Lindsay Keith
@drlindsaykeith.bsky.social
Science/Stories/Writing/Comms/TV/Festivals/Engagement/Theatre/Immersion. Head of Comms and Engagement @MRC-LMS @SMASHfestUK @RefineryTV
At Imperial's Engagement Day. Brilliant panel on impact featuring @kathmath.bsky.social (Even spotted me on the webpage doing my lightening talk at last years event about the @mrc-lms.bsky.social Gene Home installation) Cracking day, congrats to the Societal and Public engagement team!
November 26, 2025 at 3:16 PM
At Imperial's Engagement Day. Brilliant panel on impact featuring @kathmath.bsky.social (Even spotted me on the webpage doing my lightening talk at last years event about the @mrc-lms.bsky.social Gene Home installation) Cracking day, congrats to the Societal and Public engagement team!
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Happy Halloween!
The skull is an image of the DNA of stem cells from a mouse embryo taken by one of our postdocs, Gosia Borkowska.
The eyes of the skull are formed by the nucleus of two cells, while the surrounding ‘bones’ are chromosomes that are preparing for cell division.
The skull is an image of the DNA of stem cells from a mouse embryo taken by one of our postdocs, Gosia Borkowska.
The eyes of the skull are formed by the nucleus of two cells, while the surrounding ‘bones’ are chromosomes that are preparing for cell division.
October 31, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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This month for Black History Month, the LMS hosted a talk by Professor Martin Griffiths, organised by @imperialsandc.bsky.social
After the talk, we celebrated African and Caribbean culture, with homemade food, a bracelet making station and music from our Black History playlist
After the talk, we celebrated African and Caribbean culture, with homemade food, a bracelet making station and music from our Black History playlist
October 29, 2025 at 11:24 AM
This month for Black History Month, the LMS hosted a talk by Professor Martin Griffiths, organised by @imperialsandc.bsky.social
After the talk, we celebrated African and Caribbean culture, with homemade food, a bracelet making station and music from our Black History playlist
After the talk, we celebrated African and Caribbean culture, with homemade food, a bracelet making station and music from our Black History playlist
Is it a birb? Is it a borb? Is it a floof? (Find out here www.audubon.org/magazine/whe...)
October 12, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Is it a birb? Is it a borb? Is it a floof? (Find out here www.audubon.org/magazine/whe...)
Know a medic who's keen on research but struggling to find a way in that works with their NHS career? Please share our Chain Florey programme, designed to address the dwindling numbers of clinician scientists in the uk.
Just launched: the 1st video in our 6-part Chain Florey Clinician Scientist series at LMS!
Professor Declan O’Regan shares how we support early career clinicians bridging discovery and experimental medicine.
Find out more: lms.mrc.ac.uk/work-and-stu...
Professor Declan O’Regan shares how we support early career clinicians bridging discovery and experimental medicine.
Find out more: lms.mrc.ac.uk/work-and-stu...
October 12, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Know a medic who's keen on research but struggling to find a way in that works with their NHS career? Please share our Chain Florey programme, designed to address the dwindling numbers of clinician scientists in the uk.
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John Gurdon, former Group Leader and Head of @cellbiol-mrclmb.bsky.social has died.
Despite calling himself a "total non-intellectual” his work to reprogramme somatic cells to pluripotent stem cells transformed the field of developmental biology.
More: www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/john-gurdon-...
#LMBNews
Despite calling himself a "total non-intellectual” his work to reprogramme somatic cells to pluripotent stem cells transformed the field of developmental biology.
More: www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/john-gurdon-...
#LMBNews
October 8, 2025 at 8:49 AM
John Gurdon, former Group Leader and Head of @cellbiol-mrclmb.bsky.social has died.
Despite calling himself a "total non-intellectual” his work to reprogramme somatic cells to pluripotent stem cells transformed the field of developmental biology.
More: www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/john-gurdon-...
#LMBNews
Despite calling himself a "total non-intellectual” his work to reprogramme somatic cells to pluripotent stem cells transformed the field of developmental biology.
More: www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/john-gurdon-...
