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@ddysmo.bsky.social
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Emerita Prof of Genomic Medicine. Manchester UK Lifetime NHS supporter and employee. Enjoys travel

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Veronica van Heyningen @vvheye.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Only 5 weeks to our free-to-attend annual conference “Complexity of neural function: the brain in charge” held at The Royal Society. Registration essential: adelphigenetics.org/events/annua...
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ddysmo.bsky.social @ddysmo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
This poem has stayed with me since student days along with Lawrence Durrells Alexandria Quartet and TSE Waste Land!
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ddysmo.bsky.social @ddysmo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
an insight we should all appreciate www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Can anyone be too poor to buy a toothbrush? Yes – I know, because that was me | Katriona O'Sullivan
LBC’s Nick Ferrari can’t see what is stopping people buying a cheap toothbrush, but the grinding reality of living in poverty creates its own priorities, says psychologist, author and professor Dr Kat...
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ddysmo.bsky.social @ddysmo.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
observer.co.uk/news/opinion... I loved the story of Bernard Lovell’s childhood introduction to science. @manchester.ac.uk
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Jodrell Bank isn’t a museum – it’s a place where science ...
The funding cut threatening the observatory has caused a public outcry and reinforced the site’s image as the spiritual and practical home of astronomy
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ddysmo.bsky.social @ddysmo.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
@crosscountryuk.bsky.social On 9.33 from Stockport to Southampton. FOUR hours on the train. First class ticket and NO catering the whole journey. Unacceptable service
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ddysmo.bsky.social @ddysmo.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
What a travesty. It is one of University of Manchester’s jewels along with the Whitworth Art Gallery and the Manchester Museum. Would funding be cut if it was in Oxbridge? It is a real science day out for generations of children from far and wide. @manchester.ac.uk
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Diane Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
🙁 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Jodrell Bank's Lovell telescope faces axe in science cuts, BBC understands
Astronomers warn it would tear the heart out of UK science, and leave a generation untrained.
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ddysmo.bsky.social @ddysmo.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Book now. Free conference in October
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Adelphi Genetics Forum @adelphigenetics.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Last few remaining tickets available for our FREE Sixth Teachers Conference in Manchester this June, secure your place here: adelphigenetics.org/events/teach...
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ddysmo.bsky.social @ddysmo.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
BRILLIANT
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The University of Manchester @manchester.ac.uk · 20/04/2026
WINNERS 🏆💜 We couldn’t be prouder of our incredible team for winning University Challenge! This win marks a special milestone. With five victories, we’re the most successful university in the history of the competition, joint with Imperial College London. Well done team 👏🏆
Congrats University Challenge Winners!!
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ddysmo.bsky.social @ddysmo.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
CONGRATULATIONS @manchester.ac.uk on winning University Challenge. Fabulous young team with huge breath of Knowledge!
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ddysmo.bsky.social @ddysmo.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Always like this!!
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Jane Masters @mrsjmasters.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Biology Teachers! Tickets are now available for this summer’s Adelphi teacher conference. Please spread the word!
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ddysmo.bsky.social @ddysmo.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Not as Manc as this. There were no skyscrapers when I moved here!
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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Catherine Chisholm born on this day 1878.
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ddysmo.bsky.social @ddysmo.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Have my own luxurious bed now but #duvetknowitschristmas in my childhood is seared in me. Visiting my aunt in Abbey Hey Manchester(the ‘smart part of Gorton’!!) I elected to sleep on the floor rather than share a bed with aunt, mother and sister and woke up with my nose against one of these!
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ddysmo.bsky.social @ddysmo.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
I’ve at long last signed up after being sluggish!
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ddysmo.bsky.social @ddysmo.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
@Parsonagetrust in Didsbury never disappoints
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The Times and Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 27/07/2025
Harry Carpenter, five, was diagnosed with fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva this year. His parents grieve for the life he could have led
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My son’s life with a disease that turns muscle into bone
Harry Carpenter, five, was diagnosed with fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva this year. His parents grieve for the life he could have led
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ddysmo.bsky.social @ddysmo.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Done! It’s easy!
