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Steve Bagley
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By day, in the dark watching cells & tissues Cancer Research UK Manchester Institute. Vegan homebrew, ferments veggies. All rants mine so ner.
Back home from a week away, in the lab tomorrow #todmorden
September 14, 2025 at 12:51 PM
A week away in ‘sunny’ north Wales
September 12, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Excellent podcast from @newsagents.bsky.social with Jack Clark one of the founders of Anthropic. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
Are we sleepwalking into an AI 'economic bloodbath'?
Podcast Episode · The News Agents · 29/08/2025 · 38m
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August 29, 2025 at 6:22 PM
You might have heard of them there’s this new band called Oasis, from somewhere called Burn-arge.
My prediction is they could be big
July 11, 2025 at 7:02 AM
The @biologists.bsky.social have set up an event carbon calculator. Estimate your event’s carbon footprint in five minute or less @focalplane.bsky.social focalplane.biologists.com/2025/06/30/e...
Event carbon calculator - FocalPlane
Event carbon calculator - Education
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July 2, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Out of a temp control microscope room into 30C. Time for Mariachi el Bronx

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Mariachi El Bronx: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
YouTube video by NPR Music
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June 19, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Birmingham for the day
June 12, 2025 at 8:51 AM
On my way to ‘The Future of AI-driven Microscopy and Image Analysis: How Do We Create It Together?’ @unibirmingham.bsky.social should be a great meeting
June 12, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Great summary on where we are with AI

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Is AI about to steal your job?
Podcast Episode · Today in Focus · 05/06/2025 · 29m
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June 5, 2025 at 6:31 AM
So glad to see the UK government increase the umbrella for free school dinners. As someone who received these in the 70-80s being able to study and not be hungry is essential.

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Free school meals extended but winter fuel changes could tax dead pensioners’ families
Insiders describe chaotic process of reinstating payment and ‘dire optics’ of proposal to claw it back from wealthy pensioners who might die before tax returns are processed
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June 5, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Reposted by Steve Bagley
🔬𝐔𝐊 𝐄𝐮𝐫𝐨-𝐁𝐢𝐨𝐈𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐍𝐨𝐝𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐬 £𝟏.𝟖𝐌 from @ukri.org

This will:
-Democratise access to cutting-edge biological and biomedical imaging
-Support 200+ researchers yearly
-Boost open science

Thanks to BBSRC and MRC for this major upgrade! 🚀

Congrats to the entire UK Node team 👏

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May 30, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Families who lost a member due to suicide should be included in suicide prevention reviews at universities | Manchester University
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Universities should include bereaved families in suicide prevention reviews
Families who lost a member due to suicide should be included in suicide prevention reviews at universities
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May 27, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Impressed with @okolab.bsky.social an air pump failed, rather than shipping us a whole new unit including the plastic case we received the motor. Two minutes later the old pump was out, the new in, and we are up and running again. #sustainablescience #LEAF
May 28, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Great paper in Journal of Microscopy, De-risking transformative microscopy technologies for
broad adoption (Jesse Aaron & Teng-Leong Chew)

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De‐risking transformative microscopy technologies for broad adoption
The past 20 years have seen a paradigm-shifting explosion of new optical microscopy technologies aimed at uncovering fundamental biological insights. Yet only a small portion ‘cross the finish line’ ...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
May 28, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Time to start shutting down for the long weekend.
May 23, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Reposted by Steve Bagley
It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.
May 21, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Cautionary Tales: the Birmingham smallpox leak. A great discussion on lab safety and health & safety.

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Lab Leak: Could Smallpox Come Back?
Podcast Episode · Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford · 09/05/2025 · 38m
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May 9, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Hamlet, hail to the thief (at factory International, Manchester)
May 2, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Interesting ep on Freakonomics Radio.
When did we all start watching documentaries?

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632. When Did We All Start Watching Documentaries?
Podcast Episode · Freakonomics Radio · 02/05/2025 · 55m
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May 2, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Yorkshire Sculpture Park
April 27, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Yorkshire sculpture park
April 27, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Trip to that London to see the Zeiss Light field microscope in action
April 1, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Adam Buxton podcast with David Letterman … yes please podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
EP.240 - DAVID LETTERMAN
Podcast Episode · THE ADAM BUXTON PODCAST · 28/03/2025 · 1h 27m
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March 31, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Todmorden this evening
March 29, 2025 at 9:21 PM