Dr Heather Williams MBE
@alrightpet.bsky.social
Consultant Medical Physicist at The Christie; Positron Emission Tomography (PET) specialist; Mum; @Science_Grrl
Director; #scicomm-er. She/her. Views my own.
Director; #scicomm-er. She/her. Views my own.
Reposted by Dr Heather Williams MBE
Worrying to see the gender gap in people no longer publishing after 1st paper. In some ways unsurprised by this research. Academic life is not for all and needlessly rocky, However it doesn’t mean people leave science as science is not just academia & academic publishing.🧪👩🔬#academicsky
Nearly 50% of researchers quit science within a decade, huge study reveals
Twenty years of publishing data across many countries and disciplines show women are more likely than men to leave research.
www.nature.com
October 9, 2024 at 7:35 AM
Worrying to see the gender gap in people no longer publishing after 1st paper. In some ways unsurprised by this research. Academic life is not for all and needlessly rocky, However it doesn’t mean people leave science as science is not just academia & academic publishing.🧪👩🔬#academicsky
Badenoch or Jenrick then. The downward trajectory that began with Cameron continues...
October 9, 2024 at 4:43 PM
Badenoch or Jenrick then. The downward trajectory that began with Cameron continues...
Well, this sucks.
1: AI is hallucinating events, historical figures, entire concepts on Wikipedia
2: a task force of Wikipedia editors is detecting and deleting this stuff
www.404media.co/the-editors-...
2: a task force of Wikipedia editors is detecting and deleting this stuff
www.404media.co/the-editors-...
The Editors Protecting Wikipedia from AI Hoaxes
WikiProject AI Cleanup is protecting Wikipedia from the same kind of misleading AI-generated information that has plagued the rest of the internet.
www.404media.co
October 9, 2024 at 4:14 PM
Well, this sucks.
Ok, lovely BlueSky peeps...
Any pointers on writing a departmental strategy? I've been trying to do this for months now, I know what my objectives are but am really struggling to write the "making the case" bits. Pointers welcome!
Any pointers on writing a departmental strategy? I've been trying to do this for months now, I know what my objectives are but am really struggling to write the "making the case" bits. Pointers welcome!
October 9, 2024 at 4:10 PM
Ok, lovely BlueSky peeps...
Any pointers on writing a departmental strategy? I've been trying to do this for months now, I know what my objectives are but am really struggling to write the "making the case" bits. Pointers welcome!
Any pointers on writing a departmental strategy? I've been trying to do this for months now, I know what my objectives are but am really struggling to write the "making the case" bits. Pointers welcome!
Love this. It really pays to think about how our familiar phrases are used by the general public!
Since we're talking about proper word choice when communicating science to non-scientists, here's my list of some examples of "kinda-jargon." Jargon is when your non-scientist audience has never heard the word before. Kinda-jargon is they've heard it but in a very different context. #SciComm 🧪
October 2, 2024 at 3:16 PM
Love this. It really pays to think about how our familiar phrases are used by the general public!
This, fundamentally, is the issue. You can't argue people out of positions they didn't argue themselves into.
October 2, 2024 at 11:25 AM
This, fundamentally, is the issue. You can't argue people out of positions they didn't argue themselves into.
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Here's a list of real nature photographers posting their own work, who make their images accessible with Alt Text. I love that Bluesky values actual people and not those image stealing accounts.
This is just to get you started, there are tons more great photographers here!
🌿 #birds 🧪
This is just to get you started, there are tons more great photographers here!
🌿 #birds 🧪
October 1, 2024 at 12:36 AM
Here's a list of real nature photographers posting their own work, who make their images accessible with Alt Text. I love that Bluesky values actual people and not those image stealing accounts.
This is just to get you started, there are tons more great photographers here!
🌿 #birds 🧪
This is just to get you started, there are tons more great photographers here!
🌿 #birds 🧪
And now for some very very very good news -
Scotland saw no cases of cervical cancer in women born between 1988-1996 who were fully vaccinated against HPV between the ages of 12 and 13
www.statnews.com/2024/01/25/h...
www.statnews.com/2024/01/25/h...
