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Marina Parry

@marinaparry.bsky.social
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Programme Manager for REWIRE-CAN rewire-can.com. Ex-cancer audit and postdoc in cancer research (prostate and SMZL). Views all mine.

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National Lung Cancer Audit @nlca-natcan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
New NLCA publication: Curative-Intent Radiotherapy in the Era of Earlier Lung Cancer Diagnosis: Insights from the National Lung Cancer Audit Read the article here 👉 www.natcan.org.uk/library/the-... @hqip.bsky.social @btog.bsky.social @lcnuk.bsky.social @natcan-news.bsky.social
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The National Lung Cancer Audit: Curative-Intent Radiotherapy in the Era of Earlier Lung Cancer Diagnosis: Insights from the National Lung Cancer Audit - National Cancer Audit Collaborating Centre
Dixon L, Cook S, Cook A, Thomas J, Boudour J, Chan F, Cromwell D, West D, Navani N, Conibear J
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Cancer Grand Challenges @cancergrand.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
📢 Two new Cancer Grand Challenges 📢 Applications close 24 November. Discover the new challenges: bit.ly/4xfm78b Winning teams will be funded by the Torrey Coast Foundation and Cancer Research UK (CRUK), through Cancer Grand Challenges.
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Barbara Hernando @bhernando.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
1/ NEW PAPER 🎉 🧵 We mapped the mutational processes shaping 959 prostate cancer genomes from the Pan Prostate Cancer Group (PPCG), integrating SBS, ID, CX and complex SV signatures. Eight footprints account for the processes in 85% of cases www.nature.com/articles/s41... @nature.com
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Integrated signatures define mutational processes in prostate cancer - Nature
Eight integrated mutational footprints collectively explain the mutational processes in 85% of primary prostate cancer genomes.
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Marina Parry @marinaparry.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The latest results from the Pan Prostate Cancer Group identify eight integrated mutational footprints in primary prostate cancer. A phenomenal amount of work and data. Another step towards further understanding what drives prostate cancer. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Cancer Grand Challenges @cancergrand.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Have a spare 5 minutes? 💬 We're gathering feedback to help improve the Cancer Grand Challenges website and would love to hear your thoughts. Complete our short survey: ows.io/tj/d10fadb3
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Welcome | by Optimal Workshop
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Marina Parry @marinaparry.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Huge congratulations to Becki and team. I remember when this was developing as a proposed study and it is brilliant to see its conclusion. Becki is so persistent in her drive to improve care for people with melanoma, really proud to see this out.
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Marina Parry @marinaparry.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
📢 New job alert! I've started as Programme Manager for www.cancergrandchallenges.org/rewire-can @cancergrand.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk with Bart Vanhaesebroeck & @christophertape.bsky.social. Really excited about this new chapter. I had a fantastic time with @natcan-news.bsky.social & will miss it.
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REWIRE-CAN
Meet REWIRE-CAN, the team tackling the rewiring cancer cells challenge.
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Barbara Marte @barbmarte.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
new out in Nature: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Evolutionary characterization of lung cancer metastasis - Nature
DNA-sequencing data from primary tumours and paired metastases from participants in the TRACERx lung study and PEACE autopsy programme are used to analyse the metastatic diversity of advanced non-smal...
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Marina Parry @marinaparry.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Couldn't agree more. This is horrifying. Appreciate there aren't easy solutions but vast improvements are needed.
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Marina Parry @marinaparry.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
It's a big Quality Improvement day for my audits today. At 9am, @npca-natcan.bsky.social is hosting a webinar www.natcan.org.uk/events/webin... as part of our QI intervention www.natcan.org.uk/quality-impr.... It will be recorded so you can watch back. And today in the @nkca-natcan.bsky.social...
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Webinar: Improving Data Collection Quality and Completeness for Systemic Anti-Cancer Therapy (SACT) in Prostate Cancer - National Cancer Audit Collaborating Centre
Join the National Prostate Cancer Audit (NPCA) and National Cancer Audit Collaborating Centre (NATCAN) for our next quality improvement webinar. Bringing together data managers, clinicians, allied hea...
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
This is absolutely brilliant. Instigated by Gordon Brown, delivered today. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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World's longest coastal path opens in England to the public
The King Charles coastal path will allow walkers right of access to the entire coast for the first time.
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National Kidney Cancer Audit @nkca-natcan.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
It's #NationalCancerCNSDay! NKCA is working to improve access to CNS support through a new Quality Improvement intervention. 💡Find more on our website: buff.ly/3xcrp8P 📊Check your trust’s data on our data dashboard: buff.ly/jDx7KjX @ukons.bsky.social @baunnurses.bsky.social
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Marina Parry @marinaparry.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Congratulations to Arjun for this important paper. Read, share and follow @npca-natcan.bsky.social for news/papers from the National Prostate Cancer Audit, plenty more to come!
