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Magdalena Skipper @magdalenaskipper.bsky.social · 6d

Jane Goodall challenged what it meant to be a scientist.

In this news story we look at three ways she changed science.

A loss for science, a loss for the community, a loss for everyone

🧪 #academicSky

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Jane Goodall’s legacy: three ways she changed science

The primatologist challenged what it meant to be a scientist.

www.nature.com

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Wellcome Sanger Institute @sangerinstitute.bsky.social · 20d

Training the next generation of scientific leaders in #genomics is at the core of our mission 🚀 #PostDocAppreciationWeek

Every year, we host an EMBO Lab Leadership Course for Postdocs to gain the skills and confidence to grow as leaders.

What was this year's edition like? 🎥👇

youtu.be/7EEYdKQKKkc

EMBO leadership course at the Wellcome Sanger Institute

YouTube video by Wellcome Sanger Institute

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Wellcome Connecting Science @connectingscience.bsky.social · 22d

Thanks @lshtm.bsky.social for organising this event yesterday! Great discussion on such a timely topic from all the speakers, and really important hearing perspectives from the Global South 👏👏

London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine @lshtm.bsky.social · Sep 8

Missed out on a ticket for LSHTM’s Health Misinformation UNPACKED?

Our event is proving so popular we’ve released EXTRA online tickets so more people can learn how to fight dangerous health #misinformation!

Get your ticket👉 www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...

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Wellcome Connecting Science Engagement and Society @engagewcs.bsky.social · 29d

Last week we joined Hills Road Sixth Form college for their EPQ Stimulus Day, alongside colleagues from the @sangerinstitute.bsky.social

The event gave Year 12 students a chance to explore exciting ideas for their #EPQ. It was fantastic to see the students’ curiosity and enthusiasm.

#Genomics

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Wellcome Trust @wellcometrust.bsky.social · 29d

If you could reimagine the global health system, what would it look like?

We commissioned five thought leaders from around the world to share their vision for the future of global health.

Five discussion papers outline their bold and ambitious ideas.

Learn more ⤵️
wellcome.org/reports/bold...

Bold ideas for a reformed global health system | Reports | Wellcome

Discussion papers commissioned by Wellcome bring together bold proposals from five different regions of the world for a reimagined global health architecture.

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Your Genome @yourgenome.org · 29d

🆕 Mastering Micropipetting is an engaging activity that helps learners develop essential lab skills by practicing accurate and precise pipetting techniques.

👩‍🏫 Ideal for young people and educators!
🧒 Suitable for: age 9+
🕒 Estimated duration: 30-45 minutes
🔗 Start exploring: cstu.io/d1d11f

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Wellcome Connecting Science @connectingscience.bsky.social · Sep 8

Great to catch up with one of our former colleagues and @eventswcs.bsky.social team alumni Jorge in their new role! 👏👏

Ensembl @ensembl.org · Sep 8

Meet @spider-m4n.bsky.social (Jorge Batista da Rocha) in our #TEAMsembl series, where he reflects on his first year at #Ensembl, training on the new browser, AI in learning, and… two dogs who can sniff out cheese 🧀 🐾

Read more at www.ensembl.info/2025/09/08/g...

A photograph of Jorge at Wits University in South Africa.

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Wellcome Sanger Institute @sangerinstitute.bsky.social · Sep 5

We are excited that the Earth BioGenome Project, a global network of scientists including those from the Sanger Institute, has mapped the second phase of its ambitious plan to sequence all 1.67 million known species on Earth by 2035. 👏

www.sanger.ac.uk/news_item/bi...

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Wellcome Sanger Institute @sangerinstitute.bsky.social · Aug 20

Are there any pink mosquitoes?

For #WorldMosquitoDay, we answered four deceptively difficult mosquito questions from 7-year-olds. 🦟

Find out how genomics can answer them all ⤵️

sangerinstitute.blog/2025/08/20/h...

Artwork & inspiration from @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social ‬

Cartoon image with a larger mosquito and five mosquito larvae, all with speech bubbles and images to represent different questions.
Credit: Petra Korlević Wellcome Sanger Institute.

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Wellcome Connecting Science Engagement and Society @engagewcs.bsky.social · Jul 30

Watch the @connectingscience.bsky.social team discussing the nasal microbiome.