#LMBNews
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Find us here:
•Nsikan Nsek: talk OC-18 'Disease Models' (Fri 26th @12:15)
•Isabel Liseth: P-145
•Miriam Rodriguez-Vazquez: P-281
•Helena Cochemé: P-283
(all Poster Session II, Sat 27th @15:45)
Plus I’m looking forward to chairing the 'Physiology & Metabolism' session! (Sat 27th @10:30)
#LMSonTour
•Nsikan Nsek: talk OC-18 'Disease Models' (Fri 26th @12:15)
•Isabel Liseth: P-145
•Miriam Rodriguez-Vazquez: P-281
•Helena Cochemé: P-283
(all Poster Session II, Sat 27th @15:45)
Plus I’m looking forward to chairing the 'Physiology & Metabolism' session! (Sat 27th @10:30)
#LMSonTour
September 25, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Find us here:
•Nsikan Nsek: talk OC-18 'Disease Models' (Fri 26th @12:15)
•Isabel Liseth: P-145
•Miriam Rodriguez-Vazquez: P-281
•Helena Cochemé: P-283
(all Poster Session II, Sat 27th @15:45)
Plus I’m looking forward to chairing the 'Physiology & Metabolism' session! (Sat 27th @10:30)
#LMSonTour
•Nsikan Nsek: talk OC-18 'Disease Models' (Fri 26th @12:15)
•Isabel Liseth: P-145
•Miriam Rodriguez-Vazquez: P-281
•Helena Cochemé: P-283
(all Poster Session II, Sat 27th @15:45)
Plus I’m looking forward to chairing the 'Physiology & Metabolism' session! (Sat 27th @10:30)
#LMSonTour
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Arrived in Alicante, and excited for this year’s #EDRC2025! 🪰🧪🔬🧫🥼🧬🪰 The #LMS is well represented at the meeting - catch us at our talk/poster presentations!
#Drosophila #Redox #Ageing #DiseaseModels #Cancer #Obesity
@mrc-lms.bsky.social
#Drosophila #Redox #Ageing #DiseaseModels #Cancer #Obesity
@mrc-lms.bsky.social
September 25, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Arrived in Alicante, and excited for this year’s #EDRC2025! 🪰🧪🔬🧫🥼🧬🪰 The #LMS is well represented at the meeting - catch us at our talk/poster presentations!
#Drosophila #Redox #Ageing #DiseaseModels #Cancer #Obesity
@mrc-lms.bsky.social
#Drosophila #Redox #Ageing #DiseaseModels #Cancer #Obesity
@mrc-lms.bsky.social
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I got permission to share this, and I'm extremely grateful for that.
The Onion got this letter from one of our subscribers in Alaska. She works with dementia patients and decided to leave a copy in the car for each one.
This email made my year. Read it and you'll see what I mean. People are good.
The Onion got this letter from one of our subscribers in Alaska. She works with dementia patients and decided to leave a copy in the car for each one.
This email made my year. Read it and you'll see what I mean. People are good.
July 1, 2025 at 6:46 PM
I got permission to share this, and I'm extremely grateful for that.
The Onion got this letter from one of our subscribers in Alaska. She works with dementia patients and decided to leave a copy in the car for each one.
This email made my year. Read it and you'll see what I mean. People are good.
The Onion got this letter from one of our subscribers in Alaska. She works with dementia patients and decided to leave a copy in the car for each one.
This email made my year. Read it and you'll see what I mean. People are good.
Reposted by Lindsay Keith
Furiously logging all the new budget news, laughing grimly that it landed *just after* we hit publish. Of course it did.
Grateful that the entire point of @unbreaking.org is to give us a durable platform where we can keep integrating new developments. We'll digest, contextualize & update next week.
Grateful that the entire point of @unbreaking.org is to give us a durable platform where we can keep integrating new developments. We'll digest, contextualize & update next week.
I urge everyone to read Unbreaking’s new page on everything the govt is doing to destroy & diminish medical research funding.
It’s the best thing I’ve read on this topic: @lizneeley.bsky.social & co have such done an incredible job.
unbreaking.org/issues/medic...
It’s the best thing I’ve read on this topic: @lizneeley.bsky.social & co have such done an incredible job.
unbreaking.org/issues/medic...
