Dr Matt J Young
@mattjaywhy.bsky.social
Professional nerd. Managing @ufncollab.bsky.social programme. Interested in making research work with & for communities through more equitable systems and cultures. Part-time artist & performer. All the time plant hoarder.
📍 Nottingham, UK
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ he/him
📍 Nottingham, UK
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ he/him
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Dr Matt J Young
@mattjaywhy.bsky.social
· Nov 18
A little intro for you all - I'm Matt 🤓. I'm a researcher and specialist in community engagement with research.
I manage a programme that's developing radically inclusive approaches to embed community knowledge and experience in locally focused research.
I manage a programme that's developing radically inclusive approaches to embed community knowledge and experience in locally focused research.
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We're proud to co-fund the @adr-uk.bsky.social Research Community Catalyst: Youth Transitions – a major initiative using linked admin data to understand young people’s pathways through education, care, justice and into work or further study
Learn more: www.adruk.org/our-work/bro...
Learn more: www.adruk.org/our-work/bro...
ADR England Research Community Catalyst: Youth Transitions
This project aims to build a research landscape informed by existing research and evidence gaps in the field of youth transitions. It provides opportunities ...
www.adruk.org
May 20, 2025 at 8:28 AM
We're proud to co-fund the @adr-uk.bsky.social Research Community Catalyst: Youth Transitions – a major initiative using linked admin data to understand young people’s pathways through education, care, justice and into work or further study
Learn more: www.adruk.org/our-work/bro...
Learn more: www.adruk.org/our-work/bro...
This is the final frontier of genocide.
Israeli air strikes killed over 250 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip in the past 48 hours, including over 100 Palestinians last night. There are reports of entire families trapped or missing under the rubble.
Israeli air strikes killed over 250 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip in the past 48 hours, including over 100 Palestinians last night. There are reports of entire families trapped or missing under the rubble.
May 17, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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Everyone aboard an aid flotilla for Gaza that was hit by drones in international waters off Malta overnight are "confirmed safe", the Maltese government said in a statement
Activists say Israeli drones hit aid boat for Gaza
Everyone aboard an aid flotilla for Gaza that was hit by drones in international waters off Malta overnight are "confirmed safe", the Maltese government said in a statement.
www.rte.ie
May 2, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Everyone aboard an aid flotilla for Gaza that was hit by drones in international waters off Malta overnight are "confirmed safe", the Maltese government said in a statement
Glad I can finally share this big work news! We'll be rolling out our boldly inclusive researcher recruitment, training, and community engagement initiatives all across Leics.
Also, to those who are waiting for me to reply to an email, this is what's been taking up all my time 😅💁🏻♂️
Also, to those who are waiting for me to reply to an email, this is what's been taking up all my time 😅💁🏻♂️
Exciting news📢 Thanks to a £2.3M grant from Research England and Leicestershire’s universities, we have an incredible opportunity to expand our initiatives with an additional 27 PhD studentships and 12 Research placements funded across the county.
🔗: loom.ly/H8vBxt4
🔗: loom.ly/H8vBxt4
May 2, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Glad I can finally share this big work news! We'll be rolling out our boldly inclusive researcher recruitment, training, and community engagement initiatives all across Leics.
Also, to those who are waiting for me to reply to an email, this is what's been taking up all my time 😅💁🏻♂️
Also, to those who are waiting for me to reply to an email, this is what's been taking up all my time 😅💁🏻♂️
Spent the afternoon at the London Natural History Museum yesterday. It's such a beautiful building and always nice going back.
Of course I had to pay homage to my faves, the archaeopteryx fossil and the stuffed dodos.
Of course I had to pay homage to my faves, the archaeopteryx fossil and the stuffed dodos.
April 27, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Spent the afternoon at the London Natural History Museum yesterday. It's such a beautiful building and always nice going back.
Of course I had to pay homage to my faves, the archaeopteryx fossil and the stuffed dodos.
Of course I had to pay homage to my faves, the archaeopteryx fossil and the stuffed dodos.
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A trans woman wrote to Wetherspoons to ask which toilets they're meant to use. Wetherspoons replied acknowledging the Supreme Court's verdict...and that trans customers can use whichever loos they want to but to please lock the cubicle door.
Labour now being outflanked on the left by Wetherspoons.
Labour now being outflanked on the left by Wetherspoons.
April 26, 2025 at 3:37 PM
A trans woman wrote to Wetherspoons to ask which toilets they're meant to use. Wetherspoons replied acknowledging the Supreme Court's verdict...and that trans customers can use whichever loos they want to but to please lock the cubicle door.
Labour now being outflanked on the left by Wetherspoons.
Labour now being outflanked on the left by Wetherspoons.
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Cass report - Sex Matters etc consulted, trans participation refused.
FWS Supreme Court case - Sex Matters etc consulted, trans participation refused.
Puberty blocker ban - Sex Matters etc consulted, trans input ignored.
That should be everything you need to know.
FWS Supreme Court case - Sex Matters etc consulted, trans participation refused.
Puberty blocker ban - Sex Matters etc consulted, trans input ignored.
That should be everything you need to know.
April 16, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Cass report - Sex Matters etc consulted, trans participation refused.
FWS Supreme Court case - Sex Matters etc consulted, trans participation refused.
Puberty blocker ban - Sex Matters etc consulted, trans input ignored.
That should be everything you need to know.
FWS Supreme Court case - Sex Matters etc consulted, trans participation refused.
Puberty blocker ban - Sex Matters etc consulted, trans input ignored.
That should be everything you need to know.
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You cannot legislate away a person, who they are, how they feel, how their friends and loved ones see them.
I stand with my trans friends forever and always. X
I stand with my trans friends forever and always. X
April 16, 2025 at 12:39 PM
You cannot legislate away a person, who they are, how they feel, how their friends and loved ones see them.
I stand with my trans friends forever and always. X
I stand with my trans friends forever and always. X
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I wrote this post for The Auditorium blog, about the inclusive doctoral recruitment and admissions work I have been involved in at #NottinghamTrentUniversity as part of The EDEPI Project and UfN Co(l)laboratory. @mattjaywhy.bsky.social @laurenjnixon.bsky.social theauditorium.blog/2025/03/13/i...
Inclusive doctoral recruitment and development: considering challenges and possibilities
Dr Sherran Clarence, Senior Lecturer, Doctoral Education and Development, Nottingham Trent University What does ‘inclusion’ mean to you, in a higher education context? Who needs to be included and …
theauditorium.blog
March 27, 2025 at 9:45 PM
I wrote this post for The Auditorium blog, about the inclusive doctoral recruitment and admissions work I have been involved in at #NottinghamTrentUniversity as part of The EDEPI Project and UfN Co(l)laboratory. @mattjaywhy.bsky.social @laurenjnixon.bsky.social theauditorium.blog/2025/03/13/i...
Reposted by Dr Matt J Young
Happy Valentine’s Day!
Don’t forget to text your crush a squid fact today 😘
Don’t forget to text your crush a squid fact today 😘
February 14, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Happy Valentine’s Day!
Don’t forget to text your crush a squid fact today 😘
Don’t forget to text your crush a squid fact today 😘
Roses are red
Michael Jackson wrote thriller
...
iykyk 😏
Michael Jackson wrote thriller
...
iykyk 😏
February 14, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Roses are red
Michael Jackson wrote thriller
...
iykyk 😏
Michael Jackson wrote thriller
...
iykyk 😏
I totally forgot about the good old #academicvalentine trend. Still got 30 mins to force out a few mediocre ones!
February 14, 2025 at 11:32 PM
I totally forgot about the good old #academicvalentine trend. Still got 30 mins to force out a few mediocre ones!
Roses are red
It's hard writing papers
Hands only in the fume hood!
Unless you like huffing vapours...
#academicvalentine
It's hard writing papers
Hands only in the fume hood!
Unless you like huffing vapours...
#academicvalentine
February 14, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Roses are red
It's hard writing papers
Hands only in the fume hood!
Unless you like huffing vapours...
#academicvalentine
It's hard writing papers
Hands only in the fume hood!
Unless you like huffing vapours...
#academicvalentine
Heard back about the grant. It's good news 😀 but that's all we can talk about for now, so don't anyone dare peer pressure me!
February 13, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Heard back about the grant. It's good news 😀 but that's all we can talk about for now, so don't anyone dare peer pressure me!
I mean, it'll also be the latest episode of Severance that will be keeping me up all night until next Friday.
Expecting to hear the outcome of a big grant application by the end of next week.
Accepting now that I won't sleep properly all week until I hear back 🙃
Accepting now that I won't sleep properly all week until I hear back 🙃
February 8, 2025 at 4:30 PM
I mean, it'll also be the latest episode of Severance that will be keeping me up all night until next Friday.
Expecting to hear the outcome of a big grant application by the end of next week.
Accepting now that I won't sleep properly all week until I hear back 🙃
Accepting now that I won't sleep properly all week until I hear back 🙃
February 8, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Expecting to hear the outcome of a big grant application by the end of next week.
Accepting now that I won't sleep properly all week until I hear back 🙃
Accepting now that I won't sleep properly all week until I hear back 🙃
Reposted by Dr Matt J Young
Hardly new info, but BSky should know:
Warsaw's water quality is monitored by eight clams with magnets attached to their shells. If contamination in the water causes the clams to close, the magnets trigger an alarm and shut off the city's water supply.
Thank you, little guardian molluscs.
