A warm welcome to all students starting the new MPhil in Biological Sciences Cambridge University!

Thank you to our partners and funders for supporting this initiative.

#Masters

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Throwback to our fantastic Cambridge Biosciences DTP Symposium! A great day of talks and networking with students, industry partners and keynote speakers.

A special thank you to the organising committee! ⬇️

Find out more: bit.ly/3prTd4h

#ThrowbackThursday

Interested in the cell biology of traumatic brain injury and ageing? Apply to the 3-year postdoc position in the Sanchez-Soriano lab (sanchezlab.wordpress.com)! — closing date 24-Aug-2022 @ 23:30. For more info see:
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Enough is enough. It's time to turn anger into action.

Join the campaign to fight the cost-of-living crisis.

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A very warm welcome to all 15 students on our Experience Postgrad Life Sciences internship programme! A great opportunity to discover what it is like to be a PhD student Cambridge University!

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#SummerInternship

Poster opportunity for African students in Cambridge! Come and present your work to a large and diverse audience at Cambridge-Africa Day on 6th July. Please email [email protected] to apply

I have worked with Jim Truman for many years and today he was elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences of America! Huge congratulations to him! More than fully deserved!

Hey all - we need to shout louder about this imminent UK science catastrophe!

In <2 months, recent European Research Council (ERC) awardees will need to emigrate or give up funding 1/2

The Royal Society
UK Research and Innovation
Wellcome
George Freeman MP FRSA

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I wrote a thing for ⁦nature⁩ outlining 3 common workplace gender equality mistakes:
1 Focusing on quantity rather than the quality of women’s experiences
2 Initiatives that try to fix women rather than change systems
3 An overestimation of progress nature.com/articles/d4158…

We agree with this 100% - please RT if you do too

The Home Office has now admitted that the cost of Priti Patel's Rwanda deal is enormously high and there is no evidence at all that it will have a significant impact on Channel Crossings. This unworkable and extortionate policy is unravelling quickly.

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Our review with Eva Islimye and Victor Girard on #LipidDroplets in the nervous system is now out online. We discuss some surprising differences in lipid droplet subfunctions in #glia , #neurons and #NeuralStemCells

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Exciting - spotlight on virologist
Nerea Irigoyen 👩🏻‍🔬🦠🦟🇪🇺
telling us about her work on Covid-19 and the experience of being a researcher at Cambridge. Read Nerea's story: adobe.ly/34ED7O8
#Cambridge

Expressions of interest for our Sanger Excellence #Postdoc Fellowship close soon!

Open exclusively to early-career researchers with a degree and PhD from a UK institution, and are from a Black heritage background

Find full info ➡️ sanger.ac.uk/news_item/laun…

#BlackinSTEM

Fancy seeing what #Research might feel like? Apply by 14. Feb: exppg.lifesci.cam.ac.uk School of Biological Sciences – fully paid research placements for undergrads; priority to underrepresented groups Corpus Christi @WellcomeTrust Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research #Diversity #PhD #phdchat

Are you someone who excels at learning and understanding new software tools? We are looking for someone with the skills to plan and implement a pilot project delivering digital exams - apply by Monday 31 Jan! bit.ly/3uenes9

Fancy seeing what #Research might feel like? Apply by 14. Feb: exppg.lifesci.cam.ac.uk School of Biological Sciences - fully paid research placements for undergrads; priority to those from underrepresented groups Corpus Christi @WellcomeTrust Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research #Diversity #PhD #phdchat

Apply now to be in a lab Cambridge University this summer: fully paid internship programme School of Biological Sciences exppg.lifesci.cam.ac.uk Application closes 14.Feb. Thank you, sponsors Corpus Christi Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research @Wellcometrust

Happy to have contributed to Led By Donkeys. A small contribution compared to the billions of Murdoch, Barclays, and other barons, but still helps. Don’t get mad, get even.

Congratulations to Felipe Karam Teixeira from GeneticsCambridge who has been selected for the EMBO Young Investigator Programme EMBO YIP
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Well done Felipe!