Andrew Plested

@andrewplested.bsky.social

Glutamate ORCID: 0000-0001-6062-0832

Abstract deadline for the @faseborg.bsky.social neuronal experience-regulated transcription meeting extended until Aug 17. Submit for your chance to be added to this 🔥 speaker line up. Hope to see you there! 🧪#neuroskyence

Ana Pombo@apombo1.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Join us for the inaugural FASEB Scientific Research Conference on Neuronal Experience-Regulated Transcription, Oct. 5-7, 2026. Abstract Submission Deadline: Monday, August 3, 2026

This Jason Arday stuff 🤯 He was the facilitator of an excellent event I attended a few years back in Brussels. Eloquent and just a little bit intimidating, and obviously very capable and sharp But the non academic points listed by The Guardian are wild

To help relieve work stress, don't answer emails on the weekend. Also on weekdays after 5 PM turn off your email. On Mondays, don't log into your email until after noon. Before logging in on Tuesday burn your computer and erase your identity. By Wednesday morning gather supplies and escape into the

Just putting it there: the last week has shown how Bluesky has grown into the most reliable, noise-, bot- and BS-free resource for anyone interested in football governance and politics. The coverage of Fifa's and Infantino's debacle has been fantastic. Size isn't everything.

These stories are often being presented as "cunning AI escapes its test room". I can't see why. It's simply the case that the sandbox was not well isolated by the testing companies. Put the agency and responsibility where it belongs. cyberscoop.com/anthropic-cl...

Anthropic says its AI accidentally hacked three companies during safety tests

Anthropic revealed its Claude AI models accidentally breached three real companies during safety testing after a vendor configuration error exposed live systems.

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🇬🇧 PM Andy Burnham: Overall, it was a very warm meeting [with Zelenskyy]. I thought I’d get on well with him, and I did. We got on very well indeed, and this is going to be a close partnership. I intend to visit [Ukraine] soon, and we will work through issues that Zelenskyy has.

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Every trainee thinks that they can write a paper whenever they want. Some divine intervention will happen as and when necessary, but there is no need to practice anything. Newsflash: You can't just wake up one day and start writing. Just like you can't wake up one day and start playing the cello.

Postdoc position in Lauren’s lab. Lauren - fantastic LSB in Bristol - fantastic. —> go apply duuuh

Lauren Sumner-Rooney@laurensr.bsky.social · last wk.

📢 JOB ALERT! 📢 I am recruiting a 30-month postdoc to work on modelling the vision of trilobites @hfspo.bsky.social ! If you like 3D data, fossils, and functional morphology, this is the one for you! 📆Deadline 27. Aug Pls contact me with any Qs and share widely! www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...