Katy
@katyboots.bsky.social
Postdoc with @HelenWeavers @BristolBiochem 🔬 PhD with @FelipeKTeixeira @GeneticsCam Interested in stress responses, translational regulation, development 🪰
Had a brilliant time repping Drosophila at Pint of Science with @helenweavers.bsky.social this week 🪰 🔬 🧬 Thank you to the Bristol @pintofscience.uk team and @nc3rs.bsky.social, and everyone that came out to see us on a rainy tuesday night! 🍻 #Pint26
So excited to finally be able to share my first paper and the culmination of my PhD work with @felipekteixeira.bsky.social 🪰🔬 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Inside each of us there are two wolves Both of them are saying: "mate, those aren't resurrected direwolves, they're just modern wolves with a few gene tweaks and a ludicrous amount of hype."
What about questioning the entire business model behind deliberately underfunding UK universities and making them depend financially on overseas tuition fees?
Fall in overseas students fuels threat to English universities despite rise in fees
Higher tuition costs have already been ‘wiped out’ by government tax hikes, critics claim
theguardian.com
The collective sigh and desperate hopes that maybe they'll keep on walking as 3 loud americans enter our train carriage...
Pharmacist sent me some "helpful links" for pain management after routine med review. I've had chronic pain >10yrs, diagnosed with #fibromyalgia ~9yrs ago, and #hEDS #HSD this year. No amount of positive thinking or fucking mindfulness is going to make my body produce collagen correctly 🤬
This has reminded me of the most Middlewich headline ever, courtesy of the Middlewich Guardian a few years ago #salttown
Ed Conway@edconway.bsky.social · 2y ago🧵SALT🧵 It's been snowing in the UK and the road gritters are out in force, begging the question: Have you ever wondered where that grit actually COMES from? The answer is more magical, beautiful and fascinating than you probably realised. 1/14
Thrilled to be able to share my PhD work with @FelipeKTeixeira @GeneticsCam doi.org/10.1101/2024... Give us a read if you're interested in #ribosome heterogeneity, #devbio, #translationalcontrol & #drosophila 🪰🔬
Ribosome abundance, not paralogue composition, is essential for germline development
Ribosomes catalyse all protein synthesis, and mutations altering their levels and function underlie many developmental diseases and cancer. Historically considered to be invariant machines, ribosomes ...
doi.org
I refuse to join Bluesky - I don’t want to become part of an EcoRI chamber
Joe!@joehanstad.bsky.social · 2y agoI refuse to join Bluesky - I don’t want to become part of an Eggo chamber.
