🔥The 9th Round of Easy Loan, Earn $40 Reward is in progress❗️ ⏰ Promotion Period: January 15th - Feburary 15th, 2025 👉 Register now and check more details at gate.io/campaigns/358

Mini-plantsci had her first day at school today. This was her first picture for her teachers with the explanation “this is a dinosaur with spikes and this is the massive rock that made the massive hole and made all the dinosaurs die” 😂

So my calendar has just given me this reminder I added after realising I hate September every year. This year has already been pretty stressful, so goodness knows how grumpy I’m going to be by the end of the month 😳

🎓 Which universities drive social mobility the most? Browse our data explorer to see a 'mobility rate’ for universities, subjects and individual degrees - based on how many disadvantaged students get in, and how many of them go on to be high earners 👇 suttontrust.com/universities-a…

Universities contribute more than £250 BILLION to the UK economy. For every £1 of public money invested into UK universities, £14 of economic benefit is generated.  And yet the university sector is under threat. There’s a clear case for investment for growth that will benefit

🚨 New publication alert! 🚨 Excited to share our paper on Addressing Colonial and Militarized Themes in STEM Education, co-authored with Sean ! We explore how to decolonize and demilitarize STEM. 🔗 Read here: doi.org/10.3389/feduc.… #Decolonization Exeter Biosciences

Really excited to announce registration and abstract submission for this meeting is open! Join us January 7-8, 2025 in Lancaster for "Plant Biology Education: Shaping the Future." Register now: cvent.me/LB9K1D

This is really something - end of UK coal generated power from Ratcliffe power station. Feels weirdly personal - I could see Ratcliffe towers from my childhood bedroom window and did my A level Geography project on it. Impressive, but strange to think such a local feature gone

The design for the conference poster was inspired by scratch art. Hidden under the paint is something fascinating waiting to be revealed. It's that element of discovery and wonder that makes plant biology such an inspiring subject.🌈🌱 Event link : cvent.me/LB9K1D

Has fancy new initials to use! PFHEA feels like a real achievement - thanks for all who have supported along the way :)

Hello all - does anyone have any suggestions for resources/programmes that can help high achieving students but who *seriously* lack confidence in their academic ability/ideas? i.e. genuinely becoming a barrier to engagement and enjoyment of study. Thanks in anticipation

**New Blog Post** A reflection on how lab work might best be reconciled with the 'module' structure of modern UK HE. michaeloneill.org/blog-1/2024/10…

So she was first author on his key paper - in fact she's on most of his key papers, yet she didn't get the Nobel Prize, in spite of the fact they could have given 3 awards, not just 2. Explain to me how STEM is not institutionally sexist.

Can someone please start a thread of women in protein design? It's not my field so I can't immediately tag accounts but it would be a nice way to bring attention, especially in light of the currently all-male Nobel run this year. Happy to amplify for reach. TYIA!

Not for the first time, all Nobel Prizes in scientific disciplines this year have been awarded to men

Just watched all of #AlmasNotNormal which is brilliant, but this line will stay with me “They can hide a lot of cruelty behind the word policy”. V relevant to all in HE where it is easy to forget about the lives of individuals in institutional processes

After thinking about it for a while, I have decided I can no longer support this platform for ethical reasons. Am sad as this community has been so important to my professional development. I haven’t really got into BlueSky yet but you can find me at bsky.app/profile/kehpla…