Should old acquaintance be forget, and never brought to mind? Should old acquaintance be forget, and auld lang syne? For you, out there, happy new year. May it bring you happiness and joy, may you be near or far 😘

Watching others succeed in science is as important as finding out cool stuff in my humble opinion. Congratulations Dr Omar Alqarni, graduating today with a PhD in Respiratory medicine from @uniofnottingham.bsky.social It was tough but you persevered, worked hard and today you reaped the rewards 🎉

We certainly will miss you @karlstaples.bsky.social! You’ve left big shoes to fill 😊😊

The look of disgust and embarrassment when the 9yo walks in the kitchen to see you dancing and singing your heart out to Soda Pop 🤣 K-pop… it’s not just for kids, kids 😆

I’ve written to Keir Starmer, Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage urging them to condemn Donald Trump’s attack on the BBC. The BBC belongs to Britain, not Trump. We must defend it together.

The only lung person presenting to some of the greats of the TGFb signalling world 🌍 TGFbeta driven remodelling and fibrosis across lung diseases, from airways to alveoli, and from babies to diseases of advanced age 😎

Meeting a TGFbeta legend! Peter ten Dijke, the man who first identified and isolated TGFbeta3

The oldest private library in Asia 😍

I’ve learned so much about the history of @uniofnottingham.bsky.social today! Brilliant Ningbo campus tour and visit to the university museum

A solid 24 hours of travelling to find a beautiful view of the Ningbo campus Trent building from my hotel room (my favourite @uniofnottingham.bsky.social building). It’s going to be a fun week in China!

-UK net economic benefits of international students starting in 21/22 =£37.4 billion. -Net economic contribution per constituency during their studies=£58 million. -That's £560 per member of the population. So stop the hostile rhetoric & stupid policies! commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-bri...

Visa approved in Manchester today! I’ll be seeing you soon 🇨🇳

Tell me your at #ers2025 without telling me you’re at ERS

The sun is perfect and you woke this morning. You have enough language in your mouth to be understood. You have a name, and someone wants to call it. Five fingers on your hand and someone wants to hold it.

A fabulous 3 days of science and connecting with 🫁 friends from across the UK #balr2025 So many new ideas! And great to see members of my team get lots of interest in their posters

#BALR2025 is over, and here are the winners of the competitions: Poster competition 🎉 Mads Rossanese from @ucl.ac.uk 🎉 Katherine Ronchetti from The Children’s hospital for Wales 🎉 Sasha-Gaye Richards from @uniofnottingham.bsky.social Congratulations all! 1/2

🎉 The #BALR2025 early career competition went to Juma El Awaisi from University of Birmingham 🎉 The postgraduate competition went to Bethany Sawyer from @brisunipress.bsky.social 🎉 mid-career competition went to Polina Yarova from @newcastleuni.bsky.social Congratulations! 2/2

Positions are open on the BALR committee, if U R at #BALR2025 & interested chat to us! Open positions + who 2 talk 2: - Chair @chrisscotton.bsky.social - Treasurer @amandatatler.bsky.social - Comms @drmanuplate.bsky.social - Publications @meretelong.bsky.social - Post doc rep Brinnie Selvarajah

Discussion point from the panel discussion at #BALR2025: • about 60% of people in the room work in pulmonary fibrosis, why? • do we have good models and which disease has the best models and why? • how do we improve sharing or tissue and resources?

A positive outlook from @amandatatler.bsky.social on the bright horizon in fibrotic lung disease treatments at #BALR2025

I’m at that stage of parenting where I get to introduce the books I loved as a kid to my own children. And none more so than this ❤️

New song from the best artist to hail from Nottingham! #JakeBugg www.youtube.com/watch?v=YE5t...

I don’t think anyone is naive enough to think Uni of Nottingham would be ok financially if it weren’t for this purchase (most of the sector is in trouble), but as far as terrible decisions go this ranks pretty highly www.nottinghampost.com/news/notting...

