Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.

Hi all, putting feelers out: folks looking for a job ASAP in the 🇬🇧 in Cornwall, or willing to move? Collaborating group hiring a couple roles with skills in any of: - insect injections (incl. gene edits) - machine learning for image analysis - experience with 🦋 a plus! Can email me at link below.

Year 12 students from the Emmanuel College Summer Residential Programme joined us in the Department of Genetics for hands-on activities exploring developmental biology, genetics, and biomedical research. Many thanks to our postdocs who led the sessions. #ScienceOutreach #STEM

Now playing The Early Years #modernmoonlight contender for album of the year from @soniccathedral.bsky.social I can here echoes of New order, LCDsoundsystem and A Certain Ratio definitely worth the wait 🖤

Professor Kate Baker's study from the Department of Genetics is receiving media coverage, helping to bring this important topic to a broader audience. www.cam.ac.uk/research/new...

🪲🪰 Our preprint is out! This was a team effort with @wolframponisch.bsky.social, @matthewabenton.bsky.social and Ewa Paluch. We asked whether Drosophila and Tribolium use the same cell behaviours to fold their embryos during gastrulation. 🧵👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Morphospace analysis reveals divergent cellular behaviours driving tissue internalisation during insect gastrulation

During gastrulation, embryonic epithelia undergo large-scale remodelling to internalise the mesoderm. Whether the cellular mechanisms underlying these tissue deformations are conserved across species ...

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Although spreading disinformation is clearly contrary to scientific values and in breach of the @royalsociety.org code of conduct, they have taken no action against Elon Musk FRS, who owns and runs X.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2mo ago

UK attorney general tells staff to stop using X amid disinformation concerns

@royalsociety.org I hear you’re blocking people calling on you to cancel Elon Musk’s fellowship. His presence besmirches your name. He’s a danger to British democracy. Reconsider.

Now.

Otto English@ottoenglish.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The government needs to leave X. EVERYONE needs to leave X.

Department of Genetics is hiring a Research Associate (Fixed Term) Details on how to apply: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

There's a new initiative in Makerfield to put signs up pointing at places where idiots live.

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)

Did no one at the BBC have the wit to read the Judge's judgment in this case?

The WC, that once beloved festival of football has been turned into a corrupt money machine by Infantino’s “leadership”. For the 2nd time I’m driven to boycott it despite the unlikely sight of Scotland playing. Makes me sick. Sing up to Reeboot FIFA.

Infantino isn’t fit to lead FIFA. 
And FIFA isn’t fit to govern football. Agree? Add your name now >>

Add your name to our mass complaint

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Postdoctoral job announcement: come to Cambridge and work on population genetic modelling with environmental and ancient DNA, jointly with @gamzeandgursoy.bsky.social and me. Details at www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/55580/ - applications by June 16th.

Our TARGet AMR genomics-comic is out now - check it out, share it, print it, use it in your lectures, PE events, or maybe even when trying to explain what you do to dinner guests! 🤓 🧬 🧫

TARGetAMR@target-amr.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🧬 Explore our illustrated comic - an accessible entry point to genomic literacy and AMR across disciplines ✅ Free to use and adapt (CC BY 4.0) 👉 Read more: www.targetamr.org.uk/targetamr-la... 🔗 Access the comic: www.targetamr.org.uk/our-comic/ #GenomicDetectives

Antonio García-Bellido (1936-2025) In this Obituary, Marco Milán @milanlab.bsky.social discusses Antonio García-Bellido's legacy: his distinguished career, his mentorship and appointments to the world's leading scientific bodies. journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Sob. It’s the last dram of the most sublime whisky. Never to be had again ☹️

Want to get paid while gaining valuable experience this summer? 🌟 Our research studentships are open for applications — but time is running out! 📅 Deadline: Friday 2 May www.gen.cam.ac.uk/undergraduat...

Curious about how we assess grant applications? We’re inviting researchers to observe a Wellcome funding advisory committee in action. Apply by 11 May 2026 ⤵️ wellcome.org/research-fun...

Apply to observe a Wellcome funding advisory committee | Prepare to Apply | Wellcome

Find out how to observe a Wellcome funding advisory committee. Researchers who are considering applying for Wellcome funding in the next two years can apply to observe a shortlisting committee.

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#boycottworldcup

Excited to announce Physics of Living Matter 19! To be held in Cambridge 24-25th September 2026: www.plm-symposium.org

Huge thanks to our fantastic scientists for welcoming Year 12 student for a hands-on lab experience. The students gained practical experience in fly phenotyping, staining and imaging, and Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacterial counterstaining 🧬🧪 #Drosophila #universityofcambridge #Cambridge

NORMAN 30TH ANNIVERSARY: Records That Made Us Fresh retrospective thoughts on records which shaped our shop and then some, featuring classics from Aphex Twin, Can, Talk Talk, Om, The Jesus and Mary Chain, my bloody valentine, Shellac, and more… www.normanrecords.com/features/ann...

Have you ever wondered why children starting nursery/daycare pick up so many germs? I certainly did, and with a crack team of parent-scientists/clinicians, we set out to answer that question. Is childcare a germ factory or an immune bootcamp? journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Germ factories or immune boot camps? Infection and immunity in childcare settings | Clinical Microbiology Reviews

SUMMARYChildcare outside the home is a common experience for many children in high-income countries. It is associated with an increase in the incidence of infectious diseases—not just for the child bu...

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We've got ISSUES. Literally. We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do? arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563 A 🧵 1/n

Anyone looking for the full map or wondering who made it, it’s the work of Matt Brown and it’s here. open.substack.com/pub/londonis...

Mapping Anglo-Saxon London: A Big Update

A glimpse of London, 1,000 years past.

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Santa has been good to me this year 😎 @matthewcobb.bsky.social

Closing date tomorrow!

Aylwyn Scally@aylwyn-scally.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Come and join us here in Cambridge! Applications open for a new faculty position, for a researcher in computational and/or theoretical biology, based jointly in Genetics and Mathematics. Happy to answer questions about research, teaching and working here. www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/faculty...