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Adam Byron

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Cell adhesion networks group leader #cancer #ECMatrix #proteomics #nucleus #NewPI @thebyronlab.bsky.social University of Manchester A personal account 🧬🧫 🎶🎹 📷🎨 🦅 🏏

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Manchester Cancer Research Centre @mcrcnews.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Want to know what it’s like to study an MB-PhD?🧑‍🔬💡 Watch this Day in the Life with Jean, a @manchester.ac.uk medicine undergrad who has taken time out to complete a PhD in Cancer Sciences. And explore our current MB-PhD projects: ow.ly/1fSo50Ttypu ow.ly/x0ZX50TtykG
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
"are you enjoying duo mobile" does a hamburger enjoy being made of quarks. does a fish enjoy linear time. does the mountain enjoy the first taste of a cup of hot chocolate when you get back to the ski lodge. your question means nothing to me. i couldn't enjoy duo mobile even if i tried
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Mathilde Mathieu @mathildemathieu.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
I am super happy to see this published in @jcb.org ! If you are interested in cell adhesion and trafficking go have a look !
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Michael Way @drmichaelway.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Are you interested in cytoskeleton and looking for a postdoc position? I will be advertising positions in the new year but happy to chat in person if you are attending ASCB @ascbiology.bsky.social in Philadelphia. Just drop me a line.
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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Image screening is going to fail. We need audit trails for data provenance.
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Adam Byron @iamabyron.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Got that warm-up game in, at least 🏏 #AUSvsENG #Ashes #Cricket
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Dan Liebke @liebcricket.com · 21/11/2025
Today has been a great three days of Test cricket. #Ashes 🏏
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Byron Lab @thebyronlab.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Two days left to apply for a Medical Research Council-funded PhD opportunity in the lab. This is a student-led project, so you can work with us to develop an exciting project in a research area of mutual interest! www.bmh.manchester.ac.uk/study/resear... @mcf-uom.bsky.social @fbmh-uom.bsky.social
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MRC Doctoral Training Partnership
Find out more about the Medical Research Council (MRC) Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP) studentships for postgraduate researchers undertaking PhDs in biomedical, clinical and health services areas.
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Matthew Cobb @matthewcobb.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
UK publication day for this wrist-spraining beauty! Appropriately, I’m travelling to Cambridge, where I’m doing a book launch talk at the LMB tomorrow afternoon.
The cover of CRICKNice endpapers showing Crick and Brenner’s blackboardSection pics that bleed off the pageColour plate of Crick looking dreamy on the beach at Cold Spring Harbor, 1954.
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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Let's go! Super excited to partner with @richardsever.bsky.social and the fantastic @openrxiv.bsky.social team - Preprints have been the best thing that happened to science publishing during my lifetime, and we're happy @qedscience.bsky.social can make preprints do more 👊
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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Excited to launch an openRxiv partnership with the scientist-run AI review service qed (@qedscience.bsky.social), the brainchild of @odedrechavi.bsky.social 1/n openrxiv.org/enabling-rev...
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Enabling options for review: from training and transparency to author-centered AI tools - openRxiv
Peer review is widely viewed as a critical aspect of biomedical communication. Ideally, it provides authors with feedback so they can improve manuscripts and gives readers, particularly nonspecialists...
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Pliotas Group @pliotasgroup.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
We have a new academic post opening for a Lecture/Senior-Lecturer in Structural Biology @mcf-uom.bsky.social @fbmh-uom.bsky.social @manchester.ac.uk The University of Manchester is ranked among the top Universities worldwide. QS world rankings: 34th (2025) www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
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Lecturer / Senior Lecturer in Structural Biology:Oxford Road
The purpose of this post is to undertake high quality research and also excellent teaching. Hence, the ability to enhance teaching activities within our UG/PG programmes will also be expected.
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Molecular and Cellular Function, University of Manchester @mcf-uom.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
We are excited to announce that Professor Graham Pavitt, Chair in Molecular Biology, has been appointed as our new Head of Division! Join us in welcoming Graham to his new role—we look forward to the exciting times ahead! research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/g...
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Graham Pavitt
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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
BIG ANNOUNCEMENT📣: I haven’t been this excited to be part of something new in 15 years… Thrilled to reveal the passion project I’ve been working on for the past year and a half!🙀🥳 (thread 👇)
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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Chemists call for ban on generative AI for chemical structures: "serious errors could damag[e] the next generation of scientists" As ever, the problem seems to be not AI but lazy application of it and lack of checks. Whether _that_ problem is solvable... www.chemistryworld.com/news/the-che...
