Martin Walsh's Avatar

Martin Walsh

@walshdls.bsky.social

Structural Biologist at Diamond Light Source UK. Interests mainly respiratory bacterial and viral pathogens, AMR and methods developments to leverage synchrotron radiation and electron imaging. Synergetic imaging is yer only man. Views definitely my own

1,465 Followers  |  443 Following  |  179 Posts  |  Joined: 07.08.2024  |  2.2722

Latest posts by walshdls.bsky.social on Bluesky

Watching us open on sky sport’s … paying for the day for the first time EVER ;-) …there are adverts and the commentary is uht milk level … bbc Wimbledon coverage superb and value for money and impeccable…just saying …

07.09.2025 19:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Preview
Behind the Scenes of Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves' 'Waiting for Godot' Jamie Lloyd's production of 'Waiting for Godot' stars Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves of 'Bill and Ted' — and is soon opening on Broadway.

www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult... …bill and tes meets sam

06.09.2025 12:43 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Awesome work!

22.08.2025 15:51 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

The boys are back in town ;-)

18.08.2025 19:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

They do a breakfast burrito at the ral canteen @diamondlightsource.bsky.social we should compare notes ;-)

18.08.2025 18:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Preview
Desert Island Discs - Professor Dame Carol Robinson, scientist - BBC Sounds Dame Carol Robinson, scientist, shares the soundtrack of her life with Lauren Laverne.

Carol Robinson on Desert Island Discs - have a listen friends: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
An inspirational scientist & friend. An example of combining scientific excellence, courage, hard work and really importantly; kindness. (Yes I’m biased, but it’s true nevertheless)
@kavlioxford.bsky.social

10.08.2025 10:40 — 👍 12    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 0
Ceiling of venue hosting the final ASAP all hands meeting  somewhere in Europe

Ceiling of venue hosting the final ASAP all hands meeting somewhere in Europe

Continuing the theme of venue ceilings (admittedly its had poor uptake and i think no one else has succumb to this potentially riveting trend) but as the hotel carpet at this event is not going to impress @scurry.bsky.social i submit this interesting (if i do say so myself) ceiling venue …

18.08.2025 18:22 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Preview
Mary Robinson urges states to act decisively to stop Gaza’s ‘unfolding genocide’ Elders group urge targeted sanctions on Israeli prime minister and security cabinet

Mary Robinson urges states to act decisively to stop Gaza’s ‘unfolding genocide’

12.08.2025 14:07 — 👍 27    🔁 14    💬 1    📌 2

Maybe Sally O’Brien can help ;-)

13.08.2025 19:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Titan krios I (a 300 KeV Cryo transmission electron microscope) with its 10 yr birthday hat in the experimental hall of Diamond Light Source.

Titan krios I (a 300 KeV Cryo transmission electron microscope) with its 10 yr birthday hat in the experimental hall of Diamond Light Source.

krios 1 @diamondlightsource.bsky.social celebrated 10 years of user operations last week - many people thought we were mad to plonk it down in this spot in the synchrotron …but its still there as we ended up with a lot more in a very small space of time !

04.08.2025 07:50 — 👍 32    🔁 8    💬 1    📌 1
Post image

🚀 Macromolecule structures have been front & center at #ISMBECCB2025 in Liverpool -- the world’s largest #bioinformatics meeting!

🗝️ Keynotes:
www.iscb.org/ismbeccb2025...

🧬More strucurtal bionformatics / computational biology talks, #3DSIG stream:
www.iscb.org/ismbeccb2025...

@3dsig.bsky.social

24.07.2025 11:34 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Post image Post image Post image

A tribute parade for the late Eddie Jordan will take place at Silverstone today.

Many of his team's cars are here, from the first to one of the last (looking particularly odd here due to its absence of nose, Pirelli tyres and lumpy engine cover to accommodate a change of motor).

#F1

05.07.2025 07:22 — 👍 17    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
Merton College Oxford

Merton College Oxford

Looking forward to a day of science from our Wellcome Phd programme coordinated by @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social @diamondlightsource.bsky.social and the Rosalind Franklin Institute

25.06.2025 07:55 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 1
Diamond will host a pioneering AI-driven drug discovery consortium - - Diamond Light Source New consortium OpenBind will make the UK a world-leader in drug innovation and advancement

This is exciting! www.diamond.ac.uk/Home/News/La... @instruct-eric.bsky.social @fragment-screen.bsky.social @ukri.org @wellcometrust.bsky.social @cancerresearchuk.org

11.06.2025 13:01 — 👍 5    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
Preview
Paul Durcan obituary: Being a poet was all consuming for him Being a poet was all consuming for him. His main pursuit in life, it defined his everyday interactions

Paul Durcan obituary: Being a poet was all consuming for him www.irishtimes.com/obituaries/2...

