Daniel Rigden
@danielrigden.bsky.social
Professor of Bioinformatics. Executive Editor of the Database Issue at @narjournal.bsky.social. Proud Dad. Views my own.
A new type of article for Acta F: Protocols The purpose of this new category is to provide to the reader procedures that are sufficiently detailed so other researchers can reproduce the described workflow. Find out more in 'Show me how it's done: introducing Protocols': doi.org/10.1107/S205...
We're celebrating 20 years of Acta Crystallographica Section F!🎉🥳 Join us by contributing to our celebratory collection of articles, which is now open for submissions! Find out more at journals.iucr.org/special_issu...
Well this really is an amazing opportunity. Until the end of September, you can apply to apply to join us as a new Executive Editor at NAR Nucleic Acids Research! academic.oup.com/nar/pages/ex...
Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface
@dereklowe.bsky.social lets loose again (and I am still here for it). www.science.org/content/blog... 1/2
The Assault On Science Funding Continues
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Hard to think of a more deeply damaging start to Burnham’s premiership than giving green light to new oil & gas in N. Sea, if true. It won’t lower bills or lead to greater energy security but will drive an even hotter planet. What a terrible signal to give to rest of the world #ClimateVandalism
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Andy Burnham will announce plans for new oil and gas drilling in the North Sea when he becomes prime minister on Monday, the BBC has been told. The announcement will form part of a flurry of policy m...
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Job alert: Biology is amazing (EMD-70204). As a biocurator, you get a front-row seat to the structures being deposited in the world’s structural biology databases. Come join the EMDB and OneDep biocuration team. We’re hiring a biocurator. Apply by 2nd Aug: tinyurl.com/47t93kxp
I first tried to make sense of this as a big Cryo-EM complex - it seems to have a membrane layer and everything!
Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology@maacambridge.bsky.social · 3w ago📸 E 1911.104.1-2 Phoenix headdress (鳳冠 fèng guàn), China. Vendor: Solomon Franck. 🔗 collections.maa.cam.ac.uk/objects/494871/
From the @narjournal.bsky.social #NARWebServerIssue | The 24th annual Nucleic Acids Research Web Server Issue (2026)—and a novel concept for the future | #Bioinformatics #Webserver #OpenScience #Education | 🧬🖥️🧪🔓 ⬇️ academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...
The 24th annual Nucleic Acids Research Web Server Issue (2026)—and a novel concept for the future
This is the 24th special issue for Web Servers. It is rather “thinner” than the last, featuring 47 web servers, for likely reasons that I will discuss late
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Brilliant. How real trolling is done.
It was inevitable, wasn't it🙄 Of course the Telegraph would run with something like this👇 So let's remove some of the rose-tinted spectacles and also look at some of that data comparing 1976 with modern heat waves Because the 1976 nostalgia porn is wearing a bit thin at this stage 🧵1/23
For anyone (is there still anyone?) who doubts that the President is mentally incompetent, please watch.
Exactly 10 years since the Brexit vote, the verdict is in.
Pierre Dumont (French, 1884–1936). Rouen Cathedral (1912, oil on canvas).
That’s the problem with recognising climate change is a scientific reality and then trying to ensure the only biosphere in the known universe remains habitable, it’s just such a downer.
If the bloke wielding a knife and attacking passersby was a Muslim all today's rolling news and political programmes would be coming live from the streets of Edinburgh and Farage's ugly mush would be on every show.
@rolanddunbrack.bsky.social is a computational biologist whose work has advanced structural biology through widely used tools for modeling protein structure. He is an advocate for LGBTQIA+ visibility in science, working to build community through networking opportunities. 🌈 ow.ly/ECX250ZaInj #Pride
NAR Cancer 2025 impact factor rises to 4.6; other metrics at journal home page. Appreciate our authors, reviewers, editors. Encourage submissions at intersection of cancer and nucleic acids fields–full info and details of forthcoming "Seeds of Cancer" collection at academic.oup.com/narcancer/pa...
Call for Papers
NAR Cancer is a peer-edited, not-for-profit, Open Access journal published by Oxford University Press. In seven years, it has established a reputation for high-
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“I don’t think in my career there has been a time when the rank and file academics are so far from the government,” says O’Hara.”The government has piled on costs when we already have no money. They just feel completely abandoned by the government" Precisely: not even warm words, just uninterest
@DrJoePajak CSci CChem FRSC@drjoepajak.bsky.social · 2mo agoBREXIT has hammered Britain’s universities. Once leaders in Europe, we’ve lost students, research funding, partnerships and global reputation. A decade on, the damage is still unfolding. @hannahfearn.bsky.social substack.com/@theleaduk #BrexitImpact More: national.thelead.uk/p/brexit-eu-...
I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇
🔥A beautiful Bird of Paradise interrupts David Attenborough🔥
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)
NEW: Data just out for the complete 2024 set of Horizon projects shows that the UK still lags way behind the proportion it was getting before the Brexit vote. It’s been a decade of damage to UK science. 🔬📉😢
