Prof Anthony Isles

#telephoneboxtuesday in #Lullington #snapseed #telephonebox #autumn

🧵May Sybil Leslie, born in 1887 in Woodlesford, overcame significant barriers as a woman in science. From a working-class background, she won scholarships to study at the University of Leeds, graduating with first-class honours in chemistry. She later worked with Marie Curie in

Prince Maurice's grave is interesting, because it was a good example of the conflicting thoughts families had. Princess Beatrice refused repatriation of the body. She felt he belonged with his men. But she fought for years for the right to spend her own money on a custom headstone. This was blocked

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THESE ISLES: Dame Shirley Bassey, born in Cardiff’s Tiger Bay in 1937, is famed for her powerful, sultry voice and sequined gowns. In a career spanning more than 70 years, she has sold more than 140m records, making her one of the world’s best-selling female singers. 1/7

“An Autumn gale is stripping off the leaves and sweeping them along in the slanting squall of rain” Artist: CF Tunnicliffe Writer: EL Grant Watson (What to Look for in Autumn, 1960)

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Double Blow: Link revealed between gene loss causing Prader-Willi syndrome & placental blood vessel development 📸 Anna E. Webberley & Raquel Boque-Sastre et al @profantisles.bsky.social @cumedicengage.bsky.social in @dmmjournal.bsky.social ➡️ bpod.org.uk/archive/2026... + @antdlewis.bsky.social

"When lamps are lighted in the town" (1968) Artist: A Buchanan

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How has The Selfish Gene held up after 50 years? My verdict here for @sciam.bsky.social is... mixed. www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

One of many remarkable stories today Cofiwch Aberfan www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Into The Wood. 11°C after a wet night. Squirrels.

Deadline looming… Just two days left to apply for this #PhD opportunity 👇🏼

"The prickly seed-shucks of the chestnut have fallen and burst open, some of them spilling the brown conkers out of the soft linings that have contained and nourished them“ Artist: CF Tunnicliffe Writer: EL Grant Watson

View of Spennymoor, County Durham, painting by Robert John Heslop, 1907-88 (Durham County Council).

I wrote something (as did Mehul Malik) More importantly, @royalsociety.org has just launched a series: a practical guide to starting your PI career royalsociety.org/blog/2026/10...

Deadline looming… Just two days left to apply for this #PhD opportunity 👇🏼

The Liz Truss lettuce breathes another sigh of relief...

Only a week left to apply for these #PhD projects spanning a wide range of biomedical research fields 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

Rail to somewhere.

Please share! I am recruiting up to 2 postdoctoral fellows. Application: apply.interfolio.com/191385

Just come across this - completely gobsmacked, an absolutely scandalous tragedy

“Across this cloud-dappled sky skeins of wild geese are flying” (What to Look for in Autumn, 1960) Writer: EL Grant Watson Artist: CF Tunnicliffe

Interesting journal club article by @camilleberthelot.bsky.social in @natrevgenet.nature.com describing the early analysis of gene expression evolution... rdcu.be/sJ2sRyfXt7na

Only 1 week left to apply for this @gw4biomeddtp.bsky.social #PhD project 👇🏼 👇🏼

Sir Tom Jones with a very young Ed Sheeran - Ponty muni 1999

Getting into the sea this morning, feeling the swell and sway, the sharp coldness, and sensing the emerging light, I couldn’t help but reflect on the immense privilege of having the opportunity to really know this tiny bay. Above, and below.

🌟 Nominations for the @network-alba.bsky.social - @elsevierconnect.bsky.social Award Lecture on Brain Sciences will CLOSE TOMORROW! 🌟 🗓️ Deadline: 14 October 2026 🔗 buff.ly/hN9bvyi

Only 1 week left to apply for this @gw4biomeddtp.bsky.social #PhD project 👇🏼 👇🏼

The Ladybird Land car factory (as captured in ‘Look and Learn’ magazine, 1964)

Warren Street, Stockport, painting by Arthur Delaney (1927-87).

@hockeyviz.com I found some beautiful data viz for you

Oooh, that doesn’t look good… there was quite a bit of confusion at the beginning of the year, So it will be interesting to see the next rounds figures. What I am also amazed by is that the success rate in 2024 was as high as it was 🤯

Well, happy Charles Darwin is “very poorly today & very stupid & hate[s] everybody & everything” to all who celebrate, because he wrote those words in a letter to his friend (and author of Principles of Geology) Charles Lyell 161 years ago today

🧵There has been a lot of discussion over the last few days about the politicising of a nostalgic view of the UK that never really existed, at least not for the vast majority of the population. The image of the traditional British country pub, a roaring log fire, wooden beams, a pint on the table

Was on beach.

Whitby, Yorkshire, photo by Rachel Barron.

Leeds Street Scene, 1974, painting by Stuart Walton.

My grandparents and other family members of that generation used to travel from Yorkshire to the South East of England to pick hops in September.

Mary Goll, Mathieu Boulard, Olya Yarychivska and I wrote an obituiary, including personal reflections from many of his past lab members, the Bestor phylogeny. www.genetics.cuimc.columbia.edu/news/memoria...

Some lovely work investigating the role of imprinted snoRNAs on #sleep phenotypes in #PraderWilliSyndrome www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

‘The Coal Hopper’ In the Train, 1955 Artist: WC Watson

In related news, I read a paper from 2001 today (in Nature Genetics). There were 6 figures, but each figure was just one panel of a very simple experiment. What a beautiful world we once had...

I am simultaneously convinced that the L and R symbols on my cheap walking socks indicate zero difference between them, but also slavishly compelled to pair them and put each one on the correct foot.

I’ve come to the end of my 5-year term as a Trustee of @asab.org & Executive Editor of its journal, #AnimalBehaviour. It's been a real privilege to hold these roles & I’m grateful to all those who have made it such a productive & enjoyable experience. 🙏 Please support Society journals.