Science literacy rates are at an all time low

Every single one of the astronauts who went to the moon and back on Artemis II was educated at a public school.

Thinking of the teachers who poured into Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen tonight. You helped send a kid to the moon!

🌕 💛

Overlapping MHC class I/II Epitopes Program cDC1-like Differentiation of Monocyte-Derived Dendritic Cells via mTORC1 Signaling Inhibition www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04...

La nueva normalidad climática: un planeta en +1,5ºC.

Gráfica: días por encima de 1,5°C durante los primeros 3 meses desde 1940.

Se viene otro El Niño potente. Las emisiones, récord. Y seguimos destruyendo muchísima biodiversidad.

No hay planeta B.

I can't stop admiring this photo by the Artemis II crew made of the moon. (Nikon D5 shot at f 7.1 at 800th of a second on 400 iso at 80 mm)

Sweden goes back to basics, swapping screens for books in the classroom Sweden is bringing back books amid declining test scores.

Sweden goes back to basics, swapping screens for books in the classroom in attempt to reverse declines in reading, math, and science.
arstechnica.com/science/2026...

A full disc image of Earth, as seen from the Orion Crew Module. The planet is a pale blue, swirling with white clouds and glowing slightly lighter blue in place from reflected light. At lower left, a large brown landmass is Africa, with Spain and Portugal with twinkling lights where the planet curves. At top right, auroras glow in a thin green glow, just barely separated from the planet's surface. Earth is set against the black of space (pic: NASA/R.Wiseman)

More context on this #Artemis II image:

* This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right

* The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon:
☀️🌍🚀🌕

Black-and-white close-up portrait photograph of Yvonne Barr, the Australian-born virologist who co-discovered the Epstein-Barr virus in 1964. She is shown from the shoulders up against a brick wall background, wearing a short-sleeved polka-dot dress and dangling earrings, with short dark hair. She is turned slightly to her right, gazing off-camera with her mouth parted as if in mid-conversation.

#OTD in 1964, Yvonne Barr co-discovered the Epstein-Barr virus, the first known 𝘩𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯 tumor virus.

She cultured the cell lines that allowed the virus be seen. Proving viruses cause human cancer is "one of the 20th century's most significant scientific discoveries."

#WomenInSTEM #WomensHistoryMonth

Gastro-weekend with friends☺️ First attempt at making this black sesame and raspberry tart 👩🏻‍🍳 it was about time to come back to fine pâtisserie, turned out delicious! 😋

No crec q hagi sigut aquest post, però avui parla una “Professora”. Petites victòries 💪💜

Em sobta que a una catedràtica se la tracti de “Sra. Llop” a Via Lliure @rac1oficial.bsky.social crec que és important que es visibilitzi el Dra. o Prof., sobretot quan als homes catedràtics se’ls tracta sovint amb aquests títols.

Since 1994, immigrants have paid more in taxes than they receive in benefits every year.

Do not believe the lies you hear about immigrants.

They are good for society and the economy.

Much fun last evening at the East Oxford life drawing session 👩🏻‍🎨 Trying to be more experimental, mixing pen and watercolour here 🎨 #eastoxford #lifedrawing

Unraveling CD8 lineage decisions reveals that functionally distinct CD8+ T cells are selected by different MHC-I thymic peptides @natimmunol.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Tylenol during pregnancy is safe without increased risk of autism, ADHD, or intellectual disability of offspring
A new review of the evidence just out
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

"It's my turn to use the microscope"

Natural killer (NK) cells are primarily being assessed to treat cancer, but they have substantial potential for Rx of neurodegenerative diseases, viral infections, and autoimmune conditions. A first-rate review, open-access
rupress.org/jem/article/...

it's more of a comment than a ques

Great discussion - patient groups are central to A/I partnerships -especially in the ED/prevention space….

BLOG: Patient and Public Involvement in Research Are you interested in public engagement with cancer research? Julliet Lwiindi, Oxford Cancer's Public Engagement and Involvement Officer, shares a little about the ways in which you can engage with ou...

Are you interested in Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) in research?

Julliet Lwiindi, Oxford Cancer's PPI Officer, shares a little about how Cancer Researchers at the University of Oxford can engage with our PPI group 👇

www.cancer.ox.ac.uk/news/blog-pa...

Tim Elliott @timmunologist.bsky.social chairs today's panel discussion at #OXCODE25!

The panel consider: 'Are industry/academia partnerships essential for advancing early detection and prevention research for patient benefit?'

#OxfordCancer #Prevention #EarlyDetection

Backlash Hits Pantone After Color Of The Year Slammed As 'Tone Deaf,' 'Dystopian’ Pantone says the color is calming and relaxing. Critics say it's a reflection of the current political climate.

Pantone says the color is calming and relaxing. Critics say it's a reflection of the current political climate.

Order in which cancer-driving mutations occur affects the chance of tumour development Randomly acquired mutations face strong negative selection, except on certain cancer-promoting backgrounds.

What happens to the thousands of intestinal cells that have tumour-initiating DNA mutations?

go.nature.com/4rBbOtq

Study suggests up to 1 in 4 breast cancers happen before 50 - UPI.com As many as 1 in 4 breast cancers occur in women younger than 50, researchers said at the Radiological Society of North America's annual meeting.

Women younger than 50 consistently accounted for 1 in every 4 breast cancers detected. The data also showed that younger women not only carry a stable and substantial share of the breast cancer burden, but their tumors are often biologically aggressive. #RSNA25
www.upi.com/Health_News/...

photo of someone walking a dog in a park on a winter's day, with the sun low in the sky behind bare trees in an urban setting.

Only 3 weeks until the days start getting longer again ⛅

Hang in there, SAD people ❤️

Teens may have come up with a new way to detect, treat Lyme disease using CRISPR gene editing To compete at iGEM, a sort of science Olympics, teens at a Georgia high school set their sights on finding a better way to detect and treat Lyme disease. Their approach uses CRISPR gene editing.

Remarkable story of a Georgia high school team who used CRISPR to make a rapid diagnostic test strip for Lyme disease, speeding dx from 2 weeks to days
www.cbsnews.com/news/teens-m...

Huge respect to the papers for finding both an 88 year old worried about the tax bill on her 6 bedroom Kensington house and a 20 year old fretting about only being able to save £12k a year tax free.
Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.

Pope stands holding a baseball bat on a plane

Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat

Mechanism for selection and inhibition of an HIV-1 escape virus by T cells and NK cells (TCR- and KIR2DL2-HLA-C*12:02-peptide complexes)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@natcomms.nature.com @hokkaidouniv.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk