Anna Sharman
@annasharmanrd.bsky.social
Researcher developer at a UK independent research organisation. Former director of Cofactor. Interested in #ResearcherDevelopment #ResearchCulture #AcademicCareers #Inclusion #Conferencing #Biology #OpenScience #Neurodiversity
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The new #EmploymentRightsBill is requiring organisations over 250 employees to have a "Menopause Action Plan". EDICa's consulting with government advocating this covers #MenstrualHealth more widely.
We're hosting workshops on what would an Action Plan look like.
edicaucus.ac.uk/impact#menst...
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We're hosting workshops on what would an Action Plan look like.
edicaucus.ac.uk/impact#menst...
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February 4, 2026 at 9:26 AM
The new #EmploymentRightsBill is requiring organisations over 250 employees to have a "Menopause Action Plan". EDICa's consulting with government advocating this covers #MenstrualHealth more widely.
We're hosting workshops on what would an Action Plan look like.
edicaucus.ac.uk/impact#menst...
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We're hosting workshops on what would an Action Plan look like.
edicaucus.ac.uk/impact#menst...
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We all have opinions about using genAI, but what happens when our collaborators, students or stakeholders hold different views? I've already run into several of the challenges @manusaunders.bsky.social identifies here.
Equity, Ethics, and genAI in Academia
Generative AI tools are openly accessible, increasingly normalised, and mostly inequitable. They’re a great example of a marketing success benefiting a specific industry that has quickly ignited a …
ecologyisnotadirtyword.com
January 30, 2026 at 12:49 PM
We all have opinions about using genAI, but what happens when our collaborators, students or stakeholders hold different views? I've already run into several of the challenges @manusaunders.bsky.social identifies here.
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"...open science behaviors function as honest signals of a researcher’s willingness to expose their work to scrutiny. As with honest signalling in biological systems, the value lies ... in that these behaviors are sufficiently costly ... that they are disproportionately avoided by [bad] actors"
Preliminary Evidence Linking Open Science to Research Integrity scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/01/28/p...
Preliminary Evidence Linking Open Science to Research Integrity - The Scholarly Kitchen
Is open scholarship an honest signal of researcher integrity? Today's post presents preliminary evidence that data and code sharing, preprinting, and other open behaviors are indeed less common in pap...
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January 28, 2026 at 2:34 PM
"...open science behaviors function as honest signals of a researcher’s willingness to expose their work to scrutiny. As with honest signalling in biological systems, the value lies ... in that these behaviors are sufficiently costly ... that they are disproportionately avoided by [bad] actors"
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Is academia a job, career, or calling? Yes, yes, and yes. The answer is not defined by the role, it is defined by the person in the role.
It is perfectly acceptable to decide it is any of these for one's interests and well-being, and to live and work accordingly.
It is perfectly acceptable to decide it is any of these for one's interests and well-being, and to live and work accordingly.
Is academia just a job?
We assigned this paper in our professional development seminar last week and it was quite popular.
My view: I grew up in a working class family and no one I knew considered their job "a calling". I also had a bunch of jobs that felt, well, like jobs.
We assigned this paper in our professional development seminar last week and it was quite popular.
My view: I grew up in a working class family and no one I knew considered their job "a calling". I also had a bunch of jobs that felt, well, like jobs.
January 28, 2026 at 4:46 PM
Is academia a job, career, or calling? Yes, yes, and yes. The answer is not defined by the role, it is defined by the person in the role.
It is perfectly acceptable to decide it is any of these for one's interests and well-being, and to live and work accordingly.
It is perfectly acceptable to decide it is any of these for one's interests and well-being, and to live and work accordingly.
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Is academia just a job?
We assigned this paper in our professional development seminar last week and it was quite popular.
My view: I grew up in a working class family and no one I knew considered their job "a calling". I also had a bunch of jobs that felt, well, like jobs.
We assigned this paper in our professional development seminar last week and it was quite popular.
My view: I grew up in a working class family and no one I knew considered their job "a calling". I also had a bunch of jobs that felt, well, like jobs.
January 28, 2026 at 4:29 PM
Is academia just a job?
We assigned this paper in our professional development seminar last week and it was quite popular.
My view: I grew up in a working class family and no one I knew considered their job "a calling". I also had a bunch of jobs that felt, well, like jobs.
