🚨New job opportunity! We're looking for a new Research Programme Manager for our Antimicrobial Drug Discovery and Development team to join us at the IOI ⏳Deadline to apply: Friday 5th January at midday Find out more and apply here ➡️ www.ineosoxford.ox.ac.uk/careers

See our latest science highlight, as researchers from the Department of Biomedical Sciences in the CNR in Italy accessed @igbmc.bsky.social through Instruct, utilising crystallisation sample preparation techniques to obtain structures of Antifungal Drug Targets! instruct-eric.org/scientifichi...

MISO: microfluidic protein isolation enables single-particle cryo-EM structure determination from a single cell colony. Or from a single dish of HEK cell culture in the case of two membrane proteins. Out in Nature Methods now! lnkd.in/gpyBSceg Wonderful collaboration with the Efremov lab.

Goodday Bluesky The Day of the Dead (1924) by Diego Rivera

Really interesting interview. @timcoulson.bsky.social and I were also fortunate to chat with David Baker on our podcast which you can catch here: Science Of The Times EP7 Pt2 - Interview with 2024 Nobel Prize winner for Chemistry David Baker youtu.be/jShxgJ3XrWA

AI in Protein Design: Hype vs. Reality Explained by David Baker In this GEN interview, he emphasizes that designing new proteins from scratch is now a reality. Whether AI transforms medicine will require improving our understanding of biology's complexity

Watching us open on sky sport’s … paying for the day for the first time EVER ;-) …there are adverts and the commentary is uht milk level … bbc Wimbledon coverage superb and value for money and impeccable…just saying …

www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult... …bill and tes meets sam

Awesome work!

The boys are back in town ;-)

Carol Robinson on Desert Island Discs - have a listen friends: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... An inspirational scientist & friend. An example of combining scientific excellence, courage, hard work and really importantly; kindness. (Yes I’m biased, but it’s true nevertheless) @kavlioxford.bsky.social

Continuing the theme of venue ceilings (admittedly its had poor uptake and i think no one else has succumb to this potentially riveting trend) but as the hotel carpet at this event is not going to impress @scurry.bsky.social i submit this interesting (if i do say so myself) ceiling venue …

Mary Robinson urges states to act decisively to stop Gaza’s ‘unfolding genocide’

krios 1 @diamondlightsource.bsky.social celebrated 10 years of user operations last week - many people thought we were mad to plonk it down in this spot in the synchrotron …but its still there as we ended up with a lot more in a very small space of time !

🚀 Macromolecule structures have been front & center at #ISMBECCB2025 in Liverpool -- the world’s largest #bioinformatics meeting! 🗝️ Keynotes: www.iscb.org/ismbeccb2025... 🧬More strucurtal bionformatics / computational biology talks, #3DSIG stream: www.iscb.org/ismbeccb2025... @3dsig.bsky.social

A tribute parade for the late Eddie Jordan will take place at Silverstone today. Many of his team's cars are here, from the first to one of the last (looking particularly odd here due to its absence of nose, Pirelli tyres and lumpy engine cover to accommodate a change of motor). #F1

Looking forward to a day of science from our Wellcome Phd programme coordinated by @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social @diamondlightsource.bsky.social and the Rosalind Franklin Institute

This is exciting! www.diamond.ac.uk/Home/News/La... @instruct-eric.bsky.social @fragment-screen.bsky.social @ukri.org @wellcometrust.bsky.social @cancerresearchuk.org

Paul Durcan obituary: Being a poet was all consuming for him www.irishtimes.com/obituaries/2...

Cool location for ringfort!

Some Welsh contributions to railway history – part two Wales has a little-known yet incredible history in locomotion. This Railway 200 commemorative year is a great time to make Welsh achievements better known ✍️ Peter Brown @bylines.cymru

Good summary of the state of play for Starmer’s underwhelming government from @iandunt.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

Lovely morning in Abingdon

Just finished an excellent midterm review of our fragment screen project funded by Horizon Europe (thanks to everyone and the reviewers and our project coordinator for constructive feedback) @fragment-screen.bsky.social @instruct-eric.bsky.social @diamondlightsource.bsky.social

Missed any of the Fragment-Screen webinars with @instruct-eric.bsky.social? Take a look at them here, with talks from @ceitec.eu, @ebi.embl.org, IBM Research and FFULisboa! fragmentscreen.org/news-and-eve...

