It what other profession are highly qualified individuals expected to provide their expertise to for-profit companies for free, getting only the ‘honour’ of having helped and perhaps their name mentioned in a back cover once a year, which no one will read nor care about?

Breakthrough ovarian cancer drug offers patients more time and better quality of life www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

“We are pleased to inform you that Editorial Board has given provisional approval of your article for publication” Can’t say more because of an embargo, but suffice it to say that it’s a nice ISR paper with a member of my lab (not me) as senior author 🎉🤩🔬

The health gap between Republican and Democrats started in the 2010s and has been widening ever since. At first it was happening because college grads were moving Left and everyone else was moving Right. Education predicts health bc of better information and access as well as income. My latest.

Forgive me doing That Thing: I'm so grateful for & humbled by this review of Textile Shakespeare in RES from the great @profcatheriner.bsky.social whose work has been so formative for me: 'From the small detail to the large span of concept, this is a very fine book' doi.org/10.1093/res/...

I did a(nother) thing about #RomeoAndJuliet...

Functional and physical resemblance to populist politicians?

'Sc spatial analysis reveals intratumoral heterogeneity, w diverse adaptive states in different zones of individual tumors. Using human & murine organoid models, we show that drug-induced inflammatory programs are, at least in part, cancer-cell autonomous & precede the emergence of drug resistance'

'Many citizens have little faith in a military administration (...) Encouraged by rumours on social media, some people do not believe Ebola exists at all, or regard it as a plot by outsiders to control the population & the province’s resources of gold, coffee and timber.' www.ft.com/content/24b6...

'Antibody-drug conjugates are among the fastest-growing anticancer therapies, delivering potent payloads directly to tumor cells with improved safety across hematologic and solid tumors. This review focuses on their biology and where the field needs to move' www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

The UK is expanding & accelerating the childhood vaccination schedule, adding MMRV & shifting MenB/PCV timing The US is attempting to reduce the number of routinely recommended childhood vaccines, though federal courts are blocking some of this www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

No one but Zosia and yours truly on a Friday evening stroll near #PapworthWood If for Sartre « L’enfer, c’est les autres » then this must be close to heaven

Tice spouts slogans while the calm, informed, apparently unflappable @akshatrathi.bsky.social reveals the shallowness of anti-net-zero ideology simply by asking polite questions plus a little educated factchecking. I recommend. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/z...

Wu and Hegde annotate and analyze the topology of 4,863 human endoplasmic reticulum–inserted membrane proteins and their 20,546 transmembrane domains, showing that transmembrane domains inserted by different pathways can tolerate different biophysical properties. rupress.org/jcb/article/...

TL;DR: We've identified more than 100 cases of apparent manipulation in Thermo Fisher Scientific's antibody verification data. @sholtodavid.bsky.social @johanduchene.bsky.social reeserichardson.blog/2026/05/28/h...

Advice warning of risks of a variety of approaches that are toxic, dangerous and/or unproven has been removed in the FDA website under RFKJr’s watch. He has instead promoted some of these in interviews and brought in advisers who tout such approaches.

Relaxing cool, evening walk around #PapworthWood Zosia avoiding the heat of these unseasonable hot May days

Please spread the word about our forthcoming @stcatharines.bsky.social Medicine Taster Day 30th June 10am-4pm Application deadline 15 June Lectures, supervisions, watch a mock Interview, meet students and fellows www.caths.cam.ac.uk/outreach/tas...

The thing about outbreaks in one part of the world is that they don’t respect national boundaries, which is why, when it comes to outbreaks, epidemics, or pandemics, we need to work multilaterally Banning NIAID researchers from communicating with the WHO makes the US LESS safe (Story pasted in ALT)

In the phase 3 SCORPIO-PEP trial, the 3C-like protease inhibitor ensitrelvir was more effective than placebo in preventing Covid-19 in household contacts of patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection. Full trial results and Research Summary: https://nej.md/4npQqG7

May #WokeratiBookClub ‘Science and Politics’ by Ian Boyd Prof Boyd was chief scientific adviser to the UK government on food and the environment 2012-2019, so knows what he’s talking about. An erudite, reflective and enjoyable read. Recommend.

