everyone knows the “electrons are green” bit but real followers also get the lesser-known “electrons go down”

Happy International Women’s Day!

Want to learn how to build your own research instruments? Join the DIY Microscopy workshop in UCD for an introduction to developing open and accessible research instruments.
When: 10am-5pm, 21st March 2024
Where: UCD O’ Brien Science Centre
Register Here: forms.gle/q46sbboF4Hjp3g…

Thrilled to share that Liverpool will be hosting the 21st International Microscopy Congress (IMC21) in September 2026! Huge thanks to our partners at Liverpool Convention Bureau & RMS for their support in securing this opportunity. Let the planning begin! 🎉 #IMC21 #LiverpoolHosting

Don't miss the Physical Sciences Research presenters at the Annual WiM Conference! Click the link for details! bit.ly/3T8LEz3 Julie Marie (she/her) Trinity College Dublin @xintongyuan Serin Lee, Flávia da Cruz Gallo MIT.nano @UFMSC UCLA MIT Energy Initiative DMSE at MIT MSA Student Council #inspireinclusion

and with that, we're PhDone (pending minor corrections) 🎉🎉🎉! big thanks to Donal MacDonal & Sarah Haigh for examining, and The Dunne Group for chairing! thanks for all the years of support Valeria Nicolosi, it's been an adventure!! CDT_ACM Trinity AML AMBER

Dr Lewys Jones, Assistant Professor of Physics Trinity College Dublin and Innovator of the Year comments on the positive impact being part of CERN will bring:

'Joining CERN as associate members is an important step for Ireland, its physicists, and the wider population. CERN is not (5/7)

From the river to the sea. Oslo calls for a #CeasefireNOW 🇵🇸

Found some friends of yours in Japan Dr Shelly Conroy

Delighted to have visitors from Forschungszentrum Jülich yesterday here at the University of Tokyo! The timing of this was perfect, and I’m so glad that we got to have some very interesting discussions.

Morning Simon Harris TD, this is your daily reminder that the talented PhDs in Ireland you say you value so much are still living on less than minimum wage and still have no workers rights like parental leave, sick leave, guaranteed time off… But enjoy your Sunday!

Listen Simon Harris TD, listen! If you want researchers to come to Ireland from abroad, like myself, you need to actually show appreciation for them and pay them a decent wage, give them access to state-of-the-art facilities and grant them their basic employment rights. NOW!!!

Where is the increase in PhD stipends? Where are the basic rights for postgraduate researchers, sick leave/paternity leave etc.? It’s outrageous that this is not even mentioned here Simon Harris TD — it should have been sorted long ago 🫠

A lovely example from Monash (one of our earliest #Pulse customers) swapping 'arb. units' for true event-rates. The SNR boost at femto-amp beam currents is ideal for beam-sensitive specimens. Congrats to the whole team. More info at: turbotem.com/pulse/

Government must honour its pledge to bridge the annual €307M shortfall in core funding for higher education.

Our sector is grossly underfunded and it is having a huge impact on students & staff.

Another budget cannot come and go without meaningful investment.

#FundTheFuture

You know the higher education funding in your country is bad when the Provost emails all students and staff for help to pressure the government two weeks before the budget. Ireland, it’s time to fund education and research properly!! ⁦Simon Harris TD⁩ ⁦IrishResearchCouncil⁩

I can’t believe it’s almost Thursday already. Time flies when you’re having fun doing data analysis in Japan 😄

I appreciate the sentiment, but perhaps it isn’t clear that the single biggest source of stress for PGRs is our indecent wages/lack of protections. Getting employee status and fair wages, now that would really help me survive. Like, literally