Ben Krishna
@BenjaminKrishn3
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Wellcome ECA Fellow trying to understand metabolism and virology with @JamesNathanLab in @MedCambridge, University of Cambridge (he/him)
Cambridge, UK
Joined July 2019
RT @DrCJ_Houldcroft: The journal were generous with revision extensions while I was on maternity leave, and @BenjaminKrishn3 did heroic ext…
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Can't find any evidence here that this is actually happening though? Biochemistry has gone back to closed book exams now that COVID restrictions are over (ie for the last two years).
If @UniofOxford has decided to trash itself, it will deserve to crash down international league tables. But the dumbing down of education across the university sector is a disaster for the nation. The next gov’t should bring in a Royal Commission.
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RT @hankgreen: At some point in the last ten years (it’s hard to tease out exactly when) we crossed a boundary that no one celebrated: Mo…
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@HarrietGroom Yeah I’m assuming the Telegraph are misrepresenting a recommendation in a report by one guy from one department. BMB is closed book exams entirely
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Our next KIER (Knowledge, Inclusion and Equity in Research) book club will be on the 28th February, where we'll be discussing Medical Apartheid, a book about the non-consensual use of African American people in medical research You only get cake if you attend!
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@mhornig I’ve been complaining for a few years now that Long COVID studies often have the wrong control groups (or poorly defined criteria). It’s sort of a topic close to my heart!
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There's a concept called the "Gentlemen's Third" where you get the lowest pass mark possible and spend your time making friends and having fun (essentially networking) which was much more useful in the long term
One odd thing you see in older British books is that, for their upper classes, college wasn't *that* important. You were kind of supposed to go up to Oxford or Cambridge, but it wasn't very important if you actually graduated. It was common/fine to leave after a few terms.
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Research Culture committee for the win!
🚨 New article alert! 🚨 I wrote an article in @Nature about how anyone in a well-resourced lab can implement to democratise scientific resources and training worldwide. 🌍🧪 👉 @Cambridge_Uni @MedCambridge @CaiusCollege @MRC_LMB
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Teaching the students about Florida 2000 today because it happened BEFORE MOST OF THEM WERE BORN
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Been asked to review a paper on the protein BAK, which I’ve never worked on. I genuinely think I’ve been selected as BAK is my initials
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"Please use mm3 for cubic millimetres and not CUMM" I'm just going to leave it at that and hope the authors figure out why.
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This year @MedCambridge hosted 4 EPLS students in our labs. It was a really fun and valuable experience for everyone involved. Looking forward to doing it again next year!
This year’s Experience Postgrad Life Sciences summer internship programme has come to a close and what an amazing journey! Thank you to all the talented participants for their hard work and enthusiasm!
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3. Increased risk of CVD after COVID-19 could be considered a symptom of Long COVID. Whether clotting or microclots links to Long Covid isn't yet clear. Data from clinical trials targeting clots will be very informative on this issue.
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I needed a sample of cells which are dead, but killed gently so I can run them through a flow cytometer. I was in the lab past midnight gently heating cells over and over until they die. They're surprisingly robust!
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@LukeKaven I think it was used to take photographs of image-based data (like DNA/protein gels) that can't be easily graphed
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