I have an arthritis flare up in my left hand so I can only type on a keyboard for about a minute at a time before everything gets too ouchy to continue. However, my thumbs are fine. This means I am currently writing two journal article reviews and a grant application on my phone. LIFE IS HELL 🫠

votes for whether I should put this inspiring tale on LinkedIn please xx

Sophie@smeekings.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Please be seated for a tale of my proudest culinary innovation: Yesterday we had some bits in the fridge to use up so I was going to make fig and coconut yoghurt ice cream mix for our Ninja Creamiᵀᴹ. My husband Llewe said, "no, you can't do that, there's already five full tubs in the freezer".

Please be seated for a tale of my proudest culinary innovation: Yesterday we had some bits in the fridge to use up so I was going to make fig and coconut yoghurt ice cream mix for our Ninja Creamiᵀᴹ. My husband Llewe said, "no, you can't do that, there's already five full tubs in the freezer".

This experiment has had me saying things I never thought would pass my lips, such as, "hooray, a man!"

Sophie@smeekings.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Me on international women's day: women are essential to scientific progress and we must urgently fix gender imbalances in STEM Me now, desperately trying to find more cisgender men to participate in my experiment: WOMEN ARE USELESS TO ME.

Me on international women's day: women are essential to scientific progress and we must urgently fix gender imbalances in STEM Me now, desperately trying to find more cisgender men to participate in my experiment: WOMEN ARE USELESS TO ME.

Featuring brilliant scientists from our recent #SmashingStereotypes campaign, the latest BBC Radio Wales Science Cafe programme focuses on scientists with disabilities and explores disability research. Thank you @smeekings.bsky.social, Nic Bonne, Rugile Sestokaite! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Science Café - Championing Disability - BBC Sounds

Adam shines a light on scientists with disabilities and explores disability research.

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Neuroscientists: "How natural should laboratory behavior be?" Pigeons: "fuck you, the world is a Skinner box"

Cristian Farias@cristianfarias.com · 5mo ago

“Not for rinsing or washing,” they said. (Seen at Union Station.)

Having a very intense time at work at the moment as my day job and four different extracurricular roles are all in a crunch period this month. For the sake of my mental wellbeing it has therefore become essential that I take on a fifth extracurricular proj--

Some thoughts from today's Women and the Future of Science conference at the @royalsociety.org: - Pretty impressive to get this many exceptional scientists in one room, never mind that most of them are women - Questions from secondary school pupils were brilliant and incisive, the future is bright!

What does the ongoing rupture in the world order that Prime Minister of Canada Mark Carney referred to at Davos earlier this year mean for #ClimateChange?

Discussing importance of m & f scientists to take parental leave. Need better childcare. Dame Jocelyn: On site at unis. Prof Uta Frith: (with glee) and then the psychologists cd do experiments!

Everyone always says Sugababes are the Ship of Theseus but isn't it also just every sports team ever? (Brought to you by watching the Fulham game highlights for the first time in a while and recognising absolutely nobody)

in 2021 you'll read a cool paper by someone working at the All India Institute of Speech and Hearing and you'll think about contacting them to set up a collaboration; it's very important that you send that email

Someone please tell me why, to find the commodity code that applies to laptops, I have to look in the chapter of the UK Online Tariff that deals with NUCLEAR REACTORS 😭 people who deal with import/export for a job must be on another level for lateral thinking

dudes rock

Been a wild 24hrs- kicked off Monday giving a talk at the Royal Society #FutureSciPub then headed home to miraculously pass my driving test?? Have spent a good chunk of the year so far so ill I couldn't travel and legally unable to drive for a bit so feeling v grateful for some glorious respite.

Well this is impressive!

Donders Institute@dondersinst.bsky.social · last yr.

🎥🌍 Over 1,000 neuroscience talks now free on YouTube and published at @apertureohbm.bsky.social. 🧠 “Now anyone, anywhere can binge-watch brain science like a box set,” says @stephforkel.bsky.social: www.ru.nl/en/donders-i... @alfiewearn.bsky.social @sitek.bsky.social @sofievalk.bsky.social

jfc these predatory conferences get more alarming by the day

A "sex" that's immutable even if you change every single sex characteristic you have is not a biological one actually

22 March 2025 saw the 80th anniversary of the first women scientists being elected as Fellows of the Royal Society. Head to our YouTube channel to see our new short documentaries celebrating the lives and work of Marjory Stephenson FRS and Kathleen Lonsdale FRS:

Marjory Stephenson and Kathleen