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Georgie Sorensen

@georgiehs.bsky.social
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Synthetic biologist Biosafety and biosecurity enthusiast She/her

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Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
“This is not a hypothetical. You are less free now. Your security, dignity, and safety is in the hands of nasty, petty, monumentally stupid bigots. They can take it from you at a whim. And that should bother you.” Save this article. Share it, again and again.
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The End of Trans Rights in the UK Is the Start of Democratic Collapse
It's never just one minority.
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Siobhan "Shiv" Craig - DarkEden21 @darkeden21.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Rofl, the UK has "no legal framework, making gender recognition impossible" Thanks to the @ilgaeurope.bsky.social for this analysis. Amazing stuff, really should ram home to everyone what exactly has happened in the UK's regression.
UK Scores on compliance: 16/25 Equality, 6/8 Family, 6/9 Hate Crime & Hate Speech, 2/15 Legal Gender Recognition, 0/4 Intersex Bodily Integrity, 6/6 Civil Society Space, 1/6 AsylumCategories score:

Equality & Non-Discrimination: 49.13%
Family: 75.71%
Hate Crime & Hate Speech: 40.55%
Legal Gender Recognition: 6.57%
Intersex Bodily Integrity: 0.00%
Civil Society Space: 100.00%
Asylum: 16.67%A map showing the UK being in 22nd position in Europe
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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 27/04/2026
Every child should be able to play football without worrying about how they look www.wearequeeraf.com/every-child-...
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Every child should be able to play football without worrying about how they look
All kids should be able to play with their friends free of pressure to conform to an ever-narrowing set of standards of gender
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European Democrats @europeandemocrats.wsocial.eu · 21/04/2026
After France, Denmark is moving too: its Digitalisation Ministry plans to phase out Microsoft, switching to Linux and LibreOffice in the coming months. The goal is clear—reduce dependence on a handful of global tech giants and strengthen digital sovereignty.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
The last 24 hours have shown what many have said for a long time. Britain's role as an accomplice to Trump's America must end. We must urgently decouple from a rogue US & seek security with allies closer to home. That starts with suspension of the US bombers on British soil.
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Georgie Sorensen @georgiehs.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
I *love* women's sport And I am forever grateful for the parts of women's sports that love me back
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Georgie Sorensen @georgiehs.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Anyways, solidarity with the trans community in India. You all deserve so much better 💔
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Shreya Ila Anasuya - THE POISON PALACE @thresholdrose.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
The new trans bill in India takes away the right to self identify gender identity, delegitimises trans people and strips them of their fundamental rights. It medicalises identity and criminalises community care. It is completely inhumane and unconstitutional.
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rituja @chamelea.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
a bit about the recent anti-trans bill passed in both the houses of Indian parliament: this bill is an amendment to the 2019 Transgender People (Protection of Rights) Act of 2019 which - though not free of flaws - was a great leap for trans rights in India, and was a result of years of activism.
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Shreya Ila Anasuya - THE POISON PALACE @thresholdrose.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Wading into the Harry Potter discourse to remind you that India just passed a disastrous bill that removes the right to self identification of gender identity, despite vehement opposition from the trans community.
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Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
We are facing a workers' rights crisis for our community, and we need your help. Outdated workplace regulations, last updated in the early 90s, are now being interpreted as requiring the exclusion and outing of trans+ people in the workplace. actionnetwork.org/letters/fix-...
This is a workers' rights crisis.
Outdated workplace regulations are becoming tools of exclusion.
Trans+ people are being sent home from their jobs, unsure when, or how, they can return.
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Tranathon @tranathon.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
A statement on the IOC's decision to reintroduce mandatory sex testing for women. Please share widely. Alt text follows in the following posts.
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Georgie Sorensen @georgiehs.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
I am not even all that worried about professional trans athletes with regards to the SRY-gene-based ban from the Olympics. I worry about all the many intersex/DSD women who are caught up in this. Historically, invasive sex tests based on genetics have led to suicides
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Georgie Sorensen @georgiehs.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
With today's IOC decision to test based on presence of SRY genes in female athletes, it's worth revisiting this article about the researcher who discovered the SRY gene. Despite claiming otherwise, this ban in unscientific and intrusive
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 26/03/2026
The focus, as usual, will be on trans athletes here to get buy in from everyone but the real impact will be on all female athletes and will disproportionately fall on intersex athletes. It's going to be a horror show. I expect legal challenges will eventually overturn this but it will take decades.