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Ben Goldacre @bengoldacre.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
OpenSAFELY is open from today! Huge thanks to all who supported this vast collaboration: whole population GP data; in a productive platform; innovative privacy protections; unprecedented support from professions, privacy campaigners; &c Now it's over to users! www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2026/02...
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OpenSAFELY news: you can apply to do non-COVID research, from today! | Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science
We are delighted to announce that - from today - you can submit applications to the OpenSAFELY service for non-COVID-19 studies.
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Journal of Clinical Investigation @jci.org · 03/02/2026
Exploring the biology of metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer: on the road to precision medicine In this Review, Alice Bernard-Tessier & @mishabeltran.bsky.social discuss the underlying biology in mHSPC and highlight current knowledge gaps: doi.org/10.1172/JCI2...
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Marina Parry @marinaparry.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Very clear thread, well worth reading and sharing.
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Becki Lee @beckilee.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Exciting conference alert! sites.manchester.ac.uk/from-lab-to-... Fantastic speakers including Chris Marine, Christian Blank Melanoma evolution Local microenvironment of melanoma Melanoma-host interactions Precision immunotherapy Emerging therapeutics Clinical trials and real-world data
lab to life
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National Cancer Audit Collaborating Centre (NATCAN) @natcan-news.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
🔔3 Days to Go! Join Us for the NATCAN Webinar at @londonglobalcancer.bsky.social 📅 Thursday, 27 November 🕙 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM (GMT) Last chance to register: natcan.org.uk/events/londo... #LGCW2025 #LondonGlobalCancerWeek
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Jon Lim, FRCP PhD @drjonlim.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Fantastic opportunity from @turajliclab.bsky.social! 🚀 The CanDy Lab is recruiting an Associate Scientist to drive cutting-edge cancer research across @cruk-mi.bsky.social and @crick.ac.uk. A rare chance to lead, grow, and shape high-impact science 👇 www.cruk.manchester.ac.uk/career/mi-25...
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MI/25/63 Associate Scientist | Cancer Research UK Manchester Institute
We are seeking a highly motivated and accomplished Associate Scientist to help lead and shape the programme. You will act as an operational deputy to Professor Samra Turajlic, helping to bridge activi...
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Jon Lim, FRCP PhD @drjonlim.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
So proud of my colleague Sacha Howell on this latest @nature.com publication reporting on the Breast Cancer-Anti-Progestin Prevention Study 1 (BC-APPS1) - many years in the making: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Press release from The University of Manchester: www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/n...
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New study uncovers potential way to prevent breast cancer in pre-menopausal women
A University of Manchester study funded by Breast Cancer Now and supported by Prevent Breast Cancer, reveals a drug approved for use in other conditions could be repurposed to prevent breast cancer in...
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Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre @crukcamcentre.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
The UK’s first one-stop kidney cancer clinic at @cuh.nhs.uk is transforming kidney cancer diagnosis. With a confocal microscope, patients can get a biopsy, diagnosis & treatment plan – all on the same day. Find out more: crukcambridgecentre.org.uk/news/one-sto... @crukcamurol.bsky.social
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Clare Griffiths @statsgeekclare.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
New CMO report out today on health trends and variation in England. My team delivered this using a RAP developed in R, which made a nice change from lots of people running around putting numbers into excel then pasting into powerpoint... Was not without challenges though! www.gov.uk/government/p...
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Health trends and variation in England 2025: a Chief Medical Officer report
An overview of the health of England’s population, including trends over time and geographical variation.
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Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP) @hqip.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
1/2 With #WorldCancerResearchDay shining a light on cancer care, we update on the HQIP-commissioned National Cancer Audit Collaborating Centre, which hosts all ten #NHS national cancer audits that are part of the National Clinical Audit and Patient Outcomes Programme. @natcan-news.bsky.social
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National Cancer Audit Collaborating Centre (NATCAN) @natcan-news.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Our new website is live! 🎉 All 10 national cancer audits are now in one place: bowel, OG, NHL, lung, ovarian, kidney, prostate, pancreatic, primary breast & metastatic breast. Plus refreshed QI & new sections have been added, check it out here 👉 natcan.org.uk
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Marina Parry @marinaparry.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
ICYMI and want to know more about how tumor transcription-wide expression classifiers predict treatment sensitivity in advanced prostate cancers > look no further: www.cell.com/cell/pdf/S00...