🔗 Watch the full video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNs9...

Your Genome @yourgenome.org · Jul 30

Staff Scientist Katie Bellis and Postdoctoral Fellow Róisín Boggan from the @sangerinstitute.bsky.social joined us to explore the concept of the microbiome.

Watch the full video: cstu.io/aeadd9

#genomics #science #microbiome #nasalmicrobiome

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Butterfly Conservation @savebutterflies.bsky.social · Jul 18

The Big Butterfly Count 2025 is here and butterflies need our help 🦋🚨

This isn't just a survey, it's a rescue mission, and we need everyone to get involved.

No lab coats. No science degrees. Just 15 minutes of your time. ⏱️

Get out for the count 👉 bigbutterflycount.org

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Bertha Rueda-Zarazúa @bertharz.bsky.social · Jul 12

@daniela-oaks.bsky.social talking about how to use social networks in favor of science!

#PuraVidaSingleCell
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Wellcome Connecting Science Learning and Training @eventswcs.bsky.social · Jul 2

🎉 Congratulations to our Evolutionary Biology and Ecology of Cancer course bursary winners!

🔍 Interested in future opportunities to join our courses through bursaries and funding? Explore more: bit.ly/3GquFnS

#EBECancer25 #ScientificConferences #Bursaries #FinancialAssistance

Bursary winners of the Evolutionary Biology and Ecology of Cancer course smiling proudly on the Hinxton Hall Conference Centre stairs.

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Wellcome Trust @wellcometrust.bsky.social · Jun 26

Scientists are taking the first steps towards the first synthetic human genome.

We’re proud to announce £10 million funding for the SynHG project.

Learn more ⤵️
wellcome.org/news/researc...

Researchers take first steps to creating synthetic human genomes | Wellcome

Scientists are developing technology to create the first synthetic human chromosome. The ability to write large genomes could transform our understanding of health.

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Wellcome Connecting Science Engagement and Society @engagewcs.bsky.social · Jun 24

🛩️We loved meeting lots of people at @IWMDuxford to show that #genomics is for everyone!

We shared the exciting science happening at @sangerinstitute.bsky.social and our @yourgenome.org careers resources, highlighting the variety of people and roles available in genomics. 🧬

Alannah King @dralannah.bsky.social · Jun 24

What do the BIOSCAN project and the Duxford Imperial War Museum have in common? They are both interested in things that fly! ✈️ 🐝

It was amazing to be at the Duxford Air Show with @engagewcs.bsky.social to discuss how the BIOSCAN project uses DNA barcoding to study flying insects in the UK 🧬

Wellcome Genome Campus volunteers standing proudly with their green gazebo at the Duxford Air Show. The gazebo has "Genomics is for everyone" written on it.

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Wellcome Connecting Science Learning and Training @eventswcs.bsky.social · Jun 23

We’re thrilled to welcome over 600 attendees from 75 countries to the AI x BIO Conference!

Whether you’re one of the 232 scientists joining us in person or among the 400+ tuning in online, a warm welcome to you all.

Stay connected and share your conference moments using our hashtag: #AIxBio25

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Wellcome Connecting Science @connectingscience.bsky.social · Jun 17

Coming (very) soon! ⏱️

Your Genome @yourgenome.org · Jun 4

🎯 Our next #GenomicsLite explores: What is the #microbiome?

Join us live on YouTube with @sangerinstitute.bsky.social ute.bsky.social staff to dive into the amazing world of microbes living in and on our bodies!

📅 Thurs 19 June, 3pm BST

🔗 Click 'notify me': cstu.io/c58138

#EduSky#ChatBiology 🧪🧬🔬

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Wellcome Connecting Science @connectingscience.bsky.social · Jun 9

Thank you to everyone who joined us and our @sangerinstitute.bsky.social colleagues last week! 👏👏

KamilSJaron.bsky.social @kamilsjaron.bsky.social · Jun 6

The k-mer workshop is over. In the Friday 3 hour hackathon, people really showed that you CAN learn k-mers in a week! It's been great. Thanks to all the co-teachers, @connectingscience.bsky.social organising team and all the participants!

