If you feel able, consider filling in UCU’s form (check you emails) to help challenge punitive MAB deductions.

Making code readable and available ASAP increases the likelihood someone may find a bug 🪲 AND THIS IS A GOOD THING Unless you are subjecting code to review by multiple authors 🔍, there will be even more bugs 🐛🪲🐞

Fake rigor is rampant. There is a certain "color by numbers" approach today that tries to reduce scientific criticism to formulas (statistics checklists, dot plots, "what about in vivo?", etc.). Stock criticisms undermine the enterprise in many ways.

The UCU Anti-Casualisation Committee committee at their last meeting took the decision to tweet in support of Unite UCU's ballot result. Unfortunately the tweet appears to have mysteriously disappeared within minutes, but here's a screenshot

Sr management acknowledging that improving wellbeing means fixing workload is to be welcomed. But why do they always believe that excessive workload is all generated by "meetings" and "processes" rather than that there is not enough staff for the amount of teaching and research

Richard Sever Steinn Sigurðsson It depends on our definition of new ideas. Obvious ideas for next step experiments are overabundant. Yet, much progress is limited by dearth of new ideas. "You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I’ve only ever had one." - Einstein blog.slavovlab.net/2015/05/31/ide…

A lots of the unhappiness that (middle class, white male) academics have with the current academia is that we keep insisting on doing what think the job should be, rather than what the people that draw up our contracts and pay our salaries tell us it is.

Tickets for @Glastonbury Festival 2024 are now SOLD OUT. Confirmation emails are going out now. Thank you to everyone who bought tickets this morning and sorry to those who missed out.

Applications for the Sanger Prize are now open!🏆 This gives undergrad students from 136 countries & territories the opportunity to work in one of our labs for three months, all expenses paid 🏅 📅 Deadline 5th January 2024 Full info on how to apply 👉 sanger.ac.uk/about/the-sang…

The idea that we need to keep immigrants out of the UK is a nonsense. In reality they have been plugging the labour gaps in our country for years, particularly in hard pressed areas like our health and care services. 1/2