That time of year again when I make my Mendel impression.
I suppose these are peaches and not peas, and will be furry not wrinkled, and I'm a biochemist not a geneticist, but I'm claiming it anyway.
“We need this information. It’s part of the beauty and complexity that’s out there on Earth. Humans hardly know anything.”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Baby guppy update - 2 weeks old and powering along!
Baby guppy update.
We made it through!
Baby guppies!
Did you know: guppies have 23 chromosomes, the same as humans.
We've got two exciting chromatin talks coming up on Wednesday next week:
@epijenatics.bsky.social from @jbuenrostro.bsky.social's lab and @ambystoma22.bsky.social!
register and join us: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Spring vibes
@cmcbcakeclub.bsky.social has had a fitness push.
"When I contacted OpenAI’s support, the first responses came from an AI agent." - Kind of expected, no? www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Join us in Warwick for a fun two-day symposium and celebrate the career of Prof Rob Cross!
warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/med/...
This term in my lab we are trialling a chalk-talk journal club format with emphasis on concepts and implications: no Powerpoint, no presentation of data.
The word 'leverage' in biomedical literature (as search by Pubmed trends). I wonder what is behind it. Every other abstract I read now seems to be leveraging.
Great news in the fight against antimicrobial resistance!
Two oral antibiotics have been approved by the FDA for uncomplicated urogenital gonorrhea. As Neisseria gonorrhoeae is becoming resistant to all known antibiotics, such breakthroughs were urgently needed. (1/4)
www.fda.gov/news-events/...
🧬🎉Join us on Dec 17th for our last session of 2025! 🎉🧬Two fantastic talks on transcriptional regulation:
🔬JB Lalanne on developmental enhancers (and starting a lab in 2025?)
🔬 @rberrens.bsky.social on transposable elements in development
📋Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
This is wild
Sometimes sense does prevail.
Today, we make further steps in our renewed EU-UK strategic partnership.
We have concluded the negotiations for the UK’s association to Erasmus+ in 2027.
Bringing back Erasmus+ for our young people, opening the door to new shared experiences and lasting friendships.
Took us a bit, but proud of this published version. We now examine the genetic interaction of phosphorylation with oligomerization and where bulk and phospho-Swi6 localize. Wonder if chromatin affinity tuning to enable Suv39 H3K9me3 spreading is a conserved mechanism ?
doi.org/10.1093/nar/...
Potato or DNA polymerase?
Oh ffs. No, I do not want to "Chat with the PDF" of this interesting looking academic journal article I just came across.
I would like to read it. With my own eyeballs. And think about it. You know, with that grey matter sitting between my ears.
Just make it stop.
#AcademicChatter
Bovine Faecal Society AGM tomorrow?
“To consult the statistician after an experiment is finished is often merely to ask him to conduct a post mortem examination. He can perhaps say what the experiment died of.” – Ronald A. Fisher
Yeah, but, I just wanted a quick look...
share.google/jo0NIT24BKmS...
Barbara McClintock portrait
🧬🌽 Happy Transposon Day! 🌽🧬
Today we celebrate the birthday of Barbara McClintock - scientist extraordinaire and discoverer of jumping genes. Still the only woman to have an unshared Nobel Prize in the biomedical sciences #TransposonDay2025
Back in the lab!
ggplot2 is turning 18! 🎂
For nearly two decades, it’s helped data scientists turn complex data into clear, beautiful insights.
We’re throwing a birthday party at Data+AI Summit, with treats and limited-edition swag. Come celebrate with us and @hadley.nz!
📍 Posit Lounge (402)
📅 June 10, 6–8pm
We have another postdoc position available to work on interplay between ADP-ribosylation and ubiquitination in regulation of genome stability. For this post expertise in cell biology is required.
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
Just published, expansion in situ genome sequencing, where you can sequence DNA while still inside the cell, mapping its organization relative to proteins and other markers, with the help of expansion microscopy! Led by @jbuenrostro.bksy.social. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
I used a Pirates of the Caribbean meme only to find out the 1st year class weren't even born when it came out. Outrageous.