23.05.2025 14:45 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Preview
Oxfordshire clock still keeping village on time after 500 years The timepiece is believed to be one of the oldest clocks in Britain still in its original location.

bbc.com/news/article...

28.05.2025 18:25 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Cool location for ringfort!

10.05.2025 17:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Preview
Some Welsh contributions to railway history – part two Wales has a little-known yet incredible history in locomotion. This Railway 200 commemorative year is a great time to make Welsh achievements better known

Some Welsh contributions to railway history – part two

Wales has a little-known yet incredible history in locomotion. This Railway 200 commemorative year is a great time to make Welsh achievements better known

✍️ Peter Brown

@bylines.cymru

10.05.2025 13:55 — 👍 39    🔁 15    💬 2    📌 0
Screenshot from article reads:

In every case, the government is typified by a lack of confidence in communication. It is unwilling to lead. It is unprepared to make the argument. It does not have the courage to state clearly what is happening, what it wants and how it will get there. Instead, it operates in the background, saying whatever it thinks necessary to secure goals which you can vaguely discern by virtue of unrelated actions.
This is why we're all so confused. Sometimes you wake up and read what they have to say about Trump, or see how they will decimate our university sector to reduce immigration numbers, and you feel the anger rise up in you. Sometimes you recognise what they're achieving, on the hush-hush, and convince yourself that they're playing some ingenious game you seem to have misunderstood. It is really very hard to be governed in this way. It is emotionally baffling.
The government does good things and bad things, but this approach to government is disastrous. It's democratically unsound for a party to persistently say one thing and do another, as if governing by subtext. It prevents voter scrutiny and is fundamentally duplicitous. It isn't even effective, because it alienates those who like what you're doing and confuses those who don't. You can see that now. Remainers distrust Starmer as much as Leavers do. No-one is happy.

Screenshot from article reads: In every case, the government is typified by a lack of confidence in communication. It is unwilling to lead. It is unprepared to make the argument. It does not have the courage to state clearly what is happening, what it wants and how it will get there. Instead, it operates in the background, saying whatever it thinks necessary to secure goals which you can vaguely discern by virtue of unrelated actions. This is why we're all so confused. Sometimes you wake up and read what they have to say about Trump, or see how they will decimate our university sector to reduce immigration numbers, and you feel the anger rise up in you. Sometimes you recognise what they're achieving, on the hush-hush, and convince yourself that they're playing some ingenious game you seem to have misunderstood. It is really very hard to be governed in this way. It is emotionally baffling. The government does good things and bad things, but this approach to government is disastrous. It's democratically unsound for a party to persistently say one thing and do another, as if governing by subtext. It prevents voter scrutiny and is fundamentally duplicitous. It isn't even effective, because it alienates those who like what you're doing and confuses those who don't. You can see that now. Remainers distrust Starmer as much as Leavers do. No-one is happy.

Good summary of the state of play for Starmer’s underwhelming government from @iandunt.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

10.05.2025 17:44 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
Abingdon-on-Thames

Abingdon-on-Thames

Lovely morning in Abingdon

07.05.2025 09:40 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Post image Post image Post image Post image

walking through Brussels centre to midi station now to get eurostar back to Blighty! @ccpem.bsky.social

06.05.2025 15:19 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Post image Post image Post image Post image

Just finished an excellent midterm review of our fragment screen project funded by Horizon Europe (thanks to everyone and the reviewers and our project coordinator for constructive feedback) @fragment-screen.bsky.social @instruct-eric.bsky.social @diamondlightsource.bsky.social

06.05.2025 15:19 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
Post image Post image Post image

Missed any of the Fragment-Screen webinars with @instruct-eric.bsky.social?

Take a look at them here, with talks from @ceitec.eu, @ebi.embl.org, IBM Research and FFULisboa!

fragmentscreen.org/news-and-eve...

23.04.2025 09:03 — 👍 3    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

Hope everyone who made it enjoyed the 3 days of science and networking! We even had nice weather!

28.04.2025 13:33 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Post image Post image Post image Post image 28.04.2025 13:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Post image Post image Post image Post image 28.04.2025 13:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Post image Post image Post image Post image 28.04.2025 13:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Post image Post image Post image Post image 28.04.2025 13:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Post image Post image Post image Post image 28.04.2025 13:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Post image Post image Post image Post image

Ok a few more

28.04.2025 13:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

@walshdls is following 20 prominent accounts