🧪🌏🚰
Warsaw's water quality is monitored by eight clams with magnets attached to their shells. If contamination in the water causes the clams to close, the magnets trigger an alarm and shut off the city's water supply.
Thank you, little guardian molluscs.
🧪🌏🚰
February 7, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Hardly new info, but BSky should know:
Warsaw's water quality is monitored by eight clams with magnets attached to their shells. If contamination in the water causes the clams to close, the magnets trigger an alarm and shut off the city's water supply.
Thank you, little guardian molluscs.
🧪🌏🚰
Warsaw's water quality is monitored by eight clams with magnets attached to their shells. If contamination in the water causes the clams to close, the magnets trigger an alarm and shut off the city's water supply.
Thank you, little guardian molluscs.
🧪🌏🚰
Little occasional shout out to those of you who post about civic and community engagement with research to follow my starter pack or give me a shout so I can add you!
I want to connect with more folks in this space on good ol' BSky 👀
go.bsky.app/75njQMd
I want to connect with more folks in this space on good ol' BSky 👀
go.bsky.app/75njQMd
January 25, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Little occasional shout out to those of you who post about civic and community engagement with research to follow my starter pack or give me a shout so I can add you!
I want to connect with more folks in this space on good ol' BSky 👀
go.bsky.app/75njQMd
I want to connect with more folks in this space on good ol' BSky 👀
go.bsky.app/75njQMd
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Forcibly displaced Palestinians return to what’s left of their homes across Gaza after the Israel-Hamas ceasefire comes into effect.
— in pictures aje.io/axybur
— in pictures aje.io/axybur
January 19, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Forcibly displaced Palestinians return to what’s left of their homes across Gaza after the Israel-Hamas ceasefire comes into effect.
— in pictures aje.io/axybur
— in pictures aje.io/axybur
Don't know about you, but sometimes all I need to have a good day is some loud pink docs.
January 11, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Don't know about you, but sometimes all I need to have a good day is some loud pink docs.
😂 love this. And I love pins so yes I'm definitely getting one.
"It's Dr, actually"
I'm very excited to share this new pin with you all! canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/1841...
I'm very excited to share this new pin with you all! canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/1841...
January 7, 2025 at 1:19 PM
😂 love this. And I love pins so yes I'm definitely getting one.
Completely agree! Horror story telling at its finest! (And I've watched A LOT of bad Horror films)
January 2, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Completely agree! Horror story telling at its finest! (And I've watched A LOT of bad Horror films)
Whereas here in the UK, private transport monopolies just roll three D12 and multiply by 3 to decide on the pricing per mile and gaslight us into thinking their putting profit back into the system 🤷🏻♂️
It’s over 1,000km from Berlin to Paris
There’s now a direct daytime train between them, that takes 8 hours and costs just €59. Leave at 10am, arrive 6pm.
And… it’s just 1% the carbon emissions of the equivalent flight
www.euronews.com/travel/2024/...
There’s now a direct daytime train between them, that takes 8 hours and costs just €59. Leave at 10am, arrive 6pm.
And… it’s just 1% the carbon emissions of the equivalent flight
www.euronews.com/travel/2024/...
High-speed Paris-Berlin daily train service debuts
The route is the first directly linking the two capitals' city centres.
www.euronews.com
January 2, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Whereas here in the UK, private transport monopolies just roll three D12 and multiply by 3 to decide on the pricing per mile and gaslight us into thinking their putting profit back into the system 🤷🏻♂️
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Folk at the top of their game in STEM have a *very* high incidence of broad intellectual interests: musicians, artists, writers, polyglots, wide readers. And REF impact comes from breadth of interests not laser focus on specialism. Defunding 🎭🎨🖌️🎼 hurts all blue skies STEM 🧪
Been in a few discussions with industry and civil servants asking about skills, recruitment, retention, economic development in space sector and I’m always making the “stop UK HE collapse and yes that also means saving arts, humanities, socsci even if you only like STEM” point to astonished faces.
Just read this and think. You don't have to listen to me droning on. University chemistry and bioscience in real trouble. If undergraduate teaching and state-funded research both make a loss, then there'll be nothing there in just a few short years. Central govt doesn't appear to even know this.
January 2, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Folk at the top of their game in STEM have a *very* high incidence of broad intellectual interests: musicians, artists, writers, polyglots, wide readers. And REF impact comes from breadth of interests not laser focus on specialism. Defunding 🎭🎨🖌️🎼 hurts all blue skies STEM 🧪
It's only the first day of the new year and already the mini egg assault has descended upon the grocery stores.
This won't be good for my annual sugar intake.
This won't be good for my annual sugar intake.
January 1, 2025 at 7:24 PM
It's only the first day of the new year and already the mini egg assault has descended upon the grocery stores.
This won't be good for my annual sugar intake.
This won't be good for my annual sugar intake.