...and during these challenging moments the community comes together in support of each other. Thank you to everyone that is signing our Open Letter in support of Chemistry at Sheffield, Nottingham Chemistry and Physics. savesheffieldchemistry.netlify.app nottinghamchemistry.github.io/Open_Letter/

Barbara Ciani@drbciani.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I am lost for words at what is happening at Sheffield and other Universities. If you think you adding your contribution can help, please sign.

I am lost for words at what is happening at Sheffield and other Universities. If you think you adding your contribution can help, please sign.

Jim Thomas@homomoleculus.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I don't usually post about my day job, but the University of Sheffield is planing a restructure and compulsory staff redundancies within Chemistry. 20% of staff are under threat. You can sign an open letter opposing this decision here #SaveSheffieldChemistry savesheffieldchemistry.netlify.app

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Times Higher Education (THE)@timeshighered.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Plans to reduce staff numbers in chemistry department that has produced four Nobel prizewinners will harm University of Sheffield’s research reputation, warns union https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/sheffields-renowned-chemistry-department-risk-latest-cuts

Congratulation to the marvellous Anyah Settle for her first PhD publication (and not finished yet!). Fantastic collaborators @tucksengwong.bsky.social and @astra-zeneca.bsky.social . Thank you @royalsociety.org, BBSRC, AstraZeneca and NanoTemper Technologies for funding. www.jbc.org/article/S002...

Cosolute effects reveal the nature of weak forces governing GLP-1 oligomer stability

Glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) is an incretin hormone widely used to manage diabetes and obesity through its ability to regulate glucose homeostasis. Clinically relevant GLP-1 sequences form oligomer...

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Really proud to had the opportunity to contribute to this fantastic work from @taylashakespeare.bsky.social @rajseehra.bsky.social and all the other authors that I cannot find on this platform. Amazing @ijayas.bsky.social !

Izzy Jayasinghe@ijayas.bsky.social · 5mo ago

🚨New paper out today in @acs.org ACS Nano, showing how expansion microscopy can visually quantify the cell surface receptor turnover mediated by signalling & receptor organising machineries on the surfaces of endosomes, some of the smallest organelles in cells. 🧪 🔬 1/ pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Many congratulations to the team of collaborators, especially Tayla Shakespeare and @rajseehra.bsky.social who have achieved this with the guidance and support of a whole team, including Philip Woodman (Manchester) and @drbciani.bsky.social. 4/

Great to see media coverage of the hostile and punitive approach taken by management at @sheffielduni.bsky.social towards @sheffielducu.bsky.social staff striking to protect jobs. Threats and intimidation won't work. We're out until we win! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

University of Sheffield staff 'intimidated' by pay forfeit warning

University of Sheffield to withhold pay if staff do not make up for teaching missed while striking.

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@royalsociety.org thank you for a great industry college networking meeting and the opportunity to present my work with @astra-zeneca.bsky.social. Looking forward to continuing engaging!🤩

Delighted to share our latest work today at Sheffield. Many thanks @drbciani.bsky.social for hosting me

@mcb-sheffield.bsky.social · 9mo ago

We are delighted to host Juan Martin-Serrano today from @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social "Genome protection by the ESCRT machinery" 📍 Alfred Denny Conference Room 📅 19th November - 1pm

Can't decide if you like Biochemistry, Chemistry or Biophysics? Do all three! The bonus? You get to learn advanced biophysics with Prof Sarah Harris and @timcraggs.bsky.social and be exposed to the dynamic environment of @ei-science.bsky.social Application information: lnkd.in/eW9VxNBW

BREAKING: Our members at the University of Sheffield have voted overwhelmingly for strike action against the University Executive Board’s ongoing campaign of job cuts, and the threat to staff workload and wellbeing that they represent.

Leicester UCU will be on strike from Monday 29 September until Friday 17 October. Support our striking members, donate to the fighting fund if you're able. More details here: www.uculeicester.org.uk/leicester-uc...

We are on iCURE Explore! Go team Optipaws! #iCURE #BBSRC #InnovateUK

Immagine you could image two cellular structures in the same fluorescent channel and still reliably get them separated afterwards… What would you do with this? Now… what would you do if that also worked with 4 structures at once? 👇 #MicroSplit #preview🧵

"Chemistry undergraduate degree course numbers have dropped 26 per cent since 2020, according to OfS figures". on.ft.com/4iYgxkM

Fall in UK university core science courses stokes fears for industrial strategy

Chemistry courses have dropped a quarter and biosciences by 15% in past 5 years

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Well looks like I finally can add the ‘senior’ word to the lecturer. Only because of supporting colleagues, fantastic collaborators, marvellous students and researchers. It’s a bit bittersweet this year but I need to say thank you 🤗

Give me some time and I’ll follow you all back. At the rate of 30+ a day, I am getting repetitive strain injury 😬

if you are a chemistry academic in the UK you should know this. The third department this year. www.chemistryworld.com/news/univers...

University of Reading proposes closing its chemistry department next year

The university joins several others that are considering the future of their departments and undergraduate programmes

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Is there an easy way to follow everyone back that follows you ?

BSCB Women in #CellBiology prize 🧪 Deadline extended (15th Nov) The deal: UK-based scientist, running lab for < 7 years with 1+ senior author publication. Do you know someone who should be nominated? Maybe it's you? Details (a bit out of date): bscb.org/competitions...

Welcome all (new) followers! Besides our work on probes & biosensors I'd like to share what I know about #Rstats and #DataViz. So I composed a book on data visualization with R & ggplot2 (it's work in progress). Target audience = wet lab scientists. Link: joachimgoedhart.github.io/DataViz-prot...

Hey #ChemSky, look who’s here >>> @carolynbertozzi.bsky.social - hey Carolyn! 👋

Woo! Hello followers!

Deeply saddened by the news that David Stephens died last night. David was an outstanding cell biologist based at Bristol whose work spanned #MembraneTraffic #cytoskeleton #ciliogenesis + more. He was “one of the good guys”. Kind, supportive, generous with his time, and rigorous about his science. 🧪

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If you are reading this right now, it's probably because of Chemistry at the University of Hull. Liquid Crystal Displays (LCDs) were a huge advancement in technology, that kicked off the flat screen r...

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I wrote simplified guide to move from Twitter/X to Mastodon. If you find bluesky a bit meh, or if you want to try the OG federated social network (or give it another chance), you might find it useful. quantixed.org/2024/08/14/e...

So proud our observations of ESCRT-III at micronuclei fare still so well in citations. It was the effort of 3 PhD students, international collaborators and friends (& £0!). Thank you for still citing it even though more complete works are now out there. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

ESCRT-III is necessary for the integrity of the nuclear envelope in micronuclei but is aberrant at ruptured micronuclear envelopes generating damage - Oncogenesis

Oncogenesis - ESCRT-III is necessary for the integrity of the nuclear envelope in micronuclei but is aberrant at ruptured micronuclear envelopes generating damage

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If you are (or know) a postdoc or about to do a PhD viva interested in bioimaging, neurodegeneration and molecular basis of disease, consider applying by the 18.01 for this job in Rome! This is a collaboration with us in Sheffield. 4 questions email the PI or me.

Last chance to apply to join us at the LMB for a PhD to explore archaeal cell division and the archaeal origins of eukaryotes: www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/students/int...

We are hiring! Two assistant prof level jobs in biology. Focusing on cellular and molecular biology, microbiology, and metabolic physiology but all good candidates will be considered. cas.gsu.edu/about/employ...