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Jade Pickering, PhD
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Working at the intersection of open/reproducible science and product management. Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science, University of Oxford.
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jayhulmepoet.bsky.social
When this guidance is published (given legal standing), as it almost certainly will be, as a trans man I will not be allowed to use non-unisex public toilets. Which is almost every public toilet.

Just want that to sink in, there.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Equality boss expects people to 'follow rules' over single-sex spaces
Dr Mary-Ann Stephenson said
www.bbc.co.uk
December 13, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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robinince.bsky.social
This is the #poem I read at end of my resignation - it will be in the follow up collection to Ice Cream for a Broken Tooth , most likely called Let The Quiet Ones Rise

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THE QUIET ONE Fingers relentlessly unpicking The anxious alopecia of another woolly jumper Under the desk Skin picked to the quick Stomach sick Dread accelerates thumb nail digs Wishing for a note to be an absentee Of another bout of insults and failures in PE Pierced by every slight Ponders possibility of escape The safest place? The library for the lunch break Seek solace in a comic book Is this forever This shitty world that drowns you? But one day you'll see From that unnecessary pain Came someone So much more complex Intriguing And resplendent Make it through Many are waiting for you You will be feted You will find your people And be magnifcent
December 14, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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robinince.bsky.social
Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
This is the saddest day of my professional life. Today is not only the final recording of the latest series of The Infinite Monkey Cage, it is my last ever Monkey Cage. I never thought that I would have to leave the show. I always imagined going on until | dropped dead under the studio lights due to a brain aneurysm caused by my final attempt to understand notions of quantum gravity or the shock of being told about fly maggot infestations in the sacks of macaque monkeys. I resigned in September, after sixteen years of dedication to the show, A show that I named and helped develop over all those years. Unfortunately, my opinions outside the BBC have been considered problematic for sometime, whether it has been voicing support for the trans community, criticism of Donald Trump, numerous other outlandish opinions, including once gently criticising Stephen Fry. These things were considered to conflict with being a freelance BBC science presenter In a recent meeting where BBC Studio executives again voiced problems with me, I realised my choices. Obedience and being quieter to remain making Monkey Cage, or 'Resign and have the freedom to speak out against what I believe are injustices'. • I chose the latter. It broke my heart. I love this show and I love the audience, and it is because of the audience in particular, that this decision was so difficult to make. I kept thinking about all the extremist voices promoting hate and division. They are being given so many platforms, while voices that represent kindness, open mindedness, empathy seem to be scarcer and scarcer. I felt I couldn't pamper myself with the luxury of silence. One of my many privileges is that I am able to resign and I can speak out even if it is to the detriment of my career. I have thought a lot about my heroes, Sinead O Connor, James Baldwin, Audre Lorde, and so many more. I think of Sinead's words, "the job of an artist is to be themselves at any cost". James Baldwin said prejudice was really just a word for cowardice. Audre Lorde, viewing her life, wrote that her only regrets were her silences. I think of my father as I resign, he brought me up to believe in fairness , justice and kindness. Though my heart is broken, it is also full of fire. I apologise to our incredible listeners for my departure, your love of the show means a great deal. I am so sorry to let you down. I hope that you can understand my reasoning. I have to accept that I am not what the current BBC expects of their freelance presenters. Despite this I should add that I have always worked far more than my contracted hours to try and ensure the show was always the best it could be, as well as making myself accessible and responsive to the audience wherever and whenever I met them. Every night, we have recorded, I have been filled with determination to make the best show possible. This was not "just a job" I hope that with my departure I can be a better ally to the LGBTQ community, to the neurodivergent community, to activists fighting against those who aim to brutalise society, to those currently in prison on hunger strike, and to all those who fight for a more inclusive world. From many conversations, I know there are many Monkey Cage listeners who support these communities and activists too. The strawberry is dead. Long live the strawberry. B
December 13, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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bennettoxford.bsky.social
Congratulations to all of the winners of the Bennett Prize in OpenPrescribing. You can read more on our LinkedIn and we will be sharing more on our blog over the coming days.
www.linkedin.com/posts/bennet...
December 10, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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beamlab.bsky.social
We are looking for clinicians who work with autistic people without Learning Disabilities to support their sensory motor needs to complete a survey asking experiences asssing and supporting autistic adults.

