This is accurate. There's a valley of death between 'good academic research' and 'ready for investment'. Every project at that stage is risky, and because there's not much money instututions cherry pick and become risk averse. If you wanna win the lottery, buy more tickets.

1946: The Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Sciences is transferred to the Company. In 1966, QJMS is renamed Journal of Cell Science @jcellsci.bsky.social. Read JCS’s 100-anniversary article collection: bit.ly/46RvL5N

Congratulations! Immunology is certainly the topic of today - I’m seeing this news whilst in an immunology session at #CrickCancerConf!

Congratulations to our 2025 Development Fund awardees! 🎉 From new detection tools to targeted nanotech therapies, these seed funded projects explore bold ideas to improve cancer diagnosis & treatment. 👉 bit.ly/4gV38tf @icr.ac.uk @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social @imperialsandc.bsky.social

🎙️ Midway through Day 1 at the 5th Crick International Cancer Conference - fantastic to be back at the Crick. Talks packed with fresh insights (much of it unpublished, so no spoilers!), and great to see such a strong international turnout. #CrickCancerConf www.crick.ac.uk/whats-on/5th...

How should researchers respond to funder strategies - and what do these documents really mean for your work? Read my latest blog! www.linkedin.com/pulse/readin... #ResearchStrategy #CancerResearch #FundingLandscape #ECRSupport #ScientificIntegrity #StrategicAlignment #ResearchCulture

Finalising slides for next week’s NC3Rs webinar on sex-inclusive research. I’ll be sharing a funder’s perspective on the SIRF tool - and how we’re moving from policy to practice. 🔗 nc3rs.org.uk/events/tackl... #SexInclusiveResearch #3Rs #SIRF

Teach others how to use the EDA to design rigorous in vivo experiments that use the minimum number of animals: nc3rs.org.uk/events/ukrn-... ⏳ Registration closing soon: Wednesday 17 September 🤝Delivered by @drejpearl.bsky.social and @ukrepro.bsky.social 📅 Thursday 13 November, 10.00 – 16.00 (GMT)

September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month 💛 Cancer is different in children and young people, so it needs a different and dedicated approach. We partner with other charities, funders and people affected by these cancers across the UK and around the world – learn more: cruk.ink/3JEskaM

@peterstefanovic.bsky.social, @carolvorders.bsky.social and 24 other public figures have put their names to our open letter to @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social, urging him to make the upcoming National Cancer Plan for England a #TurningPointForCancer. Sign the open letter here: cruk.ink/4fHgR6c

Manufacturing CAR T cells in the laboratory is expensive and time-consuming. An in vivo approach could get this powerful therapy to more people https://go.nature.com/45w5A5w

📣 We are recruiting new group leaders in Innovative Biology! RNA biology Epigenetic regulation Cell cycle regulation Cancer, immunology Virology Application and information ⬇️ application.igmm.cnrs.fr @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social @cnrsoccitanieest.bsky.social @umontpellier.bsky.social

Join us for our next #ConvergingOnCancer seminar where we'll explore these topics with: ➡️Prof @doryenbubeck.bsky.social‬ (@imperialsci.bsky.social‬) ➡️Dr @claudioalfieri.bsky.social‬ (@icr.ac.uk‬ ) 📅 Thursday 5th June, 3-4pm 🖱️ For more information and how to register: bit.ly/3Z80SqS

The application deadline for our next round of 🔬Training Grants is this Friday 6 June. www.biologists.com/grants/jcs-f...

Now on the train home after a wonderful few days in Edinburgh, but one last post about #BACR2025. Many of the talks ended with a slide highlighting opportunities so here’s a thread of those I managed to photograph! #NewPIopportunuties #CancerConferences #ResearchJournals and #ProfessionalSocieties

Onto the last Keynote talk at BACR in Edinburgh. It’s René Bernards from NKI. What a great 3 days it’s been! Thank you to the organisers and congratulations to all the prize winners. #BACR2025

Very proud of former PhD student Yaiza Jung who has received the #BACR Chris Marshall Prize for Cell Signalling 😍! it was such a pleasure to co-supervise her PhD with @jezcarlton.bsky.social 😀

After a fun and chaotic Cèilidh last evening we’re back in lectures this morning as the 65th anniversary BACR meeting continues in Edinburgh. Mathew Garnett from the Sanger is first up. #BACR2025

Back for the afternoon session at BACR. First up it’s Mark Cragg from Southampton talking about antibodies as drugs against cancer. #BACR2025

The LMB is committed to being open & honest about why & how we use animals in our research. Our Biological Services Group provide excellent care to our colonies of rodents – our fantastic animal technicians explain why they work with mice in this video: youtu.be/V7CHmPGjvSo #BOARD25 @eara.eu

Day 1 of the British Association for Cancer Research 65th Anniversary Meeting. Some good stuff on DNA repair, nonsense-mediated decay, epigenetics, dormancy, metabolism and lots more. Nice venue too - The Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. Back again tomorrow! @thebacr.bsky.social #BACR2025

It’s Day 2 of the BACR meeting in Edinburgh. First up Derek Mann from Newcastle talking about liver cancer. #BACR2025

We’re #hiring, please share! A fully funded #postdoc position is available in my lab to work on DNA damage response mechanisms. Please get in touch with your CV if you are interested; closing date: 27th June 2025. More details here: candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

