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Lucy Dornan @lucygdornan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

It is still settling in, but I completed and submitted my PhD thesis earlier this week 🥹 Taking a much needed break for a few weeks before my next steps, to teach myself how to rest - it’s finally time for me to learn how to put the “life” in work-life balance 😴 #PhDone!

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Traffic @traffic-journal.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Happy 50th anniversary, Clathrin! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... @effc.bsky.social

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Lucy Dornan @lucygdornan.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

A week left before I submit my thesis, feeling all the feelings.. most unexpectedly, a sense of melancholy at the thought of having to send off this body of work. The Golgi is such a beautifully intricate feat of nature, it’s been such a privilege to spend the last 4 years trying to understand it 🥺

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Danielle Beckman @daniellebeckman.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

In this systematic review and meta-analysis of 138,446 early-career researchers, nearly 1 in 3 reported clinically significant psychological distress, with rates of depression and anxiety 2–5 times higher than in age-matched peers 😖 #AcademicBluesky

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Lucy Dornan @lucygdornan.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Disappointed beyond words in @irishtimes.com this week. Research as a career is incredibly fulfilling, and science is improved by expanding the type of people we have around the table. Damaging and incendiary to cast doubt over the viability of research as a career option for young girls.

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Lucy Dornan @lucygdornan.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Leaving Blackburn after a really wonderful week discussing all things Golgi and glycobiology! So many new things learned and ideas to be explored - it’s an excellent time to have a thesis discussion to write..!

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Lucy Dornan @lucygdornan.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Time to play “Where’s the Golgi meeting being held this year?” If you guessed Sorrento or Naples, you’d be wrong! Looking forward to a few days of sunshine and cisternae in beautiful Blackburn 😋

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Madeleen Brink @madeleenbrink.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

One @lucygdornan.bsky.social pouring some sugar on the #Golgi final @ucdscience.bsky.social SBES Seminar done and dusted. PhD loading!!!! #UCD #Microscopy #LiveCellImaging #CellBiology #MembraneTrafficking

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Madeleen Brink @madeleenbrink.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Based in Ireland and work with imaging? @microscopyirl.bsky.social & Core Facilities Network Ireland are making the case to government for an Irish @eurobioimaging.bsky.social node. Take our short survey by June 25th docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Please RT! 🙏 #Microscopy #Bioimaging

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Microscopy Ireland Irish Imaging Community Survey

Supporting the case for an Irish Euro-BioImaging Node Prepared by Microscopy Ireland (MSI) and the National Core Facilities Network

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Lucy Dornan @lucygdornan.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Coming in early on the Sunday of a bank holiday weekend to run an SDS-PAGE and having to spend hours of it troubleshooting because the gel isn’t polymerising 🫠🥲 t-minus 3 months until submission and doing great!!!!!!!!!!

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MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology @mrclmb.ac.uk · 27/05/2026

Big picture, fundamental research can change lives. Building on work first begun at the LMB in the 1970s, the NHS has begun rolling out a new, injectable cancer immunotherapy. Read more about the new treatment here: www.ukri.org/news/from-mr... #LMBintheNews

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From MRC discovery research to a one-minute cancer treatment

A new injectable cancer immunotherapy is being rolled out across the NHS, offering faster treatment for tens of thousands of patients each year.

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Stephen Royle @steveroyle.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

What stage are you at? Writing only or still working in the lab? I wrote some advice here: quantixed.org/2021/07/02/r...

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Rule of Three: advice on writing a PhD thesis – quantixed

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Lucy Dornan @lucygdornan.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Hello academics of Bluesky, does anybody have any tips or advice for dragging yourself through the last few months of a PhD 🙃 Motivation superrrrr hard to squeeze out right now, if you can share any fun tips or rituals you built for yourself to help you through it would be much appreciated 🫶

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Christophe 🔬 Leterrier @christlet.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

How your email finds me

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Lucy Dornan @lucygdornan.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

There are definitely worse places to be doing data viz on a Wednesday morning

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Lucy Dornan @lucygdornan.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

The Cambridge equivalent of having to abandon your heels on a night out

A pair of black leather formal dress shoes lie discarded on the footpath at night

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Lucy Dornan @lucygdornan.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Is Friday the 13th REALLY unlucky if it’s #FluoresenceFriday, and you get trained on an Elyra? I think not???

