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"Thinking time —the time needed to concentrate without interruptions has always been central to scholarly work. It is essential to designing experiments, compiling data, assessing results, reviewing literature and, of course, writing. Yet, [it] is often undervalued."
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NEWS | £1m of Life Sciences Innovation Zone funding will support the creation of a Microbiome & Infectious Disease Innovation Hub (MaID) to harness our expertise in the rapidly expanding field.

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One of my biggest peeves. My memory can last longer than a few months Wild. I know you're shrinking your deodorant refills.

Recovery of fluoride from ‘forever chemicals’ could lead to circular economy for fluorine Fluoride extracted from waste substances could supplement the waning supply from natural sources.

Forever chemicals (PFAS), implicated for many adverse health outcomes, don't have to be forever. They can even be broken down to do something good!
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Interesting! I have a new excuse to not go any further than a half 😂

Gareth Southgate rails against ‘callous toxic influencers’ in Dimbleby Lecture Sir Gareth Southgate has expressed concern that ‘callous, manipulative and toxic influencers’ are taking the place of traditional father figures and contributing to mental health issues among young me...

“Not everyone will win trophies. Not everyone will be at the top of their field. But everyone can live a life where they can constantly strive to improve. ... That is real success.”
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Incredibly excited to finally officially launch our project BIOMEDASA. Biomedical data science needs to work better and we are aiming to do some work to find how we could do this. If you want to hear more get in touch!

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Are you aged 11-18 and have a rheumatic condition? The very first Versus Arthritis Liverpool event is officially open for bookings!

The cooking event held at a community hall in Kensington will take place on Sunday 16th of March 11:15-12:45pm. See below!

#pizza #liverpool #rheumatology #arthritis

International Women's Day Computational Biology Facility Scholarship What is this form for? An application to a scholarship funded by the Computational Biology Facility that gives the successful candidate a 5-year period to freely access any of the CBF courses. These...

Our #IWD2025 #Scholarship is now open!
Are you a woman returning from a #career break or seeking to retrain in #Biological #DataScience?
Enjoy free access to our #courses for 5 yrs & join our supportive community
Apply now! forms.gle/vXUGvZXcRspz...

another enriching day of outreach with some super engaged groups of year 8 students! It was extremely tough to judge our robot programming competition and we needed the help of our volunteers to decide! Thanks as always to the WP and outreach team for supporting us in running these events :)

Looking for a truly enriching master's experience? Become a technical specialist, on a blended course including some taught modules and loads of time on one of our wonderful shared research facilities at @livuni-livsrf.bsky.social (we included!!)
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!! PhD Alert !!

'In 20 years there will be no bioinformatics; it will just be called biology’ - Charles DeLisi (my PhD advisor, as quoted in my thesis). That was 22 years ago, and I think he was right. Grad students and postdocs in particular know they need to be computational now too.

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