My first ever publication is my NatRevMaterials piece about the #DisabledInSTEM Mentorship Program nature.com/articles/s4157… and it truly feels like a huge accomplishment to be recognized for all of my work towards inclusion in STEM!

There is no such thing as “a sick note culture.” There is a record high NHS waiting list, crippling housing costs, widespread food poverty, stagnant wages and inadequate benefit rates, a broken social care system, dire mental health services, and closed Sure Start centres.

What $7,000,000,000,000 a year in fossil fuel subsidies buys you.

I see so many #DisabledInSTEM individuals forced to leave STEM.

It’s not on the individual when there’s widespread institutional ableism that prevents our success.

Despite asking Higher Education providers to take on more and more disabled student support, the government is providing less and less funding for it, down 43% per student in real terms since 2018:

wonkhe.com/wonk-corner/cu…

Sunak was robbed.

Sauron had a lot of problems, but he knew how to manage a wetland. The Dead Marshes were one of the environmental gems of Mordor, and an impressive nature-based solution to help remediate the environmental damage caused by the corpse issue after the Battle of Dagorlad

'That the sector continues to treat disabled students not being able to access their education as anything other than an emergency of that nature is a scandal.'

Time to stop being reasonable on reasonable adjustment failure wonkhe.com/wonk-corner/ti… via @wonkhe

Academics should really be speaking out about this. It’s bad research!

FGEN's inital statement on the Cass Review

Call for Participants: ECRs with hidden impairments from minoritised ethnic groups. Dr Lin looking for experiences of navigating UK academia.

go.hw.ac.uk/ECR-Intersecti…

From Key Findings:
Disability status not disclosed for 7% of applications in PI role-- 2% disclosed a disability. Minimal different in award rates between those who disclosed and not known.
PIs and CoIs from White ethnic group had significantly higher award rate .

Published today! Our report on peer review bias. You can read a summarising article here: edicaucus.ac.uk/peer-review-bi… which also contains links to the full report.
A reminder of 2 upcoming seminars on this topic:
#PeerReviewBias #DiversityAndInclusion #EDI #AcademicTwitter #Funding

'Endnote is better! 😡'

'No, Mendeley is better! 😡'

'No, Zotero is better! 😡'

manual referencers:

A yell into the void as I'm not v active here - are there resources which ID all steps required for a) grant applications, b) undertaking research, c) disseminating research?

I am working on an application to ID barriers across STEM projects for disabled folk #DisabledinSTEM

Honing my skills in capturing beautiful images of regenerated cell walls in plant protoplasts in Daniel Cosgrove’s lab at Penn state where each image tells a story of growth and resilience!

💡 How can plants register force, when they don't have a brain or central nervous sytem? That is exactly what the #GreenTE consortium is going to research over the next 10 years. The group has been awarded a €22.8 million grant 👉 wur.nl/en/news-wur/sh… Mariana Silva Artur 🇧🇷 Leónie Bentsink

It is important to apply for these opportunities. We need to make sure that we claim this space and shout for more of these to be available #youdeserved

Hemingway was asked to come up with a six-word story to encapsulate the economic mismanagement of the UK