This week we attended the @oxfordcancer.bsky.social and the @britsocimm.bsky.social -Oxford symposium 👩🏼‍💻🗒️👨‍💻 We are proud to share that at BSI-Oxford, our PostDoc @nabinapun.bsky.social won the prize for the best talk & our RA Paul won the best poster! 💪🏆🎉👏 Withers lab represent!

Sound on! Oxfam colleagues and partners are working relentlessly to reach those affected by airstrikes and displacement orders to provide essential support. The humanitarian need in the Middle East has never been greater. Donate whatever you can to help: bit.ly/DONATE_ME_Appeal

Continuing today's 'New to Oxford' session at #OxSymp26, David Withers, @ndm.ox.ac.uk , presents 'Understanding how myeloid cells adapt to the tumour microenvironment in real time.'

‘It didn’t matter whose child I rescued’: parents of Iran school bombing victims describe their worst day | Children | The Guardian share.google/ksQaXFXIZhON...

“Streets for play, streets for freedom” by @aliceferguson.bsky.social & @timrgill.bsky.social makes the case for a "child lens" on transport policy. Time to prioritise those most impacted yet least considered in planning our streets: Children. Read more here: playingout.net/take-action/...

A remarkable photo from #NoKings in DTLA from Connor Sheets of @latimes.com www.latimes.com/california/l...

‘It didn’t matter whose child I rescued’: parents of Iran school bombing victims describe their worst day | Children | The Guardian share.google/ksQaXFXIZhON...

Very proud that so many of our team will be joining a Dutch winter biathlon (10K skating + 90K cycling) through Dutch winds to raise money for lymphoma research. Read more here: www.dehollandse100.nl/teams/cinners

Mitotic BLM functions are required to maintain genomic stability url: academic.oup.com/nar/article/...

Oxfam responds to upcoming vote in the Israeli Knesset on the death penalty bill Read more here >> www.oxfam.org.uk/mc/geeqfg/

1/ To understand the meaning behind some of Pete Hegseth's recent political-religious rhetoric, we could do worse than turn to a short 1960 essay by political philosopher Eric Voegelin entitled: 'Ersatz Religion: The Gnostic Mass Movements of our Time'.

Seems to me that the natural end of the American experiment is one person with all of the money

Published today in @natmed.nature.com, researchers from @ox.ac.uk & MUHAS, Tanzania have shown that a minimally invasive liquid biopsy test can diagnose Burkitt lymphoma rapidly and accurately in sub-Saharan Africa, where delays in traditional testing often prove fatal. @oxfordcancer.bsky.social

I heard there's a protein called AIM2. It better not be dependent on Aim 1.

Three years ago Thalia was diagnosed with a brain tumour. She had multiple surgeries, chemotherapy and radiotherapy. This year we are walking the Nine Edges Challenge to raise awareness and money for OSCAR's Paediatric Brain Tumour Charity. Please donate: www.justgiving.com/team/thaliaf...

I disagree The audience likes the jokes, just not in a "laugh out loud" way Judging based on audible response is not credible imo :)

NEWS: New research reveals why some oesophageal cancers are so hard to treat @oxfordoncology.bsky.social study found that high chromosomal instability is a key feature in most dangerous types.

Spoke to the Guardian about the idea of quitting LLMs for climate: -“I see this all as very much part of the tactic of trying to embed these systems into society and instil dependency in a fashion similar to the growth of single-use plastics in the 1970s.” www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

#ESMOTAT26: In his interview in the #ESMODailyReporter, Timothy A. Yap, TAT Honorary Awardee, shares insights on innovative approaches to exploit synthetic lethality to ‘drug the undruggable’ 📌https://ow.ly/FkSE50YuA7Q#ESMOTAT26#ESMODailyReporter #DrugDevelopment

Very beautiful work to which we made a small contribution. Congrats to @eileenparkes.bsky.social and team! #CIN #Immunesurveillance| Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Delighted to share our new bioRxiv preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... We present a new approach to resolve T cell temporal states at single-cell resolution in cancer immunotherapy. My thanks to all co-authors and collaborators. #Immunology #CancerResearch

New research led by @eileenparkes.bsky.social and co-authored by DPhil in Cancer Science Alumnus, Bruno Beernaert @oncology.ox.ac.uk, has uncovered new insights into why the most aggressive oesophageal cancers are so difficult to treat. 👇 www.cancer.ox.ac.uk/news/new-res...

Chromosomal chaos rewires immune defense into tumor-promoting inflammation www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @eileenparkes.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk @brunobeernaert.bsky.social

Delighted our work on chromosomal instability in oesophageal cancer is now out in Science Advances share.google/UcZXne5OZdM9...

Today we're at @lincoln.ox.ac.uk for our second Annual Oesophagogastric Cancer Centre of Excellence Symposium! 🥳 We're looking forward to a day exploring how recent advancements in research and clinical practice are improving patient outcomes.

