Chromatin 🤝EvoDevo and explains how skates evolved their wings 🧚 I am so thrilled about the publication of our little skate paper, a big collaborative effort with Tetsuya Nakamura Darío G. Lupiáñez Rafael Domínguez Acemel Juan Tena Dan Rokhsar and the late Jose Luis Gomez Skar ⬇️ nature.com/articles/s4158…

In case you missed it: Women are less likely to be credited for their scientific contributions than men. It’s true across multiple fields & at all stages, with important repercussions for career progress. #WomenInSTEM #WomenInMedicine #MedTwitter nature.com/articles/s4158…

Beef 🥩 requires 20 times more land & emits 20 times more GHG emissions per gram of bean 🫘 plant protein It causes of deforestation 🌳 It causes many health issues in a western diet Time to switch flexitarian or vegetarian diet Long answer below 👇 wri.org/insights/6-pre…

Emergence of novel cephalopod gene regulation and expression through large-scale genome reorganization nature.com/articles/s4146… Nature Communications

We know there are differences between the left and right sides of the brain, known as brain asymmetry. But it’s not yet clear how or why this comes about. Stephen Wilson and ibianco from UCL aim to find answers, with support from our Discovery Research Awards ⤵️

🚨 The vote is happening THIS WEDNESDAY! Contact your MPs and urge them to support the King's speech amendment calling for a ceasefire in Gaza! 76 percent of adults in the UK support a ceasefire in Gaza! MPs must listen to the public’s demands. 🔗 Automated email template

Devastating to hear that Benjamin Zephaniah has passed. As a writer, activist and patron of PSC he always stood steadfast with the Palestinian people and fought against racism and for justice for all his life. Rest in Power ✊🇵🇸

It’s completely shattered my perception of human rights/international law. I knew there was still so much inequality in the world but I didn’t realise the extent to which human rights are conditional, that there is a massive asterisk about who is actually considered human

1/14 🚨🚨 New preprint! Very excited to share our new study on the evolution of sexual parasitism and the invasion of the deep sea by anglerfishes! biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #biology #evolution #teamfish

So much goodness in one paper only! Cichlid neural crest, comparative genomics, gene duplications, sox10s and craniofacial skeleton. All led by brilliant Aleksandra Marconi and @gregverne with an amazing team of collaborators. She is on the look out for postdocs...just saying...

Fucking dystopian this. Upbeat electronic music over videos of people getting dragged from their homes and put in handcuffs. Treated like criminals and shipped off to a country they have no connection to. Posted the day before an election in a bid for votes. Fucking Tory scum.

Eighty seconds of pure pleasure as GB News brings Suella Braverman to Cambridge for a 'dialogue' on Gaza

This incredibly extreme position is thankfully against the Equality Act 2010 (that a past Labour Government put in place) Shows how far Labour have fallen. How could any LGBT person vote for them this week

When Starmer admitted he spoke to Israeli 🇮🇱 President Herzog before colluding with the Speaker to block the SNP Gaza 🇵🇸 ceasefire motion Herzog signs bombs before they are dropped on Gaza children Starmer has enabled genocide Do not vote Labour today.

We celebrated our 2nd lab retreat in Morston, Norfolk. Lots of productive discussions about science and the lab's future. Plenty of seal sightings, good food, and the weather almost held up!! #GreatBritishSummer! Connie Whiting Aleksandra Marconi Joel Elkin Aaron Hickey Patrícia Duarte

We have new lab members this week! Tropheops macrophthalmus! They will be joining Patrícia Duarte and Connie Whiting on a quest to uncover mechanisms underlying cranial neural crest divergence and phenotypic plasticity #cichlids Dept of Zoology

TAFIRI and the University of Cambridge Conduct Research on the Effects of Water Light Changes on Fish in Lake Kisiba, Located in Rungwe District, Mbeya.

The heroes at Forensic Architecture have mapped Israel's every move in Gaza and found what's going on: "a deliberate effort to render the territory incapable of supporting life." Every state arming Israel is, simply and literally, an enemy of life.