The Faraday Discovery Fellowships Accelerated International Route is still open for applications, providing a fast-track option for mid-career researchers looking to relocate to the UK from overseas: https://royalsociety.org/grants/faraday-discovery-fellowships/accelerated-international-route/

If you are working on Genome stability and repair pathways and you're looking for a tenure track professorship, check out this opportunity at The Max Perutz Labs at the University of Vienna: jobs.zeit.de/jobs/tenure-...

🔹 Royal Navy sea trials: did Sussex’s quantum navigation work at sea? 🔹 What is consciousness? And could AI have it? Find out in the next Research at Sussex. Subscribe today: ow.ly/11El50UOFZB

What are the right questions for AI in Biological Research? This discussion with John Jumper, and @GDSC panelist Luke Yates provides some answers! Charlotte Deane: AI, Drug Discovery, and the UK Advantage youtu.be/Fmp9-E8cPWk?... via @YouTube

Wanna find out more about this year's new Hive Scholars? 👀 Meet Yara Zebian, Shaunna McIvor and Joao M. Uratani. Discover how they will support Sussex's PGR research culture and what they are currently researching. tinyurl.com/mv9j7hkm

DNA computers could one day be used to store data, solve difficult mathematical problems and analyse biological data go.nature.com/46C1hpH

In memory of Jane Goodall, English primatologist and anthropologist and the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees. Take a look at her 1985 article published in #PhilTransB 'Conditions of innovative behaviour in primates': royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Join Francis Crick Prize winner Professor Sam Behjati for this free upcoming lecture on 10 October, as he discusses insights into the early detection and prevention of childhood cancer: https://royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/2025/10/francis-crick-prize/

Jane Goodall, known for her pioneering work with chimpanzees, has passed away aged 91 go.nature.com/46K10ja

Do you want to raise the profile of your research, and share it with over 10,000 members of the public? The call for proposals to exhibit at the 2026 #SummerScience Exhibition is still open: https://royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/summer-science-exhibition/call-for-proposals-2026/

A Nature special: Universities made the modern world. Now they must survive it. go.nature.com/4nTooBX

Huntington’s disease treated successfully for first time in gene therapy trial

Professor Gillian Bates FRS, who co-founded the Huntington's Disease Centre with Professor Tabrizi, is delivering the Ferrier Prize Lecture on her work unraveling the molecular basis of this disease on 6 October. You can register below: royalsociety.org/science-even...

Our Co-Directors Prof @chrispepper68.bsky.social and Dr @rhysmorganlab.bsky.social explain the mission and vision for the Sussex Blood Cancer Research network. @sussexcancer.org @bsmsmedschool.bsky.social @biochembiomeduos.bsky.social

Nature research paper: CRISPR activation for SCN2A-related neurodevelopmental disorders go.nature.com/3VmV1vp

UK is ‘worst country in Europe’ for drug prices, says Mounjaro maker

Are you a biologist with a research interest in embryogenesis or synthetic biology? Join our upcoming residential scientific meeting in Brighton on 20-21 October on the topic of generative biology: royalsociety.org/science-even...

Join Francis Crick Prize winner Professor Sam Behjati for this free upcoming lecture on 10 October, as he discusses insights into the early detection and prevention of childhood cancer: https://royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/2025/10/francis-crick-prize/

Tools such as ChatGPT can be used to generate almost-identical research papers that pass standard plagiarism checks go.nature.com/4pR5Wf0

Are you interested in working on related projects? 🌱 The Knipscheer lab at the Hubrecht Institute (Utrecht, the Netherlands) has openings for a postdoc and a PhD position. Apply here: www.hubrecht.eu/jobs

We're hiring ! Specifically....we are seeking to appoint a creative and motivated Postdoctoral Training Fellow to study how drug resistance emerges in homologous recombination defective (HRD) breast cancers and how this could be targeted. jobs.icr.ac.uk/vacancies/13...

Thrilled that our work is now finally out in Nature Comms! rdcu.be/eG3vP We reveal cryo-EM structures of the MRN complex bound to DNA & TRF2 - showing how DNA breaks are sensed and regulated at telomeres. Fantastic work by first authors @yilanfan.bsky.social @filizkuybu.bsky.social & Hengjun!

