This is especially important if you work in advocacy or are asking other people to change their behaviours. But even if you don't, this is an action we can all take to help make academia (& any other space) a little bit healthier

And so I ask; Do you believe in your values and are you prepared to lead by example? Or is it all just for show, nothing more than meaningless words?

I've always stood up to those people, often at huge cost to myself. One thing I'll say for now; actors within the academic & other spaces need to decide if they really do believe in their public values. If so, they must stop working with abusers otherwise they're enabling bad behaviour.

They can use their position to professionally exclude or limit opportunities, effectively forcing the victims into career changes.

I've got an article I'm writing where I discuss this from my personal experience in academia - which did indeed result in a career change.

Worth pointing out that I've heard many reports that the Crick is a fairly abusive environment too....

(Also had a few people say how amazing it is there - the reality is it depends on your position, who you work with and that it's always a scale, never good or bad)

This is why sexual predators and abusers can thrive in academia. This is why racists and bully's can thrive in academia.

Is this really all academia and science is? Find some shit and any character flaws or behaviours don't matter?

#notmyscience

I've seen little evidence in all the publish-review-curate (PRC) conversations of the kind of curation people seem to want emerging, but SolvingForScience's process distinguishing Q(uality) and (I)mpact assessments may be closest. 6/n www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

This is a reminder that just getting through the year can be a huge achievement and that there's always better ahead.

So, congratulations to anyone else who survived and I'd love to hear how your 2026 is going to be so much better!

2026 is going to be a lot of hard work and I expect a fair amount of still being unemployed whilst getting things really up and running. But hopefully this will all pay off in the later part of the year.

But a few months ago I started my own nonprofit and we've already shown why I was so good at what I did/do. We've had amazing engagement and I've got so much planned.