'Our research has found that patchy implementation of family-friendly policies and unsympathetic managerial cultures push women to work as if nothing has changed. They are required to give birth to the “ideal academic baby”: a child who never disrupts grant deadlines, seminars or student emails.'

Less than 3 weeks until our final report launch event 9th Dec. (London) 10am We will be welcoming a fantastic panel: 🌟Jo O'Leary (UKRI) 🌟Sara Mole (UCL) 🌟John Tregoning (Imperial) 🌟Katie Perry (Daphne Trust) 🌟Jennie Evans (BSI) 🌟Ilaria Meazzini (RSC) Register here: www.carersinstemm.co.uk

Very insightful launch of @carersinstemm.bsky.social today at @manchester.ac.uk! Understanding the barriers associated with caring responsibilities is something I'm really passionate about and its amazing to see Carers in STEMM quantifying and advocating for carers in academia.

To hear more about the Carers in STEMM survey - the hidden barrier to parents and carers - there is still time to join us Manchester: 13th November London: 9th December (Both hybrid) Spread the word!

Congrats to @carersinstemm.bsky.social for a successful and insightful launch event in Edinburgh's grand Playfair library. They're calling for systemic changes to funding, policy & culture to support carers in STEM. Read more 👉 carersinstemm.co.uk & join future events in London/Manchester/Online 👩‍🔬🧪

Today marked the 1st of our “Roadshow” events to formally launch our survey report in the stunning venue of the Playfair library - Edinburgh A huge thank you to panellists @pallettlab.bsky.social @astroroyalscot.bsky.social Wei-Yu Lu (father, MRC fellow) Janette Wark (EPSRC) Adrian Lu (GCU) 👏👏👏

Love this, I met @michellemonje.bsky.social after my first child years ago. I was feeling anxious about my science future, Michelle was very encouraging. What an incredible role model @carersinstemm.bsky.social Now I have 3 children and my first grant

I had the opportunity to travel to Australia as part of a Fellowship - as this was for 6 weeks my whole family came. This was my daughter waiting to make sure her suitcase had made it to the plane ✈️ 🥰 #stemm #muminscience

I'm impressed how people combine scientific careers and parenthood and I love seeing babies at conferences. However, what I would love even more if everyone had access to appropriate parental leave. This is me accepting my first EiC job, couple hours old newborn in tow, starting 6mo mat leave.

My husband and I are both in STEMM so to help us with the guilt of travelling for conferences we made it into a cute tradition of being walked to the bus/train by our cute lil helper (who is 4 TODAY 🥹🥹)

This was me with my mom going for an @EMBO young investigator award interview 2 weeks after my son was born. Thank goodness for moms and a quick turn around at the passport office 😆

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! 🧪🔭

By way of a celebration of the juggle many carers & parents go through to make travel for research happen, why not share your “STEMM life with dependants” photos 😃 🧪 Let’s amplify, discuss, normalise the balancing act, & celebrate the superpowers often required ⚖️ We ❤️ seeing them! #STEMMCarers

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...

We LOVE seeing this!!!! 👏👏👏👏👏 Scientist, Wonder Woman, Carer ❤️

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...

So today I celebrate the work of @carersinstemm.bsky.social who are calling for systemic changes to funding, policy & culture to support carers in STEM. Funders & employers must listen if they recognise and value the importance of a diverse workforce.👩‍🔬🧪 Read their report 👉 carersinstemm.co.uk 8/9🧵

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

Do we have any contacts at a Northern Ireland university? 🙏🧪

🚨We're going on tour!🚨 Join us for 1 of our "Report Launch" networking events: Edinburgh, Manchester, London, or the comfort of your own home! We will present the 'Carers in STEMM' survey findings, host panel discussions w/ policy markers, EDI advocates & fellow parents/carers. Spread the word!📣

👶✈️ Balancing caregiving and academic travel? Join Dr. Laura Pallett for "The Dual Demands of Academic Travel and Caregiving" 🗓️ Sept 25 | 🕒15:00 CEST 🔗https://tinyurl.com/yefis2025-ia2 Hosted by the Improving Academia group of yEFIS

1/3rd of the 3Lauras presented last week at the "New UCL Academics Group" - this new network is seeking to improve culture for the next generation of the scientists we are training, so was great to share of our work around caring responsibilities & travel opportunities. Thanks for the invite!

