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Dave Briggs<p>Hi all, I&#39;m a Principal (Laboratory Research Scientist/Scientific officer) at the Francis Crick Institute in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/London" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>London</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>UK</span></a>. </p><p>I am a structural biologist ( <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Crystallography" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Crystallography</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CryoEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CryoEM</span></a> ), and the group I help run studies kinase signalling in a few different contexts in human health and disease. I am interested in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Glycobiology" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Glycobiology</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DrugDesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DrugDesign</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ExtracellularMatrix" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ExtracellularMatrix</span></a> and various <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Biophyisics" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Biophyisics</span></a> methods.</p><p>I will also moan about <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UKPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>UKPolitics</span></a>. Sorry.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Introduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Introduction</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Science</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ScienceMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ScienceMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/noxp" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>noxp</span></a></p>
Dave Briggs<p>Home Office leaves asylum seekers from Manston stranded in central London</p><p>Something something something compassionate conservatism pt 2 <br /> <a href="https://buff.ly/3hbFb6c" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">buff.ly/3hbFb6c</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Dave Briggs<p>&quot;UK migrant centre like a zoo, says asylum seeker&quot;<br /><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UKPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>UKPolitics</span></a> <br />Something something something &quot;compassionate conservatism&quot; though. 😒</p><p> <a href="https://buff.ly/3DpuYdG" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">buff.ly/3DpuYdG</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Dave Briggs<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Russia</span></a> &quot;U-turn allows grain deal to resume.&quot;</p><p>Was this a U-turn? Didn&#39;t everyone just ignore them? <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Ukraine</span></a> <a href="https://buff.ly/3sWYm6m" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">buff.ly/3sWYm6m</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Dave Briggs<p>No fun rides but plenty of spirit: Studio <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ghibli" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Ghibli</span></a> offers anime fans a new walk in the park <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Japan" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Japan</span></a></p><p>BRB, just updating my <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bucketlist" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>bucketlist</span></a>. </p><p> <a href="https://buff.ly/3fvSdLa" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">buff.ly/3fvSdLa</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Andrew Stroehlein<p>Politicians who rant about powerless people being &quot;criminals&quot; or an &quot;invasion&quot; are inviting extremists to commit violence against the maligned group. </p><p>But what can you expect from UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman, who&#39;s also said she &quot;dreams&quot; of sending powerless people to Rwanda, a country with an appalling human rights record. </p><p>This warped desire to see people suffer can only really be described as political sadism. </p><p><a href="https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/11/02/divisive-rhetoric-uk-emboldens-extremists-endangers-asylum-seekers" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">hrw.org/news/2022/11/02/divisi</span><span class="invisible">ve-rhetoric-uk-emboldens-extremists-endangers-asylum-seekers</span></a></p>
Dave Briggs<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Twitter" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Twitter</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Birdsite" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Birdsite</span></a> exodus: company faces murky future as top managers flee the nest <a href="https://buff.ly/3WuznVe" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">buff.ly/3WuznVe</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Dave Briggs<p>Big agriculture warns farming must change or risk ‘destroying the planet’ </p><p>Absolutely. &lt;&lt;Insert reminder that dairy sector generates more emissions than airlines and shipping combined&gt;&gt; <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Green" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Green</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Environment</span></a></p><p><a href="https://buff.ly/3SZAKZd" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">buff.ly/3SZAKZd</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Dave Briggs<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Birdsite" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Birdsite</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Twitter" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Twitter</span></a> plans to order remaining workers back to office after layoffs </p><p>Of course Melon Husk does this. He&#39;s like a US-dwelling Jacob Rees-Mogg - the idiot&#39;s idea of a clever person. </p><p><a href="https://buff.ly/3U1QRqB" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">buff.ly/3U1QRqB</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Dave Briggs<p>How to Investigate TikTok Like a Pro – Part II: Using TikTok for Ukraine Research <br /><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Bellingcat" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Bellingcat</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OpenInvestigations" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OpenInvestigations</span></a><br /><a href="https://buff.ly/3DxWFRJ" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">buff.ly/3DxWFRJ</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Dave Briggs<p>Only one week to apply for a PhD studentship with @LabMcDonald at the Crick in Structural Biology, starting Autumn 2023. <br />---<br />RT <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@XtalDave" class="u-url mention">@<span>XtalDave</span></a></span><br />Hey you! Are you a final year <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BSc" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BSc</span></a> or <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MRes" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MRes</span></a> student thinking about a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PhD" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PhD</span></a> in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/structuralbiology" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>structuralbiology</span></a>?</p><p>Then do I have an offer <br /><a href="https://twitter.com/xtaldave/status/1582457165281112064" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">twitter.com/xtaldave/status/15</span><span class="invisible">82457165281112064</span></a></p>
