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Epigenetics and Evolution
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Peter Sarkies
Genetics Society UK
about 11 hours ago
Today we have our fantastic Autumn Meeting on Ancient Genomes
@royalsociety.org
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Reading this super biography of Crick right now. It's almost as fun to read as Crick's life seems to have been!
@matthewcobb.bsky.social
highlights and explains all the good, bad, and eccentric characteristics of Crick. So many contributions at the dawn of molecular biology.
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about 7 hours ago
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students, take note please. Your teachers also know how to use chatgpt even if we think TikTok is some kind of antelope.
25 days ago
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This is a great tool for evaluating papers using AI, developed by Oded Rechavi- I've used the demo version and it has been really useful, spot on with its comments. Highly recommended!
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29 days ago
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A super opportunity!
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about 1 month ago
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Bringing back an extinct hominid is a horrific suggestion; I would go further than this article and suggest that it is banned outright.
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Should scientists be allowed to bring distant human ancestors back to life?
Recently, several attempts have been made to modify modern species with ancient DNA in the name of âde-extinctionâ. This Perspective argues that independent ethical oversight needs to be put in place ...
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3003384
about 1 month ago
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Itai Yanai
about 1 month ago
Rest in peace Jane Goodall, a true giant among scientists. Your breakthroughs into the secret lives of chimpanzees viewed through an anthropomorphic lens â without yet knowing that science had forbidden it â changed science forever, and with it how we see ourselves.
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Just listened to George Church on The Life Scientific. very brilliant guy but the idea that Mammothising elephants is going to save the environment is total fiction. Itâs a cruel vanity project with no conceivable justification.
about 1 month ago
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oh the joy of the hassle that accompanies trying to submit an article. Password forgotten, orcid linked to a different account, metadata collection, all for it to be most likely rejected editorially. Everything takes an age on a clunky system designed in the 2000s. Basically 'Der Process.'
about 2 months ago
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Talk about stating the bleeding obvious
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Keir Starmer calls Reform migrant policy 'racist' and 'immoral'
The prime minister told the BBC he needed
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj6xdw1dg4zo
about 2 months ago
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I was only very dimly aware of this event before and was surprised there could be a whole podcast about it... but turns out it's really interesting! especially striking to hear some clips from the speech; Labour could really do with an orator of Kinnock's calibre right now
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about 2 months ago
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While the other senior figures in labour hide behind the fantasy of the 'special relationship' Sadiq gets it right.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Sir Sadiq Khan hits back at Donald Trump's Sharia London claim
The Mayor of London responds to the US president's speech to the United Nations.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cre53qn8v07o
about 2 months ago
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Adam Rutherford
about 2 months ago
Phenomenal. In my 10 year update of A Brief History, I make the point that in the first edition, not one disease had been successfully treated using gene therapy. Today that number is at least 7.
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Trump is basically Fred Durst in a suit.
about 2 months ago
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If you havenât watched the Thursday Murder Club film⊠donât. Utter drivel. And wtf is Pierce Brosnanâs accent?
about 2 months ago
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That time of year again: where the f are my gloves?
about 2 months ago
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Yaser Atlasi
about 2 months ago
We have an exciting, fully funded PhD studentship (UK and ROI) to investigate mechanisms of epigenetic regulation in drug resistant B-cell lymphoma. We are looking for a highly motivated, driven candidate to join our team.
eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
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Targeting USP7-PRC1 axis as a novel therapeutic approach in drug resistant Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma at Queenâs University Belfast on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Targeting USP7-PRC1 axis as a novel therapeutic approach in drug resistant Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma at Queenâs University Belfast, listed on FindAPhD.com
https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.findaphd.com%2Fphds%2Fproject%2Ftargeting-usp7-prc1-axis-as-a-novel-therapeutic-approach-in-drug-resistant-diffuse-large-b-cell-lymphoma%2F%3Fp186926&data=05%7C02%7CY.Atlasi%40qub.ac.uk%7Cfa2e6e2d7c6e4daf9f7b08ddf46cf936%7Ceaab77eab4a549e3a1e8d6dd23a1f286%7C0%7C0%7C638935471045338400%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=AWnDAK3XLkApi%2FTM6wNqCe28%2FZe3kZeF%2Biht%2F9%2FQkFo%3D&reserved=0
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Thank god he didnât become chancellor of Oxford
2 months ago
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Another Green
2 months ago
Daily Mail, the Daily Express, the Sun...every day they work to make cruelty popular, to destroy attempts to tackle climate change, to harm our society. Put them in the bin!
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@leaypi.bsky.social
is an incredibly clear thinker and this discussion, particularly of Kant and Nietzsche, made some tricky ideas understandable to me for the first time. highly recommended
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2 months ago
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@cecerelab.bsky.social
lab is doing outstanding work on C elegans sRNAs: a great opportunity for a PhD with them
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2 months ago
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Rebecca Mosher
3 months ago
This is an amazing opportunity to join the plant sciences faculty in the Oxford Department of Biology! I am so impressed with the quality and collegiality of these colleagues. Iâm not on the committee, but Iâm happy to answer questions as I can.
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New Deftones album is very good. Some big riffs and lighter moments. Missing Sergio's inventive basslines though.
3 months ago
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The Green Party of England & Wales
3 months ago
Disillusioned by Labour? While Starmerâs party loses members, more and more people are finding their political home with us â join them today! —ïž
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Jâaccuse! Great original analysis of this well known story.
