Jo Watson

Postdoc | Systems Biology, Bioinformatics, Proteomics | 🔬👩‍🔬💻

[Jay Rayner @jayrayner1]

THREAD: Energy Bill Support Grant. I have just been notified that I will get £67 a month off my energy bills under the govt scheme. For enormous numbers of people this support will be absolutely vital. But it won't be vital for everyone, and that includes me. (PLS RT) 1/

[Jo Watson @_JoWatson]

I’m at #IMSC2022 in beautiful Maastricht this week. I’ll be presenting in session LS-7 Cellular Signalling Processes & MS in Systems Bio.
Looking forward to a week of interesting science!

[Uni of Reading @UniofReading]

In this experiment Dr Rob Thompson of @UniRdg_Met shows just how long it takes water to soak into parched ground, illustrating why heavy rainfall after a #drought can be dangerous and might lead to flashfloods.

@R0b1et @UniRdg_water

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

A big day for #AI in life science. Release of >200 million predicted 3D protein structures from open-source #AlphaFold, nearly the entire protein universe
See: https://t.co/gjASHqACqa @DeepMind
my comment below

[Jo Watson @_JoWatson]

@SamirasHosseini @notchlab @FBMH_UoM @EGS_UoM @FBMH_DocAcad @OfficialUoM 👏👏

[Jessica Ayodele @jessica_xls]

Data Visualization

I found this image on LinkedIn that shows how to communicate with your charts more effectively.

Useful for those that struggle with colors & legends on their charts or dashboards.

Developed by 3 individuals from Warsaw University.

More below 👇🏽

[Wellcome Sanger Institute @sangerinstitute]

Our Janet Thornton Fellowship is now open! ✨

This #postdoc fellowship is open to anyone who has taken a break from scientific research for 12 months or more, for any reason 🔬

📅 Closes 15 July
🔗 Full info ⤵️

#PostdocLife #PostdocJobs #AcademicTwitter
https://t.co/iO3k0DxhD1

[Jo Watson @_JoWatson]

@Katiegracee24 @FBMH_UoM Congratulations Katie!!

[Research IT at the University of Manchester @UoM_eResearch]

Congratulations to @_JoWatson who had a paper published last week in @NAR_Open featuring her app which uses our pilot Shiny service! https://t.co/pCXPmRyocI

[Randall Munroe @xkcd]

Health Data https://t.co/ZrAVU5Dipp

[Jo Watson @_JoWatson]

The goal of SubcellulaRVis is to simplify the interpretation of Gene Ontology Cellular Compartment enrichment analyses from gene/protein lists (e.g. from spatial #proteomics experiments).
Thanks to @schwartz_jmc & @ChiaraFrancavi2 for their support & encouragement of this work!

[Jo Watson @_JoWatson]

Our new web app, SubcellulaRVis, has recently been published as part of the Web Server issue of Nucleic Acids Research! 🧬
The tool can be used here: https://t.co/ocdReIbDxG
Article here: https://t.co/Y48AdSsYv8

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

A big day for life science
The Tabula Sapiens, like a Periodic Table of Human Cells, ~500,000 cells analyzed, 24 tissues / organs @ScienceMagazine
"a broadly useful reference to deeply understand and explore human biology at cellular resolution" https://t.co/p0z103BnZH

[Nature Methods @naturemethods]

In a Comment piece published this week, proteomics researchers make a case for an 'Understudied Proteins Initiative': a large-scale coordinated effort to systematically characterize the functions of understudied proteins.
https://t.co/364Bplum3p

[Jo Watson @_JoWatson]

Excited to meet again in 2024, in Ventura, California, where I will be co-chairing the Gordon Research Seminar with @HeitmanKylie ! ☀️

[Jo Watson @_JoWatson]

Had a great time at @GordonConf Fibroblast Growth Factor meeting last week, in beautiful Tuscany. I presented our recent work, in which we used novel phosphoproteomics methods to sub-cellularly resolve FGFR2b signalling.

[The Pfam database @PfamDB]

Sorry for the poor performance of the Pfam website lately. If you know anyone in Manchester coding against the Pfam website please ask them to stop. 8,000 XML requests per hour are too many!

[Meaghan Kall has moved to Bluesky @kallmemeg]

📢COVID-19 isolation guidance hasn’t changed!

• Isolate at home
• Day 1 starts day after pos test
• On Day 5 & 6, take an LFD test
• If both negative stop isolating
• If either are positive, test daily until 2 neg tests 24 hrs apart, or midnight Day 10, whichever is earlier

[Mark Thornton @Mark_A_Thornton]

New preprint @PsyArXiv from @LinChujun & me! "Fooled by beautiful #data: #Visualization aesthetics bias trust in science, news, and social media." Across 4 studies, we show that people (mis)place more trust in more beautiful graphs. Paper: https://t.co/MgwnAB0cU8 Explainer 🧵👇

[Emma Lundberg @Prof_Lundberg]

Very proud to share our work in @Nature on how to build a multi-scale hierarchical cell model! With AI we integrate image and PPI data to model the protein communities underpinning cell function. Great collab w @Yue_Qin_UCSD @TreyIdeker @EdHuttlin @GygiLab https://t.co/HkVxkxvj8y