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PhD candidate, often found at work. Finance-ish, where it helps create change. Research in impact investing. Lover of books and wandering about Scotland and further afield. Due to absence of alternatives, like =/= endorsement. He/him
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It's hard for people in the Global South to focus on dealing with climate change when they don't have adequate electricity, water, sanitation, and transportation infrastructure. It turns out it's also hard in the Global North to focus on climate change when there's not a functioning democracy.

submitted 4 days ago • 16 comments

Final version submitted for archiving. Starting to feel real. #PhDSky

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Lab Values “We believe that diversity of background, identity, and opinion are essential to maximize scientific innovation.” Nature Methods Article: doi.org/10.1038/s415... Sammy Katta's Lab Posters: www.sammykatta.com/diversity #AcademicSky #PhDSky

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

hi, no author wants to hear your spelling and grammar edit notes on their already-published book, thanks! or if you must tell someone, tell the publisher.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

submitted 7 days ago • 531 comments

Diversity Hurts No One

submitted 8 days ago • 15 comments

Evergreen cartoon

submitted 8 days ago • 14 comments

I did my viva almost 3 months ago, then had to wait a month for an exam board before I got my official list of corrections, which I submitted a month later. Understandably, my examiners took a few weeks to review my corrections... #PhDSky

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Corrections accepted! #PhDSky

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

An act of grotesque vandalism is taking place in British universities inews.co.uk/opinion/colu...

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

The big takeaway here is that Reuters won this case against the AI company on grounds they violated fair use—the judge found the AI company was guilty because, in using copyrighted works to generate its output, it “meant to compete... by developing a market substitute.” Huge.

submitted 11 days ago • 56 comments

Struggling to get motivated with the gargantuan task of trying to convert my thesis into something publishable. #PhDSky

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submitted 17 days ago • 8 comments

you can tell this place is taking off because people keep wrongly assuming other people are american

submitted 19 days ago • 30 comments

Ok it's no longer #Caturday but it feels like a lot of people need to see things which are good for the soul on their timeline right now. Have a sweetly napping geriatric (less than enamoured about having her picture taken).

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment