Are there any medics, bioscientists or healthcare people interested in contributing to a letter to the Equalities Minister?
If you are, please get in touch with
@ciannwn.bsky.social
If you are, please get in touch with
@ciannwn.bsky.social
April 27, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Are there any medics, bioscientists or healthcare people interested in contributing to a letter to the Equalities Minister?
If you are, please get in touch with
@ciannwn.bsky.social
If you are, please get in touch with
@ciannwn.bsky.social
Why are evil bioscientists always like "this horrible disgusting mutation is the ultimate evolution of humanity!" like don't they have any sense of aesthetics
February 28, 2026 at 12:09 AM
Why are evil bioscientists always like "this horrible disgusting mutation is the ultimate evolution of humanity!" like don't they have any sense of aesthetics
I watched much of Ian Chapman's (Head of @ukri.org) appearance this morning at @ukparliament.parliament.uk Science, Innovation and Technology Committee..
A few points and new information that bioscientists may find interesting...
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A few points and new information that bioscientists may find interesting...
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February 3, 2026 at 1:57 PM
I watched much of Ian Chapman's (Head of @ukri.org) appearance this morning at @ukparliament.parliament.uk Science, Innovation and Technology Committee..
A few points and new information that bioscientists may find interesting...
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A few points and new information that bioscientists may find interesting...
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And let's not make the same mistake again with the bioscientists and computer whizzes.
Oh wait
Oh wait
November 17, 2023 at 12:02 AM
And let's not make the same mistake again with the bioscientists and computer whizzes.
Oh wait
Oh wait
This is so important for understanding why research in model organisms is so powerful.
Trained bioscientists find it easy to believe that many results relevant to cancer were discovered in yeast.
By laypeople, particularly if they are skeptical for other reasons, think we are stupid or nuts.
/fin
Trained bioscientists find it easy to believe that many results relevant to cancer were discovered in yeast.
By laypeople, particularly if they are skeptical for other reasons, think we are stupid or nuts.
/fin
January 27, 2025 at 2:09 AM
This is so important for understanding why research in model organisms is so powerful.
Trained bioscientists find it easy to believe that many results relevant to cancer were discovered in yeast.
By laypeople, particularly if they are skeptical for other reasons, think we are stupid or nuts.
/fin
Trained bioscientists find it easy to believe that many results relevant to cancer were discovered in yeast.
By laypeople, particularly if they are skeptical for other reasons, think we are stupid or nuts.
/fin
A Cambridge May Week scene from 2013, sold at a Cambridge Drawing Society exhibition (see Alt Text)
#MayWeek #TrinityCollege #Cambridge #mixedmedia
#MayWeek #TrinityCollege #Cambridge #mixedmedia
March 22, 2026 at 8:10 AM
A Cambridge May Week scene from 2013, sold at a Cambridge Drawing Society exhibition (see Alt Text)
#MayWeek #TrinityCollege #Cambridge #mixedmedia
#MayWeek #TrinityCollege #Cambridge #mixedmedia
Those bioscientists "bring back" direwolves into existence just to give them the lamest names ever!!
They should have been named Pizza, barbell And kumquat!
They should have been named Pizza, barbell And kumquat!
April 19, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Those bioscientists "bring back" direwolves into existence just to give them the lamest names ever!!
They should have been named Pizza, barbell And kumquat!
They should have been named Pizza, barbell And kumquat!
Jurassic Park eat your heart out. Bioscientists looking to bring back the extinct Tasmanian tiger reconstructed 99.9% of its genome, based on RNA samples from a 110-year-old preserved head. https://buff.ly/4ffidnc
#ShareGoodNewsToo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
Scientists say they've made a breakthrough in efforts to bring back the extinct Tasmanian tiger
Colossal Biosciences says it's made a breakthrough toward the de-extinction of the thylacine, or Tasmanian tiger.
buff.ly
January 6, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Jurassic Park eat your heart out. Bioscientists looking to bring back the extinct Tasmanian tiger reconstructed 99.9% of its genome, based on RNA samples from a 110-year-old preserved head. https://buff.ly/4ffidnc
#ShareGoodNewsToo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
Silent disco at NBS Contact meeting 2025 at Røros! Bioscientists know how to network!
January 24, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Silent disco at NBS Contact meeting 2025 at Røros! Bioscientists know how to network!
