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Barral Lab @barrallab.bsky.social · 1h

Looking for a PhD for 2026? We have 2 projects in collaboration with Clare Bennett (UCL) looking at macrophage metabolism in breast cancer. Check them out! @cruk-cityoflondon.bsky.social

www.colcc.ac.uk/2026-phd-pro...

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Barral Lab @barrallab.bsky.social · 1h

Looking for a PhD for 2026? We have 2 projects in collaboration with Clare Bennett (UCL) looking at macrophage metabolism in breast cancer. Check them out! @cruk-cityoflondon.bsky.social

www.colcc.ac.uk/2026-phd-pro...

crukradnet.colcc.ac.uk/phd-students...

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Cancer Research UK City of London Centre @cruk-cityoflondon.bsky.social · 6d

Are you interested in doing a #PhD in #cancerresearch?
🧪🧑‍🔬👨🏽‍🔬👩🏿‍🔬🧫🦠🔬
Do you want to develop new #biotherapeutics?
Find cancer cures for #youngpeople?
Applications for our fully funded 4-year PhD programme starting in Autumn 2026 are open!
bit.ly/4mHbPIH
#uclcancer #QMBCI #KCLcancer_pharm #KCL #TheCrick

CYP PhD Studentships

For students embarking on their research career Applications for 2026 PhD studentships in Children and Young People's cancer are open! Applications are now open! The Children and Young People's ...

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CRUK Radiation Research City of London Centre @cruk-rrc-col.bsky.social · 6d

Interested in carrying out research in cancer Radiotherapy and Radiobiology? Applications are open now for our PhD programme for 2026 intake!

@kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @qmbci.bsky.social @crick.ac.uk @ucl.ac.uk

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PhD Studentships Projects - CRUK RadNet

Applications now open for PhD Studentships for September 2026 The CRUK City of London Radiation Research Centre PhD Programme This is a unique multidisciplinary and collaborative training opportuni...

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Karolinska Institutet @ki.se · 2d

The 2025 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi for their groundbreaking discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance that prevents the immune system from harming the body 🧪 www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medic...

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Ruth Ann Crystal @drruth.bsky.social · 4d

The HPV vaccine is doing what had been promised.
17 years after it became available, HPV infections decreased significantly in vaccinated people and unvaccinated people because of herd immunity. buff.ly/WvjQ1BS

h/t @boghuma.bsky.social

#medsky #pedsky 🛟🧪

Light blue background. Young woman with dark hair makes a sign of strength with her arm and she has a vaccine bandaid on her upper arm. It says "The HPV Vaccine Works!"

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Karen J Liu @karenjliu.bsky.social · Aug 5

Dev biologists! 3-yr postdoc position at King's, collaboration with Trizzino lab @marcotrizzino.bsky.social modelling CHD3 neural crest. We are looking for postdocs with mad embryology skills @the-node.bsky.social #developmental @ccrb27.bsky.social

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Postdoctoral Research Associate: Modelling Neural Crest Anomalies (mouse/human) - the Node

The Liu lab is looking for a postdoc with a love of embryos and developmental biology! This post is part of an MRC-funded collaboration between Karen Liu’s lab at King’s College London and Marco Trizz...

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · Jul 24

'In February 2024, in response to an independent review of research bureaucracy, the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology urged UKRI to consider alternative options on the collection of research impact data, “including no longer using Researchfish, from 2025 onwards”.' 1/3

Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · Jul 24

UKRI renews contract with Researchfish, despite the government last year urging the funder to consider alternatives to the impact-tracking service.

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...

UKRI renews contract with Researchfish - Research Professional News

Science department had previously urged funder to consider alternative options on impact tracking

www.researchprofessionalnews.com

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Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · Jul 24

UKRI renews contract with Researchfish, despite the government last year urging the funder to consider alternatives to the impact-tracking service.

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...

UKRI renews contract with Researchfish - Research Professional News

Science department had previously urged funder to consider alternative options on impact tracking

www.researchprofessionalnews.com

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Barral Lab @barrallab.bsky.social · Jul 17

Congratulations! 🥂 🎉

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Martin Turner @martint-babraham.bsky.social · Jul 15

“Vaccines save lives, and when coverage drops, disease spreads.” Dr Hans Kluge, the WHO regional director for Europe.
• invest in strong local health systems
• ensure vaccines are available to all
• fight misinformation

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Falling vaccination rates leave millions of children at risk, experts warn

More than 30m children worldwide not fully immunised for MMR and UK ranks worst in G7, WHO and Unicef say

www.theguardian.com

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Barral Lab @barrallab.bsky.social · Jun 4

Enhorabuena Jose y team! 🍾 🎉 Really cool work

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Spagnoli_Lab. @labspagnoli.bsky.social · Jun 2

We are doing it again!! 🚶‍♀️🚶‍♂️🚶🧪🧫🔬
For the Second Year My Lab is participating to the
One_Walk_London 🎡 to raise money for life-changing research & make a difference to T1D #diabetes
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Please help us raise funds for @breakthrought1duk.bsky.social

Spagnoli Lab. One Walk

Please help us raise vital funds for Breakthrough T1D, the leading global type 1 diabetes (T1D) research charity. Your support will help change the lives of everyone affected with T1D - Thanks so much...

