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Sophie Stone

@sarstone.bsky.social

Edinburgh STS, part of @engineeringlife.bsky.social. Social/political dimensions of engineering biology and advanced therapeutics. Also norms/conventions of places where science gets made. Bio-AI curious. Always here for the Oxford comma.

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Edinburgh University lecturers begin walkout amid dispute over £140m cuts plan The union said its members had “no choice” but to take industrial action

Edinburgh University staff begin walkout amid dispute over £140m cuts plan www.scotsman.com/education/ed...

08.09.2025 08:23 — 👍 20    🔁 12    💬 0    📌 1

Massive opportunity to work with us in Edinburgh on Medicine without Doctors. 5 full-time postdocs each for 5 years starting in April 2026. Please share widely!

26.08.2025 14:56 — 👍 12    🔁 22    💬 0    📌 0
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a collaborative researcher's packing list.

18.07.2025 19:26 — 👍 8    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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NCRM Engagement | Innovation Fora | Improvising Methods NCRM delivers research methods training, produces learning resources, conducts research and supports methodological innovation

Are you improvising methods in social research? Perhaps you're experimenting with new research assemblages, or drawing on field site resources in dynamic and inventive ways? If so, and you have stories or insights to share, this call might be for you. Do get in touch! www.ncrm.ac.uk/about/engage...

28.03.2025 13:28 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

A reminder that the Biological Engineering Collaboratory's next session is tomorrow, 4pm UK time. We're thrilled to have Helen Anne Curry talking on “Crop Diversity as a Threat: Seed Care and Disease Management in a Potato Gene Bank”. Fancy joining us? It's open to all and online, DM me for details.

26.02.2025 12:59 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The Biological Engineering Collaboratory's next session, "If a squirrel falls in the woods", is tomorrow, 3pm (UK time). Rob and Sarah will talk about squirrels, gene drive technology and governance of environmental synthetic biology. Want to join us? It's online and open to all, DM me for details.

03.02.2025 10:22 — 👍 3    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

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