Excited to share our discovery of the RAD51 filament cap, built by a newly identified RAD51 paralog complex 🔬🧬

A spontaneous laugh out loud at Phil Ellis' "it's the other end" response when talking about a pig's corkscrew penis in tonight's #Taskmaster

Heyyyyy MEMBRANE protein people! We are running our (fairly rare) membrane screen in November, so get your reservations in! 🦠

Ponyo. With an honourable mention for Star Trek The Motion Picture!

Permission to Land by The Darkness (amongst many others)

Share someone who looks stylish in a hat.

A good evening of #StarTrek on Sky Mix tonight. Home in time for #TNG The Best of Both Worlds Part II, followed by #DS9 Trials and Tribble-ations.

Reply with an image you can hear 💚

Another evening collecting other peoples' data at #DLS!

Blondie: Hanging on the Telephone. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWhk...

The Ladykillers (the 1955 version). Honourable mentions for Hot Fuzz (2007) and Murder on the Orient Express (1974) especially for the train departure sequence.

"And I have nothing to declare except Rebo's genius either! Ha ha ha! Zooty zoot zoot zoot."

New network cable installed, speed jumped from the old cat 5 cable max of 1 Gbps to 2.2 Gbps which is close to the max which the PC's interface (2.5 Gbps) and new #CommunityFibre connection can do. Now need to find a good route for it from the router to the desk but plenty of slack to play with.

I just tried doing this (with “Yakety Sax”), but can’t figure out how to upload it so the sound works.

The Devil wears the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat.

Today's beamtime at #DLS cancelled for a very familiar reason for those who work at the #Crick. The central file system is broken!

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Registration for the #CCP4SW 2026 is now open! Being held as hybrid event with in-person at EMCC, Nottingham, UK between 7-9 January 2026. This year's topic is Ligands in Focus: Decoding Ligand Binding in Modern Structural Biology. Find out more at studyweekend.ccp4.ac.uk

Feel a bit sorry for the #spider whose dinner I interrupted when I got home. However, it shouldn't have spun its web over the path to my front door. Left the web mostly intact, so hopefully it can finish it off.

#CommunityFibre #Broadband installation today. Poor engineer had to deal with lots of rain, a dodgy modem and firmware updates taking forever. I will now need to buy some faster ethernet cables, as wired connection to PC etc. looks to be limited by my old Cat 5e cables!

Reminder that 100,000 people marched for Trans Pride in London earlier this year, but because they weren't violent fascists, there was minimal press coverage, unlike the Nazis today. https://www.them.us/story/london-trans-pride-march-turnout-record-uk-transphobia

ABBA: When All is Said and Done www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUh4...

Unbreakable.

For those people (including myself at times) who do nearly everything online. It was nice to get an impromptu visit by a sales person who gave me a better deal for a new broadband provider, who I had already decided to go with, than I could get online (and with three months free as well). 1/2

Dear scientific community, I am looking for two postdoctoral structural biologists to join my group at the Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford. my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

If you see this, QTP with a cartoon with an awesome theme song! 🎶 www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fvh...

Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) Star Wars: Episode IV (1977) Han shot first! and keeping with the Sci-Fi theme: Solaris (1972)

Airplane!

Apollo 13

Coolant for our X-ray generator which should be transparent but looks "Milky, milky". Advice has been sought, but hopefully Hugh Denis won't be involved (call back to the Mary Whitehouse experience's Mr Strange).

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gh1Z... From 2010 The Year We Make Contact (Can't find the whole Jupiter ignition sequence online)

Blondie's Screaming Skin. What a start to their come back album No Exit! www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SMn...

I've seen too many episodes of Pepé le Pew to think this is going to end well. #ProofOfCat

A request to @bsky.app & an alert to my followers: I see that Bluesky suspended Jessie Gender's account. Please review this decision & reverse the suspension, as Jessie has dealt with so much hatred & harrassment in her career. She is an important part of our Star Trek family. All: please share.

AI will take over the world... Auto-corrupt's "help" today.

Nice to finally meet @evilokapi.bsky.social in person at #DiamondLightSource, and to catch up on news of how Flynn is settling in / causing havoc!

NEWS! Keith Richards undergoes The Quickening newsthump.com/2025/07/22/k...

If you see this, post a vampire** ** may not be an actual vampire

If you see this, quote this post with a time travel movie that's not BACK TO THE FUTURE... (In this case, maybe stretching the definition of travel a bit).

The original (can't find many decent gifs) from the TV series, reduced to a bit part in the film.

JJ Abrams. All that lens flare and particularly Star Trek Into Darkness / Star Wars: The Force Awakens. If you are going to retell a story, at least try to have a vague understanding of what made the original good.

Speak up to prevent a major loss for the field. CASP, which helped shaping structural biology including AlphaFold is on the verge of shutting down. NIH funding has lapsed, UC Davis support ends and the core team is being let go. Painfully shortsighted.