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We were joined this afternoon by MPs @luketaylorld.bsky.social, @bobbywdean.bsky.social and @paulkohlersw19.bsky.social 👋 Luke, Bobby and Paul met with Dr @maggiecheang.bsky.social to discuss her role at the ICR and the impact of her interdisciplinary research in the @icr-ctsu.bsky.social

If you bought a Framework Laptop 13 at its original launch, it required a lot of blind faith. The idea of a laptop you could upgrade yourself was spectacular in theory, but here we are, more than four years later, seeing Framework’s grand ambitions come to fruition. Read more: wrd.cm/4jX7VKB

We are recruiting! We're searching for a postdoctoral research fellow to study patient-specific regulators of plasticity in primary and metastatic CRC. Please reach out if you have any questions! www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

2. #bridgyfed is making open systems increasingly seamless. I don’t even need to use Openvibe any more, except to post to #nostr. I just post here, then interact with the increasing numbers of bridges users on #bluesky 😍

Mass Spec xkcd.com/3094/

Ha costat però ja ho tenim! Totes les etapes de les nostres #escapades i #viatges amb #autocaravana en un mapa, amb la informació bàsica per accedir als detalls. 📰 L'entrada: www.autocaravana.cat/2025/05/tote... 🗺 El mapa: www.instamaps.cat/visor.html?b... Bona ruta!

By betraying his voters so comprehensively and so soon, Keir Starmer has done us a favour. He has given us 4 years to design the government we want. In this week's column I explain how it can be done. There's massive potential, but we need to start now. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Great to see this happening in my neighborhood - I'm not surprised. Obviously no reflection on Diane at all - it's entirely a response to the awful Labour Government who are turning people away in their droves. Expect more of this & we'll be here with the positive alternative.

Happy to share details of this meeting and the exciting line-up of speakers. Hope to see you there. Please re-post www.crick.ac.uk/whats-on/5th...

Calling data scientists: we have opening in our Data Science core @icr.ac.uk to lead work around cancer spatial biology and single cell analysis. These are staff scientist type positions, ideal for someone who wants to help drive computational research. Apply here: jobs.icr.ac.uk/vacancies/12...

Any scikit-image fans in Vienna? The #skimage team would like to meet in Vienna for a code sprint Aug 14-16 ahead of EuroSciPy. We'd super appreciate it if someone's workplace can host us! All we need is electricity, natural light, and (most important) walking distance to coffee. ☕️😂🙏

Good morning from a Bounds Green Busybody, denim jacket over my pyjamas at the main junction at 7 AM, because there’s been a huge crash here overnight. The Facebook group last showed a car still here, stuck on the railings. There will be hundreds and hundreds of kids … 1/8

🧵5 Top Free Alternatives to BioRender for Scientific Illustrations! These five websites offer free scientific illustrations for biologists. Great for presentations, research papers and other research communication needs. Save and share the post!

1. This is Piles Copse, the largest remaining fragment of high-ground temperate rainforest on Dartmoor. It’s a tiny speck of green in a dismal, human-made desert. Prepare yourselves for a story of breathtaking perversity, told in this thread. (There’s a one-page version at the bottom). 🧵

If you live in CA you could look for this tiny poppy. Just like onenicebugperday said "look at them!" https://www.tumblr.com/futurebird/783149779381288960/image-descriptions-in-gray-tiny-gravel-rather?source=share

Excellent: "More than 100 institutions and funders worldwide have confirmed that research published in #elife continues to be considered in hiring, promotion, and funding decisions, following the journal’s bold move to forgo its Journal Impact Factor." […]

Pascal’s Law xkcd.com/3087

As former Chair of London's Environment committee - I'm releasing a report: Net Zero and Leadership. Cross party investigation into what those in power can do to engage properly with communities at the grassroots. Read the report here 👇🏽

•Are you a data scientist / bioinformatician? •Interested in #DeepLearning applied to #SpatialBiology? •Do you want to transform #ProstateCancer clinical decision-making? Based @QMBCI.bsky.social Apply here!! 👇 (closing date 20th May) qmul-jobs.tal.net/vx/candidate... #SPACE_Study #Organscale

London Cycling Festival is coming to Hackney! Hackney will host a day of cycling fun on Sunday 25 May, with traffic-free streets in Hoxton and inclusive, family-friendly rides @zeroemissions.bsky.social @londoncycling.bsky.social 👉 Find out more: lcc.org.uk/events/hackn...

