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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Hot off the press - a letter from the Exec Chair of @ukri.org explaining his plans and in particular the financial position of STFC. It notes curiosity driven research is protected and will make up around half of UKRI spend over the coming period www.ukri.org/news/open-le...

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Open letter from Ian Chapman to research and innovation community

UKRI Chief Executive outlines changes to UKRI investment approach, addressing concerns about research funding and the financial position of STFC.

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Robin Allshire 🇮🇪 🇪🇺✊🏿 ⬆️ Zak’s favourite nucleosome: K9me @allshire-lab.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

www.ukri.org/news/open-le... So let’s fiddle while researchers, whose funding is paused, get burned because their current funding is in its last 12 months. Lack of clarity & transparency creates uncertainty. Researchers need to plan ahead, they can’t without application deadlines to work towards

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Open letter from Ian Chapman to research and innovation community

UKRI Chief Executive outlines changes to UKRI investment approach, addressing concerns about research funding and the financial position of STFC.

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Robin Allshire 🇮🇪 🇪🇺✊🏿 ⬆️ Zak’s favourite nucleosome: K9me @allshire-lab.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

A lot of interest in QED Science as an automated review system linked to preprint servers. All we need now is funding level for authors to be somehow linked to the overall score provided by the AI and we can do away with grant writing and grant reviewing and panels. Cut the bureaucracy in science!

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Robin Allshire 🇮🇪 🇪🇺✊🏿 ⬆️ Zak’s favourite nucleosome: K9me @allshire-lab.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

A big car park where the Darwin Building at King’s Building, University of Edinburgh used to be

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Robin Allshire 🇮🇪 🇪🇺✊🏿 ⬆️ Zak’s favourite nucleosome: K9me @allshire-lab.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

The Darwin Building @edinburghup.bsky.social which housed the UK’s first Dept of Molecular Biology is no more! Many notable scientists worked their & passed through: 1968-2018. We look forward to a suitable replacement that promotes excellent biological research allowing many more key discoveries.

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Robin Allshire 🇮🇪 🇪🇺✊🏿 ⬆️ Zak’s favourite nucleosome: K9me @allshire-lab.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

@edinburghairport.bsky.social What are you playing at? Delta 122 flight from Boston lands 06:30 Passengers have to wait on plane cos Customs hall does not open until 07:00 - Ridiculous get your act together FFS!!

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

New powerful article up in the New York Times on cancelled and delayed grants www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Here Are the Nearly 2,500 Medical Research Grants Canceled or Delayed by Trump (Gift Article)

Some cuts have been starkly visible, but the country’s medical grant-making machinery has also radically transformed outside the public eye.

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Robin Allshire 🇮🇪 🇪🇺✊🏿 ⬆️ Zak’s favourite nucleosome: K9me @allshire-lab.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Looking forward to my visit to ibfg.usal-csic.es in Salamanca today. Thanks to Alfonso Fernandez Alvarez for inviting me.

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Robin Allshire 🇮🇪 🇪🇺✊🏿 ⬆️ Zak’s favourite nucleosome: K9me @allshire-lab.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

NB: the UK - including Scotland - is an ERC partner, English speaking and has an exceptionally strong discovery research base.

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Robin Allshire 🇮🇪 🇪🇺✊🏿 ⬆️ Zak’s favourite nucleosome: K9me @allshire-lab.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Congratulations to our colleague Prof Donal O’Carroll FRS, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, on his election as a fellow of the Royal Society of London (the UK nation academy of sciences) - very well deserved.

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Robin Allshire 🇮🇪 🇪🇺✊🏿 ⬆️ Zak’s favourite nucleosome: K9me @allshire-lab.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

And now for something completely different: my nephew Arthur Allshire (1st yr PhD student @bair.berkeley.edu) and co just released his first paper: Videomimic - Visual imitation enables contextual humanoid control. He is now working on sobering up the robot! www.videomimic.net

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VideoMimic

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Robin Allshire 🇮🇪 🇪🇺✊🏿 ⬆️ Zak’s favourite nucleosome: K9me @allshire-lab.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Gov.UK now needs to be proactive in making it attractive for disaffected scientists to move to the UK. Advantages: English speaking & exceptionally strong research base. An opportunity to drive future economic growth - act now or miss out! arstechnica.com/science/2025...

