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Dr Beth

@drbeth.bsky.social

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The librarian formerly known (on twitter) as @Phdgeek. Into nerdy stuff, open research, EDI campaigning, powerlifting and climbing. 🏳️‍🌈

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Dr Beth @drbeth.bsky.social · Nov 19

So I did a bit of a search around and these are the past and present Francis Crick Institute folks that I could find.

I can't guarantee they're talking about science, but if they are, you know it's going to be cool science 😉

FYI - @thecrick.bsky.social

go.bsky.app/2tMmrSY

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Dr Beth @drbeth.bsky.social · 13h

As I move further into my working life I discover that every question I want answered is a sociology question.

As ever, politicians would just like it if everyday folks stopped learning to ask questions and just did what the ruling classes told them to do.

Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 14h

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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St Nicholas Church, Leicester @stnicholasleics.bsky.social · 14h

Join us for a little walk around our urban parish with ornithologist @thelabandfield.bsky.social. The last time we did this we found over 20 different species!

Find out more here: stnicholasleicester.com/whats-on/urb...

Urban bird watch with Dr Alex Bond senior curator in charge of birds at the natural history museum, London.

18/10/25 @ 12:00

Meet at St Nicholas church from 11:30

A short 2km walk starting and ending at St Nicholas church, following the parish boundary along the canal and through the city of Leicester

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Dr Beth @drbeth.bsky.social · 13h

Some of them do happen, but if they do, they're not good. I found this really interesting blogs.bmj.com/spcare/2021/...

Learn from my mistakes! What I learned when I spoke at a predatory conference – BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care

blogs.bmj.com

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MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology @mrclmb.bsky.social · 14h

John Gurdon, former Group Leader and Head of @cellbiol-mrclmb.bsky.social has died.
Despite calling himself a "total non-intellectual” his work to reprogramme somatic cells to pluripotent stem cells transformed the field of developmental biology.
More: www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/john-gurdon-...
#LMBNews

Black and white portrait of John Gurdon, 1971

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The Royal Society @royalsociety.org · 1d

Misleading content can be both hard to spot and dangerous. But how can we identify and debunk it? Join Professor Iryna Gurevych for the free Milner Prize Lecture on 17 November as she explores:
https://royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/2025/11/how-to-spot-and-debunk-misleading-content/

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Dr Beth @drbeth.bsky.social · 1d

Well, socks are hard 🧦

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Dr Beth @drbeth.bsky.social · 1d

If you're someone with experience of organising events or Sci Comm stuff, I can't think of a better job!

crick.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job...

Events & Conference Manager

Salary for this Role: From £65,000 with benefits subject to skills and experience Job Title: Events & Conference Manager Reports to: Georgie Bevan Closing Date: 20/Oct/2025 23.59 GMT Job Descripti...

crick.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com

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Elizabeth Gadd @lizziegadd.bsky.social · 1d

Adding my voice to the chorus battling to retain an increased focus on people, culture, and environment in the next REF... wonkhe.com/blogs/the-ba...

The battle for people, culture and environment

Lizzie Gadd makes the case for embracing People, Culture and Environment and sets out why reverting to REF 2021 would be a mistake

wonkhe.com

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Dr Beth @drbeth.bsky.social · 1d

Did you miss the LIS Research seminar on "Obstacles to Open Access publishing for researchers with weak institutional ties"?

If so, never fear, the recording is now out! I'd really recommend giving it a listen.

doi.org/10.52843/cas...

#Library #openaccess #LISResearch #Librarian

A banner image for a seminar entitled "Obstacles to Open Access publishing for researchers with weak institutional ties - epistemic injustice in academic publishing" The seminar is by Nataliia Kaliuzhna and Zeynep Aydin. In the background is a faded out image of academic library bookshelves.

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Bergis Jules 🇱🇨 @bergisjules.bsky.social · 2d

Applications open soon for the second Web Archiving School co-hort. Our fellowship aims to create a new generation of web archiving practitioners dedicated to documenting the Black experience. Sign up today to receive reminders and updates on the application: bit.ly/warc-2026-si...

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Dr Beth @drbeth.bsky.social · 2d

Good luck!