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Lucy Dornan @lucygdornan.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Really excited to be in Cambridge over the next two months working on a super fun project with @dgershlick.bsky.social and his team at the CIMR, and to get to immerse myself in some super duper cool membrane trafficking research 🤓 A huge thank you to @embo.org for supporting this exchange ! 🥹🫶

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Lucy Dornan @lucygdornan.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

last live cell microscopy session for a while today

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Lucy Dornan @lucygdornan.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

maaaannnn the cell lines I’ve been working on for months decided to die on me over the weekend after I passaged them, just before i was due to sort them 🥺😭 If you have any bad jokes, or anecdotes of disaster from your final year of your phd (that you learned/recovered from) pls send them my way 🥲

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” —George Orwell (1984)

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Lucy Dornan @lucygdornan.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Grateful for the opportunities to learn when experiments go wrong and when cells misbehave, but my god - with 6 months left in the lab before submitting I could do with less things going wrong at this point

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Lucy Dornan @lucygdornan.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Dublin contigent touching down in London for this year’s UK Membrane Trafficking ( #UKMT2025 ?) meeting! Come chat to me about the Golgi at poster 04 tomorrow 😋 (a 4am start is never great but when the Heathrow air traffic means you’re circling over London in the sunrise, it doesn’t feel too bad 🥹)

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Lucy Dornan @lucygdornan.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

A glittery, festive #FluorescenceFriday today, spent playing with some fun samples 🪩🕺

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Lucy Dornan @lucygdornan.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Image analysis at sunrise yesterday morning 🥹

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Lucy Dornan @lucygdornan.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Me leaving the lab after seeing bands the right size in my colony PCR gel

Lucy Dornan @lucygdornan.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Managed to get two mammoth and problematic experiments working on the same day… and it’s a Sunday… suspicious… (everybody pray for colonies on my plates tomorrow)

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Lucy Dornan @lucygdornan.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Send help, I think I have met the cloning final boss of my PhD

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Lucy Dornan @lucygdornan.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Happy halloween 🎃 This year’s pumpkin design is based on what occupies my thoughts and haunts me every minute of every day at the moment

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Lucy Dornan @lucygdornan.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

I jinxed myself SOOOOOO BADDDD with this This week’s practical on our trusty confocal was rudely interrupted by a detector failure that took 1hr of the 2hr session to identify & resolve Then as soon as it’s up & working again the gas detector in the room goes off :) three :) different :) times :)

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Lucy Dornan @lucygdornan.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

One of these days I swear I am just going to come into the lab in my pyjamas

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Lucy Dornan @lucygdornan.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Feeling really reflective after 9 hours of microscopy practicals this week.. it is such a wonderful privilege to be able to show students fluorescence microscopy for the first time, there is nothing that can beat the feeling of joy at hearing all the “wow!”s when you first switch on the lasers 🥹

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Gioele La Manno @gioelelamanno.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

🧠 The Lipid #Brain Atlas is out now! If you think #lipids are boring and membranes are all the same, prepare to be surprised. Led by @lucafusarbassini.bsky.social with Giovanni D'Angelo's lab, we mapped membrane lipids in the mouse brain at high resolution. www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

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Liz Miller @lizmillercu.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Attention membrane traffickers! I'm recruiting a post-doc to my lab in Dundee. We're dissecting the functions of intrinsically disordered domains of COPII coat proteins. We think they control timing of coat assembly and morphology of carriers. www.dundee.ac.uk/work-for-us/...

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Postdoctoral Research Assistant - MCDB - UOD2016

Closing date: Thursday 6 November 2025, 23:59

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Lucy Dornan @lucygdornan.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

After many years of hm-ing and haw-ing about why some of the fusion proteins I’ve cloned showed cytoplasmic background I’ve finally found the culprit

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Lucy Dornan @lucygdornan.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Spending my weekend churning out data from live cell time series for a poster I have left very, very last minute; but at least the backdrop is pretty 🥹💞

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Lucy Dornan @lucygdornan.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Late night live cell sesh, captured by @madeleenbrink.bsky.social 🫶 (featuring hair tied back by the chopped off end of a latex glove, life hack for all long hair havers who find themselves short of a hair tie in the lab)

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Lucy Dornan @lucygdornan.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

How does a cell just fit that much stuff inside of it . Like there is SO MUCH jammed into something SO small .

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Lucy Dornan @lucygdornan.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Just finished imaging my last rep of an experiment that has taken a grand total of 6100 minutes (101.66 hrs) of live-cell confocal imaging, spread across 305x 35mm dishes

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Lucy Dornan @lucygdornan.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Went outside to go look at the stars and all I can see are Starlink satellites . :(

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Fran Bottanelli @franbottanelli.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

If you have an exciting microscopy-based membrane biology discovery to showcase this may be for you! Submit your abstracts and/or get in touch! Please repost

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Lucy Dornan @lucygdornan.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

A brief moment of solitude and reflection beneath the trees today :) After 7 years in UCD between my undergrad and the PhD, today I finished my last ever accredited module. Feeling so grateful for the opportunity to have learnt so much about myself and the world, and excited for the future :)

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Madeleen Brink @madeleenbrink.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Taking a shot here, a colleague is seeking a #postdoc position in/near #Germany. She’s eager to expand into #organoids , & has experience in #Spheroids, #BiologicalImaging, #CellBiology #HighContentMicroscopy Any leads, connections, or suggestions would be hugely appreciated! #Microscopy

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Lucy Dornan @lucygdornan.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Just out of curiosity… who here also maintains an active LinkedIn profile?

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Fran Bottanelli @franbottanelli.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Our protocol for gene editing is online and all plasmids are on @addgene.bsky.social! CRISPR away everybody and get in touch if you need anything 🤩

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