Huge thank you to the organisers of the The AVA ~ theava-UK.bsky.social Christmas Meet 2021. Excellent range of talks yesterday and lots of useful feedback on my poster. Merry Christmas AVA-ers!🎄

The daily tune. 🎶 Academic Chatter™

Who did this?! 😅

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**Frantically books an opticians appointment after only seeing 528**

Thinking of everyone standing outside in this wild weather this morning in the second week of strikes at Uni of Nottingham #WeAreUoN 💕💪

24 universities collectively amassed a £2.2bn surplus in 2020-21 Yet they claim they can only afford to offer staff a 1.5% pay rise and have to cut pensions We're striking because universities have the money to treat staff properly, but they choose not to #OneOfUsAllOfUs

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RT please! We are a new online community run by PhD students trying to share friendship and community between PGRs. A simple follow or retweet could go a long way to helping us get our project out there! 😊

Slightly frustrating on this sunny day to find out that my laptop screen is polarised along the wrong axis for use with my sunglasses 😎🙃

A clinical trial of a new wrist device designed to help control the symptoms of Tourette syndrome have shown it significantly reduces the severity and frequency of tics School of Psychology, University of Nottingham Stephen Jackson Neupulse Full story here: tinyurl.com/3mr4reyu Watch Mylo's results ⬇️

Today is #EarthOvershootDay for the US & Canada! This day is when humanity's demand for ecological resources and services in a given year exceeds what Earth can regenerate in that year. Read our blog on what we can do to #MoveTheDate: ow.ly/gRas50NgqmO

Our next article published on Saturday is called ' Why Being a Distinctly Average PhD Student is Extraordinarily Fine' I NEEDED this.

Shared my raw and honest PhD journey with The PhD Place. It wasn’t easy to write, but it’s essential we normalise the struggles that come with pursuing a PhD

Optical illusion. Just Amazing

The eye is the second most complex organ in the human body. It has over 2 million moving parts and if it was a digital camera, it is believed it would have 576 megapixels 👁👁 Credit : Helix Animation

🎉 Thank you to everyone who joined the Misbourne Symphony Orchestra for our spectacular season finale last month! 🎉 What an unforgettable night it was! A special thanks to our incredible soloist bagpiper, Julia Read – you truly blew us away! 🎵 #SupportTheArts

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