We assigned this paper in our professional development seminar last week and it was quite popular.
My view: I grew up in a working class family and no one I knew considered their job "a calling". I also had a bunch of jobs that felt, well, like jobs.
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They just don’t get it - they’re trying to replace the part of our job we like the *most*.
If they could make an AI tool to vibe-complete travel, reimbursement, and annual reporting paperwork they would make a fucking FORTUNE
If they could make an AI tool to vibe-complete travel, reimbursement, and annual reporting paperwork they would make a fucking FORTUNE
January 27, 2026 at 11:46 PM
They just don’t get it - they’re trying to replace the part of our job we like the *most*.
If they could make an AI tool to vibe-complete travel, reimbursement, and annual reporting paperwork they would make a fucking FORTUNE
If they could make an AI tool to vibe-complete travel, reimbursement, and annual reporting paperwork they would make a fucking FORTUNE
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1. The thing about science that these jokers don't understand is that science cannot be vibe-coded.
Whatever its flaws, the point with vibe coding is that you're trying to quickly make something that sorta works, where you can immediately sorta see if it sorta works and then sorta use it.
Whatever its flaws, the point with vibe coding is that you're trying to quickly make something that sorta works, where you can immediately sorta see if it sorta works and then sorta use it.
“The idea is to put ChatGPT front and center inside software that scientists use to write up their work in much the same way that chatbots are now embedded into popular programming editors.
It’s vibe coding, but for science.”
It’s vibe coding, but for science.”
OpenAI’s latest product lets you vibe code science
Prism is a ChatGPT-powered text editor that automates much of the work involved in writing scientific papers.
www.technologyreview.com
January 27, 2026 at 10:09 PM
1. The thing about science that these jokers don't understand is that science cannot be vibe-coded.
Whatever its flaws, the point with vibe coding is that you're trying to quickly make something that sorta works, where you can immediately sorta see if it sorta works and then sorta use it.
Whatever its flaws, the point with vibe coding is that you're trying to quickly make something that sorta works, where you can immediately sorta see if it sorta works and then sorta use it.
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Context:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
But also a reminder that you need to plan your own notes and data archiving and backups regardless of whether you use LLM tools or not. If you think paper-hungry pet will save you from a retraction, think again #ResearchIntegrity #ScientificPublishing
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
But also a reminder that you need to plan your own notes and data archiving and backups regardless of whether you use LLM tools or not. If you think paper-hungry pet will save you from a retraction, think again #ResearchIntegrity #ScientificPublishing
January 27, 2026 at 12:36 PM
Context:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
But also a reminder that you need to plan your own notes and data archiving and backups regardless of whether you use LLM tools or not. If you think paper-hungry pet will save you from a retraction, think again #ResearchIntegrity #ScientificPublishing
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
But also a reminder that you need to plan your own notes and data archiving and backups regardless of whether you use LLM tools or not. If you think paper-hungry pet will save you from a retraction, think again #ResearchIntegrity #ScientificPublishing
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Join the quest - especially historians of London science! 👇So far we have narrowed this down to some lab branded as "Mill Hill" in London E1 postcode in the 1960s (i.e. not actually in Mill Hill)
Anyone know anything about Jennifer Harvey, who first isolated the virus containing HRAS (Harvey-Ras) at Mill Hill in 1967?
Prepping a lecture including the discovery of Ras oncogenes and wanted to add pics of the scientists involved.
The Internet has NOTHING
#sciencehistory #forgottenwomen
Prepping a lecture including the discovery of Ras oncogenes and wanted to add pics of the scientists involved.
The Internet has NOTHING
#sciencehistory #forgottenwomen
January 23, 2026 at 5:26 PM
Join the quest - especially historians of London science! 👇So far we have narrowed this down to some lab branded as "Mill Hill" in London E1 postcode in the 1960s (i.e. not actually in Mill Hill)
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This year, the taxonomists on the Fungarium Sequencing Project had a goal to review 10,000 specimens. They hit their target an impressive three months ahead of schedule, so to celebrate their hard work, here are some of the stories they’ve uncovered!
January 23, 2026 at 11:59 AM
This year, the taxonomists on the Fungarium Sequencing Project had a goal to review 10,000 specimens. They hit their target an impressive three months ahead of schedule, so to celebrate their hard work, here are some of the stories they’ve uncovered!
