Honor Pollard
@honorpollard.bsky.social
Communications Manager for The Babraham Institute @babrahaminst.bsky.social | Views are my own | She/Her 🏳️🌈 | #Epigenetics #Immunology #CellBiology #LGBTSTEM
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Please help spread the word about our inaugural public lecture on Wednesday. Sign up and if you are in the ageing field it’s a great opp for your family to finally understand what you do! 😀
Thanks for your support 🙏
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Thanks for your support 🙏
bsra.org.uk/events/bsra-...
BSRA Online Public Seminar Series - BSRA
In our new Understanding Ageing: Meet the Scientists series, we’ve invited experts in their field to talk about their research and what it means for each of us as we get older. You don’t need any scie...
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September 29, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Please help spread the word about our inaugural public lecture on Wednesday. Sign up and if you are in the ageing field it’s a great opp for your family to finally understand what you do! 😀
Thanks for your support 🙏
bsra.org.uk/events/bsra-...
Thanks for your support 🙏
bsra.org.uk/events/bsra-...
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🚨Friday read! 🚨
2024 winner of the Korenchevsky Prize Hanane Haji-Moussa of @babrahaminst.bsky.social reports back from #AGE2025 in Alaska.
Platforming the best of ageing biology research and especially our amazing ECR members is core to the BSRA. Great job Hanane!🎉
bsra.org.uk/ageing-in-al...
2024 winner of the Korenchevsky Prize Hanane Haji-Moussa of @babrahaminst.bsky.social reports back from #AGE2025 in Alaska.
Platforming the best of ageing biology research and especially our amazing ECR members is core to the BSRA. Great job Hanane!🎉
bsra.org.uk/ageing-in-al...
July 25, 2025 at 11:24 AM
🚨Friday read! 🚨
2024 winner of the Korenchevsky Prize Hanane Haji-Moussa of @babrahaminst.bsky.social reports back from #AGE2025 in Alaska.
Platforming the best of ageing biology research and especially our amazing ECR members is core to the BSRA. Great job Hanane!🎉
bsra.org.uk/ageing-in-al...
2024 winner of the Korenchevsky Prize Hanane Haji-Moussa of @babrahaminst.bsky.social reports back from #AGE2025 in Alaska.
Platforming the best of ageing biology research and especially our amazing ECR members is core to the BSRA. Great job Hanane!🎉
bsra.org.uk/ageing-in-al...
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Happy #MicroscopyMonday! This video, captured by Berta in the @trayon.bsky.social lab in collaboration with our Imaging facility, shows a mouse embryo dividing. This video allows researchers to visualise the events that happen before implantation at an early stage of development.
July 21, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Happy #MicroscopyMonday! This video, captured by Berta in the @trayon.bsky.social lab in collaboration with our Imaging facility, shows a mouse embryo dividing. This video allows researchers to visualise the events that happen before implantation at an early stage of development.
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This #MicroscopyMonday shows an image from research published last week. The images are of uveal melanoma cells showing the accumulation of lipid droplets in the absence of CDS2 (right), compared with cells with functional CDS2 (left). Lipid droplets are stained green with BODIPY™ 493/503.
July 7, 2025 at 11:25 AM
This #MicroscopyMonday shows an image from research published last week. The images are of uveal melanoma cells showing the accumulation of lipid droplets in the absence of CDS2 (right), compared with cells with functional CDS2 (left). Lipid droplets are stained green with BODIPY™ 493/503.
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If you want a place to get ready for Pride in London, seeing some cool science demos, or just have some free pastries come along to our coffee morning at the @ri-science.bsky.social on July 5!
Get your free ticket here!
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Get your free ticket here!
www.rigb.org/whats-on/pri...
Pride in STEM coffee morning
Join Pride in STEM and the Ri to celebrate Pride in London and kick off the day in style!
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June 13, 2025 at 5:17 PM
If you want a place to get ready for Pride in London, seeing some cool science demos, or just have some free pastries come along to our coffee morning at the @ri-science.bsky.social on July 5!
