Caroline Gauchotte-Lindsay

💯 Academic social media was a game changer for scholars from traditionally less well-connected places.

👋🏻👋🏻 I am going to try and convert useless scrolling time on instagram to some time on here then!

Glad to hear it! Motivating me to visit more often!

Pretty happy in terms of the #chemsky content. Sure there’s heaps less signal than #chemtwitter at its peak but also vastly less noise. And people don’t shout at me for my non-chem opinions and musical tastes so that’s pretty nice.

I haven’t posted here in many months but LinkedIn is so depressing. Elon truly won, we had a space where we could talk without “keeping up appearances” now academics migrated to LinkedIn and it’s all polished edulcorated saccharine. Everyone back in the box. How is everyone getting on here?

Nearly 800 killed at Gaza food hubs and aid convoy routes since end of May, UN says UN human rights office says 615 of the deaths were in vicinity of sites run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation

At least 798 people have died while seeking food at distribution points run by the US- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation simce late May, according to the UN. The GHF has faced criticism for breaching humanitarian impartiality and possible involvement in war crimes. #DontForgetGaza

Too much international women in engineering day on LinkedIn so here I am. I applaud my (often junior) colleagues in engineering who patiently fill out form with their profile for their institution to boast about them on #IWED and then deny the existence of their struggles the rest of the year.

Btw you are in Glasgow next week!

Indeed. Thanks for letting me rant!

That’s interesting. But there is more to you than the things you do, and we all have the potentials to have many different lives anyway and enjoyment of life can take many forms. But ultimately yes I believe that to continue living or not is your choice.

Mattered in the end

I mean it is really useful because it gives you a good idea of the panel conversation and I am grateful- but just feel a bit jaded that the think that tanked us had been addressed by reviewers has having been addressed. Reviewers reviewed and I spent days on the response and it seems neither really

Indeed- I also meant it gets worse as you get yourself in more senior rooms

Yes I got that, and it really genuinely made me think on whether then such a law would be better than not.

Considering that the feedback says “it reads like..” proceeds to use a phrase that no reviewer used and that the grant is judged as excellent and ambitious but not aligned enough with the call, when reviewers said it was aligned…

Who would have thunk that it only get worse but it does!

worried me. This is why I am wondering whether we should tackle healthcare provision, inequalities and ableism first.

My dad is dealing with Parkinson’s just now and he feels like he is dying at least once a day I cannot imagine what it is like but I can imagine that he can lead to a desire to stop it. I also heard a man on tv saying “I am nothing without my hands so the day they stop working I want to go” and that

For me it is all about whether in our very ableist and productivity driven society, people are truly free to make these decisions or they are driven to it.

I didn’t mean the individuals . I meant that the motivation for the law maker to improve palliative care and societal approach to illness and disability when this is already in place.

But if we don’t solve palliative care first are we not just opening the door to an easy and frankly ableist way out. We also need to work on what dignity means and what factor influence it. If society decides the “worth” of people should we not work on society first?

Very very stingy grant rejection today. With a strong feeling that 1) the panel re-reviewed the grant and 2) misunderstood the call… it’s heartbreaking.

The increase use of LinkedIn by Academics has seen these LinkedInese influencers pop up everywhere- giving hot takes on PhD and academia… a little cringey. It seems the 140/280 characters and dynamic interactions had protected us from our own pontificating!!

Session 3 of ##EnvChem2025 is From Source to Policy: Characterising and Responding to Environmental Pollution, chaired by @drcgl119.bsky.social .

Looking forward to meeting everyone at #EnvChem2025 tomorrow!
If you're already in Portsmouth, come join us tonight at 7 PM for an informal meetup:
📍 The Old Customs House
Gunwharf Quays, Portsmouth PO1 3TY

See you there! 👋🍻

At #EnvChem2025 learning how wood preservation from the Mary Rose is undertaken and monitoring using XRF and FT-IR analyses with Interdisciplinary @rsc.org Award Winner, Dr Eleanor Schofield.

📣 Deadline extended!

We are calling for members of the public in Scotland to participate in a new and inclusive panel to help SCAF define its activities - with a broader goal of transforming and accelerating research & impact in and around food 💡

⏰ Deadline to apply: Friday 6 June
👉 bit.ly/4jYFsoj

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