Scott Dillon
@dillonbonebio.bsky.social
Northern Irish postdoc with Duer Lab, University of Cambridge. #Bone, #biomineralization, #ECMatrix biology, #electronmicroscopy, solid state #NMR. Views my own (he/him).
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⏳Final week to sign up to the Green Party.
🗳️ Vote for Bold Leadership on August 1st.
🗳️ Vote for Bold Leadership on August 1st.
July 23, 2025 at 6:46 AM
⏳Final week to sign up to the Green Party.
🗳️ Vote for Bold Leadership on August 1st.
🗳️ Vote for Bold Leadership on August 1st.
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Well that’s me depressed for the weekend. As Glen acidly observes this looks like a pretty transparent effort to shift blame for coming university bankruptcies onto the institutions. Good luck with selling that to whichever MPs are about to lose their constituency’s largest employer.
I have never seen people run away from the scene of a public policy disaster quicker than this one. Astonishing and disgraceful. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05...
Universities have ‘lost sight of responsibility over public money’
Baroness Smith says institutions failing to rein in spending despite demanding financial support from government
www.telegraph.co.uk
May 10, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Well that’s me depressed for the weekend. As Glen acidly observes this looks like a pretty transparent effort to shift blame for coming university bankruptcies onto the institutions. Good luck with selling that to whichever MPs are about to lose their constituency’s largest employer.
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Just out! Our peer-reviewed critique of the Cass Review has been published by BMC Medical Research Methodology. Please read and share. We show that the Cass Review is fatally flawed and should not be the basis for policy or practice in transgender healthcare.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
May 10, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Just out! Our peer-reviewed critique of the Cass Review has been published by BMC Medical Research Methodology. Please read and share. We show that the Cass Review is fatally flawed and should not be the basis for policy or practice in transgender healthcare.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
If you're feeling as helpless as I am after the UK Supreme Court ruling, do a small thing and donate to the Good Law Project to fund a legal challenge: goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/... 🏳️⚧️
Help us challenge the Supreme Court’s judgment on trans rights | Good Law Project
goodlawproject.org
May 2, 2025 at 12:26 PM
If you're feeling as helpless as I am after the UK Supreme Court ruling, do a small thing and donate to the Good Law Project to fund a legal challenge: goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/... 🏳️⚧️
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Am starting to think widespread civil disobedience is the most effective way to tackle Labour's policy of punishment beatings for trans people to please right wing bigots.
And this can't fall on the trans community - cis allies too are going to have to start using the 'wrong' toilets.
And this can't fall on the trans community - cis allies too are going to have to start using the 'wrong' toilets.
April 26, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Am starting to think widespread civil disobedience is the most effective way to tackle Labour's policy of punishment beatings for trans people to please right wing bigots.
And this can't fall on the trans community - cis allies too are going to have to start using the 'wrong' toilets.
And this can't fall on the trans community - cis allies too are going to have to start using the 'wrong' toilets.
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My husband has taught human reproduction and development to the Cambridge medics for over three decades. When people start banging on about "only two biological sexes" he starts with "which sex: genetic, hormonal, or gonadal"?
Biological sex is not binary. www.scientificamerican.com/article/sex-...
Biological sex is not binary. www.scientificamerican.com/article/sex-...
Sex Redefined: The Idea of 2 Sexes Is Overly Simplistic
Biologists now think there is a larger spectrum than just binary female and male
www.scientificamerican.com
April 16, 2025 at 12:03 PM
My husband has taught human reproduction and development to the Cambridge medics for over three decades. When people start banging on about "only two biological sexes" he starts with "which sex: genetic, hormonal, or gonadal"?
Biological sex is not binary. www.scientificamerican.com/article/sex-...
Biological sex is not binary. www.scientificamerican.com/article/sex-...
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This. An emergency recall of parliament on a weekend for British Steel. Nothing at all for UK HE which employs far more people, has already shed 10,000 academic jobs, with several institutions on the brink of collapse.
A reminder: we train all the doctors, teachers, engineers, nurses, lawyers &c &c
A reminder: we train all the doctors, teachers, engineers, nurses, lawyers &c &c
British Steel employs 3.6k people. Coventry Uni group, which auditors say may not survive, employs 7.7k. But there is an emergency debate in parliament for British Steel and nothing for the whole HE sector imploding
Why is the government and the news so indifferent to the meltdown happening in UK #HigherEd right now?
Our universities are the envy of the world. Yet we are at risk of losing a generation of academics and damaging the sector beyond repair.
Our universities are the envy of the world. Yet we are at risk of losing a generation of academics and damaging the sector beyond repair.
April 12, 2025 at 8:24 AM
This. An emergency recall of parliament on a weekend for British Steel. Nothing at all for UK HE which employs far more people, has already shed 10,000 academic jobs, with several institutions on the brink of collapse.
A reminder: we train all the doctors, teachers, engineers, nurses, lawyers &c &c
A reminder: we train all the doctors, teachers, engineers, nurses, lawyers &c &c
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I had to bring this here because it’s so good
March 8, 2025 at 4:59 PM
I had to bring this here because it’s so good
Now THAT is a magnet. Really excited to be doing some experiments this week at the High Field Solid State NMR Facility in Warwick 🧲 #NMR
February 24, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Now THAT is a magnet. Really excited to be doing some experiments this week at the High Field Solid State NMR Facility in Warwick 🧲 #NMR
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Our paper entitled "The novel #ECM protein SNED1 mediates cell adhesion via the RGD-binding #integrins α5β1 and αvβ3" is now published in #OpenAccess in @jcellsci.bsky.social @biologists.bsky.social. Big congrats Dharma pdtr124.bsky.social and Nandini! doi.org/10.1242/jcs....
