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Right. That's the end. This account is shuttered. Find me at the place where the sky is blue, and insane billionaires don't try and corrupt medicine & medical research with far-right populism.
Robert Insall
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Robert Insall
@robinsall
Gone to a better place.
@robinsall.bsky.social
♥ cell migration, maths, microscopes, models, machine learning.
Cell migration & chemotaxis @UCL
- Replying to @PaulMMCooperLast heatwave, my dad discovered a circular fort with a long straight wall intersecting it, by looking from his roof. Turned out to be markings from an old footie pitch :)
- It is my great pleasure to congratulate the magnificent @LMachesky, just elected to be president of the British Society for Cell Biology @BSCB. What a star in the firmament...
- Replying to @chrisgolds"Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony" Monty Python
- Read two new papers about "master regulators" today. I reiterate my belief - master regulators almost never exist. They are created by scientists' desire to be important & get their papers published, not something Mother Nature uses much.
- Cell seems to have 100% morphed into the "journal of scRNAseq atlases". Apparently no other modes of science are accepted...
- Grand change! As from today I have completed my move south. I have joined the faculty at UCL. My lab will move to the excellent Department of Cell & Developmental Biology (@uclcdb) over the next few months. Very much looking forward to the challenge & new collaborations...
- Counting "years since your PhD" is not only discriminatory, but awful for the quality of science. It massively favours researchers who do exactly what their boss did, over ones who actually take the trouble to develop their own systems and their own ideas.My two cents here. The true problem is this nonsense of evaluating early career grants/awards based on “how many years after you’ve spent after your PhD”. That is crazy, agist, sexist, racist, just the most discriminatory practice that we have in academic science.
- So I have a nice Christmas present. My @Wellcometrust Investigator grant, to study self-generated gradients in lymph nodes, was funded & will start next spring. Most grateful, also to the large assembly of co-workers and collaborators who've made an aggressive project feasible.
- Many congratulations to the estimable @LMachesky, elected to the Dunn Chair of Biochemistry in Cambridge - the most senior biochemistry position in Cambridge, and in fact almost anywhere... Well done!
- Replying to @DimitrisPapailElon Musk's will own the libs by answering "12"
- Replying to @HimynameisnoorFollowed. Immediately and unquestioningly. (for the quality of the narrative more than the bizarre tale)
- You cannot be serious? UK is going to be a "science superpower" but foreign scientists will be charged so much they leave and/or won't come? That is just moronic. Little England, the very small superpower.How are the govt going to fund paying public sector workers more? 'The fee for migrants applying for visas and accessing the NHS will go up - that will raise over £1bn,' Rishi Sunak explains. trib.al/V3uq6gO 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602
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