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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 02/10/2026

Letter to the University of Cambridge calling for the suspension of James Orr jonathanchaplin1.substack.com/p/letter-to-...

In my judgement, the Faculty and university are now suffering considerable and mounting reputational damage as a result of the highly credible allegations of criminal behaviour, in the form of breaches of electoral law, reported in the recent Channel 4 News programme about Dr Orr’s fundraising activities for Reform UK, and at greater length in the Verbatim Investigations film on which C4 drew (VERBATIM). In the C4 report, a former Electoral Commissioner declared himself to be ‘shocked’ by what he saw and said that some of the activities of Dr Orr there reported seemed on their face to be plainly illegal. In the Verbatim film, a senior lawyer was even more forthright in asserting that he judged they were clearly breaches of the law. It is at least very clear to any viewer that Dr Orr regarded some of his fundraising activities as needing to be concealed from public view.

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Cahir O'Kane @cahirokane.bsky.social · 17h

I wonder if @cam.ac.uk immigration compliance office are aware of this: "It is also unclear how the required right-to-work checks would have been carried out".

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Cahir O'Kane @cahirokane.bsky.social · 21h

Indeed. Mishal Husain was the only presenter I remember there who didn’t just amplify right-wing talking lines. And Amol Raman has earned a few roubles in his time.

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Philipp Radler @radler92.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The first paper of my PostDoc in Christa Schlepers group (@archaea-vienna.bsky.social) on the dynamics of Asgard archaea is now out in Nature! www.nature.com/articles/s41... This was a great team effort and I am looking forward to uncover the complex behavior of these cells further!

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Dynamic protrusions mediate crawling motility in Asgard archaea - Nature

Anoxic live-cell imaging shows actin-dependent crawling motility and dynamic protrusions in Asgard archaea, providing insights into cellular innovations that may have contributed to eukaryotic evoluti...

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Wendy Lyon @wendylyon.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026

Once again it needs to be stressed that this is something happening across the board in Irish immigration- changes in practice leading to refusals that would not have occurred in previous years. We are in a very dark time for the rights of people migrating to Ireland and their families.

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Archaea Biology Vienna @archaea-vienna.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Our paper on the dynamics of Asgard archaea (Promethearchaeota) is now out in Nature! Huge thanks to the reviewers for helping make the manuscript stronger. www.nature.com/articles/s41... Two “Lokis” stained for Lokiactin (FastAct, magenta), reaching toward each other to celebrate 🎉 #archaea

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Thibaut Brunet @thibautbrunet.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Pre-eukaryotic ancestry of actin-based cell crawling 🤯 An instant must read

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Kevin Mitchell @wiringthebrain.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Or... we could fund Natural Intelligence upskilling by finally funding higher education properly

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Monika Scholz @monikakscholz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Come be our colleague @mpinb.mpg.de ! jobs.b-ite.com/jobposting/4... Bonn has a great community of neuroscientists and it's been a great place to start a group! #neuroethology @neuroethology.org

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Max Planck Research Group Leader (W2) in Neuroethology (m/f/div)

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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 01/10/2026

It wasn't intentional to publish on the day that @timeshighered.bsky.social announced their World University Rankings, but it was timely. Times Higher Education, Sponsored by Orbán’s Hungary, Failed to Report James Orr Allegations — @bylinetimes.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2026/09/30/t...

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

📌 ICYMI — Times Higher Education, Sponsored by Orbán’s Hungary, Failed to Report James Orr Allegations — Samantha Asumadu The publication signed a partnership with Viktor Orbán's government and has since published no coverage of the allegations around a Cambridge academic and former Reform UK…

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Times Higher Education, Sponsored by Orbán’s Hungary, Failed to Report James Orr Allegations

The publication signed a partnership with Viktor Orbán's government and has since published no coverage of the allegations around a Cambridge academic and former Reform UK policy chief whose foundation receives Hungary-linked funding

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dshb-antibodies.bsky.social @dshb-antibodies.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

🔍 Spotted in Current Biology! Researchers from UCLA, among others, used our nc82 anti-bruchpilot mAb in a study that mapped octopamine and tyramine neurons controlling vision, behavior, and aggression in Drosophila. 📄 tinyurl.com/mutssn9z 🧫 dshb.biology.uiowa.edu/nc82

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SfN Journals @sfnjournals.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#eNeuro: Using the fruit fly neuromuscular junction, Clements and Griffith show that CaMKII protein is required for activity-dependent bouton formation, but acute local synthesis of CaMKII is not. doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0196-26.2026

Microscopy images of neuronal cells stained in cyan and red under different conditions.

