Laura Wolz

a little girl in a pink sweater is standing on a wooden table Alt: a little girl in a pink sweater is standing on a wooden table (from the movie Monsters Inc)

Getting up at 5am for some quiet work time.

3-year old at 5:20

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Associate Professor of Cosmology at University of Oxford Recruiting now: Associate Professor of Cosmology on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board

Cosmologists! We have a faculty job going here in Oxford - happy to answer questions. Brief version is that this remains a great & collaborative place to do science and the students are superb. 🔭 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOP628/a...

#ald25 #AdaLovelaceDay 👩🏼‍🔬🧪#histsci

Travel with the babies… I can’t say I cherish the memories of sleep deprived nights followed by exhausting and long conference days. I could only make it work, as we could afford my mum tagging along, a huge privilege as she had to come all the way from Germany!
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I made a thing.

The Lovell Telescope at Jodrell Bank

Jodrell Bank: From tracking meteors to discovering pulsars, this @unesco.org World Heritage Site has shaped radio astronomy for eight decades and inspired generations through science, culture, and the Bluedot Festival.

@jodrellbank.bsky.social

www.manchester.ac.uk/about/magazi...

A phot showing a pile of printed report with green cover page. The front title reads The Dual Demands of Academic Travel and Caregiving and shows a graphic of different caregiving situations as well as a wordcloud.

Oh hello there!!! The printed copies of our report have arrived - and I am the chosen Laura to lug them across the country!

So, come and join us in Edinburgh on the 22nd of October for our first @carersinstemm.bsky.social report launch and get your own copy!

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Aha, it IS a supermoon! 6yr spotted moon yesterday and got very excited. Seems like he is already a better observational astronomer than me, which…checks.

You can also join one of the three report launch events where the team will be sharing their actionable recommendations to improve support for all academic carers. Please come and say hello to me if you’re at the Edinburgh event! 9/end🧵

Register👉: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

From 2006. A younger and shell-shocked looking Catherine on a balcony holding a very tiny baby with the mountains of Vancouver in the background. The baby is so new, Catherine still has the pregnant bump.

Conventional wisdom says motherhood should wait for tenure as before you land a permanent post, #academia is just not that family friendly🙁

@carersinstemm.bsky.social are calling for change and to celebrate their new report, a Saturday🧵on parenting & academia! 1/9 👩‍🔬🧪🔭⚛️

ℹ️: carersinstemm.co.uk

Advertisement poster of our Carers in STEMM report launch event in Edinburgh, on the 22.10.2025 at Playfair from 10am. More details can be found via event registration https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=B8tSwU5hu0qBivA1z6kad4JPwQzjYCRIgeFJLWslxmNURE5QNENLOE1LN1lOMlZPUlZYT0RJTklQOC4u

Edinburgh and surrounding areas, please join us in 3 weeks for our first report launch event!

After presenting our survey findings, we have a great line-up of panelist, including the fantastic @astroroyalscot.bsky.social!

Register via forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

Screenshot of the front page of the carers in STEMM survey report

We are pleased to announce the publication of our STEMM sector-wide survey

The report highlights our findings & suggests recommendations. Now available to download here carersinstemm.co.uk

Please share especially w/ institutions, funders & allies

@laurawolz.bsky.social @carterlj.bsky.social

Group photo of postdocs conducting research at a Max Planck Institute

The #MaxPlanckPostdocProgram offers a guaranteed contract of at least 3 years, targeted mentoring, and career workshops. The call for applications is open now! 🚀 Take advantage of this opportunity and browse the job vacancies. www.mpg.de/en/max-planc...

Large Danish Study: No link between vaccines and autism or 49 other health conditions A new Danish study finds no association between aluminum in childhood vaccines and 50 different health conditions, including autism, asthma, and autoimmune diseases. The findings reaffirm the safety o...

Yet another study (Danish) has found no association between aluminum in childhood vaccines & 50 different health conditions, including autism, asthma & autoimmune diseases. In this study, they tracked 1 million kids over 21 years.

🧪🔗 en.ssi.dk/news/news/20...

In my (lockdown) experience, it is all about the technique and developing a feel for consistencies of dough. I used the Sourdough School book which has lots of visuals and tables for timings. I despise video instructions 😂 And invest in a dutch oven!