Stay tuned to our feed today as we announce our 2026 Award winners, celebrating seventeen excellent bioscientists, educators and technicians working in the life sciences!🧪 #BiochemAwards
April 8, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Stay tuned to our feed today as we announce our 2026 Award winners, celebrating seventeen excellent bioscientists, educators and technicians working in the life sciences!🧪 #BiochemAwards
Northumbria University is one of four regional universities to receive £6m funding from UKRI's BBSRC to support the next generation of doctoral-level bioscientists.
Find out more or get in touch: www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/new...
Find out more or get in touch: www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/new...
January 29, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Northumbria University is one of four regional universities to receive £6m funding from UKRI's BBSRC to support the next generation of doctoral-level bioscientists.
Find out more or get in touch: www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/new...
Find out more or get in touch: www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/new...
Instead of fake resurrecting Dire Wolves our venture capital backed bioscientists could be working on this problem. For the silk and the horror.
September 5, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Instead of fake resurrecting Dire Wolves our venture capital backed bioscientists could be working on this problem. For the silk and the horror.
I'm afraid that's a technology thing, and I'm strictly a 'biology' guy
As I always say, "If it doesn't go splat, I don't deal with that" [A motto the International Association of Bioscientists has thus far refused to adopt, despite my many letters]
As I always say, "If it doesn't go splat, I don't deal with that" [A motto the International Association of Bioscientists has thus far refused to adopt, despite my many letters]
September 2, 2026 at 9:00 PM
I'm afraid that's a technology thing, and I'm strictly a 'biology' guy
As I always say, "If it doesn't go splat, I don't deal with that" [A motto the International Association of Bioscientists has thus far refused to adopt, despite my many letters]
As I always say, "If it doesn't go splat, I don't deal with that" [A motto the International Association of Bioscientists has thus far refused to adopt, despite my many letters]
As a microbiologist, at least half of your life will be consumed by parafilm. I'm sure it's the same for other bioscientists too. No one tells you this until you've already committed to it.
May 2, 2026 at 5:36 PM
As a microbiologist, at least half of your life will be consumed by parafilm. I'm sure it's the same for other bioscientists too. No one tells you this until you've already committed to it.
Suzanne Barbour (@dukegradschool.bsky.social) was recently elected ASBMB secretary & honored with the ASBMB Sustained Leadership Award for her outstanding leadership & mentorship.
⏯️ Watch her #ASBMB26 talk on building the next generation of molecular bioscientists: youtu.be/g3uEd52VEZc.
⏯️ Watch her #ASBMB26 talk on building the next generation of molecular bioscientists: youtu.be/g3uEd52VEZc.
Suzanne Barbour | Building the next gen of molecular bioscientists through sustained leadership
YouTube video by American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB)
youtu.be
April 7, 2026 at 9:40 PM
Suzanne Barbour (@dukegradschool.bsky.social) was recently elected ASBMB secretary & honored with the ASBMB Sustained Leadership Award for her outstanding leadership & mentorship.
⏯️ Watch her #ASBMB26 talk on building the next generation of molecular bioscientists: youtu.be/g3uEd52VEZc.
⏯️ Watch her #ASBMB26 talk on building the next generation of molecular bioscientists: youtu.be/g3uEd52VEZc.
This is where qualitative research, so scorned by many bioscientists, has so much to offer, when done properly!
August 31, 2024 at 11:21 AM
This is where qualitative research, so scorned by many bioscientists, has so much to offer, when done properly!
Hear, hear!
The Universtiy Medical Center Goettingen is inviting applications to its new Medical Scientist Program
“Genomic responses to disease plasticity”
funded by the EKF Stiftung. The program will support early-career bioscientists with a PhD eager to do clinically-oriented research...
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The Universtiy Medical Center Goettingen is inviting applications to its new Medical Scientist Program
“Genomic responses to disease plasticity”
funded by the EKF Stiftung. The program will support early-career bioscientists with a PhD eager to do clinically-oriented research...
1/n
January 27, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Hear, hear!
The Universtiy Medical Center Goettingen is inviting applications to its new Medical Scientist Program
“Genomic responses to disease plasticity”
funded by the EKF Stiftung. The program will support early-career bioscientists with a PhD eager to do clinically-oriented research...
1/n
The Universtiy Medical Center Goettingen is inviting applications to its new Medical Scientist Program
“Genomic responses to disease plasticity”
funded by the EKF Stiftung. The program will support early-career bioscientists with a PhD eager to do clinically-oriented research...
