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New review from our centre published in the Journal of Dental Research!

Activating Endogenous Condylar Stem Cells to Enhance TMJ Repair

doi.org/10.1177/0022...

Congratulations Ticha Tuwatnawanit, @nanthwal.bsky.social and Abigail for this publication!
@kingsdentistry.bsky.social

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CCRB paper alert!
Most snakes can open their mouths so wide they can consume food that is much larger than their own head. This is partly due to their ‘free’ mandibular symphysis, found to be both bone and cartilage-free. So, how ‘free’ is that symphyseal gap?

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Maybe @aeon.co would be a good home for this

There is a serious failure in UK govt, politics & media to take sufficiently seriously what Musk said & meant with "fight back or die"

= Violence (interethnic civil war) is inevitable so pre-emptive violence - vs migrants, minorities & political opponents - is necessary to avoid existential erasure

If you like evolutionary constraints, serial homology, teeth, bats or all of the above, come and see our talk and posters! 👇🏼
At 3:30 I will talk about the genomic and developmental foundation of adaptive tooth shape evolution in bats Room S09 rm 118-119 #ESEB2025

Postdoctoral Research Associate

The Tucker group @ccrb27.bsky.social is looking for a new postdoc to look at the interplay between the microbiome and the developing vomeralnasal organ. www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/121845-...

And working class people here too. Where I grew everyone had their tea after CBBC finished (on their laps infront of neighbours, TNG, ot Fresh Prince). We were 1st gen middle class (teacher mum), and we'd have an early dinner 4 nights out of 7.

Postdoctoral Research Associate: Modelling Neural Crest Anomalies (mouse/human) - the Node The Liu lab is looking for a postdoc with a love of embryos and developmental biology! This post is part of an MRC-funded collaboration between Karen Liu’s lab at King’s College London and Marco Trizz...

Dev biologists! 3-yr postdoc position at King's, collaboration with Trizzino lab @marcotrizzino.bsky.social modelling CHD3 neural crest. We are looking for postdocs with mad embryology skills @the-node.bsky.social #developmental @ccrb27.bsky.social

thenode.biologists.com/jobs/postdoc...

the worst thing about being on the job market is having to actually engage with LinkedIn. oh man, what a stunningly awful platform that is. Was it better before and has just suffered from enshittification?

If you went to state school, do you ever feel British life is rigged against you? Welcome to the 93% Club | Alastair Campbell The civil service, judiciary and media are still dominated by the privately educated 7%. Lasting change is not a pipe dream – but it’s up to us, says writer and podcaster Alastair Campbell

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

England is not a modern country. The graphic below by
@guyshrubsole.bsky.social in today's Observer underlines this fact.

A thesis that nobody's read, narrated by someone who isn't there, for an audience that doesn't exist. An AI programme has apparently made a podcast out of my PhD thesis, in what seems to be a Guinness World Record attempt for 'most pointless endeavour ever'.

A thesis that nobody's read, narrated by someone who isn't there, for an audience that doesn't exist.

open.substack.com/pu...

A platform took my PhD thesis and used AI to turn it into a podcast, then emailed me expecting me to be grateful about it. I... am not.

#AI #Podcast #Publishing

Complexity myths and the misappropriation of evolutionary theory | PNAS Recent papers by physicists, chemists, and geologists lay claim to the discovery of new principles of evolution that have somehow eluded over a cen...

Here Mike Lynch mounts a fierce challenge to two recent attempts to understand the evolution of complexity in biology and beyond. I wouldn't like to place bets on the winner in this bout, but it does seem Lynch presents some tough questions.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

I could quote the whole of this article.

"how are mid-career academics, who have had years of rejections and refusals, supposed to believe in themselves if nobody above them does?... you are absolutely replaceable at these institutions. Thirty younger, cheaper, keener people are clamouring to leap into any hole created by your absence"

Photo of a wooden wall of stickers in a pub in Cork, centred around a red and white sticker with the words "witton ablion" and "spezial", as well as a styalised lne drawing of WAFC's badge.

photo didn't uploat.... IT WASN'T A WEST BROM STICKER

I've never felt so seen
www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/im-tir...
(archive link) archive.ph/MjC2z

just sat down for a restorative Beamish in Cork city, and what do I see in the seat we randomly picked? #UpTheAlbion

new pope!

*crowd goes wild*

American pope!

*crowd boos*

woke for an American!

*crowd goes wild*

bad on protecting abusive priests!

*crowd boos*

hates JD Vance!

*crowd goes wild*

just asked an popular LLM to write about working @ccrb27.bsky.social and it basically said the lifts are more temperamental than the experiments. Take from that what you will.

any excuse to repost the greatest Tetris story ever, when a reporter went to cover early e-gaming championships and discovered that his wife was unknowingly *the world's greatest Tetris player* by a huge margin

archive.boston.com/news/globe/m...

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

Cartoon for St George's day by Stephen Collins for the guardian. Script as follows: Scene is outside a cave, ST GEORGE in armour etc is confronting the DRAGON while the CAPTURED PRINCESS looks on. DRAGON: So let me get this straight. DRAGON: You’re hoping to reinforce ‘helpless princess’ tropes… DRAGON: By publicly stabbing an *endangered animal* to death with a *sword*… DRAGON: So you can force a whole Syrian village to convert to Christianity…. DRAGON: And become a nationalist icon for a colonial state… DRAGON: Through the cultural appropriation of ancient medieval dragon myths.  DRAGON: You’ve not been *online* very long, have you? GEORGE:  I have been quite surprised by the comments. GEORGE’S SOCIAL MEDIA ASSISTANT [who is filming this encounter on an iPhone]: I told you it’s problematic, George. DRAGON: Problematic? It’s a *bin fire*! DRAGON: OK. Here’s how you turn this round -  CUT TO a YoutTube post called ‘MY JOURNEY (An apology)’. GEORGE is crying to camera, Dragon in background. GEORGE:  I am *so sorry* guys… 

Happy St George' Day!

'Biological reality': What genetics has taught us about race As US President Donald Trump takes aim at the Smithsonian Institution for "anti-American ideology", Adam Rutherford examines what the science of genetics has taught us about race.

Race IS a social construct, but what does that actually mean?
In the wake of Trump’s scientifically illiterate statements on race, I have written a handy explainer.

www.bbc.com/future/artic...

just saw the 80s referred to as the late 1900s, and now I'm a dessicated corpse.

the intros were the worst bit, and really not sleep inducing, which was annoying due to the whole aimed at insomniacs thing.

there's a pod i used to listen to, specifically aimed at insomniacs, where one of the patreon feeds was "intros only". Maddening.

wow

Exciting news! 🎉 MorphoBank is now on Bluesky! We’re a #FAIR and #Open resource for #phylogenetic #morphological data, helping researchers archive, share, and analyze phylogenetic matrices and images. Follow us for updates on new projects, best practices, and ways to get involved!