A livestream of a volcano in the Philippines captured a meteor crashing to Earth today. What are the odds? Mayon Volcano, Location: Albay, Luzon, Philippines

reading time!

Online Now: Nitric oxide drives proteomic diversity through alternative splicing Online now:

Happy Friday y'all! Hope you all had a good week. We've got some more #BookReviews for you for #WomensHealthMonth. This morning we are talking about "Invisible Women - Exposing data bias in a world designed for men" by @ccriadoperez.bsky.social #DDUat20 #HealthEquity #WomenInSTEM #InvisibleWomen

Morning skypals! Tea-break time seems like a good time for a book review - how about it? We will start with Medical Bondage, by Deirdre Cooper Owens, an American historian & reproductive rights activist #womenshealthmonth #DDUat20 #BookReview

Really feels like 'checking the LLM didn't hallucinate your references' should be the lowest conceivable bar. We would suggest 'have read the actual paper' is a preferable standard, but even 'have skimmed the abstract' seems like the minimum you would want to be able to honestly include a reference!

Mary Lyon FRS was born #OnThisDay in 1925. Lyon was the discoverer of X-chromosome inactivation, which the genetic process that leads to coloration like tortoiseshell cats. Read more about her discoveries in a @royalsocietypublishing.org#OnThisDaybiographical memoir. #WomenInSTEM https://bit.ly/4wutdqf

You ever get the feeling that your sequence logo is talking about something other than base frequency.... #GTA #basefrequency #RNAsplicing #AccidentalGaming

Did you know that the malaria parasite can deliver its RNA directly into immune cells, causing 94 changes in gene splicing? This clever tactic makes it harder for our defenses to fight back. How can we combat such a sneaky invader? 🦠

FYI: New online! Tools and tactics for studying alternative splicing

Congratulations to Prof Doreen Cantrell on her election to US-based National Academy of Sciences @nasonline.org #WomenInScience www.biodundee.co.uk/science-city...

In March 2025, we hosted an #Endometriosis Networking Workshop with experts from across the field. We’re excited to share the resulting white paper! A huge thanks to all who contributed to these vital discussions. Read here: www.linkedin.com/posts/possib... #DrugDiscovery #WomensHealth #DDUat20

It's a beautiful day in Platja D'Arcy and we are inside hard at work talking about #alternativesplicing. #ScienceNeverStops

This is the best sparkling water in the world.....according to @biochemtrix.bsky.social at least! #consortiummeeting #splicingisthirstywork

Free and open-source images, icons, and tools for creating scientific illustrations doi.org/10.59350/5zt... 🧪

Our next Unleash meeting is on the horizon! Looking forward to Dundee, Munich and Barcelona getting together to talk about #Splicing!

Good morning sky-friends! We hope you are well on this lovely #mayday bank holiday! May is #WomensHealthMonth and we have lots of interesting things we want to talk about!

Poly(A)-tail-length-dependent surveillance of viral RNA by PABPC1 orchestrates broad-spectrum antiviral defense https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.12.699136v1

✅ Check out our #blog on: "A combination of differential expression and network connectivity analyses identifies a common set of RNA splicing and processing genes altered with age across human tissues." #Summary ⬇️ aging-us.org/2026/01/a-co... #aging

Could RNA-targeting identify drivers of AR-V7 linked #ProstateCancer? A team including Prof de Bono @icr.ac.uk, supported by our Movember London Centre of Excellence, share new findings as part of a @jci.org double-header. Grab a ☕ and read: bit.ly/4cjfadS

The cryptic lncRNA-encoded microprotein TPM3P9 promotes #ccRCC tumorigenesis by driving #Oncogenic RNA splicing, revealing a novel regulatory mechanism and potential #TherapeuticTarget in #RenalCancer. #STTT #OpenAccess: doi.org/10.1038/s413...

