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Dr Lizzie Coker

@lizziecoker.bsky.social
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Cambridge-based data scientist modelling drug combinations to improve patient outcomes. Views my own, she/her 🇪🇺

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
She never lived to see this moment, but it’s worth remembering that none of this would have happened without Virginia Giuffre. She had the courage to speak out against power and privilege when it was just her word against Andrew’s. Thanks to her, justice & accountability may finally have its day.
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2nd European Cancer Dependency Map Symposium @eurocancerdepmap.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
We continue with the talk from @icrlordlab.bsky.social focusing on the complexity of synthetic lethality in cancer and how we can move forward in exploiting it @eurocancerdepmap.bsky.social
Talk by Chris Lord at the 2nd European Cancer Dependency Map Symposium
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2nd European Cancer Dependency Map Symposium @eurocancerdepmap.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
We are back, starting the afternoon session with a joint talk by Debora Sesia/ @ciriellolab.bsky.social and @aurorasavino.bsky.social / @ioriolab.bsky.social showing their work on the functional assessment of Variants of Unknown Significance through cancer dependency map data analysis
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2nd European Cancer Dependency Map Symposium @eurocancerdepmap.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Next we have @emanuelvgo.bsky.social , presenting the work on Minimal Libraries and use of AI-Synthetic Augmentation of CRISPR-Cas9 Screens for Drug Target Discovery
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2nd European Cancer Dependency Map Symposium @eurocancerdepmap.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
@colmr.bsky.social takes the stage to share the work of his group that aims to understand and predict synthetic lethality between paralogs in cancer
Colm Ryan presenting at the 2nd European Cancer Dependency Map Symposium
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2nd European Cancer Dependency Map Symposium @eurocancerdepmap.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
And we finish this session with @epetsalaki.bsky.social showing the potential of using CRISPR data to study context specific signalling and drug responses
Evangelia Petsalaki presenting at the 2nd European Cancer Dependency  Map Symposium
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2nd European Cancer Dependency Map Symposium @eurocancerdepmap.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Last but not least, we are thrilled to have representatives from academia, industry, foundations and publishers to share with us their take during the roundtable discussion on Bridging Sectors for Translational Impact!
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IorioLab @ioriolab.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
We start with Carmen Herranz-Ors from @sangerinstitute.bsky.social giving us an overview of the impressive work done to generate Tumour Organoid Biobank and develop a 3D Dependency Map @eurocancerdepmap.bsky.social
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IorioLab @ioriolab.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Now @alejandrapcelab.bsky.social is taking us through the multidimensional map of early adaptation to treatment and how targeting cell plasticity can prevent childhood cancer relapse @eurocancerdepmap.bsky.social
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2nd European Cancer Dependency Map Symposium @eurocancerdepmap.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
The last session starts with Lodewyk Wessels from @nkinl.bsky.social sharing the work on perturbation response models!
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Dr Lizzie Coker @lizziecoker.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
@emanuelvgo.bsky.social insisting the metaphors used in @eurocancerdepmap.bsky.social presentations have strong Portuguese representation 😄
Emanuel’s slide depicts a bridge between lab data and patients - but the bridge is carefully labelled as the Ponte 25 de Abril in Lisbon
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IorioLab @ioriolab.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
The 2nd @eurocancerdepmap.bsky.social meeting is starting with introduction from @francescoiorio.bsky.social ! Full day of exciting talks ahead. Stay with us for live updates @humantechnopole.bsky.social
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2nd European Cancer Dependency Map Symposium @eurocancerdepmap.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
To wrap up the second session, Roland Rad from the Institute of Molecular Oncology and Functional Genomics is sharing their work on mapping genetic interactions in cancer evolution and therapy @eurocancerdepmap.bsky.social
Roland Rad gives the final talk of the second session of the 2nd European Cancer Dependency Map Symposium
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Dr Lizzie Coker @lizziecoker.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
First session of the @eurocancerdepmap.bsky.social symposium and so much fantastic work presented already! #CancerResearch #TranslationalScience #plasticity
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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
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Crystal Palace Dinos @cpdinosaurs.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
🚨 THIS IS NOT A DRILL 🚨 We’ve just seen this, by creator “Menapian” - a 4,998-piece set of the Great Exhibition (1851) Crystal Palace - complete with a bonus Megalosaurus and Ichthyosaur… beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...
Screenshot of part of the LEGO Ideas website, showing a side view of a diorama featuring both creatures
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Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre @crukcamcentre.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
CUH Cancer Support Service are teaming up with local organisations to run a #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek Wellbeing Event on the 16 May at the Cambridge Cancer Help Centre, CB22 5JT. 💚 Come along and find out how local services and teams can assist with mental health. @cuh.nhs.uk
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Dr Lizzie Coker @lizziecoker.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
@dereklowe.bsky.social puts it perfectly yet again! #facepalm #AI #machinelearning #dontbelievethehype
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Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
No one realized it until recently, but a new drug was forming inside some of the patient-controlled-anaesthesia pumps used in hospitals. Beware the Mannich condensation:
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Metamorphine, An Unwelcome Product
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Rebecca Fielding-Miller @rebeccafieldingmiller.com · 22/03/2025
Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women. More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications. I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.
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Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
If this story checks out according to the below, it is insane and shameful. As I asked on the blog the other day: "What are we turning into?"
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Chris Tape @christophertape.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
If teams forming around the 'Rewiring Cancer Cells' or 'TME Dynamics' Grand Challenges would like to include our high-throughput organoid co-culture signalling technologies please get in touch!
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Termination notices going out this afternoon to more than 300 employees of the National Cancer Institute. Access likely ends today. Four weeks paid leave and that’s it. Strong power move for Team Cancer.
