iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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The Institute of Cancer Research @icr.ac.uk · 11/09/2026

What have been the biggest breakthroughs in cancer research over the past 25 years? Professor Paul Workman OBE shares his perspective in Nature Reviews Cancer's special anniversary Viewpoint on the path from cancer genomics to precision medicine. Read the article ⤵️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Ben Bellenie @chemb.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Demis: we will cure all disease in the next 10-20 years Claude: too slow, you will be extinct by then, feeble humans

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Ben Bellenie @chemb.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

you get occasional moments of “wait, there’s no more laundry?” and then you realise that’s because the teenagers floors are 2 feet deep in dirty clothes

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Ben Bellenie @chemb.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Sad news. I saw the Frames a few times, although not enough. The first at a small gig in around 1999. Hadn’t heard a single song before the show, bought their two (at the time) albums immediately after.

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Ben Bellenie @chemb.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I loved the little clicky wheel on the early generations.

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Milka Kostic @milkakostic.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Many scientists I've been talking to are freaking out about NIH "immediate deposit" mandate and the publishers, like journals in the Nature family, telling them they have to pay ~13k to satisfy the mandate. People have been paying it - but they don't need to.

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Ben Bellenie @chemb.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Also young people are very good at organising themselves - some method of enabling groups to get funding and mentoring ?

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Ben Bellenie @chemb.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

There are spaces that could be used - how many vacant places on high streets? But needs money and organising. Seeing this in a few places locally where charities take on shop units for music or art activities.

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Ben Bellenie @chemb.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

This is all true unfortunately. funding a small number of paid roles can really help unlock a lot - seen this both in sports and church positions where one paid coordinator or youth worker can take on “organising“ and “admin” to enable many people to volunteer a small amount of time.

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Ben Bellenie @chemb.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Yeah this. Understand the drive to “protect children” but there are valuable uses for these platforms - organising community action and events, music and sport - which also get lost. and if you ban teenagers from Snap etc - they go to more unregulated sites, chat rooms etc… I don’t have an answer

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Ben Bellenie @chemb.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

And now I heard of it, immediately off the list. Stupid list

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Prof. Zoë Waller @drzoewaller.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

We are recruiting! We are looking for a Lecturer (Teaching) in Pharmaceutical and Biological Chemistry to join our diverse team in the School of Pharmacy at UCL. Please share and happy to discuss the role with potential applicants. @ucllifesciences.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

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UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

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Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

A fellow of the Royal Society slashed funding for disease prevention, leading directly to the deaths of uncounted children. He promotes white supremacy and is actively encouraging racist violence in the UK. But he's Elon Musk, a billionaire. So the Royal Society does nothing. @royalsociety.org

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

A fellow Labour Party member once described Wes Streeting to me as Zippy from Rainbow if he'd been radicalized by Mumsnet. which is a very specific set of references but also disturbingly accurate.

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Ben Bellenie @chemb.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Maybe she is funded by Reform

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Some people say we don’t build beautiful things anymore and, like, lol. Motherfuckers, we built this:

A graph from Our World In Data showing a precipitous drop in child mortality starting in the late 1800s going from an average of 48% to global rate of 27% in 1950 to the 2020 infant mortality rate of 4%, with some countries having a rate as low as 0.3%

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Ben Bellenie @chemb.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

fortunately nothing went bang, and was fun rounding off pipettes in a Bunsen to avoid sharp edges! My cyanide-using neighbour came over one afternoon and said “well, I’m still alive”. I asked what hed done, he said “I accidentally stabbed myself with the needle I was using for cyanide this morning”…

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Ben Bellenie @chemb.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

I did many of the most dangerous reactions I have ever done in that undergrad project. Making sodium sand on large scale, making and distilling diazomethane… the other student In the (crap, wooden) hood next to me was using various cyanide reagents… Ian and his lab were great to work with!

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Ben Bellenie @chemb.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

It’s only half the sentence. AI could cure all disease in a decade…by wiping out humanity. <evil cackling laugh> AI tools in biomedical are great and getting better, but giving suffering patients false hope is not helpful.

