🚨🚨Final reminder for abstract submission deadline next Tuesday (28th)! Please RT 🙏

Jonny Nixon-Abell@abelljonny.bsky.social · 7mo ago

‼️🚨Hi all! The next Bioc Soc Membrane Contact Site Meeting will be in Chepstow, UK 28-30th Sept 2026. Fantastic speakers with talk slots still available. Sign up & abstract submission now open - limited spaces so register early! Hope to see you all there. Please share + RT 🙏

Delighted to see the latest preprint progress to publication with Advanced Science. We built the protein FRET ruler as a bridge between biophysicists and cell biologists - realising the potential of FRET link measurements from molecules to cells. advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Almost exactly 6 months ago, RPN was leaked a document presented to STFC staff that said the council had to reduce spending by £162m by 2029-30 That kicked off months of debate on how cuts would be made But only now has it become clear the total cost savings needed over 4 years is in fact £684m 🧵

Time is running out!! Last couple of days…. #neuroskyence

Ali Twelvetrees @dozenoaks.bsky.social · 4w ago

🚨 Early bird registration deadline for NeuroBioUK26 is fast approaching! Register by July 17th to secure your discounted rate (£35) AND remember to submit your abstract to be in the running for a talk slot. You're faithful organising committee have some hard deadlines this year, so please submit!

VolcanoPlotR: a new package for visualising proteomic data in R. Explainer: quantixed.org/2026/07/15/e... Code: github.com/quantixed/Vo... Docs: quantixed.github.io/VolcanoPlotR/

Thrilled to see our paper now featured on the cover, as part of the highlight “Neurodegeneration Through the Lens of Selective Brain Cell Vulnerability.” advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/4YDKRX...

Avezov lab@avezovlab.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🚨📜Our new paper out in @AdvSciNews: ER shape matters for neuronal health - disrupting ER continuity halts neuro-firing as it slows Ca2+ store refill, explaining selective neuronal vulnerability to ER problems in neurodegeneration 🧠 a thread to follow advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

In our latest pre-print, we show that mice with the neuropathy-causing GARS1 ∆ETAQ mutation display robust pathology in subsets of peripheral nerves: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Well done @beccasimkin.bsky.social and Aurélie Paulo-Ramos! @uclqsneuromuscular.bsky.social @uclqsion.bsky.social

Absolutely beautiful work from the Bradke lab here. As an aside, I'm also genuinely stunned to see fundamental neuronal cell biology like this in Nature! An intrinsic cytoskeletal oscillator establishes neuronal polarityhttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10755-6

An intrinsic cytoskeletal oscillator establishes neuronal polarity - Nature

The ARP2/3 complex works together with actomyosin in an oscillatory program at the soma to govern neuronal polarization.

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Reminder all that the deadline for sign up and abstract submissions is July 28th!!

Jonny Nixon-Abell@abelljonny.bsky.social · 7mo ago

‼️🚨Hi all! The next Bioc Soc Membrane Contact Site Meeting will be in Chepstow, UK 28-30th Sept 2026. Fantastic speakers with talk slots still available. Sign up & abstract submission now open - limited spaces so register early! Hope to see you all there. Please share + RT 🙏

🚨 Early bird registration deadline for NeuroBioUK26 is fast approaching! Register by July 17th to secure your discounted rate (£35) AND remember to submit your abstract to be in the running for a talk slot. You're faithful organising committee have some hard deadlines this year, so please submit!

NeuroBioUK - Registration

Step 1: Register through our event page. All attendees should register to attend through our event page. Early bird registration deadline is the 17th of July (£35) and late registration deadline is th...

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🚨 Early bird registration deadline for NeuroBioUK26 is fast approaching! Register by July 17th to secure your discounted rate (£35) AND remember to submit your abstract to be in the running for a talk slot. You're faithful organising committee have some hard deadlines this year, so please submit!

NeuroBioUK - Registration

Step 1: Register through our event page. All attendees should register to attend through our event page. Early bird registration deadline is the 17th of July (£35) and late registration deadline is th...