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CD1-MR1 Immunology @cd1mr1.bsky.social · May 19

Our third webinar from the AUS/APAC region, will feature Nick Gherardin and Sho Yamasaki. Thursday, June 12th at 17:00 AEST (8:00 London, 16:00 Tokyo).

If you'd like to keep up to date, sign up to the mailing list here: cd1mr1.com/cd1-mr1-soci...

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Molly Franke @mollyfranke.bsky.social · May 15

All 4 of my NIH research grants are terminated. These were grants on MDR-TB treatment & strategies for supporting adolescents living w/ HIV. This is a massive waste of resources. I am heartbroken for my Harvard team, my partners in Peru, the next generation of scientists & our country. Shame.

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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.”

Is the UK paying the price for world’s most expensive visas? | The Observer

Competing political and economic goals on immigration are resulting in the loss of valuable skills and talent in the UK

observer.co.uk

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Cancer Research UK @cancerresearchuk.org · Apr 24

#InTheNews: Beating cancer requires top scientists, but our latest global policy report has found that political discourse and high visa costs are deterring experts from working in the UK.
Read more in @theguardian.com 👇

Top cancer experts ‘being put off UK by politicians’ messaging on immigration’

Exclusive: Leaked report says high visa costs also derailing clinical trials and research, denying NHS life-saving drugs

www.theguardian.com

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WHO @who.int · Apr 24

It’s #WorldImmunizationWeek

Vaccines have saved 154 million lives in the last 50 years. That’s 6 lives every minute.

A reminder of what is #HumanlyPossible. Science saves lives.

#VaccinesWork
bit.ly/wiw2025

Every 10 seconds vaccination saves a life.
Immunization for all is Humanly Possible

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · Apr 19

Academia is cool because if you're doing it right, every paper you published in the last 3 years feels inadequate now that you understand the topic better, but it'll take 3 years to get out the version where you get it more right, and you get to do that until one day you die! Isn't that cool

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · Apr 10

"Science in the US is entering a phase resembling the Lysenko era in the Soviet Union."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We are witnessing the destruction of science in America | Paul Darren Bieniasz

If we stay on this administration’s course, future life-saving medicines may never be invented

www.theguardian.com

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Juan Martin Serrano @juanmartin-serrano.bsky.social · Apr 9

This is a hard read from Paul Bieniasz, the tragedy is that the end of this nightmare doesn't seem anywhere close.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We are witnessing the destruction of science in America | Paul Darren Bieniasz

If we stay on this administration’s course, future life-saving medicines may never be invented

www.theguardian.com

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Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · Mar 8

Gender equality doesn’t just 'happen.'

Women’s rights must be fought for and protected.

Our responsibility is clear.

To lead by example and create a world where opportunities are fair for all.

Not just today, but every single day.

#InternationalWomensDay

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · Feb 26

The first measles death in the US in a decade -- the tragic, preventable death of a child whose parents chose not to protect them with vaccination -- should spark an immediate nation-wide campaign to ensure all children are protected against preventable diseases. Anything less is unconscionable.

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Mauro Gaya @maurogaya.bsky.social · Feb 25

🦠🔬 We are very excited to organize an EMBO workshop on Immunity in Barrier Tissues with Carolyn King! @immunologyking.bsky.social

📍 Where: Basel, Switzerland
📅 When: 26th–29th August 2025
📝 Registration deadline: 30th May 2025

Check out the program and details 🔗

#EMBOBarrierTissues @embo.org

Adaptive immunity in barrier tissues

Immune responses lie at the heart of almost every aspect of human health, including host responses to infection, autoimmunity, cancer, metabolism and aging. While adaptive immune responses by B and T…

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Stacey Ogden 🦔 @labogden.bsky.social · Feb 24

Say it with me... 🧪 👩‍🔬

I believe that science is real and essential, love is love, black lives matter, feminism is for everyone, transgenic mice are cool, and immigrants are welcome.

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