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Jenny Koenig

@jennyakoenig.bsky.social

Associate Professor Pharmacology @ Nottingham Uni. Fellow of British Pharmacological Society. PhD, SFHEA, PGCE (secondary chemistry). Pharmacology education, maths education, curriculum, ethnicity.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Carter G. Woodson's famous 1933 work The Mis-Education of the Negro includes a discussion of these kinds of cases. Medical textbooks of the era reminded students of the higher rates of diseases including STIs in Black populations. True, relevant information. But what effects did it have? 3/

Dr. Mar@boldnewme.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Katalin Karikó is one of the most extraordinary scientific stories of this era. A girl from a modest Hungarian household helped develop technology that saved millions of lives worldwide. In 2023, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for discoveries that enabled effective mRNA vaccines.

SHE WAS DEMOTED, UNDERPAID, AND IGNORED FOR 40 YEARS. HER UNIVERSITY TOLD HER MRNA RESEARCH WAS WORTHLESS. HER COLLEAGUES STOPPED TAKING HER SERIOUSLY. SHE EARNED $50,000 A YEAR FOR FOUR DECADES. THEN COVID ARRIVED - AND, SHE WON THE NOBEL PRIZE.
Fabrizio Scarpa@fabrizioscarpa.bsky.social · 5mo ago

🧪 #AcademicSky 🇬🇧 30% staff cut in Chemistry at Nottingham. Two years ago, the Department received the RSC Prize in Excellence for Higher Education. Resources and talent going to waste. UKG doing nothing to preserve strategic know-how for the country. www.chemistryworld.com/news/notting...

Nottingham’s chemistry department faces loss of 30% of faculty amid university-wide staff cuts

The department's technicians and support staff are also at risk

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Jenny Koenig@jennyakoenig.bsky.social · 6mo ago

www.nature.com/articles/d41... it's about time that we really recognise the teamwork inherent in good science and support these careers properly. Am thinking of so many friends and colleagues who left science when they got to the stage where they were supposed to be group leader.

How hidden contributions power modern research

The people who work behind the scenes to keep research moving say that there should be more recognition for their roles.

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Jenny Koenig@jennyakoenig.bsky.social · 6mo ago

100%agree. Brian's work has helped to inspire a lot of people ( including me) to try to work out how best to do this. It's so important for medical students as how you conceptualise race can influence what you do with the information.

Ewan Birney@ewanbirney.bsky.social · 6mo ago

There is definitely more to racism than how we teach genetics (far more!), but (as you know) untangling genetics from racism is still something we've not worked out how to teach (indeed, I'd argue still in science these concepts are inappropriately elided as you know Aylwyn)

Shoumita Dasgupta, PhD@profdasgupta.bsky.social · 6mo ago

"There are a lot of different ways that genetics has been used to justify prejudice and there are lots of ways that human-made social categories interface with biological categories." Yes! This is so much of the reason behind my book Where Biology Ends and Bias Begins www.ucpress.edu/books/where-...

Where Biology Ends and Bias Begins by Shoumita Dasgupta - Paper

Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

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Christian Moore-Anderson@cmooreanderson.eurosky.social · 7mo ago

Post: ● The pros of teaching without powerpoint If teaching is transmission, the presentation is a vital tool. If, we see it as conversing to coordinate the meaning of content, then PowerPoint sits in the way of interaction between teachers and students. christianmooreanderson.com/pros-of-teac...

The pros of teaching without PowerPoint – Christian Moore Anderson

PowerPoint was a central tool in the community of teachers I was inducted into. Almost everyone I knew used it to develop their lessons, or at least obtain a pr

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️@napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Met someone who spent their career building programs to support underrepresented scientists at all career stages. We asked what he wished he knew earlier. He said he wished he knew how to make these programs sustainable, so that his life work didn't crumble with a change in leadership.

Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees@mcnees.bsky.social · 2y ago

Biochemist Gertrude B. Elion was born #OTD in 1918. Co-winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize in Medicine, she developed a remarkable array of important pharmaceuticals using “rational drug design” that focused on differences in the biochemistry of healthy cells and pathogens. 🧪 👩‍🔬 🦠

Black and white photo of Gertrude B. Elion. She is wearing a long white lab coat, with her hands in the coat's pockets, and standing in front of a wall of lab equipment. Her hair is short and wave. Her focus is on something off to the right of the photographer.
Dorothy Bishop@deevybee.bsky.social · 9mo ago

It seems bookdown is shutting down, and so I've migrated the free online version of Evaluating What Works here: dorothybishop-evaluating-what-works.share.connect.posit.cloud Hard copy also available here: www.routledge.com/Evaluating-W...

Evaluating What Works: An Intuitive Guide to Intervention Research for Practitioners

Those who work in allied health professions and education aim to make people’s lives better. Often, however, it is hard to know how effective this work has been: would change have occurred if there wa...

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