As part of #vulnerableroadusers week here is some advice for cyclists on submitting high quality evidence. 1 - a fixed camera provides a good frame of reference to measure distance. /1

We're recruiting for a Data manager & Analyst to work with Data from one of the world's largest climate change experiments! Grade 7, from £34,980 - £44,263 pa with potential progression to £46,974 pa full time . Closing date 17 October. Find out more below jobs.ac.uk/job/DCX875/bif…

Are you a data-driven person who likes working with a diverse group of academics from atmospheric science through to microbiologists? Please consider applying for this Data Manager post (5YEARS!) BIFoR Uni of Birmingham

I've published the next article in my #BeBoldBirmingham series for Better Streets for Birmingham, where I continue my quest to change Birmingham. betterstreetsforbirmingham.org/opinion-how-un… I look at what our city's premier seat of learning (don't at me, Aston), Uni of Birmingham could be doing to help.

Spot me and Florian Busch demonstrating in Birmingham for safer roads, Better Streets for Birmingham is a great community advocating for a safer and inclusive city for everyone

Breaking my twitter silence to ask the UK fungal community if they have an alternative to V8-juice for V8-PDA media...apparently now discontinued? Help British Society for Plant Pathology

Many thanks for all the replies, glad I’m not the only one. Going to try out James White Vegetable and Carrot Juice both seemingly available in most UK supermarkets (I am too lazy to boil carrots) If anyone wants to run this in parallel with me would be happy to trade notes.

Fantastic plenary presentation at #Fungal24 by Yukiyo Sato as chairs choice on how the fungus #Verticillium adapts to environmental changes through large-scale genomic rearrangements. What a great performance! 🥳 #ProudPI

Come and join us at the Gordon Conference this summer- Our theme is Fungal Communication in all its varied and wonderful forms Anna Selmecki and I look forward to seeing you there! Check out the program. #Fungal24

A new house plant obsession begins... theatlantic.com/science/archiv…

Congratulations to Abdelrahman M Qutb (Abdo) on his first first-author publication from his PhD! Identifying resistance to Zymoseptoria in Egyptian wheat germplasm. A great reward for a lot of hard work, with more to come... rdcu.be/dEkvm #zymopapers Newton Fund

Super excited and honored to be on this list! Of course not possible without my amazing College of Life and Environmental Sciences UoB Biosciences colleagues. This funding enables me to further explore the ever evolving story of ToxAs journey through different fungi within Starship transposons! #UKRIFLF

A sombre & reflective ride through rush hour traffic in response to the death of three cyclists in Birmingham in a month, including a father who was killed last week. They rode in remembrance & to highlight the need for more safe cycling routes. Better Streets for Birmingham Better Streets Harborne & Quinton

Calling all gays and theys! Remember when Birmingham’s gay village had outdoor seating during COVID? Enjoy the gay village during Pride? Want a safer gay village without cars in the evening? Be a doll and support these plans, it takes just five minutes: birminghambeheard.org.uk/bcc/ccma/

🚨Job Alert! We are looking for a Lab Manager interested in working for the Fungarium Sequencing Project at Kew! Do you like Fungi? Are you a magician with genomics techniques? Interested in historical collections? Join the team! Kew Mycology Kew Science #labmanager #genomics

Teaching posts UoB Biosciences at the Uni of Birmingham are available in #plantbiology & #Biochemistry. Deadlines approaching, further details in the links below Plant Biology: tinyurl.com/yc6w6rak Ecophysiology: tinyurl.com/rw2htwwf Biochemistry: tinyurl.com/238zj9tt

Bringing this back up in my feed for fellow UK-based fungal biologists...new V8 alternative now on the market..jameswhite.co.uk/blogs/news/veg…

So, it's been a while since I annoyed anyone with a proposal for an area. It's time to put that right! I have been meaning to write this article Better Streets for Birmingham ever since the original consultation for Russell Road went live a couple of years ago.