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Prof Jenny Rohn

@jennyrohn.bsky.social

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Cellular microbiologist, #UTI host/pathogen interactions, lab head at University College London, novelist, broadcaster, writer, pundit, Editor of LabLit.com, all things geek-chic. Find out more at jennyrohn.com

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Prof Jenny Rohn @jennyrohn.bsky.social · 1h

96% waning gibbous moon technically, but still super in my book

Nearly full moon and lit clouds in a dark sky

Prof Jenny Rohn @jennyrohn.bsky.social · 1d

Like the opposite of that classic Levi’s advert in the laundrette

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Prof Jenny Rohn @jennyrohn.bsky.social · 1d

Did you remember to scrape bits of God out of the filter?

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Prof Jenny Rohn @jennyrohn.bsky.social · 1d

argh, obviously that should be class-action.

Prof Jenny Rohn @jennyrohn.bsky.social · 1d

Presumably authors in this country could make their own class-actually suit against Anthropic? (I had loads of articles in the original pirated database, but these of course weren't included either)

Prof Jenny Rohn @jennyrohn.bsky.social · 2d

It's worse when they are parents you know from the school gate. I have a whole series contacts called things like "Sarah, Freddie's Mum"

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UK Cellular Microbiology @ukcellmicro.bsky.social · 2d

SAVE THE DATE!

The 2026 UK CellularMicrobiologyNetwork meeting will be held 22nd - 23rd of June at @wwiem-qub.bsky.social in Belfast.

Researchers from the UK and beyond are invited to share exciting work on the mechanisms of host-pathogen interactions.

Follow us to stay tuned! www.ukcellmicro.org

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Prof Jenny Rohn @jennyrohn.bsky.social · 3d

Made me laugh as phrased — did the marigold escape from your group meeting? (Next time serve better biscuits!) 😂

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Prof Jenny Rohn @jennyrohn.bsky.social · 3d

Just a mallow (Malva sylvestris), but brightening up otherwise sparse meadows today #WildflowerHour @bsbibotany.bsky.social

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Prof Jenny Rohn @jennyrohn.bsky.social · 3d

Am interested in non-EFLW HF alternatives. One of my contacts was talking about some sort of wheel antenna. Another mentioned a rooftop Sandpiper multiband that was proving “disappointing”

Prof Jenny Rohn @jennyrohn.bsky.social · 3d

I have yet to erect my HF antennae - i.e. sling it into a tree. There are too many positional variables to decide. Keep putting it off. My 991A is getting lonely.

Prof Jenny Rohn @jennyrohn.bsky.social · 3d

What time??

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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 3d

Here's an excerpt from an 1841 letter from a scientist that I think pretty much any modern scientist can relate to.

My dear friend!
From now on, I apologize a thousand times for the long delay in my reply! You will, of course, laugh at me, perhaps even be angry with me, if I tell you what prevented me for so long from fulfilling this duty of friendship that I owed you: It wasn't that I wanted to avoid sharing my views on your theories with you; no, it was a geometric problem that had occupied me so intensely lately that it distracted me from everything I wanted to think and write and occupied me entirely. Several times I wanted to write down my views for you, but each time, after a few moments, instead of starting with a letter, I saw a geometric figure on the paper, which had drawn itself, almost without my knowledge or will.

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Prof Jenny Rohn @jennyrohn.bsky.social · 3d

Hahaha. Unfortunately, I have a terminal fear of breaking rules. I managed to have one nice conversation in the end today (politely moved off to 145.250) so I’m happy.

Prof Jenny Rohn @jennyrohn.bsky.social · 3d

I thought it would be rude not to move off the FM calling frequency? (Book learning versus reality?)

Prof Jenny Rohn @jennyrohn.bsky.social · 3d

Happy ending - had a nice chinwag with M7DSA/mobile, from his car somewhere around Leigh-on-Sea

Prof Jenny Rohn @jennyrohn.bsky.social · 3d

One of those days when I have to quickly check in with a BBC radio channel just to make sure there’s nought something wrong with my antenna or connections. Just got a blast of Shakira so all good. 👍

Prof Jenny Rohn @jennyrohn.bsky.social · 3d

Nobody answering my QCs today on 145.500 #HamRadio

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Prof Jenny Rohn @jennyrohn.bsky.social · 3d

Totally.

Prof Jenny Rohn @jennyrohn.bsky.social · 3d

Flaming pyrocanthus

A hedge brilliant with orange, yellow, and red berries with cloudy blue sky in the background

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Prof Jenny Rohn @jennyrohn.bsky.social · 3d

For six years straight during my PhD, I spent many hours in the tissue culture hood each day infecting cells with viruses, with the radio (remember those?) blasting. This is one of the tunes that brings me back to that endless tedium. Music kept us sane.

Prof Gavin Yamey @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 3d

😎 Morning!

Banger from 1992, sounding so good today

“If you make sure you're connected
The writing's on the wall
But if your mind's neglected
Stumble, you might fall”

youtu.be/aatK_l9Yuyk?...

Stereo MC's - Connected (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by StereoMCsVEVO

youtu.be

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Prof Jenny Rohn @jennyrohn.bsky.social · 3d

Greenhouse cukes (with profuse celery in the background) and a few of the many dozens of outdoor tomatoes on the way

Three massive cucumbers hanging vertically from a vine, with bushy celery in the background - all green

One large ribbed tomato still orange, and a cluster of purple cherry tomatoes, all on the vine

Prof Jenny Rohn @jennyrohn.bsky.social · 3d

When there are too many tomatoes and cucumbers in your garden, it’s time to make gazpacho. Not an autumn dish, but still lovely. @rpgrant.bsky.social

Bowl of tomatoes of mixed variety, a bowl of bread, and a book open to the recipe

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Prof Jenny Rohn @jennyrohn.bsky.social · 3d

Good morning! Pretty autumnal colours in our back garden.

Various trees of red and gold with a blue sky background

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Victor Tatarskiy @greenrat.bsky.social · 6d

Neat trick if you polycolonal ab's suck. Incubate them with fixed cells with a KO of your protein of interest, then spin. Protocol here: www.med.upenn.edu/markslab/ass...
I was amazed how well it worked on first try (I'm sure that I can completely eliminate unspecific bands)
#WesternBlot #cellsky

On the left - western blot of B16F10 cells wt and KO for CDK8. Our in house produced antibodies give a lot of unspecific bands. On the right same probes with antibodies preincubated with fixed CDK8 KO cells - there is a specific band and faint unspecific bands, which can be probably eliminated with increase of amount of KO cells.

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