For any STEM ECRs on Bluesky, the dementia researcher collection is a good place to find lots of perspectives and opinions on all sorts of different aspects of academic life... 🧪

Just spent seven hours dealing with reviewers comments which ranged roughly from R1 'you have some typos' to R4 'i hate everything you've done'...

It's got to the stage where, if a PhD student asks me if they should do an academic post doc in the UK, I have to tell them that they need to not care about money. If they don't care about money then go for it, if they do then here's an ad for bus drivers I saw today which is paid more... 🧪

We've got a lovely local fancy collectible bear shop and I've become slightly obsessed with this haunted creation for the bargain price of £200... witneybears.co.uk/collections/...

This is one for @karenkilgariff.bsky.social

reposting for the garden folks who I suspect are all over this anyway but it can't hurt! 🌱

Every January man... 😭😭😭😭 youtu.be/K_1tNbud-8g?...

Wonder how many of these will make it onto @ifbookspod.bsky.social ....

Family have gone so this is my plan for the evening...

Happy Christmas to all who celebrate it!

I have become the person who sends the paper to the journal two days before Christmas 🧪

I genuinely enjoying wrapping presents...

MY EYES HURT...

Wow this is a seriously serious supplementary figure from @cellpress.bsky.social today. Panels A through UU. I get that Cell likes to minimize the number of supplementary figures. But is this really what is happening here? www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Oxford preclinical stroke crew out for our Christmas lunch, nice to get the gang together because we all work in different spaces!

I have done this! I emailed someone I only vaguely knew after they published a paper that was so beautifully written and simple. And THEN... Karma came round. A student came and found me the other day and said 'I just found your paper and I think it's just excellent' 😍

Its that time of year again... youtu.be/ihQuiyV-lXU?...

Where I work is sometimes very pretty, especially on a sunny winter morning when all the students have gone... #oxford

The gym in an academic town in mid-December is just the loveliest, quietest place....

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#wrapped is here so its time to judge the weird crap I listen to for a total of about 52k hours apparently... @myfavoritemurder.bsky.social @michaelhobbes.bsky.social @lpotl.bsky.social @ifbookspod.bsky.social @wonderymedia.bsky.social

whenever I start typing 'pubmed' into my main search bar, an old link appears and I instantly click on it because it takes me straight to pubmed but the contents always make me slightly sad...

It's getting harder and harder to get back on the fellowship writing horse....

Lovely team in Edinburgh for anyone on the hunt for a PhD 🧪

Currently reading and commenting on my students' thesis and I always think it's nice to put positive comments in as well as critiques. So this image got an enthusiastic note that said 'this is SUCH pretty staining!' because it is! 🧪

Unnecessary anxiety going on this end because I have to give a small departmental talk in front of actual experts tomorrow... #impostorsyndrome

Here are my top 10 dogs carrying big sticks!

A combo of neutral evil, chaotic evil and chaotic good depending on where I am. Bedroom? Neutral evil. Lone dining? Chaotic good. Bus? Chaotic evil.

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For anyone who needs to mindlessly tune out to something wonderful right now, Frog and Toad have a lovely home you can just bliss out watching... youtube.com/shorts/gpKmY...

I have a scratchy throat and in the interests of myself and everyone who works near me I have chosen to spend the entire day in bed reading a book and trying to make it go away. If you can, stay home when you're sick.

#cloudflare be fuckin' with everyone's day today

My open plan office desk sits immediately below the main door to the building which means now the temp has dropped in the UK the cold air just comes in and drops on us whenever anyone comes in the building. Which is approximately every seven seconds. #architecture

Some thoughts for the science feed about how we pitch our ideas as junior and senior scientists and how fields evolve and change because of this 🧪

I don't have kids but I've got plenty of books and plenty of friends with kids so I've circulated this to everyone I know...

Currently experiencing the less than enjoyable task of having to repeatedly email undergrads who are already reaching out for summer projects by saying over and over 'I'm sorry, I don't know if I'll be employed next year'

Artist Hiro Yamagata made 27 "art cars" and I got to see one today and it was glorious!

Two days late but Alan Carr. What a legend.

I'm swearing off social media until I've seen the final of celebrity traitors which I didn't watch live so I'll catch y'all in a couple of days....

Oh hey, I have 1k followers! How exciting and also tragic that this excites me. Hello all. Happy Friday eve!

Great. This can only go well. 🧪 news.stanford.edu/stories/2025...

The problem with being introverted is that there is no polite way of saying "I love you but I'm tired of being with you right now."

I have a supremely lazy hound who is not fussed in any way by the fireworks but my thoughts go out to anyone with an anxious puppo tonight #dogsky

Science people! 🧪 I need help deciphering this Q from a local occupational health form.....the link between the beginning and the end is eluding me: "Will the individual undertake welding as part of of their duties? There may also be the need to consider vaccination in some specific circumstances."

Restringing for the first time in many many years... #hobbies #worklifebalance

nothing sharpens your skills as a researcher like being shoved in front of eight presenters working on a vast array of topics that are significantly removed from your own field of research and being told it is your job to ask them questions for six minutes with no backup

Being old school and watching The Matrix and the downfall started with AI... #itscoming

Best spam science email opener yet... "I have seen in many articles that you have conducted a lot of scientific research on biological life" 🧪

Reposting this because it's quality... #halloween #dogsky

I'm kind of over people who write ENORMOUS essays on linkedin. I'm basically there for jobs and networking, not your life story or all of your opinions on Ukraine or feminism. Don't get me wrong, I am there for all your opinions, just not on that platform...