Alfie

Brb origin of life just dropped: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adt2760

Day 4 of running every day and I’m ko’d how do u lot do this

Slow one for me, first time running 3 days in a row and body is feeling it lol Decided to go from running 4 times a week to 5 with same weekly mileage as thought it could reduce musculoskeletal stress, shall see if that’s the case

Love running gels and running runs simultaneously. Don’t love when I return to see primer diners tho 🥲

The Victorian’s really cooked with their architecture

The eggs I be buying from winning:

First track session in a while! Group mentality inevitably sets in and a threshold turns into a vo2 max sesh lol 4x2km @3:10/km Should’ve been responsible and done 3:20/km we shall see if I pay for this…

Today’s long run with some friends joining the second half made all the difference. Totally forget how time flies while yapping. Feeling much stronger than my last run too 😌

Forgot to log yesterday’s run! Return to the programme after a weird back injury. For that reason feeling a bit rusty

We _live_

My live sciences project is underway! You can read about it here: https://alfjb.substack.com/p/live-sciences

Just taking a second to acknowledge some of the crazy advances made in bio in Jan as well as the Steel paper: new DNA assembly method that made $twist pump: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-10006-0 Alphagenome: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-10014-0 Also, why did George Church visit Epstein’s island 💀

Rate this first impression: my prof in classic fashion without prior notice introduces a postdoc that will be joining our lab imminently. Literally first thing post doc says I can tell ur a PhD cos there’s still a glimmer of youthful optimism in your eyes 👁️👁️ 👄

Few things in molecular biology as satisfying as gel electrophoresis. This is a method that separates dna based on its length by applying a current to an agarose del with dyed DNA. Please excuse my 3x coffee shakey hands😂

For the last month since watching David Attenborough Wild London I have started noticing peregrines on top of queens tower at imperial. Something like 50 nests in the whole of London so what a privilege I get to see them every day

In science it’s a rat race to be the first person to do something. On that note, bet I’m the only person in the world to have listened to Tim Reaper while reading about engineering magneto sensitive proteins as quantum sensors. Mix and DOI below so protocol can be reproduced x https://on.soundcloud.com/idr6Um0cZAfG8t6ePM https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09971-3

Reminder to have fun with it

Got some weird back pain in the final set. Hopefully it goes, pretty tough session but pleased to have under the belt! 3km warm up 4x: ---------- 1km at 3:45/km 1km at 3:20/km ---------- cool down

These weekday runs are getting pretty long to fit around work 🥲 Feeling good doing more mileage though which I’m really pleased about. Been doing physio more than ever before and seems to be working!

Sunday lab run 7.5km at a conversational pace (pipetting break) 5.5km at 4:15/km 6km at 4:00/km 6km at 3:45/km