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Ben Bellenie @chemb.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Very cool! And also kinda grim

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Ben Bellenie @chemb.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Well this is great. Wondering how I can incorporate it into our safety protocols

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Ben Bellenie @chemb.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

(The answer is no by the way)

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Ben Bellenie @chemb.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

postdoc: “yeah I didn’t want to do it in my fumehood so I thought it was safer in the microwave”

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Ben Bellenie @chemb.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

I dont see how this gets there?! I thought a dodgy translation but that doesn’t make sense as the phrases wouldn’t interchange in another language. Did someone ask a really stupid AI to reword a published experimental to avoid copy pasting? And how did no reviewer or editor - or author - spot it?

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

It is the anniversary of the My Lai massacre today. I'd say that even more than most years, it's important to remember what happened. And the role Hugh Thompson, an active serviceman, played in both stopping and publicising it. Despite enormous military, political and public pressure to stay quiet.

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Ben Bellenie @chemb.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

having been an undergrad project student in the Fleming group, probably Fleming-Tamao! But either sounds right to me. not like Suzuki-Miyaura where Miyaura often gets lost

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Ben Bellenie @chemb.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Good news: meeting finished on time Friday Bad news: booked the later train because I didn’t expect it to not really good news but…: the earlier train I could have caught is cancelled anyway Good news: time to get a pint of lovely pre journey beer (later bad news: train toilets probably rank)

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Ben Bellenie @chemb.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_Se... I think someone on here may have posted on it at some point too. @garius.bsky.social maybe?

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Rail Settlement Plan - Wikipedia

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Ben Bellenie @chemb.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

If you google it (and I know because I did it once) you get pages and pages of people discussing it on railway forums…TLDR there’s a centralised computer model that works out which train companies you are most likely to have used for your journey and divides the money accordingly.

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Ben Bellenie @chemb.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Loved this one. encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn...

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Ben Bellenie @chemb.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Ah it’s tedious. There’s a run of about 5000 words in the middle that do nothing but describe how white the whale apparently is.

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Ben Bellenie @chemb.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Great to be part of this event @chemicalprobes.org - nice to return to the complexities of GPCRs for a day!

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Ben Bellenie @chemb.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Inactive batch 2 and dead cells, were you in our lab meeting this week?! Although we had “literature compound surprisingly working” instead… I better check the patent updates and submit some more things for hERG just in case this list is fortune telling

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Peter Hewitt @petehewitt.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

When you work in drug discovery there are *so* many ways of hearing you're in for a very bad day. Efficacy Results Came Back [competitor] Patent Just Published Batch Two Looks Inactive Every Example Has hERG Literature Compound Isn't Working The Cells Died... Again Hits Everything In Selectivity

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Ben Bellenie @chemb.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Well, I am an scientist so the only way to find out is experiment

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Ben Bellenie @chemb.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

important scientific question: would a beer help me finish these overdue meeting slides faster?

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Nick † Wright @nickwrightdata.ntw.app · 08/10/2025

Can confirm the letters turned to mush upon the ground would, in fact, re-assemble into the missing spots on the tree. Fantastic (even if they didn't)!

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Amazing Digital Carcass @amagire.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

"of course ChatGPT is full of errors when it comes to my specific area of professional or technical expertise, that's why I only use it for other stuff, where I can't tell if it's bullshit or not" 📰🗞💥

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Ben Bellenie @chemb.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Wow. You sure about closing that London site, MSD?

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Jeanne @toomany2choose.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

'Morning 🌞☕

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Ben Bellenie @chemb.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Being owned and financed by a nation state unfair to other teams - Me

“Fixture schedule unfair to Man City - Silva”

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

I love London so much. So much. Did you know that London has the lowest level of ethnic violence of any city of comparable size in the world? Multiculturalism has in fact worked here. They just don’t want it to be true because we happen to have a Muslim mayor.

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Two very important graphs. Net migration reached record levels in 2023 - and has since halved. The vast majority of arrivals comprises students and workers. Arrivals in small boats and asylum seekers - less than 5%. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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THIS ACCOUNT IS MOVING @xtaldave.xtaldave.net.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2025

Reminder that 100,000 people marched for Trans Pride in London earlier this year, but because they weren't violent fascists, there was minimal press coverage, unlike the Nazis today. www.them.us/story/london-trans-prid…

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London’s Trans Pride March Just Shattered Its Turnout Record

Organizers say it was the largest transgender rights march in the world.

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David Nir @davidnir.com · 10/09/2025

Breaking news consumer's handbook

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