I have generated a word cloud of menopause symptoms based on a large survey of nearly 6,000 women we did recently - the larger words are the more common symptoms. 

Notice how many of the most common symptoms are related to the brain!

Te UK Reproducibility Network have released a series of six case studies, written by staff from very different institutions, illustrating the wide variety of contributions to different aspects of open research across a very diverse sector.
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Our next seminar is on Thursday at 2pm: Creating a lasting legacy through evaluation
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Dr Bronia Arnott Susie Sykes London South Bank University - LSBU Jo Leonardi-Bee Dr Julie Bayley @JulieBayley.bsky.social Adam Gordon

Expressions of interest now open for online workshops to co-develop indicators for the assessment of the PCE #REF2029

Details on workshops, timeline & how to submit on Vitae's website: vitae.ac.uk/policy/ref-2029
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Earlier this week we were shocked and saddened to hear that Dr John Rogers had passed away unexpectedly over the weekend.

John will be a great loss to the entire research management community: arma.ac.uk/dr-john-rogers/

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I just wondered if there are any Assistant Psychologists on here, that wouldn’t mind taking part in my MSc dissertation research? #assistantpsych #dclinpsy

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In case you missed this!

⁦BPS statement on qualifications - this is positive news, watch this space! ⁦BPS DHP⁩ bps.org.uk/news/statement…

REF & impact colleagues - analysis of the value of a 4* case study. Will be extremely interesting to see how this kind of insight fuels institutional strategies...

Hugely excited to see this out - please read and check out The hidden REF’s ongoing work to highlight contributions to research.

This article about behavioural mechanisms of action (specified in an extensive ontology) in WellcomeOpenResearch has been viewed more than 500 times! If you are interested in behaviour & how it changes, or theoretical processes of change, do read wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/8-337… Human Behaviour-Change Project

Absolutely brilliant :-))

Tsundoku, from Japanese, is the act of buying yet another book that you fully intend to read, but never quite get round to.

Very much worth a shout out!

Fantastic to see the Hidden REF competition open! Please check it out - such a great opportunity to recognise the hidden efforts of so many people :-)

Slightly tired of fielding 'pay us hundreds of pounds to come to this conference about REF' emails, when the sector is on its knees financially.

Grump grump grump.....

An extra bit of #EDI -focused analysis as part of our work on #REF #environment statements is reported in ResearchProfessional #OpenAccess

Matthew Inglis Dr Elizabeth Gadd @lizziegadd.bsky.social & I compared REF2014 + REF2021 to see which words appeared more frequently than in 2014... 👇🏻

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Looking forward to it!