I hope you had chance to enjoy at least some of the long weekend Time for this rather good bitter

No universities are named here, but it's alarming to see actual lists of institutions with only enough liquidity to pay next month's salaries in 2024/25. Mostly surviving, but a only small shock could trigger insolvency, emergency restructuring, or fire-sale of assets. www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-ana...

NAI antibodies against H5N1 in human sera from 155 people, born 1927-2016. People primed by H1N1 had higher levels of antibodies that cross react with H5N1. Children rarely had X-reactive N1 antibodies. Immune history impacts X-reactive NA antibodies. 👉 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

M&A News.

Two in five UK universities are open to or are actively considering acquisitions and mergers with other institutions, find @universitiesuk.bsky.social survey www.timeshighereducation.com/news/two-fiv...

Universities across England face ‘real risk’ of closure due to insolvency for first time www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

This month Nottingham University announced plans to cut 600 or so jobs, or roughly 8% of its total staff, to deal with “significant financial challenges”, while Sheffield University is considering cutting about a fifth of its chemistry department This should worry us all www.ft.com/content/ded7...

Around 1 in 100 people in the UK have coeliac disease but only 36% have a diagnosis, which means an estimated half a million people are living with unexplained symptoms. @coeliacuk.bsky.social www.coeliac.org.uk/news/coeliac...

Coeliac diesease is a chronic illness, not a lifestyle choice. Over 20 years ago GF prescriptions were essential for us and still are for many. GF food has changed since our first household diagnosis but costs have always been excessive. @coeliacuk.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

'Some policy directives go further. An email from NIH’s NIGMS to research-center grantees, seen by Science, requires their institutions to promise that U.S. authors of papers NIH has flagged because of foreign co-authors will not collaborate with them in the future.'

'The White House signaled interest early this month in investigating whether the NASEM should be suspended or debarred fm federal funding, in response to a letter from 11 GOP lawmakers criticizing NASEM, particularly the climate science chapter of its Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence'

It's not a EU passport chaos, it's a UK passport chaos. #BrexitOpportunities

Yay, Brexit ! www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Update. The person who accidentally ran into my car a few weeks ago sent me a nice selection of beers by way of apology. 🍻😊 Marciniak’s First Law = 95% of people are lovely

The UK minister for product safety, Kate Dearden, said: “It is deeply concerning toys are being sold with asbestos, and I know this is worrying for parents. We are continuing to further investigate how products containing this have entered the UK market.” www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Please spread the word about our forthcoming @stcatharines.bsky.social Medicine Taster Day 30th June 10am-4pm Application deadline 15 June Lectures, supervisions, watch a mock Interview, meet students and fellows www.caths.cam.ac.uk/outreach/tas...

In 10 minutes, I'll have the honour of giving the final medical physiology lecture to our @cambup-lifesci.cambridge.org first year medical students. While I wait, I'm sitting in the spot I used to use 37-38 years ago

Day 6 Bilbao: El Puertico for an amazing selection of oysters and a crisp glass of Itsas Mendi 7

Day 5 Bilbao: back to pintxos after cocktails at Gin Fizz. First pitxos stop at the famous El Globo (their spider crab gratin is apparently the ‘must have’)

Day 4 Vitoria-Gastiez: Kea Basque Fine Food restaurant. Strongly recommend

Day 4 Pamplona: pintchos and pastries 🇪🇸

Day 3 Biarritz: fruits de mer lunch Chez Albert then crêpe Suzette nearby

Day 2 San Sebastián evening Pintxos bar crawl - after cocktails at Arruan, first stop Bar Sport

Day 2 Saint-Sébastien 🇪🇸 Pintxos at La Cepa

Day 1 Northern Spain: Saint-Sebastien Tasting menu at the Bar Bergara, one of the most famous pintxo bars in San Sebastián

Day 1 Northern Spain: Getaria 🇪🇸 Pintxos (little bar snacks) for lunch 🦑

The hantavirus outbreak has officially left the "don't you find it suspicious that Moderna already worked on a vaccine two years ago" stage behind and has entered the "here, try this horse dewormer, trust me it's very effective" phase of stupidity. People have not learnt a single thing from COVID.