By bringing together expertise from DDU, @uofwa.uw.edu, & @dndi.org, we’re working to turn scientific potential into real progress against #ChagasDisease. Tackling #neglecteddiseases takes more than innovation—it takes #collaboration. #DrugDiscovery #GlobalHealth #WorldChagasday

World Chagas Disease Day acts as a reminder of a global health challenge that often goes unnoticed. In our latest blog, Manu De Rycker from the @dundee.ac.uk shares what his team are doing to combat this disease. #ChagasDisease www.sfc.ac.uk/inside-the-u...

Today is World Neglected Tropical Diseases Day. The Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) are a group of diseases that affect >1 billion people worldwide (~1 in 8 people). Despite this number, treatments and diagnostics are often unsafe and unsuitable, if they even exist. www.who.int/health-topic...

Want to see what we do up close? Sign up for the tour and networking event with us and #biodundee. See the link for details and tickets! #DDUat20 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/drug-disco...

We feel that! How about you, bluesky? Does your data make sense this morning? #datawins

It's our Birthday!!

Sarah Tabrizi first saw the data her team had been chasing for decades: evidence that gene-targeted therapy could slow the progression of Huntington's disease She is part of Nature’s 10, a list of people who shaped science in 2025 go.nature.com/452HWfQ

Sharing this paper for all of us who pray over a thermal cycler late into the night... #PCR #qPCR #MolecularBiology www.immaterialscience.org/2025/pcr-dem...

En aquest diàleg, tres experts de referència respondran aquestes preguntes i compartiran la seva visió sobre les oportunitats i els reptes d’aquest camp emergent. Activitat gratuïta amb inscripció aquí: www.crg.eu/en/event/caf...

Happy #Halloween Bluesky! Hope y'all are having a spellbindingly good time! Our good friend Nicco is hard at work making witchy potions woooooo...... AKA growing up a biiiiiig batch of #HeLa cells to help study #splicing. What #spookyscience are you up to today?

We love some #oldschool slides! #splicing

Congratulations to @mdr-ddu.bsky.social for this amazing award, and to all the other winners

Excited to share that I am officially recruiting a postdoc to study the neurobiology of addiction! Looking for someone who would be excited to lead current projects in the lab and develop new directions in related areas. More info: bearlab.science/opportunities/

Why do we still know so little about pregnancy? Claire Richards and Lana McClements write about their Nature Communications paper, explaining why sampling early placental tissue is risky, and how the world’s first bioprinted placenta organoids can help. #Academicsky 🧪

Morning sky-friends! We are delighted to share some ‘hot off the xray’ images from our talented scientists, Dr André Mourão & Ting Deng. They produced this beautiful diffraction of a compound bound to one of our protein targets whilst working with @esrf.fr

ICYMI: Targeting RNA splicing as an alternative strategy in chronic lymphocytic leukemia? @prajishiyer.bsky.social & team find mutation in the RNA splicing factor SF3B1 activates the mTOR pathway to contribute to aggressive CLL: buff.ly/qkFAW4B

Good morning Bluesky! Are we feeling the Autumn chill yet? The #Dundee chapter of Unleash certainly are!

Good morning Bluesky! We have reached the end of our UNLEASH meeting and are all preparing to head home. We are full of enthusiasm and renewed purpose, and we look forward to keeping you all updated on our work! Tell us - what do you want to know about us? #SciComm #RNA #Splicing

Canvassing suggestions! What is the collective noun for a group of scientists on a hike? 🤔

Even during a break the #ScienceChat never stops! #Unleash #RNASplicing

Wonderful read on microexons — their regulation, cross-species functions, disease relevance & therapeutic potential.

It's day 2 of the UNLEASH meeting! We are in beautiful Bernried and looking forward to hearing more about the progress our members have made unpicking the details of #AlternativeSplicing!

SpliceCoord is an R-based computational tool that analyzes long-read RNA sequencing data to identify coordinated exon splicing events.

We are all here in sunny Munich to talk about the progress we have all made UNLEASHing the secrets of #AlternativeSplicing Members of four different scientific groups across three different countries collaborating and sharing data. Follow us to see our progress too!