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University of East Anglia (UEA) @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Researchers from UEA and across Norwich Research Park will help train the next generation of health researchers through new Medical Research Council funding. Read more: bit.ly/4yVb6dE #ResearchMatters #ResearchFunding

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Daniel Brewer @danbrewer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Congratulations to Katie Manley for successfully passing her PhD viva subject to minor corrections. Many thanks to Hardev Pandha and Leo Alexandre for examining.

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Daniel Brewer @danbrewer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Congratulations to Ricardo Ackbersingh for getting a best oral presention and best student abstract prize at Australasian Genomic Technologies Association conference 2026 in Sydney. Amazing stuff.

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Daniel Brewer @danbrewer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

If one paper out today wasn't enough, from the PanProstate Cancer Group (panprostate.org), we've got another outstanding paper. This one looking at biallelic epigenetic inactivation in the first PPCG data set. Great work. Lucky to be involved. doi.org/10.1038/s414...

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Pan Prostate Cancer Group - Home

PanProstate Cancer Group website.

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Daniel Brewer @danbrewer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Out today in Nature from the PanProstate Cancer Group (panprostate.org). Great work from the first and lead authors especially, and everyone else involved. The cumulation of many years of work that I have loved being involved in. doi.org/10.1038/s415...

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Pan Prostate Cancer Group - Home

PanProstate Cancer Group website.

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Norwich Cancer Research Network @cancerinnorwich.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

We are delighted to once again be hosting our Symposium today, which will feature cancer research from across the Norwich Research Park! We shall be sharing updates throughout the day- don't forget to tag us or use #NCRNSymposium2026!

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Daniel Brewer @danbrewer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

An excellent keynote talk by Ruman Rahman from Nottingham University. Then poster prizes and the reception, and with that we're done. Great stuff.

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Daniel Brewer @danbrewer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

And the final talk from Norwich of the symposium is "The role of the gut microbiome, metabolic changes and the immune system in the progression of MGUS to multiple myeloma" – Charlotte Hellmich #NCRNSymposium2026

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Daniel Brewer @danbrewer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Next up is Dimitra Lamprinaki discussing "Strain- and sex-specific antibody responses to Fusobacterium nucleatum ssp. animalis in colorectal cancer: evidence from the Norwich Bowel Cancer Screening cohort"

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Daniel Brewer @danbrewer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The last session starts with a talk titled "Spatiotemporal Metabolic Drivers of Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma (PDAC) Initiation and Progression"

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Daniel Brewer @danbrewer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The third season of the NCRN symposium had begun with "Using routinely collected electronic primary healthcare data to identify associations between prescriptions and cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma" – Zoe Venables #NCRNSymposium2026

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Daniel Brewer @danbrewer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

#NCRNSymposium2026 lunch and poster session. Probably the best part of the day. great energy.

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Daniel Brewer @danbrewer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Session 2 had two talks and an amazing set of lightning talks. No photos, as I was chairing. #NCRNSymposium2026

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Daniel Brewer @danbrewer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The Norwich Cancer Research Network 2026 is here. We kick off with Jayna Mistry presenting a talk titled "Microenvironment remodelling by clonal haematopoiesis promotes transformation to haematological malignancy" #NCRNSymposium2026

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Daniel Brewer @danbrewer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The final talk of the first session of the NCRN symposium is by Advait Aithal titled "From Photoactivation to Photodegradation: LASSO, a Long-Wavelength Platform for Light Activated Selective Switch-Off of Proteins" #NCRNSymposium2026

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Daniel Brewer @danbrewer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The next talk is "Targeting cancer by inhibiting the protein interactions in RNA polymerase" by Suzanne van Wier #NCRNSymposium2026

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Daniel Brewer @danbrewer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Next up we have Emma Bull discussing how MYC activates a dark genome lncRNA to drive metastasis in paediatric bone sarcoma. #NCRNSymposium2026

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Robin Bisson @robinbisson.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

£6.3bn really is a huge gap for unis to fill on research each year It's sometimes said that's what QR is for, but QR is part of the calculation: without it the gap would be close to £9bn The biggest way that gap is filled is international student fees (yellow bar), but we all know how that's going

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Daniel Brewer @danbrewer.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Congratulations to Dr Anna Russell who successfully got through her viva today with a thesis titled "Investigating the molecular mechanisms of action of anaerobic bacteria on prostate cancer development and progression". Super quick time. Thanks to examiners Gwyn Williams and Ben Evans.