Get your free ticket here!
www.rigb.org/whats-on/pri...
Get your free ticket here!
www.rigb.org/whats-on/pri...
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🌟 Did you hear about the EU-LIFE #ScienceVision Talk Contest? And how Eleonore Ocaña @babrahaminst.bsky.social rapped her way to victory?
🎤 In this interview, she shares what it felt like to step out of her comfort zone and how this was “one of the highlights of my #PhD experience” ➡️ bit.ly/3TtvjEx
🎤 In this interview, she shares what it felt like to step out of her comfort zone and how this was “one of the highlights of my #PhD experience” ➡️ bit.ly/3TtvjEx
June 19, 2025 at 5:32 AM
🌟 Did you hear about the EU-LIFE #ScienceVision Talk Contest? And how Eleonore Ocaña @babrahaminst.bsky.social rapped her way to victory?
🎤 In this interview, she shares what it felt like to step out of her comfort zone and how this was “one of the highlights of my #PhD experience” ➡️ bit.ly/3TtvjEx
🎤 In this interview, she shares what it felt like to step out of her comfort zone and how this was “one of the highlights of my #PhD experience” ➡️ bit.ly/3TtvjEx
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The research team also believes that, in their preliminary analysis up to 2024, the trend is intensifying over time! #QueerInSTEM
www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
LGBTQ-friendly firms more innovative
LGBTQ-friendly policies can have a significant impact on innovation in major US firms. The study found that for every standard deviation increase in a company’s Corporate Equality Index (CEI), t...
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June 18, 2025 at 10:49 AM
The research team also believes that, in their preliminary analysis up to 2024, the trend is intensifying over time! #QueerInSTEM
www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
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Publishing in journals reaches other academics.
But if you want to reach policymakers, nonprofits, funders, or the media—
You need science communication.
Visibility creates impact.
Not just citations.
#SciComm 🧪
But if you want to reach policymakers, nonprofits, funders, or the media—
You need science communication.
Visibility creates impact.
Not just citations.
#SciComm 🧪
June 17, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Publishing in journals reaches other academics.
But if you want to reach policymakers, nonprofits, funders, or the media—
You need science communication.
Visibility creates impact.
Not just citations.
#SciComm 🧪
But if you want to reach policymakers, nonprofits, funders, or the media—
You need science communication.
Visibility creates impact.
Not just citations.
#SciComm 🧪
Beautiful sunny Babraham Hall ☀️ glad to have such a stunning office
June 17, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Beautiful sunny Babraham Hall ☀️ glad to have such a stunning office
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What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?
Sources do not get to see the journalism pieces I write before they are published. Even the scientists.
Sources do not get to see the journalism pieces I write before they are published. Even the scientists.
What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?
The ocean produces a huge chunk of the world's oxygen a lot from a class of cyanobacteria called prochlorococcus
The ocean produces a huge chunk of the world's oxygen a lot from a class of cyanobacteria called prochlorococcus
What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?
Food systems are the #2 contributor to climate change, the #1 driver of deforestation, the #1 driver of biodiversity loss on land, and the #1 user of freshwater.
(It follows that food systems contain many solutions to these problems.)
Food systems are the #2 contributor to climate change, the #1 driver of deforestation, the #1 driver of biodiversity loss on land, and the #1 user of freshwater.
(It follows that food systems contain many solutions to these problems.)
June 17, 2025 at 2:37 AM
What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?
Sources do not get to see the journalism pieces I write before they are published. Even the scientists.
Sources do not get to see the journalism pieces I write before they are published. Even the scientists.
