1/ Apply for an inter-disciplinary postdoc position in Heidelberg with the Health & Life Science Alliance Deadline: **31 March** Project proposals can be self-designed or adapt one of the outlines on the website ("List of project outlines for download") www.health-life-sciences.de/opportunitie...

It will be a great time! UK Worm labs - please pass on group members.

Is the UK government anti-science or is UKRI?! Either way this will be the death knell for many a junior and aspiring group leader. Shocking decision making

I fail to see how a 43.5% drop in funding is compatible with the statement Ian Chapman made to the committee on Tuesday that funding for curiosity driven research at UKRI will be flat (which is technically still a cut but a smaller one).

The first domino to fall? The university sector is in dire straits and politicians on all sides of the UK borders have sat in silence.

Devastatingly sad. Every Labour MP should be forced to read this. In fact, every MP, who rushed back to Parliament to vote to save one steel mill, whilst hastening the collapse of dozens of universities - and harming the students, staff, communities and economies universities sustain and support

Today is #WorldCancerDay. Meet Dr Maike de le Roche and her team at the CRUK Cambridge Institute, exploring how hedgehog signalling helps the immune system fight cancer. 🎥 Watch the full video: zurl.co/MMY6E Watch the full series: zurl.co/wXWNJ#WorldCancerDay #FocusOnCamCancer

Our new book "Self-Doubt" is written by scientists for scientists. You might think you are alone when you doubt your ability or suitability for science - you aren't. We all question ourselves and carry doubt with us daily. www.amazon.co.uk/Self-Doubt-A...

Recruitment for the EMBL International PhD Programme is officially open! 🔊 At EMBL, we train young scientists to become skilled and creative future leaders in academia, industry and other sectors. Start your career in the life sciences with us! 🔎 Read more here: tinyurl.com/4jdt2ra5

Board of Peace - Season 1

Woefully irresponsible of Nature Medicine to publish this comment from the NIH puppet director. Absolutely shocking.

🚨Calling all UK-based biomedical postdocs!🚨If you’re curious about code or have questions about the world of data science, join our peer mentoring scheme to connect with your peers across the data divide forms.office.com/e/UsRFm2F0a7 (closes 02/03/26).

Vaccines, the most impressive public health intervention in medical history, and where we could be headed if there was not efforts to negate truth, facts, and evidence A great, open-access, review and perspective by @scientificdiscovery.dev

🤯 Another tumour immune evasion strategy uncovered. This times it's MHC molecules that acts as decoys to distract cytotoxic T cells.

Job links for those posts with our team: www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

CSAMA 2026 - Biological Data Science Summer School Bressanone-Brixen, South Tyrol / Italy 24-29 May 2026 csama2026.bioconductor.eu Statistical & computational methods for single cell and spatial omics, with lectures and hands-on exercises in R/Bioconductor.

CSAMA back in 2014 was a formative experience for me as a budding computational biologist. The instructors are world class, the workshops are pitched at a level for a range of expertise, and the location is second-to-none. Highly recommended.

MIT's famous 'Missing Semester' course (for the Independent Activities Period in January is back. missing.csail.mit.edu/2026/

Last few days to apply for this #PhD project!

🧬🎉Join us on Dec 17th for our last session of 2025! 🎉🧬Two fantastic talks on transcriptional regulation: 🔬JB Lalanne on developmental enhancers (and starting a lab in 2025?) 🔬 @rberrens.bsky.social on transposable elements in development 📋Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

👉 Save the date! SIICA announces the Virtual School of Immunology 2026, an online event open to anyone interested in gaining a deeper understanding of how the immune system works. 🎙️Expert talks 💼 A dedicated career-development workshop session ✍️ More details coming soon!

What coding with an LLM feels like sometimes.

Congratulations to @zaminiqbal.bsky.social from @milnerevolution.bsky.social on being awarded the 2026 Mary Lyon Medal!

Applications for the Genetics Society Summer Studentship Grants are open! If you’re an undergrad itching to dive into real research, this is your doorway into the lab. More information here: genetics.org.uk/grants/summe...

🚨 Multiple #PhD opportunities for lab or computational applicants. Do you want to understand the molecular basis of #epigenetic dysfunction in human disease? Come work with our group at the fantastic, collaborative @uoe-igc.bsky.social in a beautiful, liveable city. 🧵 1/4 Please repost 🙏

I'm looking for top-notch candidate for a fully-funded PhD working on role of somatic mutations in ageing immune decline. Ideal for wet-lab or quantitative candidates. Fantastic collaboration with Prof Martin Taylor in Edinburgh THE UK expert in mutations. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Small update from AllTheBacteria (allthebacteria.org). Assemblies can be bulk downloaded from OSF as before, or you can now get individual assemblies from AWS. We now also have a LexicMap index on AWS, so you can align your favourite gene against 2.4million bacteria (next post for price estimates)