1/n
Governments have invested millions, and bioscientists vast amounts of work, to develop rigorous containment protocols for hazardous biological research, such as virology. Even so, they don't always work, but they have generally held the line. The so-called "containment" protocols of AI labs seem
September 26, 2026 at 4:19 PM
Governments have invested millions, and bioscientists vast amounts of work, to develop rigorous containment protocols for hazardous biological research, such as virology. Even so, they don't always work, but they have generally held the line. The so-called "containment" protocols of AI labs seem
I vibe coded an entire supercomputer bioinformatics pipeline, using language I don’t know at all, requiring a combination of expertise I could not have recruited as a human. Some AI coding lessons which might be useful to bioscientists in a similar situation (= most of us :)):
April 28, 2026 at 2:06 PM
I vibe coded an entire supercomputer bioinformatics pipeline, using language I don’t know at all, requiring a combination of expertise I could not have recruited as a human. Some AI coding lessons which might be useful to bioscientists in a similar situation (= most of us :)):
Haha yes - I was at @flashficfestuk.bsky.social and @devaneemily.bsky.social said to write about something unusual on your doorstep 😆 My mind immediately leapt to this de-extinction craze the bioscientists are messing with...
May 26, 2026 at 3:18 PM
Haha yes - I was at @flashficfestuk.bsky.social and @devaneemily.bsky.social said to write about something unusual on your doorstep 😆 My mind immediately leapt to this de-extinction craze the bioscientists are messing with...
In ENTIRELY UNRELATED news, bioscientists have Made A Note of who is funding AI and who is funding virologists, and we would like to have SEVERAL discussions about Priorities.
Breaking News: Scientists have used A.I. to create new viruses for the first time, raising hopes for medical advances while also raising the possibility that the technology could someday be used to invent dangerous pathogens.
This A.I. Just Created Viruses Not Found in Nature
Scientists trained artificial intelligence on libraries of DNA and then asked the model to create recipes for viral genomes. Sixteen of them were viable, yielding new viruses.
nyti.ms
August 6, 2026 at 6:42 PM
In ENTIRELY UNRELATED news, bioscientists have Made A Note of who is funding AI and who is funding virologists, and we would like to have SEVERAL discussions about Priorities.
"Unlike the hyper-scaling accelerationists of AI, researchers at the frontier of the biosciences tend to harbor an admirable humility & sense of precaution."
—Nathan Gardels
#bioscience #biology
—Nathan Gardels
#bioscience #biology
The Humility Of Bioscientists | NOEMA
Those most in the know are aware of what little they know.
www.noemamag.com
April 24, 2026 at 5:48 PM
"Unlike the hyper-scaling accelerationists of AI, researchers at the frontier of the biosciences tend to harbor an admirable humility & sense of precaution."
—Nathan Gardels
#bioscience #biology
—Nathan Gardels
#bioscience #biology
Stay tuned to our feed today as we announce our 2027 Award winners, celebrating fifteen excellent bioscientists, educators and technicians working in the life sciences! #BiochemAwards
April 14, 2026 at 7:30 AM
Stay tuned to our feed today as we announce our 2027 Award winners, celebrating fifteen excellent bioscientists, educators and technicians working in the life sciences! #BiochemAwards
This captures the reason I went on strike in 2023. The lack of solidarity from bioscientists for the wider university community was shocking. I imagine it's because we remain *relatively* well funded.
struggling to budget both myself & a decent post-doc under the ukri grant caps (given the massive overheads unis charge) & wondering how others are managing. Then I see all the 0.4 fte for 15 months precarious post-docs being advertised & realise that’s the only way to do it. I hate it, thanks.
October 14, 2025 at 9:56 AM
This captures the reason I went on strike in 2023. The lack of solidarity from bioscientists for the wider university community was shocking. I imagine it's because we remain *relatively* well funded.
Cropped to exclude the name, because the poster obviously isn't bad, they're just resident of a whole system that's failing --
It drives me ABSOLUTELY FUCKING BONKERS that the most educated bioscientists on the planet are almost all still working with handheld pipettes.
Time👎batching🚫accuracy🙅 ⁉ 🤯
It drives me ABSOLUTELY FUCKING BONKERS that the most educated bioscientists on the planet are almost all still working with handheld pipettes.
Time👎batching🚫accuracy🙅 ⁉ 🤯
August 30, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Cropped to exclude the name, because the poster obviously isn't bad, they're just resident of a whole system that's failing --
It drives me ABSOLUTELY FUCKING BONKERS that the most educated bioscientists on the planet are almost all still working with handheld pipettes.
Time👎batching🚫accuracy🙅 ⁉ 🤯
It drives me ABSOLUTELY FUCKING BONKERS that the most educated bioscientists on the planet are almost all still working with handheld pipettes.
Time👎batching🚫accuracy🙅 ⁉ 🤯