Mark Dunning

Union condemns continued docking of staff pay following strike action at University of Sheffield The University and College Union (UCU) has today condemned the lockout and withholding of staff pay at the University of Sheffield following lawful industrial action

The University of Sheffield has stopped paying staff.

Not for striking but for refusing to work unpaid to make up for strike days they were already docked for.

This is punishment, not negotiation. And it’s completely reckless.

www.ucu.org.uk/article/1438...

View from the hotel room

Poster session 2024, with Valentina Boeva, Constantin Ahlmann-Eltze and others

Wednesday afternoon hike incl. swim in the mountain river

Another view from the hotel room

Apply for the Ascona workshop "Statistical and AI methods for multi-modal multi-scale modeling of biological systems", 28 Jun-3 Jul 2026 on Monte Verità, Lago Maggiore at the foot of the Swiss Alps.

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Little over a month left to submit an abstract to #EuroBioC2026 (eurobioc2026.bioconductor.org/pages/submis...), which will be held in Turku, Finland.

Here are a couple of Finnish Christmas traditions that you might not know:

Please repost - Multiple PhDs available

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MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Understanding the membrane recruitment of oncogenic KRAS in pancreatic cancer at University of Sheffield on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Understanding the membrane recruitment of oncogenic KRAS in pancreatic cancer at University of Sheffield, listed on FindAPhD.com

📢 Fully-funded 4-year MRC DiMeN PhD opportunity in our lab.

🔬 Exciting cancer cell biology collab with @maiblab.bsky.social & Liz Smythe @mcb-sheffield.bsky.social to use recombinant biosensors to image active KRAS in #pancreaticcancer

👇Apply by 4th Dec

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I have a new website

mdbioinformatics.com

I’ll be putting various training materials on here - new and old

(created with quarto in RStudio)

More threats to jobs, no long term vision. Vote YES to industrial action At this point last year, the Vice-Chancellor was claiming that UEB’s approach to reducing staff expenditure over two academic years would allow the University to return to a surplus position by the 20...

Earlier today, staff in five additional work areas were told they face targeted Voluntary Severence. This decision, and the meagre justifications that UEB are offering, show a complete lack of leadership or financial strategy.

ucu.group.shef.ac.uk/weekly-updat...

New podcast episode has just dropped on Spotify!
Listen to Dr Lewis Quayle and Ronak Naeemaee from Sheffield Hallam uncovering the power of open data👇

discussinghttps://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/shu-library-research-supp/episodes/Unlock-the-power-of-open-data-and-teach-open-research-e3663qq

Research Associate - SITraN at University of Sheffield Apply for the Research Associate - SITraN role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.

Just over a week until our postdoc recruitment closes. If you want to use big datasets and computational methods to understand how the genome works and how that goes wrong in disease, apply!
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNR261/r...

📢 We are looking for a PhD student to join us in April 2026! If you are interested in breast cancer pathology, epidemiology, and single-cell spatial data analysis, please apply.
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51872/

Sheffield Pancreatic Cancer Research Network Meet the Team

I am excited to share our new Sheffield Pancreatic Cancer Research Network website! Please check it out at... sites.google.com/sheffield.ac... @fohsheffield.bsky.social @mcb-sheffield.bsky.social

Screenshot showing the EuroBioC2025 abstract submission deadline as April 24, 2025, and key conference dates for the Bioconductor community event in Barcelona, Spain.

⏳ Time’s running out! Submit your abstract for #EuroBioC2025 by 24 April.
Join us this Sept in Barcelona to share your research, meet the #Bioconductor community & explore all things #Bioinformatics + #RStats.

👉 eurobioc2025.bioconductor.org/pages/submis...

Towards multimodal foundation models in molecular cell biology - Nature The development of multimodal foundation models, pretrained on diverse omics datasets, to unravel the intricate complexities of molecular cell biology is envisioned.

This is important!
@caldaslab.bsky.social takes note.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Bioconductor - Bioconductor 3.21 Released The Bioconductor project aims to develop and share open source software for precise and repeatable analysis of biological data. We foster an inclusive and collaborative community of developers and…

Bioconductor 3.21 released with 72 new software packages, for a total of 2341 software packages, 432 experiment data packages, 928 annotation packages, 30 workflows and 5 books bioconductor.org/news/bioc_3_... 🧬🖥️🧪 #Rstats

Metabolites are not genes — avoiding the misuse of pathway analysis in metabolomics - Nature Metabolism Pathway analysis, originally developed for gene expression data, has been adapted for metabolomics. However, owing to the unique characteristics and constraints of metabolites compared with genes, pat...

www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Excited to share our latest work on monitoring response to treatment using ctDNA and shallow WGS using a Bayesian Model developed by Solon Karapanagiotis with @Carloscaldas1960.bsky.social, Emma Beddowes and @mortegaduran.bsky.social

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Ola Rominiyi introducing the YCR funded FORT4RESS project to implement Tumour Treating Fields to wide range of cancers. Looks incredibly promising