My point: Look at how people in your department respond to the de Zeeuw story. If they suggest there has been an over reaction, they are telling you something about themselves. Be aware of it. 2/2

Thank you The University of Edinburgh Edinburgh Medical School for not paying my Medical Research Council student stipend this month because of your broken and failed People & Money system! My next trick: to pull £900 out of thin air to pay my rent and electric bills on the 1st ✨

Babe, wake up. New Pillars of Creation just dropped. webbtelescope.org/contents/news-…

Marina Ruiz Sánchez-Oro The University of Edinburgh UCU Edinburgh edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/people/un…

New week, but the People and Money saga continues The University of Edinburgh The open letter has now been signed by 2,383 staff and students, with 71 pages of comments so far Yet, there has been no formal written response & senior leadership are sticking with 'change is difficult' line

Tomorrow morning at ~08:36 I'll go live at BBC Radio Scotland 's show Good Morning Scotland to talk about how the rollout of The University of Edinburgh 's new finance system People & Money caused a delay of my PhD stipend by a month, leaving me unable to pay my rent. Stay tuned.

If you missed me talking on BBC Radio Scotland this morning, here is an article in which I was interviewed that summarises the issues me and basically every person at The University of Edinburgh are experiencing due to the abysmally unfit new finance system: google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.…

All you need to know about applying for Astro PhD studentships in Edinburgh! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🔭🌌🛰🪐jobregister.aas.org/ad/3ea6f975 I see a lot of PhD application pain on this app, so I will just point out that: 1. there is no fee to apply 2. the application form is 1-page long deadline 8 January

Having seen several cool iterations of this plot for some time I 100% agree;)

‼️ NEW Student Cost of Living report from RussellGroupSUs shows the reality faced by UK PGRs, and the lack of appropriate financial support (1/6) ‼️ Please RT.

"You can't argue against physics"!

I decided to ask #ChatGPT to write a poem about stellar streams.

Women faculty are often seen as emotionally safer to approach, which results in greater (often invisible) emotional labor falling on those faculty. I’m not complaining—I have been on both sides of this—but trying to make it visible. The only reason I didn’t drop out

This is why: 1. Funding decisions for PIs must take into account recommendation letters from former PhD graduates and postdocs. Because funding is used to pay for more students and postdocs, it should be allocated only if the PI knows how to manage people correctly. 2.

A quick reminder to all NAM participants tomorrow - any "more a comment than a question"s must be given in Welsh. It's in the code of conduct

The Galactic archaeology session at NAM2023 - Cardiff was such a blast! I'm so happy to have given my first PhD project talk to such an enthusiastic and brilliant audience with which I got to have so many insightful discussions. Cheers!

"Masters degree" sounds way cooler than "PhD" Its better to say "I mastered physics" than "I doctored physics"

Or, as the Swedes would say, det finns ingen dålig supraledande temperatur, bara dåliga kläder.