🔥🚨 Our new paper is finally out in @narjournal.bsky.social! academic.oup.com/nar/article/53/17/gkaf804/8248607 We built the first comprehensive atlas of dynamic allelic expression in the mouse mammary gland across adulthood, tracking genes across virgin, #pregnancy, #lactation & #involution. 🧵

Breastfeeding boosts babies' lifelong health – but 1 in 20 women struggle. @geula.bsky.social @geneticscam.bsky.social found that 'milk squeezing' cells, rather than 'milk-producing' cells, may be to blame. Find out how this could lead to new ways to supporting mothers 👉 bit.ly/4mTUixN

🔥🚨 Our new paper is finally out in @narjournal.bsky.social! academic.oup.com/nar/article/53/17/gkaf804/8248607 We built the first comprehensive atlas of dynamic allelic expression in the mouse mammary gland across adulthood, tracking genes across virgin, #pregnancy, #lactation & #involution. 🧵

Registration is still open to attend the Cambridge Lactation Network summer symposium: 11 September, 1.30pm-5.00pm Join us for presentations about breastfeeding and lactation through the lens of public health, clinical practice, biological mechanisms, and patient/participant experience.

Interested in lactation?🤱 Are you a researcher, clinician or lactation consultant working in Cambridge and around with an interest in the science, health, and societal dimensions of lactation? Join us for the Cambridge Lactation Network 2025 Summer Symposium! 🗓 Thursday 11 September 2025

Thanks @publichealthpod.bsky.social for having me on this week to talk about my favourite topics! We covered... - What's so interesting about #breastmilk? - Can this research benefit adults too? - What policy changes are needed to support breastfeeding? - And more! #WBW2025 🧪🤱🏼 Link below 👇🏼👇🏼

Still time to join our team! We're exploring how lactation and early nutrition shape lifelong health 🔬🥼👩🏻‍🔬🤱

Maternal deaths rising in UK despite fewer births, official figures show “Women aged 35 or over are three times more likely to die than those aged 20-24 & Black women are at more than double the risk of white women of dying in pregnancy or soon after, MBRRACE-UK has found”

🚨 I’m looking for two enthusiastic scientists to join our team at Cambridge to explore the molecular mechanisms of lactation, early nutrition, and their long-term impact on health. Apply here: 👉 RA: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51988/ 👉 Postdoc: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51984/ Please share 🔬👩‍🔬

I’m looking for a Postdoc to join my new lab @pdncambridge.bsky.social on an MRC-funded project and explore maternal inter-organ communication with a focus on the mammary gland, using a novel mouse model. 📍 Tenure: 3 years ⏳ Deadline: 15 August 2025 Please RT 🙏 👉 www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51984/

🚨 Big news! I am thrilled to share that I’ll be establishing my independent research group at @pdncambridge.bsky.social University of Cambridge, supported by the MRC Career Development Award.

We are happy to seek 3 post-docs across Edinburgh Napier, Glasgow & UCL in an exciting project to investigate mechanisms linking glial ageing/longevity & neurodegeneration (MRC-funded). Info attached @nathanwoodling.bsky.social @ukdri.ac.uk @uclqsion.bsky.social @uclbrainscience.bsky.social

"The Fourth Trimester, the 12 weeks following childbirth, is a critical period of recovery and adjustment for both mother and baby. Yet it remains one of the most neglected phases in maternal healthcare." ~ @syramadad.bsky.social www.nyas.org/ideas-insigh...

Male mouse fetuses can develop female organs in utero if their mother is iron deficient during pregnancy https://go.nature.com/3FTDeaZ

A paper so 🤯 I had to come back to social media. www.the-scientist.com/maternal-iro...

Great opportunity to come to Cambridge and work on biodiversity! www.christs.cam.ac.uk/darwin-hamie...

🚨MRC Research Fellow Vacancy: Studying microglial ageing utilising iPSC-based cell biology, screening, biochemistry, genomics, imaging & bioinformatics @dervissalih1.bsky.social, UK DRI at UCL 🗓️ Closing 26 June 👉 www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Interesting through the evolutionary genetic conflict lens as well!

We're excited to be hosting this event along with @chuarchives.bsky.social 📅 26 September 2025 | 🕑 2 PM – 7:30 PM 📍 Physiology Building & Churchill College Join us for a two-part event celebrating the pioneer of IVF 🎟️ Registration now open: www.tickettailor.com/events/churc...

