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Andrew Holding @andrewholding.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Excited to share that the Expression of Interest form is open for the UKYA Health OpenSpaces: Pregnancy in research event on 15 Sep 2025! Details in thread. 🔗 ukyoungacademy.org/events/healt... #PregnancyResearch #HealthEquity #MedicalResearch #PublicInvolvement #DiverseVoices #UKYA 🧪 1/3

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Health OpenSpaces | Pregnancy in research | UK Young Academy

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Andrew Holding @andrewholding.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Come join us! Great community and in a great location. Transcription and Chromatin Uk from @biochemsoc.bsky.social

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Andrew Holding @andrewholding.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Still time to sign up for this talk tomorrow. Professor Alana Welm will be talking her work developing patient derived models for cancer therapy.

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Andrew Holding @andrewholding.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

YBRI (@ybri-uoy.bsky.social) are hosting @alanawelm.bsky.social for an online seminar on 9th May 2pm BST. Prof Welm will be presenting her work on "Modeling metastatic breast cancer to advance therapeutic strategies". Please share, and register to join at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ybri-onlin...

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YBRI Online Biomedical Sciences Seminar 2025

Join our online biomedical sciences seminar open to UG, PG students, postdocs, ECRs and Group Leaders!

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Pradeepa Madapura @pradeepmadapura.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Chromatin & transcription meeting is back again. Register your interest here www.biochemistry.org/events-and-t...

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Andrew Holding @andrewholding.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Was a please to be hosted for a Seminar today. Fantastic team at the Lowy doing great work on fighting children’s cancer. Lots of ideas for follow up!

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Dave Daveson @davemayhem.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

ScienceSky I'm putting up a signal. I'm working on a new series of Horrible Science for Children's BBC. We would love to chat to experts about their favourite science facts for kids. I'm looking to chat to chemists first as well as some peeps who know their human biology.

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a person is waving their hand in front of a sign that says " please help me "

Alt: a person is waving their hand in front of a sign that says " please help me "

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Lewis Dartnell @lewisdartnell.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Helen has put together this wonderful list of all science festivals in the UK over the year.

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Andrew Holding @andrewholding.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Just had to evacuate Kings Cross St Pancras underground. It was then most British evac. Everyone just queued as normal, and stood on the right of the escalator as minority of us used the left to walk up. No idea what was going on.

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Andrew Holding @andrewholding.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

I’m closing social media for today.

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Andrew Holding @andrewholding.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

I really like this article, it does a good job seperating out motivational stress and toxic stress, www.nature.com/articles/d41... to support people in a competative enviroment.

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‘I was told to toughen up’: is academia getting resilience all wrong?

Being repeatedly told to bounce back and develop a thicker skin can mask a toxic lab culture.

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Andrew Holding @andrewholding.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

🔴 Live #Science, #AMA and #Puzzles. Join me as we catch up on Science news, take on Baldur's Gate 3, mumble about what interests us and try to answer any science questions you have, live in chat! #Twitch #SciComm #SciStream www.twitch.tv/andrewholding @mattpt55.bsky.social @spannersready.bsky.social

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[UK/USA] Science co-stream AMA, raising money to fight Cancer and playing Baldur's Gate 3 - ACT3!

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Andrew Holding @andrewholding.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

This is an amazing example of great scicomm, on a question I never thought to ask.

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Dr Jamie Gallagher @jamiebgall.co.uk · 27/02/2025

Soft-launch: I’ll be looking for science speakers at the Star Trek convention in August. Get dreaming and I’ll open applications in a few weeks.

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Andrew Holding @andrewholding.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Our weekly Cambridge 105 show where Spanner's puts me on the spot to know all of science....

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Spanners @spannersready.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Spanners and Dr Andrew bring back creatures lost to time!! open.spotify.com/episode/7h4W...

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Back From the Dead

Cambridge Science · Episode

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Andrew Holding @andrewholding.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

When politicians are vocal on how UK economy struggles with low productivity. I find moments like this frustrating. I’m standing at a platform having to wait 30 mins for the next train, because it’s £100 more to get this half empty one, and no bus is reliable enough to leave for the station later.

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Andrew Holding @andrewholding.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Who’s running a genomics starter pack for Sally?

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EMBL-EBI @ebi.embl.org · 17/02/2025

📢 We’re looking for a new Team Leader! @enasequence.bsky.social is recruiting a Team Leader to shape the strategy and direction for the ENA and Biosamples open data resources. Interested?👇

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Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Tally just ticked past 1900 signatures. Please keep spreading the word about the letter & asking people to sign. It's important to make the Royal Society aware (at their meeting on 03 March) just how much the scientific community wants them to speak up for their values. forms.gle/SfsDemyS8QhP...

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Open letter to the President of the Royal Society – time to stand up for your values

If you wish to show your support for the letter below regarding apparent inaction by the Royal Society in the face of breaches of its code of conduct by Elon Musk FRS, please sign below. I invite anyo...

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Andrew Holding @andrewholding.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Apparently I owe a mint set of stamps bought it 1984… sent to me around my birthday that year.

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Anh Thy BUI @atbchem.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Sometimes column chromatography gives you very nice surprises! 🧪 Charles's compound came out pure and bright 💎💙 Happy #FluorescenceFriday 🦋!

A test tube containing a blue fluorescent solution where huge bright crystalline needles have grown.

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Andrew Holding @andrewholding.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

🔴 Live Now! Kicking off the year with BG3 Act 3, science news, and live Q&A! 🧬 Join the stream for some #SciComm, puzzles, and gaming fun. Ask your science questions in chat! 📺 twitch.tv/andrewholding

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Andrew Holding @andrewholding.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Announcing a second round to apply for our fully funded PhD opportunity at the University of York! Funded by @ukri.org / BBSRC. Our project focuses on understanding how low oxygen levels (hypoxia) change the way the hormone oestrogen works in breast cancer. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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Andrew Holding @andrewholding.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

I just finish wrapping presents to my wife… so in time. The fact this isn’t time stamped 00:00 is my typing speed.

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Andrew Holding @andrewholding.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

🌌 🧪Live on Twitch with @mattpt55.bsky.social Tonight topics: 1️⃣ Levitating spheres measuring nuclear decay: physicsworld.com/a/physicists... 2️⃣ The 5th person cured of HIV: abcnews.go.com/Health/5th-p... 3️⃣ Plus, back into Baldur’s Gate 3! 🔗 twitch.tv/andrewholding

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Physicists detect nuclear decay in the recoil of a levitating sphere – Physics World

Principle of momentum conservation makes it possible to "see" individual alpha particles leaving a micron-scale silica bead

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Andrew Holding @andrewholding.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Well, my office is stopping me getting diabetes.

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Bluesky @bsky.app · 03/12/2024

Scientists, academics, researchers: We’re excited to share that @altmetric.com is now tracking mentions of your research on Bluesky! 🧪

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

This is ace. I've written (in a transport context) about agglomeration and how poorly thought out Treasury investment criteria make it worse. This helps highlight why London is a funding sponge. The UK has no proportionate second city in population terms to drag the needle on the dial away.

Line diagram of the UK showing a huge population spike in London vs elsewhere.

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Andrew Holding @andrewholding.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

I do love York, but can’t deny that exchanging the rain for this view wouldn’t be tempting. They even have some Roman city walls too.

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Andrew Holding @andrewholding.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Are you up for some Sunday afternoon science communication? If so, I'm live on www.twitch.tv/tinytoxictofu to discuss my science and my research, come drop in and join the chat.

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TinyToxicTofu - Twitch

TofuTechTalk with @andrewholding about Cancer Research ❤ !tofutechtalk !pp

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Cahir O'Kane @cahirokane.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Come and join us! Four (yes 4) new positions as Associate Prof or Professor in @cambridgebiosci.bsky.social‬ in: -Evolutionary Genomics -Developmental Plasticity & Robustness -Infection and/or Immunity -Molecular & Cellular Biology Not involved in recruitment (AFAIK), but happy to discuss.

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School of Biological Sciences strengthens commitment to

Four new academic positions have been launched in the School of Biological Sciences aiming to recruit outstanding scientists in areas of significant research importance: Associate Professor /

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Andrew Holding @andrewholding.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Hello to all my new followers - as well as doing academic science, I also do SciComm!🚨 Live now! Thursday 8pm GMT 🚨 Join me on Twitch for some science chat, your burning questions, and a bit of gaming fun! 🎮🧬 Hop in and say hi 👉 twitch.tv/andrewholding #Science #Gaming #Twitch

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Andrew Holding @andrewholding.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Already have so many ideas I want to try this method on.

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Mitch Guttman @mitchguttman.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Gene regulation involves thousands of proteins that bind DNA, yet comprehensively mapping these is challenging. Our paper in Nature Genetics describes ChIP-DIP, a method for genome-wide mapping of hundreds of DNA-protein interactions in a single experiment. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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ChIP-DIP maps binding of hundreds of proteins to DNA simultaneously and identifies diverse gene regulatory elements - Nature Genetics

ChIP-DIP (ChIP done in parallel) is a highly multiplex assay for protein–DNA binding, scalable to hundreds of proteins including modified histones, chromatin regulators and transcription factors, offe...

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Andrew Holding @andrewholding.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Day 2 of BACR continues to be a wonderful event in Newcastle. Highly recommend! Great to catch up breast cancer researchers and patient advocates from across the UK & beyond. Looking forward to the next talks.

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Andrew Holding @andrewholding.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Dean as always talking much sense. As a parent, smart phones and the internet are an absolute bane but not without value either.

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Andrew Holding @andrewholding.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Are you looking for PhD studentship? We're advertising a fully funded PhD project, get in touch if you're interested. The project focuses the effects of hypoxia in tumours on the oestrogen response in breast cancer. Details: www.findaphd.com/phds/project... #PhDLife #BCMS 🧪 Please Share.

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Elucidating the Mechanism of Hypoxic Reprogramming of the Estrogen Response. at University of York on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Elucidating the Mechanism of Hypoxic Reprogramming of the Estrogen Response. at University of York, listed on FindAPhD.com

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Andrew Holding @andrewholding.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Interesting feature if you have the right kind of content… Pretty sure I’m happy with my content being gone forever.

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Andrew Holding @andrewholding.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Thank you to the 50+ who dropped in at some point. Even if you just lurked it’s great to have you along. I also apologise for how terrible I am at Baldur’s Gate 3.

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Andrew Holding @andrewholding.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

🌌 Live on twitch talking science 🎥 twitch.tv/andrewholding @mattpt55.bsky.social and I catch up on science news... 1️⃣ A new vaccine shows promise against aggressive breast cancer. Will this be a game-changer? medicine.washu.edu/news/vaccine... #scistream

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Andrew Holding @andrewholding.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

If you're at the University of York @uoylibrary.bsky.social have Created a university of York starter pack! bsky.app/starter-pack...

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