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@markdunning.bsky.social

mdbioinformatics.com Freelance Bioinformatician / data scientist. FHEA and accredited carpentries.org instructor. When not using R and open source for high-throughput data analysis and visualisation, unhealthy obsession with charity shops and Vinyl.

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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...

22.01.2026 14:34 β€” πŸ‘ 74    πŸ” 78    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 3
View from the hotel room

View from the hotel room

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

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

Wednesday afternoon hike incl. swim in the mountain river

Wednesday afternoon hike incl. swim in the mountain river

Another view from the hotel room

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 VeritΓ , Lago Maggiore at the foot of the Swiss Alps.

ascona2026.sciencesconf.org

15.01.2026 16:16 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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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:

23.12.2025 19:55 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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Please repost - Multiple PhDs available

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

05.11.2025 09:18 β€” πŸ‘ 37    πŸ” 55    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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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

πŸ“’ Fully-funded 4-year MRC DiMeN PhD opportunity in our lab.

πŸ”¬ 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

πŸ‘‡Apply by 4th Dec

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

31.10.2025 09:56 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Dr.Β Mark Dunning – Dr. Mark Dunning - Bioinformatician / Data Scientist

I have a new website

mdbioinformatics.com

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

(created with quarto in RStudio)

10.10.2025 11:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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...

11.09.2025 16:31 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 3
Unlock the power of open data and teach open research by SHU Open Research Podcast In this podcast episode, we talk to Dr Lewis Quayle, Senior Lecturer in Data Science and Analytics, and Ronak Naeemaee, our Doctoral Researcher at Sheffield Hallam University. Listen to their journey-...

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

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

30.07.2025 08:03 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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...

15.07.2025 11:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Systems pathology of the breast tumour microenvironment in obesity - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge Systems pathology of the breast tumour microenvironment in obesity in the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute at the University of Cambridge.

πŸ“’ 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/

07.07.2025 16:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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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

23.06.2025 13:45 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Screenshot showing the EuroBioC2025 abstract submission deadline as April 24, 2025, and key conference dates for the Bioconductor community event in Barcelona, Spain.

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.

πŸ‘‰ eurobioc2025.bioconductor.org/pages/submis...

22.04.2025 09:59 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2
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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...

17.04.2025 11:55 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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_... 🧬πŸ–₯️πŸ§ͺ #Rstats

16.04.2025 18:30 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Metabolites are not genes β€” 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...

16.04.2025 09:56 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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

febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

16.04.2025 07:07 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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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

15.04.2025 09:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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