Ok President Trump, if you sue the BBC for $1bn for spreading lies, I’ll sue you for the same amount. I reckon Planet Earth would crowdfund that. Then I’ll buy Mar A Largo, turn it into a climate change research centre, free Melania, and put a 1000% tariff on orange face paint.

Mornings are for coffee and contemplation 😱 #StrangerThings

Contrary to my clear instructions, I’d prefer you leave me asleep when you go-go.

Really good! 👏🏻🤣

A team led by @ucleye.bsky.social scientists has identified a key protein that triggers diabetic retinopathy – a condition caused by high blood sugar damaging the retina’s blood vessels and a leading cause of sight loss among working-age adults. www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/oc...

So amazing to see our work on the cover of Science Translational Medicine!!

A study led by @giuliaderossi.bsky.social has identified a key protein that triggers diabetic retinopathy, a leading cause of blindness. The study, funded by @diabetesuk.bsky.social is published today and featured on the cover of #ScienceTranslationalMedicine. www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/oc...

As a fully qualified LEGO nerd, this would be my dream Christmas present 🤞🏻

And so it begins! 🎓 Emily’s PhD journey into shedding light on the fibrotic response in wet AMD. Huge thanks to @macularsociety.org for supporting this talented young scientist, and to @amandajcarr.bsky.social for co-supervising! 👏✨

This #WorldSightDay we share a short film for BBC ideas, in partnership with UKRI, featuring work by 3 @ucleye.bsky.social researchers: PhD student Zaynab Butt, Dr @amandajcarr.bsky.social and pioneering eye researcher Professor Pete Coffey who passed away in June 2025. www.bbc.co.uk/videos/c4gd5...

This completely ruins my old lecture joke “what’s does Jennifer Lopez know about regeneration?” -She used to know a little but she Axolotl 🤓

Check this paper from @simonomisz.bsky.social in our lab! www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/... Human retinas/organoids go through 2 apoptotic waves. Organoids also have a necrotic wave. Blocking apoptosis promotes RGC survival to day 200 (usually die!). Apoptosis promotes normal neurogenesis/maturation.

So exhausting..

Incredible results from UCL Huntingtons trial show slowing of disease and reduction of NFL after 3 years www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/se...

Incredible photo

🎉 Groundbreaking sight loss treatment for Leber’s Hereditary Optic Neuropathy now available on NHS England following a successful clinical trial co-led by @ucleye.bsky.social and Moorfields researcher.

Excited to be at the first UK Stem Cell Network in I don’t know how many years, it’s great to see the field get together again. Thanks to Zoe Hewitt from @regenctc.bsky.social for all your efforts getting this going again ❤️

Finally making it through to the @radiohead.wastehq.social queue feels a lot like this….

Furious American knitters cut off from EU yarn stores sit around fuming surrounded by sharp objects

Iconic moment at the Downton Abbey premiere

The churchyard of Cooling, in Kent, England. Those ten tiny gravestones were made famous by Dickens. They are a nice picture of childhood in a world without vaccines.

A man on the streets of the UK is asked about the “problem of immigration” and dismantles talking points with ease.

An abbreviation (ABB) in a journal article (JA) or Grant Application (GA) is rarely worth the words it saves. Every ABB requires cognitive resources (CR) and at my age by the time I'm halfway through a JA or GA I no longer have the CR to remember what your ABB stood for.

Scientists who receive NIH funding, anyone want to share your thoughts on the recent White House whiplash? I'm working on a story about it for The Guardian. DMs are open. 🧪

Where’s the Viennetta?

What a weekend!

Apropos of nothing at all ...

Very pleased to say we have an Assistant Professor job opening (tenure track) in the Department of Genetics at Trinity College Dublin! 😀 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOA399/a... - deadline is August 19th! Please repost!

Everyone at @ucleye.bsky.social has been deeply saddened by the passing of a highly esteemed colleague in June 2025. www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/ju...

Sharon I bloody died Sharon. Sharon they sent me to bloody heaven. Where are the bloody flames Sharon. Sharon it’s all bloody choir music up here Sharon. Sharon for fucks sake all the white is bloody blinding me up here Sharon

Another nerve wracking evening watching England in the Euros, but @arsenalwfc.bsky.social saved us again. I can’t wait for next season! #Agyemeng #Kellly 🦁🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Proud to team up with @ukri.org & #BBCideas on this short film discussing whether we can and should cure blindness 👁️🔬 🎥 Watch here: www.bbc.co.uk/videos/c4gd5...

It’s incredibly hard to express what Professor Pete Coffey meant to so many of us. The Macular Society has written a beautiful tribute to Pete and I'm honoured to have contributed a few words. Thank you, my friend, for so many happy days. www.macularsociety.org/about/media/...

Excited to see @anaalcafe.bsky.social talk about her work at the next @moorfieldsbrc.bsky.social coffee hour

Karolinska is looking for 20 (!!) assistant professors and offering 6 year appointments with ~1M USD startup packages. ki.se/en/about-ki/...

Excited to be offering a new Macular Society funded UK PhD studentship at @ucleye.bsky.social with Giulia De Rossi. The project will investigate a new therapeutic target for fibrosis in age-related macular degeneration. Deadline for applications is 14th July. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

🚨MRC Research Fellow Vacancy: Studying microglial ageing utilising iPSC-based cell biology, screening, biochemistry, genomics, imaging & bioinformatics @dervissalih1.bsky.social, UK DRI at UCL 🗓️ Closing 26 June 👉 www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Join the UKDRI at UCL in the Salih Lab to explore how glial-specific longevity genes affect ageing and Alzheimer’s, using iPSC models, genomics, and molecular biology @ukdri.ac.uk @dervissalih1.bsky.social Closing date: 26th June www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/job/research...

Vision Science peeps: Travel awards are available for students and early-career faculty to attend the #RD2025 International Symposium on Retinal Degeneration (September 15-119th at the Clarion Congress Hotel in Prague). I'll look forward to seeing you there. rdsymposium.com/travelawards/

We are happy to share that Volume 3 of The Brain Colouring book is officially in progress! It will be all about How We See! 👀🧠 Thank you to the Vision Science Research Network for their support in the creation of this book!! @michelcayouette.bsky.social @reseauvision.bsky.social

Congratulations to Dr Emma Burton for successfully defending her thesis, and thanks to @lindalako.bsky.social and @hardcastlelab.bsky.social

An interesting article when thinking about the mechanics of the eye in space.

Just been going through some of my daughter’s old notebooks and found this little diamond. She copied out the @promegauk.bsky.social restriction enzyme sites at 8years old thinking it was spy code 😂🤣🥰

Paul and Ringo Got Back. What an incredible privilege to see them play together 🥰 #TheBeatles

Very excited to be working with @dervissalih1.bsky.social and the @nc3rs.bsky.social to develop new models of AMD at @ucleye.bsky.social

We have committed over £1M to ten studentships supporting the development of non-animal methods. This year’s projects include a range of technologies from complex in vitro models to computational models incorporating machine learning: nc3rs.org.uk/news/ten-new...

Extraordinary blog, thank you @deevybee.bsky.social for your principled stance

Eat, sleep, dive!

Off T’gypt 🤿