Sam Giles
@gilespalaeo.bsky.social
Scientist and palaeobiologist | she/her/hers | Royal Society Senior Research Fellow in Birmingham, UK and Lapworth Museum Academic Keeper | 🏳️🌈 | too many pets | currently mostly migraines |
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Please read and consider signing this open letter to UKRI regarding their initial and future responses to Michelle Donelan: docs.google.com/document/d/e...
UKRI open letter (public)
docs.google.com
October 30, 2023 at 6:14 PM
Please read and consider signing this open letter to UKRI regarding their initial and future responses to Michelle Donelan: docs.google.com/document/d/e...
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This is the same “protect free speech” government that blacklisted me for retweeting Parody Liz Truss, so colour me unsurprised.
October 29, 2023 at 10:31 AM
This is the same “protect free speech” government that blacklisted me for retweeting Parody Liz Truss, so colour me unsurprised.
It took weeks, or months, or more than a year for UKRI to respond to EDI concerns around lack of funding to Black researchers and bias in how doctoral funding is awarded. But this gets an response within hours - on a Saturday afternoon, no less - and promise of an immediate investigation. Shameful.
October 29, 2023 at 9:17 AM
It took weeks, or months, or more than a year for UKRI to respond to EDI concerns around lack of funding to Black researchers and bias in how doctoral funding is awarded. But this gets an response within hours - on a Saturday afternoon, no less - and promise of an immediate investigation. Shameful.
Woke up with a migraine on day 1 of field teaching THINGS ARE GOING GREAT 🫠
October 29, 2023 at 7:08 AM
Woke up with a migraine on day 1 of field teaching THINGS ARE GOING GREAT 🫠
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UK govt minister, in the last hour, ordering the national academic research funding body to censor the members of its expert panels, for unacceptable sympathy with Palestinians.
October 28, 2023 at 4:31 PM
UK govt minister, in the last hour, ordering the national academic research funding body to censor the members of its expert panels, for unacceptable sympathy with Palestinians.
Out of office on for field teaching! Are you a ‘I’ll get back to you ASAP on my return” or a “Email me again when I’m back if necessary” kind of person?
October 27, 2023 at 7:40 PM
Out of office on for field teaching! Are you a ‘I’ll get back to you ASAP on my return” or a “Email me again when I’m back if necessary” kind of person?
Last week my kids complained that I picked them up too early (!) and they didn’t get their after school club snack, so this week I am treating myself to a leisurely coffee first 😋
October 25, 2023 at 2:57 PM
Last week my kids complained that I picked them up too early (!) and they didn’t get their after school club snack, so this week I am treating myself to a leisurely coffee first 😋
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It is shameful that the #MaddoxPrize shortlist includes an 'activist' who calls trans people ‘damaged’ and a ‘huge problem in a sane world' and stated that the NHS Rainbow scheme is worse than Andrew Tate.
Here is our statement:
prideinstem.org/2023/10/24/p...
Here is our statement:
prideinstem.org/2023/10/24/p...
Pride in STEM statement about the shortlisting of Helen Joyce for the Maddox Prize
Pride in STEM is wholeheartedly disappointed in the decision taken by Sense About Science to shortlist Helen Joyce for the Maddox Prize, with the following motivation: “Helen Joyce has been shortl...
prideinstem.org
October 24, 2023 at 6:46 PM
It is shameful that the #MaddoxPrize shortlist includes an 'activist' who calls trans people ‘damaged’ and a ‘huge problem in a sane world' and stated that the NHS Rainbow scheme is worse than Andrew Tate.
Here is our statement:
prideinstem.org/2023/10/24/p...
Here is our statement:
prideinstem.org/2023/10/24/p...
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An unconventional advice for those on TT market: Consider negotiating a set of funds to help others. I + others have negotiated $$ to host diversity-related events at conferences and for community outreach. We often think startup $ is just for our own research and lab, but I want us to think bigger.
October 24, 2023 at 1:04 PM
An unconventional advice for those on TT market: Consider negotiating a set of funds to help others. I + others have negotiated $$ to host diversity-related events at conferences and for community outreach. We often think startup $ is just for our own research and lab, but I want us to think bigger.
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Please read this from Caster Semenya and remember the humiliating and degrading testing she's been put through is what Republican legislatures have endorsed in their attacks against trans people--up to and including coercive medical treatments forced onto young people whose bodies defy the binary.
Opinion | Running in a Body That’s My Own
Athletes like me should get to compete as ourselves.
www.nytimes.com
October 22, 2023 at 12:11 PM
Please read this from Caster Semenya and remember the humiliating and degrading testing she's been put through is what Republican legislatures have endorsed in their attacks against trans people--up to and including coercive medical treatments forced onto young people whose bodies defy the binary.
Literally no trains back home and no replacement buses available so had to share an Uber with a bunch of other stranded people, I hate trains 🤪
I got on a train this morning and that was a BAD DECISION, please everyone wish me luck 😂
October 20, 2023 at 5:18 PM
Literally no trains back home and no replacement buses available so had to share an Uber with a bunch of other stranded people, I hate trains 🤪
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my Likert Scale
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️: Lovert
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️: Likert
⭐️⭐️⭐️: Whatevert
⭐️⭐️: Dislikert
⭐️: Hatert
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️: Lovert
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️: Likert
⭐️⭐️⭐️: Whatevert
⭐️⭐️: Dislikert
⭐️: Hatert
October 11, 2023 at 11:38 AM
my Likert Scale
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️: Lovert
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️: Likert
⭐️⭐️⭐️: Whatevert
⭐️⭐️: Dislikert
⭐️: Hatert
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️: Lovert
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️: Likert
⭐️⭐️⭐️: Whatevert
⭐️⭐️: Dislikert
⭐️: Hatert
I got on a train this morning and that was a BAD DECISION, please everyone wish me luck 😂
October 20, 2023 at 8:48 AM
I got on a train this morning and that was a BAD DECISION, please everyone wish me luck 😂
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Hello Blue Sky!! So happy to finally be here thanks to the encouragement of @davidho.bsky.social and @katharinehayhoe.com ! I'll be posting on ocean, climate solutions, mapping, GIS, and Hawaii to start with! But for now aloha from me and my dog Riley 🌺 (she/her)!
