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clarkinbonebiol.bsky.social
Assoc Prof Skeletal & Developmental Biology Director Knowledge Exchange & Enterprise sotonbiosciences.bsky.social CoDirector http://cdfuos.bsky.social https://www.datascienceforhealthequity.com/themes/musculoskeletal-health
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A new Scottish tartan memorializing the (mainly) female victims of the Witchcraft Act has been officially registered, created by Claire Mitchell and Zoe Venditozzi, founders of the Witches of Scotland campaign #WomensArt via Smithsonian Magazine

Construction of an atlas of transcription factor binding during mouse development identifies popular regulatory regions Read this Techniques & Resources Article by @annanordin.bsky.social @gianlucazamba.bsky.social @claudiocantu81.bsky.social & co.: doi.org/10.1242/dev....

Ceramics by Jennifer Zee, clay artist, printmaker and scientific illustrator, aka ginkgozee on Instagram #WomensArt

Love this beautiful Art Nouveau style tenement tile pattern, featuring Scottish Bluebells. It's from a tenement close in the Pollokshields area of Glasgow. #glasgow #architecture #scottishbluebells #tiles #tenementtiles #ceramics #tiling #artnouveau #bluebells

Osteoarthritis is a common disorder in older individuals, and recent work suggests that a parental high-fat diet may increase the severity of post-joint-injury osteoarthritis in offspring. Arin K. Oestreich & coauthors examined maternal-diet impact on different joint tissues in mice: buff.ly/zhGYH8h

This summer we will see the inaugural Summer School for students on the Anatomical Sciences Online Learning programme! This new addition to the anatomy programme will allow online students to join us in Edinburgh for a week of educational, inspirational & fun activities to enhance their learning!

With colleagues Colleen Deane and Jon Swann, we are recruiting a talented candidate for this PhD project on "Identifying and targeting novel metabolites to overcome age-related anabolic resistance in muscle" @uosmedia.bsky.social www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

When universities capitulate to political power, it’s not the beginning of the end of democracy. It is the actual end of democracy.

📣 Exciting opportunity! We're hiring a #postdoctoral fellow in #gutmicrobiome research to explore the activity and function of the gut microbiome in situ and its regulation by the immune system.🦠🔬 Post based at @sotonbiosciences.bsky.social Apply here 👇 jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Catherine Hyde, contemporary UK artist, photographer, writer and award-winning illustrator #WomensArt

German artist Mary Bauermeister, Steinspirale (stone spiral), 2011 #WomensArt

Researchers at the Kennedy Institute @kiroxford.bsky.social led by Adrien Hallou @halloulab.bsky.social have developed a new computational framework that allows simultaneous analysis of gene expression and mechanical forces within cells and tissues. https://www.ndorms.ox.ac.uk/news/hallou-research

We are now on #techtransfer platform #INPART 🥳🎉🥼@unisouthampton.bsky.social See our active opportunities below👇 #Sustainablecrops #drugdiscovery #biofilms #cropprotection #Glycoshape #raredisease #machinelearning #health @fnobrega.bsky.social @elisafadda.bsky.social @lindyholden-dye.bsky.social

POD TIME!!! Recorded WAY back in October, Nick updates us on @GeoffreyBoycott's new car keys, and @stevethechemist.bsky.social goes into the infrared for Herschel's most famous discovery. We also discuss how General Zod was freed by a nuclear bomb. t.co/eqAXZTeuqk

Artwork by contemporary printmaker and artist Lisa Stubbs #WomensArt #SpringEquinox

"The rejection of grant applications or the alteration of the published record on account of the use of terms such as ‘bias’, ‘gender’, ‘ethnicity’ and even ‘female’ is unacceptable. EMBO Press joins other journals in not allowing such changes" 💪🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

Time for #Fortisnet 2025!🥳 Advancing Inclusive MSK Research First Social Factors in MSK from osteoporosis with Sarah Jarvis MBE🦴, then to lower limb conditions in Nepal and Adventures in prosthetics and orthotic design 🦿 #healthequity #inclusiveresearch @cdfuos.bsky.social

A rather beautiful Scots Renaissance style townhouse on the former of Kirklee Road and Redlands Road in the West End of Glasgow. Designed by John A. Campbell, it was built in 1900. #glasgow #architecture #architecturephotography #glasgowbuildings #glasgowwestend

Janis Goodman, contemporary printmaker based in the UK #WomensArt

Why is "the study of #sexdifferences fundamental for #science in order to improve the #health of all humans, male and female"? New BoSD Editorial by #OSSD President, Prof Sofia Ahmed, and Editor-in-Chief, Prof Jill Becker: bsd.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... #sabv #supportscience

Entrance to one of the townhouses on Lancaster Terrace in the west end of Glasgow. Built around 1875, their design has clearly been influenced by Alexander 'Greek' Thomson's nearby Westbourne Terrace (constructed a few years earlier). #glasgow #architecture #doorways #architecturephotography

🚨We are so excited to announce that we are hosting the PSA Women & Politics @psawomenpol.bsky.social 2025 Annual Conference here in 📍Southampton! The conference, Troubled Times: Gender and Politics in the 21st Century, will be held from 📅 17 to 18 June! More details are in the CFP linked below.

