Delighted that Ziqi Dong's PhD paper is out for all to read! Hypoxia is fundamental to normal development, and fascinating! Thanks to all of our co-authors including @jamesnathanlab.bsky.social @jellevda.bsky.social authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

This is where the empty headed Flag shagging leads. Race hate.

A Drosophila single-cell 3D spatiotemporal multi-omics atlas unveils panoramic key regulators of cell-type differentiation: Cell 1/2 www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...

How 🆒 is this?!? www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...

That's not what we should be hearing. There is virtually no low-quality research that gets discussed at funding panels, or gets anywhere near being funded. The problem is that not enough high-quality research is funded.

I gave in! After students asking for it, I now made a simple figure design checklist. To help all scientists w/o graphic skills create clear, accessible, and truthful charts! -> Out in @nature Cell Biology: rdcu.be/erwl4 #DataVisualization #PhD #SciComm Thx for review @bethcimini.bsky.social + 2

Postdoc post in my lab from Autumn this year @lsiexeter.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk #Chromatin #StemCells #Enhancer #NeuralCrest #Transcription #CellFate #NuRDIsTheWord Apply and/or get in touch!

✨️ Come join my lab! ✨️ I have an ARUK funded post doc position available for a talented ECR to work with Drosophila and human iPSC derived neurons. krb-sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear...

New paper from my group is out. We demonstrate that cranial neural crest (CNCC) induction requires the transcription factor SALL4 to physically recruit the BAF chromatin remodeller at CNCC-induction enhancers as early as at the neuroectodermal stage: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Looking for a Postdoc? A PDRA position is available in the LSI Exeter with Prof Brian Hendrich from September 2025. Do you have experience in mammalian stem cell culture and a solid understanding of molecular & biochemical lab techniques? Apply! Job Ref: Q05546 jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...

No question, we need to keep FlyBase alive in the present to ensure there's a future.

European Fly PIs: please respond to the email we sent out yesterday and help save FlyBase!

We are recruiting!! Exciting opportunity to join our team as a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Dept. of Life Sciences at Imperial College as part of the amazing Preventing Plastic Pollution Engineering Biology Hub (P3EB). More information and how to apply here: www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

UK universities are in the top 3 in global reputation. But they are losing money, cutting programmes, and laying off staff. International students are the safety net—and it’s being pulled away.

Excited to introduce evoCAST: a platform for efficient, programmable gene integration in human cells. This work, a close collab between my PhD lab (Liu group) and @sternberglab.bsky.social, has been such a fun journey to help lead. Huge thanks to all contributors! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Am I a stranger now? Many have asked ourselves this in the past 24 hours, not only because of where we are from, but because of what the UK is becoming. You don't defeat Faragism by validating its anti-immigrant rhetoric. Solidarity with the UK's migrants! www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

This is insane. Labour is making the very same mistake the Tories made but in a more catastrophic way. A left-leaning party adopting an ultra-right fascist agenda: what could go wrong?

Finally! (remember the famous 2022 ASCB poster and Twitter discussion) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Opportunity alert! It's also not in the USA.

New lab paper out! 😀 We describe a new benchtop technique to isolate microRNAs from various cell types in a complex tissue (like the developing CNS). This is a fruitful collab with the Cremer lab from @ibdm.bsky.social journals.plos.org/plosgenetics... 1/n 🧵

New paper/gene drive from the lab! Dropped by NComms on Friday evening on World Malaria Day of all times - without a word of warning…. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New preprint! We have discovered that the splicing factor Sex lethal (Sxl - well known for its role in sex determination) binds to chromatin and regulates tRNA synthesis in neurons by interacting with RNA Pol III! Highlighting Sxl as a novel modulator of neuronal homeostasis. tinyurl.com/s44s2z95

Despite there being mounting evidence of Brexit being a monumental exercise only in self-harm… We continue down this ridiculous road because politicians are too scared to re-open the debate.

New preprint from my group! Here we studied the contribution of a subset of human- and hominoid-specific transposons (SVA, LTR5HS) to the evolution of human craniofacial development. We specifically focussed on cranial neural crest (CNCC) formation and migration 1/n www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Funded PhD Studentship available in my lab at @lsiexeter.bsky.social. Want to study how chromatin remodellers act on enhancers to facilitate cell fate decisions in human pluripotent cells? Want to work and live in a lively city by the sea? Get in touch/Apply! lsi.exeter.ac.uk/groups/hendr...

