Please help spread the word about our inaugural public lecture on Wednesday. Sign up and if you are in the ageing field it’s a great opp for your family to finally understand what you do! 😀
Thanks for your support 🙏
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🚨Friday read! 🚨
2024 winner of the Korenchevsky Prize Hanane Haji-Moussa of @babrahaminst.bsky.social reports back from #AGE2025 in Alaska.
Platforming the best of ageing biology research and especially our amazing ECR members is core to the BSRA. Great job Hanane!🎉
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Happy #MicroscopyMonday! This video, captured by Berta in the @trayon.bsky.social lab in collaboration with our Imaging facility, shows a mouse embryo dividing. This video allows researchers to visualise the events that happen before implantation at an early stage of development.
Images show uveal melanoma cells showing the accumulation of lipid droplets in the absence of CDS2 (right), compared with cells with functional CDS2 (left). Lipid droplets are stained green with BODIPY™ 493/503. Image from Chan et al., Nature Genetics.
This #MicroscopyMonday shows an image from research published last week. The images are of uveal melanoma cells showing the accumulation of lipid droplets in the absence of CDS2 (right), compared with cells with functional CDS2 (left). Lipid droplets are stained green with BODIPY™ 493/503.
If you want a place to get ready for Pride in London, seeing some cool science demos, or just have some free pastries come along to our coffee morning at the @ri-science.bsky.social on July 5!
Get your free ticket here!
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Eleonore Ocaña during her performance at the EU-LIFE Science Vision Talk Contest, Brno, Czech Republic, 22 May 2025 © CEITEC
🌟 Did you hear about the EU-LIFE #ScienceVision Talk Contest? And how Eleonore Ocaña @babrahaminst.bsky.social rapped her way to victory?
🎤 In this interview, she shares what it felt like to step out of her comfort zone and how this was “one of the highlights of my #PhD experience” ➡️ bit.ly/3TtvjEx
The research team also believes that, in their preliminary analysis up to 2024, the trend is intensifying over time! #QueerInSTEM
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A hand-drawn infographic titled “What’s Your Research Impact?” shows a horizontal scale between two approaches: “Publish in Peer-Reviewed” on the left and “Science Communication” on the right. Five audience categories are listed, each with a two-tone bar indicating which approach is more effective for reaching them: 1. Other Academics – Mostly reached through peer-reviewed publishing, with some reach through science communication. 2. Policy Makers – Slightly reached through peer-reviewed literature, but mostly through science communication. 3. Non-Profits & NGOs – Primarily reached through science communication. 4. Donors & Philanthropists – Mostly reached through science communication. 5. Journalists & Media – Strongly reached through science communication, barely through peer-reviewed publishing. The graphic visually emphasizes that the broader societal impact of research requires communication beyond peer-reviewed journals.
Publishing in journals reaches other academics.
But if you want to reach policymakers, nonprofits, funders, or the media—
You need science communication.
Visibility creates impact.
Not just citations.
#SciComm 🧪
A redbrick manor house with lawn at the front and blue sky with whispy clouds
Beautiful sunny Babraham Hall ☀️ glad to have such a stunning office
What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?
Sources do not get to see the journalism pieces I write before they are published. Even the scientists.
Our Babraham Institute starter pack is growing! Keep up with our staff by giving them all a follow buff.ly/MzAjUcM 🧪
I'm having a lot of fun spending time with the McGough lab 🦟 @ianmcgough.bsky.social
Sciencing while trans. 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈Here's a story with people who talk about their experiences and some allies for transgender scientists are there, too. Here is a link www.nature.com/articles/s41... and this is a quasi-open-access link rdcu.be/enXDo
Just one of the many unexpected things you end up doing because you work in science communication - making a rap lyric video and matching ion channel outfit reveal for the one and only Rapper Rhodopsin! 😎
The @babrahaminst.bsky.social rock steady crew in Brno at the @eu-life.bsky.social Communuty Meeting
Representative images of sections (from L-R) of the lung, liver, and small intestine from control (upper panel) and knockout mice (lower panel). The arrows indicate accumulation of immune cells into these tissues. Text reads: News - Maintaining balance in the immune system.
Did you see this research from the Turner lab? The team published the first description of the role of the ZFP36 family of RNA binding proteins in regulatory T cells. A step towards understanding age-related inflammation.