www.qualtrics.manchester.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_...
December 8, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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ddonnelly.bsky.social
Irish Minister for Health calls the UK's descent into transphobia out for what it is.
cathalmalone.bsky.social Cathal Malone @cathalmalone.bsky.social · 11d
My head nearly fell off. The actual Minister for Health said this?

m.independent.ie/irish-news/t...
December 5, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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aelkus.bsky.social
" The late disability theorist Tobin Siebers called this the ‘masquerade’ of disability: the obligation to perform the disability, sometimes overperform it, so that it would be legible enough to secure the assistance that one genuinely needs. "
December 4, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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ukrepro.bsky.social
Nominations for the UKRN Dorothy Bishop Prize 2026 have opened!

Named after @deevybee.bsky.social, the prize, first awarded in 2022, celebrates the contributions of early career researchers to research improvement.

Nominations close 18 January 2026.

#AcademicSky #Research
Dorothy Bishop Prize 2026
www.ukrn.org
December 3, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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bengoldacre.bsky.social
I'm delighted to say we have won the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Education with our work on OpenSAFELY, inventing new methods that let researchers analyse NHS GP data while protecting everyone's privacy, and with complete transparency, in a hugely productive platform!
www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-11...
OpenSAFELY team awarded Queen Elizabeth Prize for Higher and Further
Oxford’s OpenSAFELY team wins the prestigious Queen Elizabeth Prize for revolutionising secure NHS data research, protecting patient privacy while unlocking life-saving health insights.
www.ox.ac.uk
November 26, 2025 at 5:53 PM
jadepickering.bsky.social
Proud to be a part of this organisation 😍 well done team 👏
oxprimarycare.bsky.social Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences @oxprimarycare.bsky.social · 19d
Huge news: The OpenSAFELY team has been awarded a Queen Elizabeth Prize for Higher and Further Education! 🏆

The prize recognises the platform's revolutionary approach to secure NHS data analysis, protecting privacy while unlocking life-saving research.

Read more: www.phc.ox.ac.uk/news/opensaf...
OpenSAFELY team awarded Queen Elizabeth Prize for Higher and Further Education
Oxford’s OpenSAFELY team wins the prestigious Queen Elizabeth Prize for revolutionising secure NHS data research, protecting patient privacy while unlocking life-saving health insights.
www.phc.ox.ac.uk
November 26, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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reproducibilitea.org
📣 Join the ReproducibiliTea Steering Committee!

📅 Applications are open until 30th November 2025 (midnight CET).

Full Announcement:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Application Form:
forms.gle/R8FSHGJCFVk2...

Please share!
November 7, 2025 at 11:04 AM
jadepickering.bsky.social
Highly recommend this opportunity! I was on the steering committee about 5-6 years ago and it was incredibly rewarding!

(P.S. where did the years go?? 😵‍💫)
reproducibilitea.org ReproducibiliTea @reproducibilitea.org · Oct 28
We are very excited to announce that we are opening applications to join the ReproducibiliTea Steering Committee at the beginning of 2026!

🔹 Full Announcement:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...

✍️ Application Form:
forms.gle/R8FSHGJCFVk2...
October 28, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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pengzell.bsky.social
Submission: I did a thing.

Reviewer: Too bad it’s not the thing I imagined while half-reading your abstract.

Revision: What a coincidence, it is now.
October 27, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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zackpolanski.bsky.social
With all the milestones, how extraordinary this is can get lost!

Last Sunday on the BBC I announced we overtook the Tories at 124k members.

That's +26,000 members in the last week.

Hope is feeling normal again....
greenparty.org.uk The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · Oct 27
🚨BREAKING : The Green Party has passed 150,000 members 🥳

Thousands are joining right now to help us replace Labour and take the fight to Reform.

Are you in?

Make hope normal again. Join the Green Party now ⤵️
REAL HOPE. REAL CHANGE. 150,000 Green Party Members Green Party Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ
October 27, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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ukrepro.bsky.social
UK Reproducibility Network is having a conference, July 2026 in Manchester!

