Well, not in Ireland, but certainly in the UK:
The current UK economic backwardness has been exacerbated by Brexit, and I struggle to think of any other explanation for why so many people voted for Brexit....
We are recruiting a postdoc interested in using machine learning and AI to understand and control post-transcriptional gene regulation. Please apply and join us at @cambiochem.bsky.social
⏳ Closing date: 16 May 2026
🔗 www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/55254
Learn more about us: www.sblab.uk
Ahh yes, sorry I assumed you were using them for Cut&Run. I agree Trizol is the best for RNA!
Assorted Haiku Haiku #2511 Tourists wait in line to enter Machu Picchu. Oh, look! A high queue. Haiku #564127 how dare you suggest I have a short attention spanish omelette Limeraiku There once was a young limerick from Kew who turned into a haiku. The Constraints of Haiku Tied up all night with a haiku dominatrix and her three-line whip. Shakespearean Haiku Shall I compare thee To a summer’s day? Alright – Thou art pretty hot. How to Write a Haiku The last line should flow seamlessly from the first two – hippopotamus. Brian Bilston
It’s International Haiku Day apparently and so for today’s poetry offering, here are a few assorted haiku.
NEB PCR purif columns work but they exclude fragments under 50bp. Zymo too, but in my last test not quite as good.
child smiling I ride perfectly when biking to school so my councillor doesn't need political courage to build in systems where I can make mistakes. - Sarah, Age 9
the reality of road safety campaigns
@thebikinglawyer.bsky.social
The 21st century will be won by the states that, in a developed world where skilled young people are increasingly in short supply, are able to overcome their own xenophobia to welcome the future
Job Interview with a Cat Tell me, what is it about this position that interests you? The warmth, perhaps? The security? Or the power you must feel by rendering me useless? Feel free to expand if you wish. I see you have had experience of similar positions. Can you talk about a time when you got somebody’s tongue? Or were set amongst the pigeons? Tell me about a time you’ve had to deal with a difficult situation – for instance, have you ever found yourself in a bag? If so, how were you let out of it? How would you feel if you had to walk on hot bricks? What about a tin roof of similar temperature? With reference to any of your past lives, has curiosity ever killed you? Finally, where do you see yourself in five years’ time? In the same position? Or higher up to catch the sunlight? What’s that? You would like to be where I am now? Oh, it appears you already are. Brian Bilston
Today’s poem is called ‘Job Interview with a Cat’.
A very moving tribute to one of the founders of modern Stem Cell Biology: Gail Martin.
Well worth a read.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Roubaix velodrome under blue skies
Roubaix cobble
Happy #ParisRoubaix 🪨 day to those who celebrate 😍
It may seem like nerdy detail that the increasing weight of cars is worsening potholes, but it matters.
The car makers push to sell wider and heavier cars is increasing road maintenance costs and that affects us all.
Not to mention worse crash outcomes and less space to pass (wider) parked cars.
Very pleased to say that the paper version of our study examining the role of de novo DNMTs in cancer-associated hypomethylation is now out in @plos.org Genetics 🎉:
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
You can read more on the previous thread but here is a summary of the main updates! #epigenetics 🧵 1/9
Tissue regeneration Tour de Force from @storerlab.bsky.social. Just beautiful.
Hyaluronic acid and tissue mechanics orchestrate mammalian digit tip regeneration | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Close up of puttanesca sauce bubbling
I made puttanesca.
I WIN!
Are you interested in modelling the chromatin interactions that underpin Enhancer Resetting?
Want to be in an interdisciplinary environment close to beach and hills as well as pubs/clubs etc?
We're offering a physics/biology PhD project to do just that!
Apply!
www.exeter.ac.uk/research/ins...
Hang on....really? How did i not know this? Why dont you START with that, @jordisolana.bsky.social ???
Great model organism, great project, great labs, great location. If you are thinking about doing a PhD, what more do you want?
1/3 New bioRxiv preprint from the lab: “Minute-scale coupling of chromatin marks and transcriptional bursts”. Led by Xiohui Gao & Chaebeen Ko. bioRxiv : www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
Undaria pinnatifida gametophyte
Our work on chromatin evolution in brown algae is now published in @natecoevo.nature.com! We show that developmentally complex brown algae evolved without epigenetic silencing pathways long thought universal, underscoring why non-model lineages are important to study. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Image of a planarian, from Wiki.
Do you do a PhD on Chromatin in this cool critter?
Work with @jordisolana.bsky.social @seanflynn.bsky.social, Magda Strauss and myself @lsiexeter.bsky.social on developing #singlecell #chromatin analyses to better understand pluripotency #planarians.
www.exeter.ac.uk/research/ins...
Are you interested in modelling the chromatin interactions that underpin Enhancer Resetting?
Want to be in an interdisciplinary environment close to beach and hills as well as pubs/clubs etc?
We're offering a physics/biology PhD project to do just that!
Apply!
www.exeter.ac.uk/research/ins...
Germ cells have their own versions of core transcription factors and fertility depends on them.
We're hiring a PhD student to figure out how! 📢
Fly genetics + proteomics + genomics. Fully funded.
Aarhus University 🇩🇰
Deadline May 1 👇
Please share with anyone who might be interested!
Cancer Research UK is fed up of paying too much for open access publishing so they are completely stopping funding this activity:
news.cancerresearchuk.org/2026/04/01/w...
"Exploding Pizza Muppet"
Wow. That might me my first exploding muppet.
Thanks Duncan!
Thanks Alexis!
Thanks Rob!
