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A friendly reminder that we have a YouTube channel on which we upload, when we have the #speaker's permission to do so, recordings of the #talks given by invited, external #experts in the #Cell & #Developmental #Biology field. It's here: www.youtube.com/@uclcellandd... @ucllifesciences.bsky.social

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I wrote a short piece on how becoming an IgA Nephropathy patient has changed my perspective on biomedical research, developing an appreciation for the challenges in data interpretability & availability and the importance of patient engagement www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Fantastic upcoming 2-day workshop on digital twins for cancer care at Oxford's Isaac Newton Institute, September 18-19 this year. This workshop will have a fantastic set of experts, and I'll also give a keynote talk on our cancer immunology work. 🧪 1/8 Apply at: www.newton.ac.uk/event/ooew07/

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Interesting piece from @stephenkb.bsky.social on democracy and nationhood in the absence of shared culture and understanding of the world: www.ft.com/content/c5b8...

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Applications for the Rhodes Scholarship 2026 are now open! The Rhodes Scholarship is a fully-funded postgraduate award which enables talented young people from around the world to study full-time at @ox.ac.uk Find out more: www.rhodeshouse.ox.ac.uk/scholarships... @rhodeshouse.ox.ac.uk

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Good morning, all. Science keeps making excellent progress. Check the curated summary of papers in #cancermetabolism and #mitochondrialbiology here: biomed.news/bims-camemi/... @biomednews.bsky.social #keepreading The boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to our freedom. Tara Brach

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Derepressing nuclear pyruvate dehydrogenase induces therapeutic cancer cell reprogramming: Cell Metabolism www.cell.com/cell-metabol...

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This comes from engagement work with teenage girls in a park in York. And you see all those things with two dots by them. Those make up 90%+ of what we currently provide for young people in public space. Whereas the things that girls want - they just aren't there. Let's do better.

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Delighted to share our newest publication on Coiled-Coil PPI modulators with The Woolfson and Itkhaki Labs in ACS Chem. Biol. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

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I wrote a review of a recent paper on false discovery and multiple testing correction. liorpachter.wordpress.com/2025/06/16/r...

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Interested in a postdoc position combining computational protein design and molecular simulation? There is an open position in my group at the MRC-LMB in Cambridge, UK. www.nature.com/naturecareer... Feel free to message me with any questions.

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(TPCPA), a proteomic resource that provides proteome-scale quantifications of 999 tumors across 22 cancer types in a unified manner, for discovering tumor biology, biomarkers, and therapeutic targets. www.cell.com/cancer-cell...

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God bless paper reviewers who suggest others when they decline

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Reading The Tiger Who Came to Tea. The boy delivering groceries on his bike would have been an anachronism for most of the life of the book. Now not so much. Tells us something about British society and its evolution, but not quite sure what.

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URGENT: FlyBase has lost practically all its funding overnight; even user fees are tied up in denied grant funding. 🤬🤯 Any lab using @flybase.bsky.social please donate using the link in post below. This incredible community, on whose backs our #Drosophila labs depend, can't be left out to dry.

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This piece by @stephenkb.bsky.social chimes with Jean Yang’s post on AI coding, and how the vital ingredient remains the knowledge of the human in the loop. Both highly recommended www.linkedin.com/posts/jean-y...

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A thing I notice: “vibe coding” tends to mean something substantially different with devs vs non-devs saying it. Non-dev saying they “vibe code:” they use prompts only. Dev saying they “vibe code:” oftentimes it’s “the AI wrote most of my code.” Big difference!

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If I claim I can predict when you will die, you will laugh at me If I claim I can measure your "true biological age", perhaps you won't Being able to recognize that the latter is just the former is useful, especially for guiding how to evaluate the claim. Measures of association aren't sufficient

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London leading Europe, and not a long way off Boston, for top neuroscience in the new research.com league tables. And UCL has the world's top cited neuroscientist, Karl Friston. A good news story that the British government will be sure to be proud of.

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Excited to announce that thanks to securing a UKRI FLF follow-on award (mitchell.science/talk/566k-fo...) ✨We are hiring✨ 3-year systems biology (wet/dry) postdoc, to pioneer new approaches to personalised medicine. Learn more + apply (before 29 June): mitchell.science/talk/recruit... Plz share

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ICYMI: New online! Functional synonymous mutations and their evolutionary consequences

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'Whereas computer vision and language modelling rely on widely accepted ‘gold standard’ datasets, biomedicine often depends on proprietary data, institution-specific preprocessing, and heterogeneous evaluation criteria. As a result, performance claims risk being tethered to narrow context (...)'

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Little demonstration of Brownian motion : a larger and heavier tracer particle moves through a fluid. At about halfway, the smaller particles are faded out, leaving only the tracer particle visible.

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If your test for ground-breaking discoveries can’t detect the discovery of RNAi, or of CRISPR-Cas9, or the cryoEM resolution revolution or Alphafold2, maybe it’s not a very good test. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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@juliansimpson.bsky.social very excited for Crowley and mythos 4! I updated my pledge for high resolution m4 but I missed the announcement that HRes was only available as an extra. Maybe I missed an update but did you tell backers? Might be others too

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Happy to share details of this meeting and the exciting line-up of speakers. Hope to see you there. Please re-post www.crick.ac.uk/whats-on/5th...

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I can't overstate how scary this is. If the state did this to pretty much any UK university, it would go bankrupt

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Learn computational approaches to leverage biological networks for solving #biomedical disease challenges, at #ComputationalBiology25 course. 🗓️ Course dates: 7-12 December 2025 💸 Bursary support available Apply by 25 August 📩 📎 Find out more about sessions and instructors: bit.ly/4knNAi6

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