We’ve developed the first-ever method to control nucleic acid activity and gene-expressing synthetic cells with a deeply tissue penetrating alternating magnetic field 🧬 🧪 🧲!!! Published in *Nature Chemistry* Led by Ellen Parkes @syncelleu.bsky.social #chemsky www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Fourth day of #SeptSRC rising with Jenna Perry showing that there are septin isoforms with transmembrane proteins.

I serendipitously came across this beautiful Henrietta Lacks statue in Bristol yesterday, whose cells I put through so many manipulations during my MPhil and PhD. It’s mind-blowing to think of how many labs across the world are using her cells to make discoveries and she died having no idea of this.

Love this!

One of my favourite scenes from the BBC ‘Life Story’ documentary series!

This meeting could have been a walk in the sunshine

#newPI and time is running. It has already been a month since I officially joined the University of Warwick as Assistant Professor. I am excited to announce and build the Fluorescence and Membrane Dynamics (FMD) Lab: warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/med/...

A riddle for #GolgiDay: How many Golgis can you spot in this photo?

On April 19, 1898, Camillo Golgi described what we now know as the #Golgi apparatus - a structure so pretty and unusual it took over fifty years for the scientific community to agree it wasn’t just an artefact. April 19 is #GolgiDay! Mark your calendars to honour the best organelle.

Do you want to understand better how LLMs work? Do you want to use LLMs in applications in science or industry? Join us for this two-day training in Leipzig! 🚀

I had lots of fun fishing for vesicles during my PhD 🎣🔬 and I’m very happy to see the final version of this story out along with a wild cherry tree planted in the Forest of Biologists - a wonderful biodiversity-promoting initiative by @biologists.bsky.social!

An ancient woodland indicator, Wood anemone. Why? Because it mainly grows vegetatively and spreads slowly. Every year I take a photo of this same patch. Photos below from 2017 & 2025. @bsbibotany.bsky.social @lgspace.bsky.social @wtscotsocial.bsky.social

It’s my favourite time of the year! 🌸 I’m loving seeing all the blossoming trees + flowers while out and about, esp. magnolias which remind me of my hometown of Kyiv. Today, I also came across an unfamiliar flower species, which I learned was in the genus Anemonoides thanks to the iNaturalist app!

Really exited to be at #100biologists! Come to my poster #120 NOW to hear about my PhD work with @steveroyle.bsky.social on characterising different flavours of intracellular nanovesicles! We also have (moderately) exciting giveaway at my poster - check it out!

pretty and useful copper phosphate and tannic acid possess anti-inflammatory and antibiotic properties mixed in a saline solution, they self-assemble and grow into flower-like structures the nanoflowers can be attached to small strips of electrospun nanofabric to make an antimicrobial bandage

I loved reading this! 🔬❤️

Can I ask you to share a PhD advert at Bristol Uni please? Rhomboid proteases play a role in neurons that is essential for life- but it is not characterised. Got a student interested in cell biology, electrophysiology and neurobiology? Send them our way! tinyurl.com/56f24f7c

I am really enjoying the surge of people to bluesky but still kind of missing the VERY early career group of people! (Aging in academia is a funny thing) - I went ahead and made this starter pack go.bsky.app/Jq8YaQM - if you would like to be removed/added please let me know

Waves of new BlueSky arrivals in last few days! I’ve been tracking starter packs relevant to molecular/mechanistic/genetic/cellular…etc biology Hope it’s helpful but warning: now a v long thread! Probably the last time I can do this...

Woah! Getting follows from lots of scientists today 👋 Looking forward to the new discussions!

Thanks to FocalPlane for highlighting our preprint: focalplane.biologists.com/2024/10/04/m... Microscopy is definitely a highlight of my work, especially imaging the dynamics of my favourite organelles and transport vesicles! The FocalPlane ‘how to’ posts are a great source of 🔬👩🏼‍💻 technical tips!

Happy to see my first-author preprint online 🎉 It’s been a fun challenge to find ways to distinguish different Intracellular Nanovesicle Identities in cells - ATG9-flavour INVs are only the first we’ve characterised!

So beautiful!

Important so please help spread the word... Interested in postgrad research? Maybe do a PhD? Oxford runs a summer internship scheme for UK students from under-represented and disadvantaged backgrounds Stipend, free accommodation, mentoring... Deadline 21 Feb www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/g...

When I did my PhD at Cal Bot Gard, #Ceanothus (#Rhamnaceae) stole my heart. They're amazing chaparral shrubs, especially the blue-flowered species. I don't see them here on the East Coast, but I still ❤️ them. My fondness & fascination for the family has never diminished. 📷: C. purpureus. #Botany 🌾🧪

🚨JOBS🚨🦠🔬 Two 4 year post-docs available in my lab at Warwick. Looking for experts in super-resolution #microscopy, single molecule fluorescence, FRET or protein biochemistry. Visa+NHS fees covered. Salary~£40K. Two exciting team science projects with outstanding collaborators #microsky

🚨🧪New lab preprint: "We therefore propose a model for cytoskeletal evolution in which pools of microtubule network components constrain and guide the diversification of the entire network, so that the evolution of tubulin is inextricably linked to that of its binding partners." tinyurl.com/27ck46nb

Let me see if I have a few sources on hand for Academic Merit: Greatest Hits 1/ "Gender differences in recommendation letters for postdoctoral fellowships in geoscience" www.nature.com/articles/nge...

Take off 🪶

A spectacular tail halo on the Squirrel of the Day for January 7, 2024 #sqrlpix

One of the projects I launched in the last couple of years is a public engagement fund at Reuben college. I wonder if it is a first for an Oxbridge college? 1/n

Your Cherokee words for today. The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically.

Illustration draft for my upcoming short story collection, When Your Heart is a Broken Thing, a generous selection of fantasy, fairy tale, horror, and sci-fi offerings with 19 original illustrations by me! Coming February 2024 (eek, that isn't so far away now!)

When photographing wildlife, I love to capture and portray the more artistic and subtle aspects: Soft afternoon light silhouettes an elephant's beautifully textured face in Namibia's Etosha National Park.⁠ 📷 #photography #Namibia #photo #wildlife #elephant #Etosha #art #photoreel #mammals

These pieces by Erica Lord are remarkable. Beaded burden straps (used to help carry heavy loads) encoded with genetic data from diseases which disproportionately affect Indigenous communities ericalord.com/section/5223...

We can all agree that Bluesky needs more membrane proteins, right? And more rhomboids/iRhoms. Here’s a new surprise from us: iRhoms are substrates of signal peptidase, and cleavage triggers signalling to the nucleus All credit to Iqbal Dulloo 1/2 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I don't know which makes me laugh harder, the amount of water an American Robin can soak up during a bath or the gloriously grumpy looking expression on this one. #birds 🌿

Apparently, it's National Bird Day, but every day is bird day for me. Here's another photo of the cute common merganser family I saw over the summer. #birds #waterfowl laurel-gale.pixels.com/featured/duc...

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Only my 2nd post here, but here you go. Burrowing Owl along the coast in southern California. It has its death stare perfected.

Introduction: I’m finishing my PhD w/ @steveroyle.bsky.social, where I work on defining Intracellular Nanovesicle populations that we nickname as ‘molecular Skittles’. Soon, I’ll be looking for p/doc opps to continue exploring the dynamic + self-organising properties of the endomembrane system.