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Kevin Waldron

@waldronlab.bsky.social
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British/Irish in Poland —————————————— Institute Professor, Lab of Metalloprotein Biology, IBB-PAS, Warsaw —————————————— Opinions entirely my own

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Mariko Bennett @nachoriko.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
I defended my PhD 10 years ago today. That was the least remarkable thing that happened that day. Sharing something I wrote about it last year. Since then "the horrors persist but so do we." And with dignity.
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Molecular Biology and Evolution @molbioevol.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Mackenzie, @waldronlab.bsky.social et al. argue that differing superoxide dismutase metal preferences observed across the tree of life evolved through tuning of their redox properties by the secondary coordination sphere. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag040 #evobio #molbio
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An enzyme's metal preference evolves through redox modulation driven by the cofactor's secondary coordination sphere
Abstract. Changes in protein properties and functions are central to the evolution of life. Metalloproteins can evolve by changing their preference from on
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Kevin Waldron @waldronlab.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
New paper alert! Just out, the latest in our study of the evolution of a fascinating family of metalloenzymes, the iron- or manganese-dependent superoxide dismutases (SodFMs). Here, we’ve probed the evolutionary mechanism.
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Kevin Waldron @waldronlab.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
The ups and downs of academic life: a story told in two Acts (from two consecutive days)
Grant rejected 27/11/2025Grant successful 28/11/2025
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Kevin Waldron @waldronlab.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
A cracking weekend in Annecy with a whole load of old friends and their families. Good times. Even a >3 h delay to my flight back from Geneva can’t dampen my spirits.
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Kevin Waldron @waldronlab.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
On Saturday, we gathered two teams from IBB-PAS to run the Relay Marathon #Ekiden in Warsaw. It was a good day for running, but it made for a sore Sunday (for me, at least). Thanks to all of our runners for a great team effort!
The survivorsThe team's medalsWaiting their turnWarming up together
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Kevin Waldron @waldronlab.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Finally, we're recruiting! If you'd like to do a PhD using NMR structures to study the dynamics of a metalloenzyme, then you're in luck! Come to Warsaw for this project, in collaboration with Simone Ciofi-Baffoni's group at CERM, Florence: ibb.edu.pl/app/uploads/...
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Kevin Waldron @waldronlab.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Lots of new stuff to share today...
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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Happy 99th birthday to the man who gave voice to the wild. 🎉 Sir David Attenborough, thank you for a lifetime dedicated to the natural world, and for sharing its story with wisdom, wonder, and grace. You've inspired generations to fall in love with nature.
This photograph captures Sir David Attenborough seated outdoors on the rugged terrain of Skomer Island. Behind him, the ocean and coastal cliffs form a scenic backdrop under a clear sky. Sir David, dressed in a khaki jacket and light trousers, looks towards the camera with a gentle expression, exuding a sense of warmth, calm, and wisdom. Around him, puffins can be seen flying and perched on the rocky ground, illuminated in rays of golden sunlight as the sun sets behind the cliffs.
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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made. -FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.
Original 1925 jacket cover of The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby
Here is a novel, glamorous, ironical, compassionate a marvellous fusion into unity of the curious incongruities of the life of the period which reveals a hero like no other one who could live at no other time and in no other place. But he will live as a character, we surmise, as long as the memory of any reader lasts.
"There was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life. ..
It was an
extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again?"
It is the story of this Jay Gatsby who came so mysteriously to West Egg, of his sumptuous er-tertainments, and of his love for Daisy Buchanan a story that ranges from pure lyrical beauty to sheer brutal realism, and is infused with a sense of the strangeness of human circumstance in a heedless universe.
It is a magical, living book, blended of irony, romance, and mysticism.
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
The
GREAT GATSBY
FITZGERALD
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Scott Galloway @profgalloway.com · 10/04/2025
Prediction: Today (4/9/25) registered the greatest ill gotten gains from insider trading in history.
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Kevin Waldron @waldronlab.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Grant number 2 submitted for this calendar year. Two down, two more to go. But for now, on to the manuscripts that have been backing up for the last couple of months.
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Kevin Waldron @waldronlab.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Florence never fails to take your breath away
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Kevin Waldron @waldronlab.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
A great week at the IPNC conference in Florence. Learned a lot about this interesting group of bacteria which will help in our forthcoming project, and nice to meet a whole new community of researchers.
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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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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Good morning to this man, and this man only #bbcqt
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Kevin Waldron @waldronlab.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
This weekend, my parents came to visit me in Warsaw, so I gave them a tour of the lab. Turns out it was the first time they'd visited any of my labs, which is weird. But I think they're now convinced that I really do have a proper job 🤷‍♂️
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 12/02/2025
That’s nothing. I found 13 contracts awarded to SpaceX since December totaling $77M. 1/
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Mark Follman @markfollman.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Incredible: Russ Vought’s daughter has cystic fibrosis and benefits from a “miracle drug” made possible by the National Institutes of Health—an agency Vought now aims to gut as part of the Project 2025 attack www.motherjones.com/politics/202... Scoop from @motherjones.com’s @metrauxjulia.bsky.social
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Project 2025 is gutting medical funding that helped Russell Vought's own kid
Its architect's daughter has cystic fibrosis—and benefits from a "miracle drug" backed by an agency he's attacking.
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Kevin Waldron @waldronlab.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
When the Bar is publicly stating your country’s laws are being destroyed right in front of you, things are… er, not great www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...
