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Y. Hancock

@ellieelectron.bsky.social
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BSc (Hons) PhD SFHEA Physicist - Complex Systems Associate Professor, University of York, U.K. ⚛️-⚛️-⚛️ 🔬 💻 🎗️ Laboratory accredited to operate under HTA license🎗️

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Eloquent Séance (Prof. David Skulltz) 💀 @eloquentscience.com · 06/10/2026
The abstract of the original article in Journal of the History of Biology by @alistairsponsel.bsky.social and Brian Sutton is really quite something. doi.org/10.1007/s107...
This essay, co-authored by a historian of science and an X-ray crystallographer, sheds new light on Rosalind Franklin’s Photograph 51. We refute the infamous claim that, unlike James Watson, Franklin failed to see the picture’s potential significance for interpreting the helical structure of DNA. Rather, Franklin decided to take Photograph 51 precisely because she knew that key parameters of DNA’s B form helix could be calculated from the resulting image. We show that she had in fact already made those calculations — on her earlier Photograph 49 — and she reused the same DNA sample for Photograph 51 to create a better-centered but otherwise identical diffraction image that would be suitable for publication. Thus Photograph 51 was not the result of an experiment in need of analysis, but was refined documentation for calculations that she had already performed on the earlier photograph. We argue that colleagues and later commentators did not merely overlook Franklin’s original reason for creating the strikingly clear and informative Photograph 51, they rhetorically erased her skill and judgment by describing it as though nature spoke for itself through the image — and to Watson, but not to Franklin.
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Y. Hancock @ellieelectron.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Glorious. Magnificence magnified.
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Y. Hancock @ellieelectron.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Are you taking the P …? fundraising event. June 21 “5K or 10K your way to raise awareness of prostate cancer and raise vital funds for York Against Cancer.” For more details 👇🎗️💙 www.yorkagainstcancer.org.uk/events/r-u-t...
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R U Taking the P..? 2026 - York Against Cancer— York Against Cancer
We're thrilled to announce our charity 5k R U Taking the P..? is BACK! On 22nd June, run 5K your way to raise awareness of prostate cancer and raise vital funds for York Against Cancer.
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Y. Hancock @ellieelectron.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Queen Judi Dench, aka M, for York Against Cancer—a James Bond fundraiser ❤️🎗️ www.linkedin.com/posts/york-a...
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#damejudidench #quintessentiallybond #jamesbond #charityauction | York Against Cancer
Win a ride in Sean Connery's iconic Aston Martin, ascend the O2 like Pierce Brosnan or bid on some of the original props and artefacts used in the James Bond Films in the Quintessentially Bond Auction...
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Y. Hancock @ellieelectron.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Me and the LN2 Saturdays … topping The Little Lab’s biobank … University of York
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Y. Hancock @ellieelectron.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Thank you all for the kind donations given so far for Quanta’s “Paws for PCUK” #MarchforMen walkies. We are so very grateful for your support for @prostatecanceruk.bsky.social for everything they do in being there for anyone affected by prostate cancer & to support research — to save men’s lives.
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Y. Hancock @ellieelectron.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
“Thursday night’s the night I like Get a little Raman done” Sung to Saturday Night’s Alright by Elton John and Bernie Taupin 🎗️Prostate cancer research, The Little Lab, University of York🎗️ Ps. Can you find Alexa … aka the Elton John music box? 8-)
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Y. Hancock @ellieelectron.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Quanta training this weekend for Prostate Cancer UK’s #marchformen. Earliest-possible detection, easily accessible and accurate in discerning aggressive prostate cancer is urgently needed for life-saving, best outcomes for men. Please donate to Prostate Cancer UK (QR+link👇🙏❤️).
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Y. Hancock @ellieelectron.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
My little pup Quanta is doing her “Paws for PCUK” walkies for @prostatecanceruk.bsky.social March for Men June 14. Any donation would be so very gratefully received. Thank you!! You can see her in her PCUK outfit, read her blurb & sponsor her here: marchformen.prostatecanceruk.org/fundraising/...
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I'm taking on March for Men
I'm raising money for Prostate Cancer UK by taking part in March for Men in June.
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Prostate Cancer UK Professionals @prostateukprofs.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Read the April #ProstateCancer research news 👇 🧬Prof David Elliott investigates splicing. 🌟Join the STAR-TRAP radiotherapy trial. 🤗Register for our next mentoring cohort. 📈 Meet our new Career Acceleration Fellows. 💰 Funding opportunities &👫PPI. 🔗 buff.ly/tLpvZ0Y
Prostate Cancer UK Research Newsletter April 2025.  Professor David Elliott, wearing a lab coat and gloves, pipetting at a lab bench.
