Talk about stating the bleeding obvious www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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

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...

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.

Trump is basically Fred Durst in a suit.

If you haven’t watched the Thursday Murder Club film… don’t. Utter drivel. And wtf is Pierce Brosnan’s accent?

That time of year again: where the f are my gloves?

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...

Thank god he didn’t become chancellor of Oxford

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!

@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

@cecerelab.bsky.social lab is doing outstanding work on C elegans sRNAs: a great opportunity for a PhD with them

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. I’m not on the committee, but I’m happy to answer questions as I can.

New Deftones album is very good. Some big riffs and lighter moments. Missing Sergio's inventive basslines though.

Disillusioned by Labour? While Starmer’s party loses members, more and more people are finding their political home with us — join them today! ⤵️ join.greenparty.org.uk?utm_source=j...

J’accuse! Great original analysis of this well known story.

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...🎧 ppfideas.com

🔥my latest paper from @odedrechavi.bsky.social lab🔥 we found small RNAs act across tissues to regulate fertlity in C. elegans 🪱. Surprisingly, we also found that O2-sensing neurons inhibit germline maintenance. Follow along our journey👇https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.07.669182v1

WOoo! Hot pre-print alert! 🔥 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...

To be honest, I'd introduce it for anyone over 40. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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!

According to artists’ impressions 300,000 year old Homo sapiens had access to a LOT of body building equipment. Probably a personal trainer too.

A good, progressive choice by Cambridge!

Watching the football

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 #gene expression. doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Please support Colin Kleanthous in raising money for MND research 🙏🏽

Fascinating- Amongst other insights from this, I had no idea that Skinner wrote a novel! Not sure I really want to read it though…

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...

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.

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

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!

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

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?!

Phase separation?? www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NeW...

📢The peer-reviewed version of our work on TEs driving innovation of F-box genes is out now on @molbioevol.bsky.social. 🎉 paper here: academic.oup.com/mbe/article/... Check my previous, but still up-to-date 🧵 to read the highlights. #TEsky #evosky #Celegans

A fascinating and often emotional day of science- a fitting tribute.

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.

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 – almost there !

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/...

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

🎉 Congrats to all the new @greenparty.org.uk councillors elected today across England! 💚 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. ...🧵

One of the great medical miracles of my lifetime is cystic fibrosis treatment. It was a childhood death sentence and now people can live full lives. The architect of Trumps budget has a daughter with CF. These people are villains www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Amazing parallels to the current situation in the US...very well explained and engaging discussion

Blair is dangerously wrong...not for the first time. Net zero has to succeed. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Fascinating, especially the different ideas Trotsky and Lenin had about WW1. Great man theory is pretty outdated… but would the world have been the same without these giants of communism?

Great opportunity in a super lab. And having just visited Belfast I can say that it's a lovely city, resplendent in the spring sunshine!

Thank you to @gensocuk.bsky.social and all organisers for a wonderful meeting- amazing range of topics, excellent talks and really fun QandA sessions. Only problem is that I'm going back home with too many ideas for new experiments!

🎉 Huge congratulations to Prof. Kathy Niakan on receiving the 2025 Mary Lyon Medal! @niakanlab.bsky.social's Mary Lyon Medal lecture is on the genetic approaches to study early lineage specification in human embryos. #Epigenetics2025

This is such a fantastic meeting- I'm so lucky to be speaking at this! Come along and learn about how studying evolution can teach us more about the fundamental molecular mechanisms of epigenetic regulation