Jo Sharpe 👉 comeflywithjo.bsky.social

I've dusted off my plasticine and had a mess about with stop-motion again! Inspired by @aardman ... I present 🥁 Fun with Flies! #scicomm #animation #claymation

How do you treat the 'cruellest disease'? Sheffield researchers are working to make motor neurone disease (MND) history. From developing effective disease-modifying therapies to finding ways to improve the lives of MND patients. sheffield.ac.uk/future/MND #GlobalMNDAwarenessDay

If you are an educator, science communicator or researcher involved in public engagement, this card game from @comeflywithJo can help you talk about how scientists choose the right biological model for their experiments and options to replace animal use: thenode.biologists.com/biological-res…

Top Trumps - but make it science 🤓 I had the most fun designing these, and I've written about how you could use it in your outreach programme! I'm keen to spread the word to any educators/academics who might be interested - please share 🤗 @NC3Rs thenode.biologists.com/biological-res…

📢 PhD Alert! Join us for an exciting PhD project in gorgeous York 🧠 🔬 You will be based in the Hahnlab (sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/hah…) in gorgeous York & work with an interdisciplinary team of researchers. Happy to chat! Apply here: lnkd.in/es-nY8uD #PhDposition --

Wonderful talk from @ExDrosoScientia today, at the @MCB_Sheffield @DRN_Sheffield seminar series. Very cool story and super satisfying genetic experiments, coupled with beautiful microscopy 😍

Just checking @richardosman hadn't been on Strictly... errrm

Check out our recent paper in @braincomms: C9orf72 dipeptides activate the NLRP3 inflammasome 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 With @choyle22, @mere_conjecture, @ComorbidCath, @DNS_UOM, @GJBrainResearch & funded primarily by @AlzSocResearch

NEW PAPER ALERT! 🚨 And it dropped on my bday, so thanks @braincomms! C9orf72 dipeptides activate the NLRP3 inflammasome 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 Huge thanks to @choyle22, @mere_conjecture, @ComorbidCath & the rest of the team not on X, plus @AlzSocResearch for funding. academic.oup.com/braincomms/art…

Super exciting (and heavy) delivery this morning! All 100 packs of my Biological Research Top Trumps! If you would like some packs for your lab's public engagement activities, please get in touch! (Also extremely fun for grown up scientists) Funded by the @NC3Rs

Haven't had time to sit down and paint in aaages. I definitely messed up the neck area but pretty pleased with how he turned out 🐢🖌

1. This summer I've been thinking a lot about "cognitive load" which is term that has multiple definitions but for me means something like "the amount of processing, analysing, thinking, & deciding I can do in a day before my brain stops working" here's a short thread about that

Feeling the imposter sydrome as per.. but super happy to win the postdoc prize for outstanding contribution to engagement at the Faculty of Science post doc day today 😀

Went to see Standing at the Sky's Edge this weekend. Truly incredible and extra poignant given we live just up the road from the famous flats.

We saw tadpoles in a puddle today. Just a muddy puddle in the middle of the path.

New hair 👀 Getting slightly addicted to changing my whole persona via the medium of 4 hours in the hairdressers.

We have been without a fridge/freezer for best part of a month, and now we have a new one and I can't decide if I am more excited for CHEESE or ICE CREAM

Every hike I do in the Peaks inches me closer to actually trying trail running 😅 Catching up with @DrSarahRyan. We forgot to do our traditional selfie on top of the hill so this one will have to do.

Been a while since I've had the time to sit and paint. ☕️ nothing like a Sunday morning brew ☕️

38 years ago a woman in Coventry sent a letter to some scientists. That letter went on to be the most important in Alzheimer's research. Last year, I met Carol Jennings, who wrote it. 1/ thetimes.co.uk/article/e78c47…

Merlin Pilgrimage ✅️ @F_F_Podcast do you like our reenactment of Morgana facing the Knights of Medir in the Fires of Idirsholas, and our attempt at Merlin bananagrams (ignore dodgy spelling of Wilddeoren we ran out of letters) @historyinyork