Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work “Oh for fucks sake”

Nailing my colours to the mast now. Go Seahawks!!!!

He looks like the notepad next to the landline.

Christ this is dreadful. It’s like U18s versus U12s!!!!!

He should have gone 2 world cups ago. This is reminiscent of his final days as Glasgow coach; over coaching everything and trying to knock a square peg in a round hole. Did no one in Scotland check what the weather forecast was?!

This is a diabolical, ill disciplined shambles of a performance

Oh FFS

BLAZING SADDLES was released 52 years ago today. Acclaimed as one of the great comedies of the 1970s, and among the most popular of director Mel Brooks, the story of how it was made is a cascading waterfall of creative alternatives... 1/36

Registration fee is only 175€, some of the invited speakers: Charles Rice, Yasmine Belkaid, Bonnie Bassler, Daniel Mucida, Joy Bergelson, Matthew Chang, Carolina Lucas, Jeff Barrick, Carolina Tropini, Roy Kishony and more... Save the date now!

Sometimes I'm late because I sit like this for too long instead of getting ready.

"No I'm fine, you just make sure you get your fucking video first"

Paris. Now.

Finally an official update from #MRC regarding grant application funding and severe cuts to funded research in rounds currently under review: www.ukri.org/blog/mrc-fun... Not that it gives any reassurance or details beyond a comprehensive list of what is suspended. #UKsciencefunding

Interested in eco-evolutionary feedbacks? Microbial experimental evolution? Pleiotropy? Filamentous phages?? Check out our latest preprint, now up on BioRxiv! biorxiv.org/content/10.6... For a quick summary, peep the thread below...🧵 (1/10)

Just sayin’.

Accurate plasmid reconstruction from metagenomics data using assembly–alignment graphs and contrastive learning www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs

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'to treat peer review as a throughput problem is to misunderstand what is at stake. Review is not simply a production stage in the research pipeline; it is one of the few remaining spaces where the scientific community talks to itself.' 1/3

Hey y’all, New paper out from the lab in Microbial Genomics, starting down the rabbit hole of IS elements in Paeudomonas syringae www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

University of Nottingham posts £85.3 million deficit for 2024-25 after massive writedown in value of Castle Meadow and King's Meadow campuses. Also news of a £39.9 million deficit at Swansea University timeshighereducation.com/news/notting... via @patrickjack.bsky.social

Was an absolute joy and honour to have the incomparable @cibiocm.bsky.social give our inaugural School seminar today. Tour de force of microbiome research talk.

🦠🧬🖥️ Bakta v1.12.0 is out with tons of tiny improvements and bug fixes, too many to list all: - partial genes on linear seqs - improved errror handlings & runtimes - support Python 3.12 & 3.13 - ... A huge shout out and thank you to all bug reporters and contributors! github.com/oschwengers/...

Finally comms from UKRI - on a Sunday evening. No mention of the hundreds of ECRs who will see their careers ended by these decisions and notably no explanation for MRC retrospectively applying cuts and wasting all the work that went into writing, reviewing and scoring applications - £millions

A perfect example of how to damage irreversibly a funding system that was eorking in a reasonable manner. Instead of increasing responsive mode funding, the option chosen is centralization of the budget on UKRI to deliver....nothing...while damaging ECRs.

I am sorry. We all knew the three buckets were coming. We are all prepared for a shift in priority. But this message does nothing for all the UK scientists dependent on project grant funding. It doesn’t actually give any information www.ukri.org/news/open-le...

I feel as though me, the Beckhams and the my fam move in different circles, if they think Brooklyn's mum dancing weird ruined the wedding. I've been to a wedding where the bride's mother got her tits out and punched the cake.

I’m guess they finally finished redacting the name of the Tangerine Grope Machine!

Or: Scientists are furious that they are learning of pauses to their main access to funding through press snippets rather than first hand dialogue with Uni research offices………..

🚨New Pre-Print🚨 Although H3N2 subclade K has multiple mutations in HA, neutralisation assays with pre-epidemic human sera show only moderate antigenic drift, and vaccines used in the 2024/2025 flu season induced cross-neutralising immunity www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...

When you're having a shower in winter and accidentally turn on the cold water.

Now published: our work using phylodynamics from surveillance data to quantify and experimentally validate the fitness impact of antibiotic resistance determinants & how this changes with patterns of antibiotic use: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Loch Carron and Creag an Duilisg, Plockton #Scotland #Highlands #Plockton www.damianshields.com

NEWS! “Britain is the greatest country in the world that’s a big pile of shit and we hate it,” say Reform newsthump.com/2026/01/30/b...

Startling that this is being broadcast in the absence of any public communications by @ukri.org The academic community has a right to expect to be told first hand what is happening with response mode funding and what the immediate future looks like www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...

We are hiring for group leaders again — EBI is a great place to start your research group! embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/EMBL/job/Hin...

MRC instructs grant review boards to slash funding rates. Boards asked to recommend just three applications for funding, as BBSRC also suspends calls. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...

Published 🎉 Excess mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic partly exceeded COVID-19-related deaths, indicating that other causes (vaccine?) may have contributed. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Interesting paper. Flu A transmits shortly before people become symptomatic in about 10% of cases. Doesn't seem to happen for flu B. Pre-symptomatic transmission in up to 65% of SC2 Omicron cases! www.nature.com/articles/s44...

One of the great British tragedies of recent decades is the collapse of its university system. Wrecked by disastrous Govt policy experimentation followed by neglect, and a totally incompetent, vindictive executive class. Utterly fucked now. Well done pricks.

Absolute text book front post finish from Hojlund. Class goal

By end of Feb @bsky.app will be the 2nd largest social media source for research sharing in our database - Google+ managed 945,000 mentions of research during its life - Facebook pages (not people's profiles) have shared papers 6.6m times - Reddit = 600k Bluesky is currently at 6m and climbing

Imagine thinking you’re a decent person and still voting Reform.

“Bovino” sounds like a failed beef-themed sports drink.

I'm a lollipop lady. I always make sure I stop the Teslas. Fuck Elon Musk.

Come and work with us! Science is recruiting an editor in the area of next-generation medicine in the USA or UK. bit.ly/4bWOJfn 🧪

First evidence that healthy donor fecal microbiota transplant, added to immunotherapy, can enhance efficacy vs cancer 3 clinical trial reports (renal, small cell lung, melanoma) nature.com/articles/s41... nature.com/articles/s41... nature.com/articles/s41... Holy 💩!