Please register your interest: www.ukrn.org/conference/

Bringing together researchers, institutions and research stakeholders from the UK and beyond to drive collaborative change within the UK #research sector.
UK Reproducibility Network Local Network Leads engaged in discussion around a table.
October 24, 2025 at 10:57 AM
jadepickering.bsky.social
I had a dream about my good old iPod last night. I bet it's still loaded with all my music from high school...which probably came from Limewire 🫠
adriancjax.blacksky.app Adrian C. Jackson @adriancjax.blacksky.app · Oct 22
Bring back portable mp3 players.

Seriously, I would rather purchase, download, & keep copies of my music than pay a subscription to stream from Spotify or Apple Music.
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October 23, 2025 at 6:27 PM
jadepickering.bsky.social
There's a reason I've primarily joined MS Teams meetings from an incognito browser window wherever possible for the last 4 years. It's the only method I've found that doesn't include some form of disaster.
aptshadow.bsky.social Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social · Oct 21
Christ every time I'm forced to use Microsoft Teams it re-sets itself to open on startup and I have to hunt the fucker down and turn it off again. Outright sociopathic design.
October 21, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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barackobama.bsky.social
We have people in power making broad claims around certain drugs and autism that have been continuously disproven.
September 25, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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brianmackenna.bsky.social
We are HIRING!

Researchers & analysts

Come and join us shipping code, papers and tools like OpenSAFELY and OpenPrescribing

www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2025/09...
We're hiring researchers to work on OpenSAFELY | Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science
Come and work with us! We’re looking for Epidemiologists / Health Data Scientists to join our growing research team.
www.bennett.ox.ac.uk
September 11, 2025 at 11:00 AM
jadepickering.bsky.social
Sensible, thoughtful, and honest politicians still exist. There is...dare I say it...hope.
zackpolanski.bsky.social Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · Sep 10
No other party says the basic truth: migration is good for Britain.

The real problem? Inequality, soaring bills, underfunded public services.

That’s driven by the greed of the super rich and the Labour government who serve them - not by migrants.
September 10, 2025 at 9:43 PM
jadepickering.bsky.social
This looks like so much fun!
forrt.bsky.social Framework for Open and Reproducible Research Training @forrt.bsky.social · Aug 11
🚀Making Replications Count Hackathon - in-person🚀

3 days. 2 open tools. 1 goal: make replication studies impossible to ignore

📅22–24 Oct 2025 | Münster, Germany ✈️Travel & accommodation covered (UKRI-funded)

Find out more below 👇
#OpenScience #Metascience #Replication #Hackathon #CodingForScience
Making Replications Count Hackathon 22-24 Oct 2025, Munster Join us for a three-day hackathon to boost the visibility of replication studies! Apply by September 7th
September 1, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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forrt.bsky.social
🚀Making Replications Count Hackathon - in-person🚀

3 days. 2 open tools. 1 goal: make replication studies impossible to ignore

📅22–24 Oct 2025 | Münster, Germany ✈️Travel & accommodation covered (UKRI-funded)

Find out more below 👇
#OpenScience #Metascience #Replication #Hackathon #CodingForScience
Making Replications Count Hackathon 22-24 Oct 2025, Munster Join us for a three-day hackathon to boost the visibility of replication studies! Apply by September 7th
August 11, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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mikegalsworthy.bsky.social
I'm still stunned that @yorkshirebylines.co.uk put in the huge effort to collect all press-reported downsides of Brexit (David Davis had said there would be "none"!)...

...and has the sheer patience to collect 2,000 discrete incidences via media reports before giving up.
The Davis Downside Dossier
David Davis famously said there would be no downsides to Brexit only considerable upsides - so we started recording them.
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
August 30, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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reproducibilitea.org
Are you a potential, current, or past ReproducibiliTea organizer? ✨

Join our upcoming networking event!

📅 October 2, 2025 (16:00 CEST) on Zoom
👉 Register for the Zoom link: forms.gle/iH6sHt3dB4Wf...

Everyone is welcome!
August 28, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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ndevito1.bsky.social
We are launching a project on improving code sharing in health and medical research funded by @ukri.org and working with @floriannaudet.bsky.social and @bmj.com

Read more here:
bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2025/08/help-us-improve-code-sharing-in-health-research/
Help Us Improve Code Sharing in Health Research | Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science
We are starting a UKRI-funded project on improving code sharing and want your help!
bennett.ox.ac.uk
August 13, 2025 at 9:07 AM