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Sophie🌻
@sophiewebb32.bsky.social
she/her
Research Associate
PGCert Genomic Medicine
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interested in genomics engagement, narrative medicine and PPIE in molecular research🧬
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Ripley & Jonesy. New in my store andiwatson.bigcartel.com
October 9, 2025 at 1:30 PM
solo trip to Winterbourne 🌺
August 8, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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📣CFP for our launch event for PhD Students and Early Career Researchers at @unibirmingham.bsky.social

For this event, we are encouraging ECRS from any discipline to contribute a short presentation for this one-day workshop: birminghamphenomenalnetwork.blogspot.com/2025/08/anno...
Announcing our first PhD and ECR Research Day and CFP
The Birmingham Network for Phenomenology and Mental Health Call for Papers: Exploring lived experiences in mental health Launch event for P...
birminghamphenomenalnetwork.blogspot.com
August 1, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Had a really engaging and interesting discussion today in the PPIE Lunchtime talk (led by @imh-uob.bsky.social Senior PPIE Lead Niyah Campbell) on this great paper: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Peer researchers in NHS research: approved in principle, undermined in practice? - Research Involvement and Engagement
Background Despite the increasing support and expectation for involving people with lived experience in healthcare research in England, challenges persist when navigating organisational structures. Th...
link.springer.com
July 30, 2025 at 2:47 PM
July 24, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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**We are looking for healthy volunteers aged 18-40 years who have had some unusual experiences** for a paid study: more information below, please share! #ParticipantsNeeded #ResearchStudy #MentalHealthResearch #SERENE
July 23, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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Edris House. Painted 10 years ago this week! Watercolour. Still available as a print (A3 and A1) in my shop.
July 23, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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Are you taking part in the Big Butterfly Count this year?

Our latest blog dives into the DNA of butterflies and moths that have been spotted and sequenced at the Sanger Institute. 🦋

Find out some fun facts about these colourful creatures ⤵️
sangerinstitute.blog/2025/07/18/t...
July 18, 2025 at 1:12 PM
For my last Redbrick article🥲 I discuss Jeff VanderMeer and his contribution to the eco-horror subgenre. Writing for this publication for 2 years has been a privilege 💖

www.redbrick.me/annihilation...
'Annihilation' and the Eco-Horror Subgenre | Redbrick Slider (Culture)
Sci & Tech editor Sophie Webb delves into eco-horror through the lens of Jeff VanderMeer's novel Annihilation, exploring the workings of this hauntingly pertinent sub-genre
www.redbrick.me
July 17, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Either a broken thermometer or it’s halfway to boiling at 7pm on my mum and dad’s front porch…
July 11, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Our FREE #FLGenomicVariantsDiversity online course starts today (7 July) 🖥️

Learn how to navigate the complexities of #GenomeVariation for diverse populations, using #genomics tools for data analysis🧬

Plus, gain an understanding of #DataEthics through real-world case studies 🌍

📎bit.ly/3R7G7aK
July 7, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Hottest day of the year so far at the Botanical Gardens🪴
July 1, 2025 at 5:11 PM
June 30, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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‘My life was not as I would like it… it might be in my power to make it different’
An adapted extract from In Defence of Leisure: Experiments in Living with Marion Milner (@jonathancape.bsky.social) by Akshi Singh.
Repost for your chance to win a copy!
www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...
‘My life was not as I would like it… it might be in my power to make it different’ | BPS
An adapted extract from In Defence of Leisure: Experiments in Living with Marion Milner by Akshi Singh.
www.bps.org.uk
June 2, 2025 at 12:10 PM
This was a lovely event! 🇬🇧🇫🇷
Registrations now open for the 2025 NNMHR Congress!

Come together online w/ researchers & practitioners from across the globe to explore questions of language & translation in #medhums.

💡 TONGUES: Medical Humanities Across Linguistic & Cultural Frontiers
🗓️ 21-23 May
📍 Online
🔗 nnmh.org.uk/tongues/
May 24, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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New on the #projectEPIC blog today is a very cool post by Phaik Yeong Cheah about the proliferation of epistemic injustice in antimicrobial resistance research: epistemicinjusticeinhealthcareproject.blogspot.com/2025/05/epis...

#epistemicinjustice #healthcare #globalhealth
Epistemic injustice in global antimicrobial resistance research
epistemicinjusticeinhealthcareproject.blogspot.com
May 21, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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more froggy costume paintings 🐸
May 19, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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🚨 We're recruiting a Postdoctoral Research Fellow to join an NIHR-funded study exploring mental health help-seeking among care-experienced young people in England.

📅 Deadline: 01/06/2025
🔗 More details here: shorturl.at/EK0YD

Please share with your networks!
Research Fellow - School of Psychology - 105743 - Grade 7
The post holder will create and contribute to the creation of knowledge by undertaking a specified range of activities within a specific research project funded by the NIHR Research Programme for Soci...
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May 14, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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More equitable methods are needed to ensure genomic research benefits everyone fairly, according to a new review article in Nature Reviews Genetics involving Genomics England researchers.

Find out more: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

@natrevgenet.nature.com
www.nature.com
May 15, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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🔬 New review from the Mental Health Mission at the @imh-uob.bsky.social, which explores the biological underpinnings of emotional dysregulation in bipolar disorder, highlighting pathways for future, targeted treatments. #MentalHealth #BipolarDisorder #Neuroscience
www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...
Frontiers | Underlying biological mechanisms of emotion dysregulation in bipolar disorder
Difficulties with emotion regulation (ER) are a key feature of bipolar disorder (BD) contributing to poor psychosocial and functional outcomes. Abnormalities...
www.frontiersin.org
May 9, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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🦾 A robotic hand designed to collect samples on other worlds has its mechanical fingers assembled.

This “hand” uses two tools to secure its treasure:
🖖 Fingers to grip sample tubes.
🪠A plunger to transfer them to a container.

More about this clever mechanism: www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...
May 8, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Birmingham Botanical Gardens, May 2024 🌿
May 4, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Happy Hour. An old Star Wars drawing from 2012 for May 4th.
May 4, 2025 at 1:48 PM
www.redbrick.me/formula-1-dr...

I’m aware they’re just driving in circles, but that doesn’t make it any less entertaining👀🍿 DTS season 7 reviewed for Redbrick:
Formula 1: Drive to Survive Season 7 - Review | Redbrick Slider (TV)
Sci&Tech Editor Sophie Webb reviews Drive to Survive, finding it to be an entertaining step into the world of Formula One - despite its inaccuracies
www.redbrick.me
April 18, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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On what is a really difficult day, here are some resources for our trans friends and allies.

Solidarity 💜
goodlawproject.org/resource/sup...
Support resources for our trans friends and allies | Good Law Project
At a time when anti-trans discrimination is rife and hate crime has reached record levels, it’s important to know what support is out there for trans, non-binary or gender-questioning individuals and ...
goodlawproject.org
April 16, 2025 at 9:22 AM