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Our Babraham Institute starter pack is growing! Keep up with our staff by giving them all a follow buff.ly/MzAjUcM 🧪
The Babraham Institute community
Join the conversation
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June 6, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Our Babraham Institute starter pack is growing! Keep up with our staff by giving them all a follow buff.ly/MzAjUcM 🧪
I'm having a lot of fun spending time with the McGough lab 🦟 @ianmcgough.bsky.social
This #MicroscopyMonday comes to you from behind the scenes where Aurora, PhD student in the McGough lab, is imaging fly guts to look at proliferating cells! @ianmcgough.bsky.social
June 2, 2025 at 12:21 PM
I'm having a lot of fun spending time with the McGough lab 🦟 @ianmcgough.bsky.social
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Sciencing while trans. 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈Here's a story with people who talk about their experiences and some allies for transgender scientists are there, too. Here is a link www.nature.com/articles/s41... and this is a quasi-open-access link rdcu.be/enXDo
Their personal paths in science - Nature Methods
Scientists face many pressures, plenty of which are about identity. Researchers draw strength from within and from allies.
www.nature.com
May 27, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Sciencing while trans. 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈Here's a story with people who talk about their experiences and some allies for transgender scientists are there, too. Here is a link www.nature.com/articles/s41... and this is a quasi-open-access link rdcu.be/enXDo
Just one of the many unexpected things you end up doing because you work in science communication - making a rap lyric video and matching ion channel outfit reveal for the one and only Rapper Rhodopsin! 😎
'Rapper Rhodopsin' (AKA Ellie @trayon.bsky.social lab) and the Babraham Massive celebrating Ellie's victory in the first ever @eu-life.bsky.social Science Vision contest. We're so proud! Thanks @ceitec.eu - it was so much fun!
The @babrahaminst.bsky.social rock steady crew in Brno at the @eu-life.bsky.social Communuty Meeting
May 27, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Just one of the many unexpected things you end up doing because you work in science communication - making a rap lyric video and matching ion channel outfit reveal for the one and only Rapper Rhodopsin! 😎
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The @babrahaminst.bsky.social rock steady crew in Brno at the @eu-life.bsky.social Communuty Meeting
May 22, 2025 at 3:44 PM
The @babrahaminst.bsky.social rock steady crew in Brno at the @eu-life.bsky.social Communuty Meeting
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Did you see this research from the Turner lab? The team published the first description of the role of the ZFP36 family of RNA binding proteins in regulatory T cells. A step towards understanding age-related inflammation.
www.babraham.ac.uk/news/2025/05...
@martint-babraham.bsky.social #ImmunoSky
www.babraham.ac.uk/news/2025/05...
@martint-babraham.bsky.social #ImmunoSky
May 19, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Did you see this research from the Turner lab? The team published the first description of the role of the ZFP36 family of RNA binding proteins in regulatory T cells. A step towards understanding age-related inflammation.
www.babraham.ac.uk/news/2025/05...
@martint-babraham.bsky.social #ImmunoSky
www.babraham.ac.uk/news/2025/05...
@martint-babraham.bsky.social #ImmunoSky
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Welcome to YEN 2025. We are kicking off today with Peter Rugg-Gunn who presented their impressive in vitro system of implantation and post-implantation developmentm
May 19, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Welcome to YEN 2025. We are kicking off today with Peter Rugg-Gunn who presented their impressive in vitro system of implantation and post-implantation developmentm
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We're excited to be welcoming Prof Paul Workman as the next speaker in our distinguished lecture series! Paul will cover the 15-year rollercoaster journey to discover the cancer drug NXP800 and its mechanisms 🧪
Register now to join us on 12th June: www.babraham.ac.uk/seminars/202...
Register now to join us on 12th June: www.babraham.ac.uk/seminars/202...
May 19, 2025 at 9:46 AM
We're excited to be welcoming Prof Paul Workman as the next speaker in our distinguished lecture series! Paul will cover the 15-year rollercoaster journey to discover the cancer drug NXP800 and its mechanisms 🧪
Register now to join us on 12th June: www.babraham.ac.uk/seminars/202...
Register now to join us on 12th June: www.babraham.ac.uk/seminars/202...
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We're celebrating our superwoman of #FlowCytometry today - Head of our Flow Cytometry facility Rachael Walker who was Highly Commended in the Researcher of the Year category at the Cambridge Independent Science and Technology Awards last night!
May 16, 2025 at 9:15 AM
We're celebrating our superwoman of #FlowCytometry today - Head of our Flow Cytometry facility Rachael Walker who was Highly Commended in the Researcher of the Year category at the Cambridge Independent Science and Technology Awards last night!
