Thomas Wells
thomas-wells.bsky.social
Thomas Wells
@thomas-wells.bsky.social
Sciencey boy working in coms
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I participated in a faculty panel a few weeks ago in which senior (ahem) faculty gave advice on careers in academia by pretending luck had very little to do with our success. One piece of advice riled me up, in which it was argued that a reason for their success was their ability to say no. 1/
December 9, 2024 at 3:16 AM
Evidence of my Christmas spirit
🎄Our Festive Jumper Day is here! 🧑‍🎄

Today we're wearing festive knits to support
Shepherds Bush Families Project, helping local families in Hammersmith & Fulham.

LMS partners with local organisations to support our Hammersmith & Fulham community
November 28, 2024 at 12:54 PM
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People are often surprised when I tell them this: both Twitter and Facebook/insta/threads are now specifically engineered to downgrade, hide, suppress real journalism. If this platform is different, that's a huge change
Traffic from Bluesky to @bostonglobe.com is already 3x that of Threads, and we are seeing 4.5x the conversions to paying digital subscribers.
November 27, 2024 at 6:22 AM
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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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November 25, 2024 at 12:38 PM