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Daniel Brewer @danbrewer.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I really don't understand how Argentina gets away with pushing players in the back the whole time. And the gathering round the ref ...

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Daniel Brewer @danbrewer.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Next we have Jade Manning, who won the runners-up prize for best talk at the Microbial Genomics ECR Symposium @Norwich. The talk was titled "Investigating the Mechanism of Action of Anaerobic Bacteria in the Pathogenesis of Aggressive Prostate Cancer". Congratulations.

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Daniel Brewer @danbrewer.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Excellent day of prizes yesterday. First up, we have @abrahamgihawi.bsky.social who was awarded "Winner - Research and Impact" at the Norwich Medical School Staff Awards 2026.

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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 15/07/2026

👌👌👌👌👌👌👌

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Daniel Brewer @danbrewer.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

At work, I purchased a 2TB Kingston SSD drive for £95.99. It's stopped working, and so I wanted to get a replacement under the 5-year warranty. Instead, the company wrote it off and will refund the full amount. No problem, I'll buy a new one. The cost for exactly the same model is £222.99!!

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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 11/07/2026

woof ≈80% of assignments this summer term have essentially been just raw chatgpt/claude output, including assignments that required designing stuff in illustrator/affinity/canva. The battle is lost for asynchronous online courses.

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Daniel Brewer @danbrewer.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Amazing. Wait for the goalie surprise

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Chris Newfield @cnewf.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

the FT has two pieces on the slow-motion collapse of UK higher ed. 4/5ths of unis are doing voluntary layoffs; 38% are doing compulsory. Meanwhile Britain and its flatlined productivity growth sleepwalks through its unprecedented loss of advanced capabilities www.ft.com/content/8097...

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Daniel Brewer @danbrewer.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

May the fourth be with you. Today I learnt about the surprising origins of the term.

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James Balamuta @coatless.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Portable R 4.6.0 is now live for Windows and macOS. No installer, no admin, no system changes. Just extract the archive and run. macOS (Apple Silicon + Intel): github.com/portable-r/p... Windows (x64 + ARM64): github.com/portable-r/p... #rstats #macos #windows

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Release R 4.6.0 · portable-r/portable-r-macos

Portable R 4.6.0 for macOS Signed with a Developer ID Application certificate and notarized by Apple. These modified R binaries should not trigger Gatekeeper warnings. Downloads Architecture Fil...

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Jason Moore @moorejh.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

And this is just the start #english #language

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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Tremendously depressing read. Also: proper reporting. open.substack.com/pub/londonce...

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Daniel Brewer @danbrewer.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Currently having fun at the Prostate Cancer UK from ideas to innovation conference.

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Jonathan Frewin @jonfrewin.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

I realise it costs Amazon money to support an old device but it is a tad frustrating that my perfectly functioning first edition Kindle paperwhite from 2012 has now been rendered obsolete. A replacement is over £150. I added a book to it just a few weeks ago!

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Josh Wardle @josh.powerlanguage.co.uk · 10/03/2026

I've released a new word game called Parseword, that tries to make cryptic crosswords more accessible. You can play it here: www.parseword.com

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Parseword - A tricky wordplay game

Transform phrases through wordplay to solve cryptic crossword puzzles.

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

"I have given this a lot of thought, and: I really, really need Matt Goodwin to lose tomorrow’s Denton & Gorton by-election. For the good of us all, that man needs to be repudiated, and his ideas stomped into the dust." On one of the worst people in British politics.

