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Lindsay Keith

@drlindsaykeith.bsky.social
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Science/Stories/Writing/Comms/TV/Festivals/Engagement/Theatre/Immersion. Head of Comms and Engagement @MRC-LMS @SMASHfestUK @RefineryTV

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Lindsay Keith @drlindsaykeith.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Congratulations James! 🥳🥂👏🏻
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Lindsay Keith @drlindsaykeith.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Irony is dead.
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Noura Maziak @nmaziak.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
A nice thing happened.. We got the cover of Nature Genetics! 😊🎉 The spheres trace nuclear stages through early embryogenesis, with color bursts capturing the diverse events that shape genome architecture. Art done by my friend and very talented artist @christophewirtz.bsky.social 🎨
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MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences @mrc-lms.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
🎉Congratulations to @wiebkearlt.bsky.social, @petterbrodin.bsky.social and @borislenhard.bsky.social for being named on Clarivate's list of Highly Cited Researchers for 2025! This list celebrates influential academics whose work has made a profound impact on their field!
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Three LMS researchers named among most influential in the world in 2025
Professors Wiebke Arlt, Petter Brodin and Boris Lenhard, who lead groups at the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences (LMS), have been included on the prestigious Highly Cited Researchers 2025 list.
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Lindsay Keith @drlindsaykeith.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
At Imperial's Engagement Day. Brilliant panel on impact featuring @kathmath.bsky.social (Even spotted me on the webpage doing my lightening talk at last years event about the @mrc-lms.bsky.social Gene Home installation) Cracking day, congrats to the Societal and Public engagement team!
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Lindsay Keith @drlindsaykeith.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
🎃💀
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MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences @mrc-lms.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
This month for Black History Month, the LMS hosted a talk by Professor Martin Griffiths, organised by @imperialsandc.bsky.social After the talk, we celebrated African and Caribbean culture, with homemade food, a bracelet making station and music from our Black History playlist
A group of people playing board games
Professor Martin Griffiths presenting to a crowdA woman is looking at a range of African and Caribbean foodA bracelet that says BHM and LMS
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Lindsay Keith @drlindsaykeith.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Is it a birb? Is it a borb? Is it a floof? (Find out here www.audubon.org/magazine/whe...)
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When Is a Bird a ‘Birb’? An Extremely Important Guide
The internet meme has been around for seven years now, so it's high time we establish some ground rules.
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Lindsay Keith @drlindsaykeith.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Know a medic who's keen on research but struggling to find a way in that works with their NHS career? Please share our Chain Florey programme, designed to address the dwindling numbers of clinician scientists in the uk.
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MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology @mrclmb.ac.uk · 08/10/2025
John Gurdon, former Group Leader and Head of @cellbiol-mrclmb.bsky.social has died. Despite calling himself a "total non-intellectual” his work to reprogramme somatic cells to pluripotent stem cells transformed the field of developmental biology. More: www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/john-gurdon-... #LMBNews
Black and white portrait of John Gurdon, 1971
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Helena Cocheme @cochemelab.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Find us here: •Nsikan Nsek: talk OC-18 'Disease Models' (Fri 26th @12:15) •Isabel Liseth: P-145 •Miriam Rodriguez-Vazquez: P-281 •Helena Cochemé: P-283 (all Poster Session II, Sat 27th @15:45) Plus I’m looking forward to chairing the 'Physiology & Metabolism' session! (Sat 27th @10:30) #LMSonTour
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Helena Cocheme @cochemelab.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Arrived in Alicante, and excited for this year’s #EDRC2025! 🪰🧪🔬🧫🥼🧬🪰 The #LMS is well represented at the meeting - catch us at our talk/poster presentations! #Drosophila #Redox #Ageing #DiseaseModels #Cancer #Obesity @mrc-lms.bsky.social
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
I got permission to share this, and I'm extremely grateful for that. The Onion got this letter from one of our subscribers in Alaska. She works with dementia patients and decided to leave a copy in the car for each one. This email made my year. Read it and you'll see what I mean. People are good.

I work as an elder and hospice caregiver, which I am oddly passionate about. I can love on them shamelessly and no one complains about my codependence. It's a win-win situation. 

Many of my caregiving colleagues complain about the repetitive questions and, sometimes reactions, of the elderly, especially when those patients happen to read the newspaper, especially with the current downward spiral of our country — as if these people haven't lived through enough horror...

I love my dementia peeps, but sometimes wonder if there's a Guinness Book World Record for how many times an hour a dementia patient can repeat the same question — it's got to be in the hundreds. At least with small children, they ask different questions. Dementia patients will get stuck on one short question and ask it until you can interrupt their train(carousel) of thought and successfully redirect their attention. That carousel is pretty manic sometimes. 

A couple days ago, I picked up my mail from the post office and drove over to the nursing home to take (let's call her "Miss Daisy") Miss Daisy out for a drive. Before we took off on our road trip, to the end of The Road and back, in our landlocked little town (Juneau, Alaska), I set my copy of The Onion down in front of her. 

Over our two-hour excursion, tiny Miss Daisy read that front page at least a dozen times and each time she would snicker, giggle, and guffaw, then put it down on the dash board and, a minute later, discover it anew. I think it was the best afternoon of my life. We don't often hear them laugh and when they do, it's the sweetest thing you've ever heard. 

