'The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.'

-- A. Einstein (1879 - 1955)

Friend: U were gone 4 ages this summer. Where were you?

Me: Borneo 👇

Friend: 😱..

Me: Meh… fending of a big cat is EASIER than academia… 😏😆🤪

Meet Jason Mellad: the Cambridge PhD student who went on to build UK biotech start-ups, support #GetInCambridge , and co-own a cocktail bar with a science twist.

Get inspired by his journey from Cambridge Enterprise to CEO of Start Codon 👇

🎊🎊🎊The work of our members on the mechanism of immunosuppression within PDAC microenvironment has been published on Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer 🤩

Huge congrats to Jodrell Group👏👏👏

100 Influential Women in Oncology: Key Opinion Leaders to follow on Social Media in 2023
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oncodaily.com/positive/7175.…

Today is Women’s Equality Day, celebrating the 1920 law that granted U.S. women the right to vote. Initiated in 1971 and made official in 1973,…

We're funding 3 practice-changing grants. Open to HCPs, seeking to discover practical solutions to make a tangible difference in the lives of neuroendocrine cancer patients within 12 months. More: bit.ly/3JJb8Oy Exeter Med School Cambridge Rare Disease Network (CamRARE) Serena Nik-Zainal Cancer Research Horizons

Congratulations to Prof Patrick Chinnery, who has been appointed as Executive Chair of Medical Research Council.

Patrick is Prof of Neurology at Cambridge and head of our Department of Clinical Neurosciences. He is also an Honorary Consultant Neurologist at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS.
cam.ac.uk/research/news/…

Is Britain really as poor as Mississippi? | ⁦Financial Times⁩

I keep saying this…
The UK once dominated >1/4 of the globe, yet, today the nation is poor.
Its wealth and huge advantage squandered….
#corruption #ClassSociety ft.com/content/e5c741…

Once upon a time, I tried out for the cheerleading team. 1992.
I made the cut…….
to be the #mascot !!!
😳🙈😂🤣
#NinjaWarrior

One has to be able to laugh at oneself…

Travelling long haul with teenagers shortly 😐.
Joys.

Looking at seat choices ✈️

Do I sit us altogether?
Or…
Feign a lack of options, sit THEM together, and myself distant from ‘em?

#TeensVsMom

If you are an insecure kinda chap, look away now.. 😆🙃
#parthenogenesis

Scientists discover secret of virgin birth, and switch on the ability in female flies cam.ac.uk/research/news/…

I have enough material/experiences in academic medicine to write a #Mockumentary

Gonna call it:
‘What about the patients?’😁

Everyone has an agenda 🙄
#academia #egos #NHS
#managers #admin #ToxicPositivity #club

Anyone got contacts that can help me with this project? 😆

Our collaborative manuscript investigating differences in #breastcancer biology according to #BMI using data from >2,000 patients is now out: nature.com/articles/s4146… #bcsm OncoAlert Nature Communications

😂
..Nooo… I am SURE….
that’s our family shopping list

#DoubleDocsInTheHaus

The country is broke
The public sector have been on strike for ages
13m people living below the poverty line
and the King gets a 45% pay rise?

This is utterly tone deaf
theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/j…

When you get to my age, they say your metabolism slows.

But the truth is it’s only 9.45am
and I have already had my “elevenses” snack
(… at least twice… ) 😂

LOL 😂…
The one on funders… muahahahaha…

Excited to tell you about my work, new in @sciencemagazine. MMEJ - a repair pathway that can both mutate and protect DNA. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… #Genetics #DNARepair 🔬🧬 (1/7)

After a week of admin managers/management consultants, I was broken.
Can’t figure out what irritated me more: bossiness, arrogance, superficiality, posturing, or all of it.

Today my faith in #academia is restored
💖 My fab team 🥲🥹🥳
#Inspiring #LabMeeting
💃🏻🕺🏻💃🏻🕺🏻

Saw this yesterday.
First year doctor salary in 🇬🇧

It is similar to what I earned at the same level in 2001
🤯

So…
UK govt flushes £37bn down the Test & Untraceable toilet with zero #accountability
yet can’t pay nurses/docs/social carers a decent wage
#PublicSectorPay