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Promising work going on in my home county ☺️ Love to see it!

Temperate rainforest restoration project to begin in Cornwall - BBC News share.google/B7WFoAcVLwny... 🧪 #academicsky

Hanging out at Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh. I really like it here!

A great place to read ageing pop sci books for research purposes ☺️

@thebotanics.bsky.social #academicsky 🧪

Brand new opportunity! The Research Ethics Association has just been officially registered as a charity, and we are recruiting trustees from ALL disciplines ⚖️

reachvolunteering.org.uk/opp/join-boa...

#academicchatter #academicsky #phdsky 🧪

Hello, still new here, how do I get myself on these starter packs and become a feed contributor? 😇

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Poetry collection is going well thanks for asking

Happy birthday to pharmaceutical #chemist Alice Ball (1892-1916) who developed 1st effective treatment for leprosy. 👩🏾‍🔬🧪🐡 #histsci Though her life was cut tragically short, her research saved 1000s from exile & painful, ineffective lifelong treatment for leprosy, & she was a trailblazer for both women

After years of worm-ing, I can finally pop on the robes, floppy hat... and hold my PhD thesis! Graduation was an awesome day, marking the end of my time as a student.

I'm looking back with fondness, but also with great excitement for the future ☺️

#exeterforever #academicchatter 🧪 @exeter.ac.uk

A call to academic institutions and leaders, worldwide.

An open letter from the presidents of Gaza universities
Our campuses may have been razed, but our universities continue to exist.

www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

Proteomic aging signatures across mouse organs and life stages #EMBOJ www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

I didn't realise how much I had missed the online academic community.

I pretty much left Twitter over 2 years ago, so I'm glad there is BlueSky now!

#academicchatter 🧪

'Even more troubling are recent reports from a number of labs that senescent cells themselves seem to have some beneficial functions, as opposed to being loafing cellular deadweight, and that if you did find a targeted way of clearing them out that you might end up wishing that you hadn’t'

This was the first showcase of my postdoc work! It was quite "ahhh" presenting something after only 6 months, but it went super well ☺️
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Lab friend: You use E. coli, right?
Me: