Helen Walden
@hw1o9.bsky.social
Scientist, Feminist, Mother, Drinker
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Don’t forget to apply for the 2026 Erice Course! Deadline is 30th November 2025. Apologies if earlier today I wrote Dec 15th.
Erice Structural Biology Course 2026 (29 May–6 Jun): apply! Train in Cryo-EM, Cryo-ET & ML to study macromolecular assemblies in cells. Hands-on + theory for next-gen structural cell biology.
🔗 erice2026.azuleon.org/application....
#CryoEM #CryoET #MachineLearning #StructuralBiology #CellBiology
🔗 erice2026.azuleon.org/application....
#CryoEM #CryoET #MachineLearning #StructuralBiology #CellBiology
International School of Crystallography :: APPLICATION
The International School of Crystallography - held in Erice, Italy, since 1974
erice2026.azuleon.org
November 2, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Don’t forget to apply for the 2026 Erice Course! Deadline is 30th November 2025. Apologies if earlier today I wrote Dec 15th.
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‘Economics Nobel prize won by researchers who showed how science boosts growth’ by @philipcball.bsky.social in @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...
October 13, 2025 at 8:34 PM
‘Economics Nobel prize won by researchers who showed how science boosts growth’ by @philipcball.bsky.social in @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Another day, another Dear Sir email *sigh*. This one followed up by a woman apologising for the bloke who called me Sir.
October 1, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Another day, another Dear Sir email *sigh*. This one followed up by a woman apologising for the bloke who called me Sir.
Have had cause today to go through reviews for a paper we published 7 years ago. One of the ‘essential’ experiment requests we’ve still not been able to do, neither has anyone else in field….
September 30, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Have had cause today to go through reviews for a paper we published 7 years ago. One of the ‘essential’ experiment requests we’ve still not been able to do, neither has anyone else in field….
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Why would anyone want to be a scientist?
"Doing good science requires the utmost exertion of body, mind and spirit, yet is consistently filled with failure and rejection."
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
"Doing good science requires the utmost exertion of body, mind and spirit, yet is consistently filled with failure and rejection."
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
September 7, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Why would anyone want to be a scientist?
"Doing good science requires the utmost exertion of body, mind and spirit, yet is consistently filled with failure and rejection."
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
"Doing good science requires the utmost exertion of body, mind and spirit, yet is consistently filled with failure and rejection."
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
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get why she had to go but irksome she lost her job to something quite complex and, let's be honest, reasonably minor in the grand scheme of things, when shadow cabinet members get to merrily hang out with Eddie Swastika without any repercussions
September 5, 2025 at 12:00 PM
get why she had to go but irksome she lost her job to something quite complex and, let's be honest, reasonably minor in the grand scheme of things, when shadow cabinet members get to merrily hang out with Eddie Swastika without any repercussions
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On the same day in the Telegraph:
![The Telegraph
Rayner tax scandal - £40k tax dodge - Statement
Angela Rayner dodges £40,000 stamp duty
Deputy Prime Minister reduces tax bill for Hove flat by declaring it as her main residence
[Photo: Angela Rayner pictured at the weekend in Hove, where she has just bought a flat Credit: Dan Charity/The Sun on Sunday]
Robert Mendick Chief Reporter. Amy Gibbons Political Correspondent
29 August 2025 8:57am BST](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2kf2qj56o2vq7jfaq4x4ogp6/bafkreihe5mm7nwmwvzhtgadmsafyvsaxhrufuai2d2j2rju5zt6g2lytea@jpeg)
![The Telegraph
Money > Property > Second homes
How to avoid tax on your second home
From stamp duty to council tax, shield your wealth from Labour's tightening net
[Photo of houses around a bay - Areas such as Cornwall have added a premium to council tax bills for second homes Credit: iStockphoto]
Fran Ivens Senior Money Writer