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Europe launches program to lure scientists away from the US

EU will spend over $500 million to recruit researchers and scientists.

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Robin Allshire 🇮🇪 🇪🇺✊🏿 ⬆️ Zak’s favourite nucleosome: K9me @allshire-lab.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Pros: English speaking, strong research base. Cons: visa/health costs & broke universities. If, like EU, UK is to benefit by attracting disaffected talented scientists from other countries Gov.UK will need to make moving here attractive & affordable! Many non-OxBridge Universities can’t recruit.

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Robin Allshire 🇮🇪 🇪🇺✊🏿 ⬆️ Zak’s favourite nucleosome: K9me @allshire-lab.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Looks like a fantastic AI tool for predicting protein sequences that will aggregate/form prions. Key was testing >100,000 in vivo using a neat assay in yeast/S. cerevisiae

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Robin Allshire 🇮🇪 🇪🇺✊🏿 ⬆️ Zak’s favourite nucleosome: K9me @allshire-lab.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Register for the excellent Epigenetics Gordon Research Conference Barcelona 10-15 Aug25. Theme: Epigenetic Variation: Mechanisms & Impact Across Systems. **FUNDING AVAILABLE to support attendance** ~15 talks to be chosen from submitted abstracts, so upload yours ASAP: www.grc.org/epigenetics-...

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Edinburgh Infectious Diseases @uoe-eid.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Very pleased to see @who.int publishing its very first reports on tests and treatments for #fungal #infections - and the contributions made by @bachmanntill.bsky.social, EID AMR Strategy lead. edinburgh-infectious-diseases.ed.ac.uk/news-and-eve... @allshire-lab.bsky.social @bethmills.bsky.social

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Edinburgh contributes to major WHO reports on fungal infections

April 2025: The World Health Organisation has issued its first-ever reports on tests and treatments for fungal infections.

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Robin Allshire 🇮🇪 🇪🇺✊🏿 ⬆️ Zak’s favourite nucleosome: K9me @allshire-lab.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

How chromatin is replicated - key to understanding epigenetic memory mechanisms underlying epimutations

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Robin Allshire 🇮🇪 🇪🇺✊🏿 ⬆️ Zak’s favourite nucleosome: K9me @allshire-lab.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Register for the renowned Epigenetics Gordon Research Conference Barcelona 10-15 August 2025. A great line up of speakers on the theme: Epigenetic Variation: Mechanisms & Impact Across Systems. ~15 talks to be chosen from submitted abstracts, so upload yours ASAP: www.grc.org/epigenetics-...

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Robin Allshire 🇮🇪 🇪🇺✊🏿 ⬆️ Zak’s favourite nucleosome: K9me @allshire-lab.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

20’ until the News Agents but the world to rights - or lefts or mid-road really- in the Usher Hall, Edinburgh

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Keith Edwards @keithedwards.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

BREAKING: Elon Musk's rocket explosion nearly hit a commercial flight. This kind of content is being downranked on X. Please share it here. This is so dangerous.

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Robin Allshire 🇮🇪 🇪🇺✊🏿 ⬆️ Zak’s favourite nucleosome: K9me @allshire-lab.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Register interest in THE EPIGENETICS Gordon Research Conference Barcelona 10-15 August 2025. A great line up of speakers on the theme: Epigenetic Variation: Mechanisms & Impact Across Systems. ~15 talks to be chosen from submitted abstracts, so upload yours ASAP: www.grc.org/epigenetics-...

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2025 Epigenetics Conference GRC

The 2025 Gordon Research Conference on Epigenetics will be held in Castelldefels, Barcelona Spain. Apply today to reserve your spot.

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Robin Allshire 🇮🇪 🇪🇺✊🏿 ⬆️ Zak’s favourite nucleosome: K9me @allshire-lab.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Alessia Buscaino at #ECFG17 gives a wonderful talk on her discovery that Candida albicans has active RNAi afterall and how she is unraveling its biological role in regulating TLO genes encoding a diverse array of Mediator Med2 proteins and in pathogenesis. See DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2315926121

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Robin Allshire 🇮🇪 🇪🇺✊🏿 ⬆️ Zak’s favourite nucleosome: K9me @allshire-lab.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Great talk from Aaron Vogan #ECFG17 on giant Starship transposable elements that move gene cargoes within and between fungal species to confer novel phenotypes. All regulated by the Captain Tyrosine recombinase. Very enterprising! Beam me up Scottie!

