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Katy
@katyboots.bsky.social
Postdoc with @HelenWeavers @BristolBiochem 🔬 PhD with @FelipeKTeixeira @GeneticsCam
Interested in stress responses, translational regulation, development 🪰
So excited to finally be able to share my first paper and the culmination of my PhD work with @felipekteixeira.bsky.social 🪰🔬

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
December 4, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Reposted by Katy
Inside each of us there are two wolves

Both of them are saying: "mate, those aren't resurrected direwolves, they're just modern wolves with a few gene tweaks and a ludicrous amount of hype."
April 8, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Reposted by Katy
What about questioning the entire business model behind deliberately underfunding UK universities and making them depend financially on overseas tuition fees?
Fall in overseas students fuels threat to English universities despite rise in fees
Higher tuition costs have already been ‘wiped out’ by government tax hikes, critics claim
www.theguardian.com
February 16, 2025 at 8:10 AM
The collective sigh and desperate hopes that maybe they'll keep on walking as 3 loud americans enter our train carriage...
January 26, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Pharmacist sent me some "helpful links" for pain management after routine med review.

I've had chronic pain >10yrs, diagnosed with #fibromyalgia ~9yrs ago, and #hEDS #HSD this year.

No amount of positive thinking or fucking mindfulness is going to make my body produce collagen correctly 🤬
January 7, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Why does this sound like a threat?
December 22, 2024 at 5:48 PM
This has reminded me of the most Middlewich headline ever, courtesy of the Middlewich Guardian a few years ago #salttown
November 19, 2024 at 9:58 PM
Thrilled to be able to share my PhD work with @FelipeKTeixeira @GeneticsCam
doi.org/10.1101/2024...
Give us a read if you're interested in #ribosome heterogeneity, #devbio, #translationalcontrol & #drosophila 🪰🔬
Ribosome abundance, not paralogue composition, is essential for germline development
Ribosomes catalyse all protein synthesis, and mutations altering their levels and function underlie many developmental diseases and cancer. Historically considered to be invariant machines, ribosomes ...
doi.org
November 17, 2024 at 6:53 PM
Reposted by Katy
I refuse to join Bluesky - I don’t want to become part of an EcoRI chamber
November 17, 2024 at 3:20 PM