⚠️ Half of commercial antibodies miss their target! So how do you pick the right one for your experiment? Here’s the solution 👉 Antibody characterization data (all tested in KO cells) are now available at: 🔗 onlygoodantibodies.co.uk Tested by @ycharos.bsky.social & @oga-community.bsky.social

Hi! Did you know that you aren’t pronouncing axolotl correctly? Suppression of indigenous languages by the Spanish is one of the Four Wounds of Colonization. This is a small subversion of colonial power you can use! Axolotl is a Nahuatl word, and it sounds like this:

BioImage analysis friends - King's are recruiting for a full-time, permanent facility position! Come and work with fun microscopes and fun people (and me!) - please share! www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/126345-...

These are some of the most extreme restrictions on immigration in years. We're told to see them as benign because they're less bad than Farage's far-right extremism. But they are still terrible.

All of this. 👇

Bucha was the scene of some horrific war crimes - this is what invasion and occupation mean. Just like Hamas for Oct 7th, and destruction of civilian lives and infrastructure in Gaza - they should be prosecuted, or they'll be back.

I guess that the weed is needed if Tylenol/paracetamol is no longer recommended?

Americans are (sometimes even genuinely) appalled by the European attitude to free speech rights, but as a Belgian employer I would not be able to fire someone for this.

Not just destroying lives and habitability, but history too

Neil Kinnock calling a spade a spade. Fixing potholes, waiting lists, poverty and investment is just harder when the country is poorer than it needs to be.

Assistant/Associate Professor in Structural Biology, Biophysics or Biological Imaging www.biozentrum.unibas.ch/open-positio... #biozentrum #University #Basel #Professor #Structural #Biology #Biophysics #Biological #Imaging

Keystone cops. A funny moment in an appalling situation.

Just fuck off with this. How about start the conversation by highlighting how much immigrants contribute to the UK - not least by propping up the NHS and social care system! Also - forced volunteering is not volunteering, it's unpaid labour.

"Lawyers and immigration advisers said this facet of the policy could lead to long queues of visa-holders applying to be school governors, and a cottage industry of companies ready to accredit litter-picking efforts."

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This comic is becoming increasingly realistic. m.xkcd.com/3056/

Congrats to Moldova!!! Russia threw everything to destabilize the election and failed spectacularly. Democracy won 🙌🏼

When our daily news is dominated by truly awful people like Trump, Putin, and Netanyahu, it's easy to forget that there are still some truly decent, honourable people in the world. Here's a reminder of one of them: Finbarr Archer. 👏👏👏 #Speirgorm www.rte.ie/news/regiona...

Tried to persuade my mum and sister to get their UK citizenship over lunch (both on settled status). They both couldn't believe there would be a risk, and that they've been here for 50+ years. Even though they admit Farage said what he said, they couldn't take it seriously. I think they should.

Europe has a lot to learn from Ukraine about defending against mass drone and missile attacks.

Ukraine was successful in shooting down the great majority of Russian drones and missiles in last night's attack. It's clear that Russia's attack was not aimed at Ukraine's military or defence industries, but at civilian apartment blocks, homes, shopping centre's and hospitals. Pure terrorism!

'Rather than addressing the fundamental problems with existing verification systems, the Britcard threatens to digitise and amplify the very hostile environment policies that created these problems in the first place' blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...

100,000 people marched in Berlin for Gaza. As someone living under this genocide, I want to say: thank you. Your voices reached us — through the smoke, the hunger, and the fear. I’m Sakher, from Gaza. I’ve lost everything, but your solidarity reminds me that we are not alone. Please keep going.

In reporting this piece on the new trial for a Huntington's treatment, I was struck by one thing in particular: The joy. One of my sources wept for joy. He has spent his entire career studying this disease, he said it was the happiest day. www.sciencenews.org/article/hunt...

If you didn’t see this coming, I can’t help you: White House considers funding advantage for colleges that align with Trump policies

Two new papers from our lab 😀! Seipin beyond LDs: balances ER sphingolipids & glycerolipids, key for protein secretion (incl. Cav1). www.cell.com/cell-reports... ER→LD traffic: lateral steric repulsion shapes how monotopic ER proteins partition onto LDs. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

7/7 So why do conservatives admire Hungary? It is not the economy, the military, or the values. It is the racism, the media control, and the authoritarianism. Hungary is not a success story. It is a blueprint for democratic collapse

An excellent piece on what is wrong with ID Cards. Spoiler alert: It't not the cards as such, but why and under which circumstances they are being announced.. 👇 @iandunt.bsky.social substack.com/@iandunt/not...

Had a great day on Friday at @cam.ac.uk celebrating what would have been the 100th birthday of IVF pioneer Bob Edwards. Some great talks and it was interesting to see some of the information held in @chuarchives.bsky.social

Join Royal Society Ferrier Prize winner Professor Gillian Bates FRS on 06 October at the Royal Society as she unravels the molecular basis of Huntington's disease: royalsociety.org/science-even...

#edrc2025 European #drosophila Society meeting announces the 2029 meeting location : see you all in Szeged (and Bonn in 2027 of course)!

Dear USA Deploying troops against civilians will not go well. Yours Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Reform UK’s Danny Kruger is a liar, and is putting out dangerous language like this. There’s no evidence supporting this. Comments like this lead to at best division and at worst violence against Muslims.

Hmmmmm. So Putin also seems to have had a finger in the Epstein business. Massive opportunities for manipulation and blackmail.

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The great Dakota artist Oscar Howe's 1959 painting of Wounded Knee. No matter what Whiskey Pete says, it was a massacre not a battle.

I'd rather have had a convincing centre-left candidate. But with this, she doesn't deserve to get elected.

In discussion with a computer scientist from the University of Cambridge last night: Me: "you've described some of the things that AI is good at. How would you describe the category of things it's not good at? **pause** Him: "Anything where it has to be right".

Amazing parallels between human and fly sleep/longevity revealed by dec transcription factor mutants (despite lack of orexin in flies)

Dear JEDIs, as we are self-organizing using the #EDRC as a nucleator we decided it is time for a JEDI database to boost our network! If you identify as a JEDI, please contact us here or send a mail to [email protected] to be added to our database. #Drosophila @fly-eds.bsky.social

“The truth is that a Brit Card won’t fix the actual problems we face,” said SDLP leader Claire Hanna. “Here in Northern Ireland, where people cross the border every day for work, family and study, imposing this scheme could be especially problematic.”

Indeed. And this is not only in the US.

Amid the horrors of Gaza, the pattern of settler expansion in the West Bank has become a new ground zero in Middle East geopolitics, writes RTÉ's Tony Connelly

They seem like a law unto themselves.

Hard agree. The UK is now a poorer country, little wonder it's struggling to afford everything.

Interesting!

We really need Starmer to say this, but what's the point when, in announcing the ID card policy (whatever its general merits), he frames it solely in terms of, precisely, the populists' "lies" & “industrialised infrastructure of grievance” about "uncontrolled" migration & asylum seekers? 1/2

Birds of a feather flock together