification.
October 1, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Just listened to George Church on The Life Scientific. very brilliant guy but the idea that Mammothising elephants is going to save the environment is total fiction. It’s a cruel vanity project with no conceivable justification.
oh the joy of the hassle that accompanies trying to submit an article. Password forgotten, orcid linked to a different account, metadata collection, all for it to be most likely rejected editorially. Everything takes an age on a clunky system designed in the 2000s. Basically 'Der Process.'
September 29, 2025 at 4:39 PM
oh the joy of the hassle that accompanies trying to submit an article. Password forgotten, orcid linked to a different account, metadata collection, all for it to be most likely rejected editorially. Everything takes an age on a clunky system designed in the 2000s. Basically 'Der Process.'
Talk about stating the bleeding obvious
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Keir Starmer calls Reform migrant policy 'racist' and 'immoral'
The prime minister told the BBC he needed
www.bbc.co.uk
September 28, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Talk about stating the bleeding obvious
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I was only very dimly aware of this event before and was surprised there could be a whole podcast about it... but turns out it's really interesting! especially striking to hear some clips from the speech; Labour could really do with an orator of Kinnock's calibre right now
NEW EPISODE OUT NOW!
Today in our occasional series with @robertsaunders.bsky.social we explore the lasting consequences of a speech delivered 40 years ago this week - Labour leader Neil Kinnock’s excoriating attack on Militant at his party’s conference in 1985.
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
Today in our occasional series with @robertsaunders.bsky.social we explore the lasting consequences of a speech delivered 40 years ago this week - Labour leader Neil Kinnock’s excoriating attack on Militant at his party’s conference in 1985.
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
September 28, 2025 at 12:32 PM
I was only very dimly aware of this event before and was surprised there could be a whole podcast about it... but turns out it's really interesting! especially striking to hear some clips from the speech; Labour could really do with an orator of Kinnock's calibre right now
While the other senior figures in labour hide behind the fantasy of the 'special relationship' Sadiq gets it right.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Sir Sadiq Khan hits back at Donald Trump's Sharia London claim
The Mayor of London responds to the US president's speech to the United Nations.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 25, 2025 at 10:43 AM
While the other senior figures in labour hide behind the fantasy of the 'special relationship' Sadiq gets it right.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Phenomenal. In my 10 year update of A Brief History, I make the point that in the first edition, not one disease had been successfully treated using gene therapy. Today that number is at least 7.
September 24, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Phenomenal. In my 10 year update of A Brief History, I make the point that in the first edition, not one disease had been successfully treated using gene therapy. Today that number is at least 7.
Trump is basically Fred Durst in a suit.
September 24, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Trump is basically Fred Durst in a suit.
If you haven’t watched the Thursday Murder Club film… don’t. Utter drivel. And wtf is Pierce Brosnan’s accent?
September 23, 2025 at 9:25 PM
If you haven’t watched the Thursday Murder Club film… don’t. Utter drivel. And wtf is Pierce Brosnan’s accent?
That time of year again: where the f are my gloves?
September 23, 2025 at 6:58 PM
That time of year again: where the f are my gloves?
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We have an exciting, fully funded PhD studentship (UK and ROI) to investigate mechanisms of epigenetic regulation in drug resistant B-cell lymphoma.
We are looking for a highly motivated, driven candidate to join our team.
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We are looking for a highly motivated, driven candidate to join our team.
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Targeting USP7-PRC1 axis as a novel therapeutic approach in drug resistant Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma at Queen’s University Belfast on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Targeting USP7-PRC1 axis as a novel therapeutic approach in drug resistant Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma at Queen’s University Belfast, listed on FindAPhD.com
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September 18, 2025 at 3:36 AM
We have an exciting, fully funded PhD studentship (UK and ROI) to investigate mechanisms of epigenetic regulation in drug resistant B-cell lymphoma.
We are looking for a highly motivated, driven candidate to join our team.
eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
We are looking for a highly motivated, driven candidate to join our team.
eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
Thank god he didn’t become chancellor of Oxford
September 11, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Thank god he didn’t become chancellor of Oxford
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Daily Mail, the Daily Express, the Sun...every day they work to make cruelty popular, to destroy attempts to tackle climate change, to harm our society. Put them in the bin!
September 10, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Daily Mail, the Daily Express, the Sun...every day they work to make cruelty popular, to destroy attempts to tackle climate change, to harm our society. Put them in the bin!