Robert Insall
@robinsall.bsky.social
Chemotaxis. Math. Computers. Cells. Machine learning.
Absolutely extraordinary.
UCL management, in their godlike and infinite wisdom, have decided it's a good idea to remove all waste bins from all offices and replace them with occasional big 4-way recycling things plonked in the middle of corridors.
UCL management, in their godlike and infinite wisdom, have decided it's a good idea to remove all waste bins from all offices and replace them with occasional big 4-way recycling things plonked in the middle of corridors.
November 12, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Absolutely extraordinary.
UCL management, in their godlike and infinite wisdom, have decided it's a good idea to remove all waste bins from all offices and replace them with occasional big 4-way recycling things plonked in the middle of corridors.
UCL management, in their godlike and infinite wisdom, have decided it's a good idea to remove all waste bins from all offices and replace them with occasional big 4-way recycling things plonked in the middle of corridors.
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As someone who looks at a lot of Manhattan plots, I can say that an under-appreciated cause of false positive GWAS hits is stuff stuck to my computer screen.
November 12, 2025 at 1:40 AM
As someone who looks at a lot of Manhattan plots, I can say that an under-appreciated cause of false positive GWAS hits is stuff stuck to my computer screen.
Dylan Burnette lab excelling themselves with lovely microscopy, even more than ususal.
Beating iPSC-derived heart muscle cells videoed through a microscope. Alpha-actinin-2 is shown. #CellBiology
November 9, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Dylan Burnette lab excelling themselves with lovely microscopy, even more than ususal.
The science literature used to be more fun
November 8, 2025 at 3:06 PM
The science literature used to be more fun
fine-looking meeting
interested in mechanobiology and physics of living systems? this is the conference for you! Join us 9-12 June in Heidelberg! with @nicolettapetridou.bsky.social @xaviertrepat.bsky.social Enrique Rojas & Alba Diz-Munoz
Registration OPEN
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Registration OPEN
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November 6, 2025 at 12:50 PM
fine-looking meeting
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Very excited to share an advert for a new lecturer position in Computational Cancer at UCL! Permanent position at assistant professor level- join a growing community at UCL in a cutting edge discipline.
Please share widely!
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
Please share widely!
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
www.ucl.ac.uk
November 3, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Very excited to share an advert for a new lecturer position in Computational Cancer at UCL! Permanent position at assistant professor level- join a growing community at UCL in a cutting edge discipline.
Please share widely!
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
Please share widely!
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
Ahhh, the glory of UK research electronic forms.
October 30, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Ahhh, the glory of UK research electronic forms.
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In May 2024 we had a great workshop on chemotaxis in the MPI PKS in Dresden! The social impressions are in the picture below, and the scientific discussions are summarised in Angewandte Chemie lnkd.in/d6ymRhGK
What a nice way to remember!
What a nice way to remember!
October 29, 2025 at 11:24 AM
In May 2024 we had a great workshop on chemotaxis in the MPI PKS in Dresden! The social impressions are in the picture below, and the scientific discussions are summarised in Angewandte Chemie lnkd.in/d6ymRhGK
What a nice way to remember!
What a nice way to remember!
Will shouting "STOP CHANGING MY TEXT INTO THINGS I DIDN'T MEAN" at my phone help?
Asking for a friend.
Asking for a friend.
October 23, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Will shouting "STOP CHANGING MY TEXT INTO THINGS I DIDN'T MEAN" at my phone help?
Asking for a friend.
Asking for a friend.
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We hiring! Please share this post with your talented ECRs
We're looking for a postdoc interested in the formation and function of tertiary lymphoid structures - project funded by Wellcome
Based at @lmcb-ucl.bsky.social at University College London
Apply here:
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPD418/r...
We're looking for a postdoc interested in the formation and function of tertiary lymphoid structures - project funded by Wellcome
Based at @lmcb-ucl.bsky.social at University College London
Apply here:
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPD418/r...
October 21, 2025 at 3:57 PM
We hiring! Please share this post with your talented ECRs
We're looking for a postdoc interested in the formation and function of tertiary lymphoid structures - project funded by Wellcome
Based at @lmcb-ucl.bsky.social at University College London
Apply here:
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPD418/r...
We're looking for a postdoc interested in the formation and function of tertiary lymphoid structures - project funded by Wellcome
Based at @lmcb-ucl.bsky.social at University College London
Apply here:
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPD418/r...
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This morning my ChatGPT quota was inexplicably exhausted.
It took a while but I pieced it together. Voice mode somehow got activated when I went to bed.
The bot then engaged in a 10 hour conversation with my snoring dog, answering questions the pup wasn’t asking and praising him for his insight.
It took a while but I pieced it together. Voice mode somehow got activated when I went to bed.
The bot then engaged in a 10 hour conversation with my snoring dog, answering questions the pup wasn’t asking and praising him for his insight.
October 18, 2025 at 9:04 AM
This morning my ChatGPT quota was inexplicably exhausted.
It took a while but I pieced it together. Voice mode somehow got activated when I went to bed.
The bot then engaged in a 10 hour conversation with my snoring dog, answering questions the pup wasn’t asking and praising him for his insight.
It took a while but I pieced it together. Voice mode somehow got activated when I went to bed.
The bot then engaged in a 10 hour conversation with my snoring dog, answering questions the pup wasn’t asking and praising him for his insight.
Thanks for any data. i want Scar/WAVE complex scroll waves you see...
