Mark Basham

A large room, with several families with small children standing in different hula hoops. The hoops are arranged in a pattern across the floor with lines connecting them.

Last week we welcomed visitors to the Franklin as part of the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Public Access Day! Families helped us to create a people powered network to learn about Artificial Intelligence and how machines make decisions.
@markbasham.bsky.social

We are developing a set of recommendations for AI-engaged projects on the Zooniverse. This includes a series of workshops and surveys to gather input from our community and experts in communications and ethics. Zooniverse participants have an opportunity to get involved! tinyurl.com/aipublicrese...

Edinburgh supercomputer to get £750mn in UK spending review Funding comes after Labour initially pulled money for the project last July

Long overdue,but this is a huge relief and great news for computational research in the UK!

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This is exciting! www.diamond.ac.uk/Home/News/La... @instruct-eric.bsky.social @fragment-screen.bsky.social @ukri.org @wellcometrust.bsky.social @cancerresearchuk.org

Thanks to everyone who has filled this in already - if you haven't, and you work in #volumeEM, please help us by filling in this survey about all-things data (analysis, processing, storage, transfer and anything else to do with data!)

📢 We're Hiring: Laboratory Technician
We're looking for a detail-oriented Laboratory Technician to join our team! If you have a background in science, enjoy hands-on work, and are passionate about precision, we'd love to hear from you. For further details, and to apply: zurl.co/gwyEE

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Up bright and early to see the beautiful sunrise this morning on my way to the 'NXCT at Manchester' lab launch event. Looking forward to catching up with some old colleagues and seeing all the exciting science they have been up to.

EMBO attendees outside of the Rosalind Franklin Institute

It was a pleasure to host the @embo.org practical course: Transposable Elements in the Era of Data Science last week. We welcomed participants from around the world for a week of hands-on experience in the computational analysis of transposable elements. Thank you to all of those who joined us.

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"We're Hiring Post Doctoral Researcher in X-Ray Microscopy" on a green background

📣 We're hiring a Post Doctoral Researcher in X-Ray Microscopy!
Be a part of a multidisciplinary team combining ultrafast lasers, soft X-Rays, and coherent diffractive imaging in a cutting edge laser lab.
For further details and to apply: zurl.co/l0WPY

BBC Radio 4 - Farming Today, 30/4/25 Welsh community food strategy, British-grown pulses, biostimulant for wheat New community food strategy for Wales.

📻Catch Cara Griffiths talking to about new results boosting wheat yield using the T6P biostimulant developed by Rothamsted, @ox.ac.uk & @rosfrankinst.bsky.social on
BBCR4 Farming Today this morning. First item in the programme...
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Applications are still open for our Post Doctoral Researcher in Quantitative Imaging Biology! If you are interested in exploring how epithelial cells self-organise using cutting edge tools like super-resolution STED, FLIM, FRET and FCS, please apply here: zurl.co/iIctt

Finally a massive congratulations to the #CyanCoyotes who worked as a great team, and managed to get to #DodgeBolt, the final game of the event. They kept us on the edge of our seats with an incredibly close game, being just beaten in the final round! A well deserved 2nd place!

It was the first time we had properly watched a live stream event, and we all loved it. The event itself was run amazingly! With very little downtime and a great flow between the events, I was so impressed by the effort #TheNoxcrew obviously put in to make it work so well.

The boys and I stayed up late last night to watch @mcchampionship.com for the first time, and it was really great! We were backing team #CyanCoyotes and watched #GTWScar for the first half, and @smallishbeans.bsky.social for the second half. With #AntFrost and @falsesymmetry.bsky.social

Great wrap-up for the #CCPEMSpringSymposium25 with some upcoming exciting things around sustainable EM, tomography data standards and the next heterogeneity challenge! All interesting, but the first two really peak my interest! Thanks @ccpem.bsky.social for an amazing conference!

Lovely talk from @alisterburt.bsky.social at #CCPEMSpringSymposium25 about the really cool #OpenSource work that #TeamTomo have been upto as well as other exciting things! #Warp4Penguins

Last day of #CCPEMSpringSymposium25 and really looking forward to the talks and posters today.

Another excellent talk highlighting how the #emdb, #EMPIAR and broader team @ebi.embl.org is making some great improvements around data management especially how it can be accessed in more machine friendly ways. Loving the focus on simplicity which seems to be a key driver. #CCPEMSpringSymposium25

Realy like the integrations with instrumentation and automation that @diamondlightsource.bsky.social is doing at #eBIC which they have highlighted at the #CCPEMSpringSymposium25 some lovely use of modern tech stacks #Kubernetes #Grafana

Lovely to hear about all of the exciting work that @ccpem.bsky.social have been up to over the last year at the #CCPEMSpringSymposium25 Especially the tomography pipeline work :⁠-⁠) #TeamTomo

On my way to the @ccpem.bsky.social Spring Symposium. Really looking forward to catching up with the community and seeing what's new in the field! #NeedAGoodTag

PERC: a suite of software tools for the curation of cryoEM data with application to simulation, modelling and machine learning Ease of access to data, tools and models expedites scientific research. In structural biology there are now numerous open repositories of experimental and simulated datasets. Being able to easily acce...

We've released a suite of tools profet, EMPIARreader and CAKED. If you want python tools to fetch protein structures, lazy load EMPIAR data and integrate into ML workflows take a look... arxiv.org/abs/2503.13329

Call for Submissions - RSECon25 Call for submissions RSECon25 will be accepting a wide variety of formats to contribute to our programme. This year we want to work our two themes into as many of the talks, interactive sessions and…

📣 Thank you to everyone who has already submitted their proposals to RSECon25.

To give you all a little more time and take some pressure off the Easter break we will be extending the submissions deadline to the 2nd May (at midnight 🕛 ).

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But not bullets right?

BioCOP - the UK’s first multimodular optical microscope - has entered its testing phase. The microscope allows super-resolved imaging of live cells in their native environments.

The team will be focussing on immunology and host-pathogen interactions.

Read more here - www.rfi.ac.uk/latest/bioco...

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📣 We're hiring a Senior Scientist in Electron Ptychography!
Join our team to lead innovative research in electron ptychography and push the boundaries of high-resolution imaging.
For further details and to apply: zurl.co/c0hzE

Call for Strategic Partnerships - RFI The Rosalind Franklin Institute are seeking to make a new 5-year joint appointment in each of two key strategic areas for the Franklin, Structural Biology and Artificial Intelligence, collaborating wi...

The @rosfrankinst.bsky.social is currently looking for a 50% secondment in AI to work with me and everyone at the Franklin. Please pass on the info to others who might be interested, and please do get in touch if you would like any more information.

www.rfi.ac.uk/latest/call-...

Call for Strategic Partnerships - RFI The Rosalind Franklin Institute are seeking to make a new 5-year joint appointment in each of two key strategic areas for the Franklin, Structural Biology and Artificial Intelligence, collaborating wi...

The @rosfrankinst.bsky.social is currently looking for a 50% secondment in AI to work with me and everyone at the Franklin. Please pass on the info to others who might be interested, and please do get in touch if you would like any more information.

www.rfi.ac.uk/latest/call-...