My interview on Sensory Science for That's TV Cambridge. Key point: Science is for everyone, the benefits of science are for everyone, so science communication needs to be for everyone ..read more

Learning about vaccines and primary immunodeficiency through story! Maya's Marvellous Medicine and Battle Robots of the Blood, from our lab! Also available to read online ..read more

VirusFighter at the Cambridge Festival! The kids had a blast, maybe try it yourself? Want to be in the driving seat as UK Prime Minister during the COVID pandemic? Make real-time decisions based on the information available and watch the pandemic play out. Or maybe you are keen to genetically-engineer a virus to prevent the UK being overrun by invasive wombats? Give it a shot ..read more

In case you are interested in my public seminar on "Diversity in the Immune System" for the Cambridge Festival today, I've uploaded the talk. Only shame is that it misses the hour of interesting and insightful questions from the audience afterwards! I was also interviewed about this talk:   What fascinates you most about the immune system?   That is not a fair question! There are so many aspects of the immune system that are simply amazing. The immune system is our most powerful sensory system – capable of detecting even single molecules and responding to them. It is also incredibl ..read more

Cambridge University sensory-science art for people with sight loss By Kate Bradbrook and Helen Burchell BBC News, Cambridgeshire Art exploring science and created for people with sight loss is on show as part of a festival organised by Cambridge University. Sensory Science, at St Catharine's College, is part of the Cambridge Festival, which explores aspects of research carried out at the university and is open to the public. Scientists at the Department of Pathology worked with local artists to create pieces to communicate science. The festival runs until 28 March. Sensory Sci ..read more

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Our lab is gearing up for the Cambridge Festival! A lot of amazing activities, with something for everyone, so hopefully everyone in Cambridge can come and join at least one of these. First of all, for our youngest visitors come along to a book reading of our kids books "Maya's Marvellous Medicine" and "Battle Robots of the Blood". We'll have some colouring in too, to keep them busy. For kids a little older, Family Day at Pathology has a ton of activities! Our lab is hosting a display of "VirusFighter". See how your kids would have done as PM during the pandemic, or test whether they can succe ..read more

Congratulations to Jasmine Hughes for her Cook Society Award for dedicating herself to social justice, equality and strengthening the campus community, during her time at Duke University! I'm glad to say she is keeping up the focus during her PhD here at the University of Cambridge ..read more

You can't argue with Professor John Tregoning, of Imperial College: these graphics are "objectively funny".  But beyond the snickering, there is a reason why the biomedical science community is in uproar over this paper.  It is a failure of peer review that this article was ever published in a scientific journal. Scientific articles are meant to be peer reviewed, precisely to catch garbage articles like this. No system is ever 100% perfect, and science is a rapidly-moving self-correcting ecosystem, but this is just so... prominant... a mistake, how did it happen? To understand, it is ..read more

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