Jo Sharp
@jofeanelwa.bsky.social
Materials Scientist & transmission electron microscopist, between institutions while I apply for a fellowship. Dyspraxic.
It's raining in our stupid house again but now we think we know why: our stupid builder failed to seal where the windows fit into the frames. So when it's finished raining in a couple of days I guess we have another thing to try fixing.
Why does **everybody** see two women and want to cheat us??
Why does **everybody** see two women and want to cheat us??
November 14, 2025 at 8:54 AM
It's raining in our stupid house again but now we think we know why: our stupid builder failed to seal where the windows fit into the frames. So when it's finished raining in a couple of days I guess we have another thing to try fixing.
Why does **everybody** see two women and want to cheat us??
Why does **everybody** see two women and want to cheat us??
Disability History Month events: here is how to support neurodivergent students.
Disability History Month non-events: your microscope room is still so cold you can't use tweezers.
Disability History Month non-events: your microscope room is still so cold you can't use tweezers.
November 13, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Disability History Month events: here is how to support neurodivergent students.
Disability History Month non-events: your microscope room is still so cold you can't use tweezers.
Disability History Month non-events: your microscope room is still so cold you can't use tweezers.
I have just done my fellowship interview! Phewwww
I think it went ok but I find it hard to tell. Everybody was nodding and smiling anyway and they were nice. We'll see eh!
I think it went ok but I find it hard to tell. Everybody was nodding and smiling anyway and they were nice. We'll see eh!
October 16, 2025 at 11:14 AM
I have just done my fellowship interview! Phewwww
I think it went ok but I find it hard to tell. Everybody was nodding and smiling anyway and they were nice. We'll see eh!
I think it went ok but I find it hard to tell. Everybody was nodding and smiling anyway and they were nice. We'll see eh!
I just did my first tax return. I don't even have anything large and complicated and I'm still confused.
October 12, 2025 at 11:49 AM
I just did my first tax return. I don't even have anything large and complicated and I'm still confused.
People
Please tell me your experiences of hiring a car in a country that drives on the opposite side to your home country. What makes it easier to adapt? Already planning to sit in my car on some flat tarmac and practice changing gear "wrong" handed from the passenger seat. Any other advice?
Please tell me your experiences of hiring a car in a country that drives on the opposite side to your home country. What makes it easier to adapt? Already planning to sit in my car on some flat tarmac and practice changing gear "wrong" handed from the passenger seat. Any other advice?
September 11, 2025 at 4:27 PM
People
Please tell me your experiences of hiring a car in a country that drives on the opposite side to your home country. What makes it easier to adapt? Already planning to sit in my car on some flat tarmac and practice changing gear "wrong" handed from the passenger seat. Any other advice?
Please tell me your experiences of hiring a car in a country that drives on the opposite side to your home country. What makes it easier to adapt? Already planning to sit in my car on some flat tarmac and practice changing gear "wrong" handed from the passenger seat. Any other advice?
We're home from Sicily.
The cat is also home.
I need a holiday after that.
The cat is also home.
I need a holiday after that.
September 11, 2025 at 3:43 PM
We're home from Sicily.
The cat is also home.
I need a holiday after that.
The cat is also home.
I need a holiday after that.
We are going on holiday tomorrow.
Mr Cat is going to the cattery this morning.
We are all coming home on the 11th.
I am SO ANXIOUS
Mr Cat is going to the cattery this morning.
We are all coming home on the 11th.
I am SO ANXIOUS
September 1, 2025 at 8:02 AM
We are going on holiday tomorrow.
Mr Cat is going to the cattery this morning.
We are all coming home on the 11th.
I am SO ANXIOUS
Mr Cat is going to the cattery this morning.
We are all coming home on the 11th.
I am SO ANXIOUS
Reposted by Jo Sharp
August 24, 2025 at 10:46 AM
[paper from 1977]
"The authors are particularly indebted to Mrs. M.H. Brady for preparation of the electron microscopy samples
and for assistance in-TEM sample examination and data analysis"
Why is she not FIRST AUTHOR
That is literally THE ENTIRE STUDY you credit stealing bastards
"The authors are particularly indebted to Mrs. M.H. Brady for preparation of the electron microscopy samples
and for assistance in-TEM sample examination and data analysis"
Why is she not FIRST AUTHOR
That is literally THE ENTIRE STUDY you credit stealing bastards
August 13, 2025 at 3:35 PM
[paper from 1977]
"The authors are particularly indebted to Mrs. M.H. Brady for preparation of the electron microscopy samples
and for assistance in-TEM sample examination and data analysis"
Why is she not FIRST AUTHOR
That is literally THE ENTIRE STUDY you credit stealing bastards
"The authors are particularly indebted to Mrs. M.H. Brady for preparation of the electron microscopy samples
and for assistance in-TEM sample examination and data analysis"
Why is she not FIRST AUTHOR
That is literally THE ENTIRE STUDY you credit stealing bastards
"Side effects may include lethargy"
*black and white streak gallops past, up and down the stairs a couple of times, attempts to eat headphones and paper*
We're probably ok on that front
*black and white streak gallops past, up and down the stairs a couple of times, attempts to eat headphones and paper*
We're probably ok on that front
August 13, 2025 at 9:29 AM
"Side effects may include lethargy"
*black and white streak gallops past, up and down the stairs a couple of times, attempts to eat headphones and paper*
We're probably ok on that front
*black and white streak gallops past, up and down the stairs a couple of times, attempts to eat headphones and paper*
We're probably ok on that front
Shout out to Mr Cat, adopted as a problem biter in February, who went to the vet for an abcess today and stood there eating Lickelix while she examined it and cleaned it and did not bite anybody even once. He is a Very Good Boy.
