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Mike Morgan

@mdmorgan.bsky.social
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Lecturer (assistant professor) University of Aberdeen. Immunology, computational biology, genetics and single cells. Runner, climber and connoisseur of Yorkshire tea. Views expressed are my own. www.morganlab.co.uk

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Mike Morgan @mdmorgan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Come join us in Aberdeen! We have two exciting postdoc positions working on cardio-immunology with Prof Dana Dawson in collaboration with the fantastic @kelvintuong.bsky.social. (1) www.abdnjobs.co.uk/vacancy/rese... (2) www.abdnjobs.co.uk/vacancy/rese...
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Research Fellow in Cardio-Immunology (IMS336R) | University of Aberdeen
We seek to appoint an enthusiastic, motivated immunology postdoctoral fellow with top of the range knowledge and ability and demonstrated aptitude in cardiovascular sciences. The successful candidate ...
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Mike Morgan @mdmorgan.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
A gentle reminder that this exciting PhD opportunity closes in just over 2 weeks. Please reach out to me to chat before applying.
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Ed @edballister.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
There’s also a prophylactic cancer vaccine trial in the UK for smokers: www.cancer.ox.ac.uk/news/world20...
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World’s first lung cancer prevention vaccine gets £2 million for clinical trial
People at high risk of lung cancer will soon be able to receive the first-ever experimental vaccine, 'LungVax', designed to prevent the disease, in a world-first clinical trial. The LungVax vaccine ca...
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Mike Morgan @mdmorgan.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
I'm looking for a PhD student to join the lab studying mutations, T cells ageing and cancer. If that tickles your fancy then reach out and I'd love to chat. More details on findAPhD.com www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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JAMT: Somatic mutations as drivers of ageing and chemotherapy-induced immunosenescence at University of Aberdeen on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - JAMT: Somatic mutations as drivers of ageing and chemotherapy-induced immunosenescence at University of Aberdeen , listed on FindAPhD.com
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Mike Morgan @mdmorgan.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Except Greens don't field a candidate in every constituency, which leaves us somewhat bereft! We then have a choice between the devil and the deep blue sea/oil stakeholders.
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Mike Morgan @mdmorgan.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
This aligns with my experience teaching programming and visualisation. Last year I told the students they could use LLMs if they wanted to and the ones that off-loaded their thinking to the genAI didn't do well. Inspired by your post I might teach them a "good" Vs "bad" prompt and see if that helps!
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Wolfgang Huber @wkhuber.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
1/ Apply for an inter-disciplinary postdoc position in Heidelberg with the Health & Life Science Alliance Deadline: **31 March** Project proposals can be self-designed or adapt one of the outlines on the website ("List of project outlines for download") www.health-life-sciences.de/opportunitie...
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HEALTH + LIFE SCIENCE ALLIANCE | Interinstitutional Postdoc Call |…
Apply for the Alliance Interinstitutional Postdoc Program in health & life sciences. Two-year funded positions with interdisciplinary research support.
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Tim Davies @timdavies.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
It will be a great time! UK Worm labs - please pass on group members.
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Mike Morgan @mdmorgan.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Even this place is infected now 😭
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Mike Morgan @mdmorgan.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
The lineage relationships shown here are not factually correct.
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Mike Morgan @mdmorgan.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Link broken 😞
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Mike Morgan @mdmorgan.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Is the UK government anti-science or is UKRI?! Either way this will be the death knell for many a junior and aspiring group leader. Shocking decision making
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Duncan Sproul @sproullab.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
I fail to see how a 43.5% drop in funding is compatible with the statement Ian Chapman made to the committee on Tuesday that funding for curiosity driven research at UKRI will be flat (which is technically still a cut but a smaller one).
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Mike Morgan @mdmorgan.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
The first domino to fall? The university sector is in dire straits and politicians on all sides of the UK borders have sat in silence.
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Diamond Ashiagbor @diamondashiagbor.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Devastatingly sad. Every Labour MP should be forced to read this. In fact, every MP, who rushed back to Parliament to vote to save one steel mill, whilst hastening the collapse of dozens of universities - and harming the students, staff, communities and economies universities sustain and support
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Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre @crukcamcentre.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Today is #WorldCancerDay. Meet Dr Maike de le Roche and her team at the CRUK Cambridge Institute, exploring how hedgehog signalling helps the immune system fight cancer. 🎥 Watch the full video: zurl.co/MMY6E Watch the full series: zurl.co/wXWNJ #FocusOnCamCancer
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Adrian Liston @labliston.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Our new book "Self-Doubt" is written by scientists for scientists. You might think you are alone when you doubt your ability or suitability for science - you aren't. We all question ourselves and carry doubt with us daily. www.amazon.co.uk/Self-Doubt-A...
