By way of a celebration of the juggle many carers & parents go through to make travel for research happen, why not share your “STEMM life with dependants” photos 😃 🧪 Let’s amplify, discuss, normalise the balancing act, & celebrate the superpowers often required ⚖️ We ❤️ seeing them! #STEMMCarers

Oh hello there!!! The printed copies of our report have arrived - and I am the chosen Laura to lug them across the country! So, come and join us in Edinburgh on the 22nd of October for our first @carersinstemm.bsky.social report launch and get your own copy! forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

UKRI #FLF community please help us and spread the word about our @carersinstemm.bsky.social upcoming report launch events. ➡️ First stop The University of Edinburgh on 22nd October Register here: forms.office.com/pages/respon... #UKRIFLF #FutureLeadersFellows

Carers In STEMM@carersinstemm.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Edinburgh and surrounding areas, please join us in 3 weeks for our first report launch event! After presenting our survey findings, we have a great line-up of panelist, including the fantastic @astroroyalscot.bsky.social! Register via forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

Join us in #Edinburgh on 22nd October for the first of our @carersinstemm.bsky.social report launch events. We are excited that @astroroyalscot.bsky.social is able to join us - looking forward to the panel discussion and hearing feedback on the report 🎤

Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans@astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 10mo ago

You can also join one of the three report launch events where the team will be sharing their actionable recommendations to improve support for all academic carers. Please come and say hello to me if you’re at the Edinburgh event! 9/end🧵 Register👉: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

Conventional wisdom says motherhood should wait for tenure as before you land a permanent post, #academia is just not that family friendly🙁 @carersinstemm.bsky.social are calling for change and to celebrate their new report, a Saturday🧵on parenting & academia! 1/9 👩‍🔬🧪🔭⚛️ ℹ️: carersinstemm.co.uk

@carterlj.bsky.social talks about their UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Future Leaders Fellowship on emerging contaminants in agricultural systems rdcu.be/eqQCy

Emerging contaminants in agricultural systems

Nature Reviews Earth & Environment - Nature Reviews Earth & Environment interviewed Laura Carter about their project investigating emerging contaminants in agricultural systems.

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The news is out now 😉 We are proud to say we, the 3Lauras, have been awarded the @ukri.org “Advancing Culture” 2025 Impact Award for our work trying to improve caring provisions at conferences, grant funding & policy here at Carers in STEMM 👏 The recognition is fantastic - 🙏 !

We’re excited to have @laurawolz.bsky.social and @carterlj.bsky.social from @carersinstemm.bsky.social with us today to tell us about their important work advocating for equitable and accessible support for those balancing caring and career. #LINEsymposium2025

Still smiling after a busy week at #SETACVienna2025. Lots of interesting discussion - I particularly enjoyed the sessions integrating #policy and #scientific advances which opened some new lines of thinking for me 🤔. Now to go home and digest it all! @setac.bsky.social

Hello Vienna 👋 Excited for the first day of talks and posters at #SETACVienna We are presenting across the week on #contaminants in crops 🌾 honey 🍯 and manure 🐖 - come and find out more about ongoing work in our group @envleeds.bsky.social

Are you attending hashtag #SETAC Vienna 2025? Join the SETAC UK Speed Networking Event hosted on 14 May from 16:30 to 17:30 in Room 0.96-0.97 Everyone is welcome to join; whether you are an established researcher or new to the community, this event will help you build valuable connections

I can't think of a better way to start your week than talking about #soils, #sewage sludge and emerging #contaminants - delighted to host Jo and Natasha from @fidrango.bsky.social at @envleeds.bsky.social and looking forward to continuing discussions on this topic 🌱🚜

Excited to share our ongoing research @envleeds.bsky.social ky.social at the first night of the Science Café, part of @otleyscience.bsky.social y.social! 🧪 ‘Radishes on Prozac’ sparked great discussions on chemical use, and having my mum there made it even more special! #publicengagement #family🌱

It has been a pleasure to be part of the panel for the #water@leeds Water Women Award @universityofleeds.bsky.social 💦 “We’re surrounded by inspirational colleagues, who deserve to be recognised and celebrated as role models.” water.leeds.ac.uk/news/water-w...

