In case anyone is wondering if Watson was really THAT bad, @lpachter.bsky.social compiled a list of quotes that are absolutely not for the faint of heart. liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...

My big advice for how to survive right now is to watch/read/listen to what makes you laugh You have to give yourself a chance to laugh

Hey, astronomers. Can you imagine astronomy research without ADS?!?!? No? So, have you filled out the ADS survey yet? Help archives help you! (Help archives keep funding!) docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Tonight, the Royal Society lit up in purple to mark #PurpleTuesday - a global movement and call to action to not only recognise the barriers people with disabilities face but also to share the incredible solutions that are out there.

Getting up at 5am for some quiet work time. 3-year old at 5:20 😐😐😐😐😐

Cosmologists! We have a faculty job going here in Oxford - happy to answer questions. Brief version is that this remains a great & collaborative place to do science and the students are superb. 🔭 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOP628/a...

#ald25 #AdaLovelaceDay 👩🏼‍🔬🧪#histsci

Travel with the babies… I can’t say I cherish the memories of sleep deprived nights followed by exhausting and long conference days. I could only make it work, as we could afford my mum tagging along, a huge privilege as she had to come all the way from Germany! 🧪🔭

I made a thing.

Jodrell Bank: From tracking meteors to discovering pulsars, this @unesco.org World Heritage Site has shaped radio astronomy for eight decades and inspired generations through science, culture, and the Bluedot Festival. @jodrellbank.bsky.social www.manchester.ac.uk/about/magazi...

Oh hello there!!! The printed copies of our report have arrived - and I am the chosen Laura to lug them across the country! So, come and join us in Edinburgh on the 22nd of October for our first @carersinstemm.bsky.social report launch and get your own copy! forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

Aha, it IS a supermoon! 6yr spotted moon yesterday and got very excited. Seems like he is already a better observational astronomer than me, which…checks.

You can also join one of the three report launch events where the team will be sharing their actionable recommendations to improve support for all academic carers. Please come and say hello to me if you’re at the Edinburgh event! 9/end🧵 Register👉: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

Conventional wisdom says motherhood should wait for tenure as before you land a permanent post, #academia is just not that family friendly🙁 @carersinstemm.bsky.social are calling for change and to celebrate their new report, a Saturday🧵on parenting & academia! 1/9 👩‍🔬🧪🔭⚛️ ℹ️: carersinstemm.co.uk

Edinburgh and surrounding areas, please join us in 3 weeks for our first report launch event! After presenting our survey findings, we have a great line-up of panelist, including the fantastic @astroroyalscot.bsky.social! Register via forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

We are pleased to announce the publication of our STEMM sector-wide survey The report highlights our findings & suggests recommendations. Now available to download here carersinstemm.co.uk Please share especially w/ institutions, funders & allies @laurawolz.bsky.social @carterlj.bsky.social

The #MaxPlanckPostdocProgram offers a guaranteed contract of at least 3 years, targeted mentoring, and career workshops. The call for applications is open now! 🚀 Take advantage of this opportunity and browse the job vacancies. www.mpg.de/en/max-planc...

Yet another study (Danish) has found no association between aluminum in childhood vaccines & 50 different health conditions, including autism, asthma & autoimmune diseases. In this study, they tracked 1 million kids over 21 years. 🧪🔗 en.ssi.dk/news/news/20...

If you're a trans or non-binary scientist, consider appearing on the podcast Assigned Scientist at Bachelor's, the only podcast dedicating to interviewing, and highlighting the research of, trans and non-binary scientists, cohosted by your truly!

Our new Faraday Discovery Fellowships Accelerated International Route provides a fast-track option for international mid-career researchers looking to relocate to the UK, providing up to £4m over a five-year period. Find out more: #RSGrants royalsociety.org/grants/farad...

Can my 6 year old spell scientist? No. Have I held a beaker (?) in the past 15 years? Also no. But at least in his world, this is what a scientist looks like. 👩 🧪🔭

Today is International Non-Binary People's Day and the first day of Non-Binary Awareness Week The day was first celebrated in 2012, started by Katje van Loon. The date was chosen for being precisely midway between International Women's Day and International Men's Day.

My brilliant postdoc Steve Cunnington (technically now a Stephen Hawking Fellow at Portsmouth but Im not quite ready to let go…) has won a well deserved prize this week and looked very professional receiving it!

Congratulations to our collleague Steve Cunnington on his Early Career Award and to the European Pulsar Timing Array, of which we are part, on their Group Achievement Award from the @royalastrosoc.bsky.social this week ras.ac.uk/news-and-pre...

The thing I have been putting off for 3 months has taken me less than an hour to do 😑

US Friends! The Green Bank Observatory (GBO) is a vital instrument in the global #RadioAstronomy network (incl. pulsar science), and it is under threat with the proposed funding cuts. Please take action to keep it open: www.gogreenbankobservatory.org/take-action/ Pls share! 🔭📡🧪 📸 GBO/AUI/NSF

Very sorry to report that Sir Francis Graham-Smith, second Director of the observatory and one of the founders of radio astronomy, has passed away aged 102. He was active in research until very recently. We will miss him greatly. www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/g...

Mario Santos on doing cosmology with the SKA doing HI intensity mapping. SKA doesn’t have short enough baselines, so to make it work, need to use mid as a single dish. Already getting results with MeerKLASS. #skao2025 🔭📡

@carersinstemm.bsky.social looking forward to this UKRI FLF session on academic travel and caregiving... very pertinent for me at present!

We’re excited to have @laurawolz.bsky.social and @carterlj.bsky.social from @carersinstemm.bsky.social with us today to tell us about their important work advocating for equitable and accessible support for those balancing caring and career. #LINEsymposium2025

We're excited to share that 1 of our 3Lauras has been shortlisted as a finalist for @britsocimm.bsky.social's "Diversity & Inclusion Award" this year #BSIImmunologyAwards So great to see a fantastic line-up of initiatives seeking to improve inclusion in STEMM shortlisted for this 👏

Last week the 3Lauras drafted a report highlighting findings from our sector-wide survey of UK #researchers balancing caregiving & travel. The data have specifically informed a set of recommendations for the sector, to improve inclusivity & improve policy To read the report WATCH THIS SPACE! 📝

Don't forget you can see our Bicentennial Quilts on display together for the first time this Bank Holiday weekend! They are part of Jodrell Bank's new summer exhibition 'A Stitch in Space Time', which also features pieces from innovative spacewear and textiles artist, Anurita Chandola. ⤵️

Nature has launched its seventh global survey of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) doctoral students, which will probe graduate students’ views about their goals and challenges, and their experiences of their studies so far. Survey runs until June 11. #Academicsky 🧪

Manchester 🔭🧪 folks! Our JBCA podcast ‘Jodcast’ is doing a LIVE episode at Pint of Science on 21st May at 6:30pm, at BAB NQ - there'll be talks about the early universe, exoplanets, and alien radio signals & a panel Q&A and quiz. tickets are £5 pintofscience.co.uk/event/jodcas...

Choose Science. Choose Europe. A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open. With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond. Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF

I wore my ‘cats against catcalls’ tshirt to work today and not a single person commented. I am officially home. @uniofmanchester.bsky.social

Trans women are women.

NAM abstract submission closes *today* don't forget to submit yours and join us in beautiful Durham in July! 🔭 #astrosci

We caught the partial eclipse today! Grateful to @astroroyalscot.bsky.social posts, I would have totally missed it otherwise. I dutifully alarmed the school class whatsapp, but Im afraid I just caused utter confusion. 🔭

I am looking for a PhD student to work on beyond 2-point statistics for galaxy clustering & weak lensing as part of my Grant "Probing cosmic large-scale structure beyond the average" Details: uni-bielefeld.hr4you.org/job/view/417... Please share in your networks and encourage candidates to apply!

The news has been more than a bit grim of late, so hooray for @carbonbrief.org providing some genuine and really meaningful **good** news: the UK's carbon emissions in 2024 were the lowest since 1872, because demand for fossil fuels just keeps decreasing. www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-...

Vera Rubin has been selected to be featured on the back of a quarter. She is the first astronomer to be honored this way. Read about her research on the Andromeda galaxy and how it led to the discovery of dark matter in this article written by Rubin herself. doi.org/10.1063/1.24... 🔭 #WomenInStem

A recent episode of BBC Inside Science featured discussions with two UoM experts. 🦠 Emeritus Professor Matthew Cobb explored the emerging risks of biotechnology. ☄️Professor Tim O'Brien discussed an asteroid which might be on a collision course with Earth in 2032. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

On International Day of Women and Girls in Science, a reminder to not close your eyes and turn away from what is happening in the US right now. Fascism is an assault on scientific integrity, knowledge, and innovation. www.chron.com/news/space/a...

Thank you to the @universityofexeter.bsky.social Department of Physics & Astronomy’s Astrophysics Group for hosting @carterlj.bsky.social for an afternoon to discuss how we can better support academic carers who travel and preliminary results from our Carers in STEMM #survey

I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service. “Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.

Always 💖 Don't make me tap the sign