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EMBL @embl.org · 26/01/2026
Recruitment for the EMBL International PhD Programme is officially open! 🔊 At EMBL, we train young scientists to become skilled and creative future leaders in academia, industry and other sectors. Start your career in the life sciences with us! 🔎 Read more here: tinyurl.com/4jdt2ra5
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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 24/01/2026
Board of Peace - Season 1
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Mike Morgan @mdmorgan.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Woefully irresponsible of Nature Medicine to publish this comment from the NIH puppet director. Absolutely shocking.
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INTEGRATE-Bio @integrate-bio.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
🚨Calling all UK-based biomedical postdocs!🚨If you’re curious about code or have questions about the world of data science, join our peer mentoring scheme to connect with your peers across the data divide forms.office.com/e/UsRFm2F0a7 (closes 02/03/26).
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Vaccines, the most impressive public health intervention in medical history, and where we could be headed if there was not efforts to negate truth, facts, and evidence A great, open-access, review and perspective by @scientificdiscovery.dev
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Mike Morgan @mdmorgan.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
🤯 Another tumour immune evasion strategy uncovered. This times it's MHC molecules that acts as decoys to distract cytotoxic T cells.
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Mike Morgan @mdmorgan.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Fascinating work Emma. I strongly suspect we'll becoming back to these data over and over again as a resource to understand T cell ageing. Having not read the deets yet, how do the edited cells compare to genuine polarised effector vs. memory T cells? Is that a comparison you've done?
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Mike Morgan @mdmorgan.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
And just about Carnoustie on the east coast. I was wondering what this looked like as I slogged through the snow with the dog this morning.
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Mike Morgan @mdmorgan.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
I suspect timing will matter. Other countries rolled out varicella vaccination years ago (not sure of uptake) so more likely to see results from US, Germany, etc first. The Geldsetzer papers used data from older age vaccination, so this might also be important. Agree this is going to be fascinating.
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Prof Danny Altmann @daltmann.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Job links for those posts with our team: www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...
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Please note that job descriptions are not exhaustive, and you may be asked to take on additional duties that align with the key responsibilities ment...
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Wolfgang Huber @wkhuber.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
CSAMA 2026 - Biological Data Science Summer School Bressanone-Brixen, South Tyrol / Italy 24-29 May 2026 csama2026.bioconductor.eu Statistical & computational methods for single cell and spatial omics, with lectures and hands-on exercises in R/Bioconductor.
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Mike Morgan @mdmorgan.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
CSAMA back in 2014 was a formative experience for me as a budding computational biologist. The instructors are world class, the workshops are pitched at a level for a range of expertise, and the location is second-to-none. Highly recommended.
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Dirk Eddelbuettel @eddelbuettel.com · 15/12/2025
MIT's famous 'Missing Semester' course (for the Independent Activities Period in January is back. missing.csail.mit.edu/2026/
Screenshot of lecture plan for the 2026 lectures for the 'Missing Semester' IAP course at MIT
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Mike Morgan @mdmorgan.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Doubley recommend both At the Helm and the EMBO courses Wolfgang linked to. They have been formative for how I've setup my lab and the philosophy I have for it's future. Also, talking to a diverse set of new PIs can give you some important insights into what worked for them specifically.
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Duncan Sproul @sproullab.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Last few days to apply for this #PhD project!
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FragileNucleosome @fnucleosome.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
🧬🎉Join us on Dec 17th for our last session of 2025! 🎉🧬Two fantastic talks on transcriptional regulation: 🔬JB Lalanne on developmental enhancers (and starting a lab in 2025?) 🔬 @rberrens.bsky.social on transposable elements in development 📋Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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yEFIS @yefis-immunology.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
👉 Save the date! SIICA announces the Virtual School of Immunology 2026, an online event open to anyone interested in gaining a deeper understanding of how the immune system works. 🎙️Expert talks 💼 A dedicated career-development workshop session ✍️ More details coming soon!
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Sung Kim @sungkim.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
What coding with an LLM feels like sometimes.
