Robert Insall
@robinsall
Gone to a better place. @robinsall.bsky.social ♥ cell migration, maths, microscopes, models, machine learning. Cell migration & chemotaxis @UCL
Right. That's the end. This account is shuttered. Find me at the place where the sky is blue, and insane billionaires don't try and corrupt medicine & medical research with far-right populism.
Bioscience and environmental science at UCL have been given a major boost: funding from @NERCscience and @BBSRC will support PhD students in @uclbiosciences, @ES_UCL and @UCLgeography, equipping future scientists to meet pressing global challenges ucl.ac.uk/news/2024/nov/…
Liz Truss has become a very bad human. It's a shame.
There is no longer free speech in Britain. Lucy Connolly has been made an example of. She must be freed.
Antibiotic resistance - the most important research you can possibly imagine. "This entire line of research, after being repeatedly selected in rigorous open national competitions for funding, was cut this week as collective political retribution"
The mutations that cause resistance are random, but the process of the evolution itself has consistent predictable features. The idea of my research is that by understanding this process we can come up with new ways of countering resistance that are adaptive and predictive. 3/
A slight delay on the sunset this evening. Freight has been busy and the paperwork took longer to clear through Customs than expected.
To save UK higher education, start talking about knowledge, says UCL's Margot Finn. Until debate on universities foregrounds their core purposes, their woes will deepen. researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-vie…
I just found the most beautiful protein-DNA interaction of all time 🤩🥲
rcsb.org/3d-view/3UGM A floating TALE...or better yet TALEN...just tell me how much to wire
Never has Yeats' work been more prophetic: "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate…
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Looks like an interesting workshop at Glasgow Science Centre, "making use of the largest IMAX cinema screen in Scotland, and providing an excellent forum to present spatial, imaging and in silico modelling data." Co-organized by @XiaoFu90 #BICC2025
So @AmazonUK wrote to me to say they were automatically changing my cat's repeat order for food to a "substitute product". Except - the substitute is 15% less food. For more cash. @amazon - that's shitty behaviour. Good way to lose customers.
Congratulations to LIDo! Supremely interdisciplinary and supremely renewed. If you fancy a PhD in somewhere like the Insall lab, whether you're into math or microscopes, this is the place to apply...
rcsb.org/3d-view/3UGM A floating TALE...or better yet TALEN...just tell me how much to wire
Immigration is not the reason that you can’t get a hospital appointment, it’s the reason you can get one. Please repost for all the people who can’t seem to grasp that.