Who else is on route to Edinburgh today? Looking forward to lots of conversations with the cancer research community! #CancerResearch #BACR2025

We're so excited about the world-leading experts speaking at our Prevention Primer, co-hosted w @cancerresearchuk.org! Taking place in London, Tues 24 June. Registration closes Weds 11 June - don't miss out! bit.ly/3EKgzNN @uclmedsci.bsky.social @crick.ac.uk @kingslsm.bsky.social @qmbci.bsky.social

Nice interview with @franbottanelli.bsky.social in @jcellsci.bsky.social. Academics in Berlin, what are you waiting for? Fran wants to form a band! journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

This is why the @engprofcouncil.bsky.social has recently called on the government to plug the funding gap in engineering higher education (and HE more widely) in the forthcoming CSR. epc.ac.uk/article/epc-... 26/27

Netflix’s doc The Quilters is brilliant. At 30 mins I wish it had been longer. It follows men in a maximum-security prison who design, make and sew these intricate quilts for foster children. The care that goes into making them is so touching. An object they see as being with these children forever.

Today is #WorldBeeDay so we made a bee out of books and now we're buzzing. 🐝

Following the news about Joe Biden, you might have questions about prostate cancer. Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men in the UK. Click below to find out more about prostate cancer, how it's diagnosed and treated: bit.ly/4dns4aV

Really nice to see the structure of a TypeII RE, which I studied during my PhD. We had determined the enzyme mechanism and stoichiometry (academic.oup.com/nar/article/...) 20y ago, but it’s been a long wait for a structure. But the detailed mechanism (dimer of heterotrimers) still holds mysteries!

Don't miss the chance to showcase your work at the 30th Translation UK meeting! We are accepting late breaking abstracts for poster presentation until Friday 16 May! Submit your poster abstract for consideration now 🧪: www.eventsforce.net/biochemsoc/2...

Are you a postdoctoral researcher? Don't miss the application deadline for BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants on 4 June. Funding is available for research projects across all areas of the humanities and social sciences. Apply now: buff.ly/fLXzGVz

Make a difference in how open science is implemented! COS seeks volunteers for the Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) Guidelines Advisory Board. TOP encourages transparency & openness in scientific research, providing a framework for best practices ➡️ Apply by 7/14: www.cos.io/blog/call...

Meet the 2025 @dev-journal.bsky.social Pathway to Independence (PI) fellows Eight developmental and stem cell biologists transitioning from postdoc to principal investigator journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/pi...

Congratulations to Len Stephens who presented the 2026 Morton Lecture yesterday! We are delighted to see so many of our past Morton Lecture winners coming together to celebrate his achievement at the Cellular Signals for Health & Disease meeting 🧪

British scientists are “over the moon” to be back in the EU’s Horizon funding programme after a 3-year Brexit lockout. New data reveals they have been awarded about £500m in grants since re-entry. International isolationism never works well. 🧪🔬⚛️🔭 www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Want to work with us on DNA methylation and rare genetic disease? Fully funded PhD project with deadline 16th May: www.findaphd.com/phds/project... Excited to collaborate with @hannahlong.bsky.social and Daria Bunina (@uoe-igc.bsky.social/@mdc-berlin.bsky.social). Please share 🙏 #epigenetics

📢A new study from @uniofbath.bsky.social shows London's low emissions zones have had major benefits for human health and the economy, with a 10.2% decrease in respiratory issues following LEZ implementation, an **18.5%** reduction in sick leave, and annual public health savings of over £37 million.

I'm co-organising this meeting and hope to see as many fellow RNA and translation enthusiasts in Edinburgh as possible. Earlybird rates until 30th April. Abstract deadline also 30th April. #mRNA #RNA_translation #BiochemicalSociety

Nice to see that my interview (or the first part of it) with Paul Nurse about the state and future of biology has accrued 1.7K views in just a few days. I, for one, found it very illuminating! www.youtube.com/watch?v=57UJ...

Another report on how our high visa costs deter top R&D talent www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Really nice visualisation of a lagged health outcome over decades (in contrast to the delays over days/weeks we typically see for acute infectious diseases like COVID)

New Preprint: We have solved the structure of the proteasome in complex with two different ubiquitin chains: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... This work is spearheaded by PhD Student Sascha Amann Let me walk you through it 🧵 1/9

🔊 Podcast recommendation We have heard a lot about #Vaccines in the last few years, but did you know new clinical research is now testing vaccines against #Cancer? They can be developed to prevent or to treat cancer. Curious? This is a two-parter: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t... (1/2)

If youre still looking for your tribe, here’s a directory of hundreds of starter packs covering all interests and searchable by keyword. Repost and check it out.

Stay tuned to our feed today as we announce our 2026 Award winners, celebrating seventeen excellent bioscientists, educators and technicians working in the life sciences!🧪 #BiochemAwards

🧐 Are you a 🇬🇧 Healthcare Professional treating lung cancer? 🤔 Do you want to learn how clinical research runs, whilst advancing your career? 💥 Be an Associate PI of a trial! 🥳 eVOLVE-Lung02 (I am 🇬🇧 CI) accepted into NIHR Associate PI programme Details here 👇 www.nihr.ac.uk/career-devel...

25 years ago @cancerresearchuk.org helped lay the groundwork for the HPV vaccine. Today we’re supporting global efforts to prevent cervical cancer in countries like India, where they’re needed most. Read about one programme we’re helping fund in today's @theguardian.com 👇