Nice to see a university recruiting in this important subject. Wonderful part of the world, too.
Where do I sign up?
Nice short article here. Although my guy Baruch Spinoza refused an academic job, and he was a lens-polisher by trade, ensuring that his academic work was answerable to nobody.
Is the panel hoping to roam around the country, on a tour bus? Will there be tour merch?
Well. This will provoke some discussion. Given that MRC was actively recruiting new board members 6 months ago, boards which all have now been abolished, I am worried about the amount of thought that has gone into this new approach, that marks a sea-change in funding. So many questions...
The practicalities alone seem difficult. Will these be in London? Who will pay for travel and accommodation? What about carers and parents? How many applications will they interview per round. Will it just be one person per application? What about truly interdisciplinary applications?
MRC curiosity-driven research reopens with new approach
www.ukri.org/news/mrc-cur...
MRC applicant-led funding opportunities reopen 7 Apr, experimental medicine opportunities opening 30 Apr
Complete change in selection of project: no boards, shortlisted applicants -> in-person panel interview.
Konak's great.
We should be honoured to host, teach and learn from these people not exclude them. I'm ashamed of our government.
Really interesting ideas here. Taking context dependence of evolution/mutation, which we all happily illustrate with our favourite example (lactase persistence and phenylketonuria are my human examples) and giving it a quantitative framework called "genomic perplexity".
The always excellent @lucielaplane.bsky.social will give an online talk at 17:00 (Paris time) next Tuesday: "How Much Should Philosophers of Biology Engage with Biology?"
Zoom link at philinbiomed.cnrs.fr/event/lucie-...
No ivermectin??
Is it those anglo saxon boxes of bones at Winchester Cathedral that they are studying?
The Tidyverse Is Not Enough
Je n'ecris pas vite en francais, desole!
Or MRC Units of that time, too. I don't agree with the article about that model lauding individuals over collaboration. Time, willingness to take a risk, and flat hierarchies facilitates collaboration rather than hinders it.
With Palin, it seemed much less about him. It wasn't a celebrity vehicle.
"Chained to the mirror and the razor blade" is about shaving and the morning routine...
This is great, but just because you can predict where the enhancers are likely to be, you can't really predict their function.
For me, not even subtly different, but often completely different! Very often, rows of lights can be controlled independently, but perpendicular to the direction of teaching. So can dim left lights but not front lights...
BYD cars are a common sight on the roads here in the UK.
Out here in the provinces, literally thousands of em in a field. Dead crows littered beneath them. Not turning now, it being Ramadan.
So I pleased to announce the conceptual spawn of FigTree: PearTree (acronym still to be finalised). If you want to dive right in it is hosted as a web app here: artic-network.github.io/peartree (click the “Example...” button for immediate candy and then click every button you can find).
I predate MMR too (or it was later arriving in Norfolk...) but had MMR 25 years ago when I was working in Notts as there was a mumps outbreak amongst the students. As far as I remember I just asked for it and got it.
The growing number of sequenced #genomes provides a positive feedback loop, in which database searches become more effective and shared sequence patterns emerge more clearly www.nature.com/articles/s41... #biodiversity #genomics
Amazing peppered moth story from Saccheri lab - same locus, but different structural variants, underly parallel evolution of industrial melanism in the UK and across continental Europe.
Another one for Warwick? Here our colour is red, probably in homage to the cheese.
Purple seems to be quite popular - see Manchester. I'm sure you have tone of voice guides too.
Synergy, going forward... or something like that.
