“universities lose approximately £2,500 per UK student. In Stem disciplines, it’s more like £4,000. These are the graduates that we need to be producing but it’s a loss leader for us. So we fill the gap through income from internationals” | The Guardian theguardian.com/education/arti…

Let’s play a little game - what kind of mindset do you have? Read each statement and decide whether you mostly agree with it or disagree with it. Comment on your answers below👇

“Right now, every moment of every day, we humans are reconfiguring Earth’s climate bit by bit.” nytimes.com/interactive/20…

Really enjoyed a few days fossil hunting on the Yorkshire coast- dinosaur footprints, Ichthyosaur vertebrate and much much more

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Only 25% of research on cancer treatment can be repeated - & it’s similar for most biomed fields/topics. Scientific fraud, cherry picking results, streamlining methods, all problematic, leading to massive miss trust in science across the board sciencenews.org/article/cancer…

Uni Oldenburg is starting a genomics facility, and we are looking for a bioinformatician. uol.de/stellen?stelle… The position is initially for 3 years, but there are chances of permanency after the 3 years. Please share!

Very true and this certainly adds to the problem we are facing

Super proud of Kara Rising discussing her work and why she chose University of Derby to do this impactful research m.youtube.com/watch?v=a3bJd1…

It’s all about innovation and research University of Derby - m.youtube.com/watch?v=bUlIKX…

Love corals, symbioses & resilience?🪸🌡️🪸 Apply to join our team and conduct your "Global Change and Coral Reef Resilience" PhD in a supportive, stimulating environment @UVic w annual expeditions to Kiritimati. Fully funded, open to internat'l students! juliakbaum.org

This is the problem with politics & democracy (yes, I said it). Politicians, will always focus on the short term as it’s this that will get them re-elected. The vast majority of the public want to see increased spending which means increased profits - oil/gas will provide that 😭

Isaac looking through a ‘hag stone’ - Some of the magical properties that hag stones (or adder stones) are believed to have include: Healing snake bites, Seeing through the disguises of witches and fairies, Bringing luck, Banishing misfortune, and Bringing wealth.

Our coral reef conservation children's storybook Rebecca Petronzi, working alongside the brilliant Michael Sweet Prof. Michael Sweet and illustrated by the incredible Peter Seymour theSquidmonkey, is starting to come together. We're very excited for the final product!

.University of Derby is a world leader in coral research, helping to develop a pioneering breeding programme that could safeguard the world’s precious reefs. Find out more from @diseasematters and Dr Jamie Craggs in this Guardian Labs article: ow.ly/HZOI50T3J0w

Fantastic to work with researchers Soneva on this study which looked at how Cushion sea-star removal could be used to enhance coral restoration practices and limit background mortality on recovering reefs University of Derby link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Climate change is altering marine & coastal ecosystems. While effects of ocean warming & acidification on ecosystem functions/services is comprehensively researched, less attention is directed to understand impacts of human-driven ocean salinity change. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Some great work by Josie Chandler and team. 4k video workflows to image 40+ conlonies per dive and predict 3D surface area from rapid 1D field measures for a wide range of corals! Coral Reef Ecology Lab Deborah Burn Dr Peter Doll Agus Piccaluga Abby Johnades. rdcu.be/dS0NY