Andrew Holding
@andrewholding.bsky.social
Academic. Scientist. Father. Breast Cancer Researcher. Sometimes on TV/Radio.
Excited to share that the Expression of Interest form is open for the UKYA Health OpenSpaces: Pregnancy in research event on 15 Sep 2025!
Details in thread.
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#PregnancyResearch #HealthEquity #MedicalResearch #PublicInvolvement #DiverseVoices #UKYA 🧪
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Health OpenSpaces | Pregnancy in research | UK Young Academy
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August 7, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Excited to share that the Expression of Interest form is open for the UKYA Health OpenSpaces: Pregnancy in research event on 15 Sep 2025!
Details in thread.
🔗 ukyoungacademy.org/events/healt...
#PregnancyResearch #HealthEquity #MedicalResearch #PublicInvolvement #DiverseVoices #UKYA 🧪
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Details in thread.
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#PregnancyResearch #HealthEquity #MedicalResearch #PublicInvolvement #DiverseVoices #UKYA 🧪
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Come join us! Great community and in a great location. Transcription and Chromatin Uk from @biochemsoc.bsky.social
🚨Transcription and Chromatin UK is back for 2025🚨
We're in Manchester, UK 17th-19th September for the 3rd annual transcription and chromatin conference. Abstract deadline is the 17th July so make sure you register!
www.eventsforce.net/biochemsoc/f...
We're in Manchester, UK 17th-19th September for the 3rd annual transcription and chromatin conference. Abstract deadline is the 17th July so make sure you register!
www.eventsforce.net/biochemsoc/f...
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July 3, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Come join us! Great community and in a great location. Transcription and Chromatin Uk from @biochemsoc.bsky.social
Still time to sign up for this talk tomorrow. Professor Alana Welm will be talking her work developing patient derived models for cancer therapy.
Reminder that our online seminar is taking place next Friday 9th May, 2.00-3.30pm, hosted by @andrewholding.bsky.social! Make sure to sign up on the Eventbrite so you can receive the details for the live stream 😀
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May 7, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Still time to sign up for this talk tomorrow. Professor Alana Welm will be talking her work developing patient derived models for cancer therapy.
YBRI (@ybri-uoy.bsky.social) are hosting @alanawelm.bsky.social for an online seminar on 9th May 2pm BST.
Prof Welm will be presenting her work on "Modeling metastatic breast cancer to advance therapeutic strategies".
Please share, and register to join at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ybri-onlin...
Prof Welm will be presenting her work on "Modeling metastatic breast cancer to advance therapeutic strategies".
Please share, and register to join at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ybri-onlin...
YBRI Online Biomedical Sciences Seminar 2025
Join our online biomedical sciences seminar open to UG, PG students, postdocs, ECRs and Group Leaders!
www.eventbrite.co.uk
April 24, 2025 at 8:40 AM
YBRI (@ybri-uoy.bsky.social) are hosting @alanawelm.bsky.social for an online seminar on 9th May 2pm BST.
Prof Welm will be presenting her work on "Modeling metastatic breast cancer to advance therapeutic strategies".
Please share, and register to join at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ybri-onlin...
Prof Welm will be presenting her work on "Modeling metastatic breast cancer to advance therapeutic strategies".
Please share, and register to join at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ybri-onlin...
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Chromatin & transcription meeting is back again. Register your interest here www.biochemistry.org/events-and-t...
April 1, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Chromatin & transcription meeting is back again. Register your interest here www.biochemistry.org/events-and-t...
Was a please to be hosted for a Seminar today. Fantastic team at the Lowy doing great work on fighting children’s cancer. Lots of ideas for follow up!
April 2, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Was a please to be hosted for a Seminar today. Fantastic team at the Lowy doing great work on fighting children’s cancer. Lots of ideas for follow up!
