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I disagree. The bigger problem is when scientists are willing for their vital work not to have no impact on the world, all to maintain an impossible (contemporary) ideal of epistemological purity. More science-activists, please.

#pgg55 is here! Exciting talks from Ecology and Evolutionary Biology coming up: Wed - Mark Sutherland on coat colour in Soay sheep 🐏 Thur - Peter Price on regulatory variation 🦚 Fri - @LukeTDunning on grass pangenomes 🌾 Fri - work with Terry Burke on SARS-CoV2 monitoring 🚽 Enjoy! 🎉

Sometimes you don't even need a microscope to see cell phenotypes. Induced pluripotent heart cells can be seen beating in their wells. (video by Jessica M. Gluck, PhD)

In linguistics, Escher sentences are sentences which initially seem acceptable but upon further reflection have no well-formed meaning.

Passed my viva yesterday with no corrections! 😁😁 thanks to Duncan Greig & Alison Wright for a great discussion- it was a really enjoyable experience

Really lovely to read @ClaireMerot’s perspective on our EE study of how the dimensionality of selection impacts local adaptation! 😁 Dimensionality can be a pretty murky concept, but this dispatch provides an elegant summary of our key ideas 👉🏻 authors.elsevier.com/a/1ephM3QW8R%7…

Finally! A predatory journal that sees the true value of my publications 👍

I train researchers in policy engagement and very few are aware of quite how many routes to engage there are, so here is a 🧵 of ways to engage with UK Government and Parliament

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐑𝐄𝐃𝐒 𝐀𝐑𝐄 𝐆𝐎𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐔𝐏!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 🌳🔴 #NFFC

I can die happy

NEW: We're increasing our minimum student stipend by 10% from 1 October 2022. Full details: ukri.org/news/ukri-incr…

Here is a question that has been bugging me - what is the shortest possible queue? Explain your reasoning.

Semi-annual reminder that if you’re a PhD student looking to get some experience working in policy, there is nowhere better to go than @openinnovteam 🔥

Figures show that (finally) private and state schools students have a similar chance of being accepted to Oxbridge. The Telegraph obviously consider this to be wildly unfair. telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/10/2…

NEW #COP27 ANALYSIS Who is responsible for the $100bn cilmate finance target being missed? The US is $32bn short of its "fair share", based on historical emissions, new Carbon Brief analysis finds UK, Australia & Canada also $bns short 1/ carbonbrief.org/analysis-us-fa…

Put another way: the sixth largest economy in the world is right now generating ~90% of all its electricity from green sources - possibly ~95% if you presume the imports from France are primarily coming from nuclear generation Don’t let anyone tell you it isn’t possible

I graduated from The University of Sheffield yesterday!! 🎓 A wonderful day celebrating with the most wonderful people ❤️ #PhDone