The ethos of academia I tell myself everyday: There are no real emergencies. All deadlines are suggestions. It is a job. Your self-worth is not tied to achievement. People over project. People are dispensable to institutions. Take care of one another.

A reminder that Elsevier made $10.5 BILLION in 2022 from selling your academic journals and articles behind paywalls, and make more profit than Amazon, Google, and Apple every year… And paid the academics who wrote the articles $0 And paid the reviewers of the articles $0

90% of molecular biology is pipetting very tiny amounts of clear liquids from one container to another. The other 10% is doing math on paper towels. Some days I think I should have listened to my mother and become a wizard.

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One of the best pieces of advice I can give to grad students is something that I learned from my time as a competitive swimmer: It's natural to want to see how fast others around you are going, but looking around slows you down and ruins your form. Focus on your own goals & time.

After running a lab that centers inclusion for 4 years now, I’d like to share some of our lab practices that have really worked in case this info is helpful for others.

apparently a lot of cis women need to hear this but a world where our faces, bodies, hair, breasts, clothing and voice are constantly scrutinized as "not feminine enough" is infinitely more dangerous than a world where trans women might also be in the bathroom and need to pee

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Super grateful for the sense of community and continuous learning provided at the #PGRAConf2023 at Canterbury Christ Church University hosted by the wonderful CCCU Graduate College and PGRACCCU So many interesting presentations and a chance to chair my first panel in a friendly setting ☺️🙏🏻👩🏼‍🎓

What on earth is a junior doctor? A student? An apprentice? A side kick to a ‘real’ doctor? None of the above. The Tories and the Media have misled you. Let me explain by talking you through the ‘lifespan’ of a doctor - a 🧵

New publication with Dr Catherine Sanders: #recreational footpaths do not affect terrestrial #invertebrate #biodiversity. Paths can encourage engagement with #nature and limit #ecological damage. #ecology #ecosystemservices #greenspace #woodland #pitfalltrap tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

How can we manage apple orchards for #climateresilient soil microbial communities supporting #EcosystemServices? NEOF visitor & PhD researcher Maya Sollen-Norrlin is using eDNA metabarcoding to investigate that question #NEOFtraining

Everyone knows Labour are going to win the election, but if you’re feeling like there’s no point in voting as the outcome is a foregone conclusion, I’d like to draw your attention to something really radical that is on offer tomorrow: 1/8

In a discussion with J.K. Rowling, she brought up the idea of “militant trans activism” concerning why the LGB Alliance needs to exist. As someone that fought for gay rights for almost 30 years, sometimes quite militantly, that makes me laugh. How the fuck do gay people think

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The Tories gave Michelle Mone £203m for useless PPE. She bought a yacht. Vote tactically. StopTheTories.Vote

Join us in team #eDNA at the People and Nature Lab UCL Centre for Biodiversity & Environment Research UCL East campus! I am recruiting a NERC funded PDRA to research air sampling for terrestrial biomonitoring jobs.ac.uk/job/DIV449/res… application deadline 19 Aug