Maybe too late to be useful, but yes: or if you are not comfortable doing so, talk to the programme coordinator and they can challenge on your behalf.
01.08.2025 09:44 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0@rjstrawbridge.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Mental Health (genetics of cardiometabolic disorders and severe mental illness). Enthusiastic about cycling, x-country skiing, food and wine
Maybe too late to be useful, but yes: or if you are not comfortable doing so, talk to the programme coordinator and they can challenge on your behalf.
01.08.2025 09:44 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Todays pondering: how many hours does the average acadaemic waste on formating manuscripts for journals (by waste, I mean fixing stuff that is not mentioned in the author instructions/reformatting for a new journal after a rejection)?
03.07.2025 08:34 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Sounds much the same as UK universities at the moment....with the addition of a few universities having huge financial problems... So highlighting that most staff are completely overloaded with work is met with "at least you still have a job, unlike 400 staff at university X"
29.06.2025 13:54 โ ๐ 6 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0A row of fishes preserved in jars, labelled "Charles Darwin, Beagle Voyage"
Quick reminder that the deadline for applying for our EXCITING NEW ROLE of Senior Collections Lead at @zoologymuseum.bsky.social is THIS SUNDAY.
Come and make a huge difference here at one of the UK's most important natural history collections ๐คฉ.
#MuseumJobs
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51272/
๐จ Last chance to apply for this fantastic opportunity! ๐จ
๐ Closing this Thursday, 5th June
๐ฉโ๐ผ 2x 5-year positions available
๐University of Edinburgh
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On the left, Jack Ashby with a taxidermy echidna. On the right, the cover of Nature's Memory: Behind the Scenes at the World's Natural History Museums, by Jack Ashby
I'm doing talks in #Cambridge on Thursday & #Oxford on Friday about #NaturesMemory, taking you behind the velvet rope to explore some of the surprising stories from natural history #museums.
Heffers: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/natures-me...
@morethanadodo.bsky.social: www.oumnh.ox.ac.uk/event/nature...
Today for #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek, we are introducing you to the people who make our research happen ๐
Head over to our blog to meet the newest member of our Hub #community, Etsub, a PhD researcher @UofGlasgow exploring the genetic links between type 2 diabetes and SMI๐
tinyurl.com/mhawhub
Our paper on long-term physical health conditions and subsequent risk of depression, led by @laurendelong.bsky.social, has been published today: www.nature.com/articles/s43...
13.05.2025 11:06 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Day 1: "we appreciate everyone has really heavy work loads". Day 2 (from someone present in the meeting on day 1): "in advance of your presentation, please provide an overview of the topic, addressing these 6 points, so we can best advertise it".
25.04.2025 08:42 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0๐ข๐ข๐ข
Today we are launching the Metabolic Interventions for People with Severe Mental Illness Priority Setting Partnership with the @jameslindalliance.bsky.social to identify the Top 10 research priorities in this space! ๐
Our @uofgshw.bsky.social colleague Shylet Njanike is looking for research participants for her study on the daily living experiences of Black African adults with learning disabilities living at home. Details in the flyer below ๐ You can also find out more about Shylet's research via bit.ly/4cRyZrU
07.04.2025 15:06 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0as per instructions: ./softwarename check requirements
"invalid choice check, choose one fo the options......"
I started working with genetics during my undergrad in 2000. None of my training (including self-directed learning in data sciecne) has equipped me for installing software on our computer cluster. No bioinformatics support available. Very frustrated and very much stuck!
04.04.2025 13:40 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Today's aim is to write and record four lectures. Just realised I'm boring myself. Is it reasonable to hope I'm better (less dull) in person?!
17.02.2025 16:11 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0How to look professional: spend the first meeting with a new PhD student cuddling the other supervisors dog #AcademicChatter
03.02.2025 11:40 โ ๐ 7 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Just when I think I might get time to progress the oldest tasks on my to-do list, another new, big, important and urgent task lands at the top #AcadmicChatter
28.01.2025 11:29 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Hows your "to do before the christmas break" list going? mine has stalled because my access card wont let me into my office ๐does that mean the holidays have arrived?!
09.12.2024 13:05 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0