.....Extracting DNA from strawberries, DNA sequencing bracelets, matching socks to demonstrate chromosomes and inheritance. We loved every minute of it and learned so much. Thank you to the team from the university... making learning so real for us UoD Medicine

.Adam Boulton is a legend!

Whatever your view of Scottish independence, it's hard to argue that Scotland being pulled out of the EU against its will doesn't represent a "material change of circumstances".

I feel like I have gone through a ridiculous amount of tissues and feel awful 🤧😷 I’m too busy to be ill #headcold

My blog post on the British skin foundation blog is now live 😊. As always thank you to the BSF for making this research during my PhD possible.

Really excited to be able to offer a fully funded PhD position in my group BSRC St Andrews University of St Andrews School of Biology working on Spinal Muscular Atrophy. Details bit.ly/38WSaPR or contact me for info.

A year ago today, Theresa May announced the timetable for her resignation. At the time I thought she was the worst Prime Minister in my lifetime. And then Boris Johnson rocked up and said, ‘hold my beer old boy”.

Dominic Cummings has now admitted repeatedly breaking the lockdown rules. Of course, he thinks he has an excuse - that those rules didn’t really apply to him - but we absolutely do not agree. Please RT if you don’t either.

Another day, another cool research tool that's blown my mind. If you enter your favourite paper into the Connected Papers website, it produces a web of interrelated work (including citations, date published etc). So nifty for scoping reviews!

This is the Rosetta Stone of Scottish dialect. Wonderful stuff

A quick break from work to pop to Tesco to pick up shopping has turned into a cold wait on the RAC as my car won’t start 😭

We are happy to offer a 4-year PhD Studentship focused on targeting lung cancer metastasis (1/3). Please RT! Here our project: findaphd.com/phds/project/e… Please contact me if you are interested or have any questions

The University of St Andrews’ School of Biology has become the first department of biology in Scotland to be awarded the prestigious Gold Athena Swan award – which rewards excellence in advancing gender equality across higher education and research. ow.ly/nzIH50EIGL8

Today’s the day I have launched my website and side-business. I will be providing private online tutoring in Biology at high school and university level (UK based). Check out the website for more information. #tutoring #biology kmorrisontutoring.Wordpress.com

Looking for a PhD student (from Sept'22) to join is in brand new labs. How do cells organise various types of RNA and how is this affected in disease? Two bites at the funding cherry: EastBio DTP or University of St Andrews Pls contact me for details! bit.ly/3FjCJkx

Dear online journals, When we click an in-text reference and instead of opening a crossref it just scrolls down to the references section causing us to lose our place in the text, a small part of our soul dies. Respectfully, Everyone

After an all day imaging session on the confocal

We are ticking off the life events

We have a short, potentially part-time/flexible, post-doc position School of Biology University of St Andrews on Myotonic Dystrophy Type 1. Would suit someone 'between jobs' or needing to keep the wolf from the door while writing up. bit.ly/3mVCCYC deadline 23/3/23. Plz RT!