HPV vaccine study finds zero cases of cervical cancer among women vaccinated before age 14
In a large Scottish study, no cases of cervical cancer were found among women who received HPV vaccines before they turned 14.
www.statnews.com
September 30, 2024 at 3:12 PM
And now for some very very very good news -
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Found this and it moved me, so I'm sharing.
September 30, 2024 at 1:20 AM
Found this and it moved me, so I'm sharing.
This mentality is called "pulling the ladder up after you" and I've seen plenty of women in senior roles do it to try and protect their own hard-won position.
Rather perverse to apply this to all the people in a nation considering motherhood, though... and why would this help her leadership bid?!
Rather perverse to apply this to all the people in a nation considering motherhood, though... and why would this help her leadership bid?!
Kemi Badenoch was very happy to take advantage of maternity leave herself. I guess she just doesn’t like other women having the same opportunity.
September 30, 2024 at 10:52 AM
This mentality is called "pulling the ladder up after you" and I've seen plenty of women in senior roles do it to try and protect their own hard-won position.
Rather perverse to apply this to all the people in a nation considering motherhood, though... and why would this help her leadership bid?!
Rather perverse to apply this to all the people in a nation considering motherhood, though... and why would this help her leadership bid?!
Reposted by Dr Heather Williams MBE
https://buff.ly/3Bmz5d6 This pride flag made out of NASA imagery was, until Brazil joined en masse, the most-shared post in the history of Bluesky. I spoke with @rachellense.bsky.social about how she made it, and what it's reception means for inclusion in science. 🧪
The story of the pride flag made from NASA imagery: Bluesky’s most-liked image – Southern Fried Science
Southern Fried Science
buff.ly
September 27, 2024 at 1:42 PM
https://buff.ly/3Bmz5d6 This pride flag made out of NASA imagery was, until Brazil joined en masse, the most-shared post in the history of Bluesky. I spoke with @rachellense.bsky.social about how she made it, and what it's reception means for inclusion in science. 🧪
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What a remarkable life. Take a bow, Dame Smith.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Actress Dame Maggie Smith dies at 89
She won two Oscars and starred in the Harry Potter films and Downton Abbey.
www.bbc.com
September 27, 2024 at 1:50 PM
What a remarkable life. Take a bow, Dame Smith.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
The stuff of MR scanning nightmares...
Aaaaah ohmygod what did I just read?! Police officers raid a scanning facility because they think it's growing pot (which it isn't, obviously) and one of them takes his rifle into the scanner room, leading to an emergency quench, after which he takes his gun and leaves, leaving a box of ammo behind
September 27, 2024 at 11:11 AM
The stuff of MR scanning nightmares...
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What Johnson’s “let the bodies pile high” meant in reality. Devastating testimony from Professor Kevin Fong about situation in hospitals during the pandemic. Difficult to listen to, unimaginable trauma for the medical staff trying to deal with this.
And here he breaks down while explaining the absolute trauma experienced by smaller hospitals in particular - the "healthier" ICU patients were transferred out, leaving them coping with so much death. They felt so alone.
youtu.be/dY_CdenZyrg
youtu.be/dY_CdenZyrg
September 26, 2024 at 11:59 AM
What Johnson’s “let the bodies pile high” meant in reality. Devastating testimony from Professor Kevin Fong about situation in hospitals during the pandemic. Difficult to listen to, unimaginable trauma for the medical staff trying to deal with this.
Thankyou, Kevin - for giving voice to the experience of healthcare workers at the Covid19 frontline, in an overstretched NHS at the mercy of a spineless, self-serving government.
This is why I have absolutely zero time for anyone who calls the Covid19 pandemic a hoax.
This is why I have absolutely zero time for anyone who calls the Covid19 pandemic a hoax.
Prof Kevin Fong giving the most devastating and moving testimony to the Covid Inquiry of visiting hospital intensive care units at the height of the second wave in late Dec 2020.
The unimaginable scale of death, the trauma, the loss of hope. Please watch this 2min clip.
youtu.be/FPCztlID3Q0
The unimaginable scale of death, the trauma, the loss of hope. Please watch this 2min clip.
youtu.be/FPCztlID3Q0
Professor Kevin Fong testifying at the Covid Inquiry Module 3, Sept 2024
YouTube video by Christina Pagel
youtu.be
September 26, 2024 at 2:56 PM
Thankyou, Kevin - for giving voice to the experience of healthcare workers at the Covid19 frontline, in an overstretched NHS at the mercy of a spineless, self-serving government.