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Cahir O'Kane @cahirokane.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Message sent to my MP. Rejoiners need to be as persistent as Brexiters were.

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Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge @geneticscam.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

📢 Exciting Opportunity for an outstanding and motivated scientist! 🔬🚀 We're delighted to advertise a Postdoctoral Research Associate position within Dr Felipe Karam Teixeira Group, Department of Genetics! Please see below details on how to apply : www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/postdoc...

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Postdoctoral Research Associate (Fixed Term)

Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Research Associate position to join the research group of Dr Felipe Karam Teixeira (https://www.gen.cam.ac.uk/research-groups/research-groups/karam-teixeira...

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Cahir O'Kane @cahirokane.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Yes, first-past-the-post smothers democracy- not just by unrepresentative results, but by too many "safe" seats where it feels not worth voting. Only once in 30 years in GB did I feel my vote could make a difference. With STV, it always did. And STV excludes tiny parties, tails that wag the dog.

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Cahir O'Kane @cahirokane.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Step one. Admit the damage. Step two. Have an open conversation about the benefits (and responsibilities) of membership, and the lies and dishonesty of the Brexiters. Step three. Build a broad coalition to Rejoin.

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Genetics Society of America @genetics-gsa.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Nominations are open for the Hugo Bellen and Catherine Tasnier Drosophila Neurogenetics Lecture—recognizing outstanding early career work in Drosophila neurogenetics. The award includes a cash prize and conference travel and registration for #Dros27. 🔗https://buff.ly/NUvMqTM

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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 30/09/2026

Six days ago I wrote the thread linked below. Times Higher Education's lack of interest in James Orr had bothered me for weeks. Today Byline Times published the investigation that explains this very British scandal at length. Corruption, racism, sycophancy & graft bylinetimes.com/2026/09/30/t...

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Simon Bullock @simonbullock11.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

How are mRNAs linked to molecular motors in mammalian cells? In our new preprint, we show that FXR1/2 are RNA adaptors for the microtubule motor dynein. Our findings have also prompted us to rethink how activating adaptors contribute to motor-based transport (1/n)

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British Society for Cell Biology @bscb-official.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Registration and abstract submissions are open for our Spring Meeting - organised together with @gensocuk.bsky.social 🗓️ Monday 19th – Thursday 22nd April, 2027 📍The Octagon, Mile End, London. Submit your abstract by 18th December registrations.hg3conferences.co.uk/hg3/frontend...

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Cahir O'Kane @cahirokane.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Finally a proper conversation begins on reversing the disaster of Brexit. Good.

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Cathy Abbott @cathyabbott.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Great reporting from @robinbisson.bsky.social on an absolutely dire funding situation…

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Times Higher Education, Sponsored by Orbán’s Hungary, Failed to Report James Orr Allegations The publication signed a partnership with Viktor Orbán's government and has since published no coverage of the allegations around a Cambridge academic and former Reform UK policy chief whose foundation…

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Times Higher Education, Sponsored by Orbán’s Hungary, Failed to Report James Orr Allegations

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Alex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Burnham’s speech is the best from a British politician in yrs. He’s the first leader with policies that I can truly get behind in over a decade. He actually said everything I wish Starmer had said months ago, as per my article below. The similarities are uncanny!!!🧵 bylinetimes.com/2026/05/12/t...

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'The Speech I Wish Keir Starmer Had Given'

Alexandra Hall Hall delivers the big reset speech she wishes the Prime Minister actually had made after Labour's local elections defeats

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Tessa Montague @tessamontague.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My dream is to record neural activity in their brain while they camouflage so we can see how the visual world is represented in the brain & transformed into a recreation of the world on the skin. To do this, we need to generate new genetic lines: animals whose neurons fluoresce as they fire (GCaMP)

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Cahir O'Kane @cahirokane.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The rationale for the European Union summed up very simply and movingly

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Kate Baker @ksbakes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

We have an open Assistant/Associate Professor position in Pathogen Biology at the Department of Genetics - come and join us! 🦠 🧫 🧬https://www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assistantassociate-professor-in-pathogen-genetics-pc51175

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Assistant/Associate Professor in Pathogen Genetics

Applications are invited for an Assistant or Associate Professorship in Pathogen Genetics to be held in the Department of Genetics. We are searching for a talented individual with a track record of fu...

