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Helen Walden

@hw1o9.bsky.social
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Scientist, Feminist, Mother, Drinker

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Ylva Ivarsson @ivarssonlab.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Do you want to be my colleague? We are recruiting a tenured #Associate #Professor in #Biochemistry to the Department of Chemistry for Life Sciences at #Uppsala University. Deadline for application November 20. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
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Associate Professor in Biochemistry - Uppsala University
Associate Professor in Biochemistry, Department of Chemistry for life sciences, Uppsala University
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Helen Walden @hw1o9.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Wonderful!
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Helen Walden @hw1o9.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/politics/202... I bloody love John Crace’s sketches. Even by his brilliant standards tho that opening paragraph is gorgeous
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Do parents make the politician? Find out on the Today programme’s psychotherapy couch | John Crace
Dad’s the word for Andy Burnham, so maybe all party leaders should be seen afresh through a Freudian lens
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Kirsty Grainger @kirstygrainger.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
New blog. Written before today's changes from UKRI. Full of lots of ideas (including an alternative to Distributed Peer Review). Publishing in a not quite finished form because I've sat on it too long - .I think it contains interesting thoughts anotherwayoflookingatit.substack.com/p/the-right-...
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The Right To Apply
Many thoughts on rising application numbers and peer review
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Helen Walden @hw1o9.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Wow. The Communards so joyful on #totp. What the hell happened? How were the 80s soooo much more progressive on some issues than now?!?
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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Imagine being talented and beautiful and rich and famous and still the most noteworthy thing about you is how good a person you are.
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026
[Exit Queen.]
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Helen Walden @hw1o9.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
So incredibly sad 😔
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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 14/08/2026
#Clacton
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Helen Walden @hw1o9.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
www.theguardian.com/education/20... Lots of important points made here…
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Jason Arday and the lack of oversight and quality control of academics | Letter
Letter: An Oxford academic says teaching and teamwork matter just as much as a CV full of impressive research output
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Genuinely scary that people now say stuff about race the BNP would never have dared say, and the media carry sentiment that would have been rejected as totally out of bounds in the 1990s. These are the fruits of sheer hatred, directed by politicians and 'commentators'. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Further arrests in Thetford as disorder continues for third night
The arrests follow disturbances linked to anti-immigration protests in the market town.
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Helen Walden @hw1o9.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Just to be clear this isn’t an anti-Norfolk comment - it’s more that somewhere I’ve felt relatively safe and at home has a different vibe (in my experience) at the moment and I’m worried about it.
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Helen Walden @hw1o9.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Then at the beer festival someone got cross with nephew and then her friend said ‘he probably doesn’t understand the lingo’. I suspect boiling frog rather than wrong pub
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Helen Walden @hw1o9.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
The Reindeer
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Helen Walden @hw1o9.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
It feels pretty scary. Even in Norwich itself.
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Helen Walden @hw1o9.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
I come to Norfolk each year to visit family (it’s where I’m ‘from’). This year feels very different - young men in pub tell me I’m insane to think Reform are a bad idea, and that it’s ‘only the illegals’ they’ve a problem with (it’s not). My nephew (from Dereham) being told to ‘go back to Nigeria’ 😔
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Helen Walden @hw1o9.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Well that was insane #football
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Helen Walden @hw1o9.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
#football
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Pit Trap Trap Door
ALT: Pit Trap Trap Door
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Helen Walden @hw1o9.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
#football
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Will Fuller @fuller-lab.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
How do phosphorylation and palmitoylation talk to each other? 🤔 Our new preprint identifies #phosphorylation of Kv4.3 as a priming event that promotes channel #palmitoylation and shapes channel activity. A fascinating example of PTM cross-talk in the heart. ❤️⚡ doi.org/10.64898/202...
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A phosphorylation‑dependent mechanism controls splice variant-specific S‑palmitoylation of cardiac Kv4.3
S-palmitoylation modulates the activity of many cardiac ion channels, yet the upstream signals that control this post-translational modification (PTM) are poorly defined. Here we identify a phosphoryl...
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Helen Walden @hw1o9.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
😂😂😂
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 04/07/2026
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Helen Walden @hw1o9.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
You know you’re old when the family group chat erupts at the possibility of the Mexico-England game being brought forward #sleepisgood
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Harry Taylor @harrytaylor.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
News of England taking the lead against Congo has reached the House of Lords, and the steel bill
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Helen Walden @hw1o9.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
There must be a compound German word for this feeling of seeing Germany go out on penalties….
