I appear to be in Thessaloniki

@mjafreeman.bsky.social can we invite him to Oxford to give a seminar?

On a flight, listening to an old episode of Desert Island Discs - Arsene Wenger. He’s quite a man, a good man - really impressive. Highly recommend.

The Wellcome Trust has awarded a prestigious Discovery Award to Professor Matt Higgins to support his research on “Molecular mechanisms of erythrocyte invasion in malaria”. 👏👏👏 Read the full story: ⬇️

53 minutes in and Liverpool have had more shots on target than any other side against Real Madrid this season (7)

Real Madrid wear Connor Bradley PJ’s

Liverpool restricted Real Madrid to just 0.45 xG tonight. That's the lowest figure Madrid have registered in any game in over a year (0.47 vs Villarreal Oct 2024). #LIVRMA #UCL

Two papers accepted and Liverpool beat Real Madrid - am I dreaming? This week is delivering

Welcome to Anfield

In a pub in Jericho, Oxford, watching football - the amount of mansplaining is mind boggling. Running commentary by chaps who are clearly football tactics geniuses and are wasted in academia. FFS

A trip away has kept me away from socials, but @scienceofthetimes.bsky.social continues. Latest episode is out! Quantum computing. What is it? How does it work? Will you have quantum laptop soon? All the answers you could ever want www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPTy... @sykhalid.bsky.social

Really interesting interview. @timcoulson.bsky.social and I were also fortunate to chat with David Baker on our podcast which you can catch here: Science Of The Times EP7 Pt2 - Interview with 2024 Nobel Prize winner for Chemistry David Baker youtu.be/jShxgJ3XrWA

Thrilled with this find at @oxfamgb.bsky.social bookshop on St Giles, Oxford. The complete scripts.

My sister has come up some cracking #vintage #knitwear designs recently as part of her sustainable knitwear initiative. This is my fav- love the mirrors. Check out on Etsy: www.etsy.com/uk/shop/Grac...

Quantum computers - what are they and how will they change things? Have a listen/watch here: @timcoulson.bsky.social and I chat with Ian Walmsley, newly appointed director of the Oxford Quantum Institute: The Science and Promise of Quantum Computing youtu.be/sPTyvBKJruU

Over-reliance on social media is seriously irritating. Social media is great for many things, but it cannot surely replace written articles, and seriously constructed text? Seeing a highly irritating trend among folk to want to disseminate everything through social media. Yes, I know I’m grumpy

Precious pre-breakfast coffee & papers at St Anne’s. The term time ritual..

I’ve been focussing mostly on women’s cricket this weekend #justsaying

The new Life and Mind building is pretty swanky. @biology.ox.ac.uk Just awaiting arrivals of first year undergrads. Let’s see what they make of computational biochemistry

The Heatley lecture at @dunnschool.bsky.social was given by Prof Bonnie Basslet from Princeton on quorum sensing in bacteria but actually also across kingdoms. Truly inspirational. I find it mind boggling how much stuff bacteria chuck out & the sheer complexity of their inter & inter species comms 😳

What’s it like to be bat? How do bats see the world? Science of the Time Ep 28 How do Bats see the world youtu.be/0NCDzKVEV6w

Congratulations Omar Yaghi on your Nobel prize in Chemistry!! Delighted we called it on @scienceofthetimes.bsky.social 😉 Joking aside, thrilled to hear this news. @timcoulson.bsky.social

Really fun visit to @cssbhamburg.bsky.social in Hamburg as a scientific advisory board member. It’s not over yet tho’ - more work for the board tomorrow.

Our beautiful city 😍 📷 Instagram | Juncao_Oxford

Just about to officially notify applicants of the outcome of the latest HECBiosim funding round for High Performance Computing time on national and regional facilities. We were the first consortium to recognise the need to match applications with the appropriate computing resources.