October 16, 2023 at 9:14 PM
Hello Blue Sky!! So happy to finally be here thanks to the encouragement of @davidho.bsky.social and @katharinehayhoe.com ! I'll be posting on ocean, climate solutions, mapping, GIS, and Hawaii to start with! But for now aloha from me and my dog Riley 🌺 (she/her)!
That’s my dogs’ bed. They don’t mind sharing it with my cat, Pippi. One problem: that’s not my cat 😂
October 14, 2023 at 12:55 PM
That’s my dogs’ bed. They don’t mind sharing it with my cat, Pippi. One problem: that’s not my cat 😂
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Also there's been some interesting discourse about the diversity of scientists on this episode (and all of the eps, thanks to the hard work of the production team). It's true it doesn't reflect the overall demographics of the geosciences. But it DOES reflect the massive changes that are happening.
October 13, 2023 at 10:56 AM
Also there's been some interesting discourse about the diversity of scientists on this episode (and all of the eps, thanks to the hard work of the production team). It's true it doesn't reflect the overall demographics of the geosciences. But it DOES reflect the massive changes that are happening.
I’ve spent 20 minutes failing to book a £38 hotel through my university travel site because I can’t find the right analysis code. But I have found codes for
- moist food for dogs
- molybdenum ore
- reptile leather
- sanguine
- nuclear tools
- payload delivery systems for spacecraft
- yacht harbour
😂
- moist food for dogs
- molybdenum ore
- reptile leather
- sanguine
- nuclear tools
- payload delivery systems for spacecraft
- yacht harbour
😂
October 10, 2023 at 5:22 PM
I’ve spent 20 minutes failing to book a £38 hotel through my university travel site because I can’t find the right analysis code. But I have found codes for
- moist food for dogs
- molybdenum ore
- reptile leather
- sanguine
- nuclear tools
- payload delivery systems for spacecraft
- yacht harbour
😂
- moist food for dogs
- molybdenum ore
- reptile leather
- sanguine
- nuclear tools
- payload delivery systems for spacecraft
- yacht harbour
😂
Having a too-chronically-ill-to-be-a-grown-up day but also I have to take the kids to school and give a flipped lecture and meet with students after having yesterday off 😭
October 10, 2023 at 7:29 AM
Having a too-chronically-ill-to-be-a-grown-up day but also I have to take the kids to school and give a flipped lecture and meet with students after having yesterday off 😭
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Last day to sign petition below. Note that signatures from non-UK scientists & other supporters *are* welcome. (I have signed it) 🧪#AcademicSky #histsci #philsci
✉️ Some science 🧪 buddies and I have written an open letter to the UK government, strongly opposing their “kicking woke ideology out of science” sentiments, which stand to damage the UK’s scientific standing and ability to deliver for public good.
Please read and consider signing ✍🏻
t.co/H7rNzb0wGh
Please read and consider signing ✍🏻
t.co/H7rNzb0wGh
Letter to Secretary of State re EDI in science
Online survey BOS
t.co
October 9, 2023 at 12:14 PM
Last day to sign petition below. Note that signatures from non-UK scientists & other supporters *are* welcome. (I have signed it) 🧪#AcademicSky #histsci #philsci
When life gives you overripe bananas and a six year old who’s too poorly for school, make banana bread 😋
October 9, 2023 at 12:38 PM
When life gives you overripe bananas and a six year old who’s too poorly for school, make banana bread 😋
Gonna fire this up for the third time in three weeks because the 6 year old has a 103° fever *internal screaming*
What automatic reply did we agree on for ‘I know it’s the start of term and there are 463,891 urgent things to do but my kids are continuously off school sick so I’m busy looking after them’? 🫠
October 8, 2023 at 6:09 PM
Gonna fire this up for the third time in three weeks because the 6 year old has a 103° fever *internal screaming*
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The #DisabledInSTEM feed is at 21 users! I think I’ve heard when we hit 100 it becomes eligible to show up in the feed search?
Would appreciate boosts 🧪 so we can reconnect and establish community over here.
bsky.app/profile/did:...
Would appreciate boosts 🧪 so we can reconnect and establish community over here.
bsky.app/profile/did:...
October 7, 2023 at 11:48 PM
The #DisabledInSTEM feed is at 21 users! I think I’ve heard when we hit 100 it becomes eligible to show up in the feed search?
Would appreciate boosts 🧪 so we can reconnect and establish community over here.
bsky.app/profile/did:...
Would appreciate boosts 🧪 so we can reconnect and establish community over here.
bsky.app/profile/did:...
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At a wedding tonight, our table largely populated by old aquarium coworkers and a singular unfortunate +1. I just heard him say "there's only so many times I can talk about fish" to someone at the next table over
October 8, 2023 at 2:54 AM
At a wedding tonight, our table largely populated by old aquarium coworkers and a singular unfortunate +1. I just heard him say "there's only so many times I can talk about fish" to someone at the next table over