The House of Commons Education Committee is out today with a report on Higher Education... I'm quoted four times! There's a lot of good meat in there, even if I think the recommendations don't meet the case. But the policy disaster is very clear. (1/2) committees.parliament.uk/work/9012/hi...

A no from BBSRC with nothing but positive feedback after excellent reviews. Strong prelim data, excellent rebuttal, excellent application. But no funding. Time to consider moving to a country that takes science funding seriously? So disappointed 😔

Job alert! We are seeking a rodent in vivo electrophysiologist to work on coordination between anterior thalamus and hippocampus in rats using Neuropixels. Beautiful Scotland, leading university (Glasgow) and vibrant intellectual setting. Post is 23 months but hopefully extensible. Details here 👇

Ref definitely had too much influence on the game. Ah well. #ncfc

This ref clearly a Reform voter #ncfc

Staying up! 🎉💚💛 #otbc #ncfc

Take a look at Martin’s new preprint on discovering a FANCD2-interacting motif, and his helpful summary posts!

Actually hilarious! I got “cute cats making cookies is the biggest betrayal of the Brexit mandate”. Seems about right.

I cannot believe how exciting it is watching people go down an ice slide headfirst 🤣

📚New Episode📚 A forty-year slow-motion disaster in higher education is reaching its climax – and Labour is left holding the bag. @gsoh31.bsky.social joins @rostaylor.bsky.social & @hannahfearn.bsky.social to ask if the problems can be solved ➡️ linktr.ee/ohgodwhatnowpod

Touré’s knee-slide the highlight of the match 🤣 #ncfc 💛💚

As of roughly half an hour ago, I am now the parent of an adult 😱 Where does the time go?!

Blimey. #ncfc Good goal difference building!

Am spending my Saturday reading grant proposals and feeling such pessimism about the state of uk science funding. So many good ideas, so many talented researchers, so incredibly little investment 😞

Ever wondered what Integrated Protein Analysis www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/mvl... actually is? Well, wonder no more as here is Mads to explain what it is and how it supports your research: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ct3a...

this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.

Having no racist politicians on #imaceleb this year really improved it

⏰ Only 1 week left! Registration for #DRRSC26 closes soon - don’t miss out on being part of this exciting conference. 📅 Deadline: 25 November 2025 Click here to Register: bit.ly/49oHUCi #FusionStructuralMolBio #FusionDNA

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...