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Thank you, thank you, thank you, for the really important work all of you do. You make the world a better place.
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Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Furiously logging all the new budget news, laughing grimly that it landed *just after* we hit publish. Of course it did. Grateful that the entire point of @unbreaking.org is to give us a durable platform where we can keep integrating new developments. We'll digest, contextualize & update next week.
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Puffins are social, so to attract them to Maine's rocky islands, National Audubon's Seabird Restoration Program put out decoys to attract real birds. This puffin is trying to fit in with his new friend by standing on one leg. Seabird peer-pressure can be intense. (📷: Robert F. Bukaty)
"An Atlantic puffin on Maine's on Eastern Egg Rock appears to imitate a decoy on July 9 by standing on one leg. Decoys were used to lure the gregarious birds ashore after they were re-introduced to the island following a 100-year absence."
CREDIT:  Robert F. Bukaty
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Lindsay Keith @drlindsaykeith.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Me, with a PhD scrutinising #GCSE biology answers...
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Lindsay Keith @drlindsaykeith.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Who else is doing #GCSE revision enthusiasm as their new hobby?
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a woman in a black dress is smiling with #schitts creek on the bottom right
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Lindsay Keith @drlindsaykeith.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Ah the Immune Army! Loved making this film, what a fun opportunity. 😊 Happy International #dayofimmunology!
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Lindsay Keith @drlindsaykeith.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Today would have been a nice day for a blat. Time for a new bike?
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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
The National Association of Science Writers is strongly committed to the free exchange of scientific information, diversity in science and science communication, and combating propaganda. Here are encouragement & resources & a call for ideas from @sciencewriters.org: 🧪 www.nasw.org/article/our-...
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Our collective commitment
NASW was founded more than 90 years ago with a mission to “fight for the free flow of science news.” That mission is imperative, yet threatened by recent challenges to the First Amendment and the free...
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Lindsay Keith @drlindsaykeith.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Such a queen at social media I missed this post from the other half. 😂 Happy twenty years! ❤️🎉🎊
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Lindsay Keith @drlindsaykeith.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Ten years ago "Uncle Mike" tried to convince the world of the benefits of video conferencing before Zoom was even a thing. Featuring awesome @leesimpson.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYO8... (also starred in this definitely-not-for-broadcast follow-up) www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzTc...
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
“‘It’s very easy to assume that science is going to change organically towards equality — and what this study shows is that that’s not happening…It is an ‘important reminder for us that we need to stay vigilant in working towards equality in science’” @crsugimoto.bsky.social 🧪 #AcademicSky 👩🏽‍🔬
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Who’s quitting academia? Data reveal gender gaps in surprising fields
Even in scientific areas in which women are well represented, they are up to 40% more likely than men to leave research within 20 years.
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Lindsay Keith @drlindsaykeith.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
😁
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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
This is incredibly disappointing: "Countries fail to reach agreement in UN plastic talks". tinyurl.com/y9v4bx9z Plastic usage is increasing dramatically & we've got to face up to fixing the system we've created. We covered all that and more on a recent Rare Earth: www.bbc.co.uk/progra...
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Alom Shaha @alomshaha.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Science Teachers! Book Lovers! Random people following me on here for no good reason! Want an early Christmas Present? I have a load of Kindle editions of "Why Don't Things Fall Up?" to give away - just ask and ye shall receive! alomshaha.com/portfolio/wh...
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Lindsay Keith @drlindsaykeith.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
At our @mrc-lms.bsky.social away day at the RI today.
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Alom Shaha @alomshaha.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
The oldest science society in the world, The Royal Society, has a motto which is “Take No-one’s Word for it”. A guiding principle in science? Yes. But also perhaps an attack on the idea that those in power were to be believed regardless.
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Lindsay Keith @drlindsaykeith.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
😂
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Lindsay Keith @drlindsaykeith.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Genetics and Healthcare starter pack!
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Lindsay Keith @drlindsaykeith.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
👇Browser extension will find all your ✖️ contacts and reconnect with them here on the butterfly site. 🦋
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Lindsay Keith @drlindsaykeith.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Take note!
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Lindsay Keith @drlindsaykeith.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
All the best organisations are coming here. 😍
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Lindsay Keith @drlindsaykeith.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Hello? Is it science you're looking for?Here's a mega-thread of science starter packs 👉
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Lindsay Keith @drlindsaykeith.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Musselburgh moonlight!
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Amanda Randles 🧪⚛️ 👩‍🔬 @profamandarandles.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Your body has 20-30 TRILLION red blood cells, but modeling them all isn’t feasible. To understand cancer spread, we developed a method (Adaptive Physics Refinement) to model cancer cells interacting with blood using just one AWS node. #cancerresearch #bloodflowmodel #HPC #bioengineering
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Lindsay Keith @drlindsaykeith.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Love some good #scienceink 🎨🧬
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Lindsay Keith @drlindsaykeith.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Nice idea!
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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 30/10/2024
What’s that ? You live near Bristol and don’t know what to do Valentine’s Day ? Come see me smashing melons slapstick.org.uk/events/smash...
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SMASHING MELONS! ROBIN INCE & MARK MIODOWNIK | Slapstick Festival
When it comes to the art of punching melons until they explode, no one on the UK mainland can rival Robin Ince’s expertise. From his ill-fated 2004 Edinburgh
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Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · 27/10/2024
The staggering success of vaccines. At least 154 million lives saved. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Graph showing cumulative lives saved by major vaccines in use since 1974.
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