Went this morning through my emails and answered one after the other.

For a reason that I still don't understand, I also answered an unread email that I received in February.
The admin person was rightly rather confused by my belated answer😁

thank god it's Friday!

Teenage son has half-term holidays. I left him two options for lunch while I went to work.

Coming home I asked him what he had for lunch.

'Three pieces of my birthday cake and 10 Lindors.'

Hey UniProt , your website is very slow lately. Are you aware of this?

Congratulations, zeqiraj ! Well deserved!

Interesting paper from the Superti-Furga Lab :

A genome-wide CRISPR functional survey of the human phagocytosis molecular machinery biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

we went yesterday to see the Book of Mormon a South Park-esque musical, well, on the mormons.

absolutely hilarious.

If you like South Park humour and you can see it live , do it.

The new EuPA and YPIC website is online!
eupa.org/ypic/
News@EuPA #proteomics #newwebsite

BREAKING: the UK.

bold idea by eLife.

Rather funny for me as eLife has desk-rejected all papers our lab has ever sent to them. Including very good ones. (We published some collaborative papers there though).

eLife’s New Model: Changing the way you share your research elifesciences.org/inside-elife/5…

How many of you know what Cruella Braverman's Public Order Bill contains?
It's frankly unbelievable: legislation you might expect in Russia, Iran or Egypt. Here's a summary from my column today:

MSR1 or CD204 is a major macrophage scavenger receptor and a really difficult receptor to work with as so much literature is conflicting.

Jack and JL Marín-Rubio wrote a great review, now published!

frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

one always thinks that football manager jobs are precarious.

the manager of my Bundesliga team SC Freiburg, Christian Streich, has been in his job since 2011.

The UK has had since then 4 prime ministers and 7 chancellors.

Perhaps time for Christian Streich to manage the UK?

Had just a zoom meeting.

At the end I wanted to wish them a nice weekend.... and then realised it is only Tuesday 😳

Excited to be working with PromegaUK as a Student Ambassador for the next few months! Follow me and Fiona Henderson over on Instagram (@PromegaNorth) to hear about helpful resources, PhD events and giveaways/competitions! #PromegaUK #NewcastleUniversity #phdchat #biosciences