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‼️ NEW Student Cost of Living report from RussellGroupSUs shows the reality faced by UK PGRs, and the lack of appropriate financial support (1/6) ‼️ Please RT.

Fantastic talk from Dr Ox The Baker Company (aka Dr Ox) on the importance of controlling oxygen levels in biomedical research at #TechDay2023 The Francis Crick Institute. #hypoxia #cellbiology

PhD students are workers. They contribute massively to our society and knowledge pool. Too often they are locked out of their potential because of exorbitant fees. We must put an end to the exploitation of the work of PhD students. #LP23 #AnIrelandThatWorksForAll

🚨TAKE ACTION KLAXON🚨 We love this GW4 Alliance letter on extending childcare schemes to PGR parents gw4.ac.uk/news/gw4-lette… WHAT WE'RE ASKING YOU TO DO: 💥 Use this letter as a template 💥 Send it to your MP 💥 Ask other PGRs & pals to do the same #PGRsAreParentsToo

A brilliant article in Nature Portfolio bringing to light new information to set the record straight that Rosalind was an equal contributor and should be remembered as such. Not to mention for her work on viruses and for being a kickass woman! #DNADay #RosalindFranklin

Thank you Nick Petrić Howe for inviting me to share my thoughts on this week’s Nature Portfolio article on my great-aunt #RosalindFranklin. She was a formidable woman beyond the science. An advocate for equality, a mountaineer, and devoted to her friends and family. #DNADay

The cost of living crisis in the U.K. hits PhD students hard, and more must be done to support PhD students financially. This Correspondence from Emma Francis & Hannah Franklin discusses challenges and solutions for this urgent problem. nature.com/articles/s4156…

Important work by Dr Emma Francis and Dr Hannah Franklin covered by @resfortnight below - read their original article here nature.com/articles/s4156…

Thank you Research Fortnight for reporting on our recent article Dr Emma Francis Nature Human Behaviour. “We need to look more closely at how well the current system and government’s own support measures are helping students and what changes need to be made,”

🚨 UK PhD crisis campaign update 🚨 Read our thread below (and see a cute pic of Dr Emma Francis and I at Westminster after a productive meeting). Our priority post article publication is raising awareness and building connections with those in positions to action change.

Huge congratulations to Prof Siddharthan Chandran, who has been appointed as the new Director of the UK DRI!🎉 We are delighted to welcome Prof Chandran into his new role👏🙌 Find out more👉buff.ly/3NaJavM

Fantastic new paper from my colleagues in the PataniLab shedding new light on the complex underpinnings of ALS. Give it a read!

That is taking so much work to get the plight of PhD students taken seriously is absolutely horrifying. That these two are willing to take on that work a source of awe. Thanks SO much Dr Hannah Franklin & Dr Emma Francis! Everyone else: there's a call to write to your MPs. DO IT.

Fantastic work by Dr Emma Francis and Dr Hannah Franklin on improving conditions for PGRs. Hopefully there are changes coming 🤞

Well done Dr Emma Francis and Dr Hannah Franklin 🙌 I will contact my MP today - other PhD students reading this please do so too!!

It’s Dr Neuroblonde now! 👩‍⚕️Yesterday I successfully defended my PhD! 🎓 Immense gratitude to my incredible examiners Selina Wray 🙉 ▫ and Dr Ox for their insightful questions and making the Viva so enjoyable. Thank you PataniLab UCL Birkbeck MRC DTP. Let the next chapter begin!

The Academinist is back for 2024! Tune in on Friday as Dr Emma Francis & Dr Hannah Franklin share their inspiring story of how they brought about a stipend increase for thousands of UK PhDs. Plus they tell us: how to get politicians to listen to you?🤔⬇️

Thank you Dr Rebecca Casterton (@rcasterton.bsky.social) The Academinist for giving Dr Emma Francis and I the platform to share our experience navigating the nationwide campaign to break down barriers to academic careers and what we have learned along the way. We hope you enjoy the episode!