Today we have our fantastic Autumn Meeting on Ancient Genomes @royalsociety.org !

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.

students, take note please. Your teachers also know how to use chatgpt even if we think TikTok is some kind of antelope.

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!

A super opportunity!

Bringing back an extinct hominid is a horrific suggestion; I would go further than this article and suggest that it is banned outright. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Rest in peace Jane Goodall, a true giant among scientists. Your breakthroughs into the secret lives of chimpanzees viewed through an anthropomorphic lens – without yet knowing that science had forbidden it – changed science forever, and with it how we see ourselves.

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. It’s a cruel vanity project with no conceivable justification.

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.'

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. ...🧵