Robin Flynn
@robinflynn.bsky.social
Reformed immunologist of the veterinary and parasite variety. Currently concerning myself with academic admin. And also coffee
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Excited that we are hiring an immunology teaching focused post with us in @LydiaBeckerIII to expand and innovate our immunology teaching. Do join us! www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Lecturer in Immunology (Teaching & Scholarship):Oxford Road
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk
July 22, 2024 at 1:45 PM
Excited that we are hiring an immunology teaching focused post with us in @LydiaBeckerIII to expand and innovate our immunology teaching. Do join us! www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
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"We asked students several questions about the scheduling structure, frequency, and helpfulness of their individual meetings with their advisors. Frequent meetings were a positive predictor of nearly every aspect of well-being and productivity measured in the survey."
Mentoring practices predictive of doctoral student outcomes in a biological sciences cohort
bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution
www.biorxiv.org
November 14, 2023 at 11:04 AM
"We asked students several questions about the scheduling structure, frequency, and helpfulness of their individual meetings with their advisors. Frequent meetings were a positive predictor of nearly every aspect of well-being and productivity measured in the survey."
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Interesting confirmation of what has long been suspected: Twitter actually sucks at creating genuine engagement. The "engagement" lives on the platform.
Six Months Ago NPR Left Twitter. The Effects Have Been Negligible | Nieman Reports
The numbers confirm what many of us have long suspected — that Twitter wasn’t worth the effort, at least in terms of traffic.
niemanreports.org
October 11, 2023 at 8:42 PM
Interesting confirmation of what has long been suspected: Twitter actually sucks at creating genuine engagement. The "engagement" lives on the platform.
I hope we figure out what it is we want before someone else shows us what we are getting!
Some reflections on our inability to articulate what we want, from crayons and coffee to ChatGPT: kucharski.substack.com/p/learning-f...
Learning from seeing
We can't always articulate what we want
kucharski.substack.com
October 11, 2023 at 7:21 PM
I hope we figure out what it is we want before someone else shows us what we are getting!
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Mapping lung hematopoietic progenitors: Developmental kinetics and response to Influenza A viral infection https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.10.09.561586v1
Mapping lung hematopoietic progenitors: Developmental kinetics and response to Influenza A viral infection https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.10.09.561586v1
The bone marrow is a specialised niche responsible for the maintenance of hematopoietic stem and pro
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October 11, 2023 at 10:16 AM
Mapping lung hematopoietic progenitors: Developmental kinetics and response to Influenza A viral infection https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.10.09.561586v1
@gggingerzim.bsky.social you have arrived!
October 11, 2023 at 6:51 PM
@gggingerzim.bsky.social you have arrived!
Moving here, slowly & not fully yet, is like a repeat of the big experiement right?!
The low levels of nasty also make it nicer.
The low levels of nasty also make it nicer.
September 21, 2023 at 6:40 PM
Moving here, slowly & not fully yet, is like a repeat of the big experiement right?!
The low levels of nasty also make it nicer.
The low levels of nasty also make it nicer.
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'(...) cell sizes vary over an enormous seven orders of magnitude from red blood cells to the largest muscle fibers, comparable to the mass ratio of a shrew to a blue whale. This raises the question: What is the size distribution of cells over the entire human body?'
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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September 20, 2023 at 12:02 PM
'(...) cell sizes vary over an enormous seven orders of magnitude from red blood cells to the largest muscle fibers, comparable to the mass ratio of a shrew to a blue whale. This raises the question: What is the size distribution of cells over the entire human body?'
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The journal Philosophy of Science is now on Bluesky!
@philscijournal.bsky.social
h/t @jimweatherall.bsky.social
@philscijournal.bsky.social
h/t @jimweatherall.bsky.social
September 13, 2023 at 5:47 PM
The journal Philosophy of Science is now on Bluesky!
@philscijournal.bsky.social
h/t @jimweatherall.bsky.social
@philscijournal.bsky.social
h/t @jimweatherall.bsky.social
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I’m advertising a 24 month PDRA position using CT data of the jaws and skulls of Devonian-Carboniferous ray-finned fishes to investigate the first major anatomical radiation of the group. Available to start as soon as possible. 🧪⚒️
Details and apply here: edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Details and apply here: edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
September 8, 2023 at 3:40 PM
I’m advertising a 24 month PDRA position using CT data of the jaws and skulls of Devonian-Carboniferous ray-finned fishes to investigate the first major anatomical radiation of the group. Available to start as soon as possible. 🧪⚒️
Details and apply here: edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Details and apply here: edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Okay I'm here ....... please continue
September 2, 2023 at 5:49 AM
Okay I'm here ....... please continue