Dave Briggs<p>‘Is the PI a jerk?’ Key questions to ask when you’re moving lab</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PhDChat" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PhDChat</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ECRChat" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ECRChat</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Academia</span></a> <a href="https://buff.ly/3DXaU3V" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">buff.ly/3DXaU3V</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Dave Briggs<p>Regional accents are cool, but is anyone else an &quot;accent-sponge&quot;?</p><p>I grew up in Cheshire, Went to school in Stoke, did my Undergrad in Brum, and postgrad in London. I&#39;ve worked in Manchester as well. I holidayed a lot in Scotland as a child.</p><p>Wherever I go I just pick up the accent and find myself talking like that. It&#39;s entirely subconscious. </p><p>I have to be careful not to piss people off. </p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/nov/03/can-you-lose-accent-england-southern" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/commentisfree/</span><span class="invisible">2022/nov/03/can-you-lose-accent-england-southern</span></a></p>
Dave Briggs<p>StarMap: a user-friendly workflow for Rosetta-driven molecular structure refinement</p><p>Oh now this looks very interesting. <br />Integrated into <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ChimeraX" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ChimeraX</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/StructuralBiology" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>StructuralBiology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CryoEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CryoEM</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Crystallography" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Crystallography</span></a><br /> <a href="https://buff.ly/3sSFZ2f" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">buff.ly/3sSFZ2f</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Dave Briggs<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/COVID" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>COVID</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/vaccine" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>vaccine</span></a> hoarding might have cost more than a million lives</p><p>This is utterly disgraceful.<br /> <a href="https://buff.ly/3DVsyVy" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">buff.ly/3DVsyVy</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Dave Briggs<p>Just posted a photo @ Deptford SE8 <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CkeJzPbtpaw/?igshid=YTgzYjQ4ZTY=" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">instagram.com/p/CkeJzPbtpaw/?i</span><span class="invisible">gshid=YTgzYjQ4ZTY=</span></a></p>
Aral Balkan<p>We should not be optimising Mastodon so it can handle more people per server. We should be optimising Mastodon so it incentivises more serves with fewer people.</p><p>(And if you take that line of thinking to its logical conclusion, you arrive at the idea behind the Small Web: <a href="https://ar.al/2020/08/07/what-is-the-small-web/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ar.al/2020/08/07/what-is-the-s</span><span class="invisible">mall-web/</span></a>)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/decentralisation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>decentralisation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/federation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>federation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fediverse</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/SmallWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SmallWeb</span></a></p>
Dave Briggs<p>Hearing aid ads I can get behind @ Deptford SE8 <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CkdAVoboROV/?igshid=YTgzYjQ4ZTY=" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">instagram.com/p/CkdAVoboROV/?i</span><span class="invisible">gshid=YTgzYjQ4ZTY=</span></a></p>
Dave Briggs<p>Yeah boi <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Noxp" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Noxp</span></a></p><p>Metrodle #157<br />🟩 🎯<br />1/6<br /><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/metrodle" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>metrodle</span></a> <a href="https://metrodle.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">metrodle.com/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Dave Briggs<p>Hi all, I&#39;m a Principal (Laboratory Research Scientist/Scientific officer) at the Francis Crick Institute in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/London" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>London</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>UK</span></a>. </p><p>I am a structural biologist ( <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Crystallography" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Crystallography</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CryoEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CryoEM</span></a> ), and the group I help run studies kinase signalling in a few different contexts in human health and disease. I am interested in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Glycobiology" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Glycobiology</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DrugDesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DrugDesign</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ExtracellularMatrix" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ExtracellularMatrix</span></a> and various <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Biophyisics" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Biophyisics</span></a> methods.</p><p>I will also moan about <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UKPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>UKPolitics</span></a>. Sorry.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Introduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Introduction</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Science</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ScienceMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ScienceMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/noxp" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>noxp</span></a></p>
Pluto 🪐<p>(Please boost) Hey is there anyone on fedi that currently or has ever in the past worked as a librarian? Could you comment <br>1. An average day at work<br>2. Education requirements and what school is like <br>3. Average pay <br>4. Bonus: experiences with being autistic/neurodiverse, chronically ill or disabled in any way. </p><p>I’m sick of struggling to find work that accommodates my disabilities, I want stability but not at the cost of my well-being.</p>