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Professor Joanna Semlyen @joannasemlyen.bsky.social · Nov 26

Hello to all of my followers. I’m leading a no. of research and research culture projects, including a £1m grant on EDI within research culture funded by @wellcometrust.bsky.social
I would be v pleased if any of my new followers would like to collaborate and connect. wellcome.org/grant-fundin...

Creating a Culture of Inclusion: Increasing Diversity and Equity of Access - IDEA | Wellcome

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Professor Joanna Semlyen @joannasemlyen.bsky.social · 4d

The LLM says yes. After calling me sceptic.

Professor Joanna Semlyen @joannasemlyen.bsky.social · 4d

I had spotted this feature and I’ve never yet selected it (for obvious reasons). But prompted by spotting this I had to ask. Explicitly of course.

The picture displays the question that was asked of ChatGPT which questions why the phrase skip the step is offered and does it indicate that they’re no longer thinking?

This is the reply which explains that the skip this step is referring to the showing my workings out part of the answer that ChatGPT provides

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 5d

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Dr van Tilburg @drvantilburg.bsky.social · 6d

The Trump administration has stopped funding of PubMed, not considering a vital service.

Your doctor will not know the newest information that affects your health. This will cost lives.

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Professor Joanna Semlyen @joannasemlyen.bsky.social · 5d

Yes, I did say “oh I hope they play that” when it went past in the chart #TOTP

@Spookerleggera - evil incarnate, for one month only!🧛🦇⚰️👹 @superleggera.bsky.social · 5d

They should have played this, it's a stone cold banger #TOTP

Godley & Creme - Under Your Thumb (1981) • TopPop

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Professor Joanna Semlyen @joannasemlyen.bsky.social · 5d

Olivia newton johns trousers! #dollar #totp

Professor Joanna Semlyen @joannasemlyen.bsky.social · 5d

That hair! #totp

Professor Joanna Semlyen @joannasemlyen.bsky.social · 5d

What’s with all the guns, legs and co? #Totp

Professor Joanna Semlyen @joannasemlyen.bsky.social · 5d

Yes, I clocked that

Professor Joanna Semlyen @joannasemlyen.bsky.social · 11d

@tottenhamhotspur.com it’s match day no? You have 33k followers on @bsky.app but no posts since this one

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Department of Education @uoyeducation.bsky.social · 26d

New episode: @annabull.bsky.social joins The Sexual Violence Research podcast to explore rates of #GBV in higher ed settings.
"One of the reasons for this being seemingly so prevalent..is the lack of professional boundaries between staff & students."

Listen bit.ly/4p0WhC8
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Dr Anna Bull @annabull.bsky.social · 13d

Here's my take on new data on sexual violence and harassment released today from England's Office for Students.

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What OfS’ data on harassment and sexual misconduct doesn’t tell us

Anna Bull explores the latest OfS findings on the prevalence of harassment and sexual misconduct — and why they're only one piece of a puzzle on student safety.

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 14d

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‘We are at our limit’: Gaza’s last hospitals overwhelmed as thousands flee south

‘Not enough of anything’, says surgeon, as Israel’s assault forces injured, sick and hungry people to leave Gaza City

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 15d

It was to see some many friends in Philadelphia for the @comm4rigor.bsky.social meeting a couple of weeks ago. Together we are developing free online materials for researchers interested in doing rigorous science.

The first units are coming soon at c4r.io.

Photos: Eric Sucar

Carl Bergstrom, laptop in lap, gesturing to Konrad Kording

Conference attendees gather for a group portrait on the steps of Philadelphia's Second Bank of the United States

Carl Bergstrom speaking at the C4R meeting

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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 14d

Oh my God this is so wonderful. Bra-fucking-vo UCL
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time

One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that can slow its progression and transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 18d

Dear American citizens, whatever you wish more German citizens would have done in 1933, do that now.

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Professor Joanna Semlyen @joannasemlyen.bsky.social · 18d

When you text using voice +microphone and say how much you’d like to cocreate with a fellow academic but your phone writes procreate.

Professor Joanna Semlyen @joannasemlyen.bsky.social · 29d

There we are. Kent and Greenwich to merge into the UK’s first super university (as predicted in quoted tweet below). Who will follow next?

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Professor Joanna Semlyen @joannasemlyen.bsky.social · May 1

UK HEI sector changes ahead:
A clear steer towards -university sector cost saving through digitation and
-institutional mergers.

Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · May 1

University cooperation stymied by competition, says UUK taskforce chair.

England’s universities have been pushed towards competition at the expense of collaboration, setting up “roadblocks” to cost savings, says Nigel Carrington.

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

Professor Joanna Semlyen @joannasemlyen.bsky.social · Aug 19

Trumps’s gilt.

Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · Aug 19

The White House is slowly, like a disease of gold, morphing into the Grand Kremlin Palace….

Picture of Zelenskyy & Trump in White House with surprising amount of new gold decor on walls and mantle piece.

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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · Aug 18

America Is Abandoning One of the Greatest Medical Breakthroughs

MRNA saved 20M lives, a million+ in US, reduced hospitalization & deaths, lowered long covid risk

mRNA
can be adapted for new viruses & is being tested for cancer vaccines, autoimmune therapies -
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/o...

Opinion | America Is Abandoning One of the Greatest Medical Breakthroughs

www.nytimes.com

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · Aug 17

USAID funded roughly half the world’s supply of ready-to-use therapeutic food. The dismantling of the agency has disrupted the global supply chain that provides the packets, leaving thousands of malnourished children at risk of dying.

A $45 Treatment Can Save a Starving Child. US Aid Cuts Have Frozen the Supply

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · Aug 5

When I was a medical resident in South India in the 1990s, I rarely saw kids with measles. And I did not see much of polio or diphtheria or whooping cough either. None of this was a matter of luck. It was because vaccination coverage in that region of India was high

www.forbes.com/sites/madhuk...

Public Health Success Is Fragile - The Return Of Measles Is Proof

Measles is surging and vaccine hesitancy is up. In his book "Booster Shots," Dr Adam Ratner explains why measles is back and how we can control this deadly infectious killer.

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · Jul 30

God, the number of people who were willing to believe that the South Yorkshire police were too woke to prosecute sexual abuse cases, when in fact the police force was itself an instrument of patriarchal sexual violence. It’s like a case study in the worst excesses of the British press.

Five survivors of Rotherham grooming gangs say they were also raped by police officers

Three former South Yorkshire police officers arrested in investigation into claims by the women, as young as 12 at the time

www.theguardian.com

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Felicity Hannah @felicityhannah.bsky.social · Jul 29

I am so extremely tired. Those poor, poor girls.

Police officers ‘also abused’ Rotherham grooming gang victims

One says she was raped from the age of 12 by a South Yorkshire Police officer in a marked police car.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Professor Joanna Semlyen @joannasemlyen.bsky.social · Jul 25

lilys. oh dear #totp