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drlewisac.bsky.social

Biologist - entomology, behaviour, neuroscience, cancer, Evo-devo... There's not a lot I haven't been involved in. Technician demonstrator and researcher looking to rebuild a science community from the ashes of the Twitter dumpster fire.

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Movies you've watched more than 6 times using GIFs. And I still laugh childishly hard at this scene.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

I may be late for the day, but the truth is the same every day. To my friends, colleagues, students, people passing me in the corridor who have something to say: you are safe with me

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

Very glad to have been involved in this, not least because it meant I got to play with some of our newest and shiniest equipment still cooling down from its installation.

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

I think the most depressing thing about seeing equipment this old is assuming it must be from the 1960s/70s and discovering it was made in the early 2000s.

submitted 44 days ago • 1 comment

At 17 I decided to study biology at university and my disappointed chemistry and physics teachers all mocked me for picking "cut and stick science". Now I'm 40, have a biology doctorate and I'm sitting in the lab sticking pictures of gels into my lab book. You win this round other scientists...

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Post-doc opportunity in neurogenetics. Wellcome funded, to investigate molecular switch between brain plasticity and degeneration. In beautiful University of Birmingham campus, lively city, UK. Drosophila, behaviour, imaging. International lab. Application deadline 19 March. #Drosophila #post-doc

submitted 77 days ago • 0 comments

Shiny new lab storage. I'm so happy

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When you're a sensible adult... A sensible, mature adult responsible for staff, students and cutting edge research. And then you're confronted with the task of naming your robot vacuum cleaner during setup and your brain panics and can think only of this

submitted 107 days ago • 1 comment

I bought 16 pipettes and now have 16 pipette repair tools. They stack in a very satisfying manner

submitted 108 days ago • 1 comment

Do you know a UK-based wheelchair user who works in a lab and would be willing to user-test our prototype of what is believed to be the first-ever lab coat adapted for wheelchair users? Please share far & wide! Interest form: forms.office.com/e/66FhcQjqRT More info: www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-east/new...

submitted 116 days ago • 62 comments

Researcher: "We let the data speak for itself." Earlier that day:

submitted 121 days ago • 100 comments

Started writing a student talk on planning safety and ethics into research projects brilliantly based around everything that happens in Jurassic park... Then I started wondering how many would have seen it and understand the references. Then I cried a little bit

submitted 149 days ago • 2 comments

Many new and exciting projects and plans coming our way!

submitted 157 days ago • 1 comment

Writing references for students and colleagues: "They're amazing, such a diverse array of skills and problem solving abilities, a real star for the future, magnificent to work with, a credit to the profession" Writing my @advancehe.bsky.social context statement:

submitted 158 days ago • 0 comments

University of Northampton enter a pioneering partnership with British rail to provide new facilities for the swimming team.

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Owing to current conditions, the Waterside Campus is being renamed to the water campus

submitted 159 days ago • 1 comment

classic IBM 386 running DOS and windows 3.1. I should stress I was very young to have a first computer, honest

submitted 160 days ago • 1 comment

Inside me are two wolves:

submitted 161 days ago • 1 comment

As a drosophilist I'm not always aware of the equipment used in the laboratories for other fields. Can any of my human biology colleagues shed light on how this apparatus is utilised in your field?

submitted 170 days ago • 0 comments

Step one of every procedure should be "do not eat the reagents"

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Hi everyone, We are still recruiting for people living in the UK for our project. We are looking to hear from LGBTQI+ people who have felt they needed to change/pivot their careers in STEM due to a hostile environment - but how you define this is up to you.