Excited to share that the Expression of Interest form is open for the UKYA Health OpenSpaces: Pregnancy in research event on 15 Sep 2025! Details in thread. 🔗 ukyoungacademy.org/events/healt... #PregnancyResearch #HealthEquity #MedicalResearch #PublicInvolvement #DiverseVoices #UKYA 🧪 1/3

Come join us! Great community and in a great location. Transcription and Chromatin Uk from @biochemsoc.bsky.social

Still time to sign up for this talk tomorrow. Professor Alana Welm will be talking her work developing patient derived models for cancer therapy.

YBRI (@ybri-uoy.bsky.social) are hosting @alanawelm.bsky.social for an online seminar on 9th May 2pm BST. Prof Welm will be presenting her work on "Modeling metastatic breast cancer to advance therapeutic strategies". Please share, and register to join at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ybri-onlin...

Chromatin & transcription meeting is back again. Register your interest here www.biochemistry.org/events-and-t...

Was a please to be hosted for a Seminar today. Fantastic team at the Lowy doing great work on fighting children’s cancer. Lots of ideas for follow up!

ScienceSky I'm putting up a signal. I'm working on a new series of Horrible Science for Children's BBC. We would love to chat to experts about their favourite science facts for kids. I'm looking to chat to chemists first as well as some peeps who know their human biology.

Post a ship that’s not Star Wars or Star Trek.

Helen has put together this wonderful list of all science festivals in the UK over the year.

Just had to evacuate Kings Cross St Pancras underground. It was then most British evac. Everyone just queued as normal, and stood on the right of the escalator as minority of us used the left to walk up. No idea what was going on.

I’m closing social media for today.

I really like this article, it does a good job seperating out motivational stress and toxic stress, www.nature.com/articles/d41... to support people in a competative enviroment.

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This is an amazing example of great scicomm, on a question I never thought to ask.

Soft-launch: I’ll be looking for science speakers at the Star Trek convention in August. Get dreaming and I’ll open applications in a few weeks.

Our weekly Cambridge 105 show where Spanner's puts me on the spot to know all of science....

Spanners and Dr Andrew bring back creatures lost to time!! open.spotify.com/episode/7h4W...

When politicians are vocal on how UK economy struggles with low productivity. I find moments like this frustrating. I’m standing at a platform having to wait 30 mins for the next train, because it’s £100 more to get this half empty one, and no bus is reliable enough to leave for the station later.

Who’s running a genomics starter pack for Sally?

📢 We’re looking for a new Team Leader! @enasequence.bsky.social is recruiting a Team Leader to shape the strategy and direction for the ENA and Biosamples open data resources. Interested?👇

Please consider signing this letter to the Royal Society if you have not signed already. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Over 2400 scientists have signed. #microsky #archaesky #astrosky 🧪🦠🧫🔭

Tally just ticked past 1900 signatures. Please keep spreading the word about the letter & asking people to sign. It's important to make the Royal Society aware (at their meeting on 03 March) just how much the scientific community wants them to speak up for their values. forms.gle/SfsDemyS8QhP...

Apparently I owe a mint set of stamps bought it 1984… sent to me around my birthday that year.

End of an era....

Congratulations to Jodie, her paper is out in BMC Genomics identifying robust RT-qPCR reference genes for studying changes in gene expression in response to hypoxia in breast cancer. Great working with her, Will & @bridgekatherine.bsky.social on this. link.springer.com/article/10.1... 1/2

That explains Walter White’s results.

Sometimes column chromatography gives you very nice surprises! 🧪 Charles's compound came out pure and bright 💎💙 Happy #FluorescenceFriday 🦋!

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Announcing a second round to apply for our fully funded PhD opportunity at the University of York! Funded by @ukri.org / BBSRC. Our project focuses on understanding how low oxygen levels (hypoxia) change the way the hormone oestrogen works in breast cancer. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

I just finish wrapping presents to my wife… so in time. The fact this isn’t time stamped 00:00 is my typing speed.

🌌 🧪Live on Twitch with @mattpt55.bsky.social Tonight topics: 1️⃣ Levitating spheres measuring nuclear decay: physicsworld.com/a/physicists... 2️⃣ The 5th person cured of HIV: abcnews.go.com/Health/5th-p... 3️⃣ Plus, back into Baldur’s Gate 3! 🔗 twitch.tv/andrewholding

Well, my office is stopping me getting diabetes.

Scientists, academics, researchers: We’re excited to share that @altmetric.com is now tracking mentions of your research on Bluesky! 🧪

This is ace. I've written (in a transport context) about agglomeration and how poorly thought out Treasury investment criteria make it worse. This helps highlight why London is a funding sponge. The UK has no proportionate second city in population terms to drag the needle on the dial away.

I do love York, but can’t deny that exchanging the rain for this view wouldn’t be tempting. They even have some Roman city walls too.

Interesting paper on the timing of CDK4/6 inhibitors use for patients and how it impacts outcome. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Are you up for some Sunday afternoon science communication? If so, I'm live on www.twitch.tv/tinytoxictofu to discuss my science and my research, come drop in and join the chat.

Come and join us! Four (yes 4) new positions as Associate Prof or Professor in @cambridgebiosci.bsky.social‬ in: -Evolutionary Genomics -Developmental Plasticity & Robustness -Infection and/or Immunity -Molecular & Cellular Biology Not involved in recruitment (AFAIK), but happy to discuss.

Hello to all my new followers - as well as doing academic science, I also do SciComm!🚨 Live now! Thursday 8pm GMT 🚨 Join me on Twitch for some science chat, your burning questions, and a bit of gaming fun! 🎮🧬 Hop in and say hi 👉 twitch.tv/andrewholding #Science #Gaming #Twitch

Already have so many ideas I want to try this method on.

Gene regulation involves thousands of proteins that bind DNA, yet comprehensively mapping these is challenging. Our paper in Nature Genetics describes ChIP-DIP, a method for genome-wide mapping of hundreds of DNA-protein interactions in a single experiment. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Day 2 of BACR continues to be a wonderful event in Newcastle. Highly recommend! Great to catch up breast cancer researchers and patient advocates from across the UK & beyond. Looking forward to the next talks.

Dean as always talking much sense. As a parent, smart phones and the internet are an absolute bane but not without value either.

Are you looking for PhD studentship? We're advertising a fully funded PhD project, get in touch if you're interested. The project focuses the effects of hypoxia in tumours on the oestrogen response in breast cancer. Details: www.findaphd.com/phds/project... #PhDLife #BCMS 🧪 Please Share.

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Interesting feature if you have the right kind of content… Pretty sure I’m happy with my content being gone forever.

Thank you to the 50+ who dropped in at some point. Even if you just lurked it’s great to have you along. I also apologise for how terrible I am at Baldur’s Gate 3.

🌌 Live on twitch talking science 🎥 twitch.tv/andrewholding @mattpt55.bsky.social and I catch up on science news... 1️⃣ A new vaccine shows promise against aggressive breast cancer. Will this be a game-changer? medicine.washu.edu/news/vaccine... #scistream

If you're at the University of York @uoylibrary.bsky.social have Created a university of York starter pack! bsky.app/starter-pack...

Interesting read. Sounds like a very reasonable response to a genuine issue with a study. The outcome appears to be a more robust publication. retractionwatch.com/2024/11/20/r...