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Core Technologies for Life Sciences @ctlslifescience.bsky.social · Jun 10

Welcome to #CTLS2025 in beautiful #Brno! 🎉 Get ready for a packed day of engaging sessions, technical showcases, and community discussions, all leading up to the poster session and welcome drink tonight. Let the science begin!✨
www.ctls2025.com/congress-sch...

www.ctls2025.com

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Natalie Homer @nataliezmhomer.bsky.social · Jun 2

Congratulations Gianfranco! @cmvm-edinburghuni.bsky.social

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Natalie Homer @nataliezmhomer.bsky.social · May 14

Always a privilege to attend Technician Commitment signatory events. Pleased to talk at @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social about our @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded RTP RELAX #corefacility project #researchculture

Technician Commitment @tech-commit.bsky.social · May 14

Huge thanks to Nik Ogryzko @nikogryzko.bsky.social, Gillian Riddel, Dermot Barry @dermbry.bsky.social, Amelia Dingley, and Natalie Homer @nataliezmhomer.bsky.social for presenting insightful speed talks on their innovative sector best practice

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Technician Commitment @tech-commit.bsky.social · May 14

Huge thanks to Nik Ogryzko @nikogryzko.bsky.social, Gillian Riddel, Dermot Barry @dermbry.bsky.social, Amelia Dingley, and Natalie Homer @nataliezmhomer.bsky.social for presenting insightful speed talks on their innovative sector best practice

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Natalie Homer @nataliezmhomer.bsky.social · Mar 10

Excited to be awarded funding from WellcomeTrust for InFrame research cultures project for “RTPs : Recognising Leadership and Expertise (RELAX)” to highlight role of #technicalspecialists as research leaders. @uoe-sps.bsky.social @uofglasgow.bsky.social @uniofstandrews.bsky.social #corefacilities

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Natalie Homer @nataliezmhomer.bsky.social · Feb 23

Congratulations to Mhairi for poster prize!

Ratnasekhar CH @ratnasekharlab.bsky.social · Feb 18

I am delighted to deliver an invited talk at the International Conference on Metabolomics and Lipidomics (metabolomics.global), taking place from February 25–26, 2025, at IIT Bombay. This conference offers a fantastic platform for faculty, technocrats, students. #metabolomics

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Natalie Homer @nataliezmhomer.bsky.social · Feb 13

New paper - the PREDO pregnancy cohort. Paper describes @biotage.bsky.social steroid extraction and LC-MS/MS analysis on @sciex.bsky.social QTrap 6500+ defining reference ranges for 18 steroids across healthy pregnancy. Comparing with complicated pregnancy. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Determination of steroid reference intervals in a pregnancy population

Steroids, including mineralocorticoids, glucocorticoids, and sex hormones play a critical role in pregnancy. Liquid chromatography tandem mass spectro…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Natalie Homer @nataliezmhomer.bsky.social · Jan 1

First footin’ today in Edinburgh for Hogmanay. Come Away in with Karine Polwart Corinna hewat and Lori Watson and a superb choral sound @edinburghshogmanay.bsky.social

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Natalie Homer @nataliezmhomer.bsky.social · Dec 28

An ancient Defynnog Yew in St Cynog Churchyard. Dendrochronology suggests it’s 5000 years old. #defynnogyew #bannaubrycheiniog #stcynog #devynock

Natalie Homer @nataliezmhomer.bsky.social · Dec 23

If you are seeking a PhD and interested in using mass spectrometry to measure sex steroids to investigate their role in bird nesting then this may be the opportunity for you. Based in Edinburgh. Please get in touch if you are. Please share.

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

EASTBIO: Using mass spectrometry to investigate the role of steroids in the transition from a sexual to a parental brain at University of Edinburgh on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - EASTBIO: Using mass spectrometry to investigate the role of steroids in the transition from a sexual to a parental brain at University of Edinburgh, listed on FindAPhD.com

www.findaphd.com

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Ian Prior @ianprior.bsky.social · Dec 7

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In 2023 we launched a career pathway for all technical specialists at the University of Liverpool. This guide describes what to consider if your institution wants to do this too. #RTPs #technicians

Publish Online

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Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · Dec 6

On THE Campus: Women in academia are promoted at far lower rates than their male peers and are under-represented in senior positions. To fix this, universities will need to embrace systemic change, says Rachael Jefferson @charlessturtuni.bsky.social

#AcademicSky #EduSky

We need to dismantle the promotion patriarchy in academia from the inside

Women in academia are promoted at far lower rates than their male peers and are under-represented in senior positions. To fix this, universities will need to embrace systemic change

www.timeshighereducation.com

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Natalie Homer @nataliezmhomer.bsky.social · Nov 26

Interesting attending this meeting today, including talks from @sciencecampaign.bsky.social Equate Scotland, @scottishaialliance.bsky.social, social mobility, widening access to #STEM, role of libraries, Scottish space sector, neurodiversity @richardlochhead.bsky.social highlighting focus areas

Clare Adamson MSP @clareadamsonmsp.bsky.social · Nov 26

🧪#Science and the #Parliament today at Dynamic Earth.

This is the 24th annual edition of this event designed to foster close relations with policymakers, politicians, and key stakeholders.

Interested in science policy? Join our CPG!
👉https://tinyurl.com/ndeujmwe
#STEM

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Clare Adamson MSP @clareadamsonmsp.bsky.social · Nov 26

🧪#Science and the #Parliament today at Dynamic Earth.

This is the 24th annual edition of this event designed to foster close relations with policymakers, politicians, and key stakeholders.

Interested in science policy? Join our CPG!
👉https://tinyurl.com/ndeujmwe
#STEM

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Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · Nov 26

Opinion: Five years in, the Macron-inspired European Universities project can be considered a success. But its long-term sustainability needs a clearer political strategy, says Luc Sels

#AcademicSky #EduSky

Are there too many European university alliances?

Five years in, the Macron-inspired project can be considered a success. But its long-term sustainability needs a clearer political strategy, says Luc Sels

www.timeshighereducation.com

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Johanna Joyce @johannajoyce.bsky.social · Nov 25

Women are under-represented at senior levels in #academia globally, & across all #science 🧪 disciplines, as shown by these "scissor-shaped curves" ✂️

So how can we ever achieve #gender #equality?

We discuss various strategies in this #Cell Commentary

#WomeninSTEM

www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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