On that note: www.tsinghua.edu.cn/en/info/1244...

Novartis to acquire Crick/Imperial #spinout company Myricx myricxbio.com/myricx-bio-t...

Novartis to acquire Crick/Imperial #spinout company Myricx myricxbio.com/myricx-bio-t...

"If the goal is to lower core temperature without undoing the benefits of a thorough warm-up, the forearms are not only among the most practical but also among the best places to do so." Fascinating bit of high-end exercise science here:

RNA origami!

🇨🇦🍁 Happy Canada day 🍁🇨🇦

Proper sport, proper hydration break. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UhT...

💰 Vancouver biotechnology company Zymeworks Inc. plans to spend US$929 million in cash to buy Theravance Biopharma Inc. Theravance has one drug on the market: Yupelri, which treats #COPD: https://bit.ly/445gldm #VancouverBiotech

Well done Canada 🇨🇦 ⚽️. Don’t leave it so late next time!

Fred Wright (Pinarello-Q36.5) wins the British national road race championships

Predicting safe molecules is a whole lot easier than predicting effective ones www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-a...

can’t believe a narcissist is being so publicly humiliated by a reflecting pool

Post your favourite antibiotic cocktail! Mine’s a Negroni

Out after a lot of hard work from many people. When we first found arabinanase enzymes in mycobacteria we started looking into their roles in cell remodelling & pathogenesis. Did not expect to find that some species had weaponised them to kill competitors! Myco are endlessly surprising. #glycotime

Hottest gig of the year!

New appointment at my place of work

Come join the new Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Design as a group leader Cool science in a great scientific environment in wonderful and very family friendly Copenhagen There are two positions that can either be at TT assistant or associate prof level employment.ku.dk/tenure-track...

Is Captain Haddock drinking Aperol?

🍿at the ready to watch the rapid unscheduled disassembly

Also, why do consumer LLMs spit out one sentence paragraphs?

Substack Saki inpreparation.substack.com/p/opinion-i-...

The Brexit vote was ten years ago, was it? Well, the results of that have been shit. No redeeming features at all. Just shit. Shame on everyone involved.

Appears to be attempting re-entry

Exquisite level of technical detail on resin pool lining. You don’t get this on other social media platforms!

If the genome is not a blueprint, what is it? My attempt to unravel this particularly knotty question, in @quantamagazine.bsky.social www.quantamagazine.org/why-the-huma...

biblically accurate benzoquinone derivative

Patent applications per million inhabitants across Europe. The Alps are essentially the innovation engine of the continent. HT @milos_gis

UK names on the list are Matt Clifford and Tom Tugendhat

Cervical cancer deaths fall to zero in young women given vaccine. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Join @davidbalchin.bsky.social, group leader here at the Crick, as he describes the fascinating ways our cells ensure that proteins fold correctly, and what happens when this goes awry in disease. youtu.be/gEgK1JDNlZ8

Fresh preprint from a group at @crick.ac.uk

'We have a term for enterprises that look successful because they keep drawing in new investors and keep drawing in new investors because they look successful. They’re called Ponzi schemes. And Elon Musk is basically a human Ponzi scheme.' paulkrugman.substack.com/p/elon-musk-...

The US has banned any foreign national from using Anthropic's latest model, Fable 5. The US is an active danger to states and business interests outside the US and it is high time the UK government got serious about the UK's independence from US tech. www.anthropic.com/news/fable-m...

Nice thing to see on my way home.

Sad news.

CAR-T party! Showing promise in lupus

Very curious, I wonder what these hefty stretches of RNA are interacting with?

5 days left now to apply for the postdoc opportunity in my lab at Imperial in London 🇬🇧 - there’s a chance that we can hire 2 people into the team on this synthetic biology and materials theme. Application link is here - www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

Quite literally the Hollywood ending

Prime territory for Pog?

If only we had a cabinet minister for culture media and sport

North of the border

K bro

Update on trying to use Anthropic fable in a biotech company: it bails out with the ai safety warning if you ask what our company does and as soon as it sees any of the code in any of our repos regardless of the prompt.

Wnt FTW! Is #biotech back, or will AI behemoths suck all liquidity out of the public markets? www.fiercebiotech.com/biotech/canc...

Interrupting your throughly depressing feed to bring you further troubling news. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Central England's university #spinout investment fund is open for business www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2026/mi...

LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman has founded an AI drug discovery company with Siddhartha Mukherjee author of “The Emperor of All Maladies" #biotech thenextweb.com/news/reid-ho...