Daniel Frankel
@cyberplasm.bsky.social
Scientist and engineer. Interested in understanding complex biological systems. Still very interested in the naked mole-rat and ion channels. Recently ex academic. Working in a synthetic biology start up. Loves thermodynamics.
Working through 3 months of gardening leave. It’s such a weird place of limbo. It gives me time to find a job or setup my company. It’s such a strange feeling having no job to go into in the morning.
October 18, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Working through 3 months of gardening leave. It’s such a weird place of limbo. It gives me time to find a job or setup my company. It’s such a strange feeling having no job to go into in the morning.
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We're looking for a new postdoc on our new BBSCR grant (Graham Taylor/Tim Guilford/Cait Newport). See link below!
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
September 19, 2025 at 3:25 PM
We're looking for a new postdoc on our new BBSCR grant (Graham Taylor/Tim Guilford/Cait Newport). See link below!
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
Darwin on top form
September 26, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Darwin on top form
Well here’s a life update !! I’ve resigned from my job in the sustainable tech startup . It was a good 2.5 years but time to move on. The question is what to do next . I mist likely will be starting up my own company!!
September 26, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Well here’s a life update !! I’ve resigned from my job in the sustainable tech startup . It was a good 2.5 years but time to move on. The question is what to do next . I mist likely will be starting up my own company!!
If replicated in humans this could revolutionise the treatment of Alzheimer’s
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
New hope for Alzheimer’s: lithium supplement reverses memory loss in mice
Studies in rodents and humans suggest that low levels of the metal contribute to cognitive decline.
www.nature.com
August 6, 2025 at 8:54 PM
If replicated in humans this could revolutionise the treatment of Alzheimer’s
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Well it's been 2 years and 2 months since I left academia (after being in academia for 25 years!!). Start up life is pretty crazy but still infinitely less stressful than academia. I should have made the transition 15 years earlier!!
July 30, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Well it's been 2 years and 2 months since I left academia (after being in academia for 25 years!!). Start up life is pretty crazy but still infinitely less stressful than academia. I should have made the transition 15 years earlier!!
Home electronics projects are fun..next up a radio controlled car
July 30, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Home electronics projects are fun..next up a radio controlled car
I must be bored, I just typed in to Google “Karoline Leavitt, what does she do all day?”
June 7, 2025 at 8:36 PM
I must be bored, I just typed in to Google “Karoline Leavitt, what does she do all day?”
Darwin on top form
May 28, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Darwin on top form
Roses in the new old house
May 28, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Roses in the new old house
I’ve just discovered Toast of London
May 28, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I’ve just discovered Toast of London
A cheeky question to anyone working on photovoltaics out there. Is is relatively straightforward to build an Arduino based device for measuring the efficiency (I-V curves) of a dye sensitised solar cell?
May 10, 2025 at 4:05 PM
A cheeky question to anyone working on photovoltaics out there. Is is relatively straightforward to build an Arduino based device for measuring the efficiency (I-V curves) of a dye sensitised solar cell?
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The UK’s Advanced Research and Innovation Agency (ARIA) is funding Solar Radiation Modification (SRM) projects including thickening Arctic sea ice to make it more reflective, Marine Cloud Brightening (MCB) and Stratospheric Aerosol Injection (SAI).
Experiments to 'dim the Sun' one step closer in the UK
Geo-engineering experiments such as Solar Radiation Modificaton could be happening in the UK after major government funding
www.bbc.com
May 8, 2025 at 7:46 AM
The UK’s Advanced Research and Innovation Agency (ARIA) is funding Solar Radiation Modification (SRM) projects including thickening Arctic sea ice to make it more reflective, Marine Cloud Brightening (MCB) and Stratospheric Aerosol Injection (SAI).
Returned to Newcastle last week for some business meetings. It was so strange being back after 2 years away. The new Engineering building looks quite fancy…
April 22, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Returned to Newcastle last week for some business meetings. It was so strange being back after 2 years away. The new Engineering building looks quite fancy…
Wow , it looks like Harvard is gonna be destroyed. Are we living in a nightmare?
April 17, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Wow , it looks like Harvard is gonna be destroyed. Are we living in a nightmare?
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Just a little update for the busy, from the world of science:
1) There's no life on K2-18b
2) Vaccines cause adults
3) They are not Dire Wolves
Carry on.
1) There's no life on K2-18b
2) Vaccines cause adults
3) They are not Dire Wolves
Carry on.
April 17, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Just a little update for the busy, from the world of science:
1) There's no life on K2-18b
2) Vaccines cause adults
3) They are not Dire Wolves
Carry on.
1) There's no life on K2-18b
2) Vaccines cause adults
3) They are not Dire Wolves
Carry on.
Reposted by Daniel Frankel
If you want to read one more dire wolf take this week, i can thoroughly recommend @maxhenrybarnhart.bsky.social's deep dive on what scientists make of the announcement, just why it broke like it did, and what that means for conservation work more broadly.
@cenmag.bsky.social 🧪
@cenmag.bsky.social 🧪
Dire wolf debate raises concerns on scientific overhype
Even de-extinction advocates say that Colossal Biosciences’ claims are misleading
cen.acs.org
April 12, 2025 at 8:36 AM
If you want to read one more dire wolf take this week, i can thoroughly recommend @maxhenrybarnhart.bsky.social's deep dive on what scientists make of the announcement, just why it broke like it did, and what that means for conservation work more broadly.
@cenmag.bsky.social 🧪
@cenmag.bsky.social 🧪
At Cambridge University today , meetings in Chemical Engineering. Can feel the intense brainwaves radiating from the Cavendish lab
April 2, 2025 at 7:28 AM
At Cambridge University today , meetings in Chemical Engineering. Can feel the intense brainwaves radiating from the Cavendish lab
Darwin and his friend Baxter
March 28, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Darwin and his friend Baxter
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each year @newlimitbio.bsky.social, we share an update on our progress with the public
this week, we revealed the early results from our programs in metabolism & immunology. we’re starting to see the first hints of reprogramming medicines on the horizon.
watch here: m.youtube.com/watch?v=HR0-...
this week, we revealed the early results from our programs in metabolism & immunology. we’re starting to see the first hints of reprogramming medicines on the horizon.
watch here: m.youtube.com/watch?v=HR0-...
NewLimit Progress Update 2025
YouTube video by NewLimit
m.youtube.com
March 23, 2025 at 6:07 AM
each year @newlimitbio.bsky.social, we share an update on our progress with the public
this week, we revealed the early results from our programs in metabolism & immunology. we’re starting to see the first hints of reprogramming medicines on the horizon.
watch here: m.youtube.com/watch?v=HR0-...
this week, we revealed the early results from our programs in metabolism & immunology. we’re starting to see the first hints of reprogramming medicines on the horizon.
watch here: m.youtube.com/watch?v=HR0-...
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I'm probably getting fired.
"On October 8, 1931, a law went into effect requiring every Italian university professor to sign an oath pledging their loyalty to the government of Benito Mussolini. Out of over 1,200 professors in the country, only 12 refused. All of them were immediately fired." www.chronicle.com/article/what...
Opinion | What Autocrats Want From Academics: Servility
In 1931, Italian scholars were made to take loyalty oaths. Will that happen to us?
www.chronicle.com
March 22, 2025 at 6:05 AM
I'm probably getting fired.
Hmm somehow ended up at Imperial College today !! Looks quite fancy these days
March 13, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Hmm somehow ended up at Imperial College today !! Looks quite fancy these days
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This guy, @albertburneko.bsky.social, is a genius. Please read his brilliant article on Elon Musk's deranged and morally repugnant Mars colonisation schtick. defector.com/neither-elon...
Neither Elon Musk Nor Anybody Else Will Ever Colonize Mars | Defector
Mars does not have a magnetosphere. Any discussion of humans ever settling the red planet can stop right there, but of course it never does. Do you have a low-cost plan for, uh, creating a gigantic ac...
defector.com
March 7, 2025 at 9:05 AM
This guy, @albertburneko.bsky.social, is a genius. Please read his brilliant article on Elon Musk's deranged and morally repugnant Mars colonisation schtick. defector.com/neither-elon...
How the Royal Society has any association with the Nazi conman Elon Musk is beyond belief. The Royal Society is a disgrace to scientists in the UK.
March 9, 2025 at 7:48 PM
How the Royal Society has any association with the Nazi conman Elon Musk is beyond belief. The Royal Society is a disgrace to scientists in the UK.
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