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Prostate Cancer UK Professionals @prostateukprofs.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
The Prostate Cancer UK funded PROFILE study at @icr.ac.uk is recruiting men aged 40-69 years who are at greater risk of prostate cancer, including men of Black African or Black African-Caribbean ancestry. To get involved or find out more 👇 prostatecanceruk.org/research/res...
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Professor Ros Eeles is researching the genetic risk for prostate cancer, which means men with a family history of the disease are more likely to get prostate cancer themselves.
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Y. Hancock @ellieelectron.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Two beauties recently seen in a faraway night garden. The beauty of humility (the white orchid) and the beauty of resilience (the white water lily).
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Y. Hancock @ellieelectron.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Oh, the dreaminess of the low buttery sky leading to the pinks of the sunset And my eyes travelling along the line of the ancient wall Upon which the daffodils present as small yellow stars This is the beauty of York This eve, layered on the pulsating palette of spring
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Y. Hancock @ellieelectron.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Crazy early so … Let’s get to work! #prostatecancer research. The Little Lab, York.
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Eloquent Séance (Prof. David Skulltz) 💀 @eloquentscience.com · 13/03/2025
We are looking for a four-year funded PhD student position in extreme-weather prediction using AI/ML at the University of Manchester (@officialuom.bsky.social). I am pleased to be part of the supervisory team with Prof Richard Allmendinger and Dr Michele Caprio. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Extreme-weather prediction with Prithvi-WxC at The University of Manchester on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Extreme-weather prediction with Prithvi-WxC at The University of Manchester, listed on FindAPhD.com
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Y. Hancock @ellieelectron.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Just wow! This webinar was incredible. Really touched and inspired hearing from Mr and Mrs Flanagan, and the Newcastle team rock well beyond stellar! Thanks so much for this, and to Hayley and the PCUK team for doing such an incredible job with hosting / organising.
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Y. Hancock @ellieelectron.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Really looking forward to this! @prostatecanceruk.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZIw...
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From Ideas to Impact: Rewriting the script on aggressive prostate cancer webinar agenda
YouTube video by Prostate Cancer UK
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Y. Hancock @ellieelectron.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Oh my!!! My favourite flower is coming up in the garden … and this year there are so many of them. The very sweet, wild daffodil. Small, with such beautiful, translucent and delicate petals ❤️
Wild daffodil in the garden.
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Manchester Cancer Research Centre @mcrcnews.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
📰 In the news today, GP and prostate cancer researcher Dr Sam Merriel says patients "may not get the full picture" from at-home PSA tests. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Prostate cancer: Rapid at-home PSA tests spark concerns
Testing for PSA protein can indicate whether a man is at risk of prostate cancer.
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Y. Hancock @ellieelectron.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
There is Sidney Nolan Riding On his brown horse There is Ned Kelly arriving On the horizon Where the dust is red Of course And there is a desk With someone trying To write the words Of ideas That have only ever Previously been thought YH Thank you for gifting me Sidney Nolan, Richard Keesing
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Y. Hancock @ellieelectron.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
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a man in a green shirt is blowing his nose with a paper bag
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Y. Hancock @ellieelectron.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Here’s a video of the “tuck in” … what we describe as filling the LN2 Biobank in “The Little Lab” and getting it ready for the weekend. It is one of the greatest privileges of my life to have “The Little Lab” as a HTA-accredited laboratory dedicated to prostate cancer research. Happy weekend all!
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Y. Hancock @ellieelectron.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
As one day turns to become another… New efforts in prostate cancer research. Can the molecular signatures of what is in this Eppendorf tube help for early detection…?
Laboratory scene showing a small tube with an even smaller amount of sample in it.
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Y. Hancock @ellieelectron.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
World Cancer Day 2025 🎗️ Because love is the greatest motivator there is.. We WILL NOT stop
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Tony Collier BEM @ethansgrumps.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
This is my latest published article about having a positive mindset whilst living with stage 4 prostate cancer prostatecancer.net/living/posit...
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Focus on the Positives | ProstateCancer.net
The positive impacts of my diagnosis
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Y. Hancock @ellieelectron.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
I think of the wonderful people I’ve met from the cancer community, our community..As a cancer patient talking to others in the waiting room, on social medial, at work, home, at random. In the U.K. 1 in 2 of us will be diagnosed, with major inequities worldwide. We have to do whatever we can. #hope
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Y. Hancock @ellieelectron.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Prostate-cancer cell line being cultured in my lab. New questions. New mechanistic enquiry.
