The reforms to UKRI under Ian Chapman are only just starting, but there are already worries about what they mean for the bread and butter, applicant-led funding calls at research councils While UKRI insists comparisons with previous years are impossible, figures from December suggest...

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The Pathania lab will be moving to the Ludwig Institute in Oxford in early 2026. We'll be recruiting postdocs and research assistants soon, so keep an eye out for those job ads and reach out if you want to find out more about the science we have planned! shorturl.at/thpyK

🪰 folks! I spoke to the Transmitter about FlyBase. As noted at flybase.org, bridge $ ran out and many staff were laid off. Good news is stopgap contributions will keep core FlyBase operations active. But community support remains essential. Please donate @FlyBase and share! 1/2 tinyurl.com/FlyBase

Yes, it was carefully hidden in the New England Journal of Medicine. Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine (www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1... ) 1/2

When mRNA vaccines are wrongly attacked, this is one of many examples of what you're missing. A broad spectrum prevention strategy against viruses www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Farewell for Carmo, RA extraordinaire! Good luck in your PhD at the Crick and thanks for all your hard work over the last 3 years!

WOW!!!!!😱😮 High-speed mapping of whole-mouse peripheral nerves at subcellular resolution: Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

A study in Nature Medicine shows the mechanisms driving amyloid-β clearance in both passively and actively Aβ immunized patients with Alzheimer’s disease. #alzsky 🧪

Modification of the telomerase gene with human regulatory sequences resets mouse telomeres to human length 👉 These mice, with humanized telomere regulation, represent a valuable model to study human aging and cancer. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

From a journalist friend: Just spreading the word. The CDC is purging data, so people should archive their favorite CDC datasets today, namely ones around race/ethnic diversity, LGBTQ, and reproductive health. Also health data involving climate. The youth risk behavior survey has already gone down.

Infiltrating plasma cells maintain glioblastoma stem cells through IgG-Tumor binding www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Buon Anno!!

Merry Christmas!

Rounding out the year with the team

I’m excited to share our latest study led by @giuliapasquesi.bsky.social out today in @cellpress.bsky.social , uncovering a new way transposons have been repurposed for human interferon signaling! Read on for a thread on cryptic splice variants, decoy receptors, and viruses (1/N) 👇🧵 #TESky 🧪

Our Paper out in @natureportfolio.bsky.social with correct link www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Gliocidin is a nicotinamide-mimetic prodrug that targets glioblastoma www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Happy International Day of LGBQTIA+ People in STEM! Proud to advocate for the enriching benefits of diversity, of experiences and viewpoints, IRL and on this platform.

Hi Bluesky! I am a PI in the Dept of Oncology at the University of Cambridge, UK. Our lab develops mouse models of different types of brain tumours and uses these to explore targeted treatments, TME interactions, and the role of heterogeneity in resistance. doi.org/10.1158/2159...

Intravenous and intracranial GD2-CAR T cells for H3K27M+ diffuse midline gliomas Incredible study now out in Nature, with long-term remission for pediatric glioma Michelle Monje, Crystal Mackall et al Well done to all the authors for this true tour de force! 🧪⚕️🩺 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I reserved my first Bluesky post to mark another enjoyable and successful collaboration with the Jabado and Kleinman labs! Congrats to @selinjessa.bsky.social, Bhavyaa and Antonella on this cool paper! doi.org/10.1158/0008...