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Our regular coffee hour is 🚨TOMORROW🚨 May 16th at 5pm EST. Join our discord or the mailing list to get the link 😀
See y'all soon!!
See y'all soon!!
The Pride in Microbiology Network is excited to announce dates and times for Virtual Coffee Hours for the first half of the year! Join our email list to receive the link before each event! 🏳️🌈
Our first Coffee Hour is this Friday! ☕ 🔬 🌈
#PrideinMicrobiology #PiM #QueerinSTEM
Our first Coffee Hour is this Friday! ☕ 🔬 🌈
#PrideinMicrobiology #PiM #QueerinSTEM
May 15, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Our regular coffee hour is 🚨TOMORROW🚨 May 16th at 5pm EST. Join our discord or the mailing list to get the link 😀
See y'all soon!!
See y'all soon!!
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I'm am very excited - and little bit emotional - today as we start the two day Symposium to celebrate the achievements and retirement of my colleagues and chief PI3K gurus - Len Stephens and Phill Hawkins
May 1, 2025 at 10:30 AM
I'm am very excited - and little bit emotional - today as we start the two day Symposium to celebrate the achievements and retirement of my colleagues and chief PI3K gurus - Len Stephens and Phill Hawkins
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They're finally here! The full range of "It's Dr, Actually" pins is now available, thanks to your support!
Please share them as much as possible so that they reach the people who'll love them: canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/1841...
Please share them as much as possible so that they reach the people who'll love them: canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/1841...
April 28, 2025 at 3:39 PM
They're finally here! The full range of "It's Dr, Actually" pins is now available, thanks to your support!
Please share them as much as possible so that they reach the people who'll love them: canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/1841...
Please share them as much as possible so that they reach the people who'll love them: canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/1841...
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Who's ready for another @thestemvillage.bsky.social Immunology Seminar Series? If you haven't seen these before, we invite LGBTQ+ immunologists to present online to the wider immunology community. If you'd like to present or attend, please drop a mention below #immunosky 🧪 #academicsky
April 24, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Who's ready for another @thestemvillage.bsky.social Immunology Seminar Series? If you haven't seen these before, we invite LGBTQ+ immunologists to present online to the wider immunology community. If you'd like to present or attend, please drop a mention below #immunosky 🧪 #academicsky
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Are you passionate about immunology? ❣️
Help spark curiosity and conversation with the public! The BSI Communication & Engagement Grant offers up to £1,000 to bring your ideas to life 🔬
Submit your application by 1 June. Find out more 👉 bit.ly/3Y9j8gm
Help spark curiosity and conversation with the public! The BSI Communication & Engagement Grant offers up to £1,000 to bring your ideas to life 🔬
Submit your application by 1 June. Find out more 👉 bit.ly/3Y9j8gm
April 23, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Are you passionate about immunology? ❣️
Help spark curiosity and conversation with the public! The BSI Communication & Engagement Grant offers up to £1,000 to bring your ideas to life 🔬
Submit your application by 1 June. Find out more 👉 bit.ly/3Y9j8gm
Help spark curiosity and conversation with the public! The BSI Communication & Engagement Grant offers up to £1,000 to bring your ideas to life 🔬
Submit your application by 1 June. Find out more 👉 bit.ly/3Y9j8gm
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Co-organized by EMBL, EMBO and EMBO Press, the EMBL Science and Society Conference "In science we trust?" will explore the importance of public trust in science and the role we all play in shaping its future. 🧪 Register by 5 May: www.embl.org/about/info/c... #LifeSciences @embl.org @embopress.org
In science we trust?
EMBL Science and Society Conference
www.embl.org
April 23, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Co-organized by EMBL, EMBO and EMBO Press, the EMBL Science and Society Conference "In science we trust?" will explore the importance of public trust in science and the role we all play in shaping its future. 🧪 Register by 5 May: www.embl.org/about/info/c... #LifeSciences @embl.org @embopress.org