Lindsay Keith

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A group of people playing board games

Professor Martin Griffiths presenting to a crowd

A woman is looking at a range of African and Caribbean food

A bracelet that says BHM and LMS

This month for Black History Month, the LMS hosted a talk by Professor Martin Griffiths, organised by @imperialsandc.bsky.social

After the talk, we celebrated African and Caribbean culture, with homemade food, a bracelet making station and music from our Black History playlist

Is it a birb? Is it a borb? Is it a floof? (Find out here www.audubon.org/magazine/whe...)

Know a medic who's keen on research but struggling to find a way in that works with their NHS career? Please share our Chain Florey programme, designed to address the dwindling numbers of clinician scientists in the uk.

Black and white portrait of John Gurdon, 1971

John Gurdon, former Group Leader and Head of @cellbiol-mrclmb.bsky.social has died.
Despite calling himself a "total non-intellectual” his work to reprogramme somatic cells to pluripotent stem cells transformed the field of developmental biology.
More: www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/john-gurdon-...
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Find us here:
•Nsikan Nsek: talk OC-18 'Disease Models' (Fri 26th @12:15)

•Isabel Liseth: P-145
•Miriam Rodriguez-Vazquez: P-281
•Helena Cochemé: P-283
(all Poster Session II, Sat 27th @15:45)

Plus I’m looking forward to chairing the 'Physiology & Metabolism' session! (Sat 27th @10:30)

#LMSonTour

Arrived in Alicante, and excited for this year’s #EDRC2025! 🪰🧪🔬🧫🥼🧬🪰 The #LMS is well represented at the meeting - catch us at our talk/poster presentations!

#Drosophila #Redox #Ageing #DiseaseModels #Cancer #Obesity

@mrc-lms.bsky.social

I work as an elder and hospice caregiver, which I am oddly passionate about. I can love on them shamelessly and no one complains about my codependence. It's a win-win situation. Many of my caregiving colleagues complain about the repetitive questions and, sometimes reactions, of the elderly, especially when those patients happen to read the newspaper, especially with the current downward spiral of our country — as if these people haven't lived through enough horror... I love my dementia peeps, but sometimes wonder if there's a Guinness Book World Record for how many times an hour a dementia patient can repeat the same question — it's got to be in the hundreds. At least with small children, they ask different questions. Dementia patients will get stuck on one short question and ask it until you can interrupt their train(carousel) of thought and successfully redirect their attention. That carousel is pretty manic sometimes. A couple days ago, I picked up my mail from the post office and drove over to the nursing home to take (let's call her "Miss Daisy") Miss Daisy out for a drive. Before we took off on our road trip, to the end of The Road and back, in our landlocked little town (Juneau, Alaska), I set my copy of The Onion down in front of her. Over our two-hour excursion, tiny Miss Daisy read that front page at least a dozen times and each time she would snicker, giggle, and guffaw, then put it down on the dash board and, a minute later, discover it anew. I think it was the best afternoon of my life. We don't often hear them laugh and when they do, it's the sweetest thing you've ever heard. ... Thank you, thank you, thank you, for the really important work all of you do. You make the world a better place.

I got permission to share this, and I'm extremely grateful for that.

The Onion got this letter from one of our subscribers in Alaska. She works with dementia patients and decided to leave a copy in the car for each one.

This email made my year. Read it and you'll see what I mean. People are good.

Furiously logging all the new budget news, laughing grimly that it landed *just after* we hit publish. Of course it did.

Grateful that the entire point of @unbreaking.org is to give us a durable platform where we can keep integrating new developments. We'll digest, contextualize & update next week.

"An Atlantic puffin on Maine's on Eastern Egg Rock appears to imitate a decoy on July 9 by standing on one leg. Decoys were used to lure the gregarious birds ashore after they were re-introduced to the island following a 100-year absence." CREDIT: Robert F. Bukaty

Puffins are social, so to attract them to Maine's rocky islands, National Audubon's Seabird Restoration Program put out decoys to attract real birds.

This puffin is trying to fit in with his new friend by standing on one leg.

Seabird peer-pressure can be intense.

(📷: Robert F. Bukaty)

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Me, with a PhD scrutinising #GCSE biology answers...

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Who else is doing #GCSE revision enthusiasm as their new hobby?

Ah the Immune Army! Loved making this film, what a fun opportunity. 😊 Happy International #dayofimmunology!

Beautiful!

Today would have been a nice day for a blat. Time for a new bike?

Our collective commitment NASW was founded more than 90 years ago with a mission to “fight for the free flow of science news.” That mission is imperative, yet threatened by recent challenges to the First Amendment and the free...

The National Association of Science Writers is strongly committed to the free exchange of scientific information, diversity in science and science communication, and combating propaganda. Here are encouragement & resources & a call for ideas from @sciencewriters.org: 🧪 www.nasw.org/article/our-...

Last year I was jogging and one of mine fell out, bounced across the pavement and went down a drain. Undeterred, I finished my run and returned to the scene of the crime with a fishing rod and a magnet and sat by the side of Peckham Rye like a demented garden gnome until I retrieved it.

Never realised before but I appear to have actual antlers in this one. 👍

I'll see if I can find!

Such a queen at social media I missed this post from the other half. 😂 Happy twenty years! ❤️🎉🎊

I wonder if it's still on a hard drive....? 😱

Ten years ago "Uncle Mike" tried to convince the world of the benefits of video conferencing before Zoom was even a thing. Featuring awesome @leesimpson.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYO8... (also starred in this definitely-not-for-broadcast follow-up) www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzTc...

I hope you'll be doing the dances?

Who’s quitting academia? Data reveal gender gaps in surprising fields Even in scientific areas in which women are well represented, they are up to 40% more likely than men to leave research within 20 years.

“‘It’s very easy to assume that science is going to change organically towards equality — and what this study shows is that that’s not happening…It is an ‘important reminder for us that we need to stay vigilant in working towards equality in science’” @crsugimoto.bsky.social 🧪
#AcademicSky 👩🏽‍🔬

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This is incredibly disappointing: "Countries fail to reach agreement in UN plastic talks".

tinyurl.com/y9v4bx9z

Plastic usage is increasing dramatically & we've got to face up to fixing the system we've created. We covered all that and more on a recent Rare Earth:

www.bbc.co.uk/progra...

Science Teachers! Book Lovers! Random people following me on here for no good reason! Want an early Christmas Present? I have a load of Kindle editions of "Why Don't Things Fall Up?" to give away - just ask and ye shall receive! alomshaha.com/portfolio/wh...

At our @mrc-lms.bsky.social away day at the RI today.

Congrats!

The oldest science society in the world, The Royal Society, has a motto which is “Take No-one’s Word for it”. A guiding principle in science? Yes. But also perhaps an attack on the idea that those in power were to be believed regardless.