This is all very, very English. The price of everything, the value of nothing etc etc. Education has, as I pointed out, many intangible benefits. They don’t show up with a £ sign on a balance sheet but that makes them no less real to the individual and the life of the nation.

Delighted that this article is now out journals.biologists.com/dmm/article/... Great team work with Dharani Hapangama, Chris Hill and first author Dimas Rahmana from @livuni-ilcams.bsky.social @livunihls.bsky.social With generous funding from the Indonesian government.

Please sign this petition! c.org/HjtXSDrbJt

Tiefe Einsichten und sehr zugänglich! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/r...

Podcast über Mercosur? Hier ist er - wirklich informativ! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/f...

Da wurden nur Schüsse in eine Richtung gewechselt @infinitescream.bsky.social www.tagesschau.de/tagesthemen/...

Where's his identically-worded post about Danish troops?

On April 30th 2014, the town hall meeting in Lyman was interrupted by the arrival of a group of Girkin's militants from Sloviansk. They blocked exits, entered the building and began issuing commands to the councilors, responding to objections by saying that "your Ukrainian laws do not apply here."

Trump on NATO: "The problem with NATO is that we'll be there for them 100% but I'm not sure that they'd be there for us, if we gave them the call". We did get the call on 9/11. 26 NATO members sent troops to defend the US. Hundreds died doing so. It was the only time Article 5 has been activated.

The US granted visas to Jews but only allowed 30,000 in from Germany a year. You had to wait for your number to come up. Meet Robert Smallbones. An unassuming British diplomat who 'hacked' this system so effectively (saving 48 THOUSAND Jews) the UK government kept his scheme secret for decades /1 🧵

It's so exhausting to to be constantly told by American leaders that the defining policy of the 80 odd years during which the US became the most wealthy and powerful country in the history of the world was a grossly unfair failure for them.

Europe should “accelerate the transition to an efficient and modern energy system based on indigenous renewable sources” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Danish Parliament Deputy Speaker Lars-Christian Brask: "If I could come with some advice, it would be for the Senate & House to start to take control of political power in America because with this erratic & mad behaviour, you have to ask the question, is the President capable of running the US?"

LIFE RULES: Insulate your house with books to ward off evil Oppose the zombie AI apocalypse Never click on a link to the Daily Mail Use double the recommended amount of garlic Always stop to say hi to sheep And to horses too (but in a fake posh voice) I think that's more or less everything covered?

🚨🚨🚨 Deadline for applications to the Strathclyde Optical Microscopy Course @unistrathclyde.bsky.social extended to 30 January 2026! Details on how to apply are below 🔬 #microscope #ECRchat #Glasgow

We are delighted to announce the Strathclyde Optical Microscopy Course 2026 (SOMC26), taking place in Glasgow from 21st July – 30th July 2026! Please find more details at shorturl.at/xmUiZ and apply at shorturl.at/MxTlI. Deadline 16 January 2026.

🔬 🖥️ Applications are open for the CSHL course Quantitative Imaging: From Acquisition to Analysis (April 6–21, 2026)! An intensive, hands-on course covering advanced fluorescence microscopy and quantitative image analysis using open-source tools. 🗓️ Apply online by Jan 30, 2026

House Judiciary Committee releases on New Years Eve (in an obvious attempt to bury this info) the Jack Smith deposition transcript. I recommend doing a word search for "proof beyond a reasonable doubt." And explanation of disenfranchisement of urban areas. judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

Just a reminder that this was in a 2003 movie and seems so topical again. Feels like a speech that is needed now. #loveactually #bullies #standuptobullies youtu.be/D6ouyeycWk8?...

China Shock 2.0 should be discussed more widely und vor allem in Deutschland - wer will in 10 Jahren noch Diesel und Benzin Autos kaufen?? #verpassteChancen podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

This is our last post of the year. Hope you have a wonderful holidays. Remember, good science only comes from a well-rested mind. We will see you again next year! #MicroscopyMonday #Christmas Image: 3D Christmas spheroids Staining: Phalloidin Photo credit: Postdoc Hoang Anh Le, @ucl-cdb.bsky.social

Imagine being foolish enough to trust Vladimir Putin when he says he has no plans to attack, invade, or occupy Europe.

