Dunc Cameron
@prof-dunc.bsky.social
Microbial ecology, biochemistry & evolution / metabolomics & multiomics / Professor @ University of Manchester
Surviving #CerebellarAtaxia / tattooed 🌹gay 🏳️🌈 disabled ♿️ Scotsman 🏴 / dog Dad 🐶 / born at 335 ppm CO2
https://tinyurl.com/Dunc-Google-Scholar
Surviving #CerebellarAtaxia / tattooed 🌹gay 🏳️🌈 disabled ♿️ Scotsman 🏴 / dog Dad 🐶 / born at 335 ppm CO2
https://tinyurl.com/Dunc-Google-Scholar
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In 1913, New York City's Grand Central Terminal became the first "stairless" train station in the world.
1913!
And in the 21st Century, the UK can't even work out how to provide level boarding for trains.
#accessible #travel #trains ♿
1913!
And in the 21st Century, the UK can't even work out how to provide level boarding for trains.
#accessible #travel #trains ♿
The History Of The Wheelchair Ramp Represents The Fight For Accessibility
The history of the wheelchair ramp may go back thousands of years to ancient Greece, but buildings were not legally required to have wheelchair ramps until 1990.
www.hunker.com
November 26, 2024 at 6:07 AM
In 1913, New York City's Grand Central Terminal became the first "stairless" train station in the world.
1913!
And in the 21st Century, the UK can't even work out how to provide level boarding for trains.
#accessible #travel #trains ♿
1913!
And in the 21st Century, the UK can't even work out how to provide level boarding for trains.
#accessible #travel #trains ♿
Second day back at work after nearly 3 months off work & 2 weeks in hospital after nearly dying from #sepsis followed by a massive flare up in my #ataxia, the #neurodegenerative disease I have. So thankful for my awesome research group & wonderful colleagues for keeping the show on the road 🥰
December 11, 2024 at 6:10 AM
Second day back at work after nearly 3 months off work & 2 weeks in hospital after nearly dying from #sepsis followed by a massive flare up in my #ataxia, the #neurodegenerative disease I have. So thankful for my awesome research group & wonderful colleagues for keeping the show on the road 🥰
A proper inspiration for me when I was a baby queer scientist growing up in her actual back garden (Newstead Abbey Park in Nottinghamshire, the home of Lord Byron, Mr “mad, bad and dangerous to know” himself
Born #OnThisDay in 1815 was mathematician Ada Lovelace. She is known for her work on the Analytical Engine with mathematician Charles Babbage, an early proposed mechanical computer for which she wrote one of the first algorithms.
December 10, 2024 at 9:11 PM
A proper inspiration for me when I was a baby queer scientist growing up in her actual back garden (Newstead Abbey Park in Nottinghamshire, the home of Lord Byron, Mr “mad, bad and dangerous to know” himself
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The original @mermanchester.bsky.social MERMan 🧜♂️ @knightjar.bsky.social’s amazing new Nature paper showing predictable soil microbiota responses to stress www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Soil microbiomes show consistent and predictable responses to extreme events - Nature
Soils from 30 grasslands across Europe were subjected to 4 contrasting extreme climatic events under drought, flood, freezing and heat conditions, with the results suggesting that soil microbiomes fro...
www.nature.com
November 28, 2024 at 7:08 PM
The original @mermanchester.bsky.social MERMan 🧜♂️ @knightjar.bsky.social’s amazing new Nature paper showing predictable soil microbiota responses to stress www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Great opportunity to join our growing team of microbiologists! I joined the University of Manchester almost two years ago and I haven’t looked back since. Amazing people, phenomenal facilities and a truly collegiate atmosphere 😊
2x professorships available in Manchester Institute of Biotechnology including in Microbial Engineering area (broadly defined to include microbiomes, environmental biotech etc) — join us!
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Chair Appointments within Manchester Institute of Biotechnology:Manchester Institute of Biotechnology
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk
November 29, 2024 at 12:30 PM
Great opportunity to join our growing team of microbiologists! I joined the University of Manchester almost two years ago and I haven’t looked back since. Amazing people, phenomenal facilities and a truly collegiate atmosphere 😊
Great opportunity in a fantastic part of the world in a department with some outstanding and lovely people ⬇️
My department is hiring an assistant professor in plant/tree physiology/ecophysiology. Details here www.careers.ualberta.ca/Competition/...
Assistant Professor in Plant/Tree Physiology/Ecophysiology - Competition No. A108452008
www.careers.ualberta.ca
November 17, 2024 at 4:38 PM
Great opportunity in a fantastic part of the world in a department with some outstanding and lovely people ⬇️
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Plasmids are commonly viewed as burdensome. But maybe this burden can be advantageous? Check out this new review paper from the lab that investigates this further!!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
The metabolic burden associated with plasmid acquisition: An assessment of the unrecognized benefits to host cells
The environment bacteria are in dictates whether carrying a plasmid is ultimately a benefit or a burden. On the left, environment A shows one condition that made bearing this plasmid beneficial, wher...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 12, 2024 at 6:19 PM
Plasmids are commonly viewed as burdensome. But maybe this burden can be advantageous? Check out this new review paper from the lab that investigates this further!!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Very excited to have been involved in this exciting research led by my PhD student Seb Hatt and in collaboration with RBG Kew and RBG Edinburgh
🌱 Check the newly published paper ‘Parasitic plants show striking convergence in host preference across angiosperm lineages’ in @annbot.bsky.social by Sebastian Hatt and co-authors. 🧵(1/8)
👉 botany.fyi/m2vr3h
#AoBpapers #PlantScience #Botany #Biodiversity #ParasiticPlants #PlantTaxonomy
👉 botany.fyi/m2vr3h
#AoBpapers #PlantScience #Botany #Biodiversity #ParasiticPlants #PlantTaxonomy
November 13, 2024 at 12:40 PM
Very excited to have been involved in this exciting research led by my PhD student Seb Hatt and in collaboration with RBG Kew and RBG Edinburgh
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University websites are like distant stars, when you look at them you see the scientists as they used to be many years ago
November 12, 2024 at 7:22 AM
University websites are like distant stars, when you look at them you see the scientists as they used to be many years ago
Glad to have joined the exodus!
Good news: Twitter is collapsing.
And this chart doesn't even show the last two weeks—which have seen the largest exodus in site history.
There are reports from Newsweek and others that Twitter may merge with Truth Social.
If that happens, the last collapse of Twitter may happen almost overnight.
And this chart doesn't even show the last two weeks—which have seen the largest exodus in site history.
There are reports from Newsweek and others that Twitter may merge with Truth Social.
If that happens, the last collapse of Twitter may happen almost overnight.
November 13, 2024 at 7:37 AM
Glad to have joined the exodus!
Hello Bluesky, excited to be transitioning to a community that better reflects my morals 🙌
Lots of academics on this place--so exciting. I'd love to get to know you better. Could you reply below here with a link to *one* article or book you recently co-authored that you love, and a brief description of what it's about?
You can reskeet this for wider uptake so we get a nice list!
You can reskeet this for wider uptake so we get a nice list!
November 12, 2024 at 6:39 PM
Hello Bluesky, excited to be transitioning to a community that better reflects my morals 🙌