This is why I have absolutely zero time for anyone who calls the Covid19 pandemic a hoax.
This is why I have absolutely zero time for anyone who calls the Covid19 pandemic a hoax.
I love this description of science as a messy and very human endeavour -
Science is messy! From my Chapter 1:
“Science fundamentally won't be distilled to rote proceduralism, of the sort that could be automatized or bureaucratized; it's far too human to be so reduced—and for this I'm grateful! The poetry underlying science comes from its inevitable human imperfections.”
“Science fundamentally won't be distilled to rote proceduralism, of the sort that could be automatized or bureaucratized; it's far too human to be so reduced—and for this I'm grateful! The poetry underlying science comes from its inevitable human imperfections.”
September 25, 2024 at 11:41 AM
I love this description of science as a messy and very human endeavour -
This week I have had three really encouraging pieces of feedback. Two colleagues have reported that others called me "a national treasure" and "lovely, great, really clever" in conversations, and a third told me I was "inspirational" to my face.
If this carries on I might need a little weep.
If this carries on I might need a little weep.
September 25, 2024 at 10:24 AM
This week I have had three really encouraging pieces of feedback. Two colleagues have reported that others called me "a national treasure" and "lovely, great, really clever" in conversations, and a third told me I was "inspirational" to my face.
If this carries on I might need a little weep.
If this carries on I might need a little weep.
It's like the beginning of Twitter here, isn't it? Nice and chatty and gentle, but I'm essentially following people I can find with no particular plan....
I'd very much welcome links to Bluesky starter packs for anything sciencey but particularly medical physics and clinical engineering. Thanks!
I'd very much welcome links to Bluesky starter packs for anything sciencey but particularly medical physics and clinical engineering. Thanks!
September 24, 2024 at 12:26 PM
It's like the beginning of Twitter here, isn't it? Nice and chatty and gentle, but I'm essentially following people I can find with no particular plan....
I'd very much welcome links to Bluesky starter packs for anything sciencey but particularly medical physics and clinical engineering. Thanks!
I'd very much welcome links to Bluesky starter packs for anything sciencey but particularly medical physics and clinical engineering. Thanks!
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Anti-microbial resistance to antibiotics (AMR) is one of our biggest threats now. This article highlights the risk + prevalence of contaminated water, the lack of adequate diagnostic testing risking inappropriate antibiotics being used and need for action globally 🧪
‘Drug-resistant typhoid is the final warning sign’: disease spreads in Pakistan as antibiotics fail
As world leaders discuss the battle against superbugs in New York, Pakistan’s children are suffering on the frontline
www.theguardian.com
September 24, 2024 at 7:09 AM
Anti-microbial resistance to antibiotics (AMR) is one of our biggest threats now. This article highlights the risk + prevalence of contaminated water, the lack of adequate diagnostic testing risking inappropriate antibiotics being used and need for action globally 🧪
We have vacancies for two Medical Physicists specialising in Nuclear Medicine in our team at The Christie, Manchester, UK. Details here -
Band 7
www.christie.nhs.uk/work-with-us...
Band 8a
www.christie.nhs.uk/work-with-us...
Band 7
www.christie.nhs.uk/work-with-us...
Band 8a
www.christie.nhs.uk/work-with-us...
September 24, 2024 at 9:32 AM
We have vacancies for two Medical Physicists specialising in Nuclear Medicine in our team at The Christie, Manchester, UK. Details here -
Band 7
www.christie.nhs.uk/work-with-us...
Band 8a
www.christie.nhs.uk/work-with-us...
Band 7
www.christie.nhs.uk/work-with-us...
Band 8a
www.christie.nhs.uk/work-with-us...
Reposted by Dr Heather Williams MBE
Hello Bluesky-ers! Please come and say hello if you know me from "the other place" :)
September 22, 2024 at 5:47 PM
Hello Bluesky-ers! Please come and say hello if you know me from "the other place" :)