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The ABA supports the rule of law
It has been three weeks since Inauguration Day. Most Americans recognize that newly elected leaders bring change. That is expected. But most Americans also expect that changes will take place in accor...
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 05/02/2025
Selective outrage of the right.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Of course it’s a coup. Miss the obvious, lose your republic. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
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Of course it’s a coup
Miss the obvious, lose your republic
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Kevin Waldron @waldronlab.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Deadline tomorrow, get your application in
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Last few days to apply...
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Melissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife.com · 01/02/2025
Your regular reminder Delft’s market square was a surface parking lot as recently as 2004. A razor-thin coalition (19-18 votes) initiated a six-month pilot to help merchants realize cars don’t spend money, people do. Years later, no one remembers the controversy or regrets the decision. *Sound on*
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Gary Swergold MD, PhD @gs314.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
🧪 If I were Canadian PM I would immediately: 1. Create a new $15B science fund 2. Offer any credentialed US scientist funding for lab startup and replacement of NIH grants if they move to Canada 3. Immediate permanent residency 4. Citizenship after 2 years Overnight a science superpower
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Kevin Waldron @waldronlab.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Looking for a postdoc position? Want to apply your biochemistry skills to answer interesting evolutionary questions of how metalloenzymes evolve? Join my growing team in Warsaw at @IBBPAS. We're seeking a talented new postdoc to work on the superoxide dismutases. ibb.edu.pl/app/uploads/...
Tetrameric cartoon structure of a SodFM5 subfamily SOD isozyme
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Kevin Waldron @waldronlab.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
One more week to get your applications submitted
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Kevin Waldron @waldronlab.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Are you a graduate seeking a research post in Warsaw? Looking to gain experience working in a biochemical lab? Have good organisation skills, and want to be part of a team making fundamental discoveries? Join my group at @IBBPAS as a Technician studying metalloproteins. ibb.edu.pl/app/uploads/...
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
"Open science is not a new thing. People have been talking about how to reconcile scientific messiness and rigour for a long time"- @maddipow.bsky.social #QRS2025 @cqr-bath.bsky.social
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Chandrashekhar Azad the Indian freedom fighter once evaded British police looking for him on a train by disguising himself as the conducttor and escorting them from car to car helping them search
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Kevin Waldron @waldronlab.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
We are recruiting for my lab in Warsaw. One postdoc position available for a biochemistry project on superoxide dismutases (of course). ibb.edu.pl/app/uploads/... We're also looking for a technician. ibb.edu.pl/app/uploads/... Get your application in!
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 21/01/2025
I love this so much! At the inauguration, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wore a distinctive collar adorned with cowrie shells, which are believed to offer protection from evil in African traditions. This choice mirrors the late Justice Ginsburg’s practice of using collars to convey a message.
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Some Random Dude @realsrd2020.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
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Roger Senserrich @4freedoms.es · 19/01/2025
My GPU has 45 billion transistors in it. Like, we have this magic rock that we carved 45,000,000,000 miniature switches on it to create images of worlds that do not exist on a screen. We really, really not appreciate enough how insanely magical technology is.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
RIP David Lynch. We will avenge the five Woodys.
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Kevin Waldron @waldronlab.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Last couple of days to apply
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Erica Wilkinson @everywhereerica.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
I don't know how many of y'all are watching the migration of American TikTokers to RedNote, but it's the most fascinating thing I've EVER SEEN HAPPEN ONLINE. 🧵
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Kevin Waldron @waldronlab.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Three hour lab meeting to start 2025? ✅ We’re back!
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Felicity Hannah @felicityhannah.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Given the immense vastness of all the music ever created by humanity, it’s such a weird coincidence that the very best songs all happened to be released when I was aged 14-21.
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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
"This has led to comparisons with the events of autumn 2022, and a suggestion that Reeves may be having a Liz Truss / Kwasi Kwarteng moment. This is obviously bollocks, but how obviously bollocks?" 👏 @financialtimes.com 11-8227-404d-8629-ae7dca82d0b8
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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Snoopy knows
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
I don't really use TikTok that much, but I find it fascinating that our government is on the verge of banning an app for national security reasons that are still unclear in the same week that Meta, the largest social media company, says it's now fine to hate LGBTQ people and call us mentally ill.
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
The photo before THE photo. THE BEATLES ABBEY ROAD (1969)
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Kevin Waldron @waldronlab.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
End of first full work week of the NY Two of my group gave a talk 🥹 One manuscript making progress, two others being planned out It’s gonna be busy month
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Kevin Waldron @waldronlab.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
So it turns out that I really am a micro-manager 🤦🏻‍♂️
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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
“We’re going to be the social network that lets you - encourages you - to say slurs”
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Dr Charles Smith @smith-brocca.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
My letter in today's Guardian. Just asking, like. But I think we know the answer.
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Delthia Ricks @dricks.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Good resistance news: An 'Achilles heel' discovered in antibiotic resistant bacteria. Scientists in Canada found the critical vulnerability: bacteria need zinc. Deprive them of the nutrient & their stability is disrupted making them susceptible to antibiotics again www.genengnews.com/topics/infec...
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New Achilles Heel Exposed in Antibiotic Resistance
Carbapenems are last-resort antibiotics for treating bacterial infections. A study shows how zinc plays a role in drug-resistant bacteria.
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