Stefan Marciniak

Brandolini's law writ large
www.reuters.com/science/nasa...

November walk in and around #PapworthWood

Glad I have my EU citizenship (as a dual national). Will keep striving to get it returned to my fellow Brits who had it taken away from them by a proportion of their compatriots based on lies and petty nationalism 🇪🇺🇬🇧

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For anyone interested in student life, university admissions, and academic good news stories, I would recommend giving @stcatharines.bsky.social a follow

School pupils tour the Sherlock Library at St Catharine's during a visit

Spread the word! Outstanding UK students can experience life at Catz

@isaacphysics.org STEM SMART: apply by 31 Oct undergraduate.study....

@thecimr.bsky.social Inspiring Scientists: apply by 21 Nov cimr.cam.ac.uk/inspi...

@cam.ac.uk Bangla Soc Access Day: apply by 15 Dec forms.gle/KReLakbpAS...

The link again

www.cimr.cam.ac.uk/inspiring-sc...

All of these look great. The @thecimr.bsky.social one in Feb half term—Inspiring Scientists—is in my home department. Each CIMR lab offers a project and the students present their result in @stcatharines.bsky.social at the end of the week. Looking forward to 1 or 2 of the students being in May lab.

Applicant webinars 2025 St Catharine's College is collaborating with Brasenose College (University of Oxford) to deliver a series of free webinars in 2025 for students thinking of applying to the Universities of Oxford or Cambridge in 2026. Outreach staff will be delivering sessions with Oxbridge academics and students to:

We're hoping to avoid any interview horror stories this Halloween 👻 We've teamed up with @brasenoseoxford.bsky.social to host 11 online interview workshops 3–17 November for anyone applying to @cam.ac.uk or @ox.ac.uk for undergraduate courses. Find out more & sign up:

Do you know a Year 12 student from a Black African, Caribbean or mixed race background who is thinking about applying to Cambridge?

Target Oxbridge is a free mentoring programme that has helped over 500 students to secure Oxbridge offers.

Apply at targetoxbridge.app.candidx.io/roles before 23 Nov.

Carved pumpkins on a window sill overlooking Main Court at St Catharine's College

Carved pumpkins on a window sill at St Catharine's College

Prof. Stefan Marciniak wearing a black tie covered in pumpkin motifs

A glass containing 'brain pudding' (a variation on Eton Mess) with a felt pumpkin decoration next to it

Halloween at Catz 👻
🧡 Students carved their own pumpkins (credit: Yorgos Chatziavgerinos)
🧡 A terrifying tie choice by @profmarciniak.bsky.social (2011) for his meeting with our 3rd-year medical students
🧡 'Brain pudding' (Eton Mess) was served for dinner at our Halloween formal hall
@cam.ac.uk

For the first year medical students 🎃

Mwahaha !

Me ? NEVER !

They’ll have to take it from my cold, dead neck 😆💀👻🎃

In @stcatharines.bsky.social today to meet year 3 medical students. Next year, they’ll move up to the clinical school & I’ll become their director of studies. PfP (preparing for patients) meetings aim to help the transition from the basic science part of their course to the clinic part 🩺🎃

Bahamas flag flying over @stcatharines.bsky.social in #BlackHistoryMonth

Why the Bahamas? I understand the flag commemorates the College’s connections with the Bahamas thanks to its earliest known Black student, Alfred F. Adderley CBE (1912 Law)

www.caths.cam.ac.uk/BHM-flag

Now online in Cancer Discovery @aacrjournals.bsky.social: A Prognostic Signature for Lung Adenocarcinoma in Patients Who Have Never Smoked - by Wei Zhao, Maria Teresa Landi, and colleagues doi.org/10.1158/2159...

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Super excited for you !!

After lots more fascinating talks, Prof Robert Rintoul, Prof Judy Coulson & I went out to discover Philadelphia.

Yes, there was at least one Manhattan 🍸

And the CAM model by Judy Coulson from Liverpool

Now the first of two sessions on in vitro models of mesothelioma

And not forgetting the patient and carer voice

The #iMig2025 conference in Philadelphia. Lots of exciting developments in mesothelioma

😂 I may struggle to fit into my suit by the end of the conference!

Day 1 Philadelphia supplemental: Conference opening reception finger food.

The inevitable Philly Cheesesteak (probably the first of several), the twist being it’s from "Impossible Meat" ie veggie (but you wouldnt know)

And Yards Pale Ale - a Philadelphia craft ale, rather too much hops for me

Day 1 Philadelphia: Flight over with cheeky business free upgrade 🤭

Starter - Beetroot and British Cox apple tartare
Main - Short rib beef pie
Pudding - Warm apple crumble and almond pie

Generaciones Reserva Pinot Noir 2024, Chile (probably quite good but at altitude tasted a bit metallic)

I’ll take any edge I can get 😂

Nice surprise: upgraded to business.

The university, quite rightly,would never allow such extravagance and I’m too cheap to spend so much anyway.

Will definitely help me to do more work on the 8 hour flight 😁

Lovely morning walk near #PapworthWood before heading off to the airport (me not Zosia, that is 😁)

I'm very honoured to have been chosen for the Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Laurell's Training Award (ALTA), an early-career research fellowship

I would like to thank my supervisors @profmarciniak.bsky.social @joechambers.bsky.social, and my wonderful institute @thecimr.bsky.social for making this possible!

One day, I want to see the following bullet point

🇬🇧 UK’s path to rejoining

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😁