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Dr Ruby Osborn
@rubytosborn.bsky.social
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Geneticist, scicommer, baker, cat snuggler 🧬🧁 Senior research interpretation officer at Bowel Cancer UK 🌈 She/her. Views my own.
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When the group chat asks you to explain a science news story 😁
screenshot of a chat showing five voicenotes totalling around 4.5 minutes message screenshots "Omg yay it's lesson time" "We don't take nearly enough advantage of having a science communicator as a friend 😅" "Thank you Ruby, that actually makes sense now!"
July 17, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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I have one! Checked all 18 of my d4s and this is the only one
July 7, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Getting set up for our first Bowel Cancer UK Research Together Day! Excited to get our research grant holders together in person to share their projects and how we can best work together 💙
A canvas tote bag, pen, lanyard and pinbadge all in BCUK branding (teal, dark teal and yellow star), and a printed copy of the BCUK Roadmap for Research strategy
May 16, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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and @teiflab.bsky.social at @universityofessex.bsky.social are developing a new blood test for bowel cancer

www.bowelcanceruk.org.uk/research/our...
teal background with dark teal text "Dr Vladimir Teif and Dr Ralf Zwacka are developing a blood test to detect early-stage bowel cancer" graphic of a scientist in a lab coat with a microscope
February 20, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Dr Christina Dobson and Dr Laura Woods at @newcastleuni.bsky.social are finding ways to support people to complete a poo test when asked by their GP

www.bowelcanceruk.org.uk/research/our...
yellow background with dark teal text "Dr Christina Dobson and Dr Laura Woods are studying the difficulties people may face when asked to complete a faecal immunochemical test following a visit to their GP for symptoms of possible bowel cancer." graphic of a FIT tube on an envelope
February 20, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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@katierobb.bsky.social and @mcsorleystephen.bsky.social at @uofgshw.bsky.social are working to improve participation in surveillance colonoscopy

www.bowelcanceruk.org.uk/research/our...
light grey background with dark teal text "Professor Katie Robb ad Dr Stephen McSorley are investigating the barriers to surveillance colonoscopy faced by people in areas with more deprivation." a graphic shows two clinicians giving a patient a colonoscopy
February 20, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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We're excited to announce the newest Bowel Cancer UK research grants!

These three projects, focusing on early diagnosis, bring our total research investment to £2.4m since 2017.

Read more about the projects here: www.bowelcanceruk.org.uk/news-and-blo...
dark teal background with "Our new early diagnosis research projects" in white, the Bowel Cancer UK logo, and graphics of a clipboard, stethoscope, pipette, petri dish and microscope
February 20, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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We’re excited to announce that applications are now open for Bowel Cancer UK early diagnosis project grants 📝

If you have a research proposal to improve early diagnosis of #BowelCancer in the UK, apply now for up to £165k for a 2-3 year project.

Find out more and apply: bit.ly/3PLtssP
A teal background with white text reading "Early Diagnosis Project Grants are now open!" above the Bowel Cancer UK logo. A graphic of a computer monitor shows three windows with a bar chart, tissue section, and "apply now" with the cursor over it.
January 29, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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I probably need to use this site more, but it's becoming a decent alternative to The Other Place
the bluesky 10M users thing that says I joined on 19th Sept 2023 and I'm user #1,085,675
September 17, 2024 at 10:56 AM
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As autumn draws in, I dug out the fairy lights to brighten my office
Photo of office shelves holding books and folders, draped with a string of lights
October 19, 2023 at 8:11 AM