Spent the afternoon introducing some 16/17 year old to the magic of automatic pipettes @astonuniversity.bsky.social @astonaime.bsky.social. They were genuinely excited about it, and made some fun images. Wholesome.

The CCP4 Northern Structural Biology Meeting is back again in Newcastle 6-7th November 2025. If you are a structural biologist/biochemist in the North of the UK please register and submit abstracts by this Friday 17th. nusbf.ncl.ac.uk/ccp4-norther...

🚨🚨🚨 We are launching the 2nd application round for the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master’s Program MemBioMed, offering cutting-edge training on exploring the complex behavior of cellular membranes & unlocking their therapeutic potential. Students can apply here: life.univ-cotedazur.eu/internationa...

PhD project alert: the excellent MIBTP programme is open for applications. I am offering an exciting project on endogenous membrane protein complexes, jointly supervised with @alangoddard.bsky.social. Please spread the word! warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa...

This captures the reason I went on strike in 2023. The lack of solidarity from bioscientists for the wider university community was shocking. I imagine it's because we remain *relatively* well funded.

Thanks to @snsf.ch, we are hiring two PhD students to investigate frontier topics in lipid biology using a combination of MD simulations and experiments. Preferred starting date: ASAP. Fribourg - and Switzerland - are quite nice, for both work and private life! Please spread the word!

Job alert! We are advertising for a network manager for our new BBSRC network IMPALA. Want to organise meetings, promote discussion and help to spread the word about SMALPs to membrane protein researchers in academia and industry? Apply here: jobs.aston.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Another inspiring story to remind me that the painstaking, frustrating and often slow work of science is worthwhile.

Absolutely inspiring to read this story of an adult with cystic fibrosis, and her life since starting to take the new drugs. This is what science is for (in my very biased opinion). www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

On Friday, my 2 year old had her third trip (5th if you count in utero) to @diamondlightsource.bsky.social to drop off samples. Start 'em young...

The costs of #antimicrobial resistance 🦠 continue to rise 📈. The Center for Global Development reports that by 2050 #AMR could shrink the global economy by US$1.7T. Improving treatments and funding development of new antimicrobials 💊 could save millions of lives and billions in healthcare costs.

Big news indeed 👏 make sure you check out the post&link below 🤩 #cryoEM #cryoET #membraneproteins #GPCRs #scivis #scicomm

What does it mean when your workplace has transformed into a combination of a wedding venue and a wizarding school? Graduation season.

A beautiful time of year to visit Denmark, and always a pleasure to be at @au.dk looking very closely at proteins in the Physics Dept basement, and meeting @bjornppedersen.bsky.social and his group.

Join our group in the Centre for Medicines Discovery at Oxford Univ. @cmd.ox.ac.uk @ox.ac.uk !!!! Happy to chat about any questions about the role and science. Oxford will assist with a skilled worker visa. Please RT! my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

Another AIME project @astonaime.bsky.social. Pretty sure we'll outgrow the new labs before we've settled in, but even that feels like a privilege!

Got any great final year students who love the bench but don't (yet) want to do a PhD? I'm looking for a research technician to join our amazing AVERT team for the last 2 years of the project - a great chance to develop lab skills while supporting our team in York. jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/rese...

📢 We have an open PhD position in our group! Come to Geneva🇨🇭 to develop new methodological approaches in LC-MS metabolomics for human toxicology, while enjoying the great Swiss outdoors & chocolate 🏔️🍫 jobs.unige.ch/www/wd_porta... 🧬🧫🧪🖥️ #metabolomics #lipidomics #teammassspec #MassSpecRSS #chemsky

Excellent end to my week: no special event, just a bit of writing, lab work and, after 10 months, the realisation that it feels like home @astonaime.bsky.social

An amazing new enabling technology. Measurements of molecular size and shape on a chip. Couldn't be prouder of our friend Madhavi Krishnan of @ox.ac.uk this was and is one among the must fun collaborations I ever had. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Excellent start to the (four day) week: seminar from @davidbsauer.bsky.social. Much as I love SMALPs, I greatly enjoyed a detergent-only structural biology story.

I got hit by some rather sudden and extreme financial hardship so if anyone is in need of remote wetlab contract research, strictly BSL1, do let me know. Currently scrambling for gigs. Plant, Bacterial, Archaeal Non-model Bioeng Custom Lab Hardware Turn Key Genetic Design Please repost for reach 💚

Next week is the @biochemsoc.bsky.social 6th Membrane Protein workshop @astonaime.bsky.social I am very excited to meet this year's cohort aka future membrane protein friends.

We are looking for a PhD student/Postdoc to develop methods of cryo-ET and/or study the structure and function of membrane proteins. Great team at the MDC in Berlin. It's a broad call, please apply and share! jobrxiv.org/job/max-delb...

Having a most excellent day at @isisneutronmuon.bsky.social defying sleep deprivation to scratch our heads over lipids, polymers, proteins and their complex choreography.

I love that this advert asks for an enthusiastic post-doc. Genuinely delightful.

A reminder that the new institute for membrane science at Aston University has openings for PhD students. I'm offering a project together with @kitchenphil.bsky.social using polymer/lipid particles to understand lipid-protein interactions with membranes. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

The Aston Institute for Membrane Excellence (AIME) is advertising PhD projects across membrane biochemistry, biophysics, polymer chemistry and biotechnology. Please spread the word. So much exciting research going on here. No better place to be for membrane lovers! www.aston.ac.uk/graduate-sch...

⭐8 days left to apply for 👇 postdoc position ⭐ and join an international group of great people😊

If you're interested in membrane protein research and don't know where to start, or if you want to build your skills and your network, consider our upcoming workshop! We have talks and practical sessions on everything from detergents to solid-state NMR.

New job, new social media. I recently became a lecturer in Biosciences at Aston. I'm incredibly lucky to be associated with @astonaime.bsky.social and am looking forward to many new membrane protein adventures as I set up my lab for the first time.