Professor of Molecular Medicine @UniNorthants researching neurodegenerative & neuromuscular disorders. I like RNA. 🔬

Joined March 2015
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Prof. Karen Anthony retweeted
We’ve got Prince William on royal duties still Bladdered Watkins showing a personality while steaming Youri talking out his arse pretending to be sober Mcginn shitting on the city Rogers being told off for swearing Unai absolutely wankered Martinez doing Martinez things I fucking love this club 💜🩵
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Prof. Karen Anthony retweeted
we need players to be less media trained like this more often, this was a brilliant watch

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I guess our next cat will have to be called McGinn. Mortimer, our current cat, currently in hiding after all the screaming! #avfc
The only 𝐓𝐖𝐎 men to lift major European trophies for Aston Villa football club.  Dennis Mortimer 🤝 John McGinn #AVFC | #UEL
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Birmingham! Are you listening? #avfc
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Super John McGinn is King tonight!
Future king of England goes apeshit #UEFACup #avfc #dcfc #dcfcfans
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Mr Mortimer the cat looking much more relaxed since the penalty! #avfc
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Prof. Karen Anthony retweeted
Villans Only one Villa team have broken the glass ceiling in our European history, we know their names, immortal in the history of our great club. Many of us have tried and failed to to bring a magical European trophy back to Villa Park. I remember that night against Atletico Madrid, glorious failure on the night. I've never heard Villa Park so loud. The Holte lead the way, and young Villans in K3, K4, K5, you have the chance to do something special and louder. You can and you must. Make this grand old stadium stand for 90 minutes and never relent for one damn second. But the Holte End is one fourth of the jigsaw. Trinity. We need you. North. We need you. Witton (sorry Doug). We need you. Bayern Munich. Beaten. PSG. Beaten. Atletico Madrid. Beaten. Anderlecht. Beaten. Athletic Bilbao. Beaten. Barcelona. Beaten. Inter Milan. Beaten. Ajax. Beaten. Celtic. Beaten. A handful of clubs have those scalps. The special sauce in every win? You, Villans. YOU. Every one of those wins, the noise rivaled anywhere at any time. We face admirable foe and a special football club that I know very well. A club who believed in miracles and miracles came true for them. Our players need our voices, our songs, our heart and soul on Thursday. Every stand. Every Villan, old or young. Remember when you walked into Villa Park for the first time? The joy, the tears, the pride, holding the hand of your Mom or Dad or excitedly shephereded in by your big brother or sister or best mate? Let the memory of them be your guide tomorrow night. Sing for Spinksy, Birchy, Alan McInally, for Gary Shaw, for Brian Little, for Paul McGrath and for John McGinn. To the players and staff, we know how good you are, and we ALL want you to walk into the pantheon of greats that adorn our halls. As someone once said.. "The lows just make the highs higher. We are at the heart of English football, we have a majestic name, a decorated past, we serve as a shining light among our peers, we are Aston Villa ". I believe. We believe. Villa believes. UP THE FUCKING EUROPEAN VILLA!!!!
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Happy Christmas from our lab. Some projects funded, others not; some papers out, some still need to be written, some PhDs completed and others just beginning. We take the highs with the lows, let's see what 2026 brings...🎄🎅🌲
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This is one of them moments that I would pay a serious amounts of money to relive for 5 minutes. It’s incredible unhealthy how much I’m addicted to this goal
This needed to be done 😌
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My kid was there - forever memories made UTV!
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These Aston Villa celebrations are some of the best you’ll see. It’s the sort of clip you could keep saved to show people who don’t “get” football. What else gets 40,000 odd men, women and children to collectively lose their minds like that at once?
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Aston Villa woke up one morning a few weeks ago and decided they were the best team in the country.
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Prof. Karen Anthony retweeted
INCREDIBLE END TO THE GAME 🔥 Emi Buendia wins it for Aston Villa in the 95th minute! @tntsports & @discoveryplusUK
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Prof. Karen Anthony retweeted
Having a PhD means you can find the word “unfortunately” in an email faster that the search function
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Prof. Karen Anthony retweeted
"It’s not about chasing a title...it's about giving something back and doing something positive for society as a whole.” Science students and academics had a VIP visitor recently, when @sarah_bool, MP came to campus to find out about their #research. northampton.ac.uk/news/membe…
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Prof. Karen Anthony retweeted
Why is @nature is seen as a top journal? It's because many scholars cite papers Nature publishes in their own publications. By making clear that citations are not based solely on merit, and thus debasing them, Nature is undermining a basis for its claim to prominence.
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The editors at @Nature must be living in an alternate universe to think this is going to help the credibility of science in any way. Just say no.
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Congratulations to Dr Jude Krampah for passing his PhD viva today, it was great to be a part of this supervisory team. Jude's thesis explored the prognosic value of balance measurements and salivary biomarkers for declining cognition in older adults 👏 🙌 .
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Prof. Karen Anthony retweeted
Research from an international team – including @UniNorthants academic Professor Andrew Williams – into the history of child health have used local archives to uncover new detail into the origins of English paediatric hospital care. northampton.ac.uk/news/uon-a…
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I'm tuning into the International Research Culture Conference #IRCC25 online today. As a PCE pilot panel member, I'm looking forward to hearing the reflections by Steven Hill from Research England.
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Great to see our work on RNA trans-splicing highlighted in the 2025 Ataxia UK Research Impact Report. Can't wait to update the field at ICAR2026 with the latest in-vivo data! You can access it here: ataxia.org.uk/research-news/…

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Yay! Also, yes, we do know DMD has 79 exons and not 97 (a copy editing oopsie)
🚨 New in FEBS Open Bio! During COVID, with labs disrupted, I undertook an MRes apprenticeship in bioinformatics. As a professor, I was suddenly a student again, learning coding to support my group. Together with @Weekademia , we propose a unified model of DMD in cancer. 🧵👇
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