Here's what's awaiting the lucky attendees of #BALR2025 summer meeting in Cardiff on 8-10/09 on day 1 of the conference! Check out the full program, find more information and register/submit an abstract at balr.co.uk/meetings

Do you want to become part of a dynamic committee and contribute to the strategic planning of the BALR? Apply for the open positions on our committee! Chair Treasurer Communications Secretary Publications Secretary RSB Representative Post-Doc Rep More info at balr.co.uk/about

Very proud of one of my PhD students for getting a systematic review over the line. Well done Yasmin! In true PhD style you have not had an easy ride so far so celebrate this success! www.mdpi.com/2673-8937/5/...

What a great meeting! The national COPD ‘25 conference was held in Nottingham last week. Great to share research, clinical views and network. Included talks from @nottscopd.bsky.social team - Ayushman Gupta, @amandatatler.bsky.social @drrachclifford.bsky.social and @profbolton.bsky.social

Today’s tee: No barbies to be seen here 🤣

Sometimes the insta algorithm just got you down to a t (pun intended) Prompting the “what have you been buying this time, dear?” from the better half 🤣

📣Registrations and abstract submissions are OPEN for #BALR2025 in Cardiff 8-10 Sept! A stellar program and ECR awards await! Head here www.balr.co.uk/meetings to submit your abstract by 10/08 and register by 25/08!

Official invitation to speak at a conference in China, completely focused on TGFb in health and disease. Super excited to see 🇨🇳 and catch up with colleagues at the Ningbo campus of @uniofnottingham.bsky.social. See you in October! ✈️

Discovery is great and makes me happy. But the people make me happy too. A lunchtime picnic with the TC(A)G teams on our beautiful campus (with ice cream from the van!) reminded me (as if I needed it) of what amazing people I work with ❤️

Lots of thoughtful responses to the "concentrate on high quality" research view, in response to Robin's excellent reporting. Worth reading the quote tweets for others' thoughts.. I am puzzled (not itself unusual), but esp. by this. I wasn't at conference, so don't have the full context... (1)

Fourth IPF lung in as many weeks! Lung slices galore for a variety of projects 🙌🙌 (This feels like its been a long time coming) Huge Thankyou to the donors. We are putting it to good use to understand the disease more and test potential therapies 😊😊

Truly tragic story coming out of the Republic of Gilead. Sorry I meant the US (easy mistake to make). My heart breaks for that poor womans family 😢 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

5 years old, rides 14 miles 💪

Setting sail for a week of cycling and windmill spotting in 🇳🇱

My only bit of advice when starting/trying to grow a lab is surround yourself with an awesome team! Me: guys I really need to spend the next few weeks focusing on grant writing so if I’m distracted or not around I’m sorry My team: you got this-How can we help? Here have some delicious hot chocolate

Join us at 11am ET for @ats-assemblies.bsky.social journal club. Thrilled to be joining the expert panel to discuss an outstanding paper

I keep hearing of people cancelling trips to ATS because of “the situation”. Here is my plea… can we go back to Toronto instead? My first ATS was there and it was awesome 🤩

The best Mother’s Day present was a bicycle ride just me and my mini-me ❤️

Birthday cake to celebrate Sun rotation #9 for my little girl Sufficiently unlike the real thing so as to not infringe copyright 🤣 Happy birthday, my gorgeous girl

At the end of the day, no word of a lie, it was a pretty tidy weekend if truth be told 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿#gowerAONB

Protein organ clocks, as assessed in over 6,000 people (~4,000 plasma proteins, 8 organs) with 20-year follow-up are predictive for over 30 age-related diseases www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Incredible science-themed cakes by the Biodiscovery Institute! You too can take part in a charity bake sale with a scientific twist. Show off your baking & science communications skills while raising funds for life-changing medical research! 🔬🍰 www.medicalresearchfoundation.org.uk/research-bak...

So I have a short (7 month) PDRA position opening in my lab funded by The Academy of Medical Sciences. It's to investigate the interplay between ubiquitin-based protein degradation and cell adhesion signalling. Deadline for applications is 25th Feb manmetjobs.mmu.ac.uk/jobs/vacancy...

They’d have been better off keeping our king… he shows up once in a while to give a posh wave then buggers off again to let the people with the know-how run the country 🤔

Someone just turned up with “the lung microbiome” and I think I can call the winner already 👏