Daniel Frankel

Well it's been 2 years and 2 months since I left academia (after being in academia for 25 years!!). Start up life is pretty crazy but still infinitely less stressful than academia. I should have made the transition 15 years earlier!!

Home electronics projects are fun..next up a radio controlled car

I must be bored, I just typed in to Google “Karoline Leavitt, what does she do all day?”

Darwin on top form

Roses in the new old house

I’ve just discovered Toast of London

A cheeky question to anyone working on photovoltaics out there. Is is relatively straightforward to build an Arduino based device for measuring the efficiency (I-V curves) of a dye sensitised solar cell?

Experiments to 'dim the Sun' one step closer in the UK Geo-engineering experiments such as Solar Radiation Modificaton could be happening in the UK after major government funding

The UK’s Advanced Research and Innovation Agency (ARIA) is funding Solar Radiation Modification (SRM) projects including thickening Arctic sea ice to make it more reflective, Marine Cloud Brightening (MCB) and Stratospheric Aerosol Injection (SAI).

Returned to Newcastle last week for some business meetings. It was so strange being back after 2 years away. The new Engineering building looks quite fancy…

Wow , it looks like Harvard is gonna be destroyed. Are we living in a nightmare?

Just a little update for the busy, from the world of science:

1) There's no life on K2-18b
2) Vaccines cause adults
3) They are not Dire Wolves

Carry on.

Dire wolf debate raises concerns on scientific overhype Even de-extinction advocates say that Colossal Biosciences’ claims are misleading

If you want to read one more dire wolf take this week, i can thoroughly recommend @maxhenrybarnhart.bsky.social's deep dive on what scientists make of the announcement, just why it broke like it did, and what that means for conservation work more broadly.
@cenmag.bsky.social 🧪

At Cambridge University today , meetings in Chemical Engineering. Can feel the intense brainwaves radiating from the Cavendish lab

Darwin and his friend Baxter

YouTube video by NewLimit NewLimit Progress Update 2025

each year @newlimitbio.bsky.social, we share an update on our progress with the public

this week, we revealed the early results from our programs in metabolism & immunology. we’re starting to see the first hints of reprogramming medicines on the horizon.

watch here: m.youtube.com/watch?v=HR0-...

I'm probably getting fired.

Hmm somehow ended up at Imperial College today !! Looks quite fancy these days

Neither Elon Musk Nor Anybody Else Will Ever Colonize Mars | Defector Mars does not have a magnetosphere. Any discussion of humans ever settling the red planet can stop right there, but of course it never does. Do you have a low-cost plan for, uh, creating a gigantic ac...

This guy, @albertburneko.bsky.social, is a genius. Please read his brilliant article on Elon Musk's deranged and morally repugnant Mars colonisation schtick. defector.com/neither-elon...

How the Royal Society has any association with the Nazi conman Elon Musk is beyond belief. The Royal Society is a disgrace to scientists in the UK.

I continue to be surprised that more of the learned societies are not coming out with statements like this

(And well done to @planetarysociety.bsky.social for being clear and simple, and bold, in this statement)

🧪 - if the cuts haven't hit an agency near you - it seems to be a "yet" issue 😭

I go for my daily dog walk around Wymondham abbey ...so many churches in Norwich and the surrounding areas

Scientific paper figure, showing electron microscopy photos of 'quantum dots'. They look like darker grey striped structures on a lighter grey, grainy background. Figure also includes some graphs. I have added colored boxes around areas in the EM photo that look repetitive.

"Quantum Dots and their promising applications in the
fabrication of injectable hydrogels"

Always nice if the authors use the word "fabrication".
#ImageForensics

‘It’s tectonic:’ U.S. foreign aid freeze deals a blow to research around the globe Dismantling of USAID could disrupt clinical trials and wipe away U.S. “soft power” in developing countries, scientists warn

What's happening at #USAID is causing so much damage. The great reporters at @science.org explore some of that damage. www.science.org/content/arti...

Omg my Mac Mini has arrived and it is soooo tiny yet so powerful. Highly recommend!

2025 BBSRC Fellowships scheme Apply for funding to carry out independent research within a host laboratory and gain leadership skills.

BBSRC fellowships are now open! If anyone is interested in applying to work in my team on Efflux and/or AMR mechanisms @imibirmingham.bsky.social then drop me a line! www.ukri.org/opportunity/...

I'm thinking of obtaining mind mapping software. Does anyone have any recommendations? I really like the look of "The Brain" but is a tad pricey for access through all devices.

They say it’s at the reversible stage and no scarring of the liver. I blame the year I spent in Cambridge frequenting the cheese shop! I’ve been on a healthy diet for a year.

I so miss cheese since I've been diagnosed with FLD..all I have is pictures!!

Would finding biopolymers on a meteorite be evidence of extra-terrestrial life? I'm always a little disappointed when they announce (however amazing) the presence of amino acids, nucleic acid bases e.t.c. Biopolymers would suggest assembly of complex molecules via enzymes..