@mariasecrier.bsky.social & I are looking for an enthusiastic & excellent data scientist for a 4-year postdoc to understand cell cycle dysregulation in cancer. Deadline 15th October. Get in touch if you have any questions. Please repost! More details: www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

There's still time to submit your proposal to exhibit your research at the #SummerScience Exhibition 2026! With the call for proposals open until 8 October, don't miss this unique opportunity to connect with the public, potential funders and government: royalsociety.org/science-even...

Now out! Led by @susana-sousa.bsky.social and Noa Amin, and thanks to our collaborators in the Harrington @icr.ac.uk and Stucki and Choudhary @jc4-jyoti.bsky.social labs www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Online Now: Biochemical reconstitution of sister chromatid cohesion establishment during DNA replication Online now:

congratulations to our DB colleague Maria Jasin, recognized by the Greengard Prize! when she started her lab @mskcancercenter.bsky.social, she was the first to insert DNA into a defined location of a mammalian genome! her work underlies today's CRISPR-mediated HDR. here in convo with Rick Lifton.🧬

Webinar: Could DNA repair hold the key to treating Huntingtons disease?🧬 Join UK DRI Group Leaders Profs Sarah Tabrizi & Gabriel Balmus as they dig into the latest discoveries and therapeutic breakthroughs from the field 🗓️ Mon 29 Sep 🕓 4-5pm (BST) Register free 👉 www.ukdri.ac.uk/events/rethi...

Naomi Datta FRS was born #OnThisDay in 1922. She discovered horizontal gene transfer, the passing of genetic material between organisms, as a key factor in the spread of antibiotic resistance in bacteria. #WomenInSTEM

How much are phones and social media to blame for mental health struggles in adolescence? go.nature.com/4gmdbXL

Latest from the Nature Podcast 🔊 Feeling the heat: fossil-fuel producers linked to dozens of heatwaves go.nature.com/42hfxkY

Medical researchers at some institutions in Canada, the United States and Italy are using data created by AI from real patient information in their experiments without the need for permission from their institutional ethics boards go.nature.com/42n8Cqj

George Jones, Untitled, #artbots #tate https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1077366

"The influence of TS Eliot on Shakespeare" (seeing earlier work with modern eyes". This will make a great Journal club!

Now accepting applications for our 2026 Cancer Biology & Cancer Engineering programs. Aspiring scientists & engineers will solve fundamental problems in biology & conduct research & develop technology that will help understand, diagnose & treat cancer. bit.ly/3WUiuo1

👩‍🔬 We’re hiring! Join a dynamic team driving innovation in blood cancer research at the University of Sussex. Collaborate with experts, grow your skills in protein biochemistry, and contribute to vital discoveries. 👉 Apply here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOP599/r...

Looking forward to contributing to Social DNAing @columbiauniversity.bsky.social @columbiacancer.bsky.social later today!

Our work on DNA2 provides a new perspective on the interplay of the fundamental processes of DNA replication, replication fork recovery, and recombination. If you'd like to hear more about it, tune into Social DNAing on Thursday, 11 September. To register: www.cancer.columbia.edu/research/pro...

The picture depicts his future wife Barbara Hepworth’s reflection in the window of a restaurant Dieppe. Living just opposite Dieppe on the English channel I like the idea...

Warsaw opens metro station ‘express’ library to get commuters off their phones

Born #OnThisDay in 1766 was John Dalton FRS. Dalton was a chemist, physicist and meteorologist and is known for introducing atomic theory to chemistry, and for his research into colour blindness, sometimes known as Daltonism in his honour. #HistoryOfScience

These are great pics which you'll find on the GDSC @gdsc-sussex.bsky.social website very soon! We are blessed with a beautiful campus @sussex.ac.uk set in the South Downs @southdownsnp.bsky.social. A great place to work and study!

Congrats Maria and co-workers, it’s been a pleasure to see this project evolve and come to this fantastic conclusion!! The mechanism of control here wows me!

Checkout our latest research in @natcomms.nature.com rdcu.be/eBqBI A high-resolution, nanopore-based artificial intelligence assay for DNA replication stress in human cancer cells. A collaboration with Mike Boemo’s team

My first post on bsky to share our latest research in @nature.com: “DNA2 enables growth by restricting recombination-restarted replication” - defines DNA2’s essential function & elucidates links with primordial dwarfism and cancer. Thanks to the lab, collaborators & @ukri.org @acmedsci.bsky.social