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Massimo Faggioli @massimofaggioli.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

these words of pope Leo are for me, and for many others I think, profoundly moving

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School of Biological Sciences @cambridgebiosci.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

🧬 Looking for a PhD in the biosciences? Applications are open for the Cambridge Biosciences DTP, offering fully funded PhD opportunities across a range of research areas. 📅 Deadline: 8 December 2026 🔗 bbsrcdtp.lifesci.cam.ac.uk/how-apply #PhD #Biosciences

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Jez Carlton @jezcarlton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Hey! Submit your papers, and spread the word, this will be great! Thanks for inviting us @jcellsci.bsky.social and great to work with @pihanson.bsky.social on this issue!

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Google earth has updated its satellite images of Gaza. The destruction is almost incomprehensible.

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Yohan J John @dryohanjohn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Reading a review on serotonin by Peter Dayan and Quentin J.M. Huys from 2009. It's an increasingly rare experience in this LLM-blighted era to read a paper with good prose.

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Sarah Creighton @saraita101.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Always remember: things can get worse

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Cahir O'Kane @cahirokane.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Like waking up in 1995 again. If the police force this through it’s likely the end of the NI Executive, dysfunctional as it is - probably for a very long time with no alternatives in sight.

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Tense standoff over loyalist march in Portadown as protesters block route

Sinn Féin leaders join those on streets opposing decision to allow Garvaghy Road parade for first time since 1998

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Cahir O'Kane @cahirokane.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Indeed. Cofnas’ pronouncements on race and IQ are pseudoscience, from beginning to end. Like flat earth or phlogiston theory. He is not a serious academic.

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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Gavin Bazunu statement on withdrawing from Ireland squad

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Statement - Gavin Bazunu

Representing my country means everything to me. I have the utmost respect for every single one of my team mates, the Manager, his staff and the Irish people

However I have reached a decision that I have hot taken lightly. I am a man of strong faith and try my best to be a person of character and principle therefore 1 feel it would be wrong to participate in the upcoming fixtures against Israel.

My decision is based purely upon my personal belief that the killing of innocent people is wrong.

It is important to note that my stance is not in opposition of the Israeli people or the Jewish community but against the atrocities in the region.

There are few times where you get a chance ir ife to stand up for something bigger and strongly believe that this is one of them

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Igor Brodsky @brodskyigorlab.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The power of funding fundamental discovery in driving unexpected benefits for humankind are unmatched. We should be funding more basic research not less

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Cahir O'Kane @cahirokane.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“There’s a lot of work to be done.” Now that’s an understatement.

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UCSF @ucsanfrancisco.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

UCSF’s Kevan Shokat, PhD, just won the $1M Stephenson Global Prize for research in pancreatic cancer. He cracked KRAS, a cancer driver long considered “undruggable.” Drugs built on his work now treat lung and pancreatic cancer. ow.ly/UYuY50ZRSXg

Middle-aged man in a blue lab coat smiling while seated in a scientific laboratory setting.

Hand wearing black glove holding five small glass vials with various colored liquids, including pink and orange hues.

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Cahir O'Kane @cahirokane.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

For "Muslim" today, substitute "Irish" in previous generations, and the bigotry sounds horribly familiar. All the more reason why racists in Ireland, and the greater number who turn a blind eye to them, should know better.

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Cahir O'Kane @cahirokane.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Why is this still a thing? Have I just woken up again in 1996?

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"we have left your F-35 parts with a neighbour"

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Instead of a thousand words. Pavlo, a Ukrainian Defender who has returned from Russian captivity, takes down his picture from a wall of missing and captives. He spent 50 months in Russian captivity. That's over four years.... 📷: iamslimaa/Threads

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Andy Diggle @andydiggle.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

My Glock system went rogue and issued 9mm agents which accessed the internal organs of several victims. Please give me billions of dollars to help me regulate the behavior of the gun whose trigger I keep pulling.

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The Prospect paywall is down! These are all my articles, you lucky people www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/author/2821/...

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DAT Green - Prospect Magazine

The latest news, opinion and analysis for Prospect by DAT Green

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