Martin Baker

A Brit who used to live in Philly.
Cancer Biologist. Bassoonist. Christian.

[William McDaid @wmcdaid90]

Very excited to share our first #KRAS paper published in Molecular Cancer (https://t.co/5RcdkNxE5o [https://t.co/SpZaQusvml]). We compared KRASG12C and G12D in driving #NSCLC tumorigenesis, seeing that G12D exhibits superior tumorigenicity, dependent on PI3K-AKT-mTOR signaling!

[Camille Bergin @TheGalacticGal]

EpiPens are toxic in space and NASA didn't know!

In fact, a group of elementary school students figured it out. Here's the story 🧵

[Martin Baker @BritinPhilly]

#science twitter, I have a question: why are Holly berries poisonous to humans but not birds? I need to know the answer so I can enjoy my Christmas!

[Martin Baker @BritinPhilly]

Three years ago I married the most amazing woman who also happens to be American... We then moved back to the UK. Under these new rules, which also apply for spouse visas, we couldn't. I would not have earned enough as an academic scientist. I would have gone elsewhere.

[BBC News (UK) @BBCNews]

Salary threshold for skilled worker visas to rise to £38,700 under government plans to cut legal migration levels

Follow live https://t.co/y54qYd9pPB

[Martin Baker @BritinPhilly]

@emieljerphanion You'll be back.

[Martin Baker @BritinPhilly]

As someone who took a big wage cut to move to the UK from the US, this hits home.

[John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch]

NEW: we need to talk about UK graduate wages, and the idea that Britain sends too many people to university.

American readers should stick around for the UK/US comparisons 👀

Let’s start with this: the UK graduate wage premium has fallen substantially over the last 25 years

[Julia Hatmaker @JuliaHatmaker]

In the North "delivery is nearly always internally driven by regional doers grappling with a badly dealt hand rather than supported by national policy" writes @paulunger. HS2 is just the latest disappointment. https://t.co/pEdYf6xiq3 via @PlaceNorthWest

[Place North West @PlaceNorthWest]

Sunak cancels HS2, promises ‘Network North’ consolation prize https://t.co/ozuOizCI5J

[Randall Munroe @xkcd]

What to Do https://t.co/s8Q4tmpVcX

[Professor Booty PhD @ProfBootyPhD]

I think we need to talk about how devastating this cancer microbiome refutation paper from
@StevenSalzberg1
and colleagues is. It really speaks to how devoid of critical thinking and intellectual depth our glam publishing ecosystem has become. 1/n
https://t.co/wWsHTa4K8x

[Jennifer Williams @JenWilliams_FT]

Funny how govt wants to hit its housing targets through urban densification instead of greenfield building but also intends to take up a vast swathe of central Manchester’s prime development land with a high speed station that could go underground

[Andy Burnham @andyburnham]

Two months today, buses in GM start to go back under public control and the cost of combined bus and tram travel will be cut by 20%.

24 September should signal the beginning of a public transport revolution across not just GM but the whole of England.

#BeeNetwork

[Martin Smith @martinrsmith]

The UK is planning on massively increasing visa costs.

Currently a researcher looking at a 5-year Global Talent Visa, together with their partner and two children, needs to find £13.4k.

All up front. A big ask.

But that’s now slated to increase to…

**£20.9k**

[Robert Insall @robinsall]

You cannot be serious?

UK is going to be a "science superpower" but foreign scientists will be charged so much they leave and/or won't come?

That is just moronic. Little England, the very small superpower.

[Mark Lewis, MD, FASCO @marklewismd]

Of course that’s your contention. You think in vitro physiology is completely recapitulated in vivo.
You vaguely remember pH from high school chemistry but never got to the homeostatic dyad of the lungs & kidneys so you blame patients with cancer for not guzzling alkaline water.

[Prof. Katharine Hayhoe @KHayhoe]

This iconic graph tracks how rapidly our planet is warming. Yet every time it's shared on Twitter, someone always asks, "Why does it begin in 1850?"

The answer is simple: it's when we first had enough thermometers to compute a truly representative global temperature average.

[Shane Claiborne @ShaneClaiborne]

Just making a few crosses out of gun barrels this Easter. Declaring victory over death. Christ is risen.

[Sam Ghali, M.D. @EM_RESUS]

Here’s the Chest X-Ray of a young girl suffering from a condition that is now the #1 cause of death in children and adolescents in the U.S.

What’s the diagnosis?

[Clive Myrie @CliveMyrieBBC]

Braverman criticised for shutting out Guardian and BBC from Rwanda trip https://t.co/6fV7u5kIwb