We are looking for visionary scientists ready to establish an independent, world-leading research programme & take full advantage of the extraordinary collaborative ecosystem including @mcrcnews.bsky.social @manchester.ac.uk, The Christie NHS Foundation Trust & @cruknbc.bsky.social #OncoSky

Despite repeated attacks on science over the past few days/weeks/months/years from Dumb and Dumber (you know who I mean), this an outstanding example to show that science works - and can do genuinely incredible things... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Postdoc Research Associate vacancy at Imperial College, @ukdri.ac.uk with Dr Samuel Barnes, using multiplexed synaptic proteomics and imaging to study early Alzheimer. Closing date: 1st October www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/job/research...

Oh Dickie Bird. Barnsley Legend. Superstar. Met him once in tarn - lovely man who had time for everyone. May there be no bad light wherever you've gone. RIP.

Guys, we've been doing this all wrong! My next grant application: Dear Donald and Jay, Here's a random idea that I have no actual evidence for whatsoever. BUT this is based on what I feel. Please send $10m forthwith to help with my 'research'. Best A Scientist 🤦‍♂️🤪

Really excited to be part of this project, funded by @parkinsons.org.uk www.parkinsons.org.uk/news/further...

The best time to have done this was a couple of years ago. The next best time is now...

Postdoc position on top glyco-immuno-neuro-biology lab @douglaspdyer.bsky.social Can’t recommend highly enough www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

PTI is growing and we are looking for more scientists to join our team! Neurodegenerative Disease Senior Scientist: jobs.lever.co/convergentre... Computational Biologist: jobs.lever.co/convergentre... Research Chemist: jobs.lever.co/convergentre...

It's been bugging me who Trump reminds me of but I've just realised... He writes/speaks like the villian in a Roald Dahl book. Boggis, Bunce, Bean (greedy) Veruca Salt (spoilt) Trunchbull (bully) Sponge and Spiker (cruel) Grand High Witch (power-hungry) Mr and Mrs Twit (petty) I could go on...

A key attack line in the next few years coming from Trump/MAGA and Reform is that university teachers (lecturers/professors) are poisoning the minds of young people, brainwashing them into leftist thinking. Make no mistake, this is a pretext to defund the sector. 1/n

We have a new Postdoc position advertised as part of our recent long-term Wellcome funding to join an established Postdoc and technician. I’m so excited to explore the role of the glycocalyx in CNS-inflammation. So many tools and expertise to work with! www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Boris Johnson's a bit dodgy shock... 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

We are recruiting two biomedical data scientists as part of a new Centre of Research Excellence (MRC CoRE) in Exposome Immunology hosted jointly by @fbmh-uom.bsky.social and @ox.ac.uk. www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

This is completely nuts and people are going to die as a result. What on earth do they hope to gain from this? Horrific.

Nigel Farage looks uncomfortable as Jamie Raskin uses his opening statement to absolutely demolish him

Are you a postdoc interested in the mechanisms of disease? Do you have a great record and an exciting vision? Come and start your own lab @dunnschool.bsky.social by applying for sponsorship for early career fellowships. Deadline 30th September...pass it on! www.path.ox.ac.uk/work-with-us...

This is through the looking glass stuff... 🤦‍♂️

What a result! What a club! 😍 Unbelievable. Fantastic character and togetherness from these boys. Let's gooooooo! 🦉🦉🦉 #swfc #wawaw #ChansiriOut

The snake oil salesman got his way once - the result was a disaster. Don’t let him do it again

Inspired by @deniswirtz.bsky.social and team, I'm collating a database of #PhD and #postdoc fellowships in the #EU. I'm standardising the information an entry needs, making it easier to (1) search and (2) contribute - and I would appreciate input, especially from other #ECR! Please share! 1/3

While I abhor the thinly-veiled racism associated with those putting these flags up, I also can't help but wonder if the choice of flag means that they're also against people from Wales or Scotland coming to live in England?

A £4m seed round will help @manchester.ac.uk spinout PhovIR bring its optical sensor technology to market. The startup’s portable NIR device has applications across health, safety, and industry.

fundamentally the problem is that if you think "hotels are where I stay on holiday and I like being on holiday so living in a hotel must be fun and it's not fair others get to do it and not me" then you have the intellectual reasoning of a little child and it's going to be hard to engage with you

Monday bugbear. Papers that have phrases like 'state of the art', 'ultra-sensitive', 'unparalleled' or 'deep' etc. in the title. All of those are added to make the work look sexy but are rendered immediately useless/wrong 12mo later when someone goes more sensitive, deeper, faster...

