Innate immunity, bacterial infection, physiology, microbiology, Drosophila. Poorly focused. Still angry. Professor, Department of Life Sciences and Centre for Bacterial Resistance Biology, Imperial College London.
Marc Dionne
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📌 ICYMI — Bannon, Epstein, Farage and Johnson and the Plot to ‘Topple’ Theresa May
The far-right former Trump adviser told Jeffrey Epstein that "we are overthrowing May right now"…
https://bylinetimes.com/2026/02/16/bannon-epstein-farage-and-johnson-and-the-plot-to-topple-theresa-may/
While my sympathy is limited, a 23 year old tech nerd with likely no media experience giving cringey answers to the FT about working 90 hour weeks and eating steak is probably less deserving of our dunks than the billionaires and VCs that have convinced him this is how he must live to be valued.
Critic Campaign: it's time to admit that it was a mistake to abolish the Department if Culture. Keir Starmer should bring it back.
thecritic.co.uk/brin...
This (pulled from www.nature.com/articles/d41...) is utterly true, despite decades of government underinvestment leading to the current catastrophe. The intelligent choice would be to put more investment into research, fundamental, translational, and applied.
And this, from the Guardian piece, gets to the foolish choices that have been made. We do not need to do fewer things better. We need to do more things better. We need to invest more. That's the only way to make the fundamental discoveries we need to deal with a changing world.
Our bizarre, self-inflicted science funding crisis is finally getting some attention in the general media.
www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
I watched much of Ian Chapman's (Head of @ukri.org) appearance this morning at @ukparliament.parliament.uk Science, Innovation and Technology Committee..
A few points and new information that bioscientists may find interesting...
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