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I also enjoyed the description of scientific instruments as icebergs, with the capital cost the bit you can see, and the running costs and required infrastructure as the larger hidden piece underneath.

One new term I especially enjoyed was the term #Sciborg which referred to someone with scientific, software, and data science skills. An increasingly regularly spotted unicorn.

Coming home from the excellent #LabsOfTheFuture conference in #Amsterdam. Had great fun presenting this year, and the content of the other talks was excellent. Heading back to the @rosfrankinst.bsky.social very much inspired.

What sort of spider? I give all cellar spiders a free pass as they catch the nasty ones like the false window which we annoyingly have a number of who try to get in.

I totally agree :⁠-⁠) That's one of the main reasons I love giving tours, as introducing your normalised work to others lets you see it through their eyes, and remember how cool some of the things we do are.

A lively screenshot from an online “Meet the Scientists” chat with Peterhead Academy’s Astronomy Elective 🌌. Students and scientists are checking in, greeting each other, and talking about the weather before diving into space science discussions. ✨

And we're off again for another year of scintillating, surprising and superb chats.

Teachers, get your students involved: imascientist.org.uk/signup/t/
Scientists, Mathematicians, Engineers, get yourself involved: imascientist.org.uk/signup/c/

I assume it was a fresh batch, but it tasted just like I remembered!

Can you remember what the house was called?

Visual of segmented human induced pluripotent stem cells with the key workshop dates: Symposium on November 10-11, Hackathon on November 12-14th in Zurich Switzerland

We're happy to announce the 2025 International OME-NGFF workshop 🎉

📅 Dates:
- Symposium: Nov 10–11, 2025
- Hackathon: Nov 12–14, 2025

📍 Location: Zurich, Switzerland

Full details & registration: www.biovisioncenter.uzh.ch/en/events/Up... 

#bioimaging #openscience #OMENGFF #OMEZarr

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Although I found a lovely wood panelled room at Chirk Castle, it wasn't really set up for drinking in @alunashton.bsky.social :⁠-)

A bottle of Black Dragon Welsh cider with a lovely Welsh landscape backdrop.

Very much enjoyed a brief camping holiday to #Llangollen, we did a lot of excellent touristy things, and I very much enjoyed finding an old favourite from my last visit to #Wales for the Eisteddfod.

Make all research data available for AI learning, scientists urge - Research Professional News ‘Dark’ data from failed experiments should be analysed, argue experts

@markbasham.bsky.social, science director for AI, and @mdarrow.bsky.social, head of data strategy for cryoimaging at the Rosalind Franklin Institute, wrote about this topic for @resprofnews.bsky.social.

Read the news story and op-ed here - www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-i...

Quote from Dr. Mingda Ye, University of Oxford, highlighting the collaborative breakthrough in cryo-EM imaging of small proteins: “This idea was initiated when solving sub-50kDa protein structures by cryo-EM was almost impossible. To break this barrier, many world-class scientists in different fields have combined forces and it is a great honour to work with them to bring this game-changing tool into reality!” The background diagram outlines the scientific workflow used in the study.

Exciting work from the Franklin, @ox.ac.uk, and @diamondlightsource.bsky.social has led to a new method for imaging small proteins (<50 kDa) using cryoEM. By using bifunctional, bispecific nanobody scaffolds, the team have successfully solved the smallest protein structure to date (14 kDa).

YouTube video by Science Scribbler [Science Scribbler Q&A and Classify] CloudCatcher

Really enjoyed watching the #ScienceScribbler livestream on Twitch (www.twitch.tv/sciencescrib...), talking about one of the other @zooniverse.bsky.social projects that we share a campus with, the #CloudCatcher project. youtu.be/qjQiSALVOK8?...

📢We're hiring a Research Software Engineer!
Join the Franklin to support our research in native mass spectrometry and to help build 3D protein atlases of the mouse brain.
Bring your skills, grow your scientific independence, and contribute to ground-breaking biomedical research. zurl.co/EBTOP

This is a really exciting role working with me around some really exciting technologies and scientific data. Please feel free to get in touch if you would like more info.

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!

www.ft.com/content/b1e9...

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

A shaky picture of a sunrise through a tree from a bus window.

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.

So sorry to hear that :⁠-⁠(

"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...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

A circular image of scientists operating a piece of equipment set against grey and purple background. With a note: "We are hiring"

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.