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Every Day He Eats the Book

This week: my god I want Matt Goodwin to lose. Also: a new way of seeing the world; and some very old work on a very old bus.

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Daniel Brewer @danbrewer.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

This contains the quite remarkable fact that Russia has only double the population of the UK. I was convinced they were much bigger. So France + UK is the same population with a much higher GDP. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

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The Russian economy is finally stagnating. What does it mean for the war – and for Putin?

A wartime boom in Russia has given way to sluggish growth, tax hikes and squeezed public services. Will it affect the conflict in Ukraine?

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Neil Kaye @neilrkaye.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

We use 30 year averages to show climatology (average weather conditions). During the 20th century the UK climatology followed a path around a confined box. With #globalwarming and #climatechange they have escaped out the box. This #dataviz shows UK rainfall and temperature.

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Spoiling a lot of takes but begging a large number of other questions... "Worsening graduate fortunes, it turns out, are a particularly British problem" www.ft.com/content/649d...

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Martin Smith @martinrsmith.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Ian Chapman: no move away from applicant-led funding at UKRI. BBSRC funding pause is a temporary - 'a matter of a few weeks' before they move to an always-open system (as at e.g. EPSRC, AHRC). MRC pause will extend to early summer, and then will open again.

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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Both MRC and BBSRC responsive modes now withdrawn until further notice. Existing applications unlikely to succeed (late 2025 round expecting 1-5% success rate). Listen, I get that UKRI wants to pivot. But killing both at once is devastating. Let's hope at least one opens by summer... #AcademicSky

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MRC instructs grant review boards to slash funding rates - Research Professional News

Boards asked to recommend just three applications for funding, as BBSRC also suspends calls

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John Innes Centre @johninnescentre.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

NEWS - The John Innes Centre and Newcastle University to lead new STEM-EDI training project We are proud to announce a new collaboration which will deliver bespoke STEM-based EDI training, tailored for Higher Education and research institutions: www.jic.ac.uk/news/the-joh...

Dr Clare Stevenson, Head of Science Coordination and Research Culture at the John Innes Centre and the lead for the new project, said: “This funding will help us to expand the reach of our current EDI training beyond research institutes into higher education, and help us to address priority EDI areas and behaviours to promote a positive research culture.

“Our original BBSRC-funded Neurodiversity project continues to reap rewards, with Newcastle University recently partnering with us to roll out the training at their own organisation. To be able to build on that relationship, and work more closely together on a new project from day one, is really exciting. The new e-learning content will be co-created with colleagues across our organisations, ensuring it is grounded in lived experiences from a wider range of STEM disciplines.”

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Graham Kendall @grahamkendall.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

As I browse around, I keep an eye out for (what I think) are surprising facts. This 2021 paper estimated that the USA, China and the UK spend USD 2.5 billion on peer review, based on the contribution made by researchers. 🧵

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Daniel Brewer @danbrewer.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

🚨🚨Publication alert🚨🚨 First paper of 2026! We review recent developments in molecular & genetic biomarkers in prostate cancer active surveillance. NIHR Clinical fellow Stephanie Smith @drstephsmith.bsky.social leading the charge. Open access 🧬👇 doi.org/10.3390/gene...

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University of East Anglia (UEA) @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

🎉 Happy New Year from UEA! ❄️ Norwich and our beautiful campus are looking magical in the snow today. Stay warm, everyone! Photo 2 credit - @thomasmock.bsky.social

Winter view at the University of East Anglia, featuring a snow-covered campus with a modern building and bare trees under a clear blue sky.

Sunset view of the East Anglia campus covered in snow, with red artwork visible and modern buildings in the background.

Frosted white flowers with a blurred background of a wintry forest scene.

View of a snowy landscape with two people walking on a pathway, trees in the background and a low sun in the sky.

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Bibek Raj Shrestha @bibekrajshrestha.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

snowy campus today ❄️🌨️ @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social

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