🪼 Your tax dollars paid a scientist to squeeze jellyfish through cheesecloth. Osamu Shimomura processed tens of thousands on an NSF grant to understand why they glow. He found a protein that glowed green under UV light. Called it "green protein." Nobody cared. For decades.

Sluid fluid? @auditorynerves.bsky.social

When you can no longer ignore the rattling pipe in the office wall 😠

A glorious mid-week match for the Gooners #AWFC

Yes, Cilla is back ❤️❤️❤️❤️

Today @amandajcarr.bsky.social and her team spoke to early career clinicians about opportunities in research. If you are a clinician interested in getting involved in research we’d love to see you at our Cross Innovation Hub poster & networking event Register: forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/respon...

Look at the women at NASA. They are the ones pushing the boundaries of science, solving problems most people can’t even understand, and carrying this country forward, while our politicians right now posture and stumble through talking points. And they are doing it all with joy.👇

How can anyone not like the book?

I went and saw Project Hail Mary. A guy came in with his service dog and the dog sat there the whole time just concentrating on the movie. Afterwards I told the guy I was amazed your dog watched the movie like that. He replied, me too especially because he hated the book.

Before playing Kamancheh, he says: 'Hello, I'm Mohammad-Reza Afarideh, the director of the ed. institute that has now been destroyed. I wanted the last sound coming from my institute not to be of missiles and war; (I want the) final sound to be of the instrument that I played in it. Thank you'.

I’m hiring a research tech to join my lab! Anyone interested can reach out to me for more information. This is a good opportunity for someone looking to expand their research skills prior to graduate school. mcw.wd503.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...

Next year, we will be moving to the Moorfields and UCL Centre for Eye Health in Kings Cross. The newly named centre is a joint initiative between @moorfields.bsky.social, @ucleye.bsky.social and Moorfields Eye Charity. Find out more: www.moorfields.nhs.uk/about-us/ori...

We’re excited to announce the name of our new partner building: Moorfields & UCL Centre for Eye Health. Opening in summer 27, this brings research and clinical care together to accelerate patient benefit. Read: moorfieldsbrc.nihr.ac.uk/partner-buil... @moorfields.bsky.social @ucleye.bsky.social

#InternationalWomensDay Fans at Vale Park. Home of Port Vale Football Club, Burslem, Stoke on Trent 1962

Up the Vale!!!!

The Norwegian Consumer Council with an amazing video on enshittification and how to resist it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Up...

I just made an account and voted for this biology laboratory made of LEGO to "promote biological research and inspire more people into the world of biology". They need 10K votes. Reposting and/or voting below would be helpful. 🤗 beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

This video, the commentary, the timeline…size of that pup!Incredible ❤️

I saw a live birthed harbor seal pup for the first time in my life today. I thought it would be horrifying because I have a weak stomach, but it turned to UNGODLY CUTE very fast! Using this thread for some moments in the minutes after. All shot on my z8, edited on phone for now. 🦭 🦑

U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.

I think I’ve cried all the water out of my body ❤️

Rest in Peace Alex Jeffrey Pretti🙏🏾 The VA ICU Nurses send him off right 💔

“Please get the truth out about our son.” 💔 #RIPAlexPretti

Feel it’s time to remind people of the prophetic review from the Scottish Sunday Herald

Great to see the BBC publish the winning entry to the 2025 @absw.bsky.social young science writer awards, by Hasset Kifle of St Margaret Ward Catholic Academy, Stoke-on-Trent, here with @bbcvic.bsky.social: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...? Background here: www.absw.org.uk/pages/young-...

Incredible that two students from my old high school, St Margaret Ward, have been awarded winner and runner up in the Young Science Writer of the Year 2025. Congratulations!!! www.absw.org.uk/pages/young-...

Merry Christmas 🎅🏻 🎄 🎅🏻 hope Santa Paws was good to you all x

Bueno estente. El grande pervert... siento, el mucho grande presidente pervert, dice "wah, wah, wah, listen, Biden, whap, whap, battleship, Obama, mummy". Pfft, nearly dead so all bueno. Feliz Navidad desde Venezuela. Boutros Boutros Ghali.

How your email finds me…

Happy Christmas 🎉🎉🎉🎄🎄

If you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity… Nominating Bob Mortimer and Paul Whitehouse for their amazing friendship and discussions of men’s health. Highly recommend BBCs Gone Fishing to anyone who needs to chill 🥰 youtu.be/CvgVwppgceI?...

Features copies of Shift Happens by @aresluna.org subtly in the background of a few shots.

Why fish don’t fall asleep 🤓

Dear TV show/film editors, if I can’t read the crucial storyline revealing text message on screen without pausing and squinting like a Victorian detective through a magnifying glass, it’s too small. Signed, a frustrated 48-year-old with perfectly respectable glasses. 🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️

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...