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ScienceSky I'm putting up a signal. I'm working on a new series of Horrible Science for Children's BBC. We would love to chat to experts about their favourite science facts for kids. I'm looking to chat to chemists first as well as some peeps who know their human biology.
a person is waving their hand in front of a sign that says " please help me "
Alt: a person is waving their hand in front of a sign that says " please help me "
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March 21, 2025 at 2:59 PM
ScienceSky I'm putting up a signal. I'm working on a new series of Horrible Science for Children's BBC. We would love to chat to experts about their favourite science facts for kids. I'm looking to chat to chemists first as well as some peeps who know their human biology.
Post a ship that’s not Star Wars or Star Trek.
March 24, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Post a ship that’s not Star Wars or Star Trek.
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Helen has put together this wonderful list of all science festivals in the UK over the year.
It may feel as though we live in dark times, but here in the UK there are LOADS of science festivals celebrating ideas, sparking curiosity & sharing the latest research (for both adults & kids). Someone told me recently they didn’t know where to look, so I made a list. Here goes… [deep breath]:
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March 24, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Helen has put together this wonderful list of all science festivals in the UK over the year.
Just had to evacuate Kings Cross St Pancras underground. It was then most British evac. Everyone just queued as normal, and stood on the right of the escalator as minority of us used the left to walk up.
No idea what was going on.
No idea what was going on.
March 11, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Just had to evacuate Kings Cross St Pancras underground. It was then most British evac. Everyone just queued as normal, and stood on the right of the escalator as minority of us used the left to walk up.
No idea what was going on.
No idea what was going on.
I’m closing social media for today.
My friend who lives in America showed me this unhinged official Cadbury's mini eggs recipe and now you must contend with it too
March 11, 2025 at 10:55 AM
I’m closing social media for today.
I really like this article, it does a good job seperating out motivational stress and toxic stress, www.nature.com/articles/d41... to support people in a competative enviroment.
‘I was told to toughen up’: is academia getting resilience all wrong?
Being repeatedly told to bounce back and develop a thicker skin can mask a toxic lab culture.
www.nature.com
March 7, 2025 at 5:29 PM
I really like this article, it does a good job seperating out motivational stress and toxic stress, www.nature.com/articles/d41... to support people in a competative enviroment.
🔴 Live #Science, #AMA and #Puzzles. Join me as we catch up on Science news, take on Baldur's Gate 3, mumble about what interests us and try to answer any science questions you have, live in chat! #Twitch #SciComm #SciStream www.twitch.tv/andrewholding @mattpt55.bsky.social @spannersready.bsky.social
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[UK/USA] Science co-stream AMA, raising money to fight Cancer and playing Baldur's Gate 3 - ACT3!
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March 6, 2025 at 9:28 PM
🔴 Live #Science, #AMA and #Puzzles. Join me as we catch up on Science news, take on Baldur's Gate 3, mumble about what interests us and try to answer any science questions you have, live in chat! #Twitch #SciComm #SciStream www.twitch.tv/andrewholding @mattpt55.bsky.social @spannersready.bsky.social
This is an amazing example of great scicomm, on a question I never thought to ask.
We've been receiving a lot of requests for us to answer this crucial question, and we are delighted to attempt to provide you with the information you need as to whether you can read braille with your clit.
March 6, 2025 at 11:49 AM
This is an amazing example of great scicomm, on a question I never thought to ask.
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Soft-launch: I’ll be looking for science speakers at the Star Trek convention in August.
Get dreaming and I’ll open applications in a few weeks.
Get dreaming and I’ll open applications in a few weeks.
February 27, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Soft-launch: I’ll be looking for science speakers at the Star Trek convention in August.
Get dreaming and I’ll open applications in a few weeks.
Get dreaming and I’ll open applications in a few weeks.
Our weekly Cambridge 105 show where Spanner's puts me on the spot to know all of science....
February 27, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Our weekly Cambridge 105 show where Spanner's puts me on the spot to know all of science....
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When politicians are vocal on how UK economy struggles with low productivity. I find moments like this frustrating.
I’m standing at a platform having to wait 30 mins for the next train, because it’s £100 more to get this half empty one, and no bus is reliable enough to leave for the station later.
I’m standing at a platform having to wait 30 mins for the next train, because it’s £100 more to get this half empty one, and no bus is reliable enough to leave for the station later.
