#WIMMinFocus Not every scientific image comes from a microscope. 🧪 Painted in #MRCWIMM ’s signature pink and blue, this artwork was inspired by the fluorescent droplets produced during cell sorting. A Drop of Fluorescence by Natalie Ng 2026 WIMM Image Competition #ScienceArt #AcademicSky

Happy #WorldEmojiDay!  Every organisation has its favourites… and these are ours: 🧪🧬☕ What’s your most used emoji? Let us know in the comments. 👇 @rdm.ox.ac.uk  @medsci.ox.ac.uk  @ox.ac.uk  #AcademicSky #MRCWIMM

#ScientistSpotlight 🧪 This week we’re featuring Lebohang Moshanyana, a Research Assistant in #GeneRegulation at the #MRCWIMM. #WIMMSpotlight #WIMMCommunity #Genomics #RNABiology #PrecisionMedicine #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning #AcademicSky @rdm.ox.ac.uk @medsci.ox.ac.uk

#ScientistSpotlight🧪 This week we’re featuring Wei-Che Chang, a #DPhil student at the #MRCWIMM. @rdm.ox.ac.uk @medsci.ox.ac.uk #AcademicSky

Happy Birthday, NHS! 💙 And a heartfelt thank you to everyone across the #NHS for your dedication, compassion and commitment to improving lives every day. 🧪 @medsci.ox.ac.uk  @rdm.ox.ac.uk  @england.nhs.uk  #NHSBirthday #ThankYouNHS #Healthcare

Happy #LGBTQ+STEMDay! Today we celebrate the diversity that drives discovery and the inclusive spaces that help innovation flourish. #DiversityInSTEM #EquityInSTEM #InclusionInSTEM 🌈

#WIMMinFocus This is not abstract art. It is the closest view ever captured of human #DNA 🧪 Aurora Alpha by Hangpeng Li, winner of the Data Visualisation category in the 2026 #WIMMImageCompetition. #Genomics #SciComm #AcademicSky

#ScientistSpotlight 🧪 This week we’re featuring Balraj Sandhar, a translational immunologist and postdoctoral researcher in the Dong Group at the #MRCWIMM. #AcademicSky @rdm.ox.ac.uk @medsci.ox.ac.uk 🧬

#MethodMonday 🧪 Behind the scenes of single cell OMICS at the #MRCWIMM The Advanced Single Cell OMICS Facility provides end to end support for single cell, bulk RNAseq, and spatial transcriptomics and proteomics projects, from sample preparation to sequencing and analysis. #AcademicSky

#ScientistSpotlight 🧪 This week we’re featuring Lisa Leinhos, a Postdoctoral Researcher at the #MRCWIMM. #AcademicSky @rdm.ox.ac.uk @medsci.ox.ac.uk

#MethodMonday 🧬 What do we use single cell OMICS for? The facility supports a wide range of technologies and applications, including: 👉 Continued in the comments. #AcademicSky @rdm.ox.ac.uk @medsci.ox.ac.uk

#ScientistSpotlight 🧪 This week we’re featuring Verena Lentsch, an SNSF Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Simmons Group at the #MRCWIMM. 🧬 @rdm.ox.ac.uk @medsci.ox.ac.uk

#MethodMonday 🧪 How does single cell OMICS work? 1. Cells or nuclei are isolated from tissues and QC. 2. Individual cells are captured and barcoded. 3. RNA, DNA, or proteins are analysed separately for each cell. @rdm.ox.ac.uk @medsci.ox.ac.uk #AcademicSky #SingleCell #scRNAseq #Multiomics

#WIMMinFocus 🧪 Can AI help us understand how T cells recognise their targets? Hashem Koohy and David Gfeller explore interpretable AI, T cell recognition, and the future of computational immunology. 👉 bit.ly/4uxKkFj #Immunology #AI #AcademicSky @rdm.ox.ac.uk @medsci.ox.ac.uk @hkoohy.bsky.social

#ScientistSpotlight 🧪 This week we’re delighted to feature Pramila Rijal. Pramila is a Principal Investigator at the Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford #AkademicSky #Immunology #InfluenzaResearch #Vaccines #AntibodyResearch #InfectiousDisease #EarlyCareerResearch #MRCWIMM

