Well my 🚴🏼year is over. Over 5000 miles and C2C in a day. I doubt I'll get to that next year 🤔 (I will be travelling until May!) Happy peddling in 2026

Sheffield management have withdrawn their threat of a lockout for w/c 5 Jan to facilitate further discussions with our excellent @sheffielducu.bsky.social negotiators. Massive thanks to the ucu team, and to everyone for having our backs. It’s not over yet, but maybe there’s a path to get there!

As someone with an interest in comparative aspects of mammalian innate immunity in the nasal cavity this is a really cool study. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Awesome from the chemistry department students at @sheffielduni.bsky.social in support of @sheffielducu.bsky.social 👌 youtu.be/TxdDV0G9Ys0?...

Still it's a nice photo?

As someone who delved into the world of the neutrophil when I first started @sheffielduni.bsky.social this is quite a paper! As we cyclists say "chapeau" to all concerned.😎

Will it ever comeback @sheffielduni.bsky.social? Remember the Section 188 notice in 2020? @sheffielducu.bsky.social

Great to see media coverage of the hostile and punitive approach taken by management at @sheffielduni.bsky.social towards @sheffielducu.bsky.social staff striking to protect jobs. Threats and intimidation won't work. We're out until we win! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Hello from the #DigitalPicket line. I'm simultaneously disappointed by senior management's communication around negotiations and impressed with all the amazing @sheffielducu.bsky.social colleagues that have been on the picket lines and continue to engage in constructive discussions Solidarity!

Check out this post about our current situation from a colleague at another university. @sheffielducu.bsky.social

I am guess if you can't take your staff with you on your journey then perhaps you just get rid of the staff. Where's the problem? @sheffielducu.bsky.social

This is quite an advance. I well remember visiting the @sangerinstitute.bsky.social when they were assembling Chromosome 20 (where favourite genes are). The place was full of MJ Tetrad DNA engines and huge sequencing machines. How times have changed.

Tuesday my union offered to call off 2 weeks of strikes, in return for postponing the redudnacy of, maybe, 5 people for three months. Yesterday the uni wrote to all staff saying "not interested", unless we completely caved. Today we toured picket lines across campus: @sheffielducu.bsky.social

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Early engagement with professional societies such as the @biochemsoc.bsky.social is a great way to interact with your scientific community and to build networks. There is no telling how this may help your career.

So I posted these musings on BPIFB4 to a preprint server as I was not really sure what to do with them. They have been stuck in my head for too long. Let me know what you think? www.preprints.org/manuscript/2...

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We’re on our 3rd day of (v cold) strike today @sheffielducu.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk HE is being dismantled by mgmt on eye watering salaries, whilst staff delivering teaching, research & admin are casualised, burnt out & forced out Pls donate to our fighting fund if you can shorturl.at/EpeTe

An outstanding opportunity. @ukcilianetwork.bsky.social could amplify this (maybe they have)?

Here's a great paper tracing the molecular evolution of the H5N1 avian influenza outbreak. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I am on strike this week, in support of colleagues placed at risk of compulsory redundancy. www.ucu.org.uk/article/1423... If you a student and want to know more/how to support the strike, see here: ucu.group.shef.ac.uk/industrial-a... @sheffielducu.bsky.social

Heartbroken to be on strike (again) - never an easy decision 👍 We cannot accept a university in which staff jobs, student education, and research progress are under threat by major (and financially unnecessary) change management processes. @sheffielducu.bsky.social #Sheffield #DigitalPicket

Solidarity with all my former colleagues @sheffielducu.bsky.social out on strike yet again after years of uncertainty and restructures due to shambolic management decisions.

@sheffielducu.bsky.social Do the University’s financial reports support the need to make job cuts? #DigitalPicket #Sheffield t.co/pmTtz6x6kx

@bmj.com has issued an expression of concern for a paper claiming stem cell therapy can reduce the risk of heart failure. The move comes after sleuths and scientists critiqued the “complete mismatch” between the study data and the article itself.

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One of the things that academics should understand is that not only do professional societies offer you pathways to involvement in the shaping of the society and it's research objectives but that this can also be enjoyable as well. I have had 20+ years of engagement with the Biochem Soc.