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Jesus saves, but professionals back up and real academics don't do their work in an ai prompt window
January 23, 2026 at 12:04 AM
Jesus saves, but professionals back up and real academics don't do their work in an ai prompt window
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lmao get wrecked imo www.nature.com/articles/d41...
When two years of academic work vanished with a single click
After turning off ChatGPT’s ‘data consent’ option, Marcel Bucher lost the work behind grant applications, teaching materials and publication drafts. Here’s what happened next.
www.nature.com
January 22, 2026 at 10:11 PM
lmao get wrecked imo www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Still time to apply: New Generation Thinkers 2026
AHRC is partnering with BBC Radio 4 to offer five early-career researchers the opportunity to work with programme makers, appear on air, and gain first-hand experience of how ideas make it to broadcast.
Apply by 28 Jan 2026
AHRC is partnering with BBC Radio 4 to offer five early-career researchers the opportunity to work with programme makers, appear on air, and gain first-hand experience of how ideas make it to broadcast.
Apply by 28 Jan 2026
AHRC and BBC New Generation Thinkers 2026
This scheme offers five early career researchers the opportunity to work with programme makers at BBC Radio 4. They will appear on a number of episodes and shadow the production process to understand ...
www.ukri.org
January 22, 2026 at 12:20 PM
Still time to apply: New Generation Thinkers 2026
AHRC is partnering with BBC Radio 4 to offer five early-career researchers the opportunity to work with programme makers, appear on air, and gain first-hand experience of how ideas make it to broadcast.
Apply by 28 Jan 2026
AHRC is partnering with BBC Radio 4 to offer five early-career researchers the opportunity to work with programme makers, appear on air, and gain first-hand experience of how ideas make it to broadcast.
Apply by 28 Jan 2026
#REDSConference2026 Kay Guccione's closing remarks: Watch out for the call for new REDS Conference Advisory Group members to help shape next year's conference. Many presentations will be turned into blog articles with help from the team. Follow the REDS LinkedIn page www.linkedin.com/company/rese...
Researcher Education and Development Scholarship Conference | LinkedIn
Researcher Education and Development Scholarship Conference | 1,498 followers on LinkedIn. REDS | REDS is a free, online conference hosted by the University of Leeds for those interested in scholarshi...
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January 22, 2026 at 12:35 PM
#REDSConference2026 Kay Guccione's closing remarks: Watch out for the call for new REDS Conference Advisory Group members to help shape next year's conference. Many presentations will be turned into blog articles with help from the team. Follow the REDS LinkedIn page www.linkedin.com/company/rese...
#REDSConference2026: Next year's REDS is on 20th and 21st January 2027. This has been excellent, I highly recommend people register for next year. And it's free!
January 22, 2026 at 12:21 PM
#REDSConference2026: Next year's REDS is on 20th and 21st January 2027. This has been excellent, I highly recommend people register for next year. And it's free!
The #REDSConference2026 closing keynote is from Dr Lisa Bradley (Uni of Glasgow) on "Creativity in Practice: Making Communities, Cultures, and Futures in Higher Education". She asks "What becomes possible when creativity is viewed as a crucial strategic practice?"
January 22, 2026 at 11:33 AM
The #REDSConference2026 closing keynote is from Dr Lisa Bradley (Uni of Glasgow) on "Creativity in Practice: Making Communities, Cultures, and Futures in Higher Education". She asks "What becomes possible when creativity is viewed as a crucial strategic practice?"
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Given all the news about ICE in the past few weeks, can I kindly remind you all that RELX (owners of Elsevier & LexisNexis) is "mission-critical" to ICE.
ICE pays RELX Group and Thomson Reuters millions of dollars for the personal data it needs to fuel its big data policing program […]
ICE pays RELX Group and Thomson Reuters millions of dollars for the personal data it needs to fuel its big data policing program […]
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January 22, 2026 at 9:58 AM
Given all the news about ICE in the past few weeks, can I kindly remind you all that RELX (owners of Elsevier & LexisNexis) is "mission-critical" to ICE.