#MethodMonday 🧪 New month, new method: Advanced Single Cell OMICs #SingleCell #Transcriptomics #SpatialBiology #WIMMResearch #AcademicSky @rdm.ox.ac.uk @medsci.ox.ac.uk 🧬

We’re hiring a Biomarker Specialist to join the Therapy Acceleration Laboratory (TAL) at the #MRCWIMM. Join a friendly and supportive team working across Molecular Biology, Flow Cytometry and Biobanking. Find out more and apply: bit.ly/4at8hq9 #AcademicSky 🧪

Day 2 at the Cheltenham Science Festival! Lots of great conversations, plenty of visitors, and only one brief evacuation yesterday, courtesy of the British summer weather... ⚡☔ #CheltenhamScienceFestival #TargetedTherapies #BritishSummer

#ScientistSpotlight 🧪 This week we’re featuring Emily Neil, a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the #MRCWIMM Emily is working on a particularly aggressive and treatment resistant subtype of childhood B cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (B ALL), defined by the TCF3::HLF gene fusion.

#CheltenhamScienceFestival starts today! 🎉 You can find us in the Discover Zone at our Targeted Therapies stand throughout the week. Come and say hello if you’re visiting the festival. We look forward to meeting you! 🧪 #TargetedTherapies @cheltenhamfestival.bsky.social @rdm.ox.ac.uk

#MethodMonday Behind the scenes of High Performance Computing at #MRCWIMM The technology is powerful, but it’s the people behind it that make it work. @rdm.ox.ac.uk @medsci.ox.ac.uk @ox.ac.uk

Today is #WorldBloodCancerDay 🩸 Every 35 seconds, someone in the world is diagnosed with a blood #cancer such as #lymphoma or #leukaemia. At #MRCWIMM, many of our researchers are working to better understand blood cancers and develop new approaches to treatment and care. #AcademicSky🧪

Vy is also the winner of the 2025 WIMM Image Competition with her striking work Jurassic Gut. #WIMMSpotlight #WIMMCommunity #SpatialTranscriptomics #GutBiology #NECResearch

#ScientistSpotlight 🧪 This week we’re featuring Vy Wien Lai, a #DPhil student jointly supervised by the Antanaviciute and Simmons labs at the #MRCWIMM. #SingleCellBiology #WomenInScience #MRCWIMM @rdm.ox.ac.uk @medsci.ox.ac.uk #AcademicSky @vywien-lai.bsky.social

#ScientistSpotlight 🧪 This week we’re featuring Svea Wupper. Svea first joined the WIMM from January to March 2023 as a Master’ student, completing a lab rotation. In October 2024, she returned as a #PhD student to work in the laboratory of Jan Rehwinkel. #AcademicSky @rdm.ox.ac.uk @medsci.ox.ac.uk

#MethodMonday 🧪 How does HPC work for us? 1️⃣ Data is securely uploaded to our petabyte-scale storage system 2️⃣ Jobs are queued and dispatched to multiple compute servers 3️⃣ Each job is processed with the requested resources (CPU, GPU, RAM, etc) 4️⃣ Results and trail records are made available

#ScientistSpotlight 🧪 This week, we’d like to give a special shout-out to Dr Kevin Rue-Albrecht who was recently awarded a 12-month BioFAIR Pathfinder project! @rdm.ox.ac.uk @medsci.ox.ac.uk @kevinrue.bsky.social #AcademicSky

At the #MRCWIMM, HPC enables researchers to: • Reconstruct genomes from terabytes of fragments • Process thousands of cells in transcriptomics and imaging workflows • Train and apply AI models to complex genomic data • Collaborate on large shared datasets and reproducible pipelines

#MethodMonday 🧪 New month, new method: High Performance Computing What does High Performance Computing enable in biomedical research? @rdm.ox.ac.uk @medsci.ox.ac.uk #AcademicSky

#Research can be exciting and rewarding, but it can also be demanding. As #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek begins, this is a good moment to check in with ourselves and with the people around us. Mental health matters. YOU matter. @rdm.ox.ac.uk @medsci.ox.ac.uk #AcademicSky #MentalHealth 🧪