Louise Horsfall

Goodness - get well soon!

New research hubs to cut carbon and reshape UK manufacturing From green steel and recycled plastics to turning waste into new materials and using AI to boost productivity, four hubs will tackle UK manufacturing challenges.

Delighted to share good news after a long embargo! We'll be part of C-Loop an EPSRC Bio-manufacturing Hub focusing on making value out of waste!! Looking forward to this project led by Stephen Wallace at Edinburgh #circulareconomy @imperiallifesci.bsky.social www.ukri.org/news/new-res...

A graphic for the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA), showing a historical portrait of Marie Skłodowska-Curie overlaid with an image of four young researchers walking down a hallway. The European Commission logo is in the top left. Text reads: "Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions – €404.3 million to support postdoctoral researchers”

Choose Science. Choose Europe.

A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open.

With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond.

Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF

Unlocking the power of Engineering Biology New report outlines the transformative potential of Engineering Biology to tackle modern-day challenges.

Unlocking the power of Engineering Biology www.gov.uk/government/n...

Reviving the woolly mammoth isn’t just unethical. It’s impossible | Adam Rutherford At a time when US scientists are under attack from their own government, the illiteracy around these elephantine fantasies is dangerous, says geneticist Adam Rutherford

Reposting this from last month, cos it’s the same bullshit from the same company that is flooding your media with wolfshit.

Reviving the woolly mammoth isn’t just unethical. It’s impossible

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I’m sorry to have rushed off. Was great doing the viva with you - I really enjoyed it.

Spoiler alert:
In a few days we will announce around 30 PhD positions for the Cluster of Excellence Circular Bioengineering, one of them in my lab at @bokuvienna.bsky.social on synthetic single carbon pathways in yeast. Stay tuned!

Just a suggestion - Can we celebrate women in STEM in the middle of the day please and not at evening events? And not always in London? And with a few more weeks’ notice? Thx

Deep-sea organisms shape ocean floor at 7.5 km depth Traces of organisms detected in sediments from 7.5 kilometers below the ocean surface reveal how organisms living in the deep sea are engineering their own environments. Analyses of sediment cores fro...

How little we understand about the #biodiversity of the deep oceans. Which we cannot afford to trash, as we have trashed the rest of the planet: #NoDeepSeaMining

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I have resigned my Fellowship of the #RoyalSociety due to their Council's inability to act proportionately on #ElonMusk.

See fediscience.org/@A_J_Millar/...

Beautiful image for engineering biology of microbes and metals interacting

<i>Microbiology</i> Editors: Call for expressions of interest 07 December 2024

The deadline for applications for #MicrobioJ Editors is in one week. If you are interested in getting involved, please find more information and details on how to apply:

The big thaw begins…

What a fab day! - loved seeing former colleague, the amazing @dave-thesmith.bsky.social, in his element lecturing about AI in teaching. Followed by @mjcapeness.bsky.social being awarded sustainability prize in the #CSEStaffAwards and then this turned up too #RSCPrizes

Congrats to the winner of the sustainability category at the college of science and engineering awards - our very own @mjcapeness.bsky.social

Me too please!

Microbiology Society Microbiology Society journals contain high-quality research papers and topical review articles. We are a not-for-profit publisher and we support and invest in the microbiology community, to the benefi...

Use it or lose it: Unless we publish papers in our society owned and published journals they will cease to be, along with all the conferences and meetings the proceeds support. Microbiology Society publishes many excellent journals, all edited by experts. #microsky www.microbiologyresearch.org

This is rather nice...
It feels a bit like moving house.

It has all the same things that the old house had, but feels a little bit different at first...

It's already starting to feel like home now a few friends have visited.

And this place hasn't got that awful crabby landlord...

Me too please

UKRI invests £5.8m to drive growth in engineering biology sector Funds allocated to seed corn and proof of concept initiatives through the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Technology Missions Fund.

Looking forward to using some of this investment to move our research closer to commercialisation www.ukri.org/news/ukri-in...

Annual Conference 2025

🚨 Today is the last day to submit abstracts for the Microbiology Society Annual Conference 2025 in Liverpool 🚨

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Bacteria helping to extract rare metals from old batteries in boost for green tech Team at University of Edinburgh using microbes to recycle lithium, cobalt and other expensive minerals

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Super helpful to have this list - thank you.

Thanks! I forgot to tag 🤦‍♀️

Thanks to both the IBioIC and the Edinburgh Genome Foundry for accelerating the development of this exciting emerging technology
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It’s #biology week and #recycling week, what a great excuse to share this animation m.youtube.com/watch?featur...