Karl Storbeck

Super excited that @africanderlab.bsky.social and I were awarded a grant to purchase a brand new Mass Spectrometer that will greatly enhance our steroid research! Thanks to James Hawley for making the trip from the UK to make sure that we are getting the most out of the new instrument!

Thank you @esendocrinology.bsky.social for the opportunity to present our work on 11-oxygenated androgens at #ConnectingEndocrinology2025

Very sad to be missing the first two days of the joint ESPE-ESE congress due to a flight cancellation. Normally don’t enjoy talking on the last day, but in this case it worked out well!

Defense Against Dishonest Charts This is a guide to protect ourselves and to preserve what is good about turning data into visual things.

This excellent interactive tutorial on misleading data visualizations explores the idea of a "counter chart" — the graph you draw in response to refute a misleading claims

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Cultivating allyship for a diverse, equitable and inclusive academia - Nature Human Behaviour We propose six actionable steps of allyship that researchers, faculty members and educators can engage in to foster a diverse, equitable and inclusive academia: listening to marginalized voices, challenging one's own biases, speaking up to include disadvantaged groups, speaking out to confront bias, advocating for inclusive policies and dismantling institutional biases.

The authors of a Comment article in Nature Human Behaviour propose six actionable steps of allyship that researchers, faculty members and educators can engage in to foster a diverse, equitable and inclusive academia. #Academicsky 🧪

Endocrine Oncology logo and Figure 1. Estrogen receptor signals and corresponding histopathological analysis.

Read this review by Yasuhiro Miki et al. describing a visualisation method for elucidating steroid hormone signaling in #hormone-dependent #tumours using formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissues 👉 ow.ly/RBkV50Tcnmx

Followed!!!

End of year group brunch! #TeamScience

A few of the incredible examples from our departmental Art exhibition - was so good to see our staff and students hidden talents. #science #art #biochemistry

Thanks Felix!

Also, let’s not forget that today is #caturday

Yesterday was a day I’ll never forget! Not only did I find out I’m being promoted to Full Professor, but I also got to experience and photograph some of the best Bioluminescence I’ve ever seen!

When you say you left twitter but still know what's happening over there

Nothing like a good biochemical assay! Has actually given me some ideas…

Inspiring talk by Vanessa Hayes (University of Sydney) on the importance of studying Prostate Cancer in Africa using #TeamScience A privilege to host her in Stellenbosch today. #prostatecancer #Africa

Here are some free/open-source sites for the preparation of scientific illustrations, including icon libraries: bioicons.com, scidraw.io, bioart.niaid.nih.gov, inkscape.org, biogdp.com, reactome.org/icon-lib

My first post and it’s double bioluminescence! As a biochemist was geeking out when I captured this shot. Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine that I’d have an opportunity to photograph two bioluminescent species in one shot! #bioluminescence #luciferase #biochemistry #landscapephotography