We are very excited to share the full programme for the London Open Science & Scholarship Festival 2026 and announce that bookings are officially open! ✨

Find all the details on the Open@UCL blog 👉 buff.ly/S7yECkO

a woman in a long dress is standing under a tree with the word willow on the bottom ALT: a woman in a long dress is standing under a tree with the word willow on the bottom

Gaia, Earth Mother, has spoken in Gorton and Denton

Manousos de Pluribus todo cunty

#Pluribus finale

Staring up at the aurora shimmering above. So beautiful.

If you need a last minute Christmas present, consider haunted shoe.

A new Nipah virus vaccine (HeV-sG-V) has cleared Phase 1, showing no serious safety issues and promising immune responses in 40 adult volunteers—an early but important step for global health security. Learn more:
historyofvaccines.org/blog/phase-o...

A large Christmas tree decorated with pink and blue lights in front of the ivy-covered UCL building.

Season’s Greetings from UCL🎄

UCL will be closed from 5:30pm on Tuesday 22 Dec 2025 to 9:00am on Monday 5 Jan 2026. Students can access support services during this time.

🔗 More details: www.ucl.ac.uk/students/support-and-wel...

Foto der zu rund 3 % beleuchteten Mondsichel vom 18. Dezember 2025 kurz nach dem Aufgang über den Bergen des Harz, aufgenommen mit 420 mm Brennweite.

Leuchtend orangener Himmel kurz vor Sonnenaufgang am 19. Dezember 2025 über den Bergen des Harz, aufgenommen mit 70 mm Brennweite

Yesterday morning, I spotted the razor-thin crescent of the 28-day-old #moon just above the horizon. It was invisible to the naked eye, but it was a magnificent view through binoculars.
This morning, there was a spectacular #sunrise to enjoy – what a display of colour! 🔭

Reaching for the Sun
A group of #Cedar #Trees in the little #Forest adjacent to the community where I live in #RidgefieldWA #PNW
#WeekYForYearPast #Photography

🌳🍁🍂 #trees #woodland #treeclub

Winter Woodland #trees #treeclub #croydon

A revolutionary gene therapy called base editing, developed by @uclchildhealth.bsky.social's Prof Waseem Qasim & his team, is helping patients including Alyssa Tapley, 16, fight a previously incurable blood cancer @uclpophealthsci.bsky.social @greatormondst.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/de...

Man After Man: An Anthropology of the Future (1990) is a speculative book written by Scottish geologist Dougal Dixon and illustrated by Philip Hood. The scene depicts a future evolutionary descendant of man a "tundra dweller" attacked by a different descendants species of man in a wintery setting. I'm the distance more large assed members of the tundra dwellers ignore the violent scene. SEASONS GREASONS ONE AND ALL

SEASON'S GREASONS

These single food exposure➡️specific diagnosis studies are often confounded to hell. But OTOH, when they feed my confirmation bias I find them extraordinarily valid, and I’m happy to infer a solid causal connection here.

... plus catapults and airguns

Is a conjugative plasmid 'alive'? If you think so, apply for this PhD and design life
Use LLMs to design a conjugative plasmid that spreads through bacteria as an AI-designed genetic Trojan horse to suppress AMR genes

Is there anything that sugar, eggs and alcohol doesn't improve?

Too many Depeche Mode fans in tech

Meet the only truly hypoallergenic cats in the world | Medical News Bulletin Love cats but suffer from allergies? Learn how Korean scientists created the first allergen-free cat with MNB's Dr Cliff Dominy

This could well be the most important story on MNB this year. Did you know that South Korean gods of molecular biology have made the first TRUE hypoallergenic cat? Take my damn money! medicalnewsbulletin.com/hypoallergen... 🧪 VetMed #MolBiol #immunosky 🧬

Chrck out @ucl.ac.uk Doctoral Centre in fighting Antimicrobial Resistance for PhD studentship opportunities www.ucl.ac.uk/mathematical...

🚨 #UCL is now offering 50 fully funded PhD studentships through the EPSRC Landscape Award 2026/27 — apply by 5 Jan 2026: wp.me/p23f03-hyp

#UELA #PhDScholarship #FullyFunded #PhDOpportunities #STEMScholarships #StudyInTheUK #InternationalStudents #ResearchFunding

🧬🤖 NEW PhD opportunity in my group: Using AI genome design tools to halt antimicrobial resistance spread!
Combining LLMs with synthetic biology to tackle one of medicine's biggest challenges! #SynBio #AMR #AI
www.ucl.ac.uk/mathematical...
Project application:
www.ucl.ac.uk/mathematical...

🔬 Funded PhD 'Engineering self-regulating CAR-T cells' #SynBio #EngBio #iGEM2025 Work across mammalian synthetic biology & mathematical modelling. ⏰ Apply by 1pm UK, 5 Jan 2026 Project details: ucl-epsrc-dtp.github.io/2026-27-proj... Project application portal: www.ucl.ac.uk/epsrc-doctor...

Yuni (Quratul Akyuni) (MRes in Synthetic Biology, UCL Biochemical Engineering) shares a typical day in her life as a UCL postgrad over the summer! | UCL Engineering Yuni (Quratul Akyuni) (MRes in Synthetic Biology, UCL Biochemical Engineering) shares a typical day in her life as a UCL postgrad over the summer! 🌞 🥼 🧪  #LoveUCL #Studentlife #LondonStudent #UniTo...

A day in the life of UCL MRes Synthetic Biology student, Quratul Akyuni www.linkedin.com/posts/ucl-en... #EngBio #SynBio

Members of religious communities consider the merits of lab-grown meat

Will religious communities accept the lab-grown meat of de-extincted animals? Or AI-designed meat? New paper from my group, lead by the excellent Farhaneen Mazlan, considers these questions & much more #CellAg #SynBio #CultivatedMeat #EngBio #Bioprocess

authors.elsevier.com/a/1l1uG3I9F4...

For the first keynote, we happily welcome Howy Jacobs, emeritus professor of #MolecularBiology at #Tampere University in Finland 🇫🇮. He gave an inspiring and thoughtful talk regarding the future 🔮 of #science 🔬 and its role in #society, specifically aimed at young researchers!

AI is helping scientists decode previously inscrutable proteins A new set of artificial intelligence models could make protein sequencing even more powerful for better understanding cell biology and diseases.

AI is helping scientists decode previously inscrutable proteins #Science #Biology #MolecularBiology #ArtificialIntelligence #ProteinResearch

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