In 2026 it will be fascinating to watch the American and European media establishment come to terms with the possibility that the US President might no longer be sane

Submit for the 2026 RMS Early Career Award! 💡 🔬 Shortlisted entrants could give a flash talk at our Microscopy: Advances, Innovation, Impact 2026 meeting, 30 September at the Royal Society of Chemistry in London and the winner also gets £100 ! Find out more and apply: lnkd.in/eZN93hEn

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The power of the media: core culture conditions direct gastruloid development This Research Highlight showcases the work from Tina Balayo, André Dias @dias-andre.bsky.social, David Turner @gastruloids.bsky.social and colleagues: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

The Trump administration sent 280+ immigrants to CECOT, a notorious torture prison in El Salvador, with no due process & no notice to their loved ones or attorneys. Some of the men have begun sharing their stories about the horrific abuse and torture they endured. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...

Die @bpb.de hat sich von X verabschiedet und wird deswegen massiv von rechts kritisiert. Ich denke, da sollte man mal reinfolgen.

Zugzwanging! 🤩

Yesterday in Cologne, we saw one of the most difficult bomb disarmaments since 1945. 3(!) hospitals and 6.400 people had to be evacuated. You wanna guess how many (mainly WWII) bombs are being disarmed PER YEAR in Germany? 5500. www.spiegel.de/panorama/koe...

Go visit #Trier for more #archaeology!!

This is a good start, but people should also be free to drive on whatever side of the highway feels appropriate to them.

🔬 Limb regeneration depends on regenerative signaling center cells — but how do these cells influence others to proliferate, migrate, or differentiate? We’re recruiting PhD or Postdoc candidates to explore this with our collaborator @osvaldo-chara.bsky.social !

Colours of autumn #photography

In preprints: gastruloids get (a)head Wilhelmus A. Brouwer @wesselbrouwer.bsky.social and Luca Braccioli @bracciolilab.bsky.social discuss the #preprint by Balaskas et al. "An advanced head-to-tail mouse embryo model with hypoxia-mediated neural patterning” journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Is it just me or are the jax.org websites very slow to load atm?

Essential reading 👇 @tanjabueltmann.net

Sunshine on the Wirral - Royden Park yesterday afternoon. Winter is coming

Kardamom bollar - needs some optimisation. But tastes lovely 🍽️

✍ If you're having difficulty writing #BioimageAnalysis code that enables others to follow your workflow, have a look at @haesleinhuepf.bsky.socials slides on „Reproducible Bio-Image Analysis using Python, Napari, Jupyter and AI“ from the #EMBOlsm25. To the slides: 👉 doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Does anyone here 🍽️ have a recipe to share about a Swedish dark malty but soft and melt in your mouth bread? No seeds, a bit spongy? I had it in the summer at the Bakfickan near the opera in Stockholm. Delicious! Thanks 🙏

Fascinating episode with intriguing points about vanity of male politicians… similarities to living personalities are hinted at?? #PaulvonHindenburg podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i...

Always great when a PhD student makes it through their viva despite all kinds of stumbling blocks along the way. So I am happy to report that Katherine Trivino is the latest of my PhD students to pass her viva! 🎉 @livuni-ilcams.bsky.social @livunihls.bsky.social

📚 Wishing all developmental biologists an AMAZING new academic year! 🚀 Boost your teaching & learning with SDB CoRe: a FREE, peer-reviewed online database of stunning images, movies & diagrams for all things development! 🌱🐣🦎 Explore here: www.sdbcore.org 🌟 #DevBio

Eine Regierung, die Museen „säubert“, Diversitäts-Programme verbietet, Uni wg. ihrer Lehrpläne Mittel streicht und Medien auf Milliarden (!) verklagt, bescheinigt Deutschland ein Problem mit Meinungsfreiheit. 🤯

Preprint servers are strugging with an influx of AI content. "How do you do quality assurance while keeping things relatively light touch so the system doesn’t collapse on itself?" by Traci Watson | @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

sounds so exciting and inviting! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I'm thinking of the market in Odesa bombed by Russia. For those of you who want to look inside and see what a special place it is, here is one of my favorite videos of all time, the work of the magical conductor Hobart Earle:

To learn more about this work, we spoke to the first author, Suad Alsukari, and the corresponding author, Bettina Wilm @bwilm.bsky.social, Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Life Course and Medical Science, University of Liverpool, UK: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...