some of the replies in this provide very good explanations for why genAI powered bots can't and shouldn't be used for therapy

Oxford has many long standing traditions but Botley road construction may be the longest

Back to the original local, Oxford Uni Parks, for parkrun 3/5

New preprint! 🚀 We introduce AbTags – antibody–peptide fusion proteins that massively amplify signal, enable absolute quantification of binding events, and are read out together with the single-cell proteome by LC–MS. AbTag platform is patent-pending. Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Parkrun 2/5 for the season... there may have been brandy in the coffee ❄️🎄

Not sure if I'm more excited for Christmas or the corresponding 5 parkruns in 2 weeks

Do YOU live with joint pain? Do YOU experience poor pain management? Have you got 2-minutes to tell pain researchers about it? If yes 👉 forms.gle/7NTwma2gnVN1... We hope to gain insight into lived experience for those with joint pain & involve people in our #PainResearch 😃

i'm hiring a postdoc to map the age-verification space and do some audits if you’ve worked in this area, pls apply: aial.ie/hiring/postd... pls share widely

I can't believe this still needs to be said (and more loudly): Trans rights are human rights.

There are layers upon layers in this one, to which I can only say: friends don’t let friends execute analysis pipelines that are too complex for their level of expertise.

My rent was decreased again and I just got a 5$ refund from my student loan payments. Are things resetting?

Just decline the peer review invitation. What are you people even doing?

This is how it's done

I work from home in part because I need to take lying down breaks because my fatigue is rough.

Share your baking, shovel the driveways, lend that phone charger

Had to make a gaant chart to coordinate Christmas plans this year

I think people should be pretty angry that a handful of men unilaterally decided culture, art and civilization should be fed into a woodchipper so they could attract VC funding.

For 1.5 million Palestinians living under plastic sheets, Storm Byron means more than bad weather.

KCNK18 c.1107del frameshift in peripheral neuropathy links TRESK dysfunction to neuropathic pain https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.08.692748v1

Computer charger tried to start a fire. Think this means holidays can start early.

How your email finds me

Finally got some Dec sun

“[Eurovision] cannot be used to whitewash Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza.” The Green Party in the UK has urged the British gov't to “follow in the footsteps of Ireland, Spain, Slovenia and the Netherlands” in boycotting Eurovision. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/aatkt4

There are so many unbelievably cool ML models we could be developing further to better our planet and instead universities and agencies seem happy to throw money at shitty models built on stolen data under the guise of false efficiencies and fast profit

60 years in ballet. DPhil viva passed at 78. Congratulations to Rosamund Snow Scholar Jeremy Leslie-Spinks, whose research tackles why clinician-patient communication fails elite dancers facing career-ending injury. 🩰 www.phc.ox.ac.uk/blog/ballet-...

How do I tell my brain that if it didn't spend time pretending it was a kaleidoscope on the regular it would have more energy for other things?

We're probably due for a #PainResearch feed update, any requests re. inclusion criteria? bsky.app/profile/did:...

Less than one week to get your applications in! #DisabledInSTEM

I'm teaching about Gaza on Monday. I assigned this article. You should read it if you haven't, because the trauma it describes is unbearable and we all need to sit with it. archive.ph/JlVfm#select...

Thankful to the palace gardeners who built a perfectly sectioned 800 m running track

We're probably due for a #PainResearch feed update, any requests re. inclusion criteria? bsky.app/profile/did:...

Impossible how good reading is. You mean I just point my face at the paper for a bit and it does a whole update on my brain?

"We're making unprecedented investments in nation building projects." The nation we're building:

How do I win the autistic bicycle points?

Have you been wondering what the role is of non-neuronal cells in modulating sensory neuron activity? Check out this review from @psalmotoxin.bsky.social et al. in @sfnjournals.bsky.social’s #JNeurosci, one of this week’s #EditorsPick papers chosen by @rpseal.bsky.social bit.ly/3XEp2rE #P#JNeurosci#EditorsPick

This is actually my gender

Mostly just angry it took this long

Oh hey, it's my auras in photo form

Officially running spike season!

Ive seen this work from Prof Liqun Luo’s presented a few times now and its stunning and heroic.

Whispering this to myself on repeat as I chase anxiety meds with espresso

unclear if I'm actually qualified as a bioinformatician or if I just figured out when to restart a computer

Read my scoop overnight from Kyiv, where US army secretary Dan Driscoll’s brief meeting (he was running late after calls with Vance) with European ambassadors at the US ambassador’s residence in Podil left one feeling “nauseated” and others “shocked.” W/ @henryjfoy.ft.com on.ft.com/43GWpxI

Today is Trans Day of Remembrance. Today we remember and grieve all those we have lost. But we also commit – collectively – to fighting for those of us who are left. There will be hope as long as we continue to stand together. https://goodlaw.social/n1jn

If an attractive young woman a third my age didn't want to date me, then why did she ask me for feedback on an economics paper? by Larry Summers

sunny sundays

What a privilege it is to be a younger disabled person in a community shaped by Alice Wong. Rest in peace, Alice.

We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing: a 🧵 1/n Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...