Wonderful to hear Lauren Reid's insightful reflections on her journey from PhD to drug development and software design in the medicinal chemistry space with MedChemica Ltd!

research-careers.org/lauren-reid/

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Our paper is now published in Circ Res, demonstrating why the heart becomes loaded with lipids in diabetes. So proud of our team and all their hard work

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NEW report from us @wildjustice.bsky.social today - #LostNature - which details how housing developers are failing wildlife across the board on every measure . 🧵

...So when the @royalsociety.org says "due to the high number of applications we are unable to provide feedback", it sits badly. What little down time we have sunk into an application and the funder cant even say if it was on the right track, feels like a kick in the teeth to young researchers. 3/3

...and then once that is all done, still have to find time to write grant applications to enable us to continue doing our job.
When the inevitable rejection letter arrives, the one piece of solace is that the feedback can help you improve your application and try again. 2/3

#postdocs put in long hours on a daily basis, spend weekends and holidays in the lab acquiring data for other peoples grants, contribute our free time to support the University and funders in promoting research and engagement, participiate in teaching and supervising for little to no extra pay 1/3