🌈 Happy Pride Month ♥️

Really thought-provoking piece from Aston Uni's VC on the need for universities to adopt an innovation and enterprise culture to survive ⤵️
www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/drea...

I'm not a natural baker, so I've been reluctant to experiment since buying my first breadmaker a few weeks ago.

In a departure from our usual wholemeal loaf, tonight I bit the bullet and attempted banana bread.

Oh my god it's good. 😋

Is research impact being over-stated by the colourful use of language? #scicom

blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

Do you know your good #statistics from your bad statistics? #scicomm

I rediscovered this guide to stats from Sense About Science when I was preparing for some training this week.

Very useful background reading for science communicators and press officers.

senseaboutscience.org/activities/m...

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Our tree is an eclectic mix of deccys collected over the past 15 years. It's more like a memory tree 🎄

The robots are a staff secret Santa gift from British Science Association - many years ago.

This year's addition is an alpaca from a morning walking alpacas in the Welsh mountains with friends ♥️

At the heart of the philosophy of science is that it's socially constructed - created by people.

So only humans can truly interrogate research, develop opinions and put the humanity into writing - giving it authority and integrity.

In science, this is paramount.

I sometimes have the same challenge with articles... Getting together a bullet-point structure helps.

Sometimes I just say what I want to write, then jot it down. It could be a sentence from any part of the piece, but saying it really helps to break the block.

“We will put research and innovation, science and technology at the heart of our economy. We will invest more and focus better.”

sciencebusiness.net/news/europea...

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The UK Parliament Knowledge Exchange Unit's newsletter is always an interesting read - it's great for getting a sense of what's on the #policy agenda and where researchers can contribute.

This week they're plugging a call for #evidence about misinformation
committees.parliament.uk/work/8641/so...

I'm intrigued - I've signed up via your website! I've been learning on and off for a couple of years but haven't made much progress - though I understand the basics now.

I volunteered to do the marketing for the last 3 Gŵyliau Lên Llandeilo Lit Fests and learnt the hard way how hard writing is!

Slay 👌

I love Word of the Year, mainly because I've always been fascinated by how language evolves, and who owns language.

Demure has my vote.

But here's my favourite word from our little corner of Cymru:

"Bendigedig beyond" - more fantastic than you can possibly imagine.

Iawn, diolch! And thanks for the message and the add! I'm very new to learning Welsh, and so far I'm much better at listening/reading and speaking than writing...! Dwi'n caru Ceridigion ♥️ Rwy'n byw yn Llandeilo.

Diolch! Shwmae, Toby!

I loved making this research into action film with Grace @ Bounce Video and @oxsocsci.bsky.social Can you spot the puppies? 🐶 It's great to see the series launched today ⤵️

Diolch, Sarah!

I miss it very much... and definately the best xmas parties 😉

Thanks @stsikel.bsky.social !

Hi Trish! 👋

Love this, season 2 feels like a slow build to something truly epic.

Too soon? 😆🎄