The Gothic arms were less fatal to the schools of Athens than the establishment of a new religion, whose ministers superseded the exercise of reason, resolved every question by an article of faith, and condemned the infidel or sceptic to eternal flames. -Gibbon #DeclineAndFall

Nice image from Anamul Hoque "tidied up" a bit by ChatGPT - won us the "best image" prize at UCL Life Sciences. Ernst Haeckel, eat your heart out.

“A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress - though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known" - Bertrand Russell, 1976. Time-lapse video of Vampyrella lateritia eating Spirogyra algae from Science Source/Oliver Skibbe. 🦠

Contact Inhibition coordinating tissues made sparsely of mesenchymal cells. From Alex Grigas @ ManningGroup and @mongeralab.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

YASSSSSS!!!!!

Great quote Waddington Seen @DBT_inStem #Embryo #CellsRUs #NotInTheGenes

Looked on Twitter/X for news on the Brown shooting and to check if any of my many colleagues and friends has been harmed. And my lord has that place ever become a cesspit. Awful.

Hahahahahaha They've realised the disaster they've directly brought to the country, wilfully promoting antivax propaganda and propagandists, but they manage to blame it on BIDEN? Spectacular mental gymnastics.

Excellent final sessions to complete an excellent #cellbio2025...

Finally got fed enough up with Google that I shifted everything to a different search engine. We'll see if it sticks...

they became a verb, but unfortunately it was an ad verb.

Gorgeous work by Jamie Whitelaw - loss of CYRI equates to giant, elongated focal adhesions. Yet another connection between WAVE complex dynamics & integrin-based adhesions journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

I wonder why #REF2029 is proving so spectacularly useless? Different groups want it to assess "research culture", stop unis getting an advantage when people move, promote geographic diversity, stop individuals from being impacted, make publication open, etc... Few seem concerned about research.

Yay! Congrats to SFB1348!

At last! Someone doing some real science. On matters of fundamental interest and importance.

So very funny. Utterly predictable. Like those funny @ScienceGuardians rants. But still utterly hilarious when it happens.

Absolutely extraordinary. UCL management, in their godlike and infinite wisdom, have decided it's a good idea to remove all waste bins from all offices and replace them with occasional big 4-way recycling things plonked in the middle of corridors.

As someone who looks at a lot of Manhattan plots, I can say that an under-appreciated cause of false positive GWAS hits is stuff stuck to my computer screen.

Dylan Burnette lab excelling themselves with lovely microscopy, even more than ususal.

The science literature used to be more fun

fine-looking meeting

Very excited to share an advert for a new lecturer position in Computational Cancer at UCL! Permanent position at assistant professor level- join a growing community at UCL in a cutting edge discipline. Please share widely! www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Ahhh, the glory of UK research electronic forms.

In May 2024 we had a great workshop on chemotaxis in the MPI PKS in Dresden! The social impressions are in the picture below, and the scientific discussions are summarised in Angewandte Chemie lnkd.in/d6ymRhGK What a nice way to remember!

Will shouting "STOP CHANGING MY TEXT INTO THINGS I DIDN'T MEAN" at my phone help? Asking for a friend.

We hiring! Please share this post with your talented ECRs We're looking for a postdoc interested in the formation and function of tertiary lymphoid structures - project funded by Wellcome Based at @lmcb-ucl.bsky.social at University College London Apply here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPD418/r...

This morning my ChatGPT quota was inexplicably exhausted. It took a while but I pieced it together. Voice mode somehow got activated when I went to bed. The bot then engaged in a 10 hour conversation with my snoring dog, answering questions the pup wasn’t asking and praising him for his insight.

Thanks for any data. i want Scar/WAVE complex scroll waves you see...

testing the exact 3D printer settings to retain a #makerbeam

Read this today. All of it. It will make you happy.

Ooooh coool

Yikes. Interesting paper but a terrible news report. Skin cells are chock full of mutations. It's brilliant to show that you can use skin cell nuclei to make an embryo, but you'd have to be insane to make a human out of one. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The excellent Lucija Mijanovic & I write a piece musing on electrotaxis, collective migration, and @calinacopos.bsky.social & the Mogilner lab's nice PNAS paper. Have a look! authors.elsevier.com/a/1lpaB3QW8S...

University manager confuses "quality" and "being funded". Shock horror. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

Hey kids - can you spell "Nyquist"? fstoppers.com/gear/apple-l...

Cnidarian-Microbe Interactions Fully-funded postdoctoral position is available in the Gibson Lab at the Stowers Institute to investigate any aspect of cnidarian-microbe interactions. Strong background in coral symbiosis or eukaryotic microbiology preferred. Contact Matt Gibson: [email protected]

Perceptions have real effects www.kcl.ac.uk/policy-insti...

SCOTUS decision "in a scientific sense...a total loss" "Years long studies will lose validity...Lifesaving medication trials will be abandoned. Countless researchers will lose their jobs.”https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02721-5

Marvellous thread

Very excited to be co-organizing this meeting next February. Fellow collective behavior enthusiasts, this one is for you!

My wife shared this with me and I’m tellin you… it’s worth the read.

one small consolation of being a 60+ year old investigator is the ability to submit to 𝘔𝘈𝘛𝘜𝘙𝘌 family journals — sure they’re low impact (for our knees) but they have an early bird special if you submit between 4:00 and 5:30 on weekdays

📢 Meet #BSICambridge25 speaker: @robinsall.bsky.social Professor Robert Insall, Professor of Computational Cell Biology @ucl.ac.uk, will be speaking on immune cells at the 2025 Cambridge Immunology Forum. 🎟️ Early bird registration still open: buff.ly/jhoEQJ0 @britsocimm.bsky.social #ImmunoSky

Oh Lordy. It's true. GPT-5 really is that bad. This is quite spectacular. PMs of the UK since the first world war. PhD level indeed. **shrug**

Incredible. Roland Reisley is 101 years old, the last original client of Frank Lloyd Wright. He still lives in the 3,200 square foot home that Wright built for him in 1952. The price? $40,000. Or a little less than half a million in today's money.

I think Altman assumes that “PhD-level expert” means someone who speaks confidently on everything as opposed to saying “it’s nuanced,” losing their keys, and getting maniacally fixated on their current topic to the point of seeing it in everything.

Dev biologists! 3-yr postdoc position at King's, collaboration with Trizzino lab @marcotrizzino.bsky.social modelling CHD3 neural crest. We are looking for postdocs with mad embryology skills @the-node.bsky.social #developmental @ccrb27.bsky.social thenode.biologists.com/jobs/postdoc...

A #MathOnco conference in beautiful St Pete Beach, FL in the Tampa Bay Area you say? in late October when the weather will be wonderful you say? organized by @sandy and the folks at @math.onco you say? https://mathematical-oncology.org/mathonco25

My last living musical hero is still my hero but unfortunately no longer living. RIP to the great, great Mr. Tom Lehrer.