Neil Perkins @ndperkins - Bluesky Profile

Timeline cleanse!

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Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

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Gently shake phone. A picture of a black cat on a black background in the centre of a black and white glitchy surrounding. When you wiggle your phone the cat seems to jiggle in the centre even though it’s a static image

this blew my tiny mind

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Gonzo (a black Labrador) jumping to catch his orange ball

Gonzo (a black Labrador) with his tongue out on the beach. One orange ball lies next to him in the sand

A photo of Gonzo (a black Labrador) standing on Aberffraw beach. The sky is reflected by the water on the sand behind him

Gonzo (a black Labrador) wallowing in a rock pool at Aberffraw beach

A lovely morning walk with Gonzo at Aberffraw beach, before we head back to Newcastle tomorrow

01.09.2025 17:26 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

CRISPR as a microbial immune system In 2003, Mojica wrote the first paper suggesting that CRISPR was an innate microbial immune system. The paper was rejected by a series of high-profile journals, including Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Molecular Microbiology and Nucleic Acids Research, before finally being accepted by Journal of Molecular Evolution in February, 2005.[3][4]

TIL the original paper describing CRISPR, by Francisco Mojica, was rejected by 4 journals and took 2 years to be published

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Research Assistant/Associate in Cancer Genomics Research Assistant/Associate in Cancer Genomics

We are hiring! Great opportunity for a RA with bioinformatic skills

We are looking for talented researcher to work on a project to detect gene fusions and driver mutations in a large cohort of children with ALL treated across multiple different trials to determine their clinical relevance.

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Beyond the genome: Harnessing the power of super-enhancers for blood cancer - Cancer Research UK - Cancer News The mysteries of the epiregulome need to be tackled head-on if we are to get new precision treatments for blood cancers

Lisa Russell just wrote an insightful article for #CancerNews from @cancerresearchuk.org where she takes us through the promise of super-enhancer biology and what it means for cancer. Read the whole article here:
news.cancerresearchuk.org/2025/05/21/b...

22.05.2025 13:51 — 👍 6 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0

Just appalling and awful behaviour. As an older male professor myself, our role should be to support and encourage other scientists. Not act like complete egotistical and misogynist nobs. Hope you are OK Sarah!

25.04.2025 23:10 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Just awful Sarah! There's no excuse for this sort of behaviour. These people seem to have no idea of the harm they do, both to the individual and to the science in general. In typing this I had to be careful not to include a lot of swearing. Just f**king appalling!

25.04.2025 23:03 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Two postdoc posts currently advailable to work with Dr Lisa Russell on an exciting new project funded by CRUK - looking for a laboratory and a bioinformatic PDRA. Apply here: jobs.ncl.ac.uk/job/Newcastl... and here: jobs.ncl.ac.uk/job/Newcastl...
@nucancer.bsky.social

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