This week is mental health awareness week. if you are looking for more ways to improve your wellbeing, check out our new page full of both academic-specific and general wellbing resources. 👉🔗Go to plateletsociety.co.uk/early-career-r… and click the 'wellbeing' tab.

At the end of April, around 80 researchers attended the annual The Platelet Society meeting in Aberdeen. This formed a 3-day meeting, including an Early Career Researcher (ECR) day on the first day. Tasha Pavey (pictured) won the overall best poster prize. Well done! #platelet

Our own president Dr Amanda Unsworth @AmandaUnsworth1 gave a fantastic state of the art talk at the #ISTH2024 this morning. 👏

Prof Neil Morgan 💙 is talking about the role of SLFN14 in #platelets and #megakaryocytes at the #ISTH2024 in Bangkok @ICVS_UoB

That’s a wrap on #ISTH2024 in Bangkok🇹🇭 Well done to all of the excellent oral and poster presenters from British Society for Haemostasis & Thrombosis 👏 & of course those who gave masterclasses, chaired sessions and led ECR events🤩

Great lab celebrations /afternoon out in the sun with the lab and new summer students 🙂 Bham Platelet Group @ICVS_UoB

New #coverArt #August1 Sam Montague et al Prof Neil Morgan 💙 show comprehensive report of a patient with Scott syndrome with novel frameshift variant in AN06 ⏩ no #platelets PS exposure 📉 thrombin generation, explaining the bleeding phenotype. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

I am really grateful to receive this ECR career award today from The Platelet Society. Thanks to all that listened to my talk today. plateletsociety.co.uk/news/alison-go…

🚨 Join the mentoring scheme today! 🚨 The Platelet Society is excited to announce the re-establishment of the mentoring scheme. We welcome applications from individuals at any career stage, whether in academia or beyond! Apply here: plateletsociety.co.uk/early-career-r…

Today is World Mental Health awareness day. An important Platelet Society initiative is to raise awareness of mental health and to support wellbeing within our membership and beyond. Check out the wellbeing tab on our website for helpful resources:- plateletsociety.co.uk/early-career-r…

TODAY is the day🎊🎉!! It's officially #WorldThrombosisDay. Share this post to flood everyone's timeline and spread awareness! #WTDay24 Regeneron

🚨Deadline 12th November🚨 We are looking for ECR working group members. If you are interested in contributing to the ongoing Platelet Society initiatives, send your one paragraph expression of interest to [email protected]. by 12th November.

The newest episode of the Probably Platelets Podcast is out now featuring one of our own Platelet Society ECR representatives, Jo Mitchell Jo Mitchell. Listen now wherever you get your podcasts.

I am excited to see our paper on #platelet and #coagulation function in #WaldenströmMacroglobulinemia featured on the cover of Blood Advances! Thanks to the imaging wiz James Hearn and congratulations to Liz Gardiner, DiptiT and the rest of the team at Gardiner Group.

Happy Valentine's day. What is the best way to share the love... Submit an abstract to the Platelet Society meeting in Manchester. Deadline today! plateletsociety.co.uk/manchester-2025

Our case report on CMV-induced anti-PF4 mediated thrombotic thrombocytopenic syndrome has been published. It is so important to think of this rare but devastating disease in patients with unusual-site thrombosis. will lester Sam Montague Richard Buka 💙 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/action/oidcCal…

Pleased to be able to share the #VITT consortium's comprehensive final report which sheds light on rare blood clotting syndrome linked to COVID-19 vaccines journalslibrary.nihr.ac.uk/eme/FFSS9010 Main findings🧵

Pip Nicolson: Understanding VITT From COVID-19 Vaccines National Institute for Health and Care Research Prof Cheng-Hock Toh CBE Richard Buka 💙 Sam Montague BSH - Haematology Professor Sir Munir Pirmohamed Bham Platelet Group Cardiovascular Sciences (CVS)- UoB University of Liverpool Cambridge University Uni of Birmingham hemostasistoday.com/science/vitt-6… #AdenoviralVaccine #SARSCoV2Vaccines #BloodClottingSyndrome