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Prostate Cancer UK Professionals @prostateukprofs.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Could transcriptome signatures identify men with advanced #ProstateCancer most likely to benefit from chemotherapy? A brilliant team led by Prof Gerhardt Attard @ucl.ac.uk share exciting new findings in @cp-cell.bsky.social. Grab a ☕ and read: doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...
Scientific Paper Published in Cell, titled: Tumor transcriptome-wide expression classifiers predict treatment sensitivity in advanced prostate cancers. Written by Grist et al.
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UCL News @uclnews.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
A new test can identify which prostate cancer patients are more likely to benefit from chemotherapy and live longer, sparing patients less likely to benefit from unpleasant side effects, shows a new study led by Prof Gert Attard & Dr Emily Grist @uclmedsci.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/au...
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Molecular test personalises prostate cancer treatment
Testing the molecular profile of tumours identifies which patients with advanced prostate cancer are more likely to benefit from chemotherapy and live longer, sparing patients less likely to benefit f...
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Marina Parry @marinaparry.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
REALLY thrilled to share findings from my postdoc work in the Attard lab, which form part of this www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... Thanks to Emily and Gert for seeing it over the line, all the funders, the Veracyte, MRC CTU & STAMPEDE teams, and patients who contributed samples. Pls share!
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Tumor transcriptome-wide expression classifiers predict treatment sensitivity in advanced prostate cancers
Advanced prostate cancers respond to hormone therapy but outcomes vary and no predictive tests exist for informed treatment selection. To identify nov…
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National Prostate Cancer Audit @npca-natcan.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
📢 Start your week with the latest National Prostate Cancer Audit study. We found that the annual rate of metastatic prostate cancer at diagnosis was more than 60% higher in some regions than in others in England. Paper link here 👉 bmjoncology.bmj.com/content/4/1/...
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Geographic, socioeconomic and demographic inequalities in the incidence of metastatic prostate cancer at time of diagnosis in England: a population-based evaluation
Objective To evaluate the area-based incidence of metastatic prostate cancer at diagnosis, reflecting the risk of late-stage diagnosis, and overall prostate cancer incidence, reflecting the risk of ov...
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Martin Smith @martinrsmith.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
NEW - Wellcome and UK Government partnering on a new health data research service, contributing up £600m together. This will simplify secure access to health data and speed up research to better understand ill health. wellcome.org/news/nationa...
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National data service will simplify access to health data for research | Wellcome
Wellcome is partnering with the UK Government to establish a £600 million health data research service. It will simplify secure access to health data for research.
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Cancer Research UK Manchester Institute @cruk-mi.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Excellent video about CAcTUS trial combining many aspects of #CancerResearch in #Manchester - including #immunotherapy, #melanoma research & #LiquidBiopsies - #ctDNA Great to hear @beckilee.bsky.social - formerly of this parish - speak about her work, plus a moving account from patient Kathy Heaton
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Marina Parry @marinaparry.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
What are the unique features, outputs and the future of NATCAN (National Cancer Audit Collaborating Centre, @natcan-news.bsky.social), where I manage the prostate @npca-natcan.bsky.social and kidney cancer audits @nkca-natcan.bsky.social? The answers are here www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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openRxiv @openrxiv.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
openRxiv has arrived! We’re thrilled to announce the launch of openRxiv as an independent, researcher-led nonprofit to oversee bioRxiv and medRxiv, the world’s leading preprint servers for life and health sciences. openrxiv.org/introducing-... #openRxiv #OpenScience #Preprints #bioRxiv #medRxiv
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Marina Parry @marinaparry.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
⚠️Do you or someone you know want to come and work with me and the fantastic @npca-natcan.bsky.social @natcan-news.bsky.social teams based @collegeofsurgeons.bsky.social? Our oncological clinical lead is the super @alison-tree.bsky.social 😁. Interested? Apply here www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMB374/c...
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Lesley Goodburn @lgoodbu.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
If you work in a hospital or a cancer alliance take some time to look at the data from the National Cancer Audit Collaborating Centre (NATCAN) Pancreatic Cancer Audit www.natcan.org.uk/reports/npac... It will help you to find the areas that you can identify for improvement #sethslegacy
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NPaCA Quarterly Data Dashboard - National Cancer Audit Collaborating Centre
The purpose of the National Pancreatic Cancer Audit (NPaCA) is to evaluate the patterns of care and outcomes for patients with pancreatic cancer in England and Wales, and to support services to improv...
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Marina Parry @marinaparry.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Latest from Jo, Clinical Fellow in the NPCA. Are mHSPC patients in England receiving treatment intensification? And are all sMDTs treating patients similarly?
