Join us this Wednesday to hear about fascinating research from @kashyapchhatbar.bsky.social and @a-radzisheuskaya.bsky.social!
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We have another exciting #FragileNucleosome seminar for you next week! @sunil-k-pradhan.bsky.social and
Genevieve Fourel will share their fascinating stories on chromatin and genome organization.
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'I see no changes'
We are excited to be recruiting into 3 Associate Professorship's in @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social. Come join us as a colleague and benefit from our vibrant and multidisciplinary environment. Reach out to me if you have any questions. Please repost! (tinyurl.com/48deybuu) (tinyurl.com/4pdvjaft).
I'll never look at my mollies in the same way again, though I think mine are the boring sexual type.
the most annoying shift in my academic career
That time of year again when I make my Mendel impression.
I suppose these are peaches and not peas, and will be furry not wrinkled, and I'm a biochemist not a geneticist, but I'm claiming it anyway.
“We need this information. It’s part of the beauty and complexity that’s out there on Earth. Humans hardly know anything.”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Baby guppy update.
Baby guppies!
Did you know: guppies have 23 chromosomes, the same as humans.
We've got two exciting chromatin talks coming up on Wednesday next week:
@epijenatics.bsky.social from @jbuenrostro.bsky.social's lab and @ambystoma22.bsky.social!
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Spring vibes
@cmcbcakeclub.bsky.social has had a fitness push.
"When I contacted OpenAI’s support, the first responses came from an AI agent." - Kind of expected, no? www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Join us in Warwick for a fun two-day symposium and celebrate the career of Prof Rob Cross!
warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/med/...
This term in my lab we are trialling a chalk-talk journal club format with emphasis on concepts and implications: no Powerpoint, no presentation of data.
The word 'leverage' in biomedical literature (as search by Pubmed trends). I wonder what is behind it. Every other abstract I read now seems to be leveraging.
Great news in the fight against antimicrobial resistance!
Two oral antibiotics have been approved by the FDA for uncomplicated urogenital gonorrhea. As Neisseria gonorrhoeae is becoming resistant to all known antibiotics, such breakthroughs were urgently needed. (1/4)
www.fda.gov/news-events/...
🧬🎉Join us on Dec 17th for our last session of 2025! 🎉🧬Two fantastic talks on transcriptional regulation:
🔬JB Lalanne on developmental enhancers (and starting a lab in 2025?)
🔬 @rberrens.bsky.social on transposable elements in development
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This is wild
Sometimes sense does prevail.
Today, we make further steps in our renewed EU-UK strategic partnership.
We have concluded the negotiations for the UK’s association to Erasmus+ in 2027.
Bringing back Erasmus+ for our young people, opening the door to new shared experiences and lasting friendships.
Took us a bit, but proud of this published version. We now examine the genetic interaction of phosphorylation with oligomerization and where bulk and phospho-Swi6 localize. Wonder if chromatin affinity tuning to enable Suv39 H3K9me3 spreading is a conserved mechanism ?
doi.org/10.1093/nar/...
Potato or DNA polymerase?
Oh ffs. No, I do not want to "Chat with the PDF" of this interesting looking academic journal article I just came across.
I would like to read it. With my own eyeballs. And think about it. You know, with that grey matter sitting between my ears.
Just make it stop.
#AcademicChatter
Bovine Faecal Society AGM tomorrow?