🌟 Celebrating #WomenInSTEM on International Day of Women and Girls in Science! 🚀🔬 I have the privilege to collaborate with brilliant female scientists and colleagues in STEM @envleeds.bsky.social who are pushing boundaries and solving global challenges🌍💡 #IDWGS #womeninscience #STEMForAll

Finally made it to Bluesky and my first post is to announce a fully funded PhD scholarship! on the social value of public food procurement @universityofleeds.bsky.social with @effie25.bsky.social @foodwiseleeds.bsky.social and @leedscitycouncil.bsky.social. Deadline 14th of March shorturl.at/yL5gB

Interesting to see that #RHS will use compost created from human waste as a soil improver Use of 'humanure' has lots of benefits and any potential risks from residual chemicals will be minimised as the reuse loop is small & composting will take place www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

‘Humanure’: RHS plans rollout of first compost toilet to fertilise flowerbeds

The horticultural charity’s showpiece garden in Surrey is setting aside an space to test human waste fertiliser

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Great opportunity to share preliminary findings from our @carersinstemm.bsky.social survey The seminar led onto really interesting discussions about current support available for carers v. what carers actually need to participate in meetings/conferences 🧪. Thanks to Nathan Mayne for hosting!

Carers In STEMM@carersinstemm.bsky.social · 2y ago

Thank you to the @universityofexeter.bsky.social Department of Physics & Astronomy’s Astrophysics Group for hosting @carterlj.bsky.social for an afternoon to discuss how we can better support academic carers who travel and preliminary results from our Carers in STEMM #survey

Good morning Cornwall. What a view to wake up to ⛵️🌊🐚

12 hours of travel today … enough time to edit 3 manuscripts, review 1 paper and comment on a thesis, right?! Chocolate 🍫 and caffeine ☕️at the ready!

Please help us by sharing available grants / travel funders that enable carers to travel and join meetings. Societies, conferences, institutes - all input welcome 🙏 We are compiling a list to make a resource on our carersinstemm.co.uk website

Carers In STEMM@carersinstemm.bsky.social · 2y ago

As part of #CarersInSTEMM we are working to highlight available #funding and #grants for #academic carers wishing to participate in meetings, conferences & workshops. Please share links / information you are familiar with so we can try to increase the reach of these opportunities. Thank you!

My 89 year old granny started cutting out and sending me newspaper articles when she saw something that mentioned soil or she thought was related to my research ✉️ 15 years later I’m still receiving post 😊❤️

Delighted to share PhD student Di Wu's paper - published now in J. Hazardous Materials. Our results highlight the gender-specific toxicity of polystyrene microplastics to zebrafish health - female zebrafish are more affected than males 🐟 Check it out here 👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Female zebrafish are more affected than males under polystyrene microplastics exposure

Microplastics are ubiquitous in freshwater and can be absorbed into fish skin and gills, accumulate in the gut, and be transported to other tissues, t…

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Joseph Holden@prof-joseph-holden.bsky.social · 2y ago

New paper published from my PhD student Di Wu showing that polystyrene microplastic pollution adversely impacts female zebrafish more than males www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @carterlj.bsky.social Free version here if you have a paywall: eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/220647/

Really impressed by BlueSky so far, enjoying content from friends / colleagues / collaborators 😀 I would like to tap into wider #research networks - in particular in areas related to global challenges, #pollution, circular economy, #AMR. Suggestions for people to follow / starter packs welcome 🙏

Incredibly important study highlighting gendered bias in career trajectories within the academy @parsnipsparsons.bsky.social - we have to, as a sector, do better.

Liz Hide@themuseumofliz.bsky.social · 2y ago

'women leave academia overall at higher rates than men at every career age, in large part because of strongly gendered attrition... ...women leave or consider leaving because of workplace climate more often than work-life balance' New study: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #womenInStem #PalAss24

Hello BlueSky! If you’re interested in finding out about our research on the fate and effects of emerging #contaminants in the #environment at UoLeeds 💊or work as part of 1/3 of @carersinstemm.bsky.social to support those balancing #academic careers and caring responsibilities give me a follow 🙋‍♀️👋