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Southampton Clinical Trials Unit @southamptonctu.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
We are finalists!! 🙌 Our #data team has been shortlisted for the #ACDM25 awards for designing an open-source database to integrate clinical and translational data in #ClinicalTrials. Read the paper here - journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... @cancerresearchuk.org @unisouthampton.bsky.social
ACDM awards 2025, sponsored by CERTARA. Innovation in the Management of Clinical Data, Award Finalist. A picture of Charlotte Stuart, Head of Data Management and Information Systems at SCTU, and a picture of Umar Niazi, Senior Bioinformatician at SCTU.
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Bobby Bentham @rbentham.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
🚀 Our paper introducing ImmuneLENS, a new tool that measures T and B cell fractions from WGS data. This builds on our previous method, T cell ExTRECT, that used a signal from V(D)J recombination to measure T cells. Out today in @naturegenet.bsky.social : doi.org/10.1038/s41588-025-02086-5 🧵👇
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ImmuneLENS characterizes systemic immune dysregulation in aging and cancer - Nature Genetics
Immune lymphocyte estimation from nucleotide sequencing (ImmuneLENS) infers B cell and T cell fractions from whole-genome sequencing data. Applied to the 100,000 Genomes Project datasets, circulating ...
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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
For the last 5 months, I’ve spoken to Rosy as she’s fought for care. MND means she needs a ventilator and feeding tube and yet she has been denied 24/7 carers. Rosy is now losing her voice but wants to speak out. We should all listen. In today’s @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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A reader with a terminal illness emailed in despair. What she told me should shock us all | Frances Ryan
Rosy is unable to move, breathe or eat unassisted. Yet for hours a day she is being left completely alone, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan
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Marina Parry @marinaparry.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Very proud to share the results of the NPCA team's hard work over the last few months. It's a data rich report: increase in diagnoses and numbers of treatment, differences in diagnoses and treatments by age, ethnicity and deprivation. Please share!
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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Throughout 2024, the Guardian aimed to report on every woman allegedly killed by a man. Here are the 80 women whose deaths have led to a man being charged. Let us say their names. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/ng-i...
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Killed women count: 80 women allegedly killed by men in UK in 2024
Throughout the year the Guardian aimed to report on every woman whose death has led to a man being charged
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Mark Miodownik @markmiodownik.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Even in the face of tragedy parents Merope and Paul fought to change the system and save other families from the same fate.
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Joachim Goedhart @joachimgoedhart.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
There are now 24 step-by-step guides, explaining how to create these ⬇️ data visualizations with R/ggplot2 - I hope this is a useful resource. Find them all here: joachimgoedhart.github.io/DataViz-prot...
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Marina Parry @marinaparry.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Some lovely work from my fellow ex-UCL Cancer Institute Postdoc Association committee member. Explanatory thread, animation and all!
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Geoff Norcott @geoffnorcott.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Massive away win for the little fella.
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Marina Parry @marinaparry.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Many excellent suggestions in Kay's post: "Talk about the importance of career planning...Talk about our own career choices, moments of indecision...Discuss opportunities...Look for ways to deputise...be prepared to let talented people go" There's more so read the whole thing!
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Octopus.ac @octopus-ac.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
🎉Octopus.ac has integrated with the UK government's Areas of Research Interest (ARI) database, enhancing collaboration between researchers and policymakers. Find out more about the new feature ji.sc/octopus-ari-... #OpenResearch @ukri.org @jisc.bsky.social
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Gaby Hinsliff @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
there is no columnist I've admired more than Melanie Reid, because she took a world whose horizons had necessarily shrunk (at times to the dimensions of a hospital bed) & found something new & interesting in it to say every week. An incredible feat of writing www.thetimes.com/life-style/h...
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This is my last Spinal Column. Writing it helped me survive
Melanie Reid wrote her first Spinal Column in 2010, just days after breaking her neck and back in a riding accident. She thought she might have enough material for a month. Almost 15 years and many aw...
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Marina Parry @marinaparry.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
As someone who has left the lab bench/desk behind, I strongly echo the 1st contributor's advice "reflecting on your skills, working style and values". What are you good at? What do you enjoy doing? Getting 360 degree feedback is also useful, as suggested here. Valuable to regularly consider these
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James Briscoe @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
A stimulating workshop on the subject of Waddington Landscapes in Lyon last week, prompted me to compose some thoughts on dynamical landscapes, gene regulatory networks, and single cell transcriptomics briscoelab.org/morphogenalia/
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Developmental Dynamics of Tissue Formation
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