Looking for a fun #NYE2025 in the Cambridge/ Saffron Walden area, come join us for beers and banging beats… www.wyldeskybrewing.com/events/new-y...

Local brewery Wylde Sky are bringing their fruit, malty, and warming Ruby beer to our winter festival. Vegan friendly, expect a gentle bitterness and a delicate fruity hop aroma. Check out our British beer list, and join us at the Cambridge Corn Exchange, 10-13 December. tinyurl.com/cbfw2025-beer

Be sure to also check out the great paper from @andersshansen.bsky.social and colleagues where they discover microcompartments on mitotic chromosomes using Region Capture Micro-C. Exciting times for those interested in chromosome conformation during cell division! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Don't think I've reposted this old Christmas card of mine this year.

Last gig of the year… and it was a good one. @theallergies.bsky.social at the Jazz Cafe, getting us right in the festive mood. Bring. It. On!!

🐦 New in "Animal Conservation": Using Dovetail® Omni-C®, researchers built the first genome of the critically endangered Kuaka Whenua Hou — guiding culturally informed management to reduce hybridisation threats. 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/acv....

For your collective delectation this holiday season: Quite possibly the silliest thing I've ever written (and definitely the most ridiculous graph I've ever made!) loreandordure.com/2025/12/16/j...

That’s the eggs well and truly nogged for 2025

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The kind .. you find … in a second hand store

A great idea to pass these slow few days at reh end of the year...

For our 2019 #Genome #Biology study we had just 6 beetle 🐞 genomes 🧬 to work with link.springer.com/article/10.1... ... today there are >300 chromosomal-level reference genomes for Coleoptera! #biodiversity #genomics

Is this deal any good? Or “a catastrophe for all NHS patients”... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

You’ll never have a bad night when @inspiralcarpets.bsky.social are in town. And so it was! @cambridgejunction.bsky.social last night

👉 Point your friends, family and connections to our new video 📹 on the point of bioinformatics! The 90-second video is available in: 🇬🇧 youtu.be/yjbv1WZcM2M 🇫🇷 youtu.be/BG-h_nxwSE4 🇩🇪 youtu.be/e4S4m1IhfiU 🇮🇹 youtu.be/V4QcZHjnsGo

Are you ready for the 17th edition of 'Transcription and chromatin'? Our conference remains a must-attend event for anyone engaged in the forefront of transcription research and we hope you can join us! 🧬 25 – 28 August 2026 Submit your abstract by 25 May: s.embl.org/trm26-01-bl #EMBLTranscript

See BBC Cambs at www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It could have been *so* much worse…

Great to see more quality reference genomes. From my perspective, nice to see that @dtgenomics.bsky.social Omni-C being used again

Our nuts bring all the Jays to the yard, as I believe Kelis once said…

🧬 New poster alert! Discover how Dovetail® LinkPrep™ tech + Dovetail Precise enable 90% recall of somatic structural variants with base-pair precision — detecting deletions, duplications, inversions & translocations in a single assay. 📄 ow.ly/qaWf50XwvG7 #StructuralVariants #CancerGenomics

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

Just imagining how much better it would be if ALL news stories about vaccine-preventable illnesses were illustrated with pictures of people with the disease, not pictures of needle injections. If you must show something that people will find scary & unpleasant, make it the disease, not the cure.

Lac operon: Wait… what?! Noise in the basement? by Christoph — If you've ever come across the topic of 'gene regulation in bacteria' in your biology classes at high school, college or university, you've inevitably learned about a classic: the lac operon of E. coli. Well, this it's not an exam…

Considering I was born there…

I guess I could imagine doing a victory lap if UK growth was super high, the budget was balanced, essential services were fully staffed, innovation was booming and the country felt energized and dynamic - all somehow with low net migration. But none of that is true.

What did I tell you?

'A record that has a deep wistfulness that chimes just-so with all its rich humour and joy; a sense of elusiveness, of something forever slightly out of reach, of ecstasy so nearly grasped' Many Happy Returns to #TheAvalanches' Since I Left You, which turns 25 today! buff.ly/jyF7Iit

delighted to announce that, after years of research, my team of scientists has successfully reversed ageing! it’s “gniega”

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Great map of European soil -- so many different things to pick up on.

selvi ergin on the Cambridge UK biotech hub

Beautiful evening seeing @peterhookthelight.bsky.social tonight. This one was for #Mani. Not a dry eye in the house. Imagine playing on SO many classics. #BassLegends @cambridgejunction.bsky.social

We got a new car a couple of weeks ago. I awoke to find that we have purchased an "It's Christmas" dashboard theme. What a time to be alive

I shared this photo a week or so ago on Mani’s birthday - It never failed to bring a smile to my face - and that was exactly the same for the man himself. One of the absolute best in every way - such a beautiful friend Love you Mani x x Never to be forgotten

We’ve given our new releases playlist a rinse, and it’s full of fresh tunes from Bicep, nimino, fcukers & more Link in bio Image credit: house of tracks music FB

Has *anything* looked more comfortable than this, ever?

Hoping to mark the end of crushing foot pain, coupled with a new found running speed with these new bad boys… @saucony.bsky.social 👍

The real BBC bias story, narrated by Anna Ford

One of the companies that I've been watching for a while, DNAe to commercialise in '27 www.genomeweb.com/cancer/dnae-...

Higher education is one of our country's most successful export industries. And the exports (i.e. international students coming here) make it more affordable for domestic students. No decently run government would interfere with that, but here we are.

Happy 40th birthday to Psychocandy by The Jesus and Mary Chain, which was released on this day in 1985

why can they not just fix it

“We welcome migrants, we don’t scapegoat them". How Keir Starmer promised Labour MPs and members he would lead his party on immigration

BBC Under Attack: Pot and Kettle Special The new Private Eye is out now.

Join us in beautiful #Heidelberg to discover the most precise method for detecting all Structural Variants in a single reaction. We look forward to seeing you there! #StructuralVariants #EnhancerHijacking #HiC #LinkPrep #SVs #EMBLCanGen

Having spent much of my professional life visiting the Campus (from late '97 onwards) this is welcome news, a beautiful site and great science. Agreed though, it could be easier to get to...! #Sanger

NEW BLOGPOST: "Wellcome Genome Campus to grow to employ up to 9,000 people" cambridgetownowl.com/2025/11/06/w... They've also employed new advisers on what new leisure facilities to install on site. (Can they get a light rail stop too?)