I’m off to Vienna today for a #MedComms career workshop as part of the VBC #PhD symposium (training.vbc.ac.at/phd-program/...) 🤩Updates to follow… @vbcscitraining.bsky.social @maxperutzlabs.ac.at @imbavienna.bsky.social @gmivienna.bsky.social @impvienna.bsky.social

Decided it’s finally time for me to get around to reading “The Remains of the Day”.

If you don’t already follow @ourworldindata.org, do so now! Very rare to have a single account regularly post such insightful & interesting content 🤩 Check this for size: the disparity between what Americans actually die from vs media coverage of causes of death 🤯👇

It breaks my heart and blows my mind to think of how many thousands upon thousands of #pumpkin seeds I must have thrown away in my lifetime, little knowing that they make the most DELICIOUS snack with virtually zero effort 😊😋🎃

What’s the right length for a cover letter? 1 page? >1 page? Do they get read anyway? Curious as there seems to be a lot of variation in this. @ritastrack.bsky.social @katherine-brown.bsky.social @aemonten.bsky.social & any other editors, what’s your verdict? Thanks in advance!

🚨🚨🚨Project Director position open at @arcadiascience.com in California 🇺🇸, $150K+ to work on high dimensional phenotyping. Great opportunity in a cutting-edge institution🤩 👇

Really amazing initiative from @odedrechavi.bsky.social & Co at @qedscience.bsky.social: an AI tool to critically evaluate your work & get constructive feedback to help you assess/improve it. Read the whole 🧵fo details & website link 👏👍👇

Moving house is always a pain, but one silver lining is the opportunity to re-rack and re-classify your music collection 🤩…and be repeatedly reminded how many amazing albums there are that you haven’t listened to in years 🤣

'Now, it seems, right-wing populists on both sides of the Atlantic have decided that the fundamental problem isn’t the EU (although it’s striking how they all loathe it), but immigrants. Now it’s people like me that are the problem.' @tirscienceblog.bsky.social

New posting, and a very personal one this time: some reflections on spending the last 19 years of my life as an #immigrant, how that's enriched me beyond measure, and how targeting immigrants is not the solution to a society's problems. totalinternalreflectionblog.com/2025/10/10/o...

Again Bouie from the top rope

#COYS 🤩🏉 Club rugby is back 😊

Lovely to see David Stephens highlighted in 100 years of cell biologists at J. Cell Sci., alongside Linda Amos, Peter Medawar, Juan Bonifacino, and others journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

Hi, I’m Julie Cruse. I created AcademicAbuse.com – a dashboard of data, resources & tools to help survivors of academic abuse survive and safely speak out. (1/9 🧵) 🪜 🎓 📜 🍎 ♀️ 👩🏾🔬 👩🏼🔬 👩🏾🎓 #PhDSky #Blackademia #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky #MeToo #HigherEd #PhDChat #TimesUpHigherEd

Wonderful but unsurprising news: #Bluesky is trumping Twitter/X for the dissemination/discussion of scientific research 🥳🎉🍾 Let’s all keep it up! Since the scattering of the #ScienceTwitter community it’s great to feel things coalescing here 😊 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Friday night’s over, folks! Have a good weekend. Turnstile for tonight’s end credits 🤩 youtu.be/a95G2GzB3t0?...

This is wild…somehow I had never thought to join the dots to this particular permutation before. The wealth of neurological conditions in inbred dogs, vaccines hesitancy in humans, and vaccine/autism paranoia being extended from children to companion animals. 😂, 🤯, or 😭? I can’t decide 👇

@ourworldindata.org continues to be one of the best things not just on BlueSky, but on the internet (sign up for their data alerts!). Which of these transitions is the more profound: 1800-1850 candles to gas, or 1900-1950 gas to electricity? 🤩🤯👇

Fantastic 🧵with all the caveats you need to remember when confronted with #RNAseq hype trains 🤩👇

Hand on heart, I still regard this as one of the best - maybe THE BEST - #DnB mix I own. #JohnB 😍

Proof (and recognition) that you can genuinely have a revolutionary impact on science without necessarily following the academic career track 😊👏👏👏 Congratulations @richardsever.bsky.social !

"But to have only confidence is to become Macbeth*." @tirscienceblog.bsky.social is right, if for no other reason than the catastrophic cleaning bills network.febs.org/posts/doubtf...

Powerful, typically eloquent, and deeply troubling editorial from @berndpulverer.bsky.social ( @embopress.org ) on the ongoing attacks on #academics and #academia itself in the USA. 👇 www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

Latest cross-posting to the @febspress.bsky.social Network, on why the most important equilibrium in #science isn't chemical, but psychological 👇 network.febs.org/posts/doubtf...

'Like a species pushed to the edges of its habitat by an encroaching newcomer, parents can find respite only in the most inhospitable times of day, the moments when you’d rather be in bed, or relaxing. Or sleeping.' @tirscienceblog.bsky.social totalinternalreflectionblog.com/2025/08/22/a...

New posting! This one's about work and active #parenting, and how that tends to leave little time for other activities...like blogging 😅👇 totalinternalreflectionblog.com/2025/08/22/a...

Feels like an appropriate time to re-up this 👇 totalinternalreflectionblog.com/2022/08/05/w...

Well, this sucks. Now that the BBC has discontinued BBC Sounds outside the UK, I can no longer listen to BBC Radio 1 shows unless they’re live 😱😭 Have to find new ways of finding new music 🫤

Have just been explaining to 10yo son the difference between the “Beverly Hills Cop theme” (1984), Clock’s “Axel F” (1995), and the Crazy Frog “Axel F” (2005). I feel not just learned and slightly cool, but OLD 🤣🎸🎵

Fun fact: do you know what the 3rd University to be founded in England was after Oxford (1167) and Cambridge (1209)? The University of Northampton (1261)!🤩🤯 What’s remarkable though is not that it was dissolved a mere 4 years later…

Terradown + Nervosa + Cradle of Filth (!!) at #Colossaal in #Aschaffenburg last night. Always a privilege to see great bands in a smaller venue, especially one run by and for music fans 🤩🎸🤘

Question about the #JIF (@richardsever.bsky.social?): what’s a constructive and instructive response to arguments like “The JIF of this journal is too high/low, we should aim lower/higher”? Or, despite the skewed distribution of citations, is this actually a reasonable use of JIFs?

'Exactly what constitutes a “substantial contribution” is vague however, and very much down to an individual’s subjective judgement as to whether they feel their involvement meets a threshold for inclusion.' Aye, there's the rub, @tirscienceblog.bsky.social

New posting! This one's a #HowTo guide to #authorship on scientific publications, drawing heavily on #ICMJE criteria and #CRediT taxonomy. Hope it's helpful! As always, likes/comments/reposts very welcome😊👇 totalinternalreflectionblog.com/2025/06/13/c...

New posting! This one's a #HowTo guide to #authorship on scientific publications, drawing heavily on #ICMJE criteria and #CRediT taxonomy. Hope it's helpful! As always, likes/comments/reposts very welcome😊👇 totalinternalreflectionblog.com/2025/06/13/c...

Ok, so I’m behind most of 🇩🇪 & a large part of 🇬🇧 on this, but holy shit how good is Artemas??? Haven’t heard a talent like this since L’il Peep 🤩 youtu.be/kgLSwfq81K4?...

Super 🧵from @harmitmalik.bsky.social that’s a reminder of all the traits we should be encouraging not just in academia, but in an informed & enlightened society: curiosity, enthusiasm, compassion, kindness, duty, joy. Read & be inspired 👇

'While pharmaceutical companies, like Merck and Bayer, have become household names, rarely is there an understanding of the academic roots of a new drug or therapy: foundations that in most cases date back years or decades.' www.statnews.com/2025/06/06/u...

Today I learned that bamboo is actually a type of grass. Mind blown 🤯🤩

We'd love to hear from the #cellbio field in our community survey. Your feedback will help us improve our services and support for the entire scientific community. Complete our ~10mins survey: www.surveymonkey.com/r/39JJYKF

One of the best things about being a 🇬🇧 expat is that when it rains, you don’t get miserable - you just get NOSTALGIC 😂

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The latest from the vaults! The May 2025 cross-posting to the @febspress.bsky.social #FEBSNetwork now online, looking at the pros and cons of funding either people or projects.👇 network.febs.org/posts/fund-t...

Academic sociobiology with @tirscienceblog.bsky.social "Group leaders nowadays bear a huge individual responsibility for raising money. But what if it was departments, and not group leaders, that were the unit of selection?" totalinternalreflectionblog.com/2025/05/22/t...

Uffff, what might have been…😭😇🏉 Congratulations Bordeaux. #NORvBOR Saints’ll be back!

Another fantastic article from @virginiagewin.bsky.social in @nature.com documenting the wanton & wholesale destruction of the US academic science base, especially the incoming generation of #ECRs. Read&weep 👇😭

This👇should be a heads-up to every progressive and community-minded academic scientist out there. Skip the brands, skip the prestige, and ask yourself when you publish “Am I getting good service?”, because it’s the by/for community journals that do it best 😠

New posting! This one is about #research #funding, and whether the collective - and not the individual - should be the unit of selection. Some fond memories of my @mrclmb.bsky.social days while writing this 😊 Big thx for all likes/reposts/comments 👇 totalinternalreflectionblog.com/2025/05/22/t...

🚨🚨🚨 #PhD position available in @simonereber.bsky.social lab at @mpiib-berlin.mpg.de! World-class training to be had on #microtubule #cytoskeleton biology using #Xenopus & #microscopy readouts. 👇