Mafalda Almeida 🇵🇹 🇪🇺
@bluebuleta.bsky.social
Scientist interested in heterochromatin formation and transcription regulation, studying transposons in @rberrens.bsky.social lab @uniofoxford Former Brockdorff lab member.
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Taking place on 17-19 September 2025, Transcription and Chromatin UK will showcase cutting-edge research and is a ‘mustattend’ for anyone within the transcription and epigenetics community🧪. Register now: www.eventsforce.net/biochemsoc/2...
June 26, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Taking place on 17-19 September 2025, Transcription and Chromatin UK will showcase cutting-edge research and is a ‘mustattend’ for anyone within the transcription and epigenetics community🧪. Register now: www.eventsforce.net/biochemsoc/2...
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A brilliant, kind, funny colleague gone too soon. We will miss you Bela.
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Remembering Professor Béla Novák 1956 - 2025
With great sadness, we announce the loss of Professor Béla Novák.
www.merton.ox.ac.uk
February 25, 2025 at 4:41 PM
A brilliant, kind, funny colleague gone too soon. We will miss you Bela.
www.merton.ox.ac.uk/news/remembe...
www.merton.ox.ac.uk/news/remembe...
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Reading the paper in Cell about how to close the scissor plots in gender representation at senior academic positions, I feel just a touch of pessimism. Having reached a level of seniority (middle management) I didn’t think I ever would, I read these great ideas wanting more, much more /1.
Closing the scissor-shaped curve: Strategies to promote gender equality in academia
Gender inequality in STEM fields remains pervasive and undermines the ability for
talented individuals to excel. Despite advances, women still encounter obstacles in
pursuing academic careers and reac...
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December 1, 2024 at 4:12 AM
Reading the paper in Cell about how to close the scissor plots in gender representation at senior academic positions, I feel just a touch of pessimism. Having reached a level of seniority (middle management) I didn’t think I ever would, I read these great ideas wanting more, much more /1.
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Women are under-represented at senior levels in #academia globally, & across all #science 🧪 disciplines, as shown by these "scissor-shaped curves" ✂️
So how can we ever achieve #gender #equality?
We discuss various strategies in this #Cell Commentary
#WomeninSTEM
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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So how can we ever achieve #gender #equality?
We discuss various strategies in this #Cell Commentary
#WomeninSTEM
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
🧵 1/
November 25, 2024 at 12:38 PM
Women are under-represented at senior levels in #academia globally, & across all #science 🧪 disciplines, as shown by these "scissor-shaped curves" ✂️
So how can we ever achieve #gender #equality?
We discuss various strategies in this #Cell Commentary
#WomeninSTEM
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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So how can we ever achieve #gender #equality?
We discuss various strategies in this #Cell Commentary
#WomeninSTEM
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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