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

📍The event will be held at the public engament space of Institute of Physics, 37 Caledonian Road, London N1 9BU ⏰ 10 am–3 pm (food provided; travel expenses reimbursed up to £25; additional support available to remove access barriers) 3/3

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

We’re very keen to hear from voices outside academia, particuarly anyone passionate about health equity surrounding pregnancy or with direct experience of how pregnancy limits research, and the frustrations and impacts that causes. Please feel too share. 2/3

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

Yes, they’ve been lovey. Sight seeing today. Fly to Melbourne tomorrow to visit the Peter Mac.

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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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Andrew Holding @andrewholding.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

It’s been decades since I worked for them. But back then, my surprise was to discover how big the newsagent part of the business was. Shipping physical papers to shops (not just WHS), and taking back unsold ones. I guess that has dried up too.

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Andrew Holding @andrewholding.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Having owned a Japan built Nissan (I didn’t realise at the time, was a second-hand first edition Leaf as sold to UK market). You suddenly rediscover logistics on parts etc for repairs when they’re surface shipped (3 months) to dealers.

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Andrew Holding @andrewholding.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

I’m surprised we export them to US not the EU. But Vauxhall, Nissan, Toyota and Mini all have big factories in the UK (I think?).

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Andrew Holding @andrewholding.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Newborn babies were the one thing that cured my insomnia. Suddenly I could fall asleep anywhere…

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Andrew Holding @andrewholding.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Depends on age, many are research active. However, I assume many are also retired/emeritus. A minority of those members are then probably active in policy/RS governance. Therefore, while I’ve made many assumptions, I think that leaves a non-trivial number for which my query is not disingenuous.

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Andrew Holding @andrewholding.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

I would love to know what you loose by turning in an FRS. You still got an FRS…. So the recognition is not lost.

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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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Andrew Holding @andrewholding.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

I love talking to school kids about how science told Scott of the Antarctic that limes cure scurvy, despite everyone knows they do and the UK navy used them 100 years earlier. I also have a great talk on how making bread from air fuelled a world war.

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Andrew Holding @andrewholding.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Oh the IIRC half eight is regional in German … which is more confusing.

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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 · 23/03/2025

As a teen watching TNG I wasn’t sure what a conference is. As a researcher, I wonder why you would leave you posting on the equivalent of an artic survey ship to go to a conference.

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Andrew Holding @andrewholding.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

I guess academic work was an easy target it under open access? Mines in there too.

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Andrew Holding @andrewholding.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Ah. Another person from my school scurvy talk. And Phoebe Pember.

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Andrew Holding @andrewholding.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Many of my research papers, but not my guardian articles. I think that might have saved humanity.

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Andrew Holding @andrewholding.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

We could do with another Dangleway.

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Andrew Holding @andrewholding.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

You should take that up with @transportforlondon.bsky.social, The London Underground is mostly Overground. Yet the Overground is something else. The tfl boats are boats though.

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Andrew Holding @andrewholding.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

There’s definitely a cycle of it being unfashionable on and off.

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Andrew Holding @andrewholding.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

This was a standard lesson at one point, I did it at primary as growing up appliances didn’t come with plugs. However, I’m surprised you did it at 15 given I expect that it as no longer an issue by then.

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Andrew Holding @andrewholding.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Honestly, you can see why she was fed up. From an in universe perspective the O’Brien must suffer scripting means she had annual harrowing ordeals. And the whole time travel daughter thing… omg.

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Andrew Holding @andrewholding.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Let’s be honest. Barcode readers could just work better.

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

Here’s the other thread. Be nice to have the display saying closed as a minimum! bsky.app/profile/anna...

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

There is a skeet saying that there was an altercation on the platform so they as stuck at Old Street. But really at this point no idea. Given I’m now at the main line station and no one is evacuated - but the Underground is close - means both are plausible.

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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

The GP even questioned why I wasn’t vaccinated. I was, 40 years ago and it doesn’t last the long. The reason I didn’t have a booster is I’ve never been pregnant.

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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 · 11/03/2025

Indeed, I managed to get Pertussis in 2024 for 3 months. 100-day cough is not an exaggeration!

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

Or being chronically ill. That has really wasted a lot of my time since 2021.

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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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AndrewHolding - Twitch

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

On a budget, any headphones. The most important step up is just monitoring the audio with headphones vs not.

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