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Academics: "As you will clearly observe in the following figure..." The figure:

Absolutely thrilled to announce that my first, first-author preprint from my PhD research is now available on Research Square! 🥳🥳 researchsquare.com/article/rs-488…

I feel so evil I’ve just emailed two people on a Friday afternoon at 4:30pm

This might be the best thing I’ve ever seen on Twitter

My style of grant application writing is giving this rn

every academic fellowship application

When you try to troll a candidate who is a scientist, be prepared for a science lesson. 🤷‍♀️

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A new type of microbe discovered in the human gut! Called obelisks, they can create their own proteins that are entirely new to science. The team named their proteins “oblins.” Scientists scratching their heads about it biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

New Society Hub on Gradcracker! Strathclyde Biomedical Society connects members with other passionate and motivated students with an interest in biomolecular sciences. Visit the Hub to find out more: gradcracker.com/student-societ…

How does a cell decide which RNAs to make? They consider the genes and then take an RNA Poll too

Hi everyone please considering following the society on Gradcracker to say up to date on placement and job opportunities! gradcracker.com/student-societ…

Last spring I gave a workshop on Data Cleaning for Data Sharing Using R where we learned how to assess the quality of a dataset and apply a standardized checklist of cleaning steps in #rstats. The slides and exercise materials are here if interested! cghlewis.github.io/ncme-data-clea…

Three of my favorite papers published this week: 1. A mechanism for bacteria to create *new* repetitive toxic genes to kill themselves in response to infection (!!)

A huge welcome to all our new and returning students in the Faculty of Science! We’re looking forward to seeing new and old faces on campus and getting stuck into this academic year. 🥼🔬🧫🧪💻🔢 #StrathLife #WelcomeWeek2024

We have two available PhD studentships in the area of Biopharmaceuticals for starting October 2025. Projects are collaborative between Strathclyde Science and GSK. Full details within the image and at strath.ac.uk/science/chemis… Closing date: 30th October, 2024.

Any microbiologists know why the clear zone goes clear if you place an antibiotic disc on a bacteria coated agar plate. Like why the colour change ? Is it bacterial cell wall lysis ? The bacteria is dead but it’s still there so why the colour change ?

Really fun afternoon at the SIPBS Biomedical staff vs student quiz!