Professor, eEF1A2/neurological disorders. Mostly talks about research, EDI (tries hard to be a good ally) but sometimes veers off into crafts and photos of Scotland. She/her, views own.
Cathy Abbott
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Really good well balanced piece about the place of interviewing in grants (well, my remarks are not particularly well balanced, but the piece is!). Featuring @kirstygrainger.bsky.social too 🙂
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-worl...
For a scholar writing in their second language, under real pressure to publish, a language model can (in theory) be a genuine equalizer. The same tool can also flood journals with fluent, hollow text.
Ah, this is a really interesting and helpful take on leadership- really well done @emmawilson.eurosky.social ❤️
"At Thermo Fisher, as the world leader in serving science, scientific integrity is a core value." Right.
Not sure we'll be ordering from them again...
"But every word in a research publication should be written by the accountable human researchers." 👏
For accuracy, I was Director of the UKRI Future Leaders Fellowships programme; describing me simply as an “ex-UKRI director” is misleading. Similarly, I led strategy within both the Research Culture and Talent portfolios, rather than holding a generic “Head of Strategy at UKRI” role.
BUT....
ICYMI over the weekend...
"Most of us have a support network, but there is a tendency in academia to put on a brave face. Few would like to admit publicly that they are anything but successful, efficient, confident and fearless..."
My latest blog post, on academic burden
bit.ly/4nXsFpb #AcademicSky
The editorial that the ADA was so afraid to have handed out at their annual meeting is really fantastic
diabetesjournals.org/care/article...
Cathy Abbott
Academia is basically working on a boat that's holed beneath the waterline, we're going down slowly with less than enough lifeboats and the captain is currently asking us to throw people overboard to make us lighter in the hope we'll float.
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