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Scientists with at least one child aged five or younger have seen their research time fall by 17 per cent during the coronavirus pandemic, with women more heavily affected, a survey of US- and Europe-based academics has found. bit.ly/3exjW7G

Proud to see Queens' doing their best to make good of such an awful situation. I applied (and studied) here almost solely because of its comparatively high state school intake. Wouldn't have got in under the algorithm.

Some of the replies to this are so disheartening... why spend so much time/effort/money encouraging access to STEM if entry level jobs are unfeasible for people from lower socioeconomic backgrounds?

Repeat after me until it sinks in: SCIENCE IS A PROCESS NOT A PRODUCT

Exciting news! My documentary about Somali women at Cambridge University is officially out and has been acquired by The Guardian! Its been a long two years and has not been easy to complete during quarantine but soo worth every second!! 🙌🏾

It doesn't matter how many times I see this statistic, it still always gets to me. 25 Black women professors. In the whole of the UK. 25.

Feels surreal that three days ago I was celebrating the powerful women in my life, and their strength and independence. Today, we've been sharing ways to stay safe on a run or walking to the shops, and promising not to go alone. #SheWasWalkingHome

Please read this if you’re tweeting about the Sarah Everard case, it is so important and applies to us all: gov.uk/government/new…

i’ve just seen this from BPS DoN: bps.org.uk/member-microsi… as a clincial psychologist - and a brown woman working in the extraordinarily white middle-class world of neuropsychology - i acknowledge that it’s a start. but (there’s always a ‘but’ isn’t there?)

I'm so pleased to see this, I was shocked by the number of people (academics included) who didn't understand why I couldn't "just do a masters" after undergrad. Don't even get me started on £70 application fees.

It’s great to see more young people than ever accepted to uni. However, areas which already had high rates of participation have seen the most gains, with less of an increase in areas where few have tended to go onto HE. Entry gaps have increased from 24 percentage points to 28.

This year’s focus for Mental Health Awareness is Anxiety. Here we share a thread of some previous EDIT Lab blogs about anxiety (1/7):

Really excited to be working with Prof Thalia Eley 💙 and Vanessa Lawrence on these projects for the next few years!