One of my favourite things about being a scientist is the ability to ask questions, and the comfort of knowing I don't have all of the answers. 1/4 🧑‍🔬⚛️🧠🩻✨🔭🧲🧪

Starting to feel like a pin cushion after all of my tests and vaccinations to start my new postdoc! TB negative (x2) and chicken pox immune! 🏥💉💉😷💉🐥

I've been quiet this past month because my thesis has turned into quite the hill to climb. But I'm still steadily chipping away at it! T-minus 3 weeks to go before we set off to Toronto! 🧠⚛️🧑‍🔬🩻🧑‍💻🧪 #PhDLife #PhDThesis #Academia #MedicalPhysics

I asked ChatGPT to make a cartoon of me at work based on our past conversations. First, it made a picture of a man (because only men can be scientists?). Then, after describing what I looked like, it made this. Where do I find a little brain friend to sit on my shoulder?! 🧑‍🔬🧲🧠⚛️🧪

Happy to announce I accepted a #postdoc at SickKids Hospital in Toronto for Spring 2026! I'll be continuing my work on paediatric brain tumours (MRI). Things feel more real now that we've booked our flights (including for our cats) and sold our flat! 😱⚛️🧲🧠🧑‍🔬🧪🎉 Now...I must finish my thesis! 😅 #PhD

My husband shrank his jumper in the washing machine....so now I have a new jumper! Best day. 😂

Just as I get back to work to have a break from socialising, I catch whatever lurgy has been plaguing London for the past few months. 🫠🤧 Come on, this data isn't going to analyse itself! 😅😭

It has been a lovely Christmas and New Year, but I've been travelling and attending so many social events that I'm now looking forward to going back to work on Monday so I can have a break from socialising. 😅😵‍💫🧑‍🔬🧑‍💻🧪 #introvert #introvertproblems

Nearly finished my thesis, submitted another paper, had some postdoc interviews in various countries, and even got a job offer...... I've accepted the offer, but not ready to announce the postdoc just yet until I have a few more details sorted. Soon! 🤫⚛️🧠🩻🧲🧑‍🔬🧪 (But we will be moving in 2026! 🤞)

Nebula The second pic is the night of the Blood Moon. High cloud created an intriguing and unique scene. This night turned into something quite special - it turned into my first book! - #BloodMoon #Eclipse, #NewZealand - "Look with your eyes. See with your Soul." #EastCoastKin #FullMoon #BestOf

Happy Solstice everyone! Here is to the longest night of the year! ✨🌚🌃

Okay, so it was an instant desk rejection. 😅 But within a week, I submitted it somewhere else. They are now 'assigning for review'. Hopefully, we'll have better luck this time! Come on Paper #3! 🧑‍🔬🧲⚛️🧠🩻🧪

So these two creatures managed to fish a cookie out of a box, lick the cookie, decide they didn't like the cookie, and then leave it on the counter for us to discover this morning. What weird little guys. #cats #blackcats

Io Saturnalia to all who celebrate! If you don't know how to celebrate, I wrote a blog post five years ago about how the holiday was celebrated in ancient Rome for your enjoyment. talesoftimesforgotten.com/2020/12/18/h...

It certainly feels like a dark and stormy winter day in London. A gothic Christmas. 🦇🎄⛈️

TFW you teach an undergraduate how to use SSH. 😂⚛️🧑‍🔬🧠🩻🧲🧪

Badenoch then says she was ‘traumatised’ by having to wear a mask during COVID. The lack of knowledge and care of public health never ceases to amaze me. If you are feeling unwell and have to travel or go to work, then it takes little effort to pop on a mask. 😷

It’s #Caturday! Hermes and Hades are mad because we decorated the flat for Christmas. They hid on their favourite top shelf. 🎄🌲⛄️❄️☃️🎅🤦‍♀️🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛ #blackcats #cat #london

Forgot the title of Blade Runner, so I proceeded to describe the film as ‘Oh the one with Han Solo where it rains all the time and he shacks up with the robot in the end.’ 😅🤦‍♀️ My husband laughed for a solid minute and then described me as ‘Malcolm Tucker trying to think of the name for Star Wars.’

We don’t talk about this enough in academia, but I had a desk rejection for the paper I submitted a couple of weeks ago. 😓 So, I’ve resubmitted paper #3 of my PhD to a journal with (hopefully) a better fit! 🤞

The December full moon (sometimes called the Cold Moon) was looking spectacular last night in Bloomsbury. I managed snap this photo just before I left my office. #london #moon #fullmoon 🌕

Don’t forget to look up

won't you celebrate with me.

Submitted Paper #3 of my PhD! Finger's crossed it doesn't have an instant desk rejection. 😅 #PhD #PhDLife #Science #MRI 🧑‍🔬🧲⚛️🧠🩻🧪

I've entered that point where I'm frantically trying to submit a paper, finish an analysis, write my PhD thesis, teach undergrads, and apply for jobs. Okay, I've been at this point since Summer, but eventually (I'm told) I will need to finish my thesis and submit. 😂😅🥲 Anyone else feel manic? 🧑‍🔬⚛️🧠🩻🧲🧪

Just in case you are still in a spooky mood....⚛️🧑‍🔬🧠🩻🧪

Right, I have final comments from my co-authors on an ISMRM @ismrm.bsky.social abstract and a pumpkin spice latte. 🎃☕🍂 Everything I need. Let's do this abstract submission! 🧑‍🔬🧠⚛️🩻👩‍💻🧪 #MRI #Conference #Science #Autumn #ISMRM

Me, admiring some linear mixed effects models with p-values <0.05. ⚛️🧠🩻🧑‍🔬🧪

Sooo pretty! 🍂 Autumn is my favourite season. ❤️

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My desktop kept crashing my code today, and I lost the morning to upgrading the os with no luck. However, this forced me to read over a manuscript I've been avoiding, and I'm now nearly at a point where I can send Draft 2 to co-authors! This is my lesson: Stop avoiding things I don't want to do. 😅🧠🧪

It's a new academic year! I'm back running academic tutorials on the intro to quantum mechanics and astrophysics for 1st year medical physics students. You know what that means...here come the memes! One day, I'll make a student laugh. One glorious day! 🧑‍🔬⚛️🧠🥲🧪 #Physics #Academia #Science

What a day. Had 5 meetings, met some new students for potential projects, finally got a p-value of 0.001(!!!) in an analysis, and now I get to lie in a MRI scanner and watch a film for an hour. Science! #MRI #PhD #Research #PerfectDay #IShouldBeWritingMyThesis 🧑‍🔬🧠⚛️🩻🧪

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