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Faraday Discovery Fellowships Accelerated International Route | Royal Society The Faraday Discovery Fellowships Accelerated International Route provides a fast-track option for attracting mid-career researchers looking to relocate to the UK from overseas, providing up to £4m ov...

Our new Faraday Discovery Fellowships Accelerated International Route provides a fast-track option for international mid-career researchers looking to relocate to the UK, providing up to £4m over a five-year period. Find out more: #RSGrants royalsociety.org/grants/farad...

A children’s drawing of a woman in dress and long hair holding a beaker with the caption sientist underneath. Next to it, a man holding something like a bone and the caption paleontologist.

Can my 6 year old spell scientist? No. Have I held a beaker (?) in the past 15 years? Also no. But at least in his world, this is what a scientist looks like. 👩 🧪🔭

Today is International Non-Binary People's Day and the first day of Non-Binary Awareness Week

The day was first celebrated in 2012, started by Katje van Loon. The date was chosen for being precisely midway between International Women's Day and International Men's Day.

My brilliant postdoc Steve Cunnington (technically now a Stephen Hawking Fellow at Portsmouth but Im not quite ready to let go…) has won a well deserved prize this week and looked very professional receiving it!

Congratulations to our collleague Steve Cunnington on his Early Career Award and to the European Pulsar Timing Array, of which we are part, on their Group Achievement Award from the @royalastrosoc.bsky.social this week ras.ac.uk/news-and-pre...

a woman wearing a red sweater and a grey jacket is laying on the ground Alt: Lesley Knope from Parks and Recreation show giving a thumbs up after falling into a pit.

The thing I have been putting off for 3 months has taken me less than an hour to do 😑

a large, white dish antenna telescope in the distance between the rolling hills. The trees in foreground and background are both golden amber as well as green.

US Friends!

The Green Bank Observatory (GBO) is a vital instrument in the global #RadioAstronomy network (incl. pulsar science), and it is under threat with the proposed funding cuts.

Please take action to keep it open: www.gogreenbankobservatory.org/take-action/

Pls share! 🔭📡🧪

📸 GBO/AUI/NSF

Goodbye to a founder of radio astronomy We are sad to report that one of the founders of the science of radio astronomy, Sir Francis Graham-Smith FRS, FRAS, FInstP, has passed away at the age of 102.Sir Francis, or Graham as he was known to...

Very sorry to report that Sir Francis Graham-Smith, second Director of the observatory and one of the founders of radio astronomy, has passed away aged 102. He was active in research until very recently. We will miss him greatly. www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/g...

Slide summarizing multi wavelength strategies for cosmology.

Slide describing intensity mapping. Need low angular resolution to correlate the location of galaxies in the large scale structure with the HI signal.

Summary slide of the MeerKLASS survey. Goal is 2500 hours to observe 10,000 degrees.

First results: detection of the cross correlation power spectrum with the WiggleZ galaxies.

Mario Santos on doing cosmology with the SKA doing HI intensity mapping. SKA doesn’t have short enough baselines, so to make it work, need to use mid as a single dish. Already getting results with MeerKLASS. #skao2025 🔭📡

See you there!

@carersinstemm.bsky.social looking forward to this UKRI FLF session on academic travel and caregiving... very pertinent for me at present!

We’re excited to have @laurawolz.bsky.social and @carterlj.bsky.social from @carersinstemm.bsky.social with us today to tell us about their important work advocating for equitable and accessible support for those balancing caring and career. #LINEsymposium2025

We're excited to share that 1 of our 3Lauras has been shortlisted as a finalist for @britsocimm.bsky.social's "Diversity & Inclusion Award" this year
#BSIImmunologyAwards

So great to see a fantastic line-up of initiatives seeking to improve inclusion in STEMM shortlisted for this 👏

3 academics all called Laura standing in front of University of Leeds sign - the location for an in person meeting to draft a report showcasing the findings our a recent survey to investigate the hidden barrier of travel and academic career progression.

3 academics all called Laura standing in front of University of Leeds sign - the location for an in person meeting to draft a report showcasing the findings our a recent survey to investigate the hidden barrier of travel and academic career progression.

Last week the 3Lauras drafted a report highlighting findings from our sector-wide survey of UK #researchers balancing caregiving & travel. The data have specifically informed a set of recommendations for the sector, to improve inclusivity & improve policy

To read the report WATCH THIS SPACE! 📝