So many of you have asked similar questions of why “Whatever happened to Sir Professor Gary Foster FRS CBE?!” On this particular day 🤔

Do I do an Aprils Fool joke this year. Nah. You’re all too gullible.

104,000 people at this concert. And who was in charge of bossing them around. Yep, her…… ❤️ First photos as BTS make live return in front of huge crowd www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Someone called us PIPS the other day ~ PREVIOUSLY IMPORTANT PEOPLE! So true. Career highlights fade away and how we impacted family and friends so much more important. Signed, a proud PIP

This is a weird life moment for me. About to support England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 in the rugby 🏉

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There’s no better feeling than being an Irish man living in England when Ireland are stuffing England in the rugby 🏉 #heaven #bliss

Researchers have designed an electrode that allows for a month-long, noninvasive method of studying physiology and health in a diverse array of plants. Learn more in this week’s issue of #ScienceAdvances: https://scim.ag/4aay3yP

Our researchers reveal that light pollution disrupts nocturnal insects & spiders' movements.🏙️🕷️ Dr Rochelle Meah & Prof Nicholas Roberts highlight two key effects: 1️⃣ Masked day-to-night transitions. 🌙🕷️ 2️⃣ Blinded polarized light for navigation.☀️🦋 Read➡️: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Last chance to apply for our funded PhD opportunity. w. Prof. Fredric Coulon @ Cranfield University. This will investigate expansion of ML models for AMR phenotype detection to agriculture settings to create a sensor-ready hit list. Detail here: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

UKRI pauses several funding calls amid priorities shake-up The applicant-led MRC funding calls on pause include research grants, partnership grants and new investigator research grants made available through the council’s research boards. www.researchprofessional.com/news-article...

www.findaphd.com/phds/project... interested in bacterial antagonism? PhD opportunity in our team, see below. Please repost!

Needed hot sausage roll and hot drink as beach very windy and cold 🥶

Before I retired, colleagues couldn’t believe that I’d just walk away easily. Saying I was so passionate about science and lecturing and my commitment to the university as a whole. You’ll get bored they said. Err…..no 😂 Best life after 🙃

Available to a good home: A beer belly...I've been looking after it over Xmas as I can't locate it's owner. It's not damaged..... It follows me everywhere and is very cuddly.

I turned my mine down again. The just won’t leave me be. news.sky.com/story/new-ye...

Something for the nerds out there.... CACGCCCCCCCCTACAACGAGTGGTACGAGGCCAGGACGTGGGAAGAACCCTCG

Been a while since I published children’s books. But now that our wee man is 22 months & LOVES books, how could Granny & Gramps not write a new one. Now available in all good book shops and all online sites Dylan and the Dinosaur 🦖 amzn.eu/d/2vyxxt2

Publish or Perish: A Humorous Party Game about Academic Publishing The Publish or Perish Game is a humorous party game about academic publishing. Players race to publish manuscripts with useless nonsense while sabotaging each other's research!!!!! publishorperish.games?utm_medium=p...

One man (little old me) and his dog.

Building capacity in vector-borne plant virus research: The CONNECTED Network nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Oh how us virologists ranted and raved. But no one listened. ‘Too little, too late’: damning report condemns UK’s Covid response

NEW from me: Political hostility, high visa fees and (in the case of the UK) stagnant incomes are making the UK and US less attractive destinations for top international talent. That steep decline in the appeal of moving to the US after 2016 is 👀

Back in gods homeland the great wee Norn Iron. The wind is howling, the wind is horizontal, yep we are deffo home.

My view as a virologist over 2 years before COVID hit !!

Very appropriate 😂😂😂 My better half would agree 🙃

Our kids never threw out a book their entire lives. Therefore we’ve about 25 years worth stored in our loft for both of them. We’ve finally decided to sort Finding some classics. Fishing with Foster….The legend begins 😂 could change ‘fishing’ for a wide range of things 😂😂😂

Deffo me towards the end….. 😂

Only UK people will understand and also those of a certain age. ‪Still very very proud of all my badges especially the silver. Still have all my letters from Biddy Baxter. The nicest person I’ve ever met in my childhood universe. ‬ ‪#BluePeter‬

UK universities have collectively announced more than 12,000 job cuts in the last year www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Thousands more UK university jobs cut as financial crisis deepens www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

UK universities offered to monitor students’ social media for arms firms, emails show www.theguardian.com/education/20...

As an academic/scientist I might’ve worked on sweet potato diseases for many years. But I’ve still got a lot to learn about growing them outside in the UK. But still not to bad a crop so far 🍠

Glasgow University accused of failing student who killed himself on graduation day Ethan Scott Brown was wrongly told he had not earned geography degree despite marks being enough for a 2:1 www.theguardian.com/education/20...

🌽 🥔 🍅 🫛 🌾 🍎 www.cnn.com/2025/09/16/u...

Needed a drink to get thru Dancing Queen and Super Trouper

Our daughter bought us tickets to see the ABBA Show in London. We are in a restaurant close by and realised Friday night is regarded as ‘Ladies Night’. I’m lsurrounded by 100s of menopausal women in glitter & sparkles. I think I’m gonna be vastly outnumbered in the arena. Please pray for me 🙏

Barley #plants produce unique antifungal compounds called hordedanes. But one of them, B. sorokiniana, exploits these defenses to thrive. By neutralizing theme, it extends its parasitic phase, showcasing the evolutionary battle between plants and pathogens. buff.ly/5LV93xB...

HBD 🥳 to my very own Queen of the Slipstream ❤️

ICTV have decided not to use Latin anymore. They’ve now decided to use Ancient Elvish for naming.

An abomination. Latin names are idiotic for viruses.

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We lost deliberately. Mo is a genius as he knew no team in history has won the Community Shield and then gone on to win the league that season.

Not bloody penalties. I’m on holiday. It’s too early in the season to get this stressed. ⚽️

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Front row seats in pub in Croyde for Liverpool match ⚽️ Pint of lovely chilled cider and chilli nachos. #heaven