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Cahir O'Kane @cahirokane.bsky.social · 19m

So there are some situations in which loss of Sarm1 acts against regeneration and restoration of axon/neuron function.

Ashley Kalinski @kalinskilab.bsky.social · 2h

Paper Alert!! Our collaborative work with Giger Lab at UMich is out now in #ScienceTranslationMedicine Deletion of murine Sarm1 results in a microenvironment that delays peripheral nerve regeneration after injury | Science Translational Medicine @science.org
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Deletion of murine Sarm1 results in a microenvironment that delays peripheral nerve regeneration after injury

In Sarm1-deficient mice, peripheral nervous system regeneration is delayed after injury.

www.science.org

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 9h

I hope and believe that most of my fellow Jews will join me in saying that it is sickening that anyone should justify this outpouring of execrable racist bile by claiming that it's for our sake.

Iain Mansfield @igmansfield.bsky.social · 9h

Outstanding piece by Stephen Daisley.

Ethnicity is no barrier to Britishness - it's culture and integration.

That means 'smaller cohorts and aggressive integration policies' - and tackling the institutions that 'have amplified grievance narratives and radical anti-Western ideologies'.

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Jacob (Yaqub) Hanna - يعقوب حنا @jacob-hanna.bsky.social · 9h

A Palestinian, son of Palestinians displaced from Gaza (Al-Masmiyya) to Jordan, wins the Nobel Prize in Chemistry... Professor Omar Munis Yaghi from the University of Berkeley!!

..Some members of the Yaghi family are still under the rubble in Gaza!

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 10h

"15 years ago, Polish workers came here to find opportunity. Now Poland is growing twice as fast as we are," says Kemi Badenoch.

Any ideas what may have happened in the interim?

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Cahir O'Kane @cahirokane.bsky.social · 11h

I quite like my (white) skin, it’s the only skin I’ve got and it’s what I was born with. But I’d like it no matter what colour it was.

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 14h

As for this - in other words the government would rather we offshore our operations instead of generating jobs and exports in a high productivity sector in the UK. I despair...

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Diane Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social · 14h

Given the circular deals, it surely isn’t a $1T market?

Techmeme @techmeme.com · 14h

The recent wave of circular deals and partnerships involving Nvidia and OpenAI is escalating concerns that they are artificially propping up the $1T AI market (Bloomberg)

Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 13h

Lords Heseltine & Kinnock seem more alive to these self-evident truths than most members of the Commons. Similarly, I find thinkers with direct lived experience of far right dictatorship, Greeks of a certain age for example, crystal clear about what’s happening now.

BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 1d

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight

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Cahir O'Kane @cahirokane.bsky.social · 13h

The UK Supreme Court (SCOTUK) has a much lower profile than its US equivalent, and many UK residents would be hard pressed to name a single judge. An interesting piece on how it’s becoming less liberal since the great Lady Hale retired. The current chief justice was appointed under Boris Johnson.

Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 23h

It's difficult to read this piece without asking yourself whether you need to be foreign to see England for what it is. It's difficult, too, to read it because doing so is to be reminded, again, how much we will miss Conor Gearty. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Conor Gearty · Unwelcome Remnant: Erasing the Human Rights Act

The Supreme Court is quietly editing the Human Rights Act out of existence. In cases where human rights cannot be...

www.lrb.co.uk

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Laura Lopez @ohdearz.bsky.social · 1d

Valuable info about the Physics Nobel Prize today from Prof. Joseph Barranco at SFSU on Martinis and Devoret being a grad student and postdoc in Clarke's lab at UC Berkeley & Clark and Devoret being immigrants. "California *public* education made this happen. Immigration made this happen." ⚛️

Joseph Barranco posted on social media: Go Bears! Nobel Prize in Physics goes to 3 physicists studying mesoscopic quantum phenomena... Work was done in the 1980s in UC Berkeley Professor John Clarke's lab with his graduate student John Martinis and postdoctoral fellow Michel Devoret... all 3 share the Nobel Prize. Must also point out that both Clarke and Devoret are immigrants from the UK and France, respectively. All 3 are pioneers in the race to build the most powerful quantum supercomputers. California *public* education made this happen. Immigration made this happen.

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Cahir O'Kane @cahirokane.bsky.social · 14h

Yes indeed. The Musk Royal Society issue is being noticed more widely.

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 16h

The Royal Society should be protecting science, not Musk on.ft.com/46EWow2 | opinion

The Royal Society should be protecting science, not Musk

The esteemed club risks becoming a bystander as reason and rationality come under attack

on.ft.com

Cahir O'Kane @cahirokane.bsky.social · 14h

Yes.