May as well hand Arsenal the league right now. @mjafreeman.bsky.social

Omar Yaghi - inspirational academic and a brilliant chemist - tells us about the vision that led to the development of metal organic frameworks: MOFS Science of the Times Ep 27 Lego chemistry youtu.be/2tGPleb8DiY

Konate has had as dire start to the season.

The weather in Hamburg is as bad as in Oxford today. Grim.

Latest podcast episode just dropped! @timcoulson.bsky.social & I interviewed world-leading chemist, Omar Yaghi. Omar pioneered the development of metal organic frameworks (MOFs) and tell us about his remarkable journey as a scientist. scienceofthetimes.transistor.fm/episodes/pla...

Between the conception And the creation Between the emotion And the response Falls the Shadow. Damn, T S Eliot had the grant writing/submission/review process all worked out.

Come join us in Oxford! Two positions open right now in @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social It’s a great place to work. Really supportive colleagues, great students, colleges provide a unique social environment - in summary, it’s a lot of fun.

Another exciting opportunity @dunnschool.bsky.social ! Come and be a colleague to a great group of scientists working on the fundamental mechanisms underlying disease, and how to transform health Please help us find great applicants

Really proud of my sister’s sustainable knitwear business. She’s making some bold statement pieces! www.etsy.com/uk/shop/Grac...

If you're attending the Materials and Molecular Modelling Hub #MMMHub conference this week, go listen to Jordan Dorrell: "Sensible Asymmetric Units for Crystal Exploration". These are new methods in crystal structure prediction aimed at better efficiency for complex structures. #compchemSky #ChemSky

Coming home in the rain, under a grey sky, to sit beside a comforting fire, to moan about weather, work, the government, the youth of today, picking up the paper to moan about that too, while knowing that I wouldn’t choose to live anywhere else. That’s what makes me feel English. Not waving a flag

Double celebration on our floor @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social with @guifengwei.bsky.social from the Brockdorff lab and Dounia and Sherry from Fisher lab having their papers published today! And I hear there is more to come... www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Really cool talk by @nmriley.bsky.social on glyco mass spec just now at the @cecamevents.bsky.social meeting on glycans in Cagliari. Check out his group’s cool work here: www.riley-research.com/research

Assistant Prof post in bacterial genomics @unibirmingham.bsky.social Come and join us!! @imibirmingham.bsky.social www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOO184/a...

Bit under the weather today, so stayed at home to write a paper…..instead I’ve made an image of a Lego bacterial outer membrane.

Yes it’s the end of the working day & I’m tired-grumpy - but people’s manners have really taken a nose dive. On a bus, one young man has his iPad on so loudly we can all hear the movie he’s watching, the young lady two seats in front has her booted feet up on the seat next to the one she is sat on 😡

Had a delightful couple of hours at the @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social this afternoon. Always blows my mind that it’s free & on my doorstep. Highly recommend to all with a love of art & history.

Bonkers that Curtis Jones was left out of the England squad; utterly mind-boggling. #YNWA

YNWA 💪🏾

Join us in Thessaloniki, Greece from November 9-13, 2025, for the thematic meeting "Understanding Peripheral Membrane-Protein Interactions: Structure, Dynamics, Function and Therapy"

@timcoulson.bsky.social & I talk to RayPierrehumbert about his work on #exoplanets. Have a listen/watch here: Science Of The Times Ep 23 - Planet Hunters: Secrets of the Exoplanet Boom youtu.be/oqcxlO5Lc_A

@astrobiology.bsky.social check out our podcast episode in which Ray Pierrehumbert tells us about his work on exoplanets: Science Of The Times Ep 23 - Planet Hunters: Secrets of the Exoplanet Boom youtu.be/oqcxlO5Lc_A

#CampyUK register by 7th Sept to secure you place! 📆 24-25th Sept, Oxford UK 👉 campyuk.web.ox.ac.uk @microbiologysociety.org @biology.ox.ac.uk @ineosoxford.bsky.social