Medical Research Funding — Unbreaking
How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.
unbreaking.org
May 30, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Furiously logging all the new budget news, laughing grimly that it landed *just after* we hit publish. Of course it did.
Grateful that the entire point of @unbreaking.org is to give us a durable platform where we can keep integrating new developments. We'll digest, contextualize & update next week.
Grateful that the entire point of @unbreaking.org is to give us a durable platform where we can keep integrating new developments. We'll digest, contextualize & update next week.
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Puffins are social, so to attract them to Maine's rocky islands, National Audubon's Seabird Restoration Program put out decoys to attract real birds.
This puffin is trying to fit in with his new friend by standing on one leg.
Seabird peer-pressure can be intense.
(📷: Robert F. Bukaty)
This puffin is trying to fit in with his new friend by standing on one leg.
Seabird peer-pressure can be intense.
(📷: Robert F. Bukaty)
May 30, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Puffins are social, so to attract them to Maine's rocky islands, National Audubon's Seabird Restoration Program put out decoys to attract real birds.
This puffin is trying to fit in with his new friend by standing on one leg.
Seabird peer-pressure can be intense.
(📷: Robert F. Bukaty)
This puffin is trying to fit in with his new friend by standing on one leg.
Seabird peer-pressure can be intense.
(📷: Robert F. Bukaty)
Me, with a PhD scrutinising #GCSE biology answers...
a soccer referee wearing a yellow shirt with the letter i on it
ALT: a soccer referee wearing a yellow shirt with the letter i on it
media.tenor.com
May 3, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Me, with a PhD scrutinising #GCSE biology answers...
Who else is doing #GCSE revision enthusiasm as their new hobby?
a woman in a black dress is smiling with #schitts creek on the bottom right
ALT: a woman in a black dress is smiling with #schitts creek on the bottom right
media.tenor.com
May 3, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Who else is doing #GCSE revision enthusiasm as their new hobby?
Ah the Immune Army! Loved making this film, what a fun opportunity. 😊 Happy International #dayofimmunology!
A blast from the past and happy memories of working with an incredible team to put this together - internally and with @drlindsaykeith.bsky.social! Happy International #DayofImmunology!
@martinjbaker.bsky.social @annecorcoran.bsky.social
@martinjbaker.bsky.social @annecorcoran.bsky.social
For International #DayofImmunology we're pulling this out of the archives. An oldie but a goldie and fun to revisit.
A note for teachers/anyone interested in the resources mentioned at the end. These now live at www.babraham.ac.uk/discover-and...
youtu.be/-Adn_t1eoS0?...
A note for teachers/anyone interested in the resources mentioned at the end. These now live at www.babraham.ac.uk/discover-and...
youtu.be/-Adn_t1eoS0?...
April 29, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Ah the Immune Army! Loved making this film, what a fun opportunity. 😊 Happy International #dayofimmunology!
Today would have been a nice day for a blat. Time for a new bike?
February 22, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Today would have been a nice day for a blat. Time for a new bike?
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The National Association of Science Writers is strongly committed to the free exchange of scientific information, diversity in science and science communication, and combating propaganda. Here are encouragement & resources & a call for ideas from @sciencewriters.org: 🧪 www.nasw.org/article/our-...
Our collective commitment
NASW was founded more than 90 years ago with a mission to “fight for the free flow of science news.” That mission is imperative, yet threatened by recent challenges to the First Amendment and the free...
www.nasw.org
February 20, 2025 at 6:11 PM
The National Association of Science Writers is strongly committed to the free exchange of scientific information, diversity in science and science communication, and combating propaganda. Here are encouragement & resources & a call for ideas from @sciencewriters.org: 🧪 www.nasw.org/article/our-...
Such a queen at social media I missed this post from the other half. 😂 Happy twenty years! ❤️🎉🎊
Llongyfarchiadau to us! 20 years! ❤️❤️❤️ @drlindsaykeith.bsky.social
February 7, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Such a queen at social media I missed this post from the other half. 😂 Happy twenty years! ❤️🎉🎊
Ten years ago "Uncle Mike" tried to convince the world of the benefits of video conferencing before Zoom was even a thing. Featuring awesome @leesimpson.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYO8... (also starred in this definitely-not-for-broadcast follow-up) www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzTc...
