Anna Duncan

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Afghan resettlement schemes to the UK suddenly closed by government Ministers close ‘lifeline’ sanctuary routes for Afghans who worked with British troops and who fought for democracy and womens’ rights

🚨The Government has quietly and suddenly closed the Afghan resettlement scheme, buried in an 138 page document.

This scheme - though not without limitations - was a vital lifeline for thousands of Afghans, including women targeted by the Taliban.

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www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Microsoft: End Complicity in Apartheid and Genocide On Thursday, October 24th, Microsoft unjustly terminated two Microsoft employees —Abdo Mohamed and Hossam Nasr— with the No Azure for Apartheid campaign for holding a lunchtime vigil and fundraiser at...

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Astonishing evidence at the Covid Inquiry.

The Government repeatedly ignored offers from the Crick Institute to provide mass testing on a national scale.

Instead, the Government paid Deloitte consultants to project manage, not yet established, privately run labs.

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Immigration and the UK — the main thing really is this:

UK governments have, for ~ the last two decades, pursued anti-immigration policies.

You tell me one positive outcome from that approach.

There isn’t one.

Not a single one in my view.

There is, however, a very long list of harms caused.🧵

Exciting News: Learn about the Speakers of Euromit 2026!
We are happy to announce the amazing speakers for Euromit 2026, the leading congress on mitochondrial pathology.🌍✨
📢 See the full list ! 👇
#euromit2026 #mitochondria #science #innovation #angers

Sign our petition: Take abortion out of the British criminal code We are calling on the Government to protect legal abortions in the UK for all time by taking abortion out of the Criminal Code

A petition from @humanists.uk to have #abortion decriminalised
"From 1861-2022 only 3 women had ever been prosecuted for terminating a pregnancy in the UK. In the past 2 years at least 6 women appeared in court."
humanists.uk/action/prote...

Happy to share the first paper in my PhD is published in JCB!
It's my honor to work with amazing teammates! I really enjoy exploring mitochondrial protein import mechanism through cryo-ET!

This is, in large part, pandemic revenge.

As far as these oligarchs are concerned, all science does is tell them stuff they cannot do.

They can't keep spewing carbon.

They can't keep businesses open as usual when millions are dying.

They have concluded that research is the enemy of profit.

Standing up for science in an age of political interference Science is under siege. Political forces are undermining expertise, dismantling research institutions, and replacing evidence based policymaking with ideology. This is a global crisis. The covid-19 pa...

Here’s the better link: www.bmj.com/content/388/...

Poor show, fellows.

In a new Science study, cryo–electron tomography captures the in-cell architecture of the mitochondrial respiratory chain, illuminating how the coordinated action of molecular machines drives life’s fundamental energy conversion.

Learn more in this week's issue: scim.ag/3FA3Ygq

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Arctic sea-ice extent is once again back to lowest on record for the date, as of Mar. 25, 2025.

Hello, is anybody out there? Just nod if you can hear me. Is anybody home?

Just a screenshot of the report cover page. The report is called "Preventable Diseases, Preventable Tragedies: Why Vaccines Are Essential"

🚨new Indie SAGE report on childhood diseases!

🧵Vaccines have been so successful that once common diseases are now so rare that even many doctors might never see a case.

In this report we describe 12 diseases, their consequences & impact of vaccines 1/15

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A human brain map of mitochondrial respiratory capacity and diversity - Nature The ability to physically partition the human brain at a spatial resolution comparable to neuroimaging methods enabled the development of a brain-wide atlas of mitochondrial content, specialization an...

📰 New article published in @nature.com entitled "A human brain map of mitochondrial respiratory capacity and diversity" 🧠

An international research team has created a map revealing the diversity of #mitochondrial phenotypes in the human #brain

✒️ By @micheltds.bsky.social and all

📌 For more ⬇️

The UK university sector is on fire. This is happening virtually everywhere -- job cuts, hiring freezes, department closures, PhD funding programmes... full blown crisis

Solidarity with our Newcastle University members on strike today ✊

The 6th day of strike action this month fighting against hundreds of job cuts 💪

The whole union is behind you 🪧

Read more: www.ucu.org.uk/article/1391...

Israel’s war on Gaza is deliberately targeting children – new UN report Children represent the future. In Gaza that future is being snuffed out.

Children represent the future. In Gaza that future is being snuffed out.

So, let me get that straight, we academics often pay to publish our own work, pay to read it, just to make some shareholders of scientific publishers rich, and now our publications are used for free to enrich shareholders of AI firms ...🤬

⏰ Two weeks left to register for our Benzon Symposium on Protein structure prediction and design 🧶🧬🖥️

Meeting will take place in Copenhagen 🇩🇰 on Sept. 1–4, 2025, and will feature an amazing list of speakers 👨‍🔬👩‍🔬👩‍💻👨‍💻

Submit your application via:
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Excellent piece on the DEAFENING SILENCE of universities in response to Trump's illegal cancellation of Columbia's funding. High time for unified action by university presidents which would, ideally, include red state powerhouses like Wash U, Ohio State, Baylor...
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

KLAXON 🚨: Indie SAGE has come out of retirement to release a new short report standing up for diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in the sciences!

DEI is not just the right thing to do, it *improves* the quality of the science. Please read and share.

independentsage.org/wp-content/u...

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Out today. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Revised and Extended: What's Happening Inside the NIH and NSF

I’ve unfortunately needed to add more material to my post from yesterday. The re-election of Donald Trump is looking like the biggest act of American self-destruction since the Civil War.

Same link, new title and some updates.

Thanks, Robin!

Ok, trying to bring my community back together... I created a starter pack for lipids and membrane protein aficionados!

Feel free to share, add and distribute, so we can come together again! 😍

go.bsky.app/AEeXh86

Thanks, Robin :)

👋 Joining the stampede!