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Home after my umbilical hernia surgery. Sore, tired but happy and well.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

If we the taxpayer are bailing out Thames Water for the tune of £3bn, we should own Thames Water. Not temporarily, not a bail out. Nationalisation now. End the madness.

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I wrote a book. I go on about it a lot. It's called "Managing Your Mental Health During Your PhD: A Survival Guide". I promised myself it wouldn't just tell PhDs to "eat well" like that is a magic fix for poor supervision, uncertainty and/or research not going to plan, and I think I achieved that.

submitted 6 days ago • 7 comments

Lots of debate over whether Bellingham said ‘ F* Off’ or ‘F* You’ to the referee to get sent off. Maybe don’t say either.

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Watching Match of the Day, gave up watching Bournemouth vs Liverpool because the refereeing was ridiculously biased to the point of frustration. Just give them the title. Bournemouth playing 12 men

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Really enjoying Celebrity Bear Hunt… and is it the most low key neurodivergent TV show ever? Think all but three of the celebrities are either ADHD or autistic.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Finally gave up the fight and decided to quit Facebook. It’s hard, like a rejection of friends and family… but it’s not at all. I barely see anything from anyone I know, but just scroll through endless nonsense or right wing bile in the hope of a second of genuine connection.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

What a fantastic rugby match at Twickenham, end to end, scrappy and entertaining. Great entertainment and a victory of growth for England

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"It is impossible to be a top-line manager and administrator and mentor and researcher and writer and outreach officer and IT expert and online instructor and pedagogical innovator and recruiter and teacher and marker and external examiner and press pundit and grant bidder and editor."

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Crikey - it's been a while and all three batteries I made look to be working. I'm more relieved than I ought to be!

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University of Chicago is asking researchers to halt purchases, starting new experiments, and travel in light of the federal pause on grants

submitted 26 days ago • 3 comments

Excited to be keeping my hand in in the lab, making some coin cells myself for the first time in a while…

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Diversity makes your science better, pass it on.

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

Anyone know whether the anti-EDI crackdown in the US is going to impact the inclusion work done by professional societies like IEEE or SPIE?

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remember, the blitzkrieg is intended to make you feel like there is nothing you can do about it; that’s the only reason to go forward in this haphazard and sloppy manner all in the first week and the choice of that strategy tells you they are afraid you will do something about it

submitted 31 days ago • 203 comments

Someone in my household has a medical condition that means we need to use more water as a result. The WaterSure scheme makes sure we don’t pay more as a result. BBC Breakfast have yet another article on the winter fuel allowance this morning. Why isn’t there a similar scheme for gas/electric?

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

Sodium-ion can match lithium-ion; advances in recent years have really closed the gap, but lots to do yet. Also, the focus on resource costs is a bit of red herring as this makes only a small part of the end pack cost. Reducing the cost of battery manufacture is also essential

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

Always 💖 Don't make me tap the sign

submitted 109 days ago • 286 comments

Went to see We Live In Time, and wow that was great. Probably a 7/10 movie but the stellar performances of Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield raise it to a whole new level. Extraordinary work from the two, and Lee Braithwaite shines too, and lovely to see Douglas Hodge not as amazing Velementov!

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

The University of Sheffield is offering 51 fully-funded PhDs in engineering, science and maths in collaboration with the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) for 2025 entry. www.sheffield.ac.uk/postgraduate....

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

Tough week. Finally gave up on some research - had to accept that making something interesting wasn’t enough for a publication. The quality of data and analysis wasn’t acceptable, and so I had to put it to bed after months of wrangling and hand-wringing. Tough decision and personally painful

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment

Think it’s fair to say that Sheffield City Council have utterly broken the traffic system in the city now. Every trip is a disaster forced onto the same handful of roads through the city

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment

Looking for help? TIR has a whole category of "How to..." postings focusing on soft skills in science: writing papers, giving presentations, starting a lab, asking questions in seminars, critical reading, etc. Suggestions for future postings welcome... totalinternalreflectionblog.com/category/how...

submitted 63 days ago • 2 comments

This is where muting words and phrases comes in handy. I have the name of the incoming president and the vile billionaire who bought him muted, so they don't show up in my timeline. I read the news, I see them enough there. Mute enough politician names, the problem thins out considerably.

submitted 48 days ago • 60 comments

Holy Shit. Honey had always felt a little scammy but it turns out their entire business model is stealing affiliate bonuses from content creators and having online retailers pay them to remove certain coupons from their results.

submitted 54 days ago • 17 comments

RIP Sir Fraser Stoddart chemsky ⚗️🧪

submitted 54 days ago • 2 comments

Hurrah! Another fabulous book by Dr Luke Beardon. "Reasonable adjustments for autistic children" (Sheldon Press, 2024). This is the front cover. Always wise and practical advice from my old Tutor at Uni. [No I don't get commission or other benefits from promoting any good materials]

submitted 57 days ago • 9 comments

Yeah, you really will #TransRightsAREHumanRights #TransLivesMatter #TransAlly

submitted 58 days ago • 0 comments

#neurodiversity is NOT "over diagnosed."

submitted 58 days ago • 1 comment

Hello Katty

submitted 61 days ago • 1 comment

This month #PeriodicGraphics in @cenmag.bsky.social is a whole decade old! To mark the anniversary, here's a graphic on some of the interesting properties and uses of tin, the metal that traditionally marks tenth anniversaries: cen.acs.org/materials/Pe... #ChemSky 🧪

submitted 62 days ago • 1 comment

Having started writing the paper on work on inverse spinels with former PhD student on 15th December 2021... I'm really glad to be sending out a full draft at last to co-authors for comments today, a full 3 years and 5 days later. What a mammoth. It's a beast.

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

1. I feel like this is such obvious advice that it gets taken for granted & consequently no one says this to young scientists but READ PAPERS, read all the papers. As you move up in your career you will have less & less time to do this. Read everything that appeals to you not just in your field

submitted 72 days ago • 7 comments