Oonagh Barker
@obarker.bsky.social
PhD student at the University of East Anglia researching the effects of nutrition on fitness& lifespan in fruit flies 🪰 (she/they)
Interested in evolution, life history, ageing, behaviour, cool things along those lines.
Not enough hiking& caving 🧗🏼♀️
Interested in evolution, life history, ageing, behaviour, cool things along those lines.
Not enough hiking& caving 🧗🏼♀️
Yep, it's a PIPS! My PhD is 4 years long for this reason, and the placement has to be completed before our final year to avoid chaos while writing up.
January 27, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Yep, it's a PIPS! My PhD is 4 years long for this reason, and the placement has to be completed before our final year to avoid chaos while writing up.
My PhD program (the NRP DTP) has a mandatory 3 month internship - we have to arrange it ourselves, in anything we like, and we continue to receive our usual funding throughout, so we can try out a post-PhD plan B (or A) outside academia. It's a great idea& should be more widely adopted.
January 27, 2025 at 8:55 AM
My PhD program (the NRP DTP) has a mandatory 3 month internship - we have to arrange it ourselves, in anything we like, and we continue to receive our usual funding throughout, so we can try out a post-PhD plan B (or A) outside academia. It's a great idea& should be more widely adopted.
When not cooking weird little jelly squares to feed fruit flies, I might be found hiding in a hole somewhere under the Yorkshire Dales (Photo by my talented friend Ben Richards).
November 19, 2024 at 12:31 PM
When not cooking weird little jelly squares to feed fruit flies, I might be found hiding in a hole somewhere under the Yorkshire Dales (Photo by my talented friend Ben Richards).