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doctorconnor.bsky.social
Post-doc in the Taipale Lab. Everything transcription factors. He/him. Views me own.
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The best bit about changing institutions is not being able to copy your backup by plugging it into the computer for "security reasons", so you instead transfer it 4 times through two servers 🤷‍♂️

🚨The Taipale lab are hiring in our new home at the @sangerinstitute.bsky.social 🚨 We're looking for senior postdocs, postdocs and a tech specialist. Check out the jobs ads here and please share! 👇 shorturl.at/cZcEP shorturl.at/Edupy shorturl.at/R0ToY shorturl.at/KdVky

To think from not being able to run to the end of the street, I can now run 20 km non-stop! Marathon training is well and truly on! I’m running for Alzheimer’s Research UK - please check out my fundraising page at www.justgiving.com/page/connor-...

We are #hiring a postdoc to study the epigenetic imprinting of cell fate during adipogenesis. Cool interdisciplinary project to analyze ChIP-seq, ATAC-seq, Hi-C, and CAGE. The postdoc will be co-supervised by @chymkowitchlab.bsky.social and me. Spread the word! www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

The Taipale lab is hiring in its new home at the @sangerinstitute.bsky.social! We have FOUR job ads out ranging from Senior Postdoc to Technical Specialist. Check out the job ads here and let me know if you have any questions about the roles! sanger.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/WellcomeSang...

Universities: “It’s important for us to maintain data and databases for the research community” Also universities: “We’ve scheduled your data for deletion unless you pay us £10,000 by midnight tonight”

We have a #PhD available! I'm really excited about this project, looking at whether and how differences in the #IDRs of paralogous epigenetic enzymes CBP and p300 cause them to behave differently. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

One surprising thing about my 30s is food hangovers

The joys of entering serial numbers into a spreadsheet for the lab move 🫠

How do parent scientists do it? Seems like it’s Sod’s Law. Every time a big experiment is put into motion, daughter gets sick. This time it’s hand, foot, and mouth 🙃

The best advice I could give to any postdoc is to join a union. They’ve saved my arse twice now, and it’s looking like a third.

Postdoctoral Fellow in Cancer Epigenomics #ScienceJobs #AcademicSky jobrxiv.org/job/lupi...

Tagmentation finishes just as I’m due to teach supervisions. I hope students don’t mind watching me load a 10x chip while we discuss transcription 🤓

We have a BBSRC funded 3-year postdoc position on the role of human-specific TEs in human neurodevelopment! If you are interested please apply by Oct 19. The project will involve iPSC/organoids/scRNA-seq/CRISPR and more! www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/descrip... Please share!