So your COVID test was negative. I don't want your cold either.

The story of the hipster who complained to MIT Technology Review in 2019 for using his picture to imply hipsters look the same, end up discovering the picture was of an entirely different hipster [full story: buff.ly/3h6Aru7]

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Out today in Nature Communications! Our work using artificial selection pressure to rapidly search libraries of millions of variants for useful biocatalysts with new or improved properties nature.com/articles/s4146… Uni of Nottingham #WeAreUoN Imperial College London Lara Sellés Vidal #synbio #meteng #engbio

Protein Folding not yet solved - from big names in structural biology. #Alphafold models in CASP about as good as ∼4Å resolution experimental structures. Plenty of scope for prediction improvement, and we will always need experimental information. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Data Trap xkcd.com/2582

Smug. 👏 Comments. 👏 Written. 👏 In. 👏 Single. 👏 Word. 👏Sentences. 👏 With. 👏. Claps 👏 Are. 👏Fucking. 👏Annoying. 👏 Research. 👏Confirms theshovel.com.au/2020/05/13/smu…

I generally didn't get much out of school, but today I'm thinking about the single class that probably made my uber fancy high school pay for itself by making me a massively better writer. A big part of that was the textbook, which was awesome and extremely underrated IMO:

The #Broomway, otherwordly landscape on Maplin sands. Thanks to tombennettoutdoors.co.uk

On TV tonight - Paddington, the tragic tale of a scientist, played by Nicole Kidman, who fails to collect a megafauna holotype specimen. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

No one is going to sit in their death bed and think, "I wish I put in more hours at the office" They're going to think, "I wish I had corrected more people's grammar on the internet"

"International students [...] make critical contributions to the UK’s science talent pipeline and to innovation." 💡 Read our @imp_prov in The Times and The Sunday Times on the Home Secretary's pledge to reduce the number of international students in the UK. 👇 thetimes.co.uk/article/times-…

Happy to announce that our preprint titled "Dynamic lid domain of Chloroflexus aurantiacus Malonyl-CoA Reductase controls the reaction" bioRxiv where we show the mechanism is controlled by the loop residues of the dynamic lid domain of MCR James Murray Charlie Cotton

A nice surprise from my PhD advisor, James Murray James Murray - that reminded good memories during my PhD at Imperial 👨🏻‍🔬⚛️🧪

#cryoem

It's the creator's job to hide complexity from the consumer. Take writing. As a writer, your task is to simplify and distill your message until you're left with only the essence of what you're trying to say. The reader's experience should be frictionless. The sentences should

“The cemeteries are full of indispensable men.”

A great introductory AlphaFold course. Recommended for all students working with structures.

I have a PhD in protein design available for October 2024. findaphd.com/phds/project/d…

RepeatParam: Algorithm for Parameterising Repeat Proteins and Analysis of Repeat Protein Architectures - RepeatParam is a novel tool that parametrically describes repeat proteins, a category with diverse roles in molecular recognition and signaling. - Unlike previous methods,