Our democracies rely on the idea that we all share the same reality, but the increasing disinformation in the mainstream media is a serious threat to the very concept of objective truth. In trying to gain clicks by being first on their news stories, legacy media are neglecting their responsibilities

Defend yourselves 💪 #Academia #UCBerkeley

New FDA guidance too?

The UK Government of Keir Starmer is so dedicated to transphobia they're prepared to burn their political capital with their own MPs in order to force through a transphobic EHRC chair rejected as unfit due to inexperience on race matters.

Although I've now taken a back seat, it is great to see the growing adoption of SBOL Visual in the synthetic and engineering biology literature and even more awesome to see so many current and visiting students to my lab on the author list😍 Roll on 2035! arxiv.org/abs/2507.04601

What to agument your favourite protein with new functionalities? 🛠️ We've got a #biodesign workflow to help with that! In work led by @georgiehs.bsky.social we present SIMPLIFE that blends biophyscial and #ML models to extend biology in useful ways. #synbio doi.org/10.1101/2025...

TW: harm to children. My research into the effects of the UK government puberty-blocker ban has finally been published after peer-review. It details the severe harm being caused to young trans people & children by the Starmer government's puberty-blocker ban. Unlike Cass it is peer reviewed...

90% of doing science is being open to new ideas.

Here is our paper on generating a Monkeypox vaccine candidate www.nature.com/articles/s41... led by Bernie Moss lab. Plug-and-display VLPs give a high level of protection, beating the standard Vaccinia-based vaccine. #mpox #vaccines #synbio

Recombinases your thing? In the latest from my lab, Veronica Greco shows how @nanopore sequencing + automated liquid handling provides the perfect platform for characterising these systems at scale! Awesome collaboration with @jennbrophy.bsky.social @sarah-guiziou.bsky.social doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Proper scary stuff, the hospital next door is on fire and the maternity ward has been evacuated www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Happy that my university building was able to provide a space for the maternity ward to seek refuge in

Sign up for our EngBio Forum on 7 May with talks from Irina Borodina,Technical University Denmark and Louise Horsfall @lehorsfall.bsky.social @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social both leading experts in the field of sustainable bioproduction. Register and details here 👉 www.tickettailor.com/events/engin...

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Phenotyping motile microorganisms is always a challenge. In the latest from the lab led by Andrea Giusti, we show how our #DOME platform can speed up the processes, enabling data-centric inference of digital twins and routes to multicellular control! 🦠💨🔦 doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Reflecting on the two days of #sbuk24 talks on the very slow journey home, I think my favourite was Scott Stacey from Harrison Steel's group. Lovely demonstration of complexity built from simple biology that needs modelling to fully understand an unexpected result

I just read another paper that didn’t deposit their plasmid sequences anywhere. It doesn’t have to be Addgene, but gbk file on Zenodo would be good. I literally have no way to find out the exact modifications to the constructs from the text. Journals shouldn’t allow this.

Nice summary! It was a priviledge presenting to you

A quick update at #SBUK24 from Anne Ferguson-Smith, Executive Chair of @BBSRC on the importance of #EngineeringBiology for the future of UK research and the development of the UK #bioeconomy. It's great to see that UKRI are just as excited about the future of the field as we are!

Best thing about my job... sharing science 🔬🧬👩‍🔬🧑‍🔬 and sharing food 🍣🍔🍗🥗! Thanks to Lucia Marucci's lab for the early joint Christmas science spectacular and pot luck lunch 🥳 #synbio at Bristol is going from strength to strength 💪

#SBUK24 has begun, and I am fortunate to be here at this beautiful venue. I'm even more fortunate to be presenting my work on engineering T7-RNA polymerases here tomorrow at 15:15!

I've always been fascinated by #unconventional #computers. Check out our latest work led by Tony McCaffrey in which we present constructor algorithms that "build" computers with numbers encoded as physical lengths. Now imagine "growing" these with #synbio! arxiv.org/abs/2309.10082