Amazing news for the The Vaccine Identity Evaluation Consortium, which includes researchers from the Department of Biochemistry and partner institutions: a £3.7 million MRC DPFS grant to advance innovative technologies for detecting substandard and falsified vaccines. Congratulations 🙌 ⬇️

£3.7 million grant to advance devices for detecting substandard and falsified vaccines

The three-year project builds on research that began during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic

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Thoroughly enjoyed teaching at the @stannescollege.bsky.social summer school in Hong Kong. There is something very life-affirming about teaching youngsters- it’s difficult to articulate it fully. A few pics below.

Italian @vanityfair.com’s article on Nolan’s The Odyssey, featuring a reading list by @stannescollege.bsky.social JRF in Classics; Dr Francesca Beretta. @classicsatstannes.bsky.social www.vanityfair.it/article/odis...

Dopo l'Odissea di Christopher Nolan, i nove libri per ritrovare Ulisse: da Omero a Margaret Atwood e Madeline Miller

Tra classici, saggi e nuove voci, le storie che riportano al centro Ulisse, le sue donne e le domande universali che il poema di Omero continua a porci. La guida di Francesca Beretta, ricercatrice a O...

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Svegliatevi, classicisti!! La nostra ricercatrice brillante Dott. Francesca Beretta parla dell'Odissea su London One Radio. Wake up, Classicists!! Our brilliant Junior Research Fellow Dr Francesca Beretta is taking about the Odyssey on London One Radio. www.youtube.com/live/BTMBlHV...

L'Odissea: da Omero a Christopher Nolan

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What an excellent, engaging interview! Here is an updated link: www.youtube.com/live/BTMBlHV... @classicsatstannes.bsky.social @vbivar.bsky.social

L'Odissea: da Omero a Christopher Nolan

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St Anne's College, Oxford@stannescollege.bsky.social · 4w ago

The Odyssey is one of 2026's biggest films, but it was written nearly 3,000 years ago. Why does Homer's epic still resonate today? Find out with Francesca Beretta on London One radio at 17:00pm today. https://share.google/PJm7ut0W6Ag51VmQB

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We’re back! @sykhalid.bsky.social and I kick off season 2 of @scienceofthetimes.bsky.social podcast discussing the human heart. We’ll be releasing new episodes monthly open.spotify.com/episode/2gE5...

The Art and Science of our Beating Hearts

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History has hatched in London. For the first time in over 360 years, pelican chicks have successfully been born in St. James’s Park. These four new arrivals mark a monumental milestone for wildlife in the heart of our capital.

More Beaks To Feed! Pelican Chicks Born At St James's Park For The First Time

Four additions to the feathered family.

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Elise Stringfellow has just completed her MSt in Classical Languages and Literature and is off to read for a Graduate Diploma in Law. Prof. Syma Khalid and Dr Francesca Beretta rock the dark glasses. Francesca leaves us after 2 wonderful years for a Fellowship at the Center for Hellenic Studies.

Glycoheterogeneity is an aspects of glycobiology that most would class into a category between difficult and intolerable, but @benschulz.bsky.social and us love it! So we wrote a whole review in Current Opinion in Structural Biology on it 🧵1/8 ⬇️ doi.org/10.1016/j.sb...

Roses are redde Noble are the manatees For a bettir future Teach artes and humanityes

Modern Language Association@modernlanguage.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A functional democracy depends on its participants being able to understand the operations of their government. In honor of the 250th anniversary of the US's founding, we've published five essays about the interpretative skills required of participants in a democracy. style.mla.org/the-mla-demo...

Back from Japan! Absolutely loved it. Landed an hour ago - have to give a 2 hour lecture tomorrow morning :( #badplanning

And Simon Foster too! Whoop for microbiology. A bit congratulations to Simon

Well done @timcoulson.bsky.social - excellent scientist, writer and podcaster.

Oxford Biology@biology.ox.ac.uk · 2mo ago

Congratulations to @timcoulson.bsky.social, @stuwest.bsky.social, and Kathy Willis, who have been elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society! 👇

Congratulations to Colin and @robklose.bsky.social. Not only excellent scientists, but also good colleagues and friends. Delighted for both of them.

Oxford Biochemistry @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Today we celebrate our colleagues Colin Kleanthous and Rob Klose as they join the Fellowship of the Royal Society, one of the highest honours in the scientific world, in recognition of their impactful contributions to knowledge. Congratulations! 👏 👏 👏 Read more ⬇️

I appear to be in Japan.

Congratulations to Arsenal - thoroughly deserved (typed through gritted teeth)

Really fun multidisciplinary project with Enrique (Fadri) Martinez-Perez’s lab. Simulations by Punam Rattu, who did her PhD with me at @unisouthampton.bsky.social and is now in @philbiggin.bsky.social’s group here at @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Check this out Oxford folk! Wholesome science & music family event.

Helen Arney@helenarney.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Book free workshop places here: www.thegapfestival.org/events/disco... And concert tickets here: www.thegapfestival.org/events/the-c...

OXFORDSHIRE PEOPLE! Come to our FREE family physics singalong workshops! Or get £5 tickets for our concert of @firebrigademusical.bsky.social at an ACTUAL FIRE STATION (bring picnics!) All at GAP Festival in Goring & Streatley on Saturday 20th June... pls share share share! thegapfestival.org

Now out: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Jarvis Lab@pauljarvislab.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Our new study characterises the assembly of two functionally distinct chloroplast protein import complexes (TOC-P and TOC-N) in the outer membrane of plant chloroplasts. Huge thanks to @Ivan Ahel's lab and @sykhalid.bsky.social's lab, for a fantastic collaboration! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Careful social media campaigns designed to cause divisions have helped Reform. It’s not ok to keep silent, folks. The louder voices are getting heard by idiots who can vote.

Congratulations to Bjarne Feddersen for his work on benchmarking umbrella sampling workflows for PMF calculations of membrane permeation! Systematic work that provides guidance on how to approach these to minimise compute resource. @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Umbrella Sampling Workflows for Fast-Converging PMF Calculations without Artificial WHAM Constraints

Umbrella sampling is a powerful tool to investigate the underlying free-energy landscapes that govern the permeation properties of small molecules through complex lipid bilayers. However, obtaining co...

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Anyone been to Japan? How easy is it for an English muppet like me, to get from the Haneda airport in Tokyo to Shinagawa station to get the Bullet train to Shin-Kobe station? I’d be grateful for any advice

Everybody gave this their all so thank you for all your dedication robbieclark.bsky.social , Louis Smith, Ryan Szukalo , @mleighton.bsky.social , @sykhalid.bsky.social , Pablo Debenedetti, @pilarcossio.bsky.social and @sonyahanson.bsky.social. This wouldn't have happened without any of you!

I suppose Cambridge is kinda nice

We’re delighted to share a ‘behind-the-scenes’ peek of SBS TV filming Matt Higgins @parasitematt.bsky.social and his group this week for a documentary on the Future of Medicine with AlphaFold. It will air in South Korea in early May 2026. Watch this space for more!

I wrote an essay. It’s about gain-of-function mutations. And penguins. Also ion channels, chihuahuas, the film Alien, recycled cardboard, and the Apollonian mind. Oh, and muffins. Thanks to the editors of #GENETICS @genetics-gsa.bsky.social for letting me take some stylistic liberties. 1/2

@stannescollege.bsky.social looks mighty fine today

Football really is a ridiculous sport.