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Matthew Freeman
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Cell Biologist. Membrane proteins, rhomboids, signalling, inflammation, cancer, unknome...

Head, Dunn School of Pathology, @UniofOxford

And other stuff
Oh how sad

Really a towering figure, whose work laid the ground for stem cells, regenerative biology etc

I go to know him well over many years and he was definitely one-of a-kind...
October 8, 2025 at 7:28 AM
A new view of @dunnschool.bsky.social

The Life and Mind Building of @ox.ac.uk has just opened and I got to see this lovely (albeit rather damp) new perspective on our original @dunnschool.bsky.social building
October 3, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Did you know that the cytoplasmic domain of the pseudoprotease iRhom2 mediates distinct signaling mechanisms to control activation of the cell surface protease ADAM17?

You do now

Brought to you mainly by the outstanding Dr Fangfang Lu

Open access, of course

www.jbc.org/article/S002...
September 30, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Hooray! Iqbal Dulloo, new PI at Warwick, former postdoc in @freemanlab.bsky.social, is at last on Bluesky

Follow him for the intriguing intersection between membrane proteins and gene expression - oh, and viruses, signal peptide peptidase and iRhoms...

@iqbaldulloo.bsky.social
August 1, 2025 at 1:40 PM
And here is the amazing cake made by Ros for the occasion

David inspired so many scientists - makes you think about what really matters in our pressured research lives...
June 25, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Pretty amazing graphic to go with the @financialtimes.com article about the cost of Trump's attack on US science

NIH is HUGE!

www.ft.com/content/67fd...
April 23, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Suffrage science is cool; deserves to be better known!

On the eve of #InternationalWomensDay it was truly inspiring to hear the stories of an amazing group of women scientists

Hosted by @sykhalid.bsky.social

Compered by @helenarney.bsky.social

www.suffragescience.com
March 8, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Not long until the deadline for this faculty position @dunnschool.bsky.social...

Are you the one to lead a group doing great research in a special environment, while teaching outstanding students?

www.path.ox.ac.uk/vacancy/asso...
February 17, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Hooray!

@embo.org has arrived...fashionably late to the party
February 10, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Proudly supporting LGBT+ History Month @dunnschool.bsky.social
February 6, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Oxford looking particularly special on a cold winter evening

@ox.ac.uk @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social
February 5, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Wow! Murals in Tipu Sultan's summer palace in Srirangapatna near Mysore: spectacular

A bonus trip after NCBS board meeting
January 20, 2025 at 12:45 PM
How it started. How it's going.

January in Oxford vs January in Bangalore at NCBS

#TheRigoursofAcademicLife
January 16, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Microbiology friends: here's a new (to me) metaphor by @mrjohncrace.bsky.social

The British Conservative Party as prokaryotes. Discuss.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
December 19, 2024 at 1:44 PM
Secret Santa knows me well…
December 13, 2024 at 2:25 PM
Anyone else seeing this pop-up on a Mac?

Last couple of days, on rewaking

What is it? Any ideas?
December 4, 2024 at 6:12 PM
What an amazing treat to go to a private view of the blockbuster new Van Gogh exhibition at London's National Gallery

Many pictures before never hung together since leaving his studio
November 28, 2024 at 9:59 PM
BlueSky has undergone a Cambrian explosion in the last week!

>20M users today: I can’t keep up with all the starter packs

I will continue to repost those I see...complete with collective nouns

But no pretence of being comprehensive

1/2
November 19, 2024 at 9:58 PM
Whoa!

That's not in the forecast
November 19, 2024 at 7:45 AM
Oxford autumn colour with bathing sparrow hawk (need to look carefully)
November 17, 2024 at 4:29 PM
Three of the 'deadly six'

Love these willow basket-work pathogens by Angela Palmer

Commissioned by the Oxford Vaccine Group

On display in @universityofoxford.bsky.social Natural History Museum

Malaria, typhoid and SARS-CoV2
November 14, 2024 at 6:52 PM
And, more officially...

bsky.jazco.dev/stats
November 13, 2024 at 2:56 PM
Look what I caught on @theo.io's BlueSky counter

(I wasn't fast enough to get the actual round number it's climbing quickly)

bsky-users.theo.io
November 13, 2024 at 2:55 PM
Yesterday Dublin, today Cork

EMBO is on the Irish road

Apart from a chance to visit lovely places and meet lovely people, we are trying to spread the word about what EMBO can do for you, whatever your career stage
November 12, 2024 at 3:50 PM
Fun to visit the very impressive Royal Irish Academy in Dublin as part of an EMBO roadshow.

Great to meet students, postdocs and faculty from Dublin and around. Hope they can take advantage of EMBO programmes.

Tomorrow Cork!
November 11, 2024 at 7:09 PM