Contemorary UK printmaker Sarah Morgan, 'Follow the path' #WomensArt

🎙️New podcast! A Conversation with Dr. Alondra Nelson on AI and Democracy I spoke to @alondra.bsky.social about AI, democracy, DOGE, and how to plan for a different future: techpolicy.press/a-conversati...

Join us for 2 sunny* summer days at CDF (@cdfuos.bsky.social) for Reimagining Democratic Politics in the Contemporary. Deadline for submitting your paper ideas is 4th April. More info on themes at: www.southampton.ac.uk/cdf/news/eve... *sunny weather not guaranteed.

Surly Queen, 2019 by Holly Searle, UK artist who works with textiles #WomensArt

📢 Abstract submissions are open for the 51st International Musculoskeletal Biology Workshop, July 19-24 in Midway, UT. Explore challenges in #musculoskeletal disease and innovative solutions. Award deadline: April 30 | Final deadline: June 30 Learn more: www.ors.org/msk-2025/

'Les courants (the currents)' series by Montreal artist Dominique Fortin #WomensArt

Why medical research should care about gender as well as sex, yet another example: www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Welcome to womensartbluesky! Thank you for following ❤️ Art by Keiko Minami.

We are at a creative schools event today with @sotonbiosciences.bsky.social @clarkinbonebiol.bsky.social exploring bones and some amazing microscopic images to decorate! @artcareuk.bsky.social

A few spaces still remaining for #FortisNet 2025 Advancing Inclusive MSK health 🦶🦵🦴🏃 Registration details below 👇 Packed programme of brilliant speakers and pilot funding available on the day to kickstart new partnerships and ideas 2🤩 Join us! #healthequity

Like morphometrics, micro-CT scanning, and morphological evolution? Then please consider applying for our 18 month postdoc position at the university of Southampton! Details here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMF402/r...

Thrilled to see this piece with Douglas Page & Sam Whitt) published in PRQ! We examine how LGBT+ activists can counter backlash by discrediting anti-LGBT+ messengers. Huge thanks to the PRQ editors and reviewers for their thoughtful feedback. 🔗 Read it here: 🧵 (1/4)

Less than a week to go before our first event! Details below:

The U.S. Department of Defense is ending all of its funding for social science research, stopping 91 ongoing studies related to threats such as climate change, extremism, and disinformation. scim.ag/4hqu6HA

Today's only colour was in the sea #Shetland

Pittenweem, completed & sold today.🎨🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🔴☺️

You can still register for today's @nihr.bsky.social Sex & Gender in Medical Research launch event. It's a landmark that NIHR is adopting MESSAGE recommendations, and on IWD! I will be speaking about the project, alongside @ccriadoperez.bsky.social & Dame Lesley Regan. web.cvent.com/event/c9ea86...

Fascinating @nihr.bsky.social sex & gender research policy launch. Honoured to share our work @messagetgi.bsky.social & how we continue to collaborate with research funders. Dame Lesley Regan shared a slide which says a lot: close the gender health gap in the UK to save £36 bn/yr by 2040

Exciting! And a new home for our Primary Care Research Centre @whpartners.bsky.social @uosmedia.bsky.social

Good coverage from yesterdays @standupforscience.bsky.social Philly March. Thanks @inquirer.com - from the back I couldn’t see the speakers.

@standupforscience.bsky.social in Jefferson City MO 🧪👩🏻‍🔬🥼🔬 www.stlpr.org/government-p...

At @standupforscience.bsky.social and the signs are statistically significantly excellent

To mark #InternationalWomensDay tomorrow, the #NatureReviews Collection on women's health has been updated. Click below to read articles on various aspects of women's health, including brand new Reviews from @natrevcardiol.bsky.social and @natrevgastrohep.bsky.social go.nature.com/30kDWG3

SO MANY STAND UP FOR SCIENCE EVENTS TO CHOOSE FROM—153 and COUNTING! To get more information on our local events and to register your own, head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ ☀️⬇️🌎

#Womensart .. thank you for following! ❤️ Have a great Friday xx

'Smile' by contemporary Glasgow based printmaker Fiona Watson #WomensArt

The time of day to exercise differentially impacts bone growth Engaging in physical activity during the early active phase, as opposed to the subsequent active or rest phase, results in a more substantial increase in bone length of male and female mice. www.nature.com/articles/s42...