In science, some days are better than others. Today I've found out about... 2 rejected grants. 1 rejected paper. All three will get turned round. The ideas and the data are good. The devil is in the detail. But for now? 🍷🍷🍷🍷🍷

BBC sport website.. 1) Test match 2) Will Isak go to Liverpool for £130m 3) ManU (1st game in 2 weeks) 3) Dewsbury-Hall for £28m? 4) Son to LA Galaxy for a record fee 5) Morecambe are gone. We've got our priorities waaaaaay wrong. Communities should come before obscene amounts of cash #swfc

I really wish this wasn't true... #swfc

Can the last person out of #swfc please turn out the lights? Chansiri probably can't even afford the electric bill... 🤦‍♂️😔😔🦉

Wow Karolinska Institutet is recruiting 20 outstanding early-career researchers for assistant professor positions ki.se/en/about-ki/...

Nice early start at the Test match 😁 #ENGIND

Well shit.... 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️ #swfc

Introducing the UK's first cross-city innovation partnership with @cam.ac.uk. University collaboration is better than competition to boost innovation. Professor Deborah Prentice and Professor @duncanivison.bsky.social write @timeshighered.bsky.social. www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/univ...

Super excited to announce that MRC has funded a new Centre of Research Excellence in Exposome Immunology. Working together, Manchester and Oxford are going to tackle a major challenge of our times. For those who wonder what the Exposome is - see yesterday's posts! www.ukri.org/news/centre-...

Come and join us in Manchester... We are looking for candidates interested in vascular health and neurodegeneration. This project is specifically exploring how menopause may increase Alzheimer's risk. We also have a postdoc position available: www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

▶️▶️ To all mass spec enthusiasts: A postdoc position (three years) is available in our international group. Please apply if you are interested in structural MS and in developing novel cross-link ing MS workflows!🧪 Thanks @diegofgar.bsky.social for sharing! #teammassspec #AcademicSky #ChemSky

Progress... 👍😁 www.businessweekly.co.uk/posts/comple...

Rosamund Clifford from the @rdunwin.bsky.social lab now presents her work on "Measuring the Mouse Complementome" focussing on complement proteins. #BSPR2025

#TeamMassSpec New one (for me). Samples with heavy peptides. As load increases (inj vol), some SRM peaks 'split'. Original peak stays - at same intensity - but there's a new later, flatter peak. Not overloaded. Sum of both peaks is perfectly linear with load. Why would a peptide split in 2??? 🤯

Save the date! On 25 June, Karolinska Institutet will be starting a major recruitment drive for 20 junior researchers with a focus on excellence and mobility news.ki.se/ki-to-recruit-junior-researchers-with-a-focus-on-excellence

💜 We’re proud to share that The University of Manchester has been ranked 1st in the UK and Europe and 2nd in the world for social and environmental impact in the 2025 #THEglobalimpact Rankings. #THEUniRankings @timeshighered.bsky.social www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/u...

RFK Jr. spouted dangerous vaccine falsehoods on national TV. As a parent and infectious diseases doctor, I couldn't stay silent. Here's what the data actually shows. 🧵

Oh, Brian Wilson. What a genius. I was born way after the Beach Boys' heyday but I love their music and now so do my teenage kids. Not many transcend generations like that. Magical. #RIPBrianWilson

Anyone interested in using mass spectrometry to identify and quantify peptides and proteins in plasma, tissue and organoid cell systems? I have a Research Assistant position in my lab at the Institute of Metabolic Science - Metabolic Research Laboratories. Apply here: lnkd.in/dCxhS3GN

🤔 Question: Patent or publish? Answer: BOTH - (timing is everything!) Get all the info from last week's 'Patent or Publish' session for this week's Toolkit Tuesday 👉 tinyurl.com/yyf44nfy Thanks to @rdunwin.bsky.social & Andy Weightman (CTO of licensed research project, GiFT) for their input!

This is an outstanding initiative to boost new innovation across the sector. It will drive new spinouts, collaborations and boost expertise to benefit not only the economy, but the health and well-being of the UK. www.gov.uk/government/n...

Great post-doc opportunity in Manchester for studying inherited eye diseases #genomics #ophthalmology www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

The history of micropipettes that you didn't know you wanted to know

Anybody in #TeamMassSpec know much about these guys? It's an(other) ELISA plus DNA linker platform. But they claim absolute quant? Nomic Bio Debuts $50 Proteome with Absolute Quantification Through Launch of Omni 1000 - www.businesswire.com/news/home/20...

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