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@martint-babraham.bsky.social #ImmunoSky
Welcome to YEN 2025. We are kicking off today with Peter Rugg-Gunn who presented their impressive in vitro system of implantation and post-implantation developmentm
Portrait of Paul Workman and event details copied from the website - 1-2pm, 12th June, Petersfield Lecture Theatre, Babraham
We're excited to be welcoming Prof Paul Workman as the next speaker in our distinguished lecture series! Paul will cover the 15-year rollercoaster journey to discover the cancer drug NXP800 and its mechanisms 🧪
Register now to join us on 12th June: www.babraham.ac.uk/seminars/202...
Beautiful pictures Komal! Congratulations on your poster win 🙌
Two polaroid-style images over a background of confetti. The image on the left shows Rachael accepting her award. The images on the right shows the award. Text reads: Congratualtions Rachael! Highly Commended: Researcher of the Year 2025. Cambridge Independent Science and Technology Awards
We're celebrating our superwoman of #FlowCytometry today - Head of our Flow Cytometry facility Rachael Walker who was Highly Commended in the Researcher of the Year category at the Cambridge Independent Science and Technology Awards last night!
Our regular coffee hour is 🚨TOMORROW🚨 May 16th at 5pm EST. Join our discord or the mailing list to get the link 😀
See y'all soon!!
I'm am very excited - and little bit emotional - today as we start the two day Symposium to celebrate the achievements and retirement of my colleagues and chief PI3K gurus - Len Stephens and Phill Hawkins
A collection of circular hard enamel pins which say "It's Dr, Actually". The backgrounds of the pins are in the style of the nonbinary, trans, agender, genderqueer, genderfluid, bigender, intersex, lesbian, and progress pride flags. There are also flagless backgrounds in black, white, hot pink, pearlescent purple, pearlescent dark green, pearlescent pink, pearlescent light blue, and pearlescent light green. A handwritted URL directs you to look up CanopyRobin.Etsy.Com
They're finally here! The full range of "It's Dr, Actually" pins is now available, thanks to your support!
Please share them as much as possible so that they reach the people who'll love them: canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/1841...
Who's ready for another @thestemvillage.bsky.social Immunology Seminar Series? If you haven't seen these before, we invite LGBTQ+ immunologists to present online to the wider immunology community. If you'd like to present or attend, please drop a mention below #immunosky 🧪 #academicsky
Are you passionate about immunology? ❣️
Help spark curiosity and conversation with the public! The BSI Communication & Engagement Grant offers up to £1,000 to bring your ideas to life 🔬
Submit your application by 1 June. Find out more 👉 bit.ly/3Y9j8gm
Co-organized by EMBL, EMBO and EMBO Press, the EMBL Science and Society Conference "In science we trust?" will explore the importance of public trust in science and the role we all play in shaping its future. 🧪 Register by 5 May: www.embl.org/about/info/c... #LifeSciences @embl.org @embopress.org
Tuesday 29th April, 1-2pm, Babraham Research Campus. Portrait of Prof Jason Chin, on a blue background
Babraham Distinguished Lecture 👨🏫Join us next week for Prof Jason Chin's lecture on reprogramming the genetic code.
Registration required ➡️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/babraham-d...
🧪#MolBio
Text reads: News - Institute's animal facility retains AAALAC accreditation. Image shows a mouse in a plastic tunnel being held by gloved hands.
AAALAC accreditation has been renewed for our animal facility, following rigorous external assessment. We're proud of the teamwork behind this achievement and the recognition that our facility, including our animal welfare practices, meets international standards.
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The 2nd Cambridge Proteomics and Mass Spectrometry meeting is <2 weeks away:
12-5pm Thurs 3rd Apr @ Babraham
(networking 11am-pub)
5 talks, 5 networking sessions, a ‘methods challenge’, up to 24 posters, free lunch+dinner, + up to 200 scientists!
To register please visit: www.CamsPaMS.org
Great to have our latest review "The cellular factors that impair the germinal center in advanced age" out @jimmunol.bsky.social.
Work led by @wsfoster.bsky.social and Edith Marcial-Juárez. With @sanmarti92.bsky.social creating the beautiful GC images in figure 2.
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