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Genetics Society UK @gensocuk.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Congratulations to @zaminiqbal.bsky.social from @milnerevolution.bsky.social on being awarded the 2026 Mary Lyon Medal!
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Genetics Society UK @gensocuk.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Applications for the Genetics Society Summer Studentship Grants are open! If you’re an undergrad itching to dive into real research, this is your doorway into the lab. More information here: genetics.org.uk/grants/summe...
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Mike Morgan @mdmorgan.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
There's only so many ways one can say "I want good students please"!
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Duncan Sproul @sproullab.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
🚨 Multiple #PhD opportunities for lab or computational applicants. Do you want to understand the molecular basis of #epigenetic dysfunction in human disease? Come work with our group at the fantastic, collaborative @uoe-igc.bsky.social in a beautiful, liveable city. 🧵 1/4 Please repost 🙏
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Mike Morgan @mdmorgan.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
I'm looking for top-notch candidate for a fully-funded PhD working on role of somatic mutations in ageing immune decline. Ideal for wet-lab or quantitative candidates. Fantastic collaboration with Prof Martin Taylor in Edinburgh THE UK expert in mutations. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Zamin Iqbal @zaminiqbal.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Small update from AllTheBacteria (allthebacteria.org). Assemblies can be bulk downloaded from OSF as before, or you can now get individual assemblies from AWS. We now also have a LexicMap index on AWS, so you can align your favourite gene against 2.4million bacteria (next post for price estimates)
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Mike Morgan @mdmorgan.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
On an immunological note, promiscuous expression of reproductive tissue antigens in the thymus might also suggest there is a need for tolerance against these tissues, albeit earlier in life than most cancer patients. What are your thoughts?
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Mike Morgan @mdmorgan.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Baking in marginal selection of antigens to prevent the adverse loss of reproduction seems a minor inconvenience compared to stopping someone from having kids full stop.
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Mike Morgan @mdmorgan.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Saying reproductive tissues are fair game relegates the patient to an object rather than a living breathing person. If that cancer therapy destroys someone's child bearing or producing capacity that is not a good therapy.
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Mike Morgan @mdmorgan.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Intriguing - maybe worth throwing into the mix that CTAs might need to be sex dependent. Probably not a great idea to give anti-testes CARTs to blokes and anti-placental CARTs to women.
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British Society for Immunology @britsocimm.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Celebrate International #DayofImmunology by treating yourself to one of our events or training courses! 🎉 Whether its our Diversity in Immunology event, next week’s Flow Cytometry training, or the BSI Immunology Awards - there's something for you 👀 bit.ly/3v2aAi1
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Viki Male @vikilovesfacs.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
👶🏼 Many #vaccines are not effective in newborns. So how do we protect them from infectious disease? 🤰🏽 By vaccination in #pregnancy! Here we review… 💉 Established campaigns vs whooping cough, flu, COVID 💡 New approaches to RSV, GBS 🌈 Future challenges, opportunities #ReproSky #ImmunoSky #IDSky
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Vaccination in pregnancy to protect the newborn - Nature Reviews Immunology
In this Review, Male and Jones provide an overview of the current vaccines that are offered during pregnancy and to newborns, explaining the rationale behind the different vaccination programmes and t...
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British Society for Immunology @britsocimm.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Today marks the start of #WorldImmunisationWeek! ⭐ Get inspired by reading our latest #CelebrateVaccines blog, which explores how the new RSV vaccine is cutting NHS costs and protecting vulnerable populations. 🔗 bit.ly/42V1NwZ #VaccinesWork #HumanlyPossible
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Matthew Cobb @matthewcobb.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Jess read the “dire wolf” preprint so you don’t have to. A long, exasperated and heroic evening thread by someone who knows what they are talking about, which shows the whole thing to be even more flakey than we thought. We salute you, @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social!
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Ardem Patapoutian @ardemp.bskyverified.social · 09/04/2025
Published an op-ed for @cnn.com: “Nobel laureate: I owe America my success. Today, its scientific future is in danger.” A personal reflection on what’s at stake as science funding gets slashed. I’d be grateful if you could amplify both in and beyond the science world. www.cnn.com/2025/04/09/h...
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Nobel laureate: I owe America my success. Today, its scientific future is in danger | CNN
Dr. Ardem Patapoutian says he watches “with deep sadness as the United States’ remarkable scientific enterprise, which took generations of hard work and national investment to build, faces a concerted...
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