February 5, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Ten years ago "Uncle Mike" tried to convince the world of the benefits of video conferencing before Zoom was even a thing. Featuring awesome @leesimpson.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYO8... (also starred in this definitely-not-for-broadcast follow-up) www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzTc...
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“‘It’s very easy to assume that science is going to change organically towards equality — and what this study shows is that that’s not happening…It is an ‘important reminder for us that we need to stay vigilant in working towards equality in science’” @crsugimoto.bsky.social 🧪
#AcademicSky 👩🏽🔬
#AcademicSky 👩🏽🔬
Who’s quitting academia? Data reveal gender gaps in surprising fields
Even in scientific areas in which women are well represented, they are up to 40% more likely than men to leave research within 20 years.
www.nature.com
January 12, 2025 at 3:54 PM
“‘It’s very easy to assume that science is going to change organically towards equality — and what this study shows is that that’s not happening…It is an ‘important reminder for us that we need to stay vigilant in working towards equality in science’” @crsugimoto.bsky.social 🧪
#AcademicSky 👩🏽🔬
#AcademicSky 👩🏽🔬
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December 2, 2024 at 9:45 AM
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This is incredibly disappointing: "Countries fail to reach agreement in UN plastic talks".
tinyurl.com/y9v4bx9z
Plastic usage is increasing dramatically & we've got to face up to fixing the system we've created. We covered all that and more on a recent Rare Earth:
www.bbc.co.uk/progra...
tinyurl.com/y9v4bx9z
Plastic usage is increasing dramatically & we've got to face up to fixing the system we've created. We covered all that and more on a recent Rare Earth:
www.bbc.co.uk/progra...
December 2, 2024 at 9:36 AM
This is incredibly disappointing: "Countries fail to reach agreement in UN plastic talks".
tinyurl.com/y9v4bx9z
Plastic usage is increasing dramatically & we've got to face up to fixing the system we've created. We covered all that and more on a recent Rare Earth:
www.bbc.co.uk/progra...
tinyurl.com/y9v4bx9z
Plastic usage is increasing dramatically & we've got to face up to fixing the system we've created. We covered all that and more on a recent Rare Earth:
www.bbc.co.uk/progra...
Reposted by Lindsay Keith
Science Teachers! Book Lovers! Random people following me on here for no good reason! Want an early Christmas Present? I have a load of Kindle editions of "Why Don't Things Fall Up?" to give away - just ask and ye shall receive! alomshaha.com/portfolio/wh...
December 2, 2024 at 6:50 AM
Science Teachers! Book Lovers! Random people following me on here for no good reason! Want an early Christmas Present? I have a load of Kindle editions of "Why Don't Things Fall Up?" to give away - just ask and ye shall receive! alomshaha.com/portfolio/wh...
At our @mrc-lms.bsky.social away day at the RI today.
November 29, 2024 at 11:40 AM
At our @mrc-lms.bsky.social away day at the RI today.
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The oldest science society in the world, The Royal Society, has a motto which is “Take No-one’s Word for it”. A guiding principle in science? Yes. But also perhaps an attack on the idea that those in power were to be believed regardless.
When I was 5, I loved science, which I took to be planets and magnets and chemicals and shit.
Soon I realized science was a collective human activity, and these were just the objects of its attention.
Anyway, whenever I read an OpEd on how science isn't political, I think "Are you 5 years old?"
Soon I realized science was a collective human activity, and these were just the objects of its attention.
Anyway, whenever I read an OpEd on how science isn't political, I think "Are you 5 years old?"
November 22, 2024 at 8:15 AM
The oldest science society in the world, The Royal Society, has a motto which is “Take No-one’s Word for it”. A guiding principle in science? Yes. But also perhaps an attack on the idea that those in power were to be believed regardless.
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Hello I need everyone to see the giraffe statues in Edinburgh with their hats and scarves on for the winter 🥹
November 21, 2024 at 6:15 PM
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