TANK vs TESLA "We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again" - ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank

Kudos to Youssef Arafat who defended his PhD "Application of computer vision and artificial intelligence techniques on histological and microscopical data". Tks to examiners @david-j-barry.bsky.social (@crick.ac.uk), Dr Ferran Valderrama (@citystgeorges.bsky.social) and chair: @emp1.bsky.social

With NIH director Jayanta Bhattacharya dismissing my reporting as "false" and "spreading rumors" hours before releasing a policy that confirmed said "rumors," I feel compelled to respond. Here's an inside look into how this story was reported. It was a weird one. 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Important effort in England to enhance precise and accurate medical forecasting— "Foresight" www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Thank you to everyone who ran in the #LondonMarathon for the ICR 💗 These are just a few of our superstars who dedicated their time, effort, and hard work to raise vital funds for our #CancerResearch. Inspired to take part in London Marathon 2026? Find out more here ⬇️ www.icr.ac.uk/support-us/f...

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

Here is a Roman D20 carved from crystal in the 3rd century AD. These were used, historians suspect for telling fortunes. However, no one can *prove* they weren't used for some kind role playing game. Which is what getting a fortune told with a die is kind of […] [Original post on sauropods.win]

Sir Chris Hoy says he is “doing well”, and “going way better” on the bike since chemotherapy, following “terminal” cancer diagnosis that took “away all hope” road.cc/content/news...

When a two-body problem is solved and both spouses obtain jobs at the same university

Our submission for @aclmeeting.bsky.social seems to have been reviewed by ... Claude plus a lazy human 🙄🙄🙄 "RetryClaude can make mistakes. Please double‑check responses." It is not just a breach of conference policy, but also it is a poor quality review... openreview.net/forum?id=KiY... #ACL2025NLP

So dope that @ghost.org is adding a switch for Bridgy Fed! One of our (many) goals with @anew.social is to make it easier to bridge your accounts on platforms and apps you already use, so I love seeing it pop up organically on such an important platform 🌐🙏🏼 activitypub.ghost.org/recapping-fe...

#bluesky remains important and valuable as a tool of political resistance _right now_; nobody should be scolded for using it. But (there's always a but) the company's willingness to fold quickly to censorship demands from Turkey's government demonstrates that it is not sufficient. Both the […]

so apparently, bluesky has started honoring government takedown requests from turkish government. i wonder what the nature of measures taken are. do the accounts or the content get taken down or do they get geofenced, @jay.bsky.team ?

In my course on evolution and medicine I was discussing why—if fever is an evolved defense—we so often use antipyretic drugs to reduce fever. (FWIW, I think it's generally fine to do so.) "No one would prescribe an immunosuppresant to treat a deadly viral infection", I said. I forgot about RFK Jr.

Air pollution has dropped significantly in #Paris in the last 15 years as a result of a deliberate strategy. Mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social’s leadership has traded car space for green space, safe bike space, kid space.. and traded pollution for people. Good trade.

1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but 2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but 3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So 4. Now the LLM code points to malware.

The Empty Library memorial, to remember the book burnings done by Nazis. In Berlin, Germany.

Denisovans inhabited Taiwan, new fossil evidence suggests https://www.sciencenews.org/article/denisovans-taiwan-jaw-fossil-evidence The fossil jaw highlights the mystery of Denisovans’ place in hominid evolution Full research paper here https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ads3888

This is why we don’t need #US #Cars in #Europe

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article.... Excellent news for breast cancer patients, based on great work from ICR scientists including our own Nick Turner.

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Això és gros. L'extrema dreta catalana copia la famosa propaganda nazi dels bitllets falsos per deportar jueus, que AfD ha recuperat i la fiscalia alemanya investiga per incitació a l'odi. Aquí vaig explicar el significat d'aquests bitllets 'per purificar la raça': www.elpuntavui.cat/opinio/artic...

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🚐 ESCAPADA AMB AUTOCARAVANA PER L'ANOIA 🚐 Després de 3 mesos aturats teníem unes ganes boges de fer ruta. I l' #Anoia és un bon destí: ben comunicat, ben ric i ben verd amb les darreres pluges Aquí tens el resum amb: 📍les etapes 🅿️ #estacionaments 🌓 #pernoctes ⏬ i #ÀreadAutocaravanes Som-hi!

Good luck to everyone taking part in the London Landmarks Half Marathon today! 🏆 A huge thank you for supporting the ICR. Your contributions help us to continue our vital work! We'll be cheering you on every step of the way! 💪 #LLHM

Video showed that before 15 aid workers were killed by Israeli forces, they had their emergency signal lights on, contradicting Israel’s claims.