Well, good deed of the day accomplished. Found a chunky black moth trapped in my office. I managed to coax him outside to enjoy the lovely Autumn day here in London. Maybe I'm overly sentimental, but it was such a nice feeling watching him break free. 🖤🦋🍂☀️

I came out to have a good time and I'm honestly feeling so attacked right now. Seriously though, I'm doing my final analysis after collating ~1300 visual measurements and processings/analysing ~500 MRI scans! 🥴😵‍💫⚛️🧑‍🔬🧠🩻📚🧪 #PhD #PhDThesis #Dissertation #Science One day, I'll be done. 🥲😅

It’s #Caturday! Here are my evil little babies. 🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛ A rare moment when Hermes and Hades are tolerating one another.

This is another form of ID the UK govt is proposing, with no information about what data will be logged, where it will be stored, or how this is going to 'tackle immigration'. As an immigrant, I've always had to prove my status when applying for jobs by showing govt documents. This is unnecessary.

In London, hate will never win.

Last week, I was off on holiday exploring Germany and Belgium by train! Now, I'm back to analyses and thesis writing. I'm already missing Oktoberfest 🍻 and Belgian waffles with speculoos 🧇 ! #PhD #PhDthesis #Science #Holiday #Belgium #Germany

On Sunday August 28, 2005, I woke up in my dorm room as a freshman at Loyola University, expecting to have a relaxing day before the start of classes. Instead, I found that #HurricaneKatrina had turned into a Category 5 storm and there was a mandatory evacuation in #NewOrleans. #Katrina20 1/7

A few months ago, we started putting blankets on our bed in an attempt to protect our bedding from being shredded by our cats (the main offender is Hades). Here are photos from today where Hades has decided to thwart the rules. This is why we can't have nice things, Hades. #blackcats #cats

What a lovely Friday. I'm alone in the office, but I've been having meetings with MSc students 👩‍💻, transferring imaging data for other students 🧠, coding ⌨️, and I'm nearly finished with my data collection so that I can complete my final analysis in my PhD ⚛️🧑‍🔬! #PhD #ThesisWriting #Research #MRI 🧪

A dance party is happening in the park near my office, I'm currently coding while singing 'And the haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hate...' I need to code this way more often! #thesiswriting #PhD #science #MRI 😂🧑‍🔬⚛️🧠📚🧪

This is very important: "This guidance, were it to become legally enshrined, would rob citizens, trans and otherwise, of the freedom to choose whom they associate with and to recognise others for who they truly are." #LGBTQIA #TransRights #LGBwiththeT #LGBT www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Hello, I'm a MRI physicist in a film involving medicine. 🧪 I put patients into MRI machines without giving them a risk assessment for metal fragments or implants. I then proceed to switch on the magnet while a metal object dramatically flies out of the patient's body. #BadScience #MagnetIsAlwaysOn

I'm sooooo here for this. One of my favourite American pastimes from when I was a teenager: Binge-watching Law & Order. I can't hear that music without feeling nostalgia. #Law&Order #America #Nostalgia #Dance

There is a singalong in a park just by my office. They just finished belting out 'Let It Go.' I feel like it is a message from the gods to stop adding analyses to my thesis that I'm trying to finish by October. 😂☃️🧠⚛️🧑‍🔬 #science #phd #mri #neuroimaging #thesis

I don't want to be the person my dog thinks I am; I want to be the person ChatGPT thinks I am. 🧪👩‍💻📚 #confidence #LLM #ChatGPT #science #phd #impostersyndrome

I discussed on one of my podcast episodes how women have commonly been relegated to the boring, repetitive work in science, but the tedious tasks are also where discoveries often happen. creators.spotify.com/pod/show/inf... Transcript: www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/u...

Science isn't always fun and games (and p-values < 0.05). It is also pure drudgery sometimes. I'm currently looking up files by hand and writing down visual acuity (vision) measurements into a spreadsheet. I think I'll have 2000+ entries by the time I'm done. 😭 Lots of ☕ needed. 🧪 #science #PhD

Books are dangerous because sometimes you're reading and it's 11pm and it's fine and you keep reading and then it's 2:30am and it's not fine, not fine at all, you really screwed up, and tomorrow is going to be a complete disaster 🫠

Each and every day! 💪🧑‍🔬

Science in the sun! ☀️ I have an iced latte (with coconut milk, so I'm calling it a tropical coffee 🥥), and I am back to making corrections on a paper draft that I'm hoping to send to co-authors soon(ish). Here's hoping the Bloomsbury office stays below 30 degrees today! 🔥 🧑‍🔬⚛️🧠🧲🧪 #MRI #Science #Summer

🚨 Please sign this petition on enshrining the right of adults to transition using the NHS! As we know, rights can be eroded if we don't speak out and fight for them. It is important to keep up the momentum and pressure on MPs that trans people deserve to live with dignity in Britain. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ #LGBwiththeT

Happy Pride, London! Currently with this guy @noctesatticae.com and sporting some festive nails! 🌈❤️💅🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️⚧️ #lgbt #lgbtqia #pride2025 #londonpride

This is important! 🚨 Progress is difficult when negative results can't be published. In astro, we got around this by using neg results as a method of determining upper limits, e.g. for the amount of gas in a planetary atmosphere. In MR physics and biomedicine, this doesn't seem to be possible. 🧠⚛️🧑‍🔬🧪

Recently, many people have commented on how hard it must be to simultaneously finish analyses, write my PhD thesis, and apply for fellowships/grants/jobs. It is hard. But it is also nice to be validated by other scientists, particularly those at a higher level. Thank you for the empathy. ❤️🧠⚛️🧑‍🔬🧪

Calling all LGBTQIA+ scientists! 📣 Pride in STEM breakfast this Saturday just before the festivities kick off for Pride in London! #LGBT #LGBTQIA #PrideInLondon #PrideInSTEM #BiInSci

With 38 hrs to go to the EHRC consultation deadline I'm seeing posts from people feeling bad they're too stressed to engage. The GLP⬇️has removed all but the last step, a general comment box. This is a far easier task. I hope it helps those who want to, to get their voice heard without too much pain.