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Georgie Sorensen @georgiehs.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Also, we are back to regular #transphobiathursdays scheduling now it seems. Last year, it was practically a new ban every thursday (including the FA ban on trans-inclussion in women's football. Note also the timing right before Trans Day of Visibility
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Georgie Sorensen @georgiehs.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
I'm not terribly surprised, yet dumbfounded by this decision to do a universal IOC ban on trans women in women's sports, especially given olympic sports as of late has included sports such as breakdancing 🤦🏻‍♀️
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Georgie Sorensen @georgiehs.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Absolute cowardice from Lib Dems, refusing to have banners up supporting transgender people in the event that anti-trans people will harass party members on social media. First of all, why is nothing done to curb this toxic online envious created by these transphobes?
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bioRxivpreprint @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Stoic: Fast and accurate protein stoichiometry prediction www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Georgie Sorensen @georgiehs.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Constant companions is such a nice tool for introducing the concept of plurality to someone who is questioning... My friend has recently come to terms with the fact she might be plural, so I showed her the album, and IMMEDIATELY she was like "woah, that's me!" #plurality #jamiePaige
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Victor de Lorenzo (CNB, Madrid) @vdlorenzo.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Considering what is happening in the world we should repurpose SynBio as an instrument of peace & healing, not just as an engine of economic development. Frontline biotech can help repairing the damage caused by war, explosions, oil leaks & fires not only to people but also to the environment 🙏🏻
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Our dependency on fossil fuels makes us vulnerable. Wars across the world are pushing up prices for households in the UK. Why keep waiting for the next crisis? We need to transition to clean power as fast as we can to protect people and our economy. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Reaching net zero by 2050 ‘cheaper for UK than one fossil fuel crisis’
Climate change committee finds move to renewable energy would also bring health, economic and security benefits
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Georgie Sorensen @georgiehs.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Why must we have an HMPO that is so utterly incompetent? My friend got her change of name for her passport denied on her passport, despite using her years old unenrolled deed poll as documentation, on the grounds that the deed poll wasn't formatted right. Yet, this is HMPOs own guidance:
Screenshot of the guidance for Name change with HMPO, with section regarding unenrolled deed polls on display, with highligted text stating that unenrolled deed polls have no set format or wording
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maia arson crimew 🏴 @crimew.gay · 09/01/2026
when ur confronted by a group of cops they will almost always give u conflicting information and instructions, each one of them wants to be the one in control. this gets even more stressful and confusing when weapons or force are involved. fight or flight is a natural response.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
one takeaway from the grok noncon porn thing is that much of the media just isn't interested in an issue they can't pretend has two sides or that doesn't give them an opportunity to shit on the left. Also it would be uncomfortable to justify remaining on twitter after acknowledging it
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Georgie Sorensen @georgiehs.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
I cannot believe it, Grok is being used to make real-time fake revenge porn against women on twitter as a misogynistic means to silence them, and this is the tepid response from UK regulators...
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Gerrich @gerrich.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
We have two job openings for computational strain design in our group! Please retweet 🧪 PhD student and postdoc! Both positions are directly with our group leader, Steffen Klamt. The positions are to be filled in Magdeburg, Germany. I highly recommend applying!
jobs.mpi-magdeburg.mpg.de
Doctoral (PhD) and postdoctoral position (m/f/d) in Computational Biology / Biomathematics / Biosystems Engineering
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Georgie Sorensen @georgiehs.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
The road to hell is paved with "legitimate concerns"
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Tom Ellis @proftomellis.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
A new review paper from our lab courtesy of @jazzsynbio.bsky.social is published in Trends in Biotechnology In this review, we look at the many opportunities for synthetic biology to be used in the research and applications of Holobionts.