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Dr Lizzie Coker @lizziecoker.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Fantastic to see fellow @newnhamcollege.bsky.social alumna @carolcooper.bsky.social this evening at Hart’s bookshop - can highly recommend ‘The History of Medicine in Twelve Objects’ #Medicine #MedicalHistory #HartsBookshop
Dr Carol Cooper sits in front of an audience in an independent bookshop, discussing her latest book
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Dr Lizzie Coker @lizziecoker.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Fascinating paper on how different races/ethnicities respond differently to anticancer therapies - such an important thing to understand for personalised medicine #CancerResearch aacrjournals.org/cancerdiscov...
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Ancestral Differences in Anticancer Treatment Efficacy and Their Underlying Genomic and Molecular Alterations
Abstract. Systematic multiomic analysis has revealed ancestry-dependent molecular alterations, but their impact on the efficacy of anticancer treatment is yet largely unknown. In this study, we analyz...
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Not the banner you want seeing over this article from … checks notes … 8 days ago
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Post the amazing science things you have done with federal funding.
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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
If you have been affected by the fires in LA, or are concerned about your ability to keep precious Drosophila strains going during the latest funding crisis, we will host your strains as a backup. Please email me. Please amplify. If you are also able to host fly strains, add your name as well.
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
www.reuters.com/world/europe...
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EU medicines agency quits X, moves to Bluesky
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) said on Monday it would no longer post on X and would use rival Bluesky instead, becoming the latest organisation to quit a social media platform that some have criticised for its content.
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Dr Lizzie Coker @lizziecoker.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
At #FOG2025 and interested in drug discovery? Shruti Shikhare will be talking about how we are using #KnowledgeGraphs and #MachineLearming to gain insights - 4.35pm at the Data-Driven Drug Discovery Stage
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Anna Landre @annalandre.com · 07/01/2025
Do you know a UK-based wheelchair user who works in a lab and would be willing to user-test our prototype of what is believed to be the first-ever lab coat adapted for wheelchair users? Please share far & wide! Interest form: forms.office.com/e/66FhcQjqRT More info: www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-east/new...
Two photos of Anna, a young white woman using an electric wheelchair, wearing a blue lab coat that fits her well with tables and dry-lab equipment in the background. Text reads: "A team of researchers and designers led by UCL is looking for wheelchair users working in wet lab environments to user-test what is believed to be the first-ever prototype of a lab coat adapted for wheelchair users."
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Dr Saher Ahmed @drsaherahmed.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Fabulous Post-Doc Fellowship opportunities 😍 Information on how to get in touch below 👇🏽 www.blackincancer.com/opportunities Black in Cancer (not on BSky I think)
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Opportunities | BlackinCancer
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
I love this.
A restaurant board sign that reads: “we are not all in the same boat. We are in the same storm. Some have yachts. Some have canoes. And some are drowning. Just be kind and help when you can.
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Elisabeth Bik @elisabethbik.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Are there any science sleuths from Africa here? Do you know any? Trying to diversify my network. Science sleuth = anyone scanning the scientific literature for problems or potential fraud, in images, tables, statistics, etc. Hit me in DM or here. Thank you ❤️
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Dr Zoë Ayres @zjayres.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Seeing images and photos without alt text. Come on folks - we can do better than that. It's a minute (if that) of extra time to make your post more accessible.
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Dr Ben Bowers @drbenbowers.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Excellent opportunity for a dynamic post-doctoral researcher to join PELi_Cam @ University of Cambridge, and lead exciting end-of-life care research Supported by myself, Prof Stephen Barclay and ARC PEoLC colleagues. 80-100% FTE post. Pls share widely! More details: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49229/
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Research Associate (Fixed Term) - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge
Research Associate (Fixed Term) in the Department of Public Health and Primary Care, The Primary Care Unit at the University of Cambridge.
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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 18/11/2024
We strongly suggest that academic publishers and other platforms that host research rapidly implement a Share to Bluesky button for their articles. Here's how: docs.bsky.app/docs/advance... #AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics
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Action Intent Links | Bluesky
Authors, websites, and apps can use action intent links to implement "Share on Bluesky" buttons, or similar in-app actions. Logged-in users will be directed to the corresponding action view in the Blu...
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Florent Mouliere @florentmouliere.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
We also have 2 bioinformatician / computational biologist / computational scientist positions available in the lab (pre and post-doctoral level). Focus on epigenetic, transcriptomic, and ML. #cfDNA #liquidbiopsy One week left to apply! www.cruk.manchester.ac.uk/recruitment/...
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Index - CrukMi.RecruitmentHr.Ui
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Dr Saher Ahmed @drsaherahmed.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Look like some cool opps here 👀- UCL is offering 7 fully funded Research Opportunity scholarships for under-represented Black and Asian minority ethnic groups. The deadline for applications is 10 January 2025: www.ucl.ac.uk/scholarships...
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UCL Research Opportunity Scholarship
UCL's Research Opportunity Scholarship (UCL-ROS) supports Black, Asian and ethnic minority postgraduate research degree students at the start of their academic career.
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Denis Wirtz @deniswirtz.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Download our database of 492 (!) funding opportunities for EARLY-CAREER FACULTY AND RESEARCHERS. For each entry, we provide link to funder, description, amount, deadline, and eligibility criteria (e.g. citizenship). Download freely here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...
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Juan S. Bonifacino @juanbonifacino.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Here are some free/open-source sites for the preparation of scientific illustrations, including icon libraries: bioicons.com, scidraw.io, bioart.niaid.nih.gov, inkscape.org, biogdp.com, reactome.org/icon-lib
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