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Jef Mancera

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PhD Researcher, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh and The University of Edinburgh, working on tropical plant reproductive phenology and climate change in Southeast Asia

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โœ… First year [anniversary of seasonal affective disorder]

18.10.2025 17:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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This time last year, I was comforted by a PhD senior after a nerve-racking interview! Time to pay it forward.

What grad school application questions do you wanna ask?

27.02.2025 16:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Blueskyโ€™s science takeover: 70% of Nature poll respondents use platform Roughly 6,000 readers answered our poll, with many declaring that Bluesky was nicer, kinder and less antagonistic to science than X.

When youโ€™ve just joined Bluesky and @nature.com gave you that real talk already: โ€œOr [scientists] could all just go outside and touch grass.โ€

Theyโ€™re not wrong tho

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

24.01.2025 20:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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An academicโ€™s guide to Bluesky With many HE professionals making the switch to Bluesky, here are the steps you need to take to get started

Starting my nth social media platform the correct (read: Virgo) way:

www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/acade...

24.01.2025 13:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

First time here on Bluesky, hoping to keep it academic, but my mind is everywhere so who am I kidding

22.01.2025 23:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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