I finally responded to the EHRC Code of Practice consultation; it took me ~5 hours 😱 but I'm done! Even if you have 10-30 mins, check out what the EHRC is proposing and have a say. The consultation shocked me and I was glad I could write down how/why the Code is bad for trans and cis people. 💻🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Finished a paper draft this morning! 🥲 Merely 6000 words. 😱 Now, I'm back working on my final project of the PhD in Medical Imaging (MRI+brains). I can't believe 3 years is passing by so quickly! 😅🧠⚛️🧑‍🔬🩻📚🧪

#ICYMI Happy summer solstice! 🌞 🌍 This year's solstice happened at exactly 04:42 CEST on 21 June, the moment the Sun reached its northernmost point in the sky. Viewed from space, these images capture a full year of shifting light and shadow, from one June solstice to the next 🧪🔭

I expect that consumer-facing AI programs will continue to improve and they may become much more useful tools for everyday life in the future. But I think it was a disastrous mistake that today’s models were taught to be convincing before they were taught to be right.

Now they’ve added ‘perceived’ to the article. Again, so worrying. If they can do it to a single group of people, they can do it to other groups of people. What other rights will be labelled as ‘perceived’ so it is easier to take them away?

This is one of the cruelest things I have ever read. So…trans people should accept they have reduced rights because they never had the rights in the first place and were ‘mistaken’? Then why did the UK government warn LGBT travellers about the North Carolina bathroom ban in 2016?

I’m flying out of Heathrow today for my 20 year high school reunion. I’ll be visiting my parents and helping with house renovations. It is hard to express how conflicted I feel about travelling to the US at the moment.

Hello cisgender women! Please take a look at #NotInOurName. The rights of trans people to live a free life with dignity are currently at risk. Women's rights and trans rights are NOT at odds. True feminism is inclusive and it is time for us to stand up in support of our trans sisters and brothers.

You know it is true love when he sends you coding memes. #python #pip #science

Me, in my office, on a bank holiday. ⚛️🧠🩻🧑‍🔬🧪

Every week at the moment I think I'm the tiredest I've ever been and then somehow the next week unlocks a new level of exhaustion.

To those who need to hear this today: I often feel stuck between two frightening countries, with a sense of isolation and panic. I don't know what to focus on. I came across this quote and felt a little better. Take a breath; rejoin when you can, so others can breathe. #LGBT #LGBwiththeT #UK #USA

Final day of the #ISMRM2025 MiniHub in Lille! Currently having fun playing MR Artefacts Game Show! Just saw some susceptibility artefacts accidentally caused by MR-safe microchips implanted in mice (large dark areas in the image). Difficult to image the brain when you can't see it! 😱 🐀🧠⚛️ #MRI

Day 3 of the ISMRM MiniHub! I've been learning about #neurofluid imaging. Hoping to look into this more in children with hydrocephalus (due to brain tumours), which causes effects to white matter. It may be important to understand how CSF flow is disrupted for these patients. #MRI #ISMRM2025

At the #ISMRM2025 MiniHub, we watched the session on 'What Does a Radiologist Actually Do?' and it was amazing! Thank you so much to the speakers! As someone who is on their 2nd career, finishing my PhD in September and trying to find my path as an Imaging Scientist, this was very useful! #MRI

Interested in #MRI ? Why not Help grow @ismrm.org following on @bsky.app ? Give it a go! #MRIisGreat #ISMRM2025 #ISMRM25

Day 2 of ISMRM Mini-Hub in Lille! Glorious weather in France as well! 🧠⚛️🧑‍🔬🩻 @ismrm.bsky.social

In lovely Lille for the ISMRM 2025 Mini-Hub (@ismrm.bsky.social)! Not quite as tropical as the main meeting in Honolulu, but looking forward to a week of MRI research! My poster #4806 is being presented in both locations - please take a look and happy to have a chat! 🧠⚛️🧑‍🔬 #mri #science #phd #academia

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If you see this, post the most recent photo of yourself from your camera roll. No cheating! Last photo of me was from my 38th birthday. I somehow managed to find a cocktail in the tallest glass in all of Bloomsbury. And I didn’t break it!

I’ve been on a letter writing spree to show my support for the trans* community, expressing my worry about how the recent UK Supreme Court ruling will impact the lives of trans, non-binary, intersex and gender non-conforming people. Sent them all today, just in time for @transhistoryweek.com.

I'm not the most efficient person at coding, but I do try to make notes for myself as I go along. My mind is a sieve. It always amuses me when I find notes that I completely forgot making. Here is one I just came across in a bash script. Does anyone else do this, or is it just me? 🧠⚛️🧑‍🔬🩻🧪

"We are non-trans feminist academics and educators. We write in support of trans rights, trans wellbeing and trans inclusion....The Supreme Court ruling is not a victory for feminism; it is a victory for patriarchy....This ruling does not speak for us." docs.google.com/document/u/0...

If you are free and in London next Tuesday evening, come listen to some truly phenomenal speakers (and me) on diversity in science communication! And it's free! www.ucl.ac.uk/sts/events/2...