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Giving Due Credit
Due Credit When I was setting out as a young PI, the standard thing to do (on acetates, once we’d moved on from 35mm slides) was to acknowledge co-workers – students or postdocs, or wider collaborators – via a simple … Continue reading
Posted in Research, Science Culture
Tagged bad behaviour, conferences, whistleblowing
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Red Tape
The announcement of a review of bureaucratic red tape in universities may bring either a smile of relief or a hollow laugh. Why are universities (and funding bodies) so entangled in this nasty stuff? Is it because they love to … Continue reading
Posted in Equality, Science Culture, Science Funding
Tagged Athena Swan, forms, panels, UKRI
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Burnout
As we ‘celebrate’ the anniversary of the UK’s first national lockdown this week, reflection seems in order. Things that seemed unimaginable last March, we now take in our stride, in the sense that we simply get on with them. Coming … Continue reading
How are Universities Supporting Those Worst Affected by the Pandemic?
This pandemic has thrown all kinds of inequalities into sharp focus, ranging from fundamental matters of health and wellbeing to job security. The consequences of all these issues will echo down the years ahead, long after the pandemic is a … Continue reading
Posted in Equality, Women in Science
Tagged Athena Swan, Liverpool University, National Academy of Sciences, pandemic, tenure clock
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Women as Natural Philosophers: Choosing to Challenge
When the Royal Society was founded in 1660, its first Fellows would have been known not as scientists, but as natural philosophers. Science and scientists were words that came into common parlance only around two hundred years later. So, the … Continue reading
Posted in Women in Science
Tagged Margaret Cavendish, Mary Astell, Rene Descartes
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