August 11, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Shout out to Mr Cat, adopted as a problem biter in February, who went to the vet for an abcess today and stood there eating Lickelix while she examined it and cleaned it and did not bite anybody even once. He is a Very Good Boy.
Holy moly
I'm through to interview for my fellowship! Aaaaaa omg!
I'm through to interview for my fellowship! Aaaaaa omg!
July 5, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Holy moly
I'm through to interview for my fellowship! Aaaaaa omg!
I'm through to interview for my fellowship! Aaaaaa omg!
There was an MMC/EMAG! I nearly lost my voice. Lots of awesome science. I think I first went to EMAG 15ish years ago and the progress is astonishing. Also it continues to be the friendliest conference I ever saw. Proud to be involved ❤️
And now...science time
And now...science time
July 4, 2025 at 9:21 AM
There was an MMC/EMAG! I nearly lost my voice. Lots of awesome science. I think I first went to EMAG 15ish years ago and the progress is astonishing. Also it continues to be the friendliest conference I ever saw. Proud to be involved ❤️
And now...science time
And now...science time
I was holding off on signing this to make sure it was actually useful but now I've seen multiple trans people sharing it, I'm in. Are you a cis woman who is fed up of being used as an excuse for the far right to harrass trans women? Click on the petition under here!
The anti-transphobia @nionwomen.bsky.social petition only hit 36,000 on Friday and it is already more than halfway to 37,000.
www.change.org/p/not-in-our...
www.change.org/p/not-in-our...
June 30, 2025 at 7:52 AM
I was holding off on signing this to make sure it was actually useful but now I've seen multiple trans people sharing it, I'm in. Are you a cis woman who is fed up of being used as an excuse for the far right to harrass trans women? Click on the petition under here!
First Dreamliner crash: in India, just after takeoff, onto a doctors' hostel next to a hospital. 242 on board, at least 30 dead on the ground. Bloody hell. What caused that?! www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
What we know so far about the Air India flight 171 crash
The passenger plane bound for Gatwick crashed shortly after takeoff from Ahmedabad
www.theguardian.com
June 12, 2025 at 12:42 PM
First Dreamliner crash: in India, just after takeoff, onto a doctors' hostel next to a hospital. 242 on board, at least 30 dead on the ground. Bloody hell. What caused that?! www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
Some scientists in China used my tomography technique on MOON ROCK and the paper is EVERYTHING. Irradiation! Iron nanoparticles! Getting oxygen on the moon! This is awesome! advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Solar Flare Tracks: Unveiling Features and Their Impact on Distinct Lunar Soil Transformations
The authors present the atomic structure of solar flare tracks as a function of ion implantation depth, along with real-time observations of their changes under varying temperature fields. At elevate...
advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
June 6, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Some scientists in China used my tomography technique on MOON ROCK and the paper is EVERYTHING. Irradiation! Iron nanoparticles! Getting oxygen on the moon! This is awesome! advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Right! I got my fellowship reviewer comments back, and they're pretty good, a few questions that I can answer, and one "why are you doing this as a fellowship instead of as a standard grant" to which the true answer is "because I'm too little to be allowed to apply for those". How to phrase that...
May 21, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Right! I got my fellowship reviewer comments back, and they're pretty good, a few questions that I can answer, and one "why are you doing this as a fellowship instead of as a standard grant" to which the true answer is "because I'm too little to be allowed to apply for those". How to phrase that...
As well as politicians apparently making up statistics of their arse - having a lot of immigrants doesn't make you a land of strangers. It makes you a land of people whose friends are from different places. This is obvious cynical bollocks just to suck up to Trump and it's wank.
May 13, 2025 at 11:38 AM
As well as politicians apparently making up statistics of their arse - having a lot of immigrants doesn't make you a land of strangers. It makes you a land of people whose friends are from different places. This is obvious cynical bollocks just to suck up to Trump and it's wank.