ICE pays RELX Group and Thomson Reuters millions of dollars for the personal data it needs to fuel its big data policing program […]
ICE pays RELX Group and Thomson Reuters millions of dollars for the personal data it needs to fuel its big data policing program […]
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🗺️What a multi-lingual collection: Jacques Gay was a botanist and collector from Switzerland and our Archives hold over 35 volumes of his manuscripts. He wrote mainly in French, although Latin and even Greek found its way into his writing as well. Any polyglots able to translate? #KewLA
January 22, 2026 at 10:30 AM
🗺️What a multi-lingual collection: Jacques Gay was a botanist and collector from Switzerland and our Archives hold over 35 volumes of his manuscripts. He wrote mainly in French, although Latin and even Greek found its way into his writing as well. Any polyglots able to translate? #KewLA
This is a fantastic conference for anyone involved in research and/or its communication #R2RConf
#R2RConf Participant numbers for 24-25 February in London are booming, with registrations about 15% higher than this time in 2025 and 2024. But some tickets are still available.
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January 22, 2026 at 11:09 AM
This is a fantastic conference for anyone involved in research and/or its communication #R2RConf
#REDSConference2026 Jane Shepard of UAL presents a fascinating WIP looking at research environments by analogy with Jane Jacobs' 1961 work on human-centred urban design. The ideas of small blocks, mixed use neighbourhoods and eyes on the street can also be applied to research environments.
January 22, 2026 at 10:39 AM
#REDSConference2026 Jane Shepard of UAL presents a fascinating WIP looking at research environments by analogy with Jane Jacobs' 1961 work on human-centred urban design. The ideas of small blocks, mixed use neighbourhoods and eyes on the street can also be applied to research environments.
Now at #REDSConference2026 I'm in the 'Works in Progress' stream, with 5-minute talks about ongoing projects. First up is a U Glasgow project on developing teaching opportunities for postdoctoral researchers as part of a curriculum of applied and experiential learning exploring societal challenges
January 22, 2026 at 10:26 AM
Now at #REDSConference2026 I'm in the 'Works in Progress' stream, with 5-minute talks about ongoing projects. First up is a U Glasgow project on developing teaching opportunities for postdoctoral researchers as part of a curriculum of applied and experiential learning exploring societal challenges
#REDSConference2026 Day 2: paper by @whiteroseuc.bsky.social of unis in N England on the development needs of established researchers: achieved independence, recognition, leadership, in ‘squeezed middle’ between early-career researchers and those in senior institutional leadership roles
January 22, 2026 at 9:54 AM
#REDSConference2026 Day 2: paper by @whiteroseuc.bsky.social of unis in N England on the development needs of established researchers: achieved independence, recognition, leadership, in ‘squeezed middle’ between early-career researchers and those in senior institutional leadership roles
#REDSConference2026 Day 2: First paper of the day was from Kay Guccione, Glasgow, Tasha Kitano, QUT and Sian Vaughan, BCU (Birmingham) on reading groups for professionals doing supervisor development. There are two groups in diff time zones, and Kay and Tasha have done autoethnography to review them
January 22, 2026 at 9:36 AM
#REDSConference2026 Day 2: First paper of the day was from Kay Guccione, Glasgow, Tasha Kitano, QUT and Sian Vaughan, BCU (Birmingham) on reading groups for professionals doing supervisor development. There are two groups in diff time zones, and Kay and Tasha have done autoethnography to review them
Now at #REDSConference2026 we have a publisher panel givin tips on getting research published. Gina Walker says if a paper is rejected, start working on something else for a bit, but don't give up on the rejected one, keep trying other places to get it out. Rejections are normal and common!
January 21, 2026 at 3:27 PM
Now at #REDSConference2026 we have a publisher panel givin tips on getting research published. Gina Walker says if a paper is rejected, start working on something else for a bit, but don't give up on the rejected one, keep trying other places to get it out. Rejections are normal and common!
#REDSConference2026 My next paper was "Evaluating what hasn’t happened yet? A creative methodological response to the challenge of evaluating a 2-year cross-institutional culture change project" (Anne Ploin and Ros Attenborough, InFrame Project, Scotland).
January 21, 2026 at 2:30 PM
#REDSConference2026 My next paper was "Evaluating what hasn’t happened yet? A creative methodological response to the challenge of evaluating a 2-year cross-institutional culture change project" (Anne Ploin and Ros Attenborough, InFrame Project, Scotland).