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European University Association (EUA) @eua.eu · 2d

The Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) has released “A Practical Guide to Implementing Responsible Research Assessment at Research Performing Organizations”, designed to help research performing organizations.
ℹ️ Learn more at https://bit.ly/4gSzFA6

@dorassessment.bsky.social

A person holding a publication titled "A Practical Guide to Implementing Responsible Research Assessment at Research Performing Organizations" by DORA, in front of a bookshelf.

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Dr Beth @drbeth.bsky.social · 2d

Ah that would have been great but we're not going that far north. Sydney - Tas - Melbourne trip.

Dr Beth @drbeth.bsky.social · 2d

After saying I was going 'soon' for the last 25 years, we've finally booked a trip to Australia.

Getting to see the country that shaped my family is both exciting and kind of terrifying!

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Dr Beth @drbeth.bsky.social · 2d

But most of my energy has always been tied to the community rather than a specific job, and if you can make change there then I think that can last (for a while anyway).

Dr Beth @drbeth.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah, Ive had this previously when I was doing so much extra stuff to support researchers and then when I left they just stopped doing it and ... no-one really cared.

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 3d

happy sunday, remember that you are completely expendable to your employer and that when you die they will forget you ever existed within weeks and easily replace you

Work really hard and one day this can be you (followed by graffiti of a headstone that says “RIP worked really hard” on it

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Dr Beth @drbeth.bsky.social · 5d

It's a really difficult talk to do in the current EDI climate, and I'm not sure I hit the nail on the head this time but hopefully it was interesting and useful for people.

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Dr Beth @drbeth.bsky.social · 5d

Very sad to see that Patricia Routledge has died. A big hit in our house in the 90s because of Keeping up appearances.

But more importantly for me she became a really good personal friend to my Grandmother in later life.

RIP Patricia, our family loved you very much.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Dame Patricia Routledge obituary: The life of TV's magnificently snobby 'Hyacinth Bucket'

A much-loved actress who became famous in the role of Hyacinth Bucket in Keeping Up Appearances.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Dr Beth @drbeth.bsky.social · 5d

Things like going around the room and allowing each person to speak without being interrupted before discussion.

Monitoring the chat for people putting ideas in there when they don't want to speak up.

Returning to people who've just been talked over.

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Dr Beth @drbeth.bsky.social · 5d

One big value action I've seen from introvert chairs is setting up meetings so that extroverts aren't the only 1s listened to.

Super easy for extrovert chairs to forget that the best ideas might not be the loudest.

Use yr knowledge of being an introvert to get the most out of quieter folks

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Petr Znamenskiy @petrznam.bsky.social · 6d

Applications for Doctoral Clinical Fellowships at the Crick, including a project in my lab, are now open! Please share widely!

The Francis Crick Institute @crick.ac.uk · 7d

We're looking for clinicians who are passionate about research to join our 3-year fully funded clinical PhD programme. 🔬🩺

Apply by 14 November 2025. 👇

www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...

Doctoral clinical fellows

The Crick's clinical PhD programme.

www.crick.ac.uk

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Laura Woods @woodsiegirl.bsky.social · 8d

My paper from #ASEE2025 (the conference I attended in Montreal in June) is now live! In this paper I share some reflections on my PhD methodology, and some preliminary findings from my research into female engineering students' information experiences peer.asee.org/work-in-prog... #infolit #PhDlife

peer.asee.org

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ROOT-SHOOT RCN @root-shoot.bsky.social · Aug 20

We are incredibly excited & proud: our first publication is out in eLIFE!
"Making conferences in the plant sciences more inclusive through community recommendations"
elifesciences.org/articles/106...
This project was a team effort involving contributors from seven professional societies. #PlantSci

Equity, Diversity and Inclusion: Making conferences in the plant sciences more inclusive through community recommendations

The ROOT & SHOOT project in the plant sciences has produced guidelines to help scientific societies organize conferences that are more inclusive and offer more supportive environments to all attendees...

elifesciences.org

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Dr Beth @drbeth.bsky.social · 8d

I mean that's the way of journals 🤷‍♂️

Nature partners with Research Square and The Lancet has it's own server www.ssrn.com/index.cfm/en...

Dr Beth @drbeth.bsky.social · 8d

I haven't looked into it much, although don't see anything immediately wrong. Easy route to submitting to MDPI though, maybe getting more papers that way?

Don't know why you'd use it in the sciences, but could be a resource for Arts & Hums folks tho.