It is Friday - and the weather in Glasgow couldn't be more Scottish. Hoping for a rainbow later today. Meanwhile, enjoy the Dicty rainbow - created by me. Self-generated gradients are cool! #Dicty2022 (for higher resolution: tinyurl.com/3ump7hsf)

Not long till our next meeting. Looking forward to seeing you all next Thursday, October 13th, 3pm. This month we are on the Garscube Campus, @CRUK_BI. Excited to hear from Crispin Miller, @krikirschner, and Robert Insall.

We are so proud of our Phimmada hatthakarnkul for winning Best Poster at the 17th International Symposium of The Protein Society of Thailand on the mechanism of tumour budding in colorectal cancer!

Analogies between the human brain and deep neural networks are contrived and oftentimes misleading. But, there is one connection between artificial and biological neural networks that researchers have found to be pretty accurate… 🧵 [1/7]

Huge congratulations to the excellent Laura Machesky, new president of the BSCB

I asked (again) Midjourney to imagine software developers. C++ developer

Excellent news. Excellent story.

⭐️ICYMI the UofG-led INCISE project won the Innovative Collaboration Award LifeScienceAwardScot Awards!🎉 INCISE aims to transform bowel screening by developing a tool to better predict which patients with pre-cancerous polyps will develop further polyps. 👉 bit.ly/42mZCzQ

Congratulations Dr Amy Shergold (she/her) !!! 👏👏👏

After 11 hours, 1 closed road and a 97 mile detour. We made it to Skye!

Made it to the top of the Quirang without getting rained on. What a view!!

Big news! Registration is open for our first children's & young people's #CancerResearch conference. Secure your place at this unmissable event uniting researchers to network, debate + spark new ideas to drive progress for children & young people👉bit.ly/3oBFGKu

Anyone know if you can extract the SSD from a surface studio laptop? I suspect its all soldered. Middle of thesis writing and its given up the ghost. Just as well I use git and cloud storage!

Finally, Prof Owen Sansom 🏳️‍🌈, Director of the CRUK Scotland Inst, is discussing the important research that is being done by Cancer Research UK scientists in Glasgow and across Scotland.

Join us for a fantastic PhD opportunity to integrate pathology, radiology and other modalities for #rectalcancer with #MultimodalAI

Two rounds of applause to Dr. Phimmada! One for passing her Mahidol University viva, and one for her University of Glasgow viva! Thanks to her Glasgow Viva panel Heather GJ Joanna Birch Aideen Ryan for the discussion.