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Robin Allshire 🇮🇪 🇪🇺✊🏿 ⬆️ Zak’s favourite nucleosome: K9me @allshire-lab.bsky.social · Sep 8

A big car park where the Darwin Building at King’s Building, University of Edinburgh used to be

Robin Allshire 🇮🇪 🇪🇺✊🏿 ⬆️ Zak’s favourite nucleosome: K9me @allshire-lab.bsky.social · Jul 24

The Darwin Building aka The Darwin Tower aka The Dept of Molecular Biology at the King’s Building campus @edinburghbiology.bsky.social
@edinburgh-uni.bsky.social has been demolished - @ link above was incorrect

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Robin Allshire 🇮🇪 🇪🇺✊🏿 ⬆️ Zak’s favourite nucleosome: K9me @allshire-lab.bsky.social · Jul 24

The Darwin Building @edinburghup.bsky.social which housed the UK’s first Dept of Molecular Biology is no more! Many notable scientists worked their & passed through: 1968-2018. We look forward to a suitable replacement that promotes excellent biological research allowing many more key discoveries.

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Robin Allshire 🇮🇪 🇪🇺✊🏿 ⬆️ Zak’s favourite nucleosome: K9me @allshire-lab.bsky.social · Jun 28

Sneaky cheats aren’t they…. @edinburghairport.bsky.social manipulating arrival time so they don’t look soooo bad!

Robin Allshire 🇮🇪 🇪🇺✊🏿 ⬆️ Zak’s favourite nucleosome: K9me @allshire-lab.bsky.social · Jun 28

No scheduled to land 06:26 as below. Regardless - should be ready for incoming planes and not make passengers wait unnecessarily. Never seen this at any other capital city airport

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Robin Allshire 🇮🇪 🇪🇺✊🏿 ⬆️ Zak’s favourite nucleosome: K9me @allshire-lab.bsky.social · Jun 28

Yes 30 minutes waiting on plane cos @edinburghairport.bsky.social can get it together to open customs hall before 07:00. Why schedule flights to land if you can’t deal with them. Complete stupid!

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Robin Allshire 🇮🇪 🇪🇺✊🏿 ⬆️ Zak’s favourite nucleosome: K9me @allshire-lab.bsky.social · Jun 28

Not a good look to all those international visitors or potential business partners!! It’s 2025 FFS!!

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Robin Allshire 🇮🇪 🇪🇺✊🏿 ⬆️ Zak’s favourite nucleosome: K9me @allshire-lab.bsky.social · Jun 28

@edinburghairport.bsky.social What are you playing at? Delta 122 flight from Boston lands 06:30 Passengers have to wait on plane cos Customs hall does not open until 07:00 - Ridiculous get your act together FFS!!

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Jun 4

New powerful article up in the New York Times on cancelled and delayed grants

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Here Are the Nearly 2,500 Medical Research Grants Canceled or Delayed by Trump (Gift Article)

Some cuts have been starkly visible, but the country’s medical grant-making machinery has also radically transformed outside the public eye.

www.nytimes.com

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Robin Allshire 🇮🇪 🇪🇺✊🏿 ⬆️ Zak’s favourite nucleosome: K9me @allshire-lab.bsky.social · May 30

Looking forward to my visit to ibfg.usal-csic.es in Salamanca today. Thanks to Alfonso Fernandez Alvarez for inviting me.

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Robin Allshire 🇮🇪 🇪🇺✊🏿 ⬆️ Zak’s favourite nucleosome: K9me @allshire-lab.bsky.social · May 20

NB: the UK - including Scotland - is an ERC partner, English speaking and has an exceptionally strong discovery research base.

European Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu · May 19

Are you based in the U.S. 🇺🇸 or Canada 🇨🇦 and thinking of doing research in Europe?

ERC grants offer up to €4.5 million to support groundbreaking, investigator-driven frontier research in all fields.

Watch the dedicated info session for researchers in your region👉 youtu.be/92QYink1Lik

#ChooseEurope

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Robin Allshire 🇮🇪 🇪🇺✊🏿 ⬆️ Zak’s favourite nucleosome: K9me @allshire-lab.bsky.social · May 20

Congratulations to our colleague Prof Donal O’Carroll FRS, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, on his election as a fellow of the Royal Society of London (the UK nation academy of sciences) - very well deserved.

The Royal Society @royalsociety.org · May 20

We are pleased to announce the 90 outstanding researchers from across the world who have been elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society this year. The group includes trailblazers from AI and electron microscopy to global health and neuroscience. #RSFellows royalsociety.org/news/2025/05...

Exceptional scientists elected as Fellows of the Royal Society | Royal Society

Over 90 outstanding researchers from across the world have this year been elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society, the UK’s national academy of sciences.

royalsociety.org

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Robin Allshire 🇮🇪 🇪🇺✊🏿 ⬆️ Zak’s favourite nucleosome: K9me @allshire-lab.bsky.social · May 20

Of course, I should have said Absolutely staggering!!

