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Come join us! Great community and in a great location. Transcription and Chromatin Uk from @biochemsoc.bsky.social

Still time to sign up for this talk tomorrow. Professor Alana Welm will be talking her work developing patient derived models for cancer therapy.

YBRI Online Biomedical Sciences Seminar 2025 Join our online biomedical sciences seminar open to UG, PG students, postdocs, ECRs and Group Leaders!

YBRI (@ybri-uoy.bsky.social) are hosting @alanawelm.bsky.social for an online seminar on 9th May 2pm BST.

Prof Welm will be presenting her work on "Modeling metastatic breast cancer to advance therapeutic strategies".

Please share, and register to join at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ybri-onlin...

Cryogenic PCR is underrated.

Yes, they’ve been lovey. Sight seeing today. Fly to Melbourne tomorrow to visit the Peter Mac.

Chromatin & transcription meeting is back again. Register your interest here www.biochemistry.org/events-and-t...

This is amazing.

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Oh and now I see the typo. After it gets liked.

Unfair on magic beans.

Was a please to be hosted for a Seminar today. Fantastic team at the Lowy doing great work on fighting children’s cancer. Lots of ideas for follow up!

It’s been decades since I worked for them. But back then, my surprise was to discover how big the newsagent part of the business was. Shipping physical papers to shops (not just WHS), and taking back unsold ones.

I guess that has dried up too.

Having owned a Japan built Nissan (I didn’t realise at the time, was a second-hand first edition Leaf as sold to UK market). You suddenly rediscover logistics on parts etc for repairs when they’re surface shipped (3 months) to dealers.

I’m surprised we export them to US not the EU. But Vauxhall, Nissan, Toyota and Mini all have big factories in the UK (I think?).

Newborn babies were the one thing that cured my insomnia.

Suddenly I could fall asleep anywhere…

Depends on age, many are research active. However, I assume many are also retired/emeritus. A minority of those members are then probably active in policy/RS governance.

Therefore, while I’ve made many assumptions, I think that leaves a non-trivial number for which my query is not disingenuous.

I would love to know what you loose by turning in an FRS.

You still got an FRS…. So the recognition is not lost.

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ScienceSky I'm putting up a signal. I'm working on a new series of Horrible Science for Children's BBC. We would love to chat to experts about their favourite science facts for kids. I'm looking to chat to chemists first as well as some peeps who know their human biology.

I love talking to school kids about how science told Scott of the Antarctic that limes cure scurvy, despite everyone knows they do and the UK navy used them 100 years earlier.

I also have a great talk on how making bread from air fuelled a world war.

Post a ship that’s not Star Wars or Star Trek.

Oh the IIRC half eight is regional in German … which is more confusing.

Helen has put together this wonderful list of all science festivals in the UK over the year.

As a teen watching TNG I wasn’t sure what a conference is.

As a researcher, I wonder why you would leave you posting on the equivalent of an artic survey ship to go to a conference.

I guess academic work was an easy target it under open access? Mines in there too.

Ah. Another person from my school scurvy talk. And Phoebe Pember.

Many of my research papers, but not my guardian articles. I think that might have saved humanity.

We could do with another Dangleway.

You should take that up with @transportforlondon.bsky.social,
The London Underground is mostly Overground. Yet the Overground is something else.

The tfl boats are boats though.

There’s definitely a cycle of it being unfashionable on and off.

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Seeing your other replies. qPCR for the specific alleles? Also use locked bases if specificity is a challenge? eu.idtdna.com/pages/techno...

This was a standard lesson at one point, I did it at primary as growing up appliances didn’t come with plugs. However, I’m surprised you did it at 15 given I expect that it as no longer an issue by then.