Yet here in the UK we have a bunch of old guys going "you can't MAKE me retire, that's AGEISM"....

For anyone who needs to hear it...

so I have taken one of my dogs beds out of its cover to wash said cover and am currently sat with the pillow next to me whilst the machine runs and it has this slightly warm but not unpleasant dog funk and i honestly can't get enough of it....it's such a great smell! #dogsofbluesky

An important paper... 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨 New paper alert 🚨 Here Amin and co used a multimodal approach to identify a metabolically defined hyperacute ischemic penumbra, providing a molecular framework for studying the earliest stages of tissue injury after stroke 🧪 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

When you're clearing out your lab book pockets and find your RA has left you a note... 😍😍😍

Surround yourself with the kind of people who consider The Princess Bride to be one of the most amazing films of all-time.

As discussed by @actualchrismoyles.bsky.social on @radiox.co.uk this morning I am giving my 60th pint and got all listeners of rock @metallica.com are partnered with them and I got a free t shirt! Donate if you can!

i have 64 western blots to analyse, 32 cut in half, flipped, with a phospho protein and a protein, then a housekeeper and it has taken me a good 45 minutes to just set up the crib sheet to figure out which sample is on which gel and where...

I helped someone this morning at the gym and she was so happy and cheerful, it made me feel great and it helped her figure out a machine! Remember, not everyone in the gym is terrifying even if we've got headphones on and look a bit grumpy!

thoroughly enjoying that kind of procrastination where I can completely edit your paper for you if you send it to me because otherwise I have to decide which of the hundred small but uninteresting tasks of my own I have to do and I am incapable of doing that right now....

i do not like it when the external temperature and my internal temperature are the same....

The only option right now

I'm going to add additional flags to this....watch out for your pets! The tarmac can get REALLY hot for walking dogs so try and take them out in the evenings and mornings and avoid peak sun and make sure they have plenty of access to water! #dogs #dogsofbluesky

I'm sorry ..what???

When people apply for basically their own job but somewhere else and they don't even get an interview, despite it being the same job, how do they cope?

Everything about this post is wonderful...

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There should be some law in the UK which prevents non air conditioned buses stopping for an age at a stop when the weather is this hot...

Here is work showing some of this effect. It is important, however, to see the form that this takes ‘in the wild’ in terms of the erasure of actual women-led scholarship in LLMs by multiple modalities, so I intend to run some bibliometrics myself and put the results out. arxiv.org/abs/2508.02740

Eurgh

Some musings about how we can try and be more than our jobs and how to encourage our students to explore myriad identities to help preserve a broader sense of self... 🧪

Eeeeeeeeew ants in my kitchen!! Send help!!

Mood....(cheery but nihilist?)... 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vqbk...

Adventure pup turned 11 this week, please send all the biscuits (pronounced "biss-quits") and noggin rubs... #dogs #dogsofbluesky

Back to work, facing unemployment in six months and feeling anxious and sad. Send hugs and/or cake please.

We do grow our own tea in one place in the UK and I finally managed to get down and buy some from the estate...hold on for updates, it's currently brewing.... #tea

Doing some new beach discovering instead of work #dogsofbluesky

I'm trying sketching for mindfulness and stress relief. I have not drawn anything since art class at school 30 years ago so no harsh judgement please...(I worry it looks a little like a mean pacman ghost...)

Me too...

I had two fellowships in, I've written nine since finishing my PhD. Got two. It's very draining when they get rejected so I promised myself these would be the last two I write. One just got rejected.

Waiting for a dphil student to come out of a viva never gets less tense even if you know she'll be totally fine...

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On AL taking a morning walk with the dog in the woods pondering how well my dystopian novel idea about a world full of thin people who don't talk in real life will play out with the times best seller list...

ICYMI over the weekend... "Most of us have a support network, but there is a tendency in academia to put on a brave face. Few would like to admit publicly that they are anything but successful, efficient, confident and fearless..." My latest blog post, on academic burden bit.ly/4nXsFpb #AcademicSky

What did you do with your afternoon? Was it spend some time making a frozen chew out of strawberry tops and probiotic yoghurt for your dog? No? Then you, my friend, have missed out on joy. #dogsofbluesky

Am I the only person slightly bored of being sung at by YouTube? All the ads are some random lady singing about badly behaved dogs, or autism, or trauma, or your pelvic floor. It's weird and I need it to stop.

Pro tip for UK people....the insulation in your house is also designed to keep the heat OUT. Chill it overnight with the windows open, then in the morning shut everything up and keep the curtains closed, it will be gloomy but SO COOL!

Breakfast in the garden...

Breakfast in the garden...

Gardening people, I have a question. I have the centauria on the left, which we planted, very dark purple. The one on the right has popped up next to the first and is quite a different colour, this seems too coincidental to blame on birds but too much of a colour shift for genetic drift... 🌱

Given the binge watching of #chelseaflowershow I thought @gardenersworldmag.bsky.social might appreciate peak wisteria, peak geum and the first rose of the season! 🌱

Neighbours who we don't know apparently call us "the gardeners"...in this long row of quite bland new build houses can you tell which one is ours...😂🌱

I found a fun factoid video for the day all about the math of traffic! This one is going to stick like the headphone cable one (Basically there are way more ways for your headphones cables to BE tangled than there are for them to be untangled so...they're always tangled) youtube.com/shorts/-1Bv7...

Safe to say the geums are enjoying our soil... 🌱

Friday afternoon thoughts... 🧪

New paper alert! 🚨 Pleased to get this methods development paper out into the world, many thanks to all the amazing collaborators who helped along the way 🧪 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I am about to be around £200 down because, and I quote the guy who watched the CCTV footage here, some 'drunken teen decided to vent his impotence on the nearest object' and the nearest object happened to be my work bicycle. Sigh.

I love the fact that, as a UK academic, I cannot replace my dying laptop... No currently grant money New grant application won't allow a laptop to be included University won't pay for a laptop I don't want to spend £1k of my own money on a work item

Spring time morning walk #dogsky #dogsofbluesky