The Thermo Fisher situation keeps getting worse. We've now collected 450+ problematic images presented as verification data in TF's antibody catalog. This includes: 🖌️ Dozens more images with duplications or painting 🖨️ Hundreds of blots that all share the same background (behold slideshow below)

We are advertising for a fixed-term Impact Lecturer in Microbiology @biouea.bsky.social I believe what this means is that you should have evidence for developing impact such as startups, policy influence etc rather than research excellence/publications. vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/20...

Impact Lecturer in Microbiology (ATR1737) in University of East Anglia | UEA

View details and apply for this Impact Lecturer in Microbiology (ATR1737) vacancy in University of East Anglia. Faculty of Science School of Biological Sciences Impact Lecturer in Microbiology...

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This is getting absurd @ukri.org !!! @chionwurah.bsky.social @resprofnews.bsky.social @timeshighered.bsky.social

Kirsty Grainger @kirstygrainger.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A new TOP FIVE has just dropped. The @ukri.org TOP FIVE shortest timescales from call opening to closing. And you won't believe the winner 👀

A new TOP FIVE has just dropped. The @ukri.org TOP FIVE shortest timescales from call opening to closing. And you won't believe the winner 👀

We are so lucky to have Norwich Festival. It was an amazing GoGo Penguin concert last night. Really worth watching them live.

Join our next BIO Open Lecture on Weds 20 May, 2-3pm, Queens Building 1.03 when we welcome Prof. Stefanie Kaiser, Goethe University Frankfurt @kaiserlab.bsky.social. Talk: "Mass spectrometry for mapping RNA modifications in human disease". Host: @alperakay.bsky.social All Welcome #UEAScience

We had great time attending #RiboRed2026 which was at a fantastic location north of Barcelona. There is amazing RNA research happening in Spain and looking forward to future collaborations. This was also the final conference for our postdoc Kasia before moving on to new research.

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Opinion | The Silence That Meets the Rape of Palestinians

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Oh, come on, @aaas.org Science Translational Medicine, correcting a paper for a photoshopped image? That is absolutely bonkers, and you should do much, much better. #ThisImageIsFine #ImageForensics

What does this actually mean for people funded by @ukri.org ? So the journal has to be fully open access, no subscription but we still pay APC? What about read and publish? www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-o...

UKRI to phase out funding for hybrid open access - Research Professional News

Funder announces it will focus on supporting “fully open access publishing” from 2028-29

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That’s starting professorial salary in UK. I’d take it as a sabbatical! apple.news/Aj-yC_ZibTkK...

Job posting for 'live-in dog companion' comes with an impressive £60,000 salary — Metro

This is a dream job for dog lovers!

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In a small poll conducted at our UKmidPI Slack channel which has 85 mid-level PIs, 88% support UK’s continued association with ERC given the current UK funding and recent changes to ERC. Turn around only 27. Wouldn’t it be great if we could poll academics on academic matters?

😳😳😳 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Final call for postdoctoral positions in my lab in wonderful Århus. You may apply using this link: mbg.au.dk/en/news-and-...

Postdoc positions in Nuclear RNA Biology - Vacancy at Aarhus University

Vacancy at Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics - RNA Biology and Innovation, Aarhus University

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According to a new study, in UK, it costs a university approx. £115k for an academic to apply for a research grant of £1m whether they get the funding or not. And the strategy of universities? Apply as many grants as you can. 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️https://www.researchprofessional.com/news-articles/article/1419047

Last week we had a fantastic UK C. elegans 2026 meeting at the Southampton University. Massive thanks to organisers Vincent O’Connor and Lindy Holden-Dye. It’s great to see this meeting getting more popular each year. @gensocuk.bsky.social

The LARP1 RRM functions as a ribosome responsive regulator of TOP mRNAs James A Saba, Phoebe E White, A. Maxwell Burroughs, L. Aravind, Rachel Green www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

More evidence for TAD uncoupling from gene expression. I also like the earlier work of Furlong lab using the balancers to disrupt TADs with no correlation to gene expression changes - www.nature.com/articles/s41.... What do TADs do then?