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Nuffield Council on Bioethics (NCOB) @nuffieldbioethics.bsky.social · May 29

We are pleased to announce we are working with @genomicsengland.bsky.social, Our Future Health, @ukbiobank.bsky.social and @sangerinstitute.bsky.social to create a new genomics ethics network, shaped by the needs of the #genomics community.🧬

Find out more:➡️https://bit.ly/NCOB_Genomics

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Wellcome Connecting Science @connectingscience.bsky.social · May 28

We are pleased to welcome @investinmeresearch.bsky.social and many other contributing bodies to Hinxton Hall Conference Centre, for the International ME conference week events 2025! We hope the week is going very well.

#IMECW2025 #youngEMERG #EMERG #brmec14 #IIMEC17 #mecfs #MEresearch #SPARKME

UK Charity Invest in ME Research @investinmeresearch.bsky.social · Nov 10

The International ME conference week events for 2025 are now spanning five days - 26-30 May
26-27/5 #YoungEMERG ECR workshop
27/5 European ME Research Group workshop
28-30/5 #BRMEC14 Research Colloquium
30/5 #IIMEC17 Clinicians' Conference
investinme.org/meconference...
#research #mecfs #EMERG

Banner for International ME Conference Week 2025

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Wellcome Connecting Science Learning and Training @eventswcs.bsky.social · May 27

Last week we welcomed over 600 attendees to #ABPHM25!

Congratulations to Idowu Olawoye, ‪@westernu.bsky.social‬, for winning the Best Talk prize.🥇

Congratulations also to our joint Poster Prize winners: Farron Brooke, @Stellenbosch University, and Francesca McDonagh, University of Galway. 👏

Our two poster prize winners, and one short talk winner for Applied Bioinformatics and Public Health Microbiology accepting their certificates. They are standing on stage within an auditorium, next to two Committee members. They are standing in front of a digital slide carrying the name of the conference.

Our winners are standing in between our conference Committee members: (LEFT) Nabil-Fareed Alikhan, University of Oxford, UK, and (RIGHT) Senjuti Saha, Child Health Research Foundation (CHRF), Bangladesh

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Wellcome Connecting Science @connectingscience.bsky.social · Apr 30

Find out how - thanks to funding from @royalsociety.org - students on our Barcoding for Beginners programme are using genetic tools to investigate UK insect diversity, enjoying learning hands-on skills, and contributing data to an important scientific project.
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sangerinstitute.blog/2025/04/29/i...

Intergenerational insect investigators - Wellcome Sanger Institute Blog

We explore how the Barcoding for Beginners programme and BIOSCAN project are using genetic tools to investigate insect diversity across the UK.

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Wellcome Connecting Science Learning and Training @eventswcs.bsky.social · Apr 22

Free single cell #genomics training for researchers exploring challenges for #LatAm populations- all levels of expertise welcome! #SingleCellLATAM2025

Gain skills, mentorship, and join a collaborative regional community!

📅 10–16 July 2025
⏰ Apply by 28 April

📎bit.ly/3QW9Frq

#CélulasÚnicas

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Single Cell Technologies: Practical Approaches Advancing Research Course dates: 10-16 July
Location: University of Costa Rica
Application deadline: 28 April
Apply now

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Wellcome Connecting Science Learning and Training @eventswcs.bsky.social · Apr 15

Help shape the future of medical science using #AIforBiology - final call for abstracts!

Present your insights on the emerging benefits that #AI and machine learning offer for research, innovation, and #biomedicine at #AIxBIO25.

📅 23-25 June 2025
⏰ Abstracts deadline: 29 April

📎 bit.ly/4hAAXig

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AI x BIO
Conference dates: 23-25 June 2025
Location: Hinxton Hall Conference Centre, Wellcome Genome Campus, UK

Abstract deadline: 29 April - submit now

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Wellcome Trust @wellcometrust.bsky.social · Apr 9

There’s so much we can learn from health data.

Our new partnership with the UK Government aims to unlock it.

By simplifying access to secure data for research, we can improve understanding of ill health and accelerate discoveries that improve health.

Read more ⤵️
wellcome.org/news/nationa...

National data service will simplify access to health data for research | News | Wellcome

Wellcome is partnering with the UK Government to establish a £600 million health data research service. It will simplify secure access to health data for research.

wellcome.org

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