As someone in this picture I find it a little odd that @natureportfolio.nature.com chose this image to illustrate the point. We were very careful when choosing a slogan for our signs that it be scientificly defenceable. "Science says New Oil & Gas = Death" is a plain statement of fact 🧵

As part of my appearance in the @cosmicshambles.com Forest of Science and Culture @latitudefestival.bsky.social, I was interviewed by the @the-independent.com about lots and lots of things, including the role of #geoscience in combating #climatechange 🌍🧪⚒️ www.independent.co.uk/tv/culture/p...

A Stupid Idea: Why the UK university crisis needs something politically impossible substack.com/@kirstygrain...

The first STEMinar I attended truly changed my life, it was one of the most joyful experiences I've ever had in science. Thrilled to see the STEMinar is back!!

· #AcademicSky · #EduSky · #HigherEd · Contracts are making academics ‘intellectually homeless’ 📝 Min Bahadur Bista ⇢ @uniworldnews.bsky.social

Reminder to register for the LGBTQ+ STEMinar in November. Just a little over a month to submit a talk to the STEMinar! All details found here: sites.google.com/view/lgbtqst...

Maybe we need better people in academia. Instead of bullies.

Female academics have kids later (male academics, not so much), and if they have kids earlier, they face career penalties.

Watch out, Cell/Nature/Science!

Today, 23/6/2026, marks 10 years since the Brexit referendum. I remember that day so clearly, with racist graffiti appearing in my then-workplace and people emboldened to spout racism in the street. And this sorry state of affairs have steadily declined every day of that decade. 🇬🇧 deserves better.

A self reflective account by Dr Ghai about learning to feel belonged. Not very helpful of @sciencecareers.bsky.social to frame this as a life hack for minoritised people in academia. The lack of diversity & visibility in the academy is a real problem (I experience(d) this 🙋🏾‍♀️) and it needs to change!

Oof. This. 😬😬😬⚽️🫣

More than 26 000 migrants have died in the Mediterranean since 2014. "Non à l'indifférence" "Don't close your eyes" Orange human chain and boats for @sosmediterranee.fr

Evil. There’s a word for cultural erasure

Reform has been ordered to pay £40,000 of our costs and £140,000 to the Access for Justice Foundation in respect of our superb pro bono solicitors, Pallas. And it has been refused permission to appeal.

Moments later, the candidate on the right was rummaging through the candidate on the left.

Timely editorial on the worrying downturn of citation metrics 👇 Is this also a sign of journals losing the battle against bogus papers submitted through paper mills, and/or over-reliance of authors on GenAI to write the papars, both leading to papers rigorous science being overlooked?

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Rankings are rank. But if we are playing this game…

Buckets: the new way of measuring research funding in the UK. But no buckets for allocation and administering the funding.

New Labour

A new study in Nature Metabolism has evidence that glucosamine oral supplements can increase the speed of Alzheimer's progression. Primary source can be found at end of article: "Popular joint supplement glucosamine linked to faster Alzheimer’s progression" www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

Read and sign this open letter. #SaveSheffieldChemistry 🧪

I don't usually post about my day job, but the University of Sheffield is planing a restructure and compulsory staff redundancies within Chemistry. 20% of staff are under threat. You can sign an open letter opposing this decision here #SaveSheffieldChemistry savesheffieldchemistry.netlify.app

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Thermo Fisher now has a page up in response to our observations. They flatly deny that images were manipulated or fabricated while repeating that images were "optimized for presentation and clarity on the website", no lie, six times. www.thermofisher.com/us/en/home/l...

I grew up in a New Zealand that was proud about its ‘Clean & Green’ reputation. Well, they can strike that ‘Clean’ out now. A lesson to everyone about how the folks you elect into office and their negligence of basic infrastructure can literally trash a paradise beyond recognition.

