Eileen Parkes
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Assoc Prof Oxford MD PhD. Oncology, early phase trials, tumour microenvironment #womenInSTEM #immunology
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New CRUK Post-doc position in our group. #mutationalorder #multiomics #cancer.
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The clever solution to Northern Ireland was the Good Friday Agreement, overwhelmingly supported by NI people. Everything that threatens that devalues peace and ignores the "will of the people"
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"If you lift your head, you are shot right between the eyes". Mohammed risked his life to get food for his family from the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. The Israeli military has killed over 2000 civilians just trying to get food.
Killing the hungry is a red line. #RedLineForGaza
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📝The MSc in Radiobiology course is now accepting applications for 2026/27.

The course looks in depth at principles of radiobiology & their clinical applications, for those interested in careers in academic research, clinical practice or industry.

📍See oncology.ox.ac.uk/study-with-us for details
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Over the last year, Nature’s Careers team has been tapping into its global community of readers, writers, friends and colleagues to compile a list of laboratory hacks to help make scientists’ working lives easier. Here’s a list of 99 of those hacks. #Academicsky 🧪
These 99 'lab hacks' will make your scientific work easier
Nature asked contributors, editors and working researchers to share their best advice for scientists.
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Don't just read the comments :) helpful discussion here - LLMs can't replace human writing
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Can #ChatGPT help science writers?

In a new Editor's Blog post, Abigail Eisenstadt reports the results of a year-long analysis that explored whether a #LLM had the potential to help writers on our press team clearly and accurately convey information about upcoming research. https://scim.ag/46gVrd6
Can ChatGPT help science writers?
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"Talent and grit matter, but so do structure, transparency, and care." #ScienceWorkingLife https://scim.ag/4nCiPYg
An illustration of a person standing at the top of stairs that end, with text: To increase diversity in STEM, a foot in the door isn’t enough. We need better support.
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Join me in The Science of Childhood Cancer lecture series hosted by @StJudeResearch this Thursday, September 25 at 12 CT/1pm ET where I will be presenting Developmental origins of infant acute lymphoblastic leukaemia. Register to attend: ow.ly/yzf550T7Iv3
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Thank you to Yin Wu and Audrey Gerard for being fabulous examiners, challenging him to think deeply and enjoying discussing his work
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Tianming will start his PhD studies in Cambridge in a few weeks - he was a delight to have as a member of the team, kind, thoughtful and super intelligent - one to watch!
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Lots of congratulations to Tianming Zhao @oncology.ox.ac.uk who defended his MRes fantastically yesterday! This is a great story led by @mtjackson101.bsky.social (who defended his DPhil in Jan) that we hope to share soon - congratulations Tianming!
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For our #flowcytometry peeps, would you like to have a single fix/perm protocol that is optimised for everything? One that preserves fluorophores while allowing simultaneous TF and cytokine staining? How about 100-fold cheaper?

You got it:
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Projections of U.S. President Donald Trump, Britain's Prince Andrew and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were put on display against the walls of Windsor Castle while Trump was in Britain for a state visit.
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Longer hours. But why?
#PhDchat #PhDforum #ECRchat #postdoc
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Free tonight? Come and try a rehearsal at All Saints Church in Headington - we're there every Monday. Email Sarah at [email protected] to find out more!
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We'll be starting rehearsals soon for our exciting and ambitious autumn concert, Love's Philosophy, so now is an excellent time to join.
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Sing with us!
Exciting and ambitious classical repertoire
Weekly rehearsals on Mondays in Headington
Four concerts a year in central Oxford venues
Vocal technique sessions
Contact us now to try a rehearsal!
secretary@oxfordchoir.org
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Register by September 22 to get the lowest rates for the AACR-NCI-EORTC International Conference on Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics (October 22-26; Boston), chaired by Ryan B. Corcoran, Tim F. Greten, and Elena Garralda. Learn more:
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