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Excited to announce Physics of Living Matter 19! To be held in Cambridge 24-25th September 2026:

www.plm-symposium.org

But they were a great band, Flying Teapot Trilogy remains a favourite 😎

Huge thanks to our fantastic scientists for welcoming Year 12 student for a hands-on lab experience.
The students gained practical experience in fly phenotyping, staining and imaging, and Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacterial counterstaining 🧬🧪 #Drosophila #universityofcambridge #Cambridge

Magnificent list & commentary, no wonder I buy so many records from you 😎

NORMAN 30TH ANNIVERSARY: Records That Made Us

Fresh retrospective thoughts on records which shaped our shop and then some, featuring classics from Aphex Twin, Can, Talk Talk, Om, The Jesus and Mary Chain, my bloody valentine, Shellac, and more…

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Lovely!

Germ factories or immune boot camps? Infection and immunity in childcare settings | Clinical Microbiology Reviews SUMMARYChildcare outside the home is a common experience for many children in high-income countries. It is associated with an increase in the incidence of infectious diseases—not just for the child bu...

Have you ever wondered why children starting nursery/daycare pick up so many germs? I certainly did, and with a crack team of parent-scientists/clinicians, we set out to answer that question. Is childcare a germ factory or an immune bootcamp? journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

I once did Maxim & Gilbert sequencing- the horror 😵‍💫

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The track record of a single trophy as a manager is spot on for Spurs😎

Indeed, though I would dispute de Grey is an academic. Charlatan is the term that springs to mind.

😂 or know AdG!

I was interested to read this, he was a fabulous scientist. Unfortunately it is completely inaccessible to those who don’t subscribe to linked in nonsense ☹️

Indeed a stonewall classic.

We've got ISSUES. Literally.

We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do?

arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563

A 🧵 1/n

Sorry to hear this

Anyone looking for the full map or wondering who made it, it’s the work of Matt Brown and it’s here. open.substack.com/pub/londonis...

Santa has been good to me this year 😎 @matthewcobb.bsky.social

👍 you too

It was the best. Worm a close second.

I voted tubules😎

Nice one. Dancing in the streets of Paisley 😎😎

Closing date tomorrow!

Legendary😎

Aaand... my first cover!!

RpS6 phosphorylation (magenta) in a Udd (ribosome biogenesis factor) mutant ovary 🔬

The Department of Genetics at the University of Cambridge is seeking a talented Postdoctoral Research Associate to work in the group of Dr Felipe Karam Teixeira (www.gen.cam.ac.uk/research-gro...)

➡️For Further details see the link www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/postdoc...

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The Department of Genetics at the University of Cambridge invites expressions of interest from early career researchers who wish to be sponsored for external fellowships to establish an independent research group.

➡️For further details see the link below www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/group-l...