This #TrusteesWeek we thank all those who support us on our committees, boards and panels. Our vital work couldn't be possible without the dedication of these roles. Discover more: buff.ly/fxF03hX

I am a little late on this paper (I am retired 😎) but this is really cool piece of work. Marsupial single-cell transcriptomics identifies temporal diversity in mammalian developmental programs: Developmental Cell www.cell.com/developmenta...

Our Special Issue on Cilia and Flagella: from Basic Biology to Disease, guest edited by @cilialab.bsky.social‬ and @lottepedersen.bsky.social, is building. We’ll be highlighting all the articles over the next couple of weeks. Follow along at #JCSciliaSI. journals.biologists.com/jcs/issue/13...

🔊New preprint from our lab! Zygotene cilia regulates meiosis, germ cell development, and fertility in zebrafish, mice, and humans www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7...

We've worked to advance the molecular biosciences for over 100 years. Believing in the open exchange of ideas is one of our founding beliefs, driving our activities. Discover more: buff.ly/bEZI5ct #OAWeek

We are looking for talented, inspirational #bioscientists to be put forward for our 2027 #BiochemAwards! Spare some time today and nominate deserving colleagues for one of our 12 available categories. Deadline for initial nominations is 3 November 2025. https://ow.ly/EhgJ50X9yQs

Showcasing her outstanding contributions to the field of oxidative signalling throughout her career so far, congratulations to Professor Christine Foyer, who receives the 2026 Biochemical Society Award for Sustained Excellence at our Plant Proteins meeting today!

Dr Juan Carlos De La Concepcion presented the 2026 Early Career Research Award Lecture on structure-guided approaches to engineer novel resistance against destructive plant pathogens — a major biotechnological milestone for agriculture! #PlantProteinsMeeting

Last year we spoke to Elfy Chiang who shared her experience and career path that lead to her being an illustrator, animator, and science communicator. Read more about her career in The Biochemist: https://ow.ly/yM1L50XcZmX

Did you watch The Hack? I can't believe papers have gotten away with destroying lives for so long. That's why I've signed the petition, set up by Hugh Grant and other phone hacking victims, to demand fair, independent regulation. Join me: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/a-...

Great day to post a ballot (when isn't it?!) The announcement of more potential restructures during the ballot period shows just how shameless Uni of Sheffield management is! It's so important everyone votes in our local dispute to save jobs @sheffielducu.bsky.social

I am delighted to see this amazing collaborative paper out in press. Using gene edited human ES cells differentiated into airway epithelium to uncover a novel role for MCIDAS in multiciliogenesis. www.cell.com/cell-reports...

I will be very interested to see how they manage to save £3-4 million from the staff budget in ‪@fohsheffield.bsky.social and still offer "research led teaching" Who will do the teaching? Who will do the research? Our last FVP said anyone could teach medical students. It may come to that?

Years too late. Incredible that the GMC - whose entire raison d'être is upholding professional standards in UK medicine - has allowed Aseem Malhotra to spew out his toxic, dangerous, anti-scientific disinformation for so long. Regulatory failure at its worst. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Congratulations to Dr Nick Weise, the 2025 recipient of the Early Career Teaching Excellence Award! Presenting our final #BiochemAward Lecture of the day, Nick discussed his innovative student-centred approaches from interactive campus sessions to embedding graduate skills

Beyond perception indeed. 🤔 @sheffielducu.bsky.social education.economictimes.indiatimes.com/blog/buildin...

I am up early as ever but all is not lost. Check out this amazing comparative genomics paper on the origins of lung development in vertebrates. Got to be some interesting cilia genes in there Now could somebody do this for monotremes and marsupials too please? www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Don’t like to have to keep doing this, but management has left us again with no choice. We will vote again to take action and massive numbers will again be out on picket lines. And like last year, management will again back down. All of that can be prevented if management chooses to negotiate.

Respiratory viral infections awaken metastatic breast cancer cells in lungs rdcu.be/ey3kK

There is still time to submit your abstract to #BALR2025, summer meeting "New Horizons in Respiratory Research" Cardiff, 8-10 September 2025. Always great meetings and the perfect place to present your new data! Submit: balr.co.uk/meetings

Take a look at this cool article (with links to the original paper) on how anteating animals have evolved multiple times! www.science.org/content/arti...