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Veronica van Heyningen @vvheye.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
@adelphigenetics.bsky.social annual conference on hot topic of Population Genomic screening will take place on Thursday 23 October 2025. Free to attend but must book adelphigenetics.org/events/annua... or www.eventbrite.com/e/population...
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ddysmo.bsky.social @ddysmo.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
#eshg2025 what a terrific meeting with such energy! Huge number of young clinicians and scientists with a sprinkling of the golden oldies. Excellent plenaries, concurrent sessions and workshops. What a privilege to be part of this community. Thanks to SPC and VMA for fantastic pgmme and organisation
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ddysmo.bsky.social @ddysmo.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
The most wonderful talk on ancient DNA by Johannes Krause from Leipzig at #eshg2025
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Russell Group @russellgroup.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
International @uniofmanchester.bsky.social graduate Vivek Koncherry's business develops & produces premium green products using advanced 2D materials, including graphene-enhanced GIM Concrete that does not need cement or water. Find out more: www.russellgroup.ac.uk/impact/graph...
Vivek Koncherry, founder of Graphene Innovations Manchester.
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ddysmo.bsky.social @ddysmo.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
He’s lost none of his sparkle!
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ddysmo.bsky.social @ddysmo.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Malte is such a great teacher and explains bang up to date concepts in such an understandable way
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ddysmo.bsky.social @ddysmo.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
An honour to still be asked!! Excellent group of students with ambitions to push our subject forwards.
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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
"Ours may be a pernicious history, but the trajectory of genetics has been one that tends towards progress and equity" Excellent explainer from @adamrutherford.bsky.social on why racial groupings have no sound biological basis. www.bbc.com/future/artic...
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'Biological reality': What genetics has taught us about race
As US President Donald Trump takes aim at the Smithsonian Institution for "anti-American ideology", Adam Rutherford examines what the science of genetics has taught us about race.
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
The full resignation letter "the unprecedented assault on scientific truth that has adversely impacted public health in our nation"
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Veronica van Heyningen @vvheye.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
@adelphigenetics see details at adelphigenetics.org has moved to Bluesky. Follow us and watch out for details of our free-to-attend annual conference on Population Genomic Screening to be held at The Royal Society on Thursday 23 October 2025
adelphigenetics.org
Adelphi Genetics Forum – Promoting research and public understanding in the field of human heredity.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Donald Trump has disgraced the United States of America in countless ways since he first entered political life ten years ago. But he had never disgraced the nation as badly as he did today. He has brought shame on this country to an extent I had never thought possible. And he has only just begun.
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ddysmo.bsky.social @ddysmo.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Just lovely.
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Rory Cellan-Jones @rorycj.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
youtu.be/p3ly8cyWvkw?... As Trump names himself chairman of the Kennedy Centre this seems appropriate…
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Where Have All The Flowers Gone (Pete Seeger Tribute) - Joan Baez - 1994 Kennedy Center Honors
YouTube video by The Kennedy Center Honors
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Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Latest blogpost on Musk/Royal Society debacle: deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/02/seve... I look at the reasons that have been given for inaction, and find them wanting. @royalsociety.org
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Seven reasons for keeping Elon Musk as a Fellow of the Royal Society
Last November, I wrote a blogpost explaining why I had resigned as a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS). In brief, over the summer a group ...
