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Introducing UCL Press Play! A new initiative sharing @ucl research in videos and podcasts, the inaugural series The Greatest Good explores the influence of Jeremy Bentham. Read more and watch the flagship documentary, Bentham’s Defence of Sexual Liberty: uclpress.co.uk/ucl-press-pl...

New Led By Donkeys excellent video on the draconian limitations to peaceful protest in the UK www.instagram.com/p/DA5fEggokJj/

Led By Donkeys on Instagram: "It’s time for Labour to remember its roots and reinstate the right to peaceful protest. Thanks to @chrisgpackham2 for the narration"

7,480 likes, 231 comments - ledbydonkeys on October 9, 2024: "It’s time for Labour to remember its roots and reinstate the right to peaceful protest. Thanks to @chrisgpackham2 for the narration".

Collections researcher: Full-time, 12 month contract at the Migration Museum,, Lewisham: £35,000, plus matched 5% pension contribution. Help the Museum develop a 'dispersed collection' on British migration for its permanent home. Deadline 20 October 2024:

We're hiring: Collections Researcher - Migration Museum

The Migration Museum is seeking a Collections Researcher to play a pivotal role in helping us to develop a ‘dispersed collection’ around migration themes and to define our heritage focus as we work to...

Very cool approach!

JFjeanfisch.bsky.socialOct 1, 2024 7:39am

Interesting development in wastewater monitoring in Belgium: Sciensano changed its measure from "number of copies per liter per people in the station's catchment area" to "ratio to copies of PMMoV" I never heard of that acronym but after I did, I must say, this looks quite smart! 1/

Oh beloved stats nerds, come work for the NHS, doing and teaching data simulation! £62-£86k permanent remote #statsky#biostats#rstats#episky

The Strategy Unit is growing!

UK Coal xkcd.com/2992

Interesting article on the current struggles of 23andMe and future potential for personal genetic data misuse

Receptor rearrangement, naive T cells, selection, clonal expansion, effector T cells, apoptosis, contraction, memory T cells, reactivation. Difficult terms if you are not familiar with them. But important to familiarise with the meaning to understand some immunology. 1/8

“I can eat sugar now". A 25-yr-old woman with type 1 diabetes has started producing her own insulin after a transplant of reprogrammed stem cells (extracted from her own body). Follows similar type 2 diabetes success. www.nature.com/articles/d41... by Smriti Mallapaty | Nature

Stem cells reverse woman’s diabetes — a world first

She is the first person with type 1 diabetes to receive this kind of transplant.