Letter to MP in support of trans rights: written.
Car: stopped displaying symptoms the minute we set off to the vet/garage. Instead it picked two new ones.
Garage man: mystified. Replacing coolant level sensor. Looking askance at instrument panel.
Car: stopped displaying symptoms the minute we set off to the vet/garage. Instead it picked two new ones.
Garage man: mystified. Replacing coolant level sensor. Looking askance at instrument panel.
April 28, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Letter to MP in support of trans rights: written.
Car: stopped displaying symptoms the minute we set off to the vet/garage. Instead it picked two new ones.
Garage man: mystified. Replacing coolant level sensor. Looking askance at instrument panel.
Car: stopped displaying symptoms the minute we set off to the vet/garage. Instead it picked two new ones.
Garage man: mystified. Replacing coolant level sensor. Looking askance at instrument panel.
People who know AI things: when you use the udm=14 option with google to make it not show you the AI summary, does it *actually not make* the AI summary, or does it still make it and just not show you it?
April 25, 2025 at 7:58 AM
People who know AI things: when you use the udm=14 option with google to make it not show you the AI summary, does it *actually not make* the AI summary, or does it still make it and just not show you it?
The Pope died and one of his last acts when he knew he was going was to summon Vance? I bet that conversation included a good telling off.
April 21, 2025 at 8:51 AM
The Pope died and one of his last acts when he knew he was going was to summon Vance? I bet that conversation included a good telling off.
Things that broke today:
The car (mostly just pretending/gauge a bit loose or something)
The cat (hopefully also just pretending to make me guilty about picking him up and evicting him from a chair)
The UK Supreme Court (definitely not pretending)
The car (mostly just pretending/gauge a bit loose or something)
The cat (hopefully also just pretending to make me guilty about picking him up and evicting him from a chair)
The UK Supreme Court (definitely not pretending)
April 17, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Things that broke today:
The car (mostly just pretending/gauge a bit loose or something)
The cat (hopefully also just pretending to make me guilty about picking him up and evicting him from a chair)
The UK Supreme Court (definitely not pretending)
The car (mostly just pretending/gauge a bit loose or something)
The cat (hopefully also just pretending to make me guilty about picking him up and evicting him from a chair)
The UK Supreme Court (definitely not pretending)
Bits of that supreme court ruling are simply false. Sex is objectively not binary; there are people who are in between. Biological characteristics are not plain, unambiguous or self-explanatory. This is a bunch of old people pretending science isn't true because they'd prefer the world to be simple.
April 16, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Bits of that supreme court ruling are simply false. Sex is objectively not binary; there are people who are in between. Biological characteristics are not plain, unambiguous or self-explanatory. This is a bunch of old people pretending science isn't true because they'd prefer the world to be simple.
Ooookayyyy they have figured out a timescale for the dread fellowship.
There were more than 500 applications over Open, Open Plus and Postdoctoral so they have got WORK to do.
Reviews will come out 21st May
Responses due back 5th June
Interview invitations 11th July
Interviews autumn.
!!!!!
There were more than 500 applications over Open, Open Plus and Postdoctoral so they have got WORK to do.
Reviews will come out 21st May
Responses due back 5th June
Interview invitations 11th July
Interviews autumn.
!!!!!
April 14, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Ooookayyyy they have figured out a timescale for the dread fellowship.
There were more than 500 applications over Open, Open Plus and Postdoctoral so they have got WORK to do.
Reviews will come out 21st May
Responses due back 5th June
Interview invitations 11th July
Interviews autumn.
!!!!!
There were more than 500 applications over Open, Open Plus and Postdoctoral so they have got WORK to do.
Reviews will come out 21st May
Responses due back 5th June
Interview invitations 11th July
Interviews autumn.
!!!!!
Right, now I have an official offer I can announce it:
I have a job! At Birmingham, working on austenitic steels for fusion, starting in early May, for 30 months.
If I get the fellowship, I leave early; if I don't get the fellowship, I'm still doing fusion. Hurray!
I have a job! At Birmingham, working on austenitic steels for fusion, starting in early May, for 30 months.
If I get the fellowship, I leave early; if I don't get the fellowship, I'm still doing fusion. Hurray!
April 10, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Right, now I have an official offer I can announce it:
I have a job! At Birmingham, working on austenitic steels for fusion, starting in early May, for 30 months.
If I get the fellowship, I leave early; if I don't get the fellowship, I'm still doing fusion. Hurray!
I have a job! At Birmingham, working on austenitic steels for fusion, starting in early May, for 30 months.
If I get the fellowship, I leave early; if I don't get the fellowship, I'm still doing fusion. Hurray!