Hope everyone who made it enjoyed the 3 days of science and networking! We even had nice weather!

Ok a few more

As it was so nice and my iphone 6se delivered such a photo without any adjustments i dis a few more on my lunch walk around a small part of the Harwell campus - hope you enjoy

The quad @Harwell looking rather nice today @instruct-eric.bsky.social @diamondlightsource.bsky.social

Maud Dumoux from RFI tune in on zoom to find out more now! @ccpem.bsky.social @diamondlightsource.bsky.social

This live now ! @diamondlightsource.bsky.social @instruct-eric.bsky.social

Afternoon ccpem spring symposium session starting in 7 mins see links below to join remotely or head to ccpem webpages @ccpem.bsky.social @diamondlightsource.bsky.social @instruct-eric.bsky.social

Yuriy Chaban summarising eBIC in the 2nd day of this great meeting !

Last up for the 1st day of the joint BCI ccp-em spring symposium- keynote lecture by @stemuench.bsky.social From @astburycentre.bsky.social @ccpem.bsky.social @instruct-eric.bsky.social @eurobioimaging.bsky.social @bioimaginguk.bsky.social

A pleasure presenting our work at @cmd.ox.ac.uk using CryoEM to study Solute Carriers! Thank you @drlornamalone.bsky.social and @walshdls.bsky.social for the invitation, and the fascinating conversations with @ccpem.bsky.social colleagues

The BCI/Spring Symposium is live! If you'd like to join the talks and discussion please use the following Zoom and Slack links: ukri.zoom.us/j/93883619401 join.slack.com/t/ccpem-symp... The full programme is available here: www.ccpem.ac.uk/symposium/sp...

Next user talk from Sonia Rodriguez Fernandez at the university of Cambridge #bcium2025 @ccpem.bsky.social @diamondlightsource.bsky.social @instruct-eric.bsky.social

Next keynote just about to begin - goto zoom if u hybrid! Valentina Loconte is the new Principal Beamline Scientist at B24 @diamondlightsource.bsky.social and joined us from ALS @als-lbnl.bsky.social earlier this year #BCIUM2025 @ccpem.bsky.social @instruct-eric.bsky.social

First keynote of the day #bcium2025 from David Sauer @davidbsauer.bsky.social @diamondlightsource.bsky.social @ccpem.bsky.social @instruct-eric.bsky.social

The annual joint BioCryoImaging user meeting (eBIC and B24 at Diamond @diamondlightsource.bsky.social ) is now in full swing ...for those of you who couldn't attend in person you can still join us remotely check out pages here: www.ccpem.ac.uk/symposium/sp... @instruct-eric.bsky.social

Next up from @uofglasgow.bsky.social Martin Rennie #bcium2025 @ccpem.bsky.social @hw1o9.bsky.social

First user talk at #bcium2025 from david waterman of ccp4 noless! @ccpem.bsky.social who are still not on bluesky @diamondlightsource.bsky.social

View from the stage #bci-ccpem2025 @ccpem.bsky.social just about to start!

Geese at York on their way to confront Jamie blaza @jnb-lab.bsky.social about his role in the DUC …luckily its good Friday and we hope to see him feathers intact at the joint BCI user meeting an @ccpem.bsky.social spring symposium next week!

Shelx at no. 5 www.nature.com/articles/d41... @actacrystd.iucr.org @actacrysta.iucr.org @instruct-eric.bsky.social @diamondlightsource.bsky.social

New from David Bolam’s lab at Newcastle University; www.nature.com/articles/s41...

1) We have a jammed packed agenda for the joint BCI-user meeting and CCPEM spring symposium that starts just after Easter on the 23rd April! ...for those lucky registered attendees there is a difficult choice to be made with 5 parallel sessions!!! @ccpem.bsky.social @diamondlightsource.bsky.social

The Masters 2025 live updates: Rory McIlroy and Shane Lowry looking to surge forward on moving day www.irishtimes.com/sport/golf/2... a great start by the Irish

I started on this around 2006 so only taken 20 years! The project itself started over 30 years ago. Great to finally see the elusive structure.