Helen Walden

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I absolutely love this series!

Take a look at Martin’s new preprint on discovering a FANCD2-interacting motif, and his helpful summary posts!

Actually hilarious! I got “cute cats making cookies is the biggest betrayal of the Brexit mandate”. Seems about right.

I cannot believe how exciting it is watching people go down an ice slide headfirst 🤣

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A forty-year slow-motion disaster in higher education is reaching its climax – and Labour is left holding the bag. @gsoh31.bsky.social joins @rostaylor.bsky.social & @hannahfearn.bsky.social to ask if the problems can be solved ➡️ linktr.ee/ohgodwhatnowpod

Touré’s knee-slide the highlight of the match 🤣 #ncfc 💛💚

Oh no I hadn’t heard that 😞 I did my 6 month placement with him in 1997, gave me the bug for research, such a wonderful man and scientist. Very sad to learn this.

So the Epstein scandal is about politics? Silly me for thinking it’s about the mass abuse of women and girls | Marina Hyde Obsessing over individual players and political chaos leaves less time to focus on the misogyny. And that’s for the best, isn’t it guys, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

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As of roughly half an hour ago, I am now the parent of an adult 😱 Where does the time go?!

Yeah, it’s not looking very encouraging at the moment

I mean. I’m not sure what to even think at this point.

Blimey. #ncfc Good goal difference building!

Indeed. Hence the pessimism. All this for people who have more money than they can ever spend. They are addicts.

Am spending my Saturday reading grant proposals and feeling such pessimism about the state of uk science funding. So many good ideas, so many talented researchers, so incredibly little investment 😞

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this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.

Having no racist politicians on #imaceleb this year really improved it

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Don’t forget to apply for the 2026 Erice Course! Deadline is 30th November 2025. Apologies if earlier today I wrote Dec 15th.

Screenshot that reads: The award "underlies the importance in investing in science for innovation and long-term economic growth", says economist Diane Coyle of the University of Cambridge. "It's great to see the Nobel prize recognize the importance of this topic," adds innovation policy researcher Richard Jones of the University of Manchester, UK. "It's important that economists understand the conditions that lead to technological progress," he adds. The winners, says Coyle, "have long been on people's list of potential candidates".

‘Economics Nobel prize won by researchers who showed how science boosts growth’ by @philipcball.bsky.social in @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The reply addresses me as Ma’am. I get that there are cultural differences but what’s wrong with just using my title and name?!

Another day, another Dear Sir email *sigh*. This one followed up by a woman apologising for the bloke who called me Sir.

Have had cause today to go through reviews for a paper we published 7 years ago. One of the ‘essential’ experiment requests we’ve still not been able to do, neither has anyone else in field….

Reshuffle it how you like, Starmer’s ‘grownup’ Labour has the Tory whiff of spiteful incompetence | Nesrine Malik Here we are again: constant rebooting, cruel rhetoric and crackdowns. And hurtling towards a Reform-shaped future, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

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Why would anyone want to be a scientist?

"Doing good science requires the utmost exertion of body, mind and spirit, yet is consistently filled with failure and rejection."

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get why she had to go but irksome she lost her job to something quite complex and, let's be honest, reasonably minor in the grand scheme of things, when shadow cabinet members get to merrily hang out with Eddie Swastika without any repercussions

The Telegraph Rayner tax scandal - £40k tax dodge - Statement Angela Rayner dodges £40,000 stamp duty Deputy Prime Minister reduces tax bill for Hove flat by declaring it as her main residence [Photo: Angela Rayner pictured at the weekend in Hove, where she has just bought a flat Credit: Dan Charity/The Sun on Sunday] Robert Mendick Chief Reporter. Amy Gibbons Political Correspondent 29 August 2025 8:57am BST

The Telegraph Money > Property > Second homes How to avoid tax on your second home From stamp duty to council tax, shield your wealth from Labour's tightening net [Photo of houses around a bay - Areas such as Cornwall have added a premium to council tax bills for second homes Credit: iStockphoto] Fran Ivens Senior Money Writer 29 August 2025 1:21pm BST

On the same day in the Telegraph:

Just pay your taxes. It’s the price for a civilised society. I do not understand why those who wish to govern and therefore make the actual decisions about how to spend the tax take try to find ways not to pay their share (Reform-fanciers take note). So disappointed in Rayner 😞