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The chemistry community should ban drawing chemical structures with generative AI, chemists warn
AIs like Microsoft's Copilot, Google's Gemini and OpenAI's ChatGPT still make serious errors rendering structural formulae
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Byron Lab @thebyronlab.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Fantastic time at the Adhere2 conference on cell adhesion - on the lovely Dalmatian coast. #CellBiology #research #conference
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Abby Buchwalter @abbybuch.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Another paper bluetorial! Today: how does the spatial location of genes influence their function? (1/n) www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The nuclear periphery confers repression on H3K9me2-marked genes and transposons to shape cell fate - Nature Cell Biology
Marin et al. report the role of lamin proteins and the lamin B receptor (LBR) in chromatin positioning at the nuclear periphery. Knockout of all lamins and LBR in mouse embryonic stem cells leads to h...
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epithelial mechanics fan club @epimechfc.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
🎉 Happy International #EpithelialMechanics Day! 🎉
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Byron Lab @thebyronlab.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Just back from a fantastic research visit to the Regina Elena National Cancer Institute, Rome, working with Dr Paola Nisticò and the Tumor Immunology & Immunotherapy team 🔬 Amazing cancer biology research, inspiring discussions and such warm hospitality from the team ☀️ #CancerResearch #Collaboration
Several members of the Tumor Immunology and Immunotherapy team from the Regina Elena National Cancer Institute in Rome gathered around a table.
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PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · 16/07/2025
Measuring properties of individual cells in relation to their neighbors in 3D tissues is challenging. @cellysally.bsky.social &co develop a computational toolkit to facilitate this, analyzing developmental patterning in mouse, chick & #Drosophila #embryo @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4lQMeNu
Patterning of cell identities in the posterior E8.5 mouse embryo. Co-expression of mesoderm marker TBXT (blue) and neural marker SOX2 (green) identifies cells in the neuromesodermal (NMP) progenitor region at the intersection of their respective gene expression gradients. TBX6 (red) marks paraxial mesoderm and also marks sporadic mesoderm-committed cells emerging within the NMP region. LAMINB1 (white) marks the nuclear envelope of all cells. Credit: Matthew French.
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Prof Sheena Cruickshank @sheencr.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
So excited to FINALLY be able to share exciting news from @lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social on our newly awarded MRC Centre of Research Excellence (MRC CoRE) in Exposome Immunology #ImmunoSky 🧪 🧵
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Johanna Ivaska @johannaivaska.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Excited to share our most recent study on #integrintraffic #cancer #migration #focaladhesion by @ivaskalab.bsky.social @drpaulinamoreno.bsky.social Niklas Jäntti et al www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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EPLINα controls integrin recycling from Rab21 endosomes to drive breast cancer cell migration
Epithelial protein lost in neoplasm (EPLIN), an actin-binding protein, has been described as both a tumor promoter and tumor suppressor in different c…
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Jacky Goetz @goetzjacky.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
💥 Our latest @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social is out ! 👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Mechanical stress and caveolin-1 control the release of extracellular vesicles with increased tumorigenic properties
Mechanical forces within the tumor microenvironment critically influence cancer progression, in part by modulating extracellular vesicle (EV) dynamics. However, the molecular mechanisms by which EVs r...
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John Lock @locusj.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
The first, first-author story www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... from @felkohdigital.bsky.social & www.cancersystemsmicroscopylab.com exploring how the epithelial-mesenchymal (E/M) state landscape pre-determines EGF signalling responses. An analytical tour-de-force, with more to come on this theme!
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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Publishing scientific papers is an obstacle course. There are many aspects to this but lengthy review times are one. That's why I am very excited about the new initiative @biologyopen.bsky.social, @biologists.bsky.social open access journal: Fast & Fair 1/n 🧪 journals.biologists.com/bio/pages/fa...
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Adam Byron @iamabyron.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Ooh, very interesting 🔬 (And great pseudo-acronym coined!)
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Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 14/07/2025
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Adam Byron @iamabyron.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
It was, indeed, quite warm ☀️🌡️ A really rewarding exchange that sparked lots of new ideas for collaborative research projects 🔬 💡 Thanks so much to the inspiring team in Rome! 🇮🇹 🌍
Ice cream refreshment on a hot day in Rome.
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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
We continue working on the plans for the "Woodstock of Bioloy 2 & Night science in Prague" meeting and if you don't sign up you're totally crazy. A once in a life time opportunity and it'll be sold out soon. Go to the website and sign up now before it's too late!
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Sylvie Callegari @sylviecallegari.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Thrilled to share the structure of dimerised human PINK1 docked to an endogenous translocase array on the mitochondrial surface, composed of two TOM complexes, bridged by a VDAC2 dimer! Published today in Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @wehi-research.bsky.social @komanderlab.bsky.social
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Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Happy Pi day, the one day of the year when pi = 14.3.