I am recruiting for a postdoc in my lab at @blizardinstitute.bsky.social @qmulepigenetics.bsky.social to work on explainable AI/ML and epigenetics with a focus on enhancers. 3-year BBSRC funded position. A collaboration with @a-radzisheuskaya.bsky.social qmul-jobs.tal.net/vx/mobile-0/.... Pls share.

Sorry to disturb your morning, but here’s another reason to despair. So easy to fix by taxing the rich, but the government is in thrall to big business and in perpetual fear of the Daily Mail.

Systemic mRNA-LNP delivery beyond the liver? Check out our recent paper demonstrating cell-specific mRNA-LNP delivery using PEG- and target cell-specific antibodies. This approach can customised to any target cell-type with off-the-shelf mRNA-LNPs. 1/ sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

And the thing is, it's not even surprising. Terrifying how quickly America has ceased to be a functioning democracy. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Excited to share our latest work, just out in #GENETICS. We show that neuronal & glial GAL4 driver activity changes dramatically over adult life, raising key questions for aging & neurodegeneration research. academic.oup.com/genetics/art...

We're in London today with a big old bus to tell our Govt this country cannot afford cuts. Instead they should tax us, the super rich. A 2% wealth tax alone could raise up to £460mln a week. @Keir_starmer - invest in a fairer economy. Patriotic Millionaires say Tax Our Wealth

#mRNA meets Tardigrades! Delivery of an mRNA encoding a protein from the famously tough animal can protect healthy tissue from damaging radiation. Very creative! #RNAsky www.nature.com/articles/s41...

‼️🔬 I am looking for a PhD student to investigate the molecular signatures of memory engrams in Drosophila. 🎓 Fully funded 4-year PhD position (BBSRC NEEDL) 📍 Durham University, UK More details and instructions to apply: tinyurl.com/durhamPhD #Drosophila #Neuroskyence #Neuroscience #Memory

Look at this crazy thing

Scrap austerity – tax the super-rich instead. Britain can’t rebuild with more cuts – a wealth tax on the richest is the fair alternative to funding public services and growth.

New paper from our lab is out! We investigated the function of the NuRD subunit CHD3 in cranial neural crest specification. CHD3 variants are the cause of Snijder-Block-Campeau Syndrome, which manifests with craniofacial anomalies and intellectual disability 1/n

Sooo… Looks like this is happening tonight. That counter is going to tick over 100,000 🔥 Keep signing —> petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

Signed. With my name public.

Our latest... Congrats to Seb Sorge, Victor Girard & coauthors for devising HolFast, a chemically defined (holidic) diet for #Drosophila development that performs almost as well as a yeast diet. If you study developmental #nutrition or #metabolism please try it out... www.cell.com/developmenta...

Interested in undertaking a PhD in the transformative field #mRNA cancer vaccines? I have an earmarked #PhD scholarship available for an outstanding domestic student to join our team at UQ and @basemrna.bsky.social. If this sounds like you, get in touch. study.uq.edu.au/study-option...

"These include 14 of the 20 amino acids that life on Earth uses to build proteins and all four of the ring-shaped molecules that make up DNA - adenine, guanine, cytosine and thymine." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

When a single billionaire can accumulate more money in 10 seconds than their employees make in one year, while workers struggle to meet the basic cost of rent and medicine, then yes, every billionaire really is a policy failure. Read our op-ed here ⤵️

Golden puddles!

5 years on from Brexit. Just a few of the consequences. Whichever country you live in, spend some time and money campaigning for truth in your politics and public life and communities.

Company established by Musk in the UK 3 weeks ago on December 12th!! Why we wonder!! Pull your finger out @uklabourparty.bsky.social, grow some balls and stop even more "corruption" destroying what's left of our democracy Right now you have a majority the likes of which you might never see again

Why can a human tolerate a drug that globally inhibits transcription? Why do transcription inhibitors not cure cancer? Our first paper of 2025 may help explain (some) of this! So incredibly proud of @tobiaswilliams.bsky.social & Ewa Michalak who led the work! www.cell.com/molecular-ce...

🎓 Looking for a new PhD student to investigate the neuronal and molecular basis of learning and memory in #Drosophila! This is a competitive, but fully funded position. More info here: tinyurl.com/drosobrain 🧠 🪰 Deadline: 8th January 2025 #Neuroskyence #Memory #Neuroscience #Dopamine

Building a capacity for making Turing patterns into bacteria. This is very cool. www.cell.com/cell-systems...

This is pretty wild! Efficient non-viral genome editing of immune cells using circular single-stranded DNA. #science #hemesky 🩸🔬 www.nature.com/articles/s41...