Celebrate International #DayofImmunology by treating yourself to one of our events or training courses! 🎉 Whether its our Diversity in Immunology event, next week’s Flow Cytometry training, or the BSI Immunology Awards - there's something for you 👀 bit.ly/3v2aAi1

👶🏼 Many #vaccines are not effective in newborns. So how do we protect them from infectious disease? 🤰🏽 By vaccination in #pregnancy! Here we review… 💉 Established campaigns vs whooping cough, flu, COVID 💡 New approaches to RSV, GBS 🌈 Future challenges, opportunities #ReproSky #ImmunoSky #IDSky

Today marks the start of #WorldImmunisationWeek! ⭐ Get inspired by reading our latest #CelebrateVaccines blog, which explores how the new RSV vaccine is cutting NHS costs and protecting vulnerable populations. 🔗 bit.ly/42V1NwZ #VaccinesWork #HumanlyPossible

Jess read the “dire wolf” preprint so you don’t have to. A long, exasperated and heroic evening thread by someone who knows what they are talking about, which shows the whole thing to be even more flakey than we thought. We salute you, @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social!

Published an op-ed for @cnn.com: “Nobel laureate: I owe America my success. Today, its scientific future is in danger.” A personal reflection on what’s at stake as science funding gets slashed. I’d be grateful if you could amplify both in and beyond the science world. www.cnn.com/2025/04/09/h...

Anti-citrullinated protein antibodies arise during affinity maturation of germline antibodies to carbamylated proteins in rheumatoid arthritis https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.22.644346v1

📆 Mark your agenda for the 25th European Conference on Computational Biology! It will take place in Geneva, Switzerland, from 31 August-4 September 2026. 👉 Save the date and stay tuned for more updates as we get ready for #eccb2026

13 chair positions open @inserm.fr to lead a junior research group in France covering #neuroscience, #immunology, #bioinformatics, #bioengineering, #biotherapy, #public health pro.inserm.fr/rubriques/co... 🧪🔬

6 days left to apply to the Post-doc opening in our lab @ebi.embl.org to develop&apply #bioinformatics & #machine-learning methods to study intra-/extra cellular networks to extract disease mechanisms from #single-cell and #spatial multiomic data: embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/EMBL/job/Hin...

We are advertising for a PhD position to study bacterial metabolites in C. elegans, funded by the MRC Microbes, Microbiomes and Bioinformatics training programme @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social @biouea.bsky.social. Open to UK and international students. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Today I taught about phenylketonuria and eugenics. An important lesson, especially in times of nazis. Blog post: #iTeachBio #SciTeachUK cmooreanderson.wixsite.com/teachingbiol...

Great article from Ewen Callaway in @nature.com about how #SARSCoV2 has helped us better understand viruses - including the areas where we still have much to learn. “This was one of the first times where evolutionary biology became an applied science” says @jbloomlab.bsky.social

We are excited to announce a new faculty position here in Cambridge, for researchers in computational and/or theoretical biology, based jointly in Genetics and Mathematics. Come and join us! Happy to answer questions about research, teaching and working here. www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50414/

Exploring #Proteomics? Join us for a brand new and improved *Analysing Proteomics Data* #bioinformatics #training course this Wednesday 12th March, live online via Zoom 9:30-17:00 GMT/UTC www.bioinformatics.babraham.ac.uk/training.html

A mammoth circus of macabre fantasy and moral bankruptcy. I got my views on mammoths down. Enjoy. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

📣📣Are you looking for a postdoc? 📣📣 Does a EU or Horizon Europe assoc country (eg UK, S Korea) seem like a good destination? These fellowships a great funding option for anyone in the 🌎 👀 Check them out - next call opens 8 May 🧪 👨‍🔬👩‍🔬 marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/actions/post...

Join the Interdisciplinary Postdoc Fellowship Program at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), one of the best places to do research in modern biology and develop your career. Great opportunities for statisticians, comp. biologists, AI experts, mathem. modelers! www.embl.org/eipod-linc

Are you a postgraduate student interested in protein modelling and drug discovery? We have an exciting opportunity to join our team at GSK for a 6-9 months internship, working on an ambitious cross-department research project. Apply before March 14th! www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/41...

The IMMREP25 TCR specificity prediction challenge is now live on Kaggle! Get involved: kaggle.com/competitions... Huge thanks to: Matthew Noakes, @the-dee-em.bsky.social, @everichardson.bsky.social, @bjoernpeters.bsky.social , @adaptivebiotech.bsky.social , IEDB, @airr-community.bsky.social

PubMed has not been disappeared. It's working fine 👇🏼

NCBI websites are patchy at present, but now feel far less secure for long-term storage than they used to. For sequencing datasets consider using ArrayExpress: www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/a... Many, if not all, GEO datasets are on there.

here's one from us @crick.ac.uk: www.crick.ac.uk/careers-and-...

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