29 August 2025 1:21pm BST](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2kf2qj56o2vq7jfaq4x4ogp6/bafkreieuwgc2vsmyfcctmf4cnpcqckij2pqdk2gmzajpnihrsqyqmzyr5e@jpeg)
September 5, 2025 at 7:55 AM
On the same day in the Telegraph:
Just pay your taxes. It’s the price for a civilised society. I do not understand why those who wish to govern and therefore make the actual decisions about how to spend the tax take try to find ways not to pay their share (Reform-fanciers take note). So disappointed in Rayner 😞
September 5, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Just pay your taxes. It’s the price for a civilised society. I do not understand why those who wish to govern and therefore make the actual decisions about how to spend the tax take try to find ways not to pay their share (Reform-fanciers take note). So disappointed in Rayner 😞
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Please help promote the meeting by reposting: @loizoulab.bsky.social @hopfnerlab.bsky.social @lapassmore.bsky.social @raychaudhurilab.bsky.social @hw1o9.bsky.social @westlabcrick.bsky.social @gwuite.bsky.social @dijiang319.bsky.social
August 19, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Please help promote the meeting by reposting: @loizoulab.bsky.social @hopfnerlab.bsky.social @lapassmore.bsky.social @raychaudhurilab.bsky.social @hw1o9.bsky.social @westlabcrick.bsky.social @gwuite.bsky.social @dijiang319.bsky.social
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Please RT! Call for Fellows! If you’re a structural biologist and wanting to start your lab by applying for an external Fellowship then we at Imperial may be excited to host you. Synthetic biologists too.. Please submit expression of interest with details below 🙏
www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperi...
www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperi...
www.imperial.ac.uk
July 28, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Please RT! Call for Fellows! If you’re a structural biologist and wanting to start your lab by applying for an external Fellowship then we at Imperial may be excited to host you. Synthetic biologists too.. Please submit expression of interest with details below 🙏
www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperi...
www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperi...
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It's hard to grasp just how stupid he is, but this helps
Trump: "The other thing I say to Europe: We will not allow a windmill to be built in the United States. They are killing us."
July 27, 2025 at 4:21 PM
It's hard to grasp just how stupid he is, but this helps
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Science finally retracts the Arsenic life paper www.science.org/content/arti...
Fifteen years later, Science retracts ‘arsenic life’ paper despite study authors’ protests
Belated decision on widely disputed 2010 study pleases some critics but puzzles and dismays others
www.science.org
July 24, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Science finally retracts the Arsenic life paper www.science.org/content/arti...
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Better version of the meme.
July 23, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Better version of the meme.
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Happy to share the latest work from the lab, led by @mudgal17.bsky.social, in collaboration with the Weis lab @ethzurich.bsky.social.
How do nuclear membranes fuse during NPC assembly? We answer this question in our latest work, where we identify a new mechanism for membrane fusion… (1/13)
How do nuclear membranes fuse during NPC assembly? We answer this question in our latest work, where we identify a new mechanism for membrane fusion… (1/13)
July 23, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Happy to share the latest work from the lab, led by @mudgal17.bsky.social, in collaboration with the Weis lab @ethzurich.bsky.social.
How do nuclear membranes fuse during NPC assembly? We answer this question in our latest work, where we identify a new mechanism for membrane fusion… (1/13)
How do nuclear membranes fuse during NPC assembly? We answer this question in our latest work, where we identify a new mechanism for membrane fusion… (1/13)
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Fab postdoc job opportunity!
*JOB AD*: interested in doing a postdoc in microbial metabolomics? Passionate about natural products mass spec?
Come join the group! Informal enquires welcome!
Closing Date: 19 August 2025
jobs.ncl.ac.uk/job/Newcastl...
Come join the group! Informal enquires welcome!
Closing Date: 19 August 2025
jobs.ncl.ac.uk/job/Newcastl...