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Hayley Luxton (She/They) @drluxton.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
What new insights will emerging technologies uncover about #prostatecancer? Using advanced #Ramanspectroscopy and #machinelearning, @ellieelectron.bsky.social and team identify targetable disease states in metastatic prostate cancer. Grab a ☕ and read: nature.com/articles/s41...
Screenshot of paper title " Unsupervised self-organising map classification of Raman spectra from prostate cell ines uncovers substratified prostate camncer disease states" from the journal Scientific Reports. Prostate Cancer UK logo and two figures, one reading and one with a cup of coffee are in the foreground.
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Y. Hancock @ellieelectron.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Pleased to announce our newest publication—first for 2025. Here we use Raman + unsupervised machine learning via Kohonen self-organising maps to uncover, first-time, mechanistic subcellular linkages in metastatic prostate cancer ripe for disruptive treatments. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Unsupervised self-organising map classification of Raman spectra from prostate cell lines uncovers substratified prostate cancer disease states - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Unsupervised self-organising map classification of Raman spectra from prostate cell lines uncovers substratified prostate cancer disease states
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Y. Hancock @ellieelectron.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Wow! ❤️ View out towards the River Ouse ❄️
Snow-filled view of trees through which the River Ouse and its snowy bank upon yonder can be seen.
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Y. Hancock @ellieelectron.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Oh just a normal Saturday afternoon spot of fun… 🥸 (!!)
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Y. Hancock @ellieelectron.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Such a beauty! My sweet little dog. Look how happy she is ❤️ New Year’s Eve 2024.
Small white dog on lap. Very happy and very loved.
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Y. Hancock @ellieelectron.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
🎼🎶🎵 “Good cell cultures had been grown A week from Christmas evedom Lots of secrets to be shown In images crisp to reveal them” (To the tune of Good King W… you know the one 🤣).
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Y. Hancock @ellieelectron.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
This beauty so very close. Needed to be shared. Today at the University of York.
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Y. Hancock @ellieelectron.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Reposting this opportunity of a fully-funded PhD position in prostate cancer research. The December 13 deadline is nigh …
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Y. Hancock @ellieelectron.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Foreboding sky and the River Ouse swollen from the weather over the weekend … looking out towards Lendal Bridge this morning. #York
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Y. Hancock @ellieelectron.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
🧪 Early last week … prostate cells awoken from frozen slumber🎗️
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Y. Hancock @ellieelectron.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
First of December and it’s been a little bit cold in the lab of late … 🥶☃️ ❄️
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Y. Hancock @ellieelectron.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
Fully-funded DiMeN PhD scholarship available in prostate-cancer research. Please contact if you are interested and would like to discuss. Application deadline Dec 13. Full details at: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Optical methods for novel biomarker discovery in prostate cancer—from cells to circulating cellular components at University of York on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Optical methods for novel biomarker discovery in prostate cancer—from cells to circulating cellular components at University of York, liste...
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Y. Hancock @ellieelectron.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Our latest efforts in prostate-cancer research: Quantitative Raman spectroscopy uncovers, with full molecular-heterogeneity capture, mechanistic vulnerabilities in lowest-grade tumorigenic PCa, revealing underlying targets for disease disruption at early stage. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Raman spectroscopy reveals oxidative stress-induced metabolic vulnerabilities in early-stage AR-negative prostate-cancer versus normal-prostate cell lines - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Raman spectroscopy reveals oxidative stress-induced metabolic vulnerabilities in early-stage AR-negative prostate-cancer versus normal-prostate cell lines
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Y. Hancock @ellieelectron.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Through love, all pain will turn to medicine. Rumi.
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Y. Hancock @ellieelectron.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
🧪 #PhDopportunity
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Y. Hancock @ellieelectron.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
Fully-funded DiMeN PhD scholarship available in prostate-cancer research. Please contact if you are interested and would like to discuss. Application deadline Dec 13. Full details at: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
findaphd.com
MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Optical methods for novel biomarker discovery in prostate cancer—from cells to circulating cellular components at University of York on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Optical methods for novel biomarker discovery in prostate cancer—from cells to circulating cellular components at University of York, liste...
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Y. Hancock @ellieelectron.bsky.social · 14/04/2024
Museum Gardens, early Spring, York.
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Y. Hancock @ellieelectron.bsky.social · 01/03/2024
Wild daffodils in my garden …
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