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@deniz1inci I had the same uneasy feeling when I was back in Cyprus for the holidays and there was a talk show on TV where again all the speakers were men (as well as all those who called to give their opinion). I wondered if I wouldn't have noticed it had I not been abroad all these years.

Apparently, only Greek Cypriot men are allowed a say in my country’s future… Watching this debate with concern, looking at the same time at a photo below the TV, of my late grandmother, the first Turkish Cypriot woman programme producer of the channel on screen... #quovadisPIK

@PolitlcsUK It only took the French a couple of years to restore the Notre Dame after the fire but somehow this needs decades?

🚨 NEW: MPs and peers must vote on two options to restore the Palace of Westminster 1: Fully move-out for 19–24 years (£11-15bn) 2: Phased works over 38–61 years, in which the Lords move out to a conference centre and MPs use their chamber for 2 years from 2041 (£19-39bn)

@nimivashi15 @m_goes_distance This is what I always wonder. Such a waste of resources if not repurposed/disseminated.

@m_goes_distance What is happening to all this IP?

Biotech is fvcked. Not because the science is dead, the business model is backwards. Just this week: > Lyra Therapeutics laid off all 28 employees. 7 years of work. Multiple clinical trials. Still had $22.1M left -enough runway until Q3 2026 > Lucy Therapeutics shut down after 7 years. Backed by Bill Gates and the Michael J. Fox Foundation. $42M raised. Promising animal data. Never made it to human trials Meanwhile ~$17B has flowed into AI drug discovery since 2019, but 1000s of startups later, not a single AI‑discovered novel drug has reached approval. That isn’t a science failure. It’s structural. VCs like to chase AI narratives. And that's the problem. The solution is simple: fund clinical execution.

I think they’ve quit teaching this.

@exitthelemming @_CFTA Unfortunately Nottingham is suspending several courses (below) and that is a symptom of how universities operate and are funded all over the country. I am not sure what hope we have for smaller institutions...

Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason, mother of Britain’s most famous musical family and trustee of the @_CFTA, on being young, gifted and Black, and the news from Nottingham twinkl.co.uk/news/kadiatu-k…

@AsafLevyHUJI Great work!

A new preprint from the lab in collaboration with Feng Jiang. biorxiv.org/content/10.1..… is a thread for you if you're interested in secretion systems, phages, and evolution. The extracellular contractile injection system (eCIS) is a mysterious microbial toxin delivery system.

@jeremykauffman People are just confusing false positive rate with false discovery rate and usually the latter is the one doctors care about since usually tests aren't done at random!

4 out of 5 doctors at Harvard cannot answer a question from introductory statistics

Interested in host-pathogen interactions, secreted effector proteins, and unusual microbes that lead amazing lifestyles? We are recruiting to two positions - a PDRA (48 months) and a Technician (24 months)!

Hello! As I mentioned before, we have a few more roles now open at NanoSyrinx: 🧬 Protein engineering/platform dev Scientist II/Senior Scientist 👩‍🔬 Senior Scientist (Protein Production) 🥽 Lab Ops Assistant/Technician You can find them all at: nanosyrinx.com/careers/

Here is the second post: linkedin.com/jobs/view/4053…

Hello all! NanoSyrinx is hiring! We have two open positions, one for an experienced cell biologist and one for an expert in microbial fermentation. If you are interested please take a look! More positions will be available soon. linkedin.com/jobs/view/4053… linkedin.com/jobs/view/4053…

Vive la république!

@easyJet Many thanks to the captain of flight EZY6610 for giving us info on Cumulus clouds and avoiding a storm!

This is what I meant about taking into consideration different skin types: theguardian.com/society/articl…

This looks awesome!

@timspector A lot of people also use high levels of SPF throught the year for cosmetic reasons and it might be that in darker skin types this is hindering VitD synthesis even more. Large parts of the population are def VitD deficient and we seem to accept that.

@timspector While I understand the justified concerns in all the comments re use of SPF and reducing melanoma risk I would like to see a discussion on SPF, skin type and VitD generation. 1/2

Vitamin D regulates cancer immunity via microbiome- another reason to stop using SPF 50 all year round which blocks our natural defences science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

@MikeyJ Phase variants?

In case anyone has been hanging on with anticipation... ...16S of both the petals and the centre of this flower colony are the same, Staph aureus. Restreaking from the petal or centre again gives the same colony morphology. So all those who went with colony sectoring ->🏆

Dear 🇬🇧, This is the anatomy of a militant takeover of your public healthcare system: - Take the #1 healthcare system on Earth - Defund it by £320 billion over a decade - Force doctors and nurses to leave country - Engineer the longest waitlist in NHS history - Hold patients hostage to private healthcare - Get the public sick, angry, out of work - Call the sick public “generation sicknote” - Mandate employers pay for private care This is how they’ll continue to funnel billions more of your public money into the private sector, propping them up at the expense of your NHS, under the guise of “reducing the benefits bill and boosting the economy.” They could have simply funded the NHS and we wouldn’t be such a sick and out of work nation. And so when we talk about the creation of a two-tier system, this is exactly what we mean: rapid access to a doctor for the wealthy on private healthcare, and years-long waits to see a non-doctor in the NHS. The @Conservatives goal has always been to turn your NHS into an American privatised nightmare — just like the one I grew up in where healthcare is obtained through the employer at massive cost to both employer and employee — and it’s all happening right under your nose, without your consent. So please wake up and stop letting them steal your healthcare from you and your family. They are not going to improve your healthcare, they’re simply going to take it away, only to sell it right back to you. If you value the health of your family, never vote for them ever again. #SOSNHS