If you've put in a #MuSpAn code request in the last few days and haven't heard anything, please let me know - looks like there was an issue with our hosting which meant the requests weren't coming through! I think I've sorted the backlog but please shout if you're still waiting for code access :)

Who should attend our FREE public webinar with the @CGIclinics project? 👉️ Clinical molecular biologists & pathologists 👉️ Oncologists in precision medicine & phase I clinical trials 👉️ Researchers in precision oncology & cancer genomics 👉️ Bioinformaticians in clinical oncology labs buff.ly/KQL1KDS

I am writing a paper about gendered publication rates & something I am noticing in the existing literature is that men tend to say the causes for less publications by women are either not well understood, non existent or due to family demands. While women say the cause is systemic and structural.

Some background to this, and an example I think of Phil's attitudes towards fostering students and encouraging others. I never got a chance to meet Phil in person, but will share his act of generosity that helped myself and @hdashnow.bsky.social and I think had in indelible mark on our careers. 1/8

This #InternationalWomensDay, we’re calling for protection, peace, and the support families urgently need. Donate to Oxfam’s Middle East Appeal to support the people forced to flee the violence ➡️ bit.ly/4bt8URv#InternationalWomensDay #IWD2026 #FightInequality #WomensRights

"Celebrating international women's Day"...this pisses me off so much ... We don't celebrate anything...we fight because all over the world women still don't have basic rights, access to education, equal pay... Today is not a celebration. It is a reminder we need to keep fighting for what is right!

Do you have an impactful research idea? One that could improve care or advance science? Apply for the ESMO Leadership & Career Development Award, offering protected research time, leadership & communication training by 3 May 26 . 🔗https://ow.ly/Gicm50YqcbZ #Oncology #ESMOYOC

This weekend’s escalation in the Middle East is a reckless breach of international law with consequences far beyond the region. The US and Israel’s attacks on Iran undermine the rules‑based order, and the silence of many Western leaders at this moment is deeply alarming.

In shock news, motorists have switched to public transport to avoid paying the Oxford Congestion Charge. A spokesperson* said: "This is exactly what was meant to happen, and it did."

Hello Bluesky, I'm working on a story about colorectal cancer in younger adults. If you're under 50 and have been diagnosed with colorectal cancer, or if you know someone else who fits this description who wants to talk about it, please reach out! DMS open. You can choose to be anonymous.

Have you submitted your abstract yet for #EACR2026 Congress (Budapest, 8-11 June)? Don't miss the exciting opportunity to showcase your research and build new connections and collaborations with the global cancer research community. You have until 04 March to get your submissions in: 2026.eacr.org

Really concerned to hear the Defence Secretary refuse to rule out UK's involvement in future strikes on Iran. Iraq lessons must be learned. Further escalation in the Middle East makes us all less safe. Starmer must rule out UK involvement immediately.

Do you know anyone keen to study cancers of unmet need and understand how to improve their responses to treatment? We are looking for a curious enthusiastic scientific officer to work at @cruknbc.bsky.social , close ties with @manchester.ac.uk and @christieinstitute.bsky.social

#RareDiseaseDay is a chance to remember how our Genomic Medicine Theme identified routinely overlooked areas of the human genome that may be the cause of rare diseases Read more: oxfordbrc.nihr.ac.uk/study-highli... @ndm.ox.ac.uk @ox.ac.uk @ouhospitals.bsky.social #genomics

Well done Greens!

👋 To all aneuploidy and chromosome instability aficionados check out the Consequences of Aneuploidy FASEB conference (Florida-USA 🏖️) co-organised with @peterlylab.bsky.social, Mike Lampson, Alison Taylor and myself: events.faseb.org/event/Aneupl... 👉 Deadline for abstract submission: August 3rd.

Thrilled to share that our comBO paper is now out! Huge thanks to @abattacks.bsky.social for leading this, and to an incredible team who made this possible. Excited to see where comBO takes us next! www.cell.com/cell-stem-ce...

Our second annual Oesophagogastric Cancer Centre of Excellence Symposium will examine how recent advancements in research and clinical practice are contributing to improved patient outcomes. ✅Open to @ox.ac.uk researchers 📆March 6th, 9am to 5pm Register 👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/oesophagog...

Getting updates from South Sudan is becoming harder every day. More than 2 million people have been displaced, and the situation is worsening. Our colleague Kamba sent this voicenote to share what he’s witnessing on the ground. Please donate to Oxfam's Emergency Fund bit.ly/3F1xqeE

STING safeguards epithelial genome integrity and protects from carcinogenesis via mitotic checkpoint control https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.17.706442v1

"blue sky science is key to be prepared" *cough* MRC *cough*

Scientist's way of saying 'I ❤️ you' "I found this paper/preprint that made me think of your project." "I checked the mice/cells/plates already." "I just sent you the edits you requested." "I have a slide/diagram that will work for that." "I had that problem with [lab equipment], I have a fix."

Really proud to know Lia - she is an excellent clinician and brilliant computational biologist and wet lab scientist - a future leader in cancer biology and treatment #womenInScience

Happy international day of women and girls in science - more real change, less lip service please

Papers are increasingly challenging to navigate, not only because of the sheer volume of data they contain but also because of their structure. This is a delicate point of discussion that we, as a community, should address. I would love hearing your views on this. network.febs.org/posts/thinki...