The Guardian reports that Paul Nurse is set to become President of the Royal Society again. Issues: holding the role twice is unprecedented, role never held by a woman, Nurse would be 81 by the end of term, outsized influence of Nurse on UK science.
Scientist (enhancers, eRNAs and chromatin), Sir Henry Dale Fellow; bike-fettling, bird-watching, accordion-troubling american-ophile
www.bose-lab.org
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(still on twitter @danbose)
Starting up in science: https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-021-02563-x/index.html