Alan Goddard
@alangoddard.bsky.social
Professor of Biotechnology at Aston Uni. Interested in all things membranes and biotech. All opinions my own (not sure anyone else would want them).
Excited and pleased (I think!) to announce that I'm the new Head of Biosciences @astonuniversity.bsky.social. Hopefully continued success for the new Department in an exciting School of Medicine, Pharmacy and Biosciences!
November 3, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Excited and pleased (I think!) to announce that I'm the new Head of Biosciences @astonuniversity.bsky.social. Hopefully continued success for the new Department in an exciting School of Medicine, Pharmacy and Biosciences!
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Biochemical Society's Membrane Protein Conference
7–9 April 2026
Birmingham, UK | Leonardo Royal Hotel
- Abstracts welcome for talks & posters
- Bursaries available!
- Register & submit here:
www.eventsforce.net/biochemsoc/f...
#MembraneProteins #CallForAbstracts @biochemsoc.bsky.social
7–9 April 2026
Birmingham, UK | Leonardo Royal Hotel
- Abstracts welcome for talks & posters
- Bursaries available!
- Register & submit here:
www.eventsforce.net/biochemsoc/f...
#MembraneProteins #CallForAbstracts @biochemsoc.bsky.social
October 24, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Biochemical Society's Membrane Protein Conference
7–9 April 2026
Birmingham, UK | Leonardo Royal Hotel
- Abstracts welcome for talks & posters
- Bursaries available!
- Register & submit here:
www.eventsforce.net/biochemsoc/f...
#MembraneProteins #CallForAbstracts @biochemsoc.bsky.social
7–9 April 2026
Birmingham, UK | Leonardo Royal Hotel
- Abstracts welcome for talks & posters
- Bursaries available!
- Register & submit here:
www.eventsforce.net/biochemsoc/f...
#MembraneProteins #CallForAbstracts @biochemsoc.bsky.social
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*PhD project is live*
Lipid-Based Nanotechnologies for Probing and Modulating Host–Microbe Interfaces
Joint between Aston and Birmingham University with @owenlabuob.bsky.social and @alangoddard.bsky.social
warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa...
Lipid-Based Nanotechnologies for Probing and Modulating Host–Microbe Interfaces
Joint between Aston and Birmingham University with @owenlabuob.bsky.social and @alangoddard.bsky.social
warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa...
Dr George Ashdown
Dr George Ashdown
warwick.ac.uk
October 15, 2025 at 7:57 AM
*PhD project is live*
Lipid-Based Nanotechnologies for Probing and Modulating Host–Microbe Interfaces
Joint between Aston and Birmingham University with @owenlabuob.bsky.social and @alangoddard.bsky.social
warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa...
Lipid-Based Nanotechnologies for Probing and Modulating Host–Microbe Interfaces
Joint between Aston and Birmingham University with @owenlabuob.bsky.social and @alangoddard.bsky.social
warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa...
This episode of Mark Steele's in Town about Handsworth is brilliant. It's the Birmingham I grew up in, moved back to and work in, at one of the most diverse and integrated Universities in the UK. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...
October 7, 2025 at 6:33 PM
This episode of Mark Steele's in Town about Handsworth is brilliant. It's the Birmingham I grew up in, moved back to and work in, at one of the most diverse and integrated Universities in the UK. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...
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Birmingham, my home city, is a fantastic city, with fantastic people- a success story. It has its problems, like anywhere. But the obsession the online right has with it is as transparent as it gets.
October 7, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Birmingham, my home city, is a fantastic city, with fantastic people- a success story. It has its problems, like anywhere. But the obsession the online right has with it is as transparent as it gets.
Come and do a PhD with us - we are interested to hear from biochemists and chemists who are interested in making cool technology inspired by cell membranes! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Novel polymers for tunable protein-lipid nanodisc formation at Aston University on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Novel polymers for tunable protein-lipid nanodisc formation at Aston University, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
October 1, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Come and do a PhD with us - we are interested to hear from biochemists and chemists who are interested in making cool technology inspired by cell membranes! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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🗓️ SAVE THE DATE: 24-25th June 2026 #UKSTEMConf26
The 2026 UK Horizons in STEM HE conference will take place at Royal Holloway.This conference is an opportunity for all STEM colleagues to share their insights into teaching innovation, pedagogy, & develop connections across the STEM disciplines.
