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The MIMIC lab is hiring a Postdoctoral Research Associate to join my team at @Cambridge_Uni! Exploration and engineering DNA-mimicking proteins (wet-lab position.) 🧬 Details: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50652/ Please get in touch / circulate !

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We are hiring! A postdoc position is available in the lab studying gene expression dynamics in Drosophila embryos, as part of a larger research effort in collaboration with @mrattray.bsky.social 🧬🔬🪰 Full details are in the ad: www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

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Two notable deaths reported today from prostate cancer - Alex Wheatle and Eddie Jordan. Lads over 50, get yourselves tested - it’s just a quick blood test these days, nothing embarrassing! www.nhs.uk/conditions/p...

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I've said it before and I'll say it again: Trump's foreign policy is a recipe for nuclear proliferation the likes of which we've never seen

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Postdoc opportunity in UK, Wellcome funded, 3 years, to investigate neurogenetics underlying how the brain changes throught life: plasticity vs degeneration. Drosophila, imaging, behaviour. Candidates of all nationalities welcome. Application deadline 19 March. Pls repost. #Drosophila #postdoc #job

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We have a new Associate/Assistant Professorship in computational biology joint with Department of Applied Maths and Theoretical Physics. www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50414/

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Very excited to be setting up my lab @biology.ox.ac.uk and looking forward to growing the team in the coming years!

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Post-doc opportunity in neurogenetics. Wellcome funded, to investigate molecular switch between brain plasticity and degeneration. In beautiful University of Birmingham campus, lively city, UK. Drosophila, behaviour, imaging. International lab. Application deadline 19 March. #Drosophila #post-doc

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Asking our members what they ✨LOVE✨ about genetics this Valentine's Day!

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Fiona and me, 40 years ago today - they said it would never last!

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Johnson told a dozen lies a day while in office, many of them absolute whoppers, and got a free pass from the media. Zero interest or scrutiny. Rachel Reeves makes an error on her linked in page and it's a BBC headline.

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Churchill College will appoint up to 16 Postdoc By-Fellows from Cambridge University & associated research institutes, up to 3yrs from 1st Oct 2025. Non-stipendiary, but offer dining rights, access to facilities, participation in academic & social life of the College. A great opportunity.

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Now almost 450 signatories to my open letter calling on the @royalsociety.org to stand up for its values & deal with the widespread concerns raised by Elon Musk's Fellowship. Please consider signing & sharing: forms.gle/miDciq35oxyw... List of signatories here: occamstypewriter.org/scurry/2025/...

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OK folks, I have now created a google form that allows people to sign to show their support for my open letter to the President of the Royal Society. Please sign and share widely: forms.gle/miDciq35oxyw...

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WIN! - A Dinked Edition Copy of 'End of the Middle' by Richard Dawson We're going big for our first Bluesky competition! Simply like and share this post, and give us a follow to be entered. @dominorecordco.bsky.social @dinkededition.bsky.social www.normanrecords.com/records/2061...

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I am recruiting an #ERC funded PostDoc to work on the evolution of vertebral counts in cichlids. This is an experimental project & will be looking for candidates with experience generating reporter lines, live-imaging and experimental embryology. Application deadline: 25th Feb. tinyurl.com/33jbu8fa

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🚨Let’s protect democracy by tightening the rules on political donations. Please sign this petition petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

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By all means, let’s “mainline” this technology into the UK economy. Unplanned chaotic degrowth is a tremendous remedy for everything.

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There is still time to apply to this PhD opportunity funded BBSRC NWD PhD. Come join us at @livuni-ismib.bsky.social to study novel roles of Tau and Ribonucleoprotein (RNP) granules in neuronal ageing in Drosophila. Deadline: 31/1/2025. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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If you actually care about decency then please cancel your Spotify subscription.

submitted 75 days ago • 9 comments

our newest preprint! Led by Zoe Grant in my lab and Shuzen Kuang in Katie Pollard's lab here at Gladstone. "Dose-dependent sensitivity of human 3D chromatin to a heart disease-linked transcription factor" 1/n www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Tusks not Musks

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📢 Apply now! We are recruiting an Associate Professor / Professor of Evolutionary Genomics to join our innovative research community! Find out more about the position and apply: https://buff.ly/4gIRTDf

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3 weeks left to apply for these exciting opportunities in Cambridge. www.bio.cam.ac.uk/news/school-...

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Saddened to learn of the sudden passing of Drosophila genetics giant and overall wonderful human Sergio Pimpinelli on December 28, 2024. His legacy lives on through his extensive work on heterochromatin and the countless students he trained at Sapienza University of Rome.

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PLOS to move away from APC model. PLOS moves designed to make publishing equitable. plos.org/redefining-p... #ScientificPublishing #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter

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Fiona and I had dinner at the Fat Duck last night. Gobsmakingly tasty food 😎

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Maybe because middle class women of a certain age are in a position to call out this shit without fear of losing a salary they need. And can do it on behalf of young women starting out in their careers who are just as sick of this shit but can’t say anything because they need to earn a living.

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The School of Biological Sciences in Cambridge is recruiting an Associate Professor or G11 Professor in Evolutionary Genomics www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49389/. The post builds on our successful cross-department research theme in Functional and Evolutionary Genomics (www.bio.cam.ac.uk/research/fun...).

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The Department of Genetics has opportunities to support early career researchers looking to apply for independent fellowships. www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49356/

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Good job DORA. sfdora.org/2024/11/25/c...

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I am quite excited about this appointment! www.cam.ac.uk/research/new...

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Experience Postgrad Life Sciences- paid 8-week internships for undergrads in their penultimate year at a UK/Irish university. For talented students who might not otherwise feel they can easily access summer research opportunities. @blackinneuro.bsky.social www.exppg.lifesci.cam.ac.uk

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Microbiome FacultyJob at UC Davis in the Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology (one of the departments where I reside ...) See recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF06847

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"Unlike most of my scientific colleagues, I was not academically brilliant. I never won scholarships and would probably not have been able to attend Cambridge University if my parents had not been fairly rich" - Frederick Sanger

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