Highly rearranged chromosomes reveal uncoupling between genome topology and gene expression - Nature Genetics

Systematic analysis of highly rearranged balancer chromosomes in Drosophila shows that extensive changes to chromatin topology affect the expression of only a subset of genes.

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Alejandro Montenegro@aemonten.bsky.social · 4mo ago

"We find that while TAD boundaries pair more frequently than non-boundary regions, these interactions are infrequent and are uncorrelated with transcriptional activity of genes within the TAD" elifesciences.org/articles/110...

When is the last time you felt you can replicate (generate the data and do analysis) a CNS paper in your lab?

Deadline is 8th of April. #phdposition

Alper Akay@alperakay.bsky.social · 5mo ago

PhD position in our lab - 4-year funded by BBSRC and @nrpdtp.bsky.social in collaboration with @earlhaminst.bsky.social and Inspiralis Ltd. Open to UK fee qualifying students - UK citizens and citizens of Ireland (residency requirement), etc biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/how...

Happy pi (RNA) day everyone! And what better way to enjoy than to revisit the unusual features of nematode piRNAs: www.cell.com/developmenta...

Comparative Epigenomics Reveals that RNA Polymerase II Pausing and Chromatin Domain Organization Control Nematode piRNA Biogenesis

piRNAs are an important genome regulatory mechanism conserved across metazoans. In the nematode C. elegans, piRNA biogenesis evolved several differences from other metazoans. Beltran et al. study the ...

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Is anyone here aware of any research into the impact (e.g. changing ranking) and effectiveness (picking the best candidates, without biases) of interviews in grant application peer review process?

Buying used electric cars is already a big gamble and now the cars might not even gave the fedtures you think they have . www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘Shockingly bad’: Nissan Leaf drivers voice anger over app shutdown

Carmaker’s decision to drop NissanConnect EV app on relatively recent cars fuels warnings from experts

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PhD position in our lab - 4-year funded by BBSRC and @nrpdtp.bsky.social in collaboration with @earlhaminst.bsky.social and Inspiralis Ltd. Open to UK fee qualifying students - UK citizens and citizens of Ireland (residency requirement), etc biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/how...

How do RNA molecules shape genome regulation in the nervous system? (AKAY_U26CASE) | Doctoral Training Partnership

This is open to Home Fee Status candidates only. This PhD project will investigate how RNA modifications influence the activity of topoisomerase I (TOP1), a crucial enzyme that regulates DNA…

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£40m funding to setup an AI lab, expression of interest in two weeks and full application deadline in 4 weeks from advert. Can @jamesdracott.bsky.social explain why the rush? Why not give people more time? Grants costing less than £1m take easily 2-3x longer to prepare. @ukri.org

Research Professional News@resprofnews.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Opportunity profile: EPSRC ready to take ‘big bets’ on AI. Council opens call for fundamental lab set to be the cornerstone of its AI strategy. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-funding-i...

Some molecular machines, like ribosomes, can persist for long periods of time in cells. Could molecular aging of ribosomes shape how proteins are made? In our new preprint we track ribosomes as they age in cells and uncover unexpected effects on translation (1/10) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Are you a biological sciences or bioinformatics/computing graduate with home fee status, interested in a funded #PhD starting in October? If so, look 🔽 Application deadline 8 April 2026 www.uea.ac.uk/course/phd-d...

We are seeing a large number of papers being published on new AI models in biology, disease, genomics. What should we look for in these papers before committing our time to test their use? I really wonder how they are reviewed as well.

This is ridiculous but not surprising! Obviously, EPSRC must have people/organisations in mind and I wouldn’t be surprised if they have been in contact with some groups in advance. Some hard questions about why £40m is spent as such www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...

Four-week timeframe for £40m AI research lab divides opinion - Research Professional News

Tech advocates celebrate prospect of new UK lab, but “extremely tight” application window sparks concern

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⭐ #NARBreakthrough! ⭐ 🧬 New study uncovers how #RNAstructures control stochastic exon selection in Dscam1 genes. #Balancer RNA structures and a #multi-subunit RNA architecture coordinate spatial and temporal splicing 🔬✨ Read the full article here: doi.org/10.1093/nar/... #AlternativeSplicing