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Robin Allshire 🇮🇪 🇪🇺✊🏿 ⬆️ Zak’s favourite nucleosome: K9me @allshire-lab.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Post-doc in fungal molecular cell biology. Seeking person with an understanding of gene expression and phenotypic analysis, who is interested in epigenetic regulation in fungi, to explore mechanisms of antifungal resistance in Zymoseptoria tritici and Schizosaccharomyces pombe. Email me! #ECFG17

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Robin Allshire 🇮🇪 🇪🇺✊🏿 ⬆️ Zak’s favourite nucleosome: K9me @allshire-lab.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Great to be back in my home city Dublin for #ECFG17 Fungi are amazing, the things they do to survive …like paralyse passing nematodes as detailed in fantastic talk by Yen-Ping Hsueh doi: 10.1126/sciadv.ade4809 ‘Resistance is fungile’ Folks below are not infected, it was an oomycete in the potatoes!

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Robin Allshire 🇮🇪 🇪🇺✊🏿 ⬆️ Zak’s favourite nucleosome: K9me @allshire-lab.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Epigenetics Gordon Research Conference. Consider joining us for what will be an excellent, exciting meeting and will be held in Europe for the first time: 10-15 Aug25 Barcelona, Spain. Please repost and apply early - this meeting is popular! www.grc.org/epigenetics-...

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2025 Epigenetics Conference GRC

The 2025 Gordon Research Conference on Epigenetics will be held in Castelldefels, Barcelona Spain. Apply today to reserve your spot.

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Robin Allshire 🇮🇪 🇪🇺✊🏿 ⬆️ Zak’s favourite nucleosome: K9me @allshire-lab.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Just managed to squeeze in a final 5.5k before the looming storm to take my total to 750k for 2024. Best wishes to all for 2025 - it seemed so far in the future when I was a 60s kid!

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Robin Allshire 🇮🇪 🇪🇺✊🏿 ⬆️ Zak’s favourite nucleosome: K9me @allshire-lab.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Flowering time mutant or climate change (it has been very mild): Crocuses on the Leith Links Edinburgh at Christmas- 🤔 confused 💐 will probably snow soon - that will teach it!

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Robin Allshire 🇮🇪 🇪🇺✊🏿 ⬆️ Zak’s favourite nucleosome: K9me @allshire-lab.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Double whammy: Wellcome Centres are no more & MRC Units are on their last funding cycle. Huge blow to science in cities other than Cambridge-Oxford-London which continue to have well-funded institutes with excellent infrastructure (Crick, LMB etc). The rest of us…? www.science.org/content/arti...

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Funding overhaul threatens historic U.K. research units

Scientists protest new “challenge-led” grants replacing funding that supported long-term basic research

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Robin Allshire 🇮🇪 🇪🇺✊🏿 ⬆️ Zak’s favourite nucleosome: K9me @allshire-lab.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

In case you did not see it the first time posted. If you are interested in how chromatin-based epimutations mediate resistance in fungi …… read our latest preprint…….

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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 25/11/2024

Tell me you aren’t reading our brilliantly hilarious and informative timeline… …without telling me you aren’t reading our brilliantly hilarious and informative timeline.

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Robin Allshire 🇮🇪 🇪🇺✊🏿 ⬆️ Zak’s favourite nucleosome: K9me @allshire-lab.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

2 protocols here from the team - special thanks to Manu Shukla for organising it: ChIPmentation for Epigenomic Analysis in Fission Yeast doi: 10.1007/978-1-0716-4168-2_18 Genome-Wide Profiling of Histone Modifications in Fission Yeast Using CUT&Tag doi: 10.1007/978-1-0716-4168-2_22

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Robin Allshire 🇮🇪 🇪🇺✊🏿 ⬆️ Zak’s favourite nucleosome: K9me @allshire-lab.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

I originally posted this 24Aug: “IMO: all scientific researchers, their institutes/universities, funding agencies, academic societies, & research publishers/journals should stop using Xitter. @Musk has made it toxic we should not support it” 3 mths on its even more urgent for scientists to act!

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