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A 🧵 on burnout Yesterday I learned that when people are burnt out, their amygdala enlarges. For all you non-neuroscientists, here's what that means and why it's important. 1/ #AcademicChatter Academic Chatter™ Academic Encouragement

The amygdala is the part of our brain that controls our emotional response to stimuli that we perceive as threatening. When the amygdala is functioning correctly, we have appropriate fight, flight, or freeze responses. 2/

However, when we're burnt out, the amygdala is NOT doing its job well. We start to perceive e v e r y t h i n g as threatening. A confrontation? A change in plans? An unexpected meeting with your boss or PI? Our brain now shouts, "DANGER! DANGER!" 3/

Processing the news that Kents Cavern Prehistoric Caves is up for sale. After 5 generation of responsible ownership by @Kents_Caveman and his family, I feel this is moment this important Palaeolithic site should be secured by a major heritage org. theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/m…

Here's why 'equivalent experience' doesn't make these jobs any less exclusionary: fairmuseumjobs.org/2023/01/26/qua…

My thoughts on the #Homonaledi preprints, just released

Even if I tried, I couldn’t find the words. We’ll All Be Here Forever is yours. Noahkahan.lnk.to/stickseasonWAB…

I genuinely dont understand how the The Guardian The Mirror Financial Times The Times and The Sunday Times and other big papers are not all over this scandal! Across the country, senior management teams of universities are forcing students to graduate with incomplete degrees

What it feels like to be a uni student in 2019-2023, and how things could change for the better, a long 🧵. After the final, toughest year of my integrated master’s degree worth 44% of my overall grade, this is the slap in the face I receive from Durham University on results day. 1/20

🚨NEW: The University of Nottingham is requesting students agree to never getting their work marked What an insult nottingham.ac.uk/currentstudent… #ucuRISING

"We need trauma-informed practice. The lack of understanding about trauma by practioners working with people affected by trauma risks compounding the effects" A takeaway from #CarefulMusuems today, gives us all a lot to think about. Great presentation from Catherine Cartwright.

Completed phase 1 of my PhD data collection, rewarding myself with an espresso martini solo day-date

Okay but can we please stop posting selfies next to in-situ burials

Possibly the only fair front of house salary we've ever seen

I remember seeing this video of an experiment where a bunch of boys were put in a house together and a bunch of girls were put in another house together. The boys descended into anarchy and chaos almost immediately. Nothing was clean, they had no schedule or planned meals. They