The 2026 UK Horizons in STEM HE conference will take place at Royal Holloway.This conference is an opportunity for all STEM colleagues to share their insights into teaching innovation, pedagogy, & develop connections across the STEM disciplines.
September 16, 2025 at 1:40 PM
🗓️ SAVE THE DATE: 24-25th June 2026 #UKSTEMConf26
The 2026 UK Horizons in STEM HE conference will take place at Royal Holloway.This conference is an opportunity for all STEM colleagues to share their insights into teaching innovation, pedagogy, & develop connections across the STEM disciplines.
The 2026 UK Horizons in STEM HE conference will take place at Royal Holloway.This conference is an opportunity for all STEM colleagues to share their insights into teaching innovation, pedagogy, & develop connections across the STEM disciplines.
Ok, putting it out there, I think Invincibles are going to win by over 100 here.... #TheHundred
August 16, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Ok, putting it out there, I think Invincibles are going to win by over 100 here.... #TheHundred
Great to be at Old Trafford (the good one 😉) for The Hundred again. Although I am wearing my Phoenix top and Bears cap...
August 6, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Great to be at Old Trafford (the good one 😉) for The Hundred again. Although I am wearing my Phoenix top and Bears cap...
Feeling appropriate again....
watching england is a lot less stressful if you work on the assumption that the fourth innings target is going to be about 350-390, and everything that comes before is just manoeuvring
August 2, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Feeling appropriate again....
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Ozzy going out after raising $190 million for sick kids and a Parkinson’s cure is metal AF.
Ozzy Osbourne Farewell Show Was The Highest-Grossing Charity Concert Of All Time
On July 5, Ozzy Osbourne put on a farewell concert, performing as a solo artist and with Black Sabbath for the last time in the band’s hometown of Birmingham, UK. Billed as the “Back To The Beginning”...
www.stereogum.com
July 22, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Ozzy going out after raising $190 million for sick kids and a Parkinson’s cure is metal AF.
July 13, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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The endless summer of Zak Crawley
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/j...
Welcome to The Crawley Zone, where endless backing doesn’t always deliver results | Barney Ronay
The England opener walked off with 18 from 43 balls at Lord’s in the third Test against India, but to criticise those numbers is a kind of cultural faux pas
www.theguardian.com
July 10, 2025 at 8:04 PM
The endless summer of Zak Crawley
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/j...
Proof to Mrs Norcross that @norcrosscricket.bsky.social is doing as he was told!
July 3, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Proof to Mrs Norcross that @norcrosscricket.bsky.social is doing as he was told!
Always a nice surprise to be cited in someone's talk (especially when it's not about membrane biochemistry!) #UKSTEMconf25
June 25, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Always a nice surprise to be cited in someone's talk (especially when it's not about membrane biochemistry!) #UKSTEMconf25
@rossp22.bsky.social from @astonuniversity.bsky.social talking at #UKSTEMConf25 about interprofessional learning.
June 25, 2025 at 12:59 PM
@rossp22.bsky.social from @astonuniversity.bsky.social talking at #UKSTEMConf25 about interprofessional learning.
Amazing start to @ukstemconf.bsky.social #UKStemConf25. Nice to hear about the history of the conference and looking forward to the next couple of days.
June 25, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Amazing start to @ukstemconf.bsky.social #UKStemConf25. Nice to hear about the history of the conference and looking forward to the next couple of days.
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🚨PhD opportunity! Join us at @astonaime.bsky.social and be part of the digital revolution 🤖 Discover polymer nanoparticles using data-driven methods. Ideal for chemists & digital explorers.
