Scott Dillon

⏳Final week to sign up to the Green Party.

🗳️ Vote for Bold Leadership on August 1st.

Well that’s me depressed for the weekend. As Glen acidly observes this looks like a pretty transparent effort to shift blame for coming university bankruptcies onto the institutions. Good luck with selling that to whichever MPs are about to lose their constituency’s largest employer.

Just out! Our peer-reviewed critique of the Cass Review has been published by BMC Medical Research Methodology. Please read and share. We show that the Cass Review is fatally flawed and should not be the basis for policy or practice in transgender healthcare.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Help us challenge the Supreme Court’s judgment on trans rights | Good Law Project

If you're feeling as helpless as I am after the UK Supreme Court ruling, do a small thing and donate to the Good Law Project to fund a legal challenge: goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/... 🏳️‍⚧️

Am starting to think widespread civil disobedience is the most effective way to tackle Labour's policy of punishment beatings for trans people to please right wing bigots.

And this can't fall on the trans community - cis allies too are going to have to start using the 'wrong' toilets.

Sex Redefined: The Idea of 2 Sexes Is Overly Simplistic Biologists now think there is a larger spectrum than just binary female and male

My husband has taught human reproduction and development to the Cambridge medics for over three decades. When people start banging on about "only two biological sexes" he starts with "which sex: genetic, hormonal, or gonadal"?

Biological sex is not binary. www.scientificamerican.com/article/sex-...

This. An emergency recall of parliament on a weekend for British Steel. Nothing at all for UK HE which employs far more people, has already shed 10,000 academic jobs, with several institutions on the brink of collapse.

A reminder: we train all the doctors, teachers, engineers, nurses, lawyers &c &c

I had to bring this here because it’s so good

Now THAT is a magnet. Really excited to be doing some experiments this week at the High Field Solid State NMR Facility in Warwick 🧲 #NMR

The novel ECM protein SNED1 mediates cell adhesion via the RGD-binding integrins α5β1 and αvβ3 Summary: The recently discovered extracellular matrix protein SNED1 promotes the adhesion of breast cancer cells and neural crest cells via interaction with α5β1 and αvβ3 integrins, the first SNED1 re...

Our paper entitled "The novel #ECM protein SNED1 mediates cell adhesion via the RGD-binding #integrins α5β1 and αvβ3" is now published in #OpenAccess in @jcellsci.bsky.social @biologists.bsky.social. Big congrats Dharma pdtr124.bsky.social and Nandini! doi.org/10.1242/jcs....

A very frosty winter walk today 🥶🐕

My relationship with Big wasn’t the only thing I blew up that day. At the Trinity test site I detonated the first plutonium bomb, unleashing a 22 kiloton blast. Had I become Death, destroyer of worlds? Meanwhile uptown, Samantha had her hands full with her own “Manhattan project”

🔔 The final version of our COBME paper on how #hydrogel platforms with tunable / dynamic #mechanics enhance our understanding of #cancer progression and #fibrosis is out! 🧪

🌺 Thank you @marcocantini.bsky.social @mattjwalker.bsky.social

#tissueengineering

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www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume?

Me: I was waiting for the NMR

It is becoming increasingly confusing to work out where to publish if you want to comply with your funders OA policy (or with your own principles).

This tool is very helpful

journalcheckertool.org

Fixed my first #NMR probe and I feel like a genius 🤓

🚨 FIVE Exciting PhD Opportunities to Join Our Team at @qmul.ac.uk! 🚨

This from Liberali and Schier (2024) @priscaliberali.bsky.social @schierlab.bsky.social is just some of the things basic research in Developmental Biology alone has allowed since 1974. Fund basic research. Push back against anti-science nonsense pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38906136/

This morning, my son complained: “but I need my relaxation time!”
I responded “transverse or longitudinal?”
Not the success I expected…
#DadJoke #NMRChat

I do enjoy how the Irish defy stereotypes by producing the most insane election graphics known to man

I. JUST. WANT. THE. RECIPE. I. DON'T. WANT. FOUR. PAGES. OF. STORY. ABOUT. HOW. THIS. WAS. YOUR. AUNT. LINDA'S. FAVORITE. DISH. ON. WINTER. ESCAPES. TO. THE. MOUNTAINS.

The benefit of a broken #TEM: you get to have a nosey inside! #electronmicroscopy

📣Publication alert: Excited to have contributed to the manuscript describing the expansion and new functionalities of #MatrixDB, now published in Nucleic Acids Research academic.oup.com/nar/advance-....
Check out the new UI and play with the new network explorer at: matrixdb.univ-lyon1.fr

It's Christmaaaaaaaas 🎅

Low-power WALTZ decoupling under magic-angle spinning NMR Abstract. Heteronuclear low-power decoupling using the solution-state wideband alternating-phase low-power technique for zero-residual splitting (WALTZ) sequences has become quite popular in solid-sta...

Work done by Luzian Thomas, an undergraduate student in my group. He explains why low-power WALTZ decoupling works under MAS and what parameters one should use.

mr.copernicus.org/articles/5/1...

So I thought I’d give this #starterpack thingy a go. Here’s one bringing together the “Mineralized Tissue Biology” community.

go.bsky.app/MasDNUf

#academicsky #bone #teeth #biomineralization #biomaterials #science #biology #structuralbiology #cryoEM #electronmicroscopy #osteology #orthopaedics

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For our 🦋: Tomorrow 3pm CET, grab your hot cocoa (ok coffee, let's be real) & let's get cozier with a talk by the amazing S. Ricard-Blum. All about computational biology, ECM protein interactions & the new vers of MatrixDB! Chair: @merrylabnotts.bsky.social Zoom link: t.co/mFDZASKYFH

Collagen formation, function and role in kidney disease - Nature Reviews Nephrology Collagens are ubiquitously expressed and have been linked to a broad spectrum of disorders. Here, the authors discuss collagen subtypes and provide a summary of collagen disorders, fibrotic process an...

Our spotlight on collagen- formation, function & role in kidney disease is out now!

A wonderful collaboration with Moumita Barua & Vanessa De Gregorio

#ECMatrix
#Nephro

Cell-Matrix Centre
@fbmh-uom.bsky.social
@uoft.bsky.social

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