Robin Allshire 🇮🇪 🇪🇺✊🏿 ⬆️ Zak’s favourite nucleosome: K9me @allshire-lab.bsky.social · May 20

And now for something completely different: my nephew Arthur Allshire (1st yr PhD student @bair.berkeley.edu) and co just released his first paper: Videomimic - Visual imitation enables contextual humanoid control. He is now working on sobering up the robot! www.videomimic.net

VideoMimic

www.videomimic.net

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Robin Allshire 🇮🇪 🇪🇺✊🏿 ⬆️ Zak’s favourite nucleosome: K9me @allshire-lab.bsky.social · May 13

Gov.UK now needs to be proactive in making it attractive for disaffected scientists to move to the UK. Advantages: English speaking & exceptionally strong research base. An opportunity to drive future economic growth - act now or miss out! arstechnica.com/science/2025...

Europe launches program to lure scientists away from the US

EU will spend over $500 million to recruit researchers and scientists.

arstechnica.com

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Robin Allshire 🇮🇪 🇪🇺✊🏿 ⬆️ Zak’s favourite nucleosome: K9me @allshire-lab.bsky.social · May 13

Pros: English speaking, strong research base. Cons: visa/health costs & broke universities. If, like EU, UK is to benefit by attracting disaffected talented scientists from other countries Gov.UK will need to make moving here attractive & affordable! Many non-OxBridge Universities can’t recruit.

Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia.bsky.social · May 12

"Researchers recruited to work in the UK have to fund a £1,035 annual immigration health surcharge, which must be paid in full in advance, as well as up to £1,519 in visa fees. For a family of four, the upfront costs can total almost £30,000."

Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia.bsky.social · May 12

“The visa fees are so exceedingly high that it makes coming here very difficult for some people. We are fishing for the best scientists in the world. They want to come and work here because we are such an effective country at science, but if we have these high costs, they can and will go elsewhere.”

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Robin Allshire 🇮🇪 🇪🇺✊🏿 ⬆️ Zak’s favourite nucleosome: K9me @allshire-lab.bsky.social · May 10

Happy 65th to Paul Hewson (aka Bono @U2) as usual mine follows soon after yours - funny that. ‘It’s a beautiful day’ enjoy!

a man wearing sunglasses with his mouth open and the words it 's a beautiful day below him

ALT: a man wearing sunglasses with his mouth open and the words it 's a beautiful day below him

media.tenor.com

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Robin Allshire 🇮🇪 🇪🇺✊🏿 ⬆️ Zak’s favourite nucleosome: K9me @allshire-lab.bsky.social · May 5

Looks like a fantastic AI tool for predicting protein sequences that will aggregate/form prions. Key was testing >100,000 in vivo using a neat assay in yeast/S. cerevisiae

Ben Lehner @benlehner.bsky.social · May 4

We quantify the aggregation of >100,000 random protein sequences to train CANYA, a convolution-attention hybrid neural network to predict aggregation from sequence. With @bennibolo.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Massive experimental quantification allows interpretable deep learning of protein aggregation

xAI trained on >100,000 random peptides predicts and elucidates primary sequence determinants of aggregation.

www.science.org

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Robin Allshire 🇮🇪 🇪🇺✊🏿 ⬆️ Zak’s favourite nucleosome: K9me @allshire-lab.bsky.social · May 5

Looks like a fantastic AI tool for predicting protein sequences that will aggregate/form prions. Key was testing >100,000 in vivo using a neat assay in yeast/S. cerevisiae

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Robin Allshire 🇮🇪 🇪🇺✊🏿 ⬆️ Zak’s favourite nucleosome: K9me @allshire-lab.bsky.social · Apr 30

Register for the excellent Epigenetics Gordon Research Conference Barcelona 10-15 Aug25. Theme: Epigenetic Variation: Mechanisms & Impact Across Systems. **FUNDING AVAILABLE to support attendance** ~15 talks to be chosen from submitted abstracts, so upload yours ASAP:
www.grc.org/epigenetics-...

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Robin Allshire 🇮🇪 🇪🇺✊🏿 ⬆️ Zak’s favourite nucleosome: K9me @allshire-lab.bsky.social · Apr 30

Congratulations to Wendy Bickmore on her election as an International Member of the US National Academy of Sciences www.nasonline.org

National Academy of Sciences

The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a private, nonprofit organization of the country’s leading researchers, recognizing and promoting outstanding science.

www.nasonline.org

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Robin Allshire 🇮🇪 🇪🇺✊🏿 ⬆️ Zak’s favourite nucleosome: K9me @allshire-lab.bsky.social · Apr 30

Congratulations to Bill Earnshaw, my colleague and lab next door, on his election as a Member of the US National Academy of Sciences www.nasonline.org

National Academy of Sciences

The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a private, nonprofit organization of the country’s leading researchers, recognizing and promoting outstanding science.

www.nasonline.org

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Robin Allshire 🇮🇪 🇪🇺✊🏿 ⬆️ Zak’s favourite nucleosome: K9me @allshire-lab.bsky.social · Apr 26

movie u have watched more than six times using gifs

(hard mode no star wars star trek or LOTR)

“I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, does anyone?”

a movie poster for stand by me shows a group of young men walking down train tracks

ALT: a movie poster for stand by me shows a group of young men walking down train tracks

media.tenor.com

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Ashani Weeraratna @ashi-w.bsky.social · Apr 24

The power of NIH funded research. @deniswirtz.bsky.social

hub.jhu.edu/2025/04/22/n...

Johns Hopkins researchers decipher complex behaviors behind deadly cancers

Engineer Denis Wirtz and colleagues are using artificial intelligence and multiscale imaging to reveal how tumors grow, spread, and vary across populations

hub.jhu.edu

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