February 24, 2025 at 8:12 AM
When politicians are vocal on how UK economy struggles with low productivity. I find moments like this frustrating.
I’m standing at a platform having to wait 30 mins for the next train, because it’s £100 more to get this half empty one, and no bus is reliable enough to leave for the station later.
I’m standing at a platform having to wait 30 mins for the next train, because it’s £100 more to get this half empty one, and no bus is reliable enough to leave for the station later.
Who’s running a genomics starter pack for Sally?
Well hello there Bluesky. How is everyone over on the light side? All suggestions for interesting follows welcome.
February 19, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Who’s running a genomics starter pack for Sally?
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📢 We’re looking for a new Team Leader!
@enasequence.bsky.social is recruiting a Team Leader to shape the strategy and direction for the ENA and Biosamples open data resources.
Interested?👇
@enasequence.bsky.social is recruiting a Team Leader to shape the strategy and direction for the ENA and Biosamples open data resources.
Interested?👇
February 17, 2025 at 11:07 AM
📢 We’re looking for a new Team Leader!
@enasequence.bsky.social is recruiting a Team Leader to shape the strategy and direction for the ENA and Biosamples open data resources.
Interested?👇
@enasequence.bsky.social is recruiting a Team Leader to shape the strategy and direction for the ENA and Biosamples open data resources.
Interested?👇
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Please consider signing this letter to the Royal Society if you have not signed already.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Over 2400 scientists have signed.
#microsky #archaesky #astrosky 🧪🦠🧫🔭
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Over 2400 scientists have signed.
#microsky #archaesky #astrosky 🧪🦠🧫🔭
Open letter to the President of the Royal Society – time to stand up for your values
If you wish to show your support for the letter below regarding apparent inaction by the Royal Society in the face of breaches of its code of conduct by Elon Musk FRS, please sign below. I invite anyo...
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February 16, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Please consider signing this letter to the Royal Society if you have not signed already.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Over 2400 scientists have signed.
#microsky #archaesky #astrosky 🧪🦠🧫🔭
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Over 2400 scientists have signed.
#microsky #archaesky #astrosky 🧪🦠🧫🔭
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Tally just ticked past 1900 signatures. Please keep spreading the word about the letter & asking people to sign. It's important to make the Royal Society aware (at their meeting on 03 March) just how much the scientific community wants them to speak up for their values. forms.gle/SfsDemyS8QhP...
February 14, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Tally just ticked past 1900 signatures. Please keep spreading the word about the letter & asking people to sign. It's important to make the Royal Society aware (at their meeting on 03 March) just how much the scientific community wants them to speak up for their values. forms.gle/SfsDemyS8QhP...
Apparently I owe a mint set of stamps bought it 1984… sent to me around my birthday that year.
February 15, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Apparently I owe a mint set of stamps bought it 1984… sent to me around my birthday that year.
End of an era....
January 28, 2025 at 9:45 PM
End of an era....
Congratulations to Jodie, her paper is out in BMC Genomics identifying robust RT-qPCR reference genes for studying changes in gene expression in response to hypoxia in breast cancer.
Great working with her, Will & @bridgekatherine.bsky.social on this. link.springer.com/article/10.1... 1/2
Great working with her, Will & @bridgekatherine.bsky.social on this. link.springer.com/article/10.1... 1/2
Identification of robust RT-qPCR reference genes for studying changes in gene expression in response to hypoxia in breast cancer cell lines - BMC Genomics
Hypoxia is common in breast tumours and is linked to therapy resistance and advanced disease. To understand hypoxia-driven breast cancer progression, RT-qPCR is a widely used technique to quantify tra...
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January 21, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Congratulations to Jodie, her paper is out in BMC Genomics identifying robust RT-qPCR reference genes for studying changes in gene expression in response to hypoxia in breast cancer.
Great working with her, Will & @bridgekatherine.bsky.social on this. link.springer.com/article/10.1... 1/2
Great working with her, Will & @bridgekatherine.bsky.social on this. link.springer.com/article/10.1... 1/2