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3 months ago
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Past Present Future Podcast
3 months ago
NEW EPISODE OUT NOW! Today David tells the tale of the Dreyfus Affair that split France down the middle and revealed the grip of a whole host of conspiracy theories. The story of a letter found in a wastebin turned into a saga about who really controlled the country. Find us at...đ§
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Ethan (Chee Kiang) Ewe
3 months ago
đ„my latest paper from
@odedrechavi.bsky.social
labđ„ we found small RNAs act across tissues to regulate fertlity in C. elegans đȘ±. Surprisingly, we also found that O2-sensing neurons inhibit germline maintenance. Follow along our journeyđhttps://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.07.669182v1
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Oded Rechavi
3 months ago
WOoo! Hot pre-print alert! đ„ Check out our new story - We describe evidence that "neuronal oversight" of germline small RNAs prevents sterility and allows lab-domesticated C. elegans to reproduce when temperatures go up (1/2)
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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To be honest, I'd introduce it for anyone over 40.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Over-70s face driving ban for failing eye tests
The proposed changes in England and Wales come after a coroner calls the UK's licensing system the "laxest in Europe".
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yllgezjk3o
3 months ago
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One of my most productive days for ages. What did I do? Read papers almost all day. Definitely need to make more time for this!
3 months ago
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According to artistsâ impressions 300,000 year old Homo sapiens had access to a LOT of body building equipment. Probably a personal trainer too.
3 months ago
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A good, progressive choice by Cambridge!
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4 months ago
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Watching the football
4 months ago
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Rebecca Berrens
4 months ago
Very happy to share our protocols paper for CELLO-seq. This will make single cell long read RNA-seq more accessible and provides analysis guidelines. We hope this helps the
#transposon
#TEsky
community and folks working on
#singleCell
isoform and allelic
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expression.
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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Long-read RNA sequencing of transposable elements from single cells using CELLO-seq - Nature Protocols
Single-cell long-read RNA sequencing enables the high-fidelity mapping of single-cell expression data from highly sequence-similar transposable elements to unique genomic loci by correcting errors fro...
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41596-025-01203-2
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Syma Khalid
4 months ago
Please support Colin Kleanthous in raising money for MND research đđœ
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Fascinating- Amongst other insights from this, I had no idea that Skinner wrote a novel! Not sure I really want to read it thoughâŠ
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4 months ago
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Exciting postdoctoral opportunity joint between my lab and Mark Viney's at University of Liverpool- Great opportunity if you are looking to apply C. elegans molecular biology skills to study the fascinating role of epigenetics in parasitic nematode lifecycles!
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNR771/p...
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Postdoctoral Research Associate - Grade 7 at University of Liverpool
Apply for the Postdoctoral Research Associate - Grade 7 role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.
https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNR771/postdoctoral-research-associate-grade-7
5 months ago
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It is an outrage that anyone in the UK should be facing food insecurity. At least
@greenparty.org.uk
seem to be taking this issue seriously.
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5 months ago
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This is not an endorsement of the man who gives brass instruments a bad name... but I'm definitely in favour of more swearing from politicians
5 months ago
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A real privilege to contribute in a small way to this from
@frommlab.bsky.social
. Despite huge reductions in miRNAs in the evolution of parasitism in rotifers, piRNAs remain strong! More evidence for the uniqueness of nematodes in losing the piRNA pathway completely so many times!
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5 months ago
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madeline odent
5 months ago
THINGS YOU LOVE TO SEE: IT there's more to do and further to go, but this (and the resounding vote against an amendment that banned 'postal abortions') is a great step
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I will be going as a committee member of
@gensocuk.bsky.social
- would be great to see
@greenparty.org.uk
MPs there
@carladenyer.bsky.social
@adrianramsay.bsky.social
if possible?!
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5 months ago
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Phase separation??
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NeW...
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Incubus - Just a Phase (from The Morning View Sessions)
YouTube video by IncubusVEVO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NeW4TlB8oQ
6 months ago
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Miguel V. Almeida
6 months ago
đąThe peer-reviewed version of our work on TEs driving innovation of F-box genes is out now on
@molbioevol.bsky.social
. đ paper here:
academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...
Check my previous, but still up-to-date đ§” to read the highlights.
#TEsky
#evosky
#Celegans
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A fascinating and often emotional day of science- a fitting tribute.
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6 months ago
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If you have any lingering feeling that the British Empire was somehow 'benign' listening to this excellent series on its grotesque role in 19thC Opium trade will extinguish it completely.
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6 months ago
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Chris Packham
6 months ago
C'mon , let's get fossil fuel ads banned . . . first step , a debate in Parliament . Will you be the 100,000th signature on my petition ? Sign at
govpetition.uk/700024
â almost there !
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Ben Lehner
6 months ago
We quantify the aggregation of >100,000 random protein sequences to train CANYA, a convolution-attention hybrid neural network to predict aggregation from sequence. With
@bennibolo.bsky.social
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Massive experimental quantification allows interpretable deep learning of protein aggregation
xAI trained on >100,000 random peptides predicts and elucidates primary sequence determinants of aggregation.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adt5111
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Carla Denyer
7 months ago
People are sick of the tired old parties, and Greens are providing a much-needed positive and progressive alternative. Exciting times ahead! Want to be part of the story? Join us!
join.greenparty.org.uk
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Join the Green Party
Join the Green Party from just ÂŁ6 a year. Become a member today - join the only party with the policies needed to tackle the climate crisis.
https://join.greenparty.org.uk/
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Carla Denyer
7 months ago
đ Congrats to all the new
@greenparty.org.uk
councillors elected today across England! đ I'm so pleased to see how many more communities will now be served by hard-working Greens, after our 8th consecutive year of growth in local elections. ...đ§”
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