@3volution.bsky.social
Lecturer in Epigenetics at Liverpool John Moores university. Focus on understanding Evolution via Natural Selection at multiple levels. I am interested in Genetics, Epigenetics and Molecular Biology. 🐝🪰🦟🐜🦠🧬🌈he/him Web: https://shorturl.at/WF8o3
A microbiome gut-brain pathway influenced by intestinal metabolites, innate immune responses, vagal nerve signaling and hippocampal memory encoding, impacts the rate of cognitive decline. Many potential points of intervention are described.
#Science 🧪
💚 Green Party WINS Aigburth ward Liverpool City Council for the first time – overturning more than 100 years of legacy-party control.
Huge thanks to more than 100 volunteers for getting out this big Green vote and to everyone in Aigburth for choosing hope.
✨Crepidula fornicata (slipper snail) 🐚 A classic model for spiral cleavage! 🧬 Crepidula embryos reveal how early cell divisions shape body plans and establish left-right asymmetry in spiralian animals 📸 Image by Jake Leyhr #ModelMonday
Very excited to announce the FIRST symposium on epigenome editing! These tools are becoming widely used in mol bio, ag & therapy. It's time to bring leaders together to discuss this rapidly growing and exciting field. And why not in Paris! Please register & share! (1/2) ctrlepiedit.sciencesconf.org
What works for me is having anxiety/worries diaries, categorise a/w (e.g. actionable non-actionable), scheduling a weekly a/w meeting when I let myself run wild, having plans with specific goals and deadlines for actionable a/w. Try grounding techniques like the 5-1 based on the senses. Stay strong.
Throwback to the time This Thing appeared 👀 (giant mayfly, from 2021)
Introducing the campest katydid of all time. 🦄💅🏽👸💞 Why would this animal (Arota festae) have evolved this way, other than to look utterly fabulous? We have unleashed some (slightly whacky) thoughts, now out in @esajournals.bsky.social. Photo credit: @zekerowe.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/ecy.... 1/n
feeling a lot of positive energy from #Dros26, it is so needed in these times. especially after sharing more broadly about how arts and music intersect with science, i had great convos with lots of people about this. check out this incredible tattoo! bonus points if you know what molecule it is... 🪰
Reverend Jesse Jackson called on each of us to be heralds of change, to be messengers of hope; to step forward and say “Send me” wherever we have a chance to make an impact.
How fortunate we were that Jesse Jackson answered that call. What a great debt we owe to him.
AOC: He impulsively went in on Venezuela. He impulsively went in on Iran. It led to increased global instability and every time he’s done that, it has been consistent with a spike in what is happening with the Epstein files. I think that he feels existentially tied to it.
Migration is part of what makes this country great.
We're not an island of strangers - we're an island of neighbours.
The Green Party will always support fair & managed migration.
FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?
Media must stop normalizing the far right
Every uncritical mention of far-right rhetoric is an editorial decision with political consequences
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Ohh that's RICH
@ohhthatsrich.bsky.social
Ohh that's RICH
@ohhthatsrich.bsky.social
Social media created this nonsense idea that not exposing yourself to hatred is isolationist. Choosing to not spend your free time with bigots isn’t living in a bubble. I don’t need to know what’s going on at X. I won’t be smarter or more knowledgeable or empathic by being there. Neither will you.
Melissa Dalton-Bradford
'I didn't grow up wanting to be a politician, I'm a plumber'
The green Party's Hannah Spencer has won the Gorton and Denton, with Reform in second and Labour finished third
Tax billionaires out of existence.
This mind-bending relativity illusion has never been seen—until now.
Using ultrafast lasers and a 300-picosecond camera, researchers at the University of Vienna and Vienna University of Technology visualized the rotating Terrell-Penrose effect, an effect of special relativity.
Drop in overseas workers is ‘car crash’ for UK hospitals and care homes, say experts
Sturgill Simpson Turtles All the Way Down
I have done it again.
I donated #blood 🩸 today. It was super easy and the #nhs nurses were helpful and supportive.
A great experience as usual. I feel much lighter knowing that I did something good today.
Zelenskyy: “I thank all the leaders who are in Ukraine and with Ukraine today, and who have supported Ukrainians throughout all these years of struggle. It is extremely important that we are all together today, speaking with one voice.”
The findings that come from an DNA studies fascinate me. The fact that DNA can even be extracted from ancient bones (and sometimes teeth) is amazing.
Ancient DNA Reveals Europe’s Last Hunter-Gatherers Survived Thousands of Years Longer Than Expected share.google/WJYszOE4b4PE...
There should be emphasis on the virtue of education as an end in itself. In my view education should be a right freely available up to degree level purely because of the net social benefit of an educated citizenry. Populism is driven above all by the poorly educated.
'She has a message for other tourists considering a trip to America: “Don’t go – not with Trump in charge. It’s totally out of control over there. There’s no accountability. They don’t seem to need a reason for detaining you.”'
#ICE
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More hope from mRNA vaccines. In this instance, individualized vaccines were given to women with triple negative breast cancer following surgery and adjuvant therapy. The results are quite remarkable. Despite cancer finding a ‘T cell-evading’ work-around in some patients.
#Science 🧪