Zoe Vance
@zoev22.bsky.social
🇮🇪 post doc-ing in Bath, living in Bristol. Political complaining with flavours of bioinf and evol bio. Interested in gene dosage evolution and polyploids
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On this, the last day of Michael D. Higgins' presidency, I think it's important to acknowledge that a 5'3 man deciding to be followed everywhere by two enormous Bernese Mountain dogs was a great bit.
November 10, 2025 at 1:15 PM
On this, the last day of Michael D. Higgins' presidency, I think it's important to acknowledge that a 5'3 man deciding to be followed everywhere by two enormous Bernese Mountain dogs was a great bit.
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biology is so cool because like every week someone is like "Dr. Smith is coming to campus! She is the world expert in blargyblarg!"
And i'm like A) never heard of blargyblarg, B) look it up, it's super important and interesting
And i'm like A) never heard of blargyblarg, B) look it up, it's super important and interesting
November 4, 2025 at 7:24 PM
biology is so cool because like every week someone is like "Dr. Smith is coming to campus! She is the world expert in blargyblarg!"
And i'm like A) never heard of blargyblarg, B) look it up, it's super important and interesting
And i'm like A) never heard of blargyblarg, B) look it up, it's super important and interesting
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Do they just presume everyone will have left the country by then?
November 4, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Do they just presume everyone will have left the country by then?
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If a PBP TD said that there were too many foxhunters in Ireland and then there was a arson attack on a hunting lodge that night, you can be damn sure that Simon Harris could join the dots.
He really should resign.
He really should resign.
Nash: “I'm in no way saying that there's any causal link between remarks made by politicians last week and a criminal act here at Drogheda, but people need to be sensitive with their language…. They need to be responsible.”
November 2, 2025 at 1:34 PM
If a PBP TD said that there were too many foxhunters in Ireland and then there was a arson attack on a hunting lodge that night, you can be damn sure that Simon Harris could join the dots.
He really should resign.
He really should resign.
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Microsoft hates computers AND everyone who uses them, whereas Apple only hates computers, and Linux only hates the people who use them. In this essay I will
October 16, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Microsoft hates computers AND everyone who uses them, whereas Apple only hates computers, and Linux only hates the people who use them. In this essay I will
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They’ll tell you that the arts & humanities aren’t practical and then …
October 7, 2025 at 6:25 AM
They’ll tell you that the arts & humanities aren’t practical and then …
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People shouldn't study rip off degrees like English, all you do is get to explore the towering beauty of the human spirit, how is that going help you slog away at a job you hate, working for vicious idiots until you die?
October 8, 2025 at 2:44 PM
People shouldn't study rip off degrees like English, all you do is get to explore the towering beauty of the human spirit, how is that going help you slog away at a job you hate, working for vicious idiots until you die?
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Regardless of one's views of the wider conflict, it is astounding that there are talking heads - including former TDs - that are claiming that the arrest of Irish citizens, including elected politicians, by a foreign military is simply not worthy of discussion
October 2, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Regardless of one's views of the wider conflict, it is astounding that there are talking heads - including former TDs - that are claiming that the arrest of Irish citizens, including elected politicians, by a foreign military is simply not worthy of discussion
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What is Micheál Martin for exactly?
October 2, 2025 at 9:06 AM
What is Micheál Martin for exactly?
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Non-Irish people should be told that Ireland is creased with national hilarity because the Catholic conservative candidate who failed to get enough support did a presser to talk about how Ireland had been cheated out of having a real 'people's candidate' while holding a €20K+ Hermes handbag.
September 25, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Non-Irish people should be told that Ireland is creased with national hilarity because the Catholic conservative candidate who failed to get enough support did a presser to talk about how Ireland had been cheated out of having a real 'people's candidate' while holding a €20K+ Hermes handbag.
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Phenomenal. In my 10 year update of A Brief History, I make the point that in the first edition, not one disease had been successfully treated using gene therapy. Today that number is at least 7.
September 24, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Phenomenal. In my 10 year update of A Brief History, I make the point that in the first edition, not one disease had been successfully treated using gene therapy. Today that number is at least 7.
Maybe a good time to announce that I've just started a new job 🥳 Just when I thought I was out, the polyploids have pulled me back in 🐟🧍♂️🌱🧪
📢Meet the team!
Dr. Zoe Vance is a Post-Doc from the University of Bath. With a background in genetics, molecular evolution, and bioinformatics, she will develop methods and approaches for examining rediploidisation across systems.
Find out more about her research:💻🧬
shorturl.at/MOcfe
Dr. Zoe Vance is a Post-Doc from the University of Bath. With a background in genetics, molecular evolution, and bioinformatics, she will develop methods and approaches for examining rediploidisation across systems.
Find out more about her research:💻🧬
shorturl.at/MOcfe
September 19, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Maybe a good time to announce that I've just started a new job 🥳 Just when I thought I was out, the polyploids have pulled me back in 🐟🧍♂️🌱🧪
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An actual quote from the Secretary of State for Business and Trade
Too often people go to university to ‘explore research and knowledge’
Look forward to Wes S saying 'too often people go to hospital to have operations' or Heidi Alexander saying 'too often people go to the station to catch a train'
Too often people go to university to ‘explore research and knowledge’
Look forward to Wes S saying 'too often people go to hospital to have operations' or Heidi Alexander saying 'too often people go to the station to catch a train'
September 19, 2025 at 10:25 AM
An actual quote from the Secretary of State for Business and Trade
Too often people go to university to ‘explore research and knowledge’
Look forward to Wes S saying 'too often people go to hospital to have operations' or Heidi Alexander saying 'too often people go to the station to catch a train'
Too often people go to university to ‘explore research and knowledge’
Look forward to Wes S saying 'too often people go to hospital to have operations' or Heidi Alexander saying 'too often people go to the station to catch a train'
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I will simply end this thread by saying that we need to reckon with the enormity of what Britain has done over the past two years. This is worse even than the invasion of Iraq. Do we want to live in a country, or a world, where there aren't consequences for this sort of behaviour?
September 9, 2025 at 8:21 AM
I will simply end this thread by saying that we need to reckon with the enormity of what Britain has done over the past two years. This is worse even than the invasion of Iraq. Do we want to live in a country, or a world, where there aren't consequences for this sort of behaviour?
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It’s very curious to compare and contrast the likes of Bob Vylan and Kneecap and the media and politics reaction vs Linehan, it’s weird how free speech works isn’t it
September 3, 2025 at 8:30 PM
It’s very curious to compare and contrast the likes of Bob Vylan and Kneecap and the media and politics reaction vs Linehan, it’s weird how free speech works isn’t it
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If Bertie Ahern has zero haters then it is because I'm dead and the rest of them emigrated to Australia in 2009.
August 25, 2025 at 10:55 AM
If Bertie Ahern has zero haters then it is because I'm dead and the rest of them emigrated to Australia in 2009.
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The community of Drosophila researchers is amazing, mutually supportive and collaborative. Right now a key resource for our community, @flybase.bsky.social , is threatened by the cancellation of its NIH grant and is seeking community help in raising short term funds 1/n 🧪 please share
August 23, 2025 at 12:18 PM
The community of Drosophila researchers is amazing, mutually supportive and collaborative. Right now a key resource for our community, @flybase.bsky.social , is threatened by the cancellation of its NIH grant and is seeking community help in raising short term funds 1/n 🧪 please share
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Starting to wonder if I missed the bit in the 2024 Labour manifesto where they committed to an all-out war against Irish artists.
Keir Starmer's spokesman asked about author Sally Rooney's plans to donate her royalties to Palestine Action, says that supporting the group is a terrorist offence and "obviously the police will implement the law"
August 18, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Starting to wonder if I missed the bit in the 2024 Labour manifesto where they committed to an all-out war against Irish artists.
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So glad this work is published🥳
Highlight article written by @evopaa.bsky.social: Dosage-Sensitive Genes “Thread the Needle” of Selection doi.org/10.1093/gbe/...
Evolution of Dosage-Sensitive Genes by Tissue-Restricted Expression Changes @genomebiolevol.bsky.social academic.oup.com/gbe/article/...
Highlight article written by @evopaa.bsky.social: Dosage-Sensitive Genes “Thread the Needle” of Selection doi.org/10.1093/gbe/...
Evolution of Dosage-Sensitive Genes by Tissue-Restricted Expression Changes @genomebiolevol.bsky.social academic.oup.com/gbe/article/...
Evolution of Dosage-Sensitive Genes by Tissue-Restricted Expression Changes
Abstract. Dosage-sensitive genes have characteristic patterns of evolution that include being refractory to small-scale duplication, depleted on human beni
academic.oup.com
August 17, 2025 at 2:50 PM
So glad this work is published🥳
Highlight article written by @evopaa.bsky.social: Dosage-Sensitive Genes “Thread the Needle” of Selection doi.org/10.1093/gbe/...
Evolution of Dosage-Sensitive Genes by Tissue-Restricted Expression Changes @genomebiolevol.bsky.social academic.oup.com/gbe/article/...
Highlight article written by @evopaa.bsky.social: Dosage-Sensitive Genes “Thread the Needle” of Selection doi.org/10.1093/gbe/...
Evolution of Dosage-Sensitive Genes by Tissue-Restricted Expression Changes @genomebiolevol.bsky.social academic.oup.com/gbe/article/...
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there is simply no possible case for continued support for Israel and there has not been for quite some time
a genocidal regime behaving with utter impunity, unconstrained by even the pretense of international law
a genocidal regime behaving with utter impunity, unconstrained by even the pretense of international law
BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.
August 10, 2025 at 11:34 PM
there is simply no possible case for continued support for Israel and there has not been for quite some time
a genocidal regime behaving with utter impunity, unconstrained by even the pretense of international law
a genocidal regime behaving with utter impunity, unconstrained by even the pretense of international law
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Israel is storing recordings of Palestinians daily phone calls - millions of them - that they analyse to plan airstrikes / kill people - in Irish data centres
Sweet Jesus
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Sweet Jesus
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians
Revealed: The Israeli military undertook an ambitious project to store a giant trove of Palestinians’ phone calls on Microsoft’s servers in Europe
www.theguardian.com
August 6, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Israel is storing recordings of Palestinians daily phone calls - millions of them - that they analyse to plan airstrikes / kill people - in Irish data centres
Sweet Jesus
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Sweet Jesus
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.
Release from HHS: HHS will wind down its development of the mRNA vaccine development activities under the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA).
August 5, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.