Fantastic to have 1 of the 3Lauras shortlisted for such a fantastic @britsocimm.bsky.social Award. Congratulations to the winners 👏

🚹 Report: #PaternityLeave policies vary in Europe but the UK's offer is "one of the worst in the developed world". 🇬🇧 2 weeks at £187.18 a week 🇪🇸 6 weeks with full pay 🇩🇰 24 weeks at full pay 🇸🇪 10 months: First 390 days up to SEK47,750 (£3,590) a month. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

For those interested on the caregiving & science initiative, follow @carersinstemm.bsky.social and read their article about conference travel (very pertinent!!) www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The news is out now 😉 We are proud to say we, the 3Lauras, have been awarded the @ukri.org “Advancing Culture” 2025 Impact Award for our work trying to improve caring provisions at conferences, grant funding & policy here at Carers in STEMM 👏 The recognition is fantastic - 🙏 !

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

Great to feature among the other fantastic projects at the Annual #FLFConference

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

🚅2 of the 3Lauras will be on tour next week🚅 We will be attending the @londoninfectionecr.bsky.social ECR-focussed LINE symposium to share some insights into our sector-wide survey. Looking forward to it. If you are attending and want to know more, come say hi 👋

2 of the 3Lauras will be attending this years @ukri.org FLF Annual Conference next week in Brighton to share some headline findings of our sector-wide #survey during what we hope will be an engaged & enlightening panel discussion. If you want to find out more, grab us for a coffee :-)

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! 📝

Dr. Laura Pallett from University College London 🇬🇧 will be presenting her work on "Tissue-resident memory CD8+ T cells: master deciphers of the liver microenvironment". Check her recent study on this topic: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36697826/ @pallettlab.bsky.social #EMBOBarrierTissues

🎓 PhD in immunology (or related field) in Europe? Help yEFIS map PhD requirements across institutions! 🧪 For current PhD students & grads (last 3 yrs) 📝 Please share your experience in our short survey: 🔗 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #PhD #Immunology #yEFIS #Academia #PhDLife #Survey

Thanks for the huge shout out to @carersinstemm.bsky.social - this is definitely the brainchild of the 3Lauras… so an additional shout out to @laurawolz.bsky.social and @carterlj.bsky.social My Lauras in crime 😆

Go give a follow to @carersinstemm.bsky.social to learn more on the amazing initiative that @pallettlab.bsky.social has been part of Carers in STEMM advocates for equitable & accessible support for those balancing caring and career in the world of academia

Today we workshopped the “survey” What happened: 3Lauras in 1 room, coffee & explorations into the data captured Outcome: Some stark statistics, but equally some fantastic insights into policy change & further advocacy work @carterlj.bsky.social @laurawolz.bsky.social @pallettlab.bsky.social

We've had lots of new followers recently, so we thought we'd re-introduce ourselves We are 3 scientists, all called Laura (who also happen to be mothers 😀) advocating for equitable & accessible support for those balancing caring and career. Get in touch, if you want to talk. Nice to meet you 👋

2 of the 3 Lauras will be present & correct for this @londoninfectionecr.bsky.social symposium. We really can’t wait to share data from our sector-wide survey with you all. Who’s coming!? hands up!

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

We have set up a LinkedIn Group for Carers in STEMM where you can find more about what we are getting up to 💻 Please join us 👇 www.linkedin.com/groups/13145...

As part of #CarersInSTEMM we are working to highlight available #funding and #grants for #academic carers wishing to participate in meetings, conferences & workshops. Please share links / information you are familiar with so we can try to increase the reach of these opportunities. Thank you!

It's time to say bye to our amazing Carers in STEMM Research Assistant @astrokammy.bsky.social Kammy has played an instrumental role in supporting our survey dissemination (#KammyonTour) and data processing 🙌 The 3Lauras wish you all the best for your travel adventures 🌎

Delighted to share that our co-founder @laurawolz.bsky.social has been appointed as the Interim Head of EDIA at the School of Natural Sciences at the University of Manchester from Jan 2025 🧪🔭🌱 Thank you for continuing to champion equality, diversity, inclusion, and accessibility!

Happy New Year from the 3 Lauras and Kammy 🎉 We are excited to start 2025, first up on our to do list is to finish processing the results from our #carers in #STEMM survey 📊 Stay tuned for some early take home results in the next few weeks

Excited to present the work of the 3Lauras (aka @carersinstemm.bsky.social) at the FLF Development Network “understanding inclusive leadership” on Monday. This will be the first glimpse of our survey! Continuing the conversation to improve research culture….🙌🙌

A total (momentary) deviation from science posting, but … Not sure who needs to see this but the stress of #ElfOnTheShelf is real for those of us less creative, time poor academics!! Share widely!! @carersinstemm.bsky.social ❤️