‘You received £30 from your daughter for your birthday, so we’ve cancelled your pension & deported your carer’

Boris Johnson spotted earlier today arriving at the Covid inquiry

NEWS: Bantshire University axes Benny Hill theme from graduation ceremonies amid students' claims it is 'old-fashioned' and 'offensive to some'.

DNA polymerase I dislike: Pol κ DNA polymerase I begrudgingly respect: Pol β DNA polymerase I think is overrated: Taq DNA polymerase I think is underrated: Pol λ DNA polymerase I like: Phusion/Q5 DNA polymerase I love: Pol θ DNA polymerase I dream of discovering: Pol Ω

I'm done the microscope room is yours

The jaw-dropping mess of UK higher education is starkly revealed by a series of news stories all on the Times Higher Education website in the last week or so: 1.) There are job cuts right across the sector (44 universities and counting): timeshighereducation.com/news/portsmout…

RIP Lubert Stryer - his Biochemistry was my first college textbook, a gift from the lab where I had a summer job

Groundbreaking new paper on mammalian DNA-ADPr showing that telomeric DNA repeat sequences are subject to PARP1-mediated ADP-ribosylation that is reversed by the ADPr hydrolase, TARG1. Anne Wondisford Marion Schuller Ivan Ahel Lab @OSullivan_UPCI doi.org/10.1038/s41594…

Slightly annoyed that I missed nature's great light show last night. On the plus side, it's very quiet this morning and there's some nice new plants arrived in the garden.

"Union members slam Huddersfield University's 'draconian' management amid latest raft of redundancies" examinerlive.co.uk/news/west-york…

As those who follow me here already know, this past week I drove in a convoy that delivered ambulances to Ukraine. In this thread, I’d like to share some impressions from the very short time I spent in Lviv.

NEWS: Just Stop Oil have sprayed orange paint all over our Students’ Union building, causing thousands of pounds worth of improvements.

Are you still making your lovely naked sliced ham Finnebrogue, as we can’t find it any where sadly ? 🙏

Today is Gannet be the day that they're gonna throw it back to you

Just one week left till our earlybird deadline-places filling up-please send your newbie protein-makers to us-we will have a great time and learn lots about how to design, produce and optimise #recombinant #proteins-please RT to spread the word Biochemical Society CCPN ccp4_mx

I have a 4 year fully funded PhD position in collaboration with Prof Helen Walden (Glasgow) and Dr Panos Kotsantis. If you are interested in cell cycle regulation and ubiquitin signalling, this could be for you. gla.ac.uk/postgraduate/d…

Looking to speaking at the Biochemical Society course on Engineering Recombinant Proteins course in Nottingham today! Great to reconnect with old colleagues and meet new protein afficionados #BiochemEvent

Engineering Recombinant Proteins for Structural and Functional Studies 2024 was a huge success! We learnt some great tips and tricks for improving protein expression, purification, stability and more! Thanks to all attendees! #BiochemEvent

Zia Yusuf It's the Union flag not the Union Jack. Basics.