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For 6 months the line from DSIT & UKRI on STFC cuts has been that no final decisions have been taken That is no longer the case, after DSIT approved UKRI's proposal for how to save £162m British research at Cern will be hit, along with UK science facilities Scoop by me & @francesjones.bsky.social

UK research at Cern to shrink as government approves STFC cuts - Research Professional News

Exclusive: Science department approves UKRI’s cost-saving proposal, with major UK facilities also facing cutbacks

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It’s the weekend!

This is really rough news for everyone who works at RP. I'm so sorry to read this and hope impacted colleagues have good support networks to lean on. It will create a huge hole in a sector for which the timing couldn't be worse. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-o...

Research Professional News to discontinue publication at end of 2026 - Research Professional News

A message for readers about the publication’s closure and continued community access to past reporting

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Disappointed but not surprised that the University of Sheffield are not signatories on this charter. Their policies are already amongst the poorest in the sector and no doubt set to get worse now.

Research Professional News@resprofnews.bsky.social · last mo.

Over 50 UK research bodies commit to better conditions for women. Government-led charter sets out measures including at least 52 weeks’ maternity leave and safer workplaces. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-p...

I looked at this but left it out of the post, because the gender inference tool could only classify 44% of first authors and 31% of last authors. But given this caveat, this is the distribution: First authors: 71% male, 29% female Last authors: 83% male, 17% female

As you might imagine, as someone who studies science and works on metrics, I have some thoughts on qed myself. I fully agree that the messaging can be described as tone-deaf and problematic. I don’t think it had to be. ripplingideas.org/2026/06/26/t...

The 1% club and the rocky road ahead for bioRxiv

The recent launch of qed’s “top 1%” preprint ranking has sparked controversy, with concerns about its arbitrary nature, potential harm to authors, and low-quality inclusions. Whil…

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Noticeable underrepresentation of women as corresponding authors in the 1%. Almost as if AI has been trained on years of discriminatory behaviours and is perpetuating that bias.

If one more person who is not 35+ weeks pregnant tells me they are hot I am going to lose it

Buckle up for the ride, ladies. It’s not going to get better. #AI #LLM #WomenInSTEM #AcademicSky

Coleen Murphy@ctmurphy1.bsky.social · 2mo ago

one anecdote: I was searching for a link to one of my old papers on Google, and the automated Gemini summary attributed all of my lab's work to my husband

Horrific #AcademicSky #WomenInSTEM

Mel Andrews@bayesianboy.bsky.social · 2mo ago

When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.

We are very excited to bring back our popular Points of View column, written by @helenajambor.bsky.social! Check out her first column in our July issue about the usage of color scales in scientific figures. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Color scales and the birth of viridis - Nature Methods

The color palette viridis is replacing rainbow color schemes in scientific figures, for good reason.

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Our latest review is out. We take a deep dive into the human mutations in microtubule motors that drive devastating neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative diseases. Taking in motor protein biophysics, animal models of disease as well as patient phenotypes. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

🐮 What lies between the “spherical cow” of purified proteins and live-cell imaging? The messy middle. Explore single-molecule biophysics in crude lysates and serum, with real-world case studies and practical workflows. excitinginstruments.com/resource-lib... #biophysics #singlemolecule

Embracing biophysics in cell lysates or serum | Exciting Instruments

Explore how the 'messy middle' of biophysics, namely cell lysates and serum, combines single-molecule sensitivity with biological context.

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We are thrilled to announce our new preprint from the wonderful @sorayavillaseca.bsky.social Ever wondered how cells squeeze through tiny spaces in embryos? Neural crest cells use Dynein to transport their nucleus along microtubules. Check out the preprint!! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Gutted not to be at the Cell Biology of the Neuron GRC this week - please do check out Emma Turner’s poster if you’re there. The next part of our kinesin-1 odyssey will be a preprint soon, but you can get a sneak peek this week :)

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)

Patrick Vallance has twice written to MPs saying the budget for curiosity-driven research “will grow as the economy grows” But UKRI has flat cash for curiosity-led research through to 2030 When @isaacbarbosa1.bsky.social asked DSIT where the growth would come from, they had no answer A mystery

Research Professional News@resprofnews.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Dsit unable to explain Vallance claim on curiosity-led growth. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-p...

Sunday. Third trimester. I have a mountain of work to get through and there is not one chair in the house that’s comfortable. Meanwhile my passenger is pulling yoga moves inside me.