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ddysmo.bsky.social @ddysmo.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
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ddysmo.bsky.social @ddysmo.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Deeply affecting piece by ⁦‪@SeemaJilani‬⁩ about a moment in time between one patient and one paediatrician multiplied so many times,of course, in all this world’s war zones
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I tried to save your young life in a Gaza hospital. Now your face haunts me | Seema Jilani
The first time you came into my hospital, shards of glass shredding your tiny body, I saved you. The second time I failed, says paediatric specialist Seema Jilani
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European Society of Human Genetics @eshg.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
🎓Registration is now open for the Clinical Genomics & NGS Course (May 4–9) in Bertinoro, Italy. 💼 Scholarship application deadline for the ESHG Precision Medicine Hybrid Workshop (April 9–11) is on January 26. More information on these and other ESHG courses: www.eshg.org/courses
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ESHG: ESHG Courses
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Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
yup, that’s the distinguished scientist Elon Musk FRS @royalsociety.org
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Katherine Stiles @katherinestiles.org · 04/12/2024
“Oxford professor Dorothy Bishop [ @deevybee.bsky.social ] has said it could be ‘very embarrassing’ for the Royal Society to have billionaire businessman Elon Musk as a fellow if he were to ‘take the axe’ to science departments in the US as part of the Trump administration” @francesjones.bsky.social
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Musk policies could ‘embarrass’ Royal Society, says former fellow - Research Professional News
Dorothy Bishop, who resigned over tech billionaire's fellowship, predicts “pretty grim” situation for US scientists
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ddysmo.bsky.social @ddysmo.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Reunion - but it could be France! Good to be back in EU🇪🇺
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Cathy Abbott @cathyabbott.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Everyone is reposting this, and rightly so- it's courageous and principled. While you're there, have a look at the earlier excellent post about Tim Hunt, who was at the time being defended by supposed champions of women's rights. Reminded me of the wonderful #DistractinglySexy campaign on Twitter.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
“One thing I find interesting about the echo chamber complaint is that an echo chamber just won a presidential election” @aoc.bsky.social
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
If passed Lord Woodley’s Bill will end one of the most shocking & monumental injustices of the past half century - the #IPPscandal & head off the medium-term prison capacity crisis at the same time. Let’s not wait for the next ITV drama to do what’s right youtu.be/nkBs2D0Wz_g?...
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🚨 No one should spend 12 yrs in jail for stealing a mobile phone! It’s unthinkable! #IPPscandal
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
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Professor Anjali Goswami FRS @evoswami.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Reposting this as there are now 135 amazing scientists on this list, so make sure you follow some of the recent additions (and let me know if you’d like to be added yourself)!
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Diane Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Hah. If only. Inner London Education Authority free place, grew up in a council flat, single parent family baby as Rory’s marvellous book recounts: septemberpublishing.org/product/rusk... (Moi, biased?)
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Ruskin Park: Sylvia, Me and the BBC
Can we ever really know the truth about our parents? From the journalist, podcaster and tweeter about rescue dog #SophiefromRomania, a compelling memoir in search of the truth behind his isolated chil...
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ddysmo.bsky.social @ddysmo.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Great to see further roll out of the PALOH study shows the benefits of genetic testing in realtime mft.nhs.uk/2024/11/21/g...
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Genetic test developed by Manchester researchers to prevent newborn babies going deaf, to be trialled across the UK - Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
A ground-breaking genetic test that could prevent critically ill newborn babies going deaf if treated with gentamicin, a commonly used antibiotic, is being trialled across 14 NHS neonatal (specialist ...
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ddysmo.bsky.social @ddysmo.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... This is a fantastic job opportunity to work with a great team!
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Lecturer or Senior Lecturer in Genomic Medicine:Manchester
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Chris @oakymoron.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Why did Clarkson buy a farm? Jeremy wrote in The Times, "Land is a better investment than any bank can offer. The Government doesn't get any of my money when I die. And the price of the food that I grow can only go up." www.womanandhome.com/life/news-en...
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How much did Jeremy Clarkson pay for his farm and what is Diddly Squat worth now?
Following the success of the first three seasons of Clarkson's Farm, fans are keen to know how much Jeremy paid for Diddly Squat and what it's worth now
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ddysmo.bsky.social @ddysmo.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Welcome @ahoischen.bsky.social I was a few days ahead. Let’s get our community over on 🦋🦋🦋
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