Interested in all things atomic and molecular, especially research that opens new fields. @wellcometrust Views are my own.
Joined December 2014
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Tom Collins retweeted
21 Nov 2024
🌟One more week till our live Webinar on 27th Nov🌍🍄
🔬If you're interested in finding out more about @wellcome's Funding call on the Biology of Fungal Adaptation register at:
wellcome.org/grant-funding/s…
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Tom Collins retweeted
14 Nov 2024
🍄🌟Eager to learn more about the @WellcomeTrust's Fungi Funding call? 🍄🌟
Register to our webinar 27th Nov 14:00 (GMT).
This is your chance to gain deeper insights into our funding call and pose your questions directly to us.
We look forward to seeing you there! (1/2)
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Tom Collins retweeted
27 Sep 2024
🌍🔬 Join us at the @EMBO workshop on Integrating Cell and Planetary Scales to Address Climate Resilience! Bringing together experts from #CellBiology, #Ecology, #Biomedicine & more to tackle the climate crisis with amazing science. #ScienceForChange"
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10 Jun 2024
Interested in helping @wellcometrust fund exciting research? We are looking for researchers to join our advisory committees for discovery research and our health challenge areas. More information and apply here by 28th June wellcome.org/grant-funding/g…
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Tom Collins retweeted
20 Oct 2023
How can we better integrate genomics and the ethical, legal and social contexts of genomics?
To find out, we're hosting workshops in London and Cape Town next year – and we'd like you to join us.
Submit Expressions of Interest by 17 November. Apply ⤵️
wellcome.org/what-we-do/our-…
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10 Oct 2023
Are you an Early Career Researcher who wants to learn about translation from experts?
Or someone who has experience in translation or translated their research into a new career and wants the opportunity to mentor the next generation?
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10 Oct 2023
Discovery Research @wellcometrust and @CR_Horizons are now co-funding the successful Broadening Horizons cross-sector mentoring programme delivered by @MovingAheadOrg to support, develop, and empower early-career researchers in translation. Sign up here⤵️
moving-ahead.org/broadeningh…
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Tom Collins retweeted
5 Oct 2023
Start the engines!
5 Oct 2023
We are thrilled to launch our new programme, Generative and Synthetic Genomics! 🎉
Led by @BenLehner, we’ll use big #data & #AI to understand & predict the effects of mutations, and engineer biological systems 🧬
With support from @wellcometrust
sanger.ac.uk/news_item/predi…
ALT Quotegraph with image of Ben Lehner, Head of Generative and Synthetic Genomics at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, on right hand side Quote on left reads "We believe that the transformation of biology into a programmable engineering science will be the most important technological revolution of this century" Credit: Wellcome Sanger Institute
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Tom Collins retweeted
29 Sep 2023
CRG is an awesome place to start your lab.
2 Junior group leader positions in Synthetic Biology and Synthetic Genomics.
Core funding; outstanding diverse colleagues also starting their labs; best location.
pls RT @CRGenomica @BCNCollab @the_prbb
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Our #OpenSource for science RFA aims to support tools the communities behind them—whether it’s hiring an additional developer, improving documentation, addressing usability or building a community.
Learn more apply by Oct 17 #OpenScienceWeek czi.co/OpenSourceSoftwareRFA
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31 Aug 2023
Happy to share that @wellcometrust are partnering with @czi and @KavliFoundation to support open source software for science - interested in applying?
🚨Funding opportunity 🚨
The Essential #OpenSource Software for Science program supports maintenance, growth, development community engagement for critical tools used by biomedical scientists globally czi.co/OpenSourceSoftwareRFA
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Tom Collins retweeted
What are the most widely conserved genes about which essentially nothing is known? The new Unknome database allows you to exploit this untapped resource!
A collaboration by @mjafreeman from @Dunn_School and Sean Munro from @MRC_LMB
path.ox.ac.uk/news/unknome-d… (by @aj_pluta)
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Tom Collins retweeted
9 Jun 2023
📢 @PhysicsofLifeUK will be holding a webinar on 21 June @ 12pm to introduce and answer questions about the new PoL PDRA call (see: physicsoflife.org.uk/polnet-…).
We'd love to see you, register here: york-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/r…
@The_MRC @BBSRC @EPSRC @WellcomeTrust @PhysLifeYork
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31 May 2023
Really interesting ideas/concepts around the importance of creativity in scientific research. I have enjoyed following @nightsciencepod as well as their thought provoking articles at night-science.org
30 May 2023
Professors, we must do better in teaching the creative scientific process to PhD students & postdocs! Are you curious about running such a course at your university? If so, we're organizing a virtual 2hr session to get you started & make it easy. Sign up! tinyurl.com/22ysc2ah
ALT https://night-science.org/a-course-on-the-creative-scientific-process/
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Tom Collins retweeted
30 May 2023
🚨Are you a #researcher based in Latin America, Africa, or Asia, and interested to hear about the #funding @wellcometrust provides for #DiscoveryResearch
We are running a series of webinars for YOU! See below ⬇️ for further information and to sign up.
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25 May 2023
The Wellcome #DiscoveryResearch team is hosting a series of funding webinars for researchers in different parts of the world.
🗓️ Researchers in Latin America, 18 July
🗓️ Researchers in Africa, 26 July
🗓️ Researchers in Asia, 2 August
Register here ⤵️
wellcome.org/what-we-do/our-…
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Tom Collins retweeted
25 May 2023
To make a significant impact on improving human health, #DiscoveryResearch @wellcometrust need to fund research led from a diverse range of countries, perspectives and experiences. If your research is based in Latin America, Africa or Asia, join our webinars to hear how!
25 May 2023
The Wellcome #DiscoveryResearch team is hosting a series of funding webinars for researchers in different parts of the world.
🗓️ Researchers in Latin America, 18 July
🗓️ Researchers in Africa, 26 July
🗓️ Researchers in Asia, 2 August
Register here ⤵️
wellcome.org/what-we-do/our-…
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22 May 2023
Postdocs - are you interested in research at the boundaries of physics/life sciences? If so, consider applying below
22 May 2023
PoLNET has new funds for postdocs, to research living systems by combining physics and life sciences. £25k per award, up to 6 months! EOI deadline 1 Jul, pls RT! physicsoflife.org.uk/polnet-… @UKRI_News @The_MRC @BBSRC @EPSRC @WellcomeTrust @BritBiophysSoc @BioPhysicsUK @PhysLifeYork
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18 May 2023
Great to hear about all the progress and the future plans for these key underpinning resources for future discovery
17 May 2023
Today and tomorrow @emdb_empiar and @pdbeurope are proud to host the Scientific Advisory Board for the Molecular and Cellular Structure Resources at @EMBL-EBI - its first in-person meeting since 2019!
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Tom Collins retweeted
29 Apr 2023
The closing of the scientific mind is upon us unless we resist the concept of science as efficient and predictable. Grants, journals, grad programs & conferences should instead promote a balanced view of science’s process that embraces its improvisational & unpredictable nature.
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