The novel ECM protein SNED1 mediates cell adhesion via the RGD-binding integrins α5β1 and αvβ3
Summary: The recently discovered extracellular matrix protein SNED1 promotes the adhesion of breast cancer cells and neural crest cells via interaction with α5β1 and αvβ3 integrins, the first SNED1 re...
doi.org
January 22, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Our paper entitled "The novel #ECM protein SNED1 mediates cell adhesion via the RGD-binding #integrins α5β1 and αvβ3" is now published in #OpenAccess in @jcellsci.bsky.social @biologists.bsky.social. Big congrats Dharma pdtr124.bsky.social and Nandini! doi.org/10.1242/jcs....
A very frosty winter walk today 🥶🐕
January 11, 2025 at 1:19 PM
A very frosty winter walk today 🥶🐕
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My relationship with Big wasn’t the only thing I blew up that day. At the Trinity test site I detonated the first plutonium bomb, unleashing a 22 kiloton blast. Had I become Death, destroyer of worlds? Meanwhile uptown, Samantha had her hands full with her own “Manhattan project”
January 10, 2025 at 11:49 PM
My relationship with Big wasn’t the only thing I blew up that day. At the Trinity test site I detonated the first plutonium bomb, unleashing a 22 kiloton blast. Had I become Death, destroyer of worlds? Meanwhile uptown, Samantha had her hands full with her own “Manhattan project”
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🔔 The final version of our COBME paper on how #hydrogel platforms with tunable / dynamic #mechanics enhance our understanding of #cancer progression and #fibrosis is out! 🧪
🌺 Thank you @marcocantini.bsky.social @mattjwalker.bsky.social
#tissueengineering
👇
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
January 7, 2025 at 10:45 PM
🔔 The final version of our COBME paper on how #hydrogel platforms with tunable / dynamic #mechanics enhance our understanding of #cancer progression and #fibrosis is out! 🧪
🌺 Thank you @marcocantini.bsky.social @mattjwalker.bsky.social
#tissueengineering
👇
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume?
Me: I was waiting for the NMR
Me: I was waiting for the NMR
Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume?
Me: I was waiting for the Argon laser to warm up
Me: I was waiting for the Argon laser to warm up
December 20, 2024 at 4:00 PM
Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume?
Me: I was waiting for the NMR
Me: I was waiting for the NMR
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It is becoming increasingly confusing to work out where to publish if you want to comply with your funders OA policy (or with your own principles).
This tool is very helpful
journalcheckertool.org
This tool is very helpful
journalcheckertool.org
Journal Checker Tool: Check which publishing options are supported by your funder’s OA policy |
JCT enables researchers to check whether they can comply with their funders Plan S aligned OA policy based on the journal, the funder and the institution affiliated with the research to be published.
journalcheckertool.org
December 10, 2024 at 4:39 PM
It is becoming increasingly confusing to work out where to publish if you want to comply with your funders OA policy (or with your own principles).
This tool is very helpful
journalcheckertool.org
This tool is very helpful
journalcheckertool.org
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🚨 FIVE Exciting PhD Opportunities to Join Our Team at @qmul.ac.uk! 🚨
December 4, 2024 at 10:17 AM
🚨 FIVE Exciting PhD Opportunities to Join Our Team at @qmul.ac.uk! 🚨
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This from Liberali and Schier (2024) @priscaliberali.bsky.social @schierlab.bsky.social is just some of the things basic research in Developmental Biology alone has allowed since 1974. Fund basic research. Push back against anti-science nonsense pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38906136/
December 2, 2024 at 8:10 PM
This from Liberali and Schier (2024) @priscaliberali.bsky.social @schierlab.bsky.social is just some of the things basic research in Developmental Biology alone has allowed since 1974. Fund basic research. Push back against anti-science nonsense pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38906136/
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I do enjoy how the Irish defy stereotypes by producing the most insane election graphics known to man
November 30, 2024 at 11:42 AM
I do enjoy how the Irish defy stereotypes by producing the most insane election graphics known to man
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I. JUST. WANT. THE. RECIPE. I. DON'T. WANT. FOUR. PAGES. OF. STORY. ABOUT. HOW. THIS. WAS. YOUR. AUNT. LINDA'S. FAVORITE. DISH. ON. WINTER. ESCAPES. TO. THE. MOUNTAINS.
November 27, 2024 at 4:08 PM
I. JUST. WANT. THE. RECIPE. I. DON'T. WANT. FOUR. PAGES. OF. STORY. ABOUT. HOW. THIS. WAS. YOUR. AUNT. LINDA'S. FAVORITE. DISH. ON. WINTER. ESCAPES. TO. THE. MOUNTAINS.
The benefit of a broken #TEM: you get to have a nosey inside! #electronmicroscopy
November 26, 2024 at 4:35 PM
The benefit of a broken #TEM: you get to have a nosey inside! #electronmicroscopy
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📣Publication alert: Excited to have contributed to the manuscript describing the expansion and new functionalities of #MatrixDB, now published in Nucleic Acids Research academic.oup.com/nar/advance-....
Check out the new UI and play with the new network explorer at: matrixdb.univ-lyon1.fr
Check out the new UI and play with the new network explorer at: matrixdb.univ-lyon1.fr
November 25, 2024 at 9:20 PM
📣Publication alert: Excited to have contributed to the manuscript describing the expansion and new functionalities of #MatrixDB, now published in Nucleic Acids Research academic.oup.com/nar/advance-....
Check out the new UI and play with the new network explorer at: matrixdb.univ-lyon1.fr
Check out the new UI and play with the new network explorer at: matrixdb.univ-lyon1.fr
It's Christmaaaaaaaas 🎅
November 24, 2024 at 3:56 PM
It's Christmaaaaaaaas 🎅