Alan Goddard

I went to the world's worst zoo. It only had a single dog. It was a Shih Tzu

Biochemical Society's Membrane Protein Conference
7–9 April 2026
Birmingham, UK | Leonardo Royal Hotel

- Abstracts welcome for talks & posters
- Bursaries available!
- Register & submit here:
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#MembraneProteins #CallForAbstracts @biochemsoc.bsky.social

*PhD project is live*

Lipid-Based Nanotechnologies for Probing and Modulating Host–Microbe Interfaces

Joint between Aston and Birmingham University with @owenlabuob.bsky.social and @alangoddard.bsky.social

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This episode of Mark Steele's in Town about Handsworth is brilliant. It's the Birmingham I grew up in, moved back to and work in, at one of the most diverse and integrated Universities in the UK. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...

Birmingham, my home city, is a fantastic city, with fantastic people- a success story. It has its problems, like anywhere. But the obsession the online right has with it is as transparent as it gets.

Novel polymers for tunable protein-lipid nanodisc formation at Aston University on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Novel polymers for tunable protein-lipid nanodisc formation at Aston University, listed on FindAPhD.com

Come and do a PhD with us - we are interested to hear from biochemists and chemists who are interested in making cool technology inspired by cell membranes! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

🗓️ SAVE THE DATE: 24-25th June 2026 #UKSTEMConf26

The 2026 UK Horizons in STEM HE conference will take place at Royal Holloway.This conference is an opportunity for all STEM colleagues to share their insights into teaching innovation, pedagogy, & develop connections across the STEM disciplines.

two oysters are being cooked on a grill and one of them has a bite taken out of it . Alt: A couple of oysters with no pearls

Made me feel all like this...

Ok, putting it out there, I think Invincibles are going to win by over 100 here.... #TheHundred

Phycobloom are great people, nice to see you working with them!

Is also a tmesis which is the only English word that starts with "tm"

As someone who was sat in the ground, Sky's are ludicrous. 99% to win when they need 20 off 5 with NSB on strike...

Was a great catch and hopefully Cricinfo get her name right as she deserves those stats from today. Nice to see the Phoenix women actually win at home for once! Look a stronger team than the last 2 years.

Betaine has always been my best friend in these situations

Stunning view of the second best cricket ground in the country #ComeOnYouBears

Great to be at Old Trafford (the good one 😉) for The Hundred again. Although I am wearing my Phoenix top and Bears cap...

Mine too. More worrying is the fact she can lead us there without hesitation.

A PIss Up? dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/e...

Feeling appropriate again....

He lost the toss again. 15 in a row 🤣

Gill really is a useless tosser #ENGvIND

Ozzy Osbourne Farewell Show Was The Highest-Grossing Charity Concert Of All Time On July 5, Ozzy Osbourne put on a farewell concert, performing as a solo artist and with Black Sabbath for the last time in the band’s hometown of Birmingham, UK. Billed as the “Back To The Beginning”...

Ozzy going out after raising $190 million for sick kids and a Parkinson’s cure is metal AF.

A little less even

Completely agree. And if the players (generally) could behave a little like a knock on the ankle was a life threatening injury. Get Nigel Owens in and he'll tell them like it is!

It feels like she's adopted the rugby attitude where the squad all play a part and you have "finishers" who basically come on and run the opposition ragged when they are knackered.

I've only ever done it for proteins but there are some papers out there about doing it for polymers. I think it depends how "exchangeable" the protons are

I've asked my mates and they can't, sorry. With the caveat that I'm not a polymer chemist, but I spend an awful lot of time working with some. You don't seem to be able to buy a deuterated monomer which would make it difficult. Have you thought about doing hydrogen deuterium exchange on bought PEI?

Can that please be it for Zak Crawley now? Put him out of my misery #EngVInd #cricketsky #cricket

He's Zak Crawley and I claim my £1

If we had a decent 1 and 3, to go with an engine room of Root, Brook and Smith, we'd be decent. There must be better players in county cricket whose dads aren't best mates with Rob Key

I went to all 5 days at Edgbaston and, although England were generally poor, Crawley stood out as uniquely incompetent. He just looks like a walking wicket. Pope alternates between briefly sublime and clueless.