Don’t forget to apply for the 2026 Erice Course! Deadline is 30th November 2025. Apologies if earlier today I wrote Dec 15th.

‘Economics Nobel prize won by researchers who showed how science boosts growth’ by @philipcball.bsky.social in @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Another day, another Dear Sir email *sigh*. This one followed up by a woman apologising for the bloke who called me Sir.

Have had cause today to go through reviews for a paper we published 7 years ago. One of the ‘essential’ experiment requests we’ve still not been able to do, neither has anyone else in field….

Why would anyone want to be a scientist? "Doing good science requires the utmost exertion of body, mind and spirit, yet is consistently filled with failure and rejection." journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

get why she had to go but irksome she lost her job to something quite complex and, let's be honest, reasonably minor in the grand scheme of things, when shadow cabinet members get to merrily hang out with Eddie Swastika without any repercussions

On the same day in the Telegraph:

Just pay your taxes. It’s the price for a civilised society. I do not understand why those who wish to govern and therefore make the actual decisions about how to spend the tax take try to find ways not to pay their share (Reform-fanciers take note). So disappointed in Rayner 😞

Please help promote the meeting by reposting: @loizoulab.bsky.social @hopfnerlab.bsky.social @lapassmore.bsky.social @raychaudhurilab.bsky.social @hw1o9.bsky.social @westlabcrick.bsky.social @gwuite.bsky.social @dijiang319.bsky.social

Feels about right www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...

Please RT! Call for Fellows! If you’re a structural biologist and wanting to start your lab by applying for an external Fellowship then we at Imperial may be excited to host you. Synthetic biologists too.. Please submit expression of interest with details below 🙏 www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperi...

Superb #Lionesses

It's hard to grasp just how stupid he is, but this helps

Science finally retracts the Arsenic life paper www.science.org/content/arti...

Better version of the meme.

Happy to share the latest work from the lab, led by @mudgal17.bsky.social‬, in collaboration with the Weis lab @ethzurich.bsky.social. How do nuclear membranes fuse during NPC assembly? We answer this question in our latest work, where we identify a new mechanism for membrane fusion… (1/13)

Yasss!! #Lionesses

Fab postdoc job opportunity!

Petition to have Steve perform this for a couple to dance to on the upcoming series of #Strictly

Fabulous post by @randomwalker.bsky.social & Sayash raising the same concern many of us have about whether we're on the right track with how we're using AI for science. Everyone should read it, take a deep breath & think through the implications. www.aisnakeoil.com/p/could-ai-s...

My wonderful colleage Colin Kleanthous is raising money for the MND association. Please support Colin in this worthy endeavor! www.justgiving.com/page/colin-k... (Please repost!)

This on IPlayer about a nice naive young man who was essentially held prisoner naked and without food by a reality TV company for 15 months in the 90s is, and I don’t say this lightly, essential viewing. People who make reality TV are actual sadistic psychos. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

I wrote about my 7/7 experience for the 20th (!) anniversary: The art of ‘travelling hopefully’ ft.com/content/ac05... via @ftweekend.com This, from the comments section, is going on my CV: In a world of pontificating dim wits, a voice that is crystal clear on what it means to carry on fully awake

Decades of mechanistic talk about university degrees as if they were bundles of 'skills' and 'prep' are about to be proved completely wrong (obviously). Want to get a real boost? Do History or English.

Fantastic opportunity to start your independent career at the JIC here. Great startup package. Repost = nice. Thank you!!!

It’s too late on a Friday night for me to post sensibly about this work! But I’m super proud of Joanna’s determination to validate Parkin substrates and I love working with her robust and creative science!

So yeah. That was feckin awesome. 30 years since I last saw Pulp (in Bournemouth), what a treat to see them kick-off their More tour tonight in Glasgow with my 17 yo son who is a huge fan! #Pulp #SpikeIsland

A postdoc position is available in our lab to study ADP-ribosylation and ubiquitylation signalling! We are looking for someone with experience in structural biology and biochemistry. The application deadline is June 20th. my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

With tech-driven echo chambers we ‘slipped into a new way of thinking, a kind of singularity, where both intellectual and emotional satisfaction came exclusively from a confirmation of the self,’ writes @aiannucci.bsky.social in his brilliant essay: www.newstatesman.com/internationa...

I realize posting this here is preaching to the choir. But after the Grok White Genocide thing & Ye essentially launching an exclusive Neo Nazi single on the platform... I felt motivated to write about X and how bizarre it is that so many people (news outlets, celebrities, politicians) use it

I’ve lost my husband to Eurovision yet again this year 🤣 Sweden’s his favourite, never seen him show any interest in sauna, sauna, but okaaayyyy…!

Strongly considering starting a ‘To-Don’t’ list to record how many times a day I say no to things!

I have just about had it with ‘gentle reminders’ to complete grant reviews and paper reviews. This is FREE work! On top of all my other tasks. Meanwhile, I’m still waiting on a paper decision 2.5 months after submitting ‘final’ edits. I think I’m taking a break from being nice.

Sooner or later, one of three things is going to happen. Universities can find money at home, or they can find it abroad. But if they don’t find it, some are going under. In defence of international students.

Buzzing after seeing the incredible Skunk Anansie in Glasgow tonight. Totally awesome show!

Another day another review request (10 days). With the usual ‘suggest alternatives from underrepresented communities’. This approach doesn’t just overburden the underrepresented groups, it under-burdens the overrepresented ones, freeing them up to do stuff that is ‘objectively’ judged as ‘better’.

Looking forward to the ‘your tariffs times infinity PLUS ONE’ stage of these kindergarteners currently occupying positions of power 🙄

This year's CBBG Postgraduate Symposium will be held 13th June at the University of Aberdeen, still plenty of time to submit abstracts and register for the meeting! Plenary talk from @hw1o9.bsky.social as well as a broad range of talks from PhD students across chem bio! www.rsc.org/events/detai...

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗗𝗮𝗿𝗸 𝗦𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲: 𝗔 𝗦𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗰 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗺? @news.dw.com’s documentary exposes misconduct, bullying & toxic leadership in research institutions like @maxplanck.de. But does removing a few “bad apples” fix anything? Or will the system just create more? Spare 3 mins & hear my take. 🎥👇

Super excited to share our latest work on deciphering the #Ubiquitin Code “𝗨𝗯𝗶𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗗 𝗱𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗽𝗵𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗮𝗹 𝗱𝗲𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗰𝗼𝗱𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗵𝗼𝗺𝗼𝘁𝘆𝗽𝗶𝗰 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗱 𝗞48 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗞63 𝘂𝗯𝗶𝗾𝘂𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗻 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀” @cp-molcell.bsky.social 1/8 www.cell.com/molecular-ce...

🚨 SAVE THE DATE! 🚨 We’re excited to bring back the 7th edition of the DNA Repair/Replication Structures & Cancer conference! #DRRSC26 🌟 Join us in Playa Mujeres, Mexico, from 24–28 February 2026. 📅 Mark your calendars & stay tuned for more details! 🔗 Click here for more information: bit.ly/4kXylh2

Some big anniversaries this year - 18 years married, 20 years running the lab. I would say it’s gone by in a flash but the truth is it’s been a slog at times, esp with 2 kids. We may not have had to argue about money, but we still have vicious fights about who gets to go to conferences/panels etc!

We need new science stories. New substack post, drunken cameo from @profaliceroberts.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/arutherf...

The exit committee has assembled. Every morning when we leave the house!

Off to Ewood Park! #OTBC 💛💚

Same 😂

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... This is spot on

It feels pretty damn bleak in HE atm 😞 Not sure why education is seen as a business rather than an essential