October 12, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Thanks for any data. i want Scar/WAVE complex scroll waves you see...
testing the exact 3D printer settings to retain a #makerbeam
October 8, 2025 at 10:24 PM
testing the exact 3D printer settings to retain a #makerbeam
Read this today. All of it. It will make you happy.
Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet.
After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵
After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵
October 5, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Read this today. All of it. It will make you happy.
Ooooh coool
📌 Join us for the next klogW seminar on October 21st at 12PM EST (register below) by Erwin Frey @physicsoflifelmu.bsky.social on "Emergence and Self-organization in Biological Systems".
Registration link:
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Registration link:
apsphysics.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
September 30, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Ooooh coool
Yikes.
Interesting paper but a terrible news report.
Skin cells are chock full of mutations. It's brilliant to show that you can use skin cell nuclei to make an embryo, but you'd have to be insane to make a human out of one.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Interesting paper but a terrible news report.
Skin cells are chock full of mutations. It's brilliant to show that you can use skin cell nuclei to make an embryo, but you'd have to be insane to make a human out of one.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Human skin DNA fertilised to make embryo for first time
US scientists testing the technique say it could help people overcome infertility and potentially allow same-sex couples to have a genetically related child.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 30, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Yikes.
Interesting paper but a terrible news report.
Skin cells are chock full of mutations. It's brilliant to show that you can use skin cell nuclei to make an embryo, but you'd have to be insane to make a human out of one.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Interesting paper but a terrible news report.
Skin cells are chock full of mutations. It's brilliant to show that you can use skin cell nuclei to make an embryo, but you'd have to be insane to make a human out of one.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The excellent Lucija Mijanovic & I write a piece musing on electrotaxis, collective migration, and @calinacopos.bsky.social & the Mogilner lab's nice PNAS paper.
Have a look!
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lpaB3QW8S...
Have a look!
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lpaB3QW8S...
September 22, 2025 at 3:56 PM
The excellent Lucija Mijanovic & I write a piece musing on electrotaxis, collective migration, and @calinacopos.bsky.social & the Mogilner lab's nice PNAS paper.
Have a look!
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lpaB3QW8S...
Have a look!
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lpaB3QW8S...
University manager confuses "quality" and "being funded". Shock horror.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
Ministers ‘want to shift funds away from low-quality research’ - Research Professional News
Universities UK president says institutions cannot afford “unfunded hobbyist research”
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
September 12, 2025 at 11:32 AM
University manager confuses "quality" and "being funded". Shock horror.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
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Cnidarian-Microbe Interactions
Fully-funded postdoctoral position is available in the Gibson Lab at the Stowers Institute to investigate any aspect of cnidarian-microbe interactions. Strong background in coral symbiosis or eukaryotic microbiology preferred.
Contact Matt Gibson: [email protected]
Fully-funded postdoctoral position is available in the Gibson Lab at the Stowers Institute to investigate any aspect of cnidarian-microbe interactions. Strong background in coral symbiosis or eukaryotic microbiology preferred.
Contact Matt Gibson: [email protected]
August 14, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Cnidarian-Microbe Interactions
Fully-funded postdoctoral position is available in the Gibson Lab at the Stowers Institute to investigate any aspect of cnidarian-microbe interactions. Strong background in coral symbiosis or eukaryotic microbiology preferred.
Contact Matt Gibson: [email protected]
Fully-funded postdoctoral position is available in the Gibson Lab at the Stowers Institute to investigate any aspect of cnidarian-microbe interactions. Strong background in coral symbiosis or eukaryotic microbiology preferred.
Contact Matt Gibson: [email protected]
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August 27, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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SCOTUS decision "in a scientific sense...a total loss"
"Years long studies will lose validity...Lifesaving medication trials will be abandoned. Countless researchers will lose their jobs.”https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02721-5
"Years long studies will lose validity...Lifesaving medication trials will be abandoned. Countless researchers will lose their jobs.”https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02721-5
August 23, 2025 at 1:46 PM
SCOTUS decision "in a scientific sense...a total loss"
"Years long studies will lose validity...Lifesaving medication trials will be abandoned. Countless researchers will lose their jobs.”https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02721-5
"Years long studies will lose validity...Lifesaving medication trials will be abandoned. Countless researchers will lose their jobs.”https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02721-5
Marvellous thread
Collective cell motion has many forms, but rotation is the coolest of them all.
I'm @onenimesa.bsky.social , and in this short🧵, I'll highlight some instances of global tissue rotation like this one from @BauschLab
I'm @onenimesa.bsky.social , and in this short🧵, I'll highlight some instances of global tissue rotation like this one from @BauschLab
August 23, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Marvellous thread
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Very excited to be co-organizing this meeting next February. Fellow collective behavior enthusiasts, this one is for you!
✨ How do bird flocks form or diseases emerge?
Join the brand-new EMBO | EMBL Symposium #EESCollectivity and explore how collective behaviours arise from fundamental principles across biological systems 🧬🦠🐒
💻 s.embl.org/ees26-01-bl
✒️ Submit your abstract by 18 Nov
Join the brand-new EMBO | EMBL Symposium #EESCollectivity and explore how collective behaviours arise from fundamental principles across biological systems 🧬🦠🐒
💻 s.embl.org/ees26-01-bl
✒️ Submit your abstract by 18 Nov
August 21, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Very excited to be co-organizing this meeting next February. Fellow collective behavior enthusiasts, this one is for you!