Individuals who were conceived in colder seasons are more likely to show higher brown adipose tissue activity, increased energy expenditure and a lower BMI, and lower fat accumulation around internal organs, suggests a study in Nature Metabolism. https://go.nature.com/4i3EYM0 🧪

Hello World! Are you passionate about epigenomics and evolution 🧪🧬🐭🐵 ? Are you looking for a postdoc in a stimulating and inclusive environment ? Look no further... We are seeking creative postdocs for our ERC project EvoEpi @igred.fr ! 👇Details👇 tinyurl.com/PostdocEvoEp... Repost are appreciated

Yes, there's "accessible" in my group's title. Come at me, Trump! Just kidding, don't come at me, except if you're looking for a job in biomedical AI. Hiring at all levels, up to 100% of E13. If you're enthusiastic about science and open source, consider applying! Please help spread the word. :)

Epic effort led by Tomo Ameku in the lab, with contributions from the labs of Nick Bellono, Vassilis Pachnis, @francoisleulier.bsky.social, @schwarzergnoto.bsky.social, @priscaliberali.bsky.social, ‪@coxlabkcl.bsky.social,‬ @priscaliberali.bsky.social and Maria Rodriguez-Colman

Interesting study on how maternal immunity contributes to #MammaryGland remodelling, lactogenesis and neonatal growth @cellpress.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Amazing! Congrats @nadavahituv.bsky.social and the team!

New: The largest medical A.I. randomized controlled trial yet performed, enrolling >100,000 women undergoing mammography screening The use of AI led to 29% higher detection of cancer, no increase of false positives, and reduced workload compared with radiologists w/o AI thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Promoting healthy aging in women. Prolonging ovarian life. Slowing the onset of menopause. A feature @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41... open-access @lynnpeebles.bsky.social

#announcement please share 📢 We're delighted to launch registration for the Annual Meeting 2025 'The Placenta at Term' bit.ly/annualmeetin... And, applications open for Placental Biology Course, returning in-person, in Cambridge bit.ly/placentalbio... 25 places, application deadline 21 March!

KDM6B-dependent epigenetic programming of uterine fibroblasts in early pregnancy regulates parturition timing in mice: Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

The role of the maternal X chromosome in brain aging www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.nature.com/articles/d41... @nature.com

JOB ALERT We are seeking a Computational Research Assistant or Research Associate to help drive an ambitious multiomics ageing project part of the NMGN Mouse Ageing Cluster. www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49939/ @scicambridge.bsky.social @phar.cam.ac.uk @cambridgebiosci.bsky.social

Maternal circadian rhythms during pregnancy dictate metabolic plasticity in offspring www.cell.com/cell-metabol...

Our paper is out in DPP! This is the SECOND paper from my lab, but the first headed entirely by summer students: College senior Benjamin Babaev and High school senior Saachi Goyal (!!). They also created an easy to use site so anyone can use the machine learning resource for staging estrous cycle

Coming soon...

🌟 Cambridge Lactation Network Meeting 🌟 🗓 Friday, January 17th ⏰ 15:30–17:00 📍 Coleman Library, Biochemistry, Hopkins Building Join us for a talk by Dr. Adria LeBoeuf (Zoology) on Socially Transferred Materials and Metabolic Division of Labour. Refreshments and a discussion will follow.

A genetic variant in PCSK9 found in 70% of white women has been linked to breast cancer survival and metastasis. It increases PCSK9’s binding and suppression of LRP1 in tumours, driving metastasis. But here’s the hopeful part: blocking PCSK9 can improve outcomes. www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...

Decoding aging clocks: New insights from metabolomics www.cell.com/cell-metabol...

Scientists, academics, researchers: We’re excited to share that @altmetric.com is now tracking mentions of your research on Bluesky! 🧪

In England, dads/partners are (often unintentionally) excluded from conversations about breastfeeding - but research shows that support from partners is SO IMPORTANT. So this leaflet for dads and partners, made for Merton, is my small contribution🛟: dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.... #publichealth

The School of Biological Sciences in Cambridge is recruiting an Associate Professor or G11 Professor in Evolutionary Genomics www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49389/. The post builds on our successful cross-department research theme in Functional and Evolutionary Genomics (www.bio.cam.ac.uk/research/fun...).

Reminder for newcomers that bioRxiv has Bluesky accounts in every subject category - great way to keep up (please re-skeet) connect.biorxiv.org/news/2023/09...

@geneticscam.bsky.social is now on bsky!

📢 Preprint! How does the environment of a father before conception influence offspring? Even more, how do paternal genetics & ages interact with exposures to affect F1 outcome? We tested this systematically, with intriguing findings & some cautionary tales🧵... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

We are forming a patient advisory group to help shape our research on BRCA breast cancer prevention! Follow the link/scan the barcode for more info and to express interest. Please share! @wtklab.bsky.social www.stemcells.cam.ac.uk/about-us/eng...

I made a starter pack for mammary developmental and cancer biologists. Tell me if you want to be added or suggest colleagues. go.bsky.app/8ZbyV6c

Something to keep in mind... I'm happy to use English as my work language, but frustrated by how this is often a blind spot among supporters of inclusivity stuck in a US-centric view of research

Fat tissue retains a ‘memory’ of obesity through cellular transcriptional and epigenetic changes that persist after weight loss, which might increase the chance of regaining weight, according to a study in Nature. go.nature.com/48ZTVfg

The strain on scientific publishing: we set out to characterise the remarkable growth of the scientific literature in the last few years, in spite of declining growth in total scientists. What is going on? direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... A 🧵 1/n #AcademicSky #PhDchat #ScientificPublishing #SciPub