Do you have a background in behavioural ecology and are you interested in doing a PhD in Australia? I’m looking for new grad students so check out our website (BobWongLab.org) or come find me in Torino at #ISBE2026. 🐟🐠
Prof Anthony Isles
@profantisles.bsky.social
#Neuroscience 🧠 | #ImprintedGenes 🧬 | #preclinical models 🐭🧫| MURIDAE lead @mrcmousenetwork.bsky.social | Cardiff University | posting in a personal capacity, mostly about science https://profiles.cardiff.ac.uk/staff/islesar1
Angèle Etoundi Essamba, Cameroonian photographer known for her photography in black and white particularly #WomensArt
Rhondda Valley, painting by Elwyn Thomas, Welsh artist 1932-2019).
Wales become first nation to drop support for Fifa president Gianni Infantino
Wales become first nation to drop support for Fifa president Gianni Infantino
* FAW says under-fire president has lost its confidence * ‘This is a failure we cannot accept’ The Football Association of Wales has withdrawn its support for the Fifa president Gianni Infantino’s re-election bid over his bungled effort to sell off stakes in the World Cup to private investors. Infantino announced last week he was shelving the widely denounced plan that was rejected by three confederations but his decade-long reign at the head of Fifa remains under intense scrutiny. Continue reading...
theguardian.com
Happy to share the final version of our study on the evolution of chromatin states across eukaryotes, out today in @natgenet.nature.com Led by @crisnava.bsky.social and @seanamontgomery.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... Some highlights below
Diversity and evolution of chromatin regulatory states across eukaryotes - Nature Genetics
This study introduces iChIP2, a low-input chromatin immunoprecipitation followed by sequencing method that profiles histone post-translational modifications (hPTMs) simultaneously across diverse eukar...
nature.com
‘Swifts, swallows and Canada geese’ Artist: CF Tunnicliffe What to Look for in Summer, 1960
🧵A print from the fresco 'Plucking the Red & White Roses in the Old Temple Gardens' by Henry Payne (1868 - 1940) illustrating Shakespeare's fictional account of Richard of York challenging Edmund Beaufort, to choose between the White Rose of House York and the Red Rose of House Lancaster
When we die, the ones who love us will miss us. The grief will be enormous... That's why talking about death and what kind of funeral you want is so important. It helps your loved ones make what can be otherwise very distressing decisions during times of mourning. 🧵 humanists.uk/ceremonies/f...
📚 New editorial from @ejneuroscience.bsky.social! 🌟The Inspiring Journeys of Women in Science by Marian Joëls, Paige R. Nicklas and Dana L. Helmreich 📖 Read the more here: buff.ly/ipg7tjg
The Golden Waking Golden fields beneath the summer sky, Where hedgerows stitch the hills nearby. The wheat keeps its silent watch, As light and shadow softly cross. The land remembers seasons gone, And whispers hope with every dawn. Image: Wheat before the harvest Allan Harris CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
#Training: Our Practical Laboratory Skills course covers basic theoretical and practical lab skills, including use of standard equipment, such as biosafety cabinets, centrifuges, pipettes, and balances We have multiple dates through the year, including 18th November:
Poppy and Campion ‘Wild Flowers’ (1957) Artists: Edith Hilder, Rowland Hilder
As promised, and committing to the core open science values of our lab, here's the updated preprint. More data, more supplementary figures, stronger conclusions. 'Strikingly different neurotransmitter release strategies in dopaminergic subclasses' www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Strikingly different neurotransmitter release strategies in dopaminergic subclasses
Neuronal function is intimately tied to axodendritic polarity. Neurotransmitter release, for example, is usually the role of the axon. There are widespread exceptions to this rule, however, including ...
biorxiv.org
Ana Dorrego Rivas@adorrego.bsky.social · 10mo agoDone 😎 (updated preprint also coming soon!)
East Durham coal miner just home from the pit, 1937, photo by Bill Brandt (1904-83).
Registration now open for our AIS meeting, organised with @royalsociety.org in Edinburgh, 7th-8th December 2026! royalsociety.org/science-even...
Understanding the Genetics of Autism www.brainfacts.org/diseases-and... (posted as a counter to anti-vaxx nonsense...)
Understanding the Genetics of Autism
“The genetics underpinning autism is extremely complex. But the evidence for primarily genetic causation is overwhelming…” writes Kevin Mitchell.
brainfacts.org
Liz Essley Whyte@lizessleywhyte.bsky.social · last wk.NEW At a lunch at his northern Virginia golf course in May, president Trump told his health secretary RFK Jr. that he had the yips. Our look inside Trump's push to get Kennedy to do more on vaccines: www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
I remember going to the “Body Worlds” installation in Brick Lane in the late ‘90s. It was interesting, but I remember being horrified by the exhibit of a heavily pregnant woman, with a cut away revealing the fetus…
The Guardian@theguardian.com · last wk.‘He made Damien Hirst look like a sideshow’: the bloodsplash horrors of Gunther von Hagens
‘Great Inventions, 1961’ Jodrell Bank Radio Telescope Artist: Robert Ayton
Solitary brother Is there still a part of you that wants to live? Solitary sister Is there still a part of you that wants to give?
Harvest Gathered In. 20°C and early sunshine. Hares on the hill.
L.S. Lowry looking across to Stockport Viaduct, painting by Chris Cyprus.
The modern world in old Ladybird books. The mail train Artist: John Berry (The Postman, 1965)