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James Briscoe @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Science under siege: protecting scientific progress in turbulent times journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
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Science under siege: protecting scientific progress in turbulent times
As Editors-in-Chief of The Company of Biologists' journals, we have been watching with growing concern the policy changes in the United States of America (USA) and the challenges that these are creati...
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Maybe the crisis in seabirds with multi-organ failure from exposure to plastics will help raise awareness of their serious hazard and lead to action science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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KLAB - finding a cure for GI dysmotility at #HarvardStrong @klab.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
UMASS IS RESCINDING ALL GRAD POSITIONS FOR THIS YEAR
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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Jools Holland's favourite dish is beef bourgiwourgignon.
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Jan Lammerding - Lab @lammerdinglab.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Interested in nuclear mechanobiology, and how advanced genomic tools can shed light on how the cell nucleus might sense mechanical forces? Read our latest review by excellent Julien Morival and Anna Hazelwood, now published @jcellsci.bsky.social: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article-...
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Feeling the force from within – new tools and insights into nuclear mechanotransduction
Summary: This Review discusses new insights and technological advances in understanding how the nucleus contributes to the ability of the cell to translate mechanical stimuli into transcriptional resp...
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eupaproteomics.bsky.social @eupaproteomics.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
❗Deadline extended❗for the early bird registration until Friday, 14th of March 4 PM! Get ready for #EuPA-FPS2025! 🤩 You can find more information here: eupa2025-stmalo.fr/en/
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Welcome | Eupa 2025
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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 12/03/2025
SMALL THREAD i mean small thread We don’t like recycling content but a bunch of new folks have joined Bluesky so here’s a catch-up for those funky new people. Altmetric started tracking mentions of Bluesky in December of ‘24. bsky.app/profile/altm... 1/6
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Valerio Val Izzi @valerioizzi.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
A fantastic seminar coming your way? Yes!! But is it also free? Yes!!! But is it also about the ECM? YES!!!! Register now!!! 👇👇👇
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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Big news: we are setting up a new non-profit organization to run bioRxiv and medRxiv. It's called openRxiv [no it's not a new preprint server; it's dedicated organization to oversee the servers] openrxiv.org 1/n
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Homepage - openRxiv
openRxiv is an independent non-profit, the new organizational home for bioRxiv and medRxiv, enabling researchers to instantly share groundbreaking findings with the global scientific community.
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Matthew Cobb @matthewcobb.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Odile Crick helping out Francis (and John Kendrew) in a crystallography paper, using one of her motifs from the 1950s – mermaids - to show the difference between a unit cell and an asymmetric unit. Still not sure I understand...
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Rashmi Priya @rashmi-priya.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Stoked to present our latest, superbly led by Chris et al & @torres-sanchez.bsky.social We tackled a fundamental problem – how tissues are patterned during development – found that geometry-constrained ECM fractures pattern the myocardium in the vertebrate heart 1/n www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Rob Noble @robjohnnoble.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
I now strive to ensure that my graduate students have a sound understanding of academic structures, processes, and finances in the UK and elsewhere. And that the undergraduates I teach appreciate that most of their lecturers lead research groups and have service roles.
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
When you've been in the cell culture hood all day and finally get to take off your gloves:
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Denis Wirtz @deniswirtz.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
These are extremely challenging times for early-career faculty. Here is my office's small contribution to make their hard and important work a bit easier: Download our curated and comprehensive database of funding opportunities for early-career faculty. Here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...
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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
If someone spends 3y doing experiments and wants constructive feedback, spending 4-6h providing it shouldn't be a chore - especially given it's what you want when you are an author. Reminds me of Yaniv Erlich's simple equation: review 3X as many papers as you write, and the system should work.
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Prof Devi Sridhar @profdevisridhar.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
It's #WorldBookDay- sharing again ICYMI www.penguin.co.uk/books/458539...
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 06/03/2025
Let's talk about this Nature piece in more detail. I've rarely read something so anti-scientific anywhere short of the National Review. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Three AI-powered steps to faster, smarter peer review
Tired of spending countless hours on peer reviews? An AI-assisted workflow could help.
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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
One of the most common arguments you hear from fans of generative ‘AI’ is that it’s not plagiarizing people’s work, it’s just learning like a human learns. So I’m going to break down why that’s just not true, and why it can never be true, with the existing systems. 1/
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Kasia @scullingmonkey.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
just as creativity is important, so is critical thinking. and there is plenty of creativity needed in science.
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