UK Proteostasis Meeting 2026 – Reminder: Register Today
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Really enjoyed giving a BSPR lecture today at UCD. But the beer prices in Dublin are obscene.

Trucks loaded up for the lab move. Next stop, Manchester! Quite amazing how much stuff is in a lab.

I am rather worried that this government not only will actively fail UK universities but also screw over one of the gems of UK economy - science and life science, particularly. Will UKRI's funding buckets shore up UK research? share.google/B92vQ7E6nEOK...

A real pleasure to examine @emmottlab.bsky.social 's first PhD student. Well done, Stephen!

Congrats to Dr @stephenholmes.bsky.social on passing his PhD viva today! Thanks to examiners Al Darby and @mtrost.bsky.social!

I have a 3-year postdoc position available at University of Manchester for a mass spec expert in proteomics. The person will be involved in exciting projects in single cell proteomics, drug discovery and innate immunity - on timsTOF Ultra AIP & HF & Astral Zoom. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQJ093/r...

We have a 18 months Post-Doctoral Research Associate position available funded by the Kennedy Trust for a Mass Spectrometry/Proteomics expert at the @officialuom.bsky.social This is a collaborative position with the Rice lab @grainofscience.bsky.social www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

How do you deal with missing values and "unique" proteins that were only identified in one condition in proteomics data? Mengchun Li, an amazing PhD student in my lab, developed this great Bayesian approach. Please try it and give feedback! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

I have a PhD position available with start date September 2026 at the University of Manchester. Proteomics analysis of flow cytometry-based isolated pathogen-containing phagosomes Due to funding requirements, this position is for UK home students only. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Nice preprint from @derm-scientist.bsky.social! Ubiquitin system is key for tissue architecture in CYLD cutaneous syndrome (CCS) skin tumours. "Comparative ubiquitinomics of human skin reveals insulin receptor ubiquitination as a regulator of collagen secretion." www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Reposting this. If you are interested in applying for this fellowship in a research area of our lab's interest, let me know.

Some news! We will move to the University of Manchester @manchester.ac.uk in January! We will keep some association with. Newcastle University for a while. Very excited!

Are you using DIA mass spectrometry in proteomics? We have just put this paper online: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Here, we came up with some Recommendations for Quantitative Data-Independent Acquisition (DIA) Proteomics using Controlled Quantitative Experiments (CQEs) 1/4

Very happy that we have been awarded a £800k grant from the MRC for a novel mass spectrometer for the @newcastleuni.bsky.social NUPPA facility. Thanks to everyone involved!

Amazing podcast on the mitochondrial donation babies. Great work by wonderful [email protected] at @newcastleuni.bsky.social and the @lilyfoundation.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/science/audi...

In life sciences there are two types of people in my experience: those that embrace and exploit omics and other large scale data technologies and those who work on one problem at the time. I had many collaborators from either side. 1/2

The financial crisis of the HE sector in the UK now leads to increased numbers of grant and fellowship applications, pushing down the success rates. Since also overheads increased, in some cases we will see success rates halved. There is a BBSRC fellowship which will have a success rate of 5%.

@drandyfrey.bsky.social having quite some interest at his poster at #EUPA2025 We have performed a controlled quantitative experiment with a three proteome mix and come up with recommendations using DIA. Biorxiv paper out soon (hopefully!)

The location and food will make it impossible for anyone else to ever make a better EUPA conference. Thank you for organising such an excellent event! #EUPA2025

Good morning from St. Malo. #EUPA2025

Some of y'all can't handle 2 high agency males going at it and it really shows.

Does anyone have an update on the number of ASMS attendees?

Wow, yes. An amazing glimpse of the LLM Lie Machine at work. Anyone whose students are bring tempted by LLMs, sharing this could be very helpful showing how it lies, and how it fails.

Does anyone know how many delegates are at #ASMS2025 ? I would assume that immigration policy and the blocking of grants will affect the numbers...

Two days left for abstract submission and early bird registration for BSPR2025!

Less than one week to go until the deadline for abstract submission and early bird registration for the British Society for Proteome Research @ukbspr.bsky.social annual conference 2025 in Liverpool! Deadline is Friday May 16! For more details see here: www.bspr.org/annual-meeti...

Who would have thought that hard right nationalist governments do ethnic cleansing and start wars?

Labour dropping Net Zero will lead to Reform voters still voting Reform and Labour voters voting for the Greens. God, show some spine and do what is right.

Sigh. Want to go to two conferences in France and ideally take the train to reduce my CO2 output. To get to Paris I can either spend £500 to take the train or fly for £88. This is so fucked up.

I would like to share our latest work: After years of optimisation, we have developed a flow cytometry-based method to isolate pathogen-containing phagosomes. Paired with sensitive proteomics, this provides exciting new insights into host-pathogen interactions! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🆕 “Science and medicine in the USA are being violently dismembered while the world watches [...] bullies are only emboldened by acquiescence or indifference.” The Lancet’s latest Editorial: Supporting medical science in the USA www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Communication with an autistic teenage boy via text is 99% getting answers like "yes", "no" and "ok". But even that you never get without a prompt.

Journal editors are now receiving such letters from the US government. The entire scientific community must unite to support our journals in flatly resisting such illegal interventions.

Such a great day and opportunity to work together as a UK mitochondrial research community going forward! @mitonewcastle.bsky.social @drperscitus.bsky.social @sarahjpickett.bsky.social @mtrost.bsky.social @jim-ca.bsky.social @newcastleuni.bsky.social @medicalsciencesncl.bsky.social

Very happy to contribute to this amazing group of researchers.

“He made 2.5 million today and he made $900 million. That’s not bad.” Sounds like market manipulation to me. That’s bad.

Two ERC-funded postdoc positions available in the team - one here and second to follow - please repost! jobs.ncl.ac.uk/job/Newcastl...

@chionwurah.bsky.social @cmckinnellmp.bsky.social

It's hard to believe Trump has only been in power for two and a half months. His goals were: – Gaza conflict – Ukraine war – America's economy Everything's going great! And now Iran. 🧨

Excited about Liberation day? ✔️American consumers will be liberated of their money. ✔️Stocks will be liberated from their gains. ✔️ the money gained through tariffs will be used to subsidise areas that lost out due to reciprocal tariffs.

A.must read

Peter Marks’s resignation letter. Everyone should read this.

I wrote about the White House X account — which is steeped in the sociopathic posting style of far-right extremists — and seems to get more sinister and cruel with its posts each week of the administration. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

A "chilling" new level of political interference: NIH's solicitations for grant proposals will from now on be reviewed to check if they align with Trump's priorities. www.science.org/content/arti... (by @sarareardon.bsky.social)

Warplans. Hegseth. This reminds me that I have to this GDPR course again.

Heute vor 92 Jahren wurden die ersten 40 Gefangenen in das KZ Dachau verschleppt, ein Grund für ihre Verhaftung wurde ihnen nicht genannt. Weniger als drei Monate nach der Machtübernahme Hitlers hebelten die Nazis damit sämtliche Grund- und Freiheitsrechte aus. Doch Dachau war erst der Anfang. 1/4

@asms.org I assume the venues for the next years are locked in and there is not the possibility to move one of the conferences in the next years to Canada?

Shocking that University of Dundee with its outstanding School of Life Sciences is in such trouble. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

If you are visiting the United States, having a negative view of Trump is enough to get you denied entry. If this was coming out of Russia or China, we would deplore such an authoritarian attack on freedom of expression.