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Helen Walden @hw1o9.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
For my 30th birthday, my lab members bought me a copy of The God Delusion. I found it (the book) sexist, patronising, and other (then) unfashionable things. For my 50th, my lab members bought me champagne and a super cute necklace. I consider this excellent progress!
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Helen Walden @hw1o9.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
😔
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Helen Walden @hw1o9.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Which is way too low to sustain a serious research base. Sorry to hear yours was also not funded
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Helen Walden @hw1o9.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Also, sorry to hear you’re in the same boat, it sucks
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Helen Walden @hw1o9.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
I wish it was a lottery, at least that would feel ‘fair’!
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Helen Walden @hw1o9.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Sorry to hear that Aga
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Helen Walden @hw1o9.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
China!
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Helen Walden @hw1o9.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Thanks Geoff. I have no idea what needed to be different. Lovely though positive feedback is it’s not particularly useful 🤷‍♀️
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
The House of Commons Education Committee is out today with a report on Higher Education... I'm quoted four times! There's a lot of good meat in there, even if I think the recommendations don't meet the case. But the policy disaster is very clear. (1/2) committees.parliament.uk/work/9012/hi...
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“A very serious problem”: No clear government plan for universities risking insolvency, MPs find in new report - Committees - UK Parliament
Today MPs on the Education Committee warn that the government has no clear plan for universities facing insolvency and that protections for students are inadequate, as the Committee publishes a new re...
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Helen Walden @hw1o9.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
A no from BBSRC with nothing but positive feedback after excellent reviews. Strong prelim data, excellent rebuttal, excellent application. But no funding. Time to consider moving to a country that takes science funding seriously? So disappointed 😔
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Kate Jeffery @katejj.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Job alert! We are seeking a rodent in vivo electrophysiologist to work on coordination between anterior thalamus and hippocampus in rats using Neuropixels. Beautiful Scotland, leading university (Glasgow) and vibrant intellectual setting. Post is 23 months but hopefully extensible. Details here 👇
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Helen Walden @hw1o9.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Ref definitely had too much influence on the game. Ah well. #ncfc
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Helen Walden @hw1o9.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
This ref clearly a Reform voter #ncfc
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Helen Walden @hw1o9.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
It’s quite the throwback to my childhood but instead of crippling anxiety about Russia nuking the world, it’s the US. Unbelievable.
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Helen Walden @hw1o9.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Staying up! 🎉💚💛 #otbc #ncfc
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Helen Walden @hw1o9.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Congratulations!
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Helen Walden @hw1o9.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
I absolutely love this series!
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Helen Walden @hw1o9.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Take a look at Martin’s new preprint on discovering a FANCD2-interacting motif, and his helpful summary posts!
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Helen Walden @hw1o9.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Actually hilarious! I got “cute cats making cookies is the biggest betrayal of the Brexit mandate”. Seems about right.
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Helen Walden @hw1o9.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
I cannot believe how exciting it is watching people go down an ice slide headfirst 🤣
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Oh God, What Now? – the politics podcast @ohgodwhatnow.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
📚New Episode📚 A forty-year slow-motion disaster in higher education is reaching its climax – and Labour is left holding the bag. @gsoh31.bsky.social joins @rostaylor.bsky.social & @hannahfearn.bsky.social to ask if the problems can be solved ➡️ linktr.ee/ohgodwhatnowpod
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Helen Walden @hw1o9.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Touré’s knee-slide the highlight of the match 🤣 #ncfc 💛💚
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Helen Walden @hw1o9.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Oh no I hadn’t heard that 😞 I did my 6 month placement with him in 1997, gave me the bug for research, such a wonderful man and scientist. Very sad to learn this.
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Helen Walden @hw1o9.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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So the Epstein scandal is about politics? Silly me for thinking it’s about the mass abuse of women and girls | Marina Hyde
Obsessing over individual players and political chaos leaves less time to focus on the misogyny. And that’s for the best, isn’t it guys, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
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Helen Walden @hw1o9.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
As of roughly half an hour ago, I am now the parent of an adult 😱 Where does the time go?!
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