My life in 7 pictures. Day 5 - no words, no people & challenge a new person every day. I was challenged by Fiona O'Brien.

Calling all jam makers and soft frui aficionados! Soft fruit bonanza for #payf collection at Kindness Warehouse, Denby Dale road. Open until 16.00. Please come and take as much as you can. #foodwastehasnobankholiday #feedbelliesnotbins

Interested in the physiological forces that counteract weight gain? Then join this webinar arranged by @DDA_Denmark next Tuesday. Here, I will present our latest article published in PLOS Biology and discuss its theoretical basis. danishdiabetesacademy.dk/events/webinar… #DDA_education

#MustRead Review - Chelsea M. Larabee, Oliver C. Neely & Ana I. Domingos set out a #neuroimmunometabolic perspective of #obesity (£) go.nature.com/3631gsJ

We are tired, sleep-deprived, scared, lonely, socially isolated, sad, worried and in poor health — don't suggest this is the time to churn out our best work. go.nature.com/3cfOmdw

Coming from a working class background, I remember feeling that my lack of cultural capital meant that I didn't belong in academic spaces. I would then go home & folk would talk to me as if I thought I was better than them now & didn't belong there. In-between two worlds.

Everyone: being a scientist must be so interesting and rewarding. Reality: it's like being repeatedly punched in the face with your arms tied behind your back.

Happy Postdoc Appreciation Week

I cannot recommend this more! If you’re a student who wants to do cool science with an absolutely kickass mentor, check out this opportunity! @NeuroEndo_Ex is the best!

How does it feel to be a postdoc in 2020? In her beautiful illustration, Dr Adrienne Assmus (@Adri_inScotland) managed to sum up how many people are feeling. #NPAW2020 #EdUniPAW #LovePostdocs EdinUniCVS Edinburgh Medical School UK NationalPostdocAppreciation UK Research and Innovation Wellcome

Grant rejection from MRC. Months of work. Six sentence rejection email explaining there will be no feedback. You know what, this isn’t right.

Help Hector get life-saving treatment. Please share and donate if you can, Hector needs as much help as possible right now. gofundme.com/f/help-hector-…

Huge congratulations to the Farooqi Lab on their recent publication! nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

Studies in mice reveal anorectic and aversive GLP-1 actions in the mouse CNS are mediated in part by the CCK system and modulated by GIPR agonism Molecular Metabolism sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

The importance of programming and the benefits of bespoke scientific solutions for life science research, by Dr Faye Bolan. metofico.com/blog/bespoke-l… #research #lifescience #programming #bespoke

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The first dataset from our #sickness project is available online Current Biology. Is the anti-inflammatory effect of fasting only mediated by reduced nutrient levels? cell.com/current-biolog…

Excited our paper has been published Luckman Lab Farooqi Lab GPR10 mutations cause weight gain through decreased energy expenditure. nature.com/articles/s4146…