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Cambridge University Press @universitypress.cambridge.org · Aug 4

Ahead of the UN plastics treaty INC-5.2, which starts tomorrow, sixty experts have issued an urgent call for governments to agree on enforceable actions to tackle plastic pollution. 🌍

Read more about the letters published in 'Cambridge Prisms: Plastics' 🔗 cup.org/45hRG5v

Promotional graphic for the UN plastics treaty INC-5.2, featuring the text: 'Sixty scientists. Four demands. One last chance.'

Icon of a document with text, symbolizing legally binding targets to cap and reduce plastic production.

Graphic depicting a stylized globe with white figures representing population distribution, accompanied by the text "Global health safeguards to protect human health."

A journal cover titled "Cambridge Prisms: PLASTICS" , featuring a gradient background in shades of purple, blue, and orange with white geometric lines.

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Pei Qin (Sabrina) Ng 黄培卿 @pngsabrina.bsky.social · Aug 3

You are always in the go 🏃‍♀️ 🏃‍♀️ 🏃‍♀️ 😆

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Pei Qin (Sabrina) Ng 黄培卿 @pngsabrina.bsky.social · Aug 1

Thank you !

Pei Qin (Sabrina) Ng 黄培卿 @pngsabrina.bsky.social · Aug 1

Happy #RNA day! Celebrating my favourite molecule in science in style (RNA molecule shown on my ring finger in white and gold) spot the micropipette too! #scicomm

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Pei Qin (Sabrina) Ng 黄培卿 @pngsabrina.bsky.social · Jul 30

Thank you so much Milwaukee for the amazing #PlantBio2025! Until next year!

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Pei Qin (Sabrina) Ng 黄培卿 @pngsabrina.bsky.social · Jul 30

Have you seen their “bees on sticks”? It’s an efficient way to cross pollinate plants and used in plant space experiments! 🤯 #PlantBio2025

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Pei Qin (Sabrina) Ng 黄培卿 @pngsabrina.bsky.social · Jul 30

I can’t believe I battled @kcox-bioguy.bsky.social on the dance floor at the #PlantBio2025 annual party 🤣

a group of people are sitting on the floor watching a couple of people dance

ALT: a group of people are sitting on the floor watching a couple of people dance

media.tenor.com

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Pei Qin (Sabrina) Ng 黄培卿 @pngsabrina.bsky.social · Jul 29

Really engaging talk by @kcox-bioguy.bsky.social in the Single Cell transcriptomics and spatial session today at #PlantBio2025 . A lot of exciting technologies and research underway in his lab and I think I am convinced duckweed is my new fav 🦆 🌱

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Pei Qin (Sabrina) Ng 黄培卿 @pngsabrina.bsky.social · Jul 29

Fantastic night at the @aspbofficial.bsky.social joint editorial board dinner at the Mitchell Park Domes Horticultural Conservatory. Thank you to the organisers for making this a magical experience .
@jennifermach.bsky.social @msr20.bsky.social @jmaidment.bsky.social @planteditors.bsky.social

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Pei Qin (Sabrina) Ng 黄培卿 @pngsabrina.bsky.social · Jul 28

So fun to meet up with all the other AFEs at #PlantBio2025 !
Certainly one of the highlights of this conference 😍🥰

Mary Williams @PlantTeaching @plantteaching.bsky.social · Jul 27

A whole bunch of Assistants Features Editors from @theplantcell.bsky.social and @plantphys.bsky.social getting to know each other 💚
#PlantBio2025

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Pei Qin (Sabrina) Ng 黄培卿 @pngsabrina.bsky.social · Jul 27

Fantastic plenary session of @aspbofficial.bsky.social #PlantBio2025 to kick off the meeting yesterday. From connecting back to the community to networks in leaf morphology, certainly a science knowledge feast! Looking forward to day 2!

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American Society of Plant Biologists @aspbofficial.bsky.social · Jul 26

ASPB President Hong Ma shares the stage with the ASPB Leadership Team at the Opening Address at ##PlantBio2025 🌱 "The diverse perspectives of our leadership strengthen ASPB."

Five people stand side by side on a stage with a curtain behind them and large letters, "ASPB."

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Pei Qin (Sabrina) Ng 黄培卿 @pngsabrina.bsky.social · Jul 26

An absolute honour to have attended the #PlantBio2025 Joanne Chory symposium as a NSF registration award attendee . Listening to all personal stories and amazing science left by a scientific legend and carried on - I felt like through them I have met her.
“Be Bold” - Dr Joanne Chory

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Pei Qin (Sabrina) Ng 黄培卿 @pngsabrina.bsky.social · Jul 26

Lovely to meet you and your team in person too! I realised we have always been Bluesky pals 😍 do stay in touch ! Everyone is so lovely 🥹

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Pei Qin (Sabrina) Ng 黄培卿 @pngsabrina.bsky.social · Jul 25

We survived the editorial manager migration 🤣

Kick starting #PlantBio2025 with my very first editorial meeting as an Associate Feature Editor (AFE)

And finally meeting @plantteaching.bsky.social 🤩

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Pei Qin (Sabrina) Ng 黄培卿 @pngsabrina.bsky.social · May 14

Love the cover 😍

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Pei Qin (Sabrina) Ng 黄培卿 @pngsabrina.bsky.social · May 13

I struggled to find a lab book that shows what I do as a #bioinformatician

And so I designed one for myself 🤩 loved how these turned out

#phdlife #postdoclife #research #scicomm

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Pei Qin (Sabrina) Ng 黄培卿 @pngsabrina.bsky.social · Mar 4

It was an absolute pleasure to hear John Kilmartin - one of the major scientist behind the CO2 transport in Haemoglobin (did not know they used horse haemoglobin) and the Bohr effect- on his scientific journey in the “Life of PI” seminar series. Now the key lessons of high school biology 🧪 🧫

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Lori Passmore @lapassmore.bsky.social · Mar 2

For all of you who cannot access pubmed, here is a good alternative:
europepmc.org

Europe PMCHome - Europe PMC

Europe PMC is an archive of life sciences journal literature.

europepmc.org

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Rafael Irizarry @rafalab.bsky.social · Dec 23

Biologist, stop putting UMAP plots in papers!

Blogpost here: simplystatistics.org/posts/2024-1...

Simply Statistics: Biologists, stop putting UMAP plots in your papers

UMAP is a powerful tool for exploratory data analysis, but without a clear understanding of how it works, it can easily lead to confusion and misinterpretation.

simplystatistics.org

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Pei Qin (Sabrina) Ng 黄培卿 @pngsabrina.bsky.social · Jan 28

Today’s #LunarNewYear celebration at the MRC LMB 🧧🧧🧧 wishing everyone a happy new year here from Cambridge!

Pei Qin (Sabrina) Ng 黄培卿 @pngsabrina.bsky.social · Jan 23

Absolutely love sym link - saves space and it’s easier for back tracking data/file source too

Ming Tommy Tang @tommytang.bsky.social · Jan 22

The most underrated Unix command for bioinformatics: ln -s (soft link)
Here’s why it’s so powerful, how it works, and how I use it to simplify my life in bioinformatics 🧵👇

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Pei Qin (Sabrina) Ng 黄培卿 @pngsabrina.bsky.social · Jan 21

That’s a very sad crumble

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Ming Tommy Tang @tommytang.bsky.social · Dec 28

🔥chatomics! Are you ready to level up your bioinformatics skills? Let’s talk about repetition—a key concept that can save you hours in real-world data analysis.

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Pei Qin (Sabrina) Ng 黄培卿 @pngsabrina.bsky.social · Dec 29

Good motivation to run