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Olivier Borkowski @oborkowski.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
SHARK: a specialized host for assembling R6K plasmids doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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Georgie Sorensen @georgiehs.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Our democracies rely on the idea that we all share the same reality, but the increasing disinformation in the mainstream media is a serious threat to the very concept of objective truth. In trying to gain clicks by being first on their news stories, legacy media are neglecting their responsibilities
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Thomas Gorochowski @chofski.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Although I've now taken a back seat, it is great to see the growing adoption of SBOL Visual in the synthetic and engineering biology literature and even more awesome to see so many current and visiting students to my lab on the author list😍 Roll on 2035! arxiv.org/abs/2507.04601
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Thomas Gorochowski @chofski.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
What to agument your favourite protein with new functionalities? 🛠️ We've got a #biodesign workflow to help with that! In work led by @georgiehs.bsky.social we present SIMPLIFE that blends biophyscial and #ML models to extend biology in useful ways. #synbio doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
90% of doing science is being open to new ideas.
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Mark Howarth Lab @howarthsci.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Here is our paper on generating a Monkeypox vaccine candidate www.nature.com/articles/s41... led by Bernie Moss lab. Plug-and-display VLPs give a high level of protection, beating the standard Vaccinia-based vaccine. #mpox #vaccines #synbio
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Thomas Gorochowski @chofski.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Recombinases your thing? In the latest from my lab, Veronica Greco shows how @nanopore sequencing + automated liquid handling provides the perfect platform for characterising these systems at scale! Awesome collaboration with @jennbrophy.bsky.social @sarah-guiziou.bsky.social doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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Georgie Sorensen @georgiehs.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Proper scary stuff, the hospital next door is on fire and the maternity ward has been evacuated www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Happy that my university building was able to provide a space for the maternity ward to seek refuge in
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St Michael's maternity hospital evacuated as large fire burns
Pregnant mothers and babies are being evacuated onto the road outside of St Michael's Hospital.
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Engineering Biology Interdisciplinary Research Centre @engbioirc.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Sign up for our EngBio Forum on 7 May with talks from Irina Borodina,Technical University Denmark and Louise Horsfall @lehorsfall.bsky.social @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social both leading experts in the field of sustainable bioproduction. Register and details here 👉 www.tickettailor.com/events/engin...
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Yolanda Schaerli @yschaerli.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
The first version of this post had a broken link and I deleted it. Please spread again this corrected version. Thanks😊.
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Thomas Gorochowski @chofski.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Phenotyping motile microorganisms is always a challenge. In the latest from the lab led by Andrea Giusti, we show how our #DOME platform can speed up the processes, enabling data-centric inference of digital twins and routes to multicellular control! 🦠💨🔦 doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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Alex Fedorec @ajfedorec.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Reflecting on the two days of #sbuk24 talks on the very slow journey home, I think my favourite was Scott Stacey from Harrison Steel's group. Lovely demonstration of complexity built from simple biology that needs modelling to fully understand an unexpected result
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Chenxin Li, PhD @chenxinli2.bsky.social · 24/05/2024
I just read another paper that didn’t deposit their plasmid sequences anywhere. It doesn’t have to be Addgene, but gbk file on Zenodo would be good. I literally have no way to find out the exact modifications to the constructs from the text. Journals shouldn’t allow this.
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Georgie Sorensen @georgiehs.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Nice summary! It was a priviledge presenting to you
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Engineering Biology Interdisciplinary Research Centre @engbioirc.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
A quick update at #SBUK24 from Anne Ferguson-Smith, Executive Chair of @BBSRC on the importance of #EngineeringBiology for the future of UK research and the development of the UK #bioeconomy. It's great to see that UKRI are just as excited about the future of the field as we are!
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Thomas Gorochowski @chofski.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Best thing about my job... sharing science 🔬🧬👩‍🔬🧑‍🔬 and sharing food 🍣🍔🍗🥗! Thanks to Lucia Marucci's lab for the early joint Christmas science spectacular and pot luck lunch 🥳 #synbio at Bristol is going from strength to strength 💪
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Georgie Sorensen @georgiehs.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
#SBUK24 has begun, and I am fortunate to be here at this beautiful venue. I'm even more fortunate to be presenting my work on engineering T7-RNA polymerases here tomorrow at 15:15!
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Thomas Gorochowski @chofski.bsky.social · 20/09/2023
I've always been fascinated by #unconventional #computers. Check out our latest work led by Tony McCaffrey in which we present constructor algorithms that "build" computers with numbers encoded as physical lengths. Now imagine "growing" these with #synbio! arxiv.org/abs/2309.10082
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