🐧🧪💻 ❄️🦉🌎 Join us for the last #LiveFromAntarctica events of the season! We'll be streaming LIVE from Cape Royds, #Antarctica to talk #penguin science, ecology, and conservation. Tune on 1/6 + 1/9 from 10–10:30 AM PST! 🔗 shorturl.at/gmCG0

How good is your intuition for exponential growth?

Currently doing this course! One of the most useful shares was this repo that lists TONS of ways to visualise genomic data. Thanks to Colin Diesh for creating it! 🧬🖥️ cmdcolin.github.io/awesome-geno...

I’ll be there over the weekend! My first cosmic shambles 😊

🚀 Intro to Python for Biologists with @passdan.bsky.social 🗓️ 9–12 Feb 2026 | Online Learn #Python tailored for biologists with no prior coding experience. Hands-on projects cover data analysis, #bioinformatics libraries, and #dataviz. www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...

📣 Apply now for our International Undergraduate Summer School 2026 with the @johninnescentre.bsky.social and @earlhaminst.bsky.social! A unique opportunity for global undergraduates to spend 8 weeks with us on Norwich Research Park 🧬🧪 Deadline 16 January 2026

Make 2026 the year you get serious about #SciComm. Kick it off with my free training session with @newscientist.com You’ll also discover how you can be part of New Scientist Live in 2026. Totally free! www.newscientist.com/science-even...

You've heard of elf on a shelf. Now get ready for... 🔭🐡🧪

In the past week or so, I’ve been learning to make flatbreads. We use an adapted chapati recipe in the lab: a bare-bones flour and water mix that allows us to measure nutrients in a (nominal) foodstuff made from our excellent experimental wheat lines. Let me show you! (1/7)

Want to make nice graphs with me, starting next year? I'm hiring for a position at the University of Witten/Herdecke. uni-wh.softgarden.io/job/61280592...

❄️🔬 Boost your RNA-Seq skills this winter! Join our 1st Berlin Winter School in RNA-Seq Data Analysis – Dec 8–11, 2025. Beginner-friendly, hands-on, expert-led. 🔗 www.ecseq.com/workshops/wor... #RNASeq #Bioinformatics #NGS #Genomics #WinterSchool

Boy this looks neat. www.gov.uk/global-talent

On the Factor Fexcectorn and autism bicycle AI slop study: I got an answer from Springer Nature this morning that this scientific paper will be retracted! 🧪 Full story: nobreakthroughs.substack.com/p/riding-the...

Astonished that something like this would appear in a Nature publication. Not just the image (although I love seeing a bike where I least expect one!) but also the content. Check pubpeer comments.

The biggest problem in the world isn’t climate change, future pandemics, or democratic collapse. It’s that far too many of our most brilliant minds are working on *everything but* those problems. 🧵

Just finished reading Faraday and Bragg's Top Tips for lecturing.

1/ Bioinformaticians: our people skills matters as much as our code Here’s why communication is your most underrated tool 🧵

Absolutely fascinating. There’s an example of poetic input and the sort of output you can elicit (e.g. how to make weapons-grade Plutonium). We continue to discover how LLMs can fail…

Rogue Scientist Has Own Scientific Method https://theonion.com/rogue-scientist-has-own-scientific-method-1819568501/

Probably the most satisfying thing at work is solving my own IT issues (especially without using StackOverflow 🙌). VPN issues *~be gone~* 🪄 ✨

🎨 Recording now live! Developing Your #DataVisualisation Skills in #ggplot2 with @nrennie.bsky.social Watch the creative process exploring the #TidyTuesday cats dataset 🐈 📚 Materials & links: 🔗 nrennie.rbind.io/talks/rladies-rome-ggplot2 #RLadies #ggplot2 #TidyTuesday @fgazzelloni.bsky.social

All the instructors at the workshop are shown in this image bsky.app/profile/jlst...

Comes at just the right time when I’m about to reach out for a supplementary RNAseq dataset to help my own analysis. Learning 🙇‍♀️📚

Autumnal blooms at work

The chemical room: where I go for some quiet time while weighing minuscule quantities of flour into hundreds of tubes. Surprisingly Zen 🧘‍♀️ 👩‍🔬

The easiest publishing process ever! After testing & retesting this protocol adapted from a large-volume industry standard method, I finally clicked “Publish” over at @protocolsio.bsky.social today. Can recommend; would publish again!! 🌾 🍞 🧪 dx.doi.org/10.17504/pro...

One of my favourite things about @galaxyproject.bsky.social is these "do some citizen science while your job runs" opportunities. I'm getting very good at sexing marmalade hoverflies! 😅

It’s me! Aiming an electron beam at a tiny wheat grain (with help from people with much more expertise 😅)

A lovely daisy on a crisp Spring day

Great little primer about statistics and significance, featuring an historical tea drinking experiment at my home institute, Rothamsted. (Hat tip to @adamjkucharski.bsky.social ) www.wired.com/story/how-a-...

Stanford provides a free coding course teaching the basics of Python over 6 weeks, with live interaction. Apply by 9 April for this year’s run. #Codeinplace codeinplace.stanford.edu

Spring is here!!

We’re very happy to give people samples of our high fibre bread at the annual Delivering Sustainable Wheat conference today! #DSW

A huge thanks to @wmarler.bsky.social for running a fun and informative animation workshop yesterday. Truly squeezing the juice out of Power Point! I particularly loved the toaster animation ☺️🍞🌾❤️

I appreciate the precision of the timing for this conference 👍

Thoughts from a scientific presentation: why are we even using the lower 25% of a power point slide? It’s almost always obscured - by furniture or other things on the screen. 1/2

Thanks to #UKFlourMillers for inviting me their R&D workshop today. Happy to talk about our high calcium wheat ☺️ Healthy bread for all!! 🍞

Dr Mary Dilys Glynne. Botanist at Rothamsted Experimental Station from 1918 to 1960.

Want to learn the tools and techniques to be able to use #R programming software? Perfect for beginners, there’s just one month to go until our next R for Biochemists 101 online course launches! Register here and start on 3rd February: www.eventsforce.net/biochemsoc/2... 🧪

This is super interesting, and makes me want to dive deeper into the “why” and “how” behind patterns. Are some countries constrained by arable land area? And what happened in Zambia in that *one specific year*? How does varietal improvement influence these numbers?

🎉we've made some public APIs for @rothamsted.bsky.social North Wyke Farm Platform! The platform has >100million data points covering 🌦️🐑🐄🚜🌱 data from 3 different farming systems in Devon, UK, collected since 2010. Jupyter demos are available here: github.com/North-Wyke-F.... Would love feedback

📢 SWBio DTP PhD Opportunity: What Makes Weeds Flower? Disrupting Seed Production in Herbicide-Resistant Weeds to Improve Sustainable Agriculture @rothamsted.bsky.social 📄 www.swbio.ac.uk/agriculture-... Apply samis.bath.ac.uk/urd/sits.urd... 🗓️ Closing Wed 11 Dec #PhD #WeedScience #Bioinformatics

The importance of sample prep: this is the same sample of bread 🍞. On the left it was ground in liquid nitrogen with a pestle in a mortar. On the right it was freeze dried and milled in a centrifugal mill. Will it affect my analysis? (TBC)

Do you have experience with assessment, inclusion, and belonging in undergraduate biology labs? Submit an abstract for a lightning talk BREWMOR’s virtual meeting, Jan 23! 🧪