RTs appreciated! 🙏
🗓️ Apply by 1 June 2025
🔗 tinyurl.com/3xa2hkfu
#PhD #AI #PolymerChemistry
RTs appreciated! 🙏
🗓️ Apply by 1 June 2025
🔗 tinyurl.com/3xa2hkfu
#PhD #AI #PolymerChemistry
Digital Discovery of Polymer Nanoparticles at Aston University on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Digital Discovery of Polymer Nanoparticles at Aston University, listed on FindAPhD.com
tinyurl.com
May 13, 2025 at 8:22 AM
🚨PhD opportunity! Join us at @astonaime.bsky.social and be part of the digital revolution 🤖 Discover polymer nanoparticles using data-driven methods. Ideal for chemists & digital explorers.
RTs appreciated! 🙏
🗓️ Apply by 1 June 2025
🔗 tinyurl.com/3xa2hkfu
#PhD #AI #PolymerChemistry
RTs appreciated! 🙏
🗓️ Apply by 1 June 2025
🔗 tinyurl.com/3xa2hkfu
#PhD #AI #PolymerChemistry
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Delighted to announce the next UK Midlands Biophysics Network Meeting. 2025 will emphasise work around optical trapping techniques - register to attend and submit poster and abstract submission here shorturl.at/XrU9a
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18th September
📍
University of Nottingham
🗓️
18th September
📍
University of Nottingham
UK Midlands Biophysics Network Meeting
The 2025 UK Midlands Biophysics Network Meeting will take place at the University of Nottingham. Researchers from the UK midlands will come together to strengthen our network and our passion for bioph...
shorturl.at
May 6, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Delighted to announce the next UK Midlands Biophysics Network Meeting. 2025 will emphasise work around optical trapping techniques - register to attend and submit poster and abstract submission here shorturl.at/XrU9a
🗓️
18th September
📍
University of Nottingham
🗓️
18th September
📍
University of Nottingham
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Every now again it’s useful to repeat advice about accessing papers that are behind a paywall that excludes you. Email the author. My estimate is that 90% of academics are so thrilled that a living, breathing, possibly even reading, person shows interest that they will swiftly send you a copy.
May 3, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Every now again it’s useful to repeat advice about accessing papers that are behind a paywall that excludes you. Email the author. My estimate is that 90% of academics are so thrilled that a living, breathing, possibly even reading, person shows interest that they will swiftly send you a copy.
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I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.
May 4, 2025 at 6:21 AM
I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.
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Ben Franklin on inoculation, after his son died from smallpox.
“In 1736, I lost one of my sons, a fine boy of four years old, by the small-pox, taken in the common way. I long regretted bitterly, and still regret that I had not given it to him by inoculation”.
“In 1736, I lost one of my sons, a fine boy of four years old, by the small-pox, taken in the common way. I long regretted bitterly, and still regret that I had not given it to him by inoculation”.
May 3, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Ben Franklin on inoculation, after his son died from smallpox.
“In 1736, I lost one of my sons, a fine boy of four years old, by the small-pox, taken in the common way. I long regretted bitterly, and still regret that I had not given it to him by inoculation”.
“In 1736, I lost one of my sons, a fine boy of four years old, by the small-pox, taken in the common way. I long regretted bitterly, and still regret that I had not given it to him by inoculation”.
This conference is always excellent and is being hosted at Aston so it doesn't really get any better!
Registration for Horizons in STEM HE Conference 2025 is now OPEN! Please join us at Aston University, Birmingham, on 25-26th June 2025. #UKSTEMConf25
ukstemconference.com
ukstemconference.com
Horizons in STEM Higher Education Conference
Making Connections, Innovating and Sharing Pedagogy
ukstemconference.com
April 16, 2025 at 3:20 PM
This conference is always excellent and is being hosted at Aston so it doesn't really get any better!
New paper out with colleagues on citizen science approaches for microbiology. A bit different, but membranes get a mention for anyone who was briefly worried 🤣
www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...
Also, publish in society journals!
www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...
Also, publish in society journals!
Opportunities for microbiology citizen science: lessons learnt from three pilot projects
Citizen science (CS) is the partnering of professional scientists and members of the public to answer real-world scientific questions. There has been huge growth in CS over the past two decades, but u...
www.microbiologyresearch.org
April 16, 2025 at 10:09 AM
New paper out with colleagues on citizen science approaches for microbiology. A bit different, but membranes get a mention for anyone who was briefly worried 🤣
www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...
Also, publish in society journals!
www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...
Also, publish in society journals!