Colin Bingle
@colinbingle.bsky.social
Ageing (recently retired) academic with an inherent interest in biology (biomedical, comparative, molecular).
No politics or sniping about the state of things but I can tell you
I cycle for cake.
No politics or sniping about the state of things but I can tell you
I cycle for cake.
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Colin Bingle
@colinbingle.bsky.social
· Jan 1
Well my 🚴🏼year is over.
Over 5000 miles and C2C in a day. I doubt I'll get to that next year 🤔 (I will be travelling until May!)
Happy peddling in 2026
Over 5000 miles and C2C in a day. I doubt I'll get to that next year 🤔 (I will be travelling until May!)
Happy peddling in 2026
Well my 🚴🏼year is over.
Over 5000 miles and C2C in a day. I doubt I'll get to that next year 🤔 (I will be travelling until May!)
Happy peddling in 2026
Over 5000 miles and C2C in a day. I doubt I'll get to that next year 🤔 (I will be travelling until May!)
Happy peddling in 2026
January 1, 2026 at 12:00 PM
Well my 🚴🏼year is over.
Over 5000 miles and C2C in a day. I doubt I'll get to that next year 🤔 (I will be travelling until May!)
Happy peddling in 2026
Over 5000 miles and C2C in a day. I doubt I'll get to that next year 🤔 (I will be travelling until May!)
Happy peddling in 2026
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Sheffield management have withdrawn their threat of a lockout for w/c 5 Jan to facilitate further discussions with our excellent @sheffielducu.bsky.social negotiators. Massive thanks to the ucu team, and to everyone for having our backs. It’s not over yet, but maybe there’s a path to get there!
December 18, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Sheffield management have withdrawn their threat of a lockout for w/c 5 Jan to facilitate further discussions with our excellent @sheffielducu.bsky.social negotiators. Massive thanks to the ucu team, and to everyone for having our backs. It’s not over yet, but maybe there’s a path to get there!
As someone with an interest in comparative aspects of mammalian innate immunity in the nasal cavity this is a really cool study.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Drones detect deadly virus in Arctic whales' breath
Whale breath collected by drones is giving clues to the health of wild humpbacks and other whales.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 19, 2025 at 7:56 AM
As someone with an interest in comparative aspects of mammalian innate immunity in the nasal cavity this is a really cool study.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Awesome from the chemistry department students at @sheffielduni.bsky.social in support of @sheffielducu.bsky.social 👌
youtu.be/TxdDV0G9Ys0?...
youtu.be/TxdDV0G9Ys0?...
Express support for our chemistry lecturers!
YouTube video by Hector HH
youtu.be
December 10, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Awesome from the chemistry department students at @sheffielduni.bsky.social in support of @sheffielducu.bsky.social 👌
youtu.be/TxdDV0G9Ys0?...
youtu.be/TxdDV0G9Ys0?...
Still it's a nice photo?
Given the crisis in UK universities, you'd think these people might suspend giving each other awards, or turn them down. That, even if they somehow regard themselves as deserving, they might say "Now is not the time.". But no. They really are crass and lacking in any self-awareness. Get in the sea!
(Text from UCU Derby FB post)
While we were striking to save jobs and protect education yesterday… the Vice-Chancellor was picking up an honorary degree.
😲
While we were striking to save jobs and protect education yesterday… the Vice-Chancellor was picking up an honorary degree.
😲
December 4, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Still it's a nice photo?
As someone who delved into the world of the neutrophil when I first started @sheffielduni.bsky.social this is quite a paper!
As we cyclists say "chapeau" to all concerned.😎
As we cyclists say "chapeau" to all concerned.😎
December 3, 2025 at 7:39 PM
As someone who delved into the world of the neutrophil when I first started @sheffielduni.bsky.social this is quite a paper!
As we cyclists say "chapeau" to all concerned.😎
As we cyclists say "chapeau" to all concerned.😎
Will it ever comeback @sheffielduni.bsky.social?
Remember the Section 188 notice in 2020?
@sheffielducu.bsky.social
Remember the Section 188 notice in 2020?
@sheffielducu.bsky.social
December 3, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Will it ever comeback @sheffielduni.bsky.social?
Remember the Section 188 notice in 2020?
@sheffielducu.bsky.social
Remember the Section 188 notice in 2020?
@sheffielducu.bsky.social
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Great to see media coverage of the hostile and punitive approach taken by management at @sheffielduni.bsky.social towards @sheffielducu.bsky.social staff striking to protect jobs. Threats and intimidation won't work. We're out until we win!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
University of Sheffield staff 'intimidated' by pay forfeit warning
University of Sheffield to withhold pay if staff do not make up for teaching missed while striking.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 2, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Great to see media coverage of the hostile and punitive approach taken by management at @sheffielduni.bsky.social towards @sheffielducu.bsky.social staff striking to protect jobs. Threats and intimidation won't work. We're out until we win!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Hello from the #DigitalPicket line. I'm simultaneously disappointed by senior management's communication around negotiations and impressed with all the amazing @sheffielducu.bsky.social colleagues that have been on the picket lines and continue to engage in constructive discussions Solidarity!
December 2, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Hello from the #DigitalPicket line. I'm simultaneously disappointed by senior management's communication around negotiations and impressed with all the amazing @sheffielducu.bsky.social colleagues that have been on the picket lines and continue to engage in constructive discussions Solidarity!
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Check out this post about our current situation from a colleague at another university. @sheffielducu.bsky.social
December 1, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Check out this post about our current situation from a colleague at another university. @sheffielducu.bsky.social
I am guess if you can't take your staff with you on your journey then perhaps you just get rid of the staff. Where's the problem?
@sheffielducu.bsky.social
@sheffielducu.bsky.social
Sensible universities see their staff as assets to be nurtured and protected.
Foolish universities see them as a cost to be minimised.
Really stupid universities see them as an enemy to be defeated.
@sheffielducu.bsky.social
Foolish universities see them as a cost to be minimised.
Really stupid universities see them as an enemy to be defeated.
@sheffielducu.bsky.social
December 1, 2025 at 5:32 PM
I am guess if you can't take your staff with you on your journey then perhaps you just get rid of the staff. Where's the problem?
@sheffielducu.bsky.social
@sheffielducu.bsky.social
This is quite an advance. I well remember visiting the @sangerinstitute.bsky.social when they were assembling Chromosome 20 (where favourite genes are). The place was full of MJ Tetrad DNA engines and huge sequencing machines. How times have changed.
“There were some cells in there that were very messed up”
In a technological tour-de-force, researchers have sequenced the whole genomes of more than 100 individual cells from one 74-year-old man
go.nature.com/4rvXH8Y
In a technological tour-de-force, researchers have sequenced the whole genomes of more than 100 individual cells from one 74-year-old man
go.nature.com/4rvXH8Y
We are all mosaics: vast genetic diversity found between cells in a single person
Nature - Technical advances allow researchers to trace the genetic changes that occur over time.
go.nature.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:54 PM
This is quite an advance. I well remember visiting the @sangerinstitute.bsky.social when they were assembling Chromosome 20 (where favourite genes are). The place was full of MJ Tetrad DNA engines and huge sequencing machines. How times have changed.
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Tuesday my union offered to call off 2 weeks of strikes, in return for postponing the redudnacy of, maybe, 5 people for three months. Yesterday the uni wrote to all staff saying "not interested", unless we completely caved. Today we toured picket lines across campus:
@sheffielducu.bsky.social
@sheffielducu.bsky.social
November 27, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Tuesday my union offered to call off 2 weeks of strikes, in return for postponing the redudnacy of, maybe, 5 people for three months. Yesterday the uni wrote to all staff saying "not interested", unless we completely caved. Today we toured picket lines across campus:
@sheffielducu.bsky.social
@sheffielducu.bsky.social
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November 25, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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Early engagement with professional societies such as the @biochemsoc.bsky.social is a great way to interact with your scientific community and to build networks. There is no telling how this may help your career.
With applications for our 2026 International Sponsored Places currently open, hear from Jessica Taube and Shannon Richardson, who discuss the fantastic collaboration and personal development opportunities that were available at this year's meeting!🧪 doi.org/10.1042/bio_...
November 27, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Early engagement with professional societies such as the @biochemsoc.bsky.social is a great way to interact with your scientific community and to build networks. There is no telling how this may help your career.
So I posted these musings on BPIFB4 to a preprint server as I was not really sure what to do with them. They have been stuck in my head for too long. Let me know what you think?
www.preprints.org/manuscript/2...
www.preprints.org/manuscript/2...
www.preprints.org
November 21, 2025 at 10:06 AM
So I posted these musings on BPIFB4 to a preprint server as I was not really sure what to do with them. They have been stuck in my head for too long. Let me know what you think?
www.preprints.org/manuscript/2...
www.preprints.org/manuscript/2...
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November 20, 2025 at 10:23 AM
The Beginner's Guides are the most accessed content in The Biochemist. If you have a topic that you think might fit and better still if you would like to write one, then contact the editorial office.
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We’re on our 3rd day of (v cold) strike today @sheffielducu.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk
HE is being dismantled by mgmt on eye watering salaries, whilst staff delivering teaching, research & admin are casualised, burnt out & forced out
Pls donate to our fighting fund if you can shorturl.at/EpeTe
HE is being dismantled by mgmt on eye watering salaries, whilst staff delivering teaching, research & admin are casualised, burnt out & forced out
Pls donate to our fighting fund if you can shorturl.at/EpeTe
Donate to the Sheffield UCU Industrial Action Solidarity Fund
What is the Sheffield UCU Industrial Action Solidarity Fund, and how to contribute.
shorturl.at
November 19, 2025 at 10:24 AM
We’re on our 3rd day of (v cold) strike today @sheffielducu.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk
HE is being dismantled by mgmt on eye watering salaries, whilst staff delivering teaching, research & admin are casualised, burnt out & forced out
Pls donate to our fighting fund if you can shorturl.at/EpeTe
HE is being dismantled by mgmt on eye watering salaries, whilst staff delivering teaching, research & admin are casualised, burnt out & forced out
Pls donate to our fighting fund if you can shorturl.at/EpeTe
An outstanding opportunity. @ukcilianetwork.bsky.social could amplify this (maybe they have)?
Our lab is seeking a Postdoctoral Fellow. The position is intentionally broad, as we are looking for outstanding researchers from diverse scientific backgrounds to advance our understanding of cilia and ciliopathies: academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/15526
HMS - Postdoctoral Fellow in BCMP, Brown Lab
We invite applicants for a postdoctoral fellow position in the Brown lab at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts. The Brown lab uses structural, biophysical, and biochemical approaches to d...
academicpositions.harvard.edu
November 19, 2025 at 1:32 PM
An outstanding opportunity. @ukcilianetwork.bsky.social could amplify this (maybe they have)?
Here's a great paper tracing the molecular evolution of the H5N1 avian influenza outbreak.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Ecology and spread of the North American H5N1 epizootic - Nature
The panzootic of highly pathogenic H5N1 since 2021 was driven by around nine introductions into the Atlantic and Pacific flyways, followed by rapid dissemination through wild migratory birds, primaril...
www.nature.com
November 19, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Here's a great paper tracing the molecular evolution of the H5N1 avian influenza outbreak.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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I am on strike this week, in support of colleagues placed at risk of compulsory redundancy.
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1423...
If you a student and want to know more/how to support the strike, see here: ucu.group.shef.ac.uk/industrial-a...
@sheffielducu.bsky.social
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1423...
If you a student and want to know more/how to support the strike, see here: ucu.group.shef.ac.uk/industrial-a...
@sheffielducu.bsky.social
November 17, 2025 at 9:21 AM
I am on strike this week, in support of colleagues placed at risk of compulsory redundancy.
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1423...
If you a student and want to know more/how to support the strike, see here: ucu.group.shef.ac.uk/industrial-a...
@sheffielducu.bsky.social
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1423...
If you a student and want to know more/how to support the strike, see here: ucu.group.shef.ac.uk/industrial-a...
@sheffielducu.bsky.social
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Heartbroken to be on strike (again) - never an easy decision 👍 We cannot accept a university in which staff jobs, student education, and research progress are under threat by major (and financially unnecessary) change management processes. @sheffielducu.bsky.social #Sheffield #DigitalPicket
November 17, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Heartbroken to be on strike (again) - never an easy decision 👍 We cannot accept a university in which staff jobs, student education, and research progress are under threat by major (and financially unnecessary) change management processes. @sheffielducu.bsky.social #Sheffield #DigitalPicket
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Solidarity with all my former colleagues @sheffielducu.bsky.social out on strike yet again after years of uncertainty and restructures due to shambolic management decisions.
November 17, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Solidarity with all my former colleagues @sheffielducu.bsky.social out on strike yet again after years of uncertainty and restructures due to shambolic management decisions.
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@sheffielducu.bsky.social Do the University’s financial reports support the need to make job cuts? #DigitalPicket #Sheffield
t.co/pmTtz6x6kx
t.co/pmTtz6x6kx
https://ucu.group.shef.ac.uk/campaigns/state-of-the-university-2024-25/financial-position-cuts/
t.co
November 17, 2025 at 9:02 AM
@sheffielducu.bsky.social Do the University’s financial reports support the need to make job cuts? #DigitalPicket #Sheffield
t.co/pmTtz6x6kx
t.co/pmTtz6x6kx