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 16h

Let’s end Eurostar’s monopoly on cross-channel rail on.ft.com/4nJQ6kS | opinion

Let’s end Eurostar’s monopoly on cross-channel rail

New entrants could revitalise and expand rail services from London to continental Europe

on.ft.com

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Genetics Society of America @genetics-gsa.bsky.social · 1d

Are you advancing #Drosophila neurogenetics? 🧠🪰

Nominations are open for the Hugo Bellen & Catherine Tasnier Drosophila Neurogenetics Lecture—$5,000 + present at #Dros26! 2025 recipient Qili Liu shared groundbreaking work on protein-specific appetite. Who’s next?

Apply by Nov 6: buff.ly/kTdkONE

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Manuel Thery @manuelthery.bsky.social · 1d

What would happen if cells would express more molecular motors ?
They would break all microtubules 😱
As shown by recent great work from @kjverhey1.bsky.social

rupress.org/jcb/article-...

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Omar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social · 1d

I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter

Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

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Alex Webb Lab @alexwebblab.bsky.social · 1d

A really nice man. Always wanted to talk with students and worked in the lab well in to his retirement. www.cam.ac.uk/research/new... 🧪

Nobel Laureate Professor Sir John Gurdon dies aged 92

It is with great sadness that the University shares the news of the death of Professor Sir John Gurdon, founder of the Gurdon Institute.

www.cam.ac.uk

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University of Cambridge @cam.ac.uk · 1d

It is with great sadness that the University shares the news of the death of Professor Sir John Gurdon, founder of the @gurdoninstitute.bsky.social

Read our tribute to the visionary Nobel Laureate and watch an interview from 2012, just after he won: https://bit.ly/4mM8o3r

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Cahir O'Kane @cahirokane.bsky.social · 1d

A belt of a crozier for Jenrick. Good.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d

The Bishop of Birmingham has written to the Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick about his comments about Handsworth

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Cahir O'Kane @cahirokane.bsky.social · 1d

If there's a Farage-Jenrick government after the next election (and fortunately it's still *if*) it will be one of the most evil governments in the UK since the days of Empire. Starmer - you have one job to do.

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 1d

So to summarise, this is a white politician blaming a black journalist for the racism he is now actively helping to promote, after receiving the full endorsement of his own party leader

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 1d

Wow. Robert Jenrick doubles down by branding a black journalist's questions "ridiculous" and saying that the problem is not his comments, but "journalists like you who pop up and try to knock me down", adding that "this is the reason why terrorist attacks happen". ~AA

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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 1d

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 1d

Heseltine at the Tory conf:

"Fascists of the 30s are back... Trump's language coincides with words here... The immigrant has replaced the Jew as the problem. We must make clear we will never have any part in the populist extremism of Farage... We don't need Trump's mouthpiece anywhere near No. 10.”

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Kirsty Wan @micromotility.bsky.social · 1d

Very sad to hear that Sir John Gurdon, former Master of Magdalene College, has passed away at the age of 92. www.cam.ac.uk/research/new...

Here is a powerful reminder that you should never give up on your dreams.

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Cahir O'Kane @cahirokane.bsky.social · 1d

#ER_Literature

Cell Biology J-Club @cellclub.bsky.social · 1d

Endoplasmic Reticulum Geometry Dictates Neuronal Bursting via Calcium Store Refill Rates www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Endoplasmic Reticulum Geometry Dictates Neuronal Bursting via Calcium Store Refill Rates

The endoplasmic reticulum (ER)'s continuous morphology is tightly controlled by ER-shaping proteins, whose genetic or expression defects drive a spectrum of neurodegenerative disorders from Hereditary...

www.biorxiv.org

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Science Magazine @science.org · 1d

Neurons in the mouse brain bypass synapses by communicating with one another via tiny nanotubes. https://scim.ag/4pOH6fL

Neurons can communicate via hidden network of nanotubes, study finds

Tubes in mouse and human brains may also influence spread of brain disease

scim.ag

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Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net · 1d

I say this with the bluntness it requires: they will get people murdered if this continues. This is not just populism anymore either: it’s completely unhinged and a deliberate choice that does endanger lives. I am not saying this lightly at all.

Screenshot of an Express article; it says: Robert Jenrick lists 30 'activist judges' he vows to axe in war on UK's open border

In a bold move, Robert Jenrick is set to unveil a controversial plan targeting what he calls 'activist' judges, at the Conservative Party conference.

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