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Dr Rob Fowkes (PhD)

@cnpdr.bsky.social
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Professor of Comparative Endocrinology and department chair, #veterinary endocrinology, #pituitary, #cats, #Spartan. MSU Vets. Pro-Europe.

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Dr Rob Fowkes (PhD) @cnpdr.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
You're describing my entire academic career, Chris :(
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Dr Rob Fowkes (PhD) @cnpdr.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Amazing news Lauren!!! Very richly deserved!!
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British Society for Neuroendocrinology @bsneuroendo.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
The Michael Harbuz Prize is a great opportunity for all our outstanding emerging neuroendocrinologists 🧠. Winners get: 🔬30 min lecture at #NeuroendoCelebrate2026 🖋️JNE Early Career Perspective article 💸£750 🧡1yr BSN membership Apply by 1.5.26: neuroendo.org.uk/pag...
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Dr Rob Fowkes (PhD) @cnpdr.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Or, alternatively, she'll be happy to have beaten you...
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Dr Rob Fowkes (PhD) @cnpdr.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Amazing time, Chris, bloody love the London Marathon!
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Dr Rob Fowkes (PhD) @cnpdr.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Have a great run, Chris - it's the best day of the year in London and you'll have amazing support.
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Dr Rob Fowkes (PhD) @cnpdr.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I find 'best regards' to be more common in US emails - you can't go wrong with the confusing 'Cheers', John.
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Dr Rob Fowkes (PhD) @cnpdr.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
I absolutely love London Marathon Day and hope everyone who wants to experience running it can - but is splitting it over two days diluting the best day of the year in such a great city? www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/m...
theguardian.com
Revealed: secret plans for two-day London Marathon with 100,000 runners
The London Marathon is in advanced talks about staging a two-day event in 2027, allowing tens of thousands more runners to take part
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Dr Rob Fowkes (PhD) @cnpdr.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Very sad news indeed, John. Alan was monumental in the field.
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Dr Rob Fowkes (PhD) @cnpdr.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Great time, mate!!
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Dr Rob Fowkes (PhD) @cnpdr.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
I hate pivoting
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Dr Rob Fowkes (PhD) @cnpdr.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
There used to be a great cafe serving the best huevos rancheros just across the road from there.
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Dr Rob Fowkes (PhD) @cnpdr.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Jeez, what a contrast - I haven't taken a UA flight to/from LHR in 12 months when they DON'T ask for volunteers to take other flights.
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Dr Rob Fowkes (PhD) @cnpdr.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
This letter truly sucked.
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Dr Rob Fowkes (PhD) @cnpdr.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
It can always be worse, John - we're assessing students every three weeks so the question requests come thick and fast.
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Dr Rob Fowkes (PhD) @cnpdr.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Ah, the Friday afternoon rejection - how I've missed you. Not.
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Bence Kövér @bencekover.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Excited to release the Consensus Pituitary Atlas, which brings a shared framework to process, annotate, and analyze single-cell datasets in the mouse pituitary. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Dr Rob Fowkes (PhD) @cnpdr.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Great photos!
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Dr Rob Fowkes (PhD) @cnpdr.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
TCDCC is one of the best (and most fun) committees to serve on, for sure.
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Dr Rob Fowkes (PhD) @cnpdr.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Have fun, Joy - sorry I missed you!
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 08/07/2025
BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.
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Bruno FdS @bferrazdsouza.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Extremely grateful for catching up and spending time with my awesome visitor @cnpdr.bsky.social on beautiful Rottnest Island - another example of the wonders that the @endocrinesociety.bsky.social make possible!
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Dr Rob Fowkes (PhD) @cnpdr.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Cool toys!!
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Kate Ellacott @neuroendo.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
To coincide with the 7th International Melanocortin Meeting, the Journal of Neuroendocrinology is calling for submissions of original studies, review articles, & commentaries relating to any aspect of the melanocortin system within the journal’s remit. @jne-editor.bsky.social shorturl.at/1YjYw
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
<em>Journal of Neuroendocrinology</em> | BSN Journal | Wiley Online Library
<em>Journal of Neuroendocrinology</em> covers all aspects of neuroendocrine research, publishing high-quality articles on both fundamental and translational neuroendocrinology.
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Dr Rob Fowkes (PhD) @cnpdr.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Global Entry finally starts working again for me after 15 months…
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Dr Rob Fowkes (PhD) @cnpdr.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
I’ll see you at the gate, Felix!!
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Dr Rob Fowkes (PhD) @cnpdr.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
The coffee in the lounge at Zurich airport is einfach klasse - hoping the coffee in Copenhagen for #ESPE-ECE2025 is just as great.
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Dr Rob Fowkes (PhD) @cnpdr.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
The issue is connecting flights on non-United metal - fare difference applies to those :(. Just spent $500 to avoid EWR on Thursday.
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Dr Rob Fowkes (PhD) @cnpdr.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
United are definitely not giving me this option for the 8th - no change fee, but considerable fare difference.
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Dr Rob Fowkes (PhD) @cnpdr.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Many congrats @denisebelsham.bsky.social !
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Dr Rob Fowkes (PhD) @cnpdr.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
No kidding - the taxiing to the gate is almost as long as the flight from DTW.
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Dr Rob Fowkes (PhD) @cnpdr.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
A seriously great group of #endocrinology researchers profiled here: Lift Every Voice: Endocrine News Celebrates Black History Month - Endocrine News url:https://endocrinenews.endocrine.org/lift-every-voice-endocrine-news-celebrates-black-history-month/
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Dr Julia Grace Patterson @jujuliagrace.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
I am so fed up of politicians and media outlets telling us all that the NHS is less productive than pre-pandemic, while completely ignoring the enormous collective trauma endured by its workforce during the largest public health crisis in 75 years.…
bloomberg.com
Britain’s NHS Is 20% Less Productive Than Before the Pandemic
Britain’s National Health Service is almost 20% less productive than it was five years ago, adding to concerns that the Labour government is not getting value for the extra money it’s putting into par...
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Science Magazine @science.org · 14/03/2025
The #hypothalamus plays a large role in coordinating the neuronal signals that are responsible for keeping the body in a stable state. A special issue unpacked this brain region’s impact on physiological and behavioral homeostasis. scim.ag/41FRESU #BrainAwarenessWeek
The hypothalamus is a small structure deep inside the brain that is connected to a vast number of other brain regions and tirelessly interacts with them. It controls and modulates many basic bodily functions to ensure the survival of the organism under constantly changing circumstances.
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Dr Rob Fowkes (PhD) @cnpdr.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
No shame in this, John - get to a live Cure show if you can - they’re still phenomenal.
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Dr Rob Fowkes (PhD) @cnpdr.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Sneaking in to the good seats tonight on the way to #BES2025 to talk about #cats and #oxytocin. First trip home this year.
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Monica Daley @birdbiomech.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
We are recruiting trainees for the Integrative Movement Sciences Summer Institute. Students will gain research experience in dynamic muscular control of movement across organizational scales from molecular mechanisms to whole-body movement in complex environments. Learn more: tinyurl.com/5n7w6pey
cims.uci.edu
IMSI Summer Institute 2025: Now Recruiting Trainees! – Center for Integrative Movement Science
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 06/03/2025
Let's talk about this Nature piece in more detail. I've rarely read something so anti-scientific anywhere short of the National Review. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
nature.com
Three AI-powered steps to faster, smarter peer review
Tired of spending countless hours on peer reviews? An AI-assisted workflow could help.
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Dr Rob Fowkes (PhD) @cnpdr.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
The novel is great. And depressing.
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Metabo_Dave @metabodave.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
An enormous number of grants are not getting reviewed. Every day that goes by is another lab that might lose critical funding. Totally unacceptable. We're on day 5 (approx) of the NIH new grant freeze.
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Dr Rob Fowkes (PhD) @cnpdr.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Thanks for being interviewed by my son :)
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Dr Rob Fowkes (PhD) @cnpdr.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
I feel honoured - £10k twenty years ago, hasn’t increased much since
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Dr Rob Fowkes (PhD) @cnpdr.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Good luck asking for a start up in the UK
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Dr Rob Fowkes (PhD) @cnpdr.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Imports clarification- PAUSED, not pulled; today’s news highly disconcerting for likely success. Apologies for causing apoplexy.
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Dr Rob Fowkes (PhD) @cnpdr.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Just heard my first grad student, who was part of a $7M ARPA-H award, has had it pulled.
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Dr Rob Fowkes (PhD) @cnpdr.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Qu'en est-il des chiens et des chats, Gerald?! We have internal medics, surgeons and pathologists who would happily attend if there was some companion animal content, too!
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Dr Rob Fowkes (PhD) @cnpdr.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
After several years, I’ve finally cracked heart zone training - quite handy to do i doors whilst the ice is still lethal outside #running #Michigan #zone2
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Neil Shubin @neilshubin.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Gene editing technology began by people studying salt marshes. Ozempic began by folks studying the venom of Gila Monsters. Support for basic science has empowered us to understand our world. Tethering it to applications health has transformed and saved countless lives.
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Dr Rob Fowkes (PhD) @cnpdr.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
All true - whilst the potential loss of these academic jobs is bad, the loss of STEM jobs is no worse than losing others; STEM might provide us with the discoveries that extend lives, but humanities/culture make those lives worth living. www.theguardian.com/education/20...
theguardian.com
The deep cultural cost of British university job cuts | Letters
Letters: Arts and humanities are being hit hardest by cuts in higher education, write Prof Thea Pitman and Prof Emma Cayley, and Dr Ronan McLaverty-Head and another letter writer comment on cuts at Ca...
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Dr Rob Fowkes (PhD) @cnpdr.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Our world-leading #endocrinology section at #MSU is recruiting - if you are a DVM and have a love of all things to do with hormones, this is a great opportunity. Please share. careers.msu.edu/jobs/assist-...
careers.msu.edu
Assist/Assoc Professor Health Programs Fixed Term - East Lansing, Michigan, United States
Working/Functional Title Assist/Assoc Professor Health Programs Fixed Term Position Summary The Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory (VDL) and the Department of Pathobiology and Diagnostic Investigation (...
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