🔬 Happy to share our new paper showing that fluorophore brightness open a new dimension in SMLM microscopy ! Thanks to all authors @laurent-le.bsky.social S. K. Sreenivas @emmanuelfort.bsky.social ! @ismolab.bsky.social @instlangevin.bsky.social @cnrs.fr rdcu.be/fmIeD doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Beyond time that we started seeing articles like this about the appalling state of Australia’s grant funding system……and peer review is just one problem that needs fixing. Australia’s erosion of peer review | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

“How come politicians give in to #burnout while teachers ‘n’ nurses crack on?” Well, friends, as one of the army of teachers who actually just cracked, and therefore are teachers no longer, I think I can explain this one… www.theguardian.com/education/20...

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We are profoundly saddened to share that our Honorary President, Maureen Duffy, has passed away. Maureen was extraordinary: a novelist, poet, playwright and critic of incredible range, and one of the founding figures of ALCS. Learn more about her legacy and impact: https://ow.ly/yHWs50Z52Ye

😬😬😬 “Australian management consultancy ANous, which promises to help universities "define the pathway forward for budget model change, has been picking up plenty of lucrative work in the struggling ÜK higher education sector this year.”

UK-based cell biologist? Interested in membrane trafficking? Want to find a conference? Looking for a job (PI, postdoc...)? Do link to www.ukmembranetraffic.com, where @jezcarlton.bsky.social and Chris Stefan (not here?) do sterling work

What could possibly go wrong. 😑

Lol. They had to exclude casual and zero hour contracts in order to show the bleeding obvious. Peak UK.

Beautiful article on self-reflection and how to be an effective, supportive research mentor 💚 www.science.org/content/arti...

In March, I visited North Ealing Primary School as part of @britsciassoc.bsky.social #BritishScienceWeek. I talked about all the cool things you get to do as a #geologist, including visiting (and abseiling into) volcanoes! 🌋 My message clearly stuck with at least one budding artist-geologist! 🙌🏾

I bought one of these with my first full time salary. Being a high capacity model, it could also play Advance Australia Fair and God Save the Queen It was pretty good for washing clothes too.

Just days after the Aus govt axed the Aus Economic Accelerator funding scheme ($800m) for commercialising research, it has announced a boost to the Medical Research Future Fund (which is exclusively for translational work). Am I the only one bemused at the likes of Monique Ryan saying ‘job done’?

We are very pleased to announce Prof. Paul Guichard and Dr. Virginie Hamel @centriolelab.bsky.social as joint winners of the RMS Award for Light Microscopy 🔬 👏 🏅 Huge congratulations to both! Read more about Paul and Virginie's achievements: www.rms.org.uk/resource/pro...

I feel attacked.

Really proud to had the opportunity to contribute to this fantastic work from @taylashakespeare.bsky.social @rajseehra.bsky.social and all the other authors that I cannot find on this platform. Amazing @ijayas.bsky.social !

There is so much truth in this article: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

🔬🔦In their Imaging spotlight, @taylashakespeare.bsky.social and @ijayas.bsky.social highlight their research dissecting receptor sorting in endosomes using the calibrated 3D ExM toolkit that they developed. focalplane.biologists.com/2026/04/15/i...

Now you can check out our paper highlights in our @focalplane.bsky.social blog post! We demonstrate the use of a calibrated ExM toolkit to visualise complex nanodomain architectures at membrane-bound organelles in the cell ▫️➡️ ⬜ 🔬 focalplane.biologists.com/2026/04/15/i...

Delighted to see our recent work on the use of self-assembling nanoscale calibrants for detecting errors in #ExpansionMicroscopy, particularly in visualising the biology of small organelles such as endosomes, featured in C&EN. cen.acs.org/analytical-c...

Delighted to see our recent work on the use of self-assembling nanoscale calibrants for detecting errors in #ExpansionMicroscopy, particularly in visualising the biology of small organelles such as endosomes, featured in C&EN. cen.acs.org/analytical-c...

How to be a science sleuth: Research integrity experts share their tips for spotting and reporting fraudulent papers Rupali Dabas writes @chemistryworld.com Featuring @smutclyde.bsky.social , @deevybee.bsky.social, Nick Wise, Jack Wilkinson, Anna Pendlebury, and me.

On this International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade, a reminder that universities need to go much deeper in 'acknowledging links' to the trade in enslaved Africans. What about what was LOST & continues to be lost? folukeafrica.com/universities...