🧪 reposting this to science in case anyone is interested...

Spent quite a lot of the night running a dog with explosive diarrhea in and out of the house at two hourly intervals and as such am very tired. But this was just one night and it cements for me the reason I never had children... #dogsofbluesky

Given the understandable hype around #ArtemisII I am feeling the need to repost this podcast I did with some amazing space researchers: www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/podcast-the-...

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One for #seniorpupsaturday On a recent trip to Scotland when I commented on how young a ladies dog looked and how grey my 10.5 year old was in comparison I was told "it's because he's so sweet all the sugar has come out of his face" 😍 #dogsky

Happy place. Stargate on, antiroll plate behaving. All is currently right in this very tiny corner of the world.

This is a full genre of posts and I am here for it....

Grant deadline is less than 4 hours away and the central team still have not approved my application...

My dog is a natural sunbather and is very aware when there is even the SLIGHTEST glimmer of spring, even in our north facing garden, and will go out and be in it... #dogsky

Messing around in the lab with a podcast and feeling very relaxed about it... #science

This. Is genius.

They've messed around with my bus timetable and gotten rid of my express bus and it has made me inordinately angry first thing on a Monday

current grant submission system i'm working on does not allow you to submit without everything being completed by HIDING the submit button until everything has been filled in and everyone has said yes. Today, the button finally appeared!

A viral dog rescue from 2016 is now immortalized with a statue in Kazakhstan. When a dog fell into the Sayran reservoir, bystanders formed a human chain to pull him to safety. The statue is a reminder of the value of unity, solidarity and collective action. 14/10 for all

Going through that horrifying feeling that my work laptop is quietly dying but I have zero funds to replace it... #academia

look at this baby beaver and feel better briefly (@ wildheartrescue on TT)

After a week of emptiness in the Cairngorms I can officially say it's a bit too "people-y" down south...

I've switched my out of office on, now it's just time to download some podcasts for a 9 hour drive to a cottage in the Cairngorms and a week of leaving my phone alone and reading lots of books by the fire with the dog. First up, Louis de Bernieres... #booksky

Academic life used to mean suffering through 10 rounds of editing a grant. Now ChatGPT can do it in 10 seconds. Progress or problem? @dryvonnecouch.bsky.social explores www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/blog-chatgpt...

I loved writing this one because I love writing, but I worry it's a dying art and that our use of things like chatGPT exposes some of the bigger problems in academia. 🧪 www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/blog-chatgpt...

I am fully fine with this 500ml can poisoning me to death because it is AWESOME... Diet coke tastes better from a can is a hill I will die on

Lots of places are moving away from animal research, which is a great thing to be thinking about, but we need to be cautious about dropping everything right now before we've developed all the appropriate alternatives: 🧪 academic.oup.com/brain/advanc...

Apparently the sun will now not set before 6pm in the UK until October 21st...

#cycling in the UK after it rains right now is the worst....not because you get wet but because you can't see how deep the damn potholes are...

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Some fab work from the amazing @jnsimon.bsky.social on the response of #mitochondria and #lysosomes to energetic stress #metabolism 🧪 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

one of my new great joys in life is racing my two-factor authentication countdown timer...

Absolutely stellar post by Kam, in much the same way management is not leadership, supervision and mentorship require different approaches... 🧪

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First decent sunny afternoon so after a full day attacking a fellowship application it is....guess what...ROSE PRUNING TIME! This one is my favourite, it's called Tottering-By-Gently! 🌱

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Happy pancake day to those who celebrate # pancake

This is fabulous and something I have long worried about. Especially given that we are likely to be pricing all of the small people with the hypothesis testing skills out of the market... 🧪 network.febs.org/posts/thinki...

My evening choices are 1. Finish grant 2. Deep clean kitchen And of course I am going for 2 because it's "easier"

🚨NEW PAPER ALERT🚨 Great to finally get this one done and dusted for all the #EV nerds out there, it's important to think about function as well as content! 🧪 www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/27...

this is such a fun place sometimes...

Journals: yes, we will take four or five months to review your manuscript and not ever reply to any of your queries Also journals: now it's been accepted we need you to read the proofs and get back to us in 24 hours and yes, we are aware it's 2am on a Saturday 🧪

Lime harvest for a win! 🌱

Did a rather idyllic thing and strolled the dog into town to collect fresh pastries, he got a biscuit and I am now enjoying the pastry at home with a cup of tea and feeling vaguely wholesome #dogsky

If anyone has not seen it I HIGHLY recommend watching Ian McKellan on @colbertlateshow.bsky.social...the full Shakespeare speech on immigrants...absolutely brilliant... www.tiktok.com/@colbertlate...

I wish I still got that excited feeling I got as a PhD student when a paper finally gets accepted, instead it's mostly just...

Anyone feeling nostalgic for saner times I can recommend the Becoming documentary about Michelle Obama, very lovely

Normally I quote post about the actual content of my own science blogs but this time I just want to say I look FUN as a cartoon... 🧪

I've just had my last application to save my career rejected. Feeling very lost and untethered from reality...

Youtube has me feeling seen this morning... youtube.com/shorts/GRCTC...

I worry this is going to kill a lot of careers. Mine being one of them. But beyond the selfish...there's going to be a whole generation of scientists who are not going to be able to support their careers, this is going to affect UK research in a big way...

I think I am about to become one of the missing generation...

My favourite line to use on a regular basis RIP to a legend

I was recently told I was 'not good enough' to stay in academia. But at mid-career leaving seems incredibly challenging and there seems to be no institutional support. Everything feeling slightly hopeless this end at the moment.

Now....I am a scientist, not a humanities person, so I am unused to seeing their job adverts but I must say this one is EXCELLENT and I want this job...