David Stephens

In autumn 2024, David Stephens, a brilliant scientist, leader and mentor, passed away. @jondlane.bsky.social and George Banting reflect on David’s immense contributions to the scientific community, including his role as JCS Editor.
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

Honored to be invited to speak about my career journey with the SWBio DTP as part of #InternationalWomensDay @bristoluni.bsky.social

Our final years have just started their 3 day #Thesis BootCamp - with Dr Peta Freestone (the creator)!

Announcement!!! 📢
PhD scholarships available at the new EPSRC CDT Resilient Chemistry @uniofnottingham.bsky.social @nottinghamtrentuni.bsky.social 🧪💡🔌

Deadline to apply 28 March 2025 5pm - start 1 Oct 2025, info & research themes 👇
reschem-nottingham-cdt.ac.uk/apply/

#phd #chemistry #research

Funding for conferences and training – Practical Courses – EMBO Funding for courses that provide training in experimental techniques and promote the transfer of methodologies.

EMBO Practical Courses provide training in experimental techniques. Apply to organize your course by 1 March:
www.embo.org/funding/funding-for-conf...
#ResearchFunding #LifeSciences 🧪

FindAPhD : PhD studentships with the South West Biosciences Doctoral Training Partnership (SWBio DTP) at University of Bristol Apply for a PhD: PhD studentships with the South West Biosciences Doctoral Training Partnership (SWBio DTP) at University of Bristol

Interested in iPSCs, neurons, and autophagy? Looking for a PhD? Then you might be interested in this!
We have a PhD project on characterising the neuronal autophagosome assembly site on the
@SWBio_DTP
programme. You can find details here:
www.findaphd.com/phds/program...

FindAPhD : PhD studentships with the South West Biosciences Doctoral Training Partnership (SWBio DTP) at University of Bristol Apply for a PhD: PhD studentships with the South West Biosciences Doctoral Training Partnership (SWBio DTP) at University of Bristol

Interested in iPSCs, astrocytes, and neuroinflammation? Looking for a PhD? Then you might be interested in this! We have a PhD project available with
@LACrompton80
on the
@SWBio_DTP
programme.
You can find details here:
www.findaphd.com/phds/program...

a thinking smiley face has a hand on its chin ALT: a thinking smiley face has a hand on its chin

Thinking what to do this weekend?🤔

Why not apply to @BBSRC SWBio DTP😀

A #PhD training programme in the #biosciences based mainly across the South West + Wales

>100 projects available across wide range of disciplines 👉
shorturl.at/HQCdE

Application deadline⏰Midnight, Wed 11 Dec

UCL – University College London UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

New position at UCL!! Lecturer in Neuroscience in the Department of Imaging Neuroscience, home to the internationally renowned Functional Imaging Laboratory (FIL). Details are here: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/.... 70% research, 30% teaching on a new BSc Neuroscience course.

These are a nightmare for VI people. Please keep up the pressure.

Actually, it would be nice to be on this list 🙏

Add me at your peril!

Starter packs BIOLOGY General Science community https://go.bsky.app/HVYAMEA Research Institutions in Life Sciences https://go.bsky.app/LxXpcvJ LGBTQIA+ in STEM https://go.bsky.app/BFc4wgf LGBTQIA+ in STEM 2 h...

Thank you so much to whoever put this very comprehensive list of #science Bsky starter packs together. This is just amazing: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Poster describing the SWBio DTP

Our #bioscience PhD projects available to start with us in Sept 25!😀 4-year, fully-funded, cohort-based PhD training.
Deadline⏰11 Dec 24
Projects tinyurl.com/mrxxnpf7

MagLOV!

MagLOV is a fluorescent protein you can "turn off" with a handheld magnet, engineered by @mariaingaramo.bsky.social.

We think/hope we can use it to turn arbitrary proteins (including drugs!) on and off in opaque creatures (including humans!).

bsky.app/profile/addg...

Structural basis for growth factor and nutrient signal integration on the lysosomal membrane by mTORC1 Mechanistic target of rapamycin complex 1 (mTORC1), which consists of mTOR, Raptor, and mLST8, receives signaling inputs from growth factor signals and nutrients. These signals are mediated by the Rhe...

Hurley lab new study - looks extremely good.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Pathogenic proteotoxicity of cryptic splicing is alleviated by ubiquitination and ER-phagy RNA splicing enables the functional adaptation of cells to changing contexts. Impaired splicing has been associated with diseases, including retinitis pigmentosa, but the underlying molecular mechanis...

This looks very nice from Ivan's lab!
#Autophagy
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Two vertical parallel number lines, scaled logarithmically. The left one refers to energies, listing the amount of energy of 1 cubic meter of empty space, or the energy gained by a grain of sand falling one meter. The right hand side shows masses, such as the mass of a proton, the mass of dark matter in a cubic meter of space, the mass of a water molecule, or the mass of a Higgs boson. The examples listed span a scale of a couple orders of magnitude, so, they're very loosely similar.

You may have heard of E=mc2.

You may have even heard of it written more properly with a squared symbol.

But... how do mass and energy *actually* compare? Spend your Friday exploring the scales of the universe in this Minute Labs project: Mass-Energy Scale. 🧪 ⚛️
https://buff.ly/3AVzDXo

As my lab's first post on Bluesky. If you are a UK Structural Biologist please come to our one day meeting on Friday 6th December
Lots of talk slots to be selected from abstracts.
Deadline for abstracts is TOMORROW: Friday 15th Nov.
bit.ly/4fDEqfZ

Advert for PhD projects on the SWBio Doctoral Training Partnership - a PhD programme in the South West and South Wales. Deadline for applications 11th December. visit www.swbio.ac.uk for further details

SWBio........

Major funding to support next generation of biology and environmental researchers The University of Bristol will be among the beneficiaries of £36m in funding announced today [13 November] to support the next generation of researchers across the South West and Wales aiming to solve...

Great news that we have received a Doctoral Landscape Award from the BBSRC to renew the SWBio DTP! This new £22.4 investment will fund ~160 4-year PhD studentships over 5 years (subject to midterm review!).
www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2024/no...

Major investment to support the next generation of researchers Thousands of doctoral students will be supported by UK Research and Innovation via two new schemes called doctoral landscape awards and doctoral focal awards.

Fantastic news of major investment that
@BBSRC
are making for #PhD #bioscience students🙌 - 293Million!
Also very pleased to announce that
@SWBio_DTP
has been funded to support training these next generation of researchers
Further info:
www.ukri.org/news/major-i...

FindAPhD : PhD studentships with the South West Biosciences Doctoral Training Partnership (SWBio DTP) at University of Bristol Apply for a PhD: PhD studentships with the South West Biosciences Doctoral Training Partnership (SWBio DTP) at University of Bristol

Interested in iPSCs, neurons, and autophagy? Looking for a PhD? Then you might be interested in this!
We have a PhD project on characterising the neuronal autophagosome assembly site on the
@SWBio_DTP
programme. You can find details here:
www.findaphd.com/phds/program...

FindAPhD : PhD studentships with the South West Biosciences Doctoral Training Partnership (SWBio DTP) at University of Bristol Apply for a PhD: PhD studentships with the South West Biosciences Doctoral Training Partnership (SWBio DTP) at University of Bristol

Interested in iPSCs, astrocytes, and neuroinflammation? Looking for a PhD? Then you might be interested in this! We have a PhD project available with
@LACrompton80
on the
@SWBio_DTP
programme.
You can find details here:
www.findaphd.com/phds/program...

Unprecedented £225m investment to create UK's most powerful supercomputer in Bristol Details of a £225m investment from the Government to create the UK's fastest supercomputer at the University of Bristol have been announced today [1 November 2023].

Super, supercomputer. Super, super cool!
Fab to have this investment in (super cool) Bristol!
Amazing effort by all concerned!
www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2023/no...

Oh yes - came out during the Tory conference....

So we don't forget the broader context with this beauty posted on X....

Interesting - I will have a good read of this later. On quick glance the importance of shaping and adapting to individual students and their (potentially changing) personal circumstances is is highlighted, which I am pleased to see......

At 5pm today we find out if UKRI will stand up for academic freedom. Not optimistic but really hoping to be proved wrong...