Research Associate - Microbial Metabolomic
Research Associate - Microbial Metabolomic
jobs.ncl.ac.uk
July 22, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Fab postdoc job opportunity!
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Petition to have Steve perform this for a couple to dance to on the upcoming series of #Strictly
To mark the start of BBC Proms 2025, here’s my version of the Postman Pat theme tune in the style of a tango.
July 19, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Petition to have Steve perform this for a couple to dance to on the upcoming series of #Strictly
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Fabulous post by @randomwalker.bsky.social & Sayash raising the same concern many of us have about whether we're on the right track with how we're using AI for science. Everyone should read it, take a deep breath & think through the implications.
www.aisnakeoil.com/p/could-ai-s...
www.aisnakeoil.com/p/could-ai-s...
Could AI slow science?
Confronting the production-progress paradox
www.aisnakeoil.com
July 17, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Fabulous post by @randomwalker.bsky.social & Sayash raising the same concern many of us have about whether we're on the right track with how we're using AI for science. Everyone should read it, take a deep breath & think through the implications.
www.aisnakeoil.com/p/could-ai-s...
www.aisnakeoil.com/p/could-ai-s...
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My wonderful colleage Colin Kleanthous is raising money for the MND association. Please support Colin in this worthy endeavor! www.justgiving.com/page/colin-k...
(Please repost!)
(Please repost!)
Colin Kleanthous' fundraiser for Motor Neurone Disease Association
Help Colin Kleanthous raise money to support Motor Neurone Disease Association
www.justgiving.com
July 15, 2025 at 7:21 AM
My wonderful colleage Colin Kleanthous is raising money for the MND association. Please support Colin in this worthy endeavor! www.justgiving.com/page/colin-k...
(Please repost!)
(Please repost!)
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This on IPlayer about a nice naive young man who was essentially held prisoner naked and without food by a reality TV company for 15 months in the 90s is, and I don’t say this lightly, essential viewing.
People who make reality TV are actual sadistic psychos.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
People who make reality TV are actual sadistic psychos.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Storyville - The Contestant
A Storyville documentary that tells the true story of Tomoaki Hamatsu, who spent 15 months in a small room, naked, starving and alone, unaware he was being broadcast to millions of people on TV.
www.bbc.co.uk
July 14, 2025 at 9:19 PM
This on IPlayer about a nice naive young man who was essentially held prisoner naked and without food by a reality TV company for 15 months in the 90s is, and I don’t say this lightly, essential viewing.
People who make reality TV are actual sadistic psychos.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
People who make reality TV are actual sadistic psychos.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
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I wrote about my 7/7 experience for the 20th (!) anniversary: The art of ‘travelling hopefully’ ft.com/content/ac05... via @ftweekend.com
This, from the comments section, is going on my CV: In a world of pontificating dim wits, a voice that is crystal clear on what it means to carry on fully awake
This, from the comments section, is going on my CV: In a world of pontificating dim wits, a voice that is crystal clear on what it means to carry on fully awake
The art of ‘travelling hopefully’
Twenty years after being caught up in the 7/7 London terror attacks, Rivka Isaacson reflects on the lasting impact of that day
ft.com
July 14, 2025 at 3:31 PM
I wrote about my 7/7 experience for the 20th (!) anniversary: The art of ‘travelling hopefully’ ft.com/content/ac05... via @ftweekend.com
This, from the comments section, is going on my CV: In a world of pontificating dim wits, a voice that is crystal clear on what it means to carry on fully awake
This, from the comments section, is going on my CV: In a world of pontificating dim wits, a voice that is crystal clear on what it means to carry on fully awake
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Decades of mechanistic talk about university degrees as if they were bundles of 'skills' and 'prep' are about to be proved completely wrong (obviously). Want to get a real boost? Do History or English.
July 13, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Decades of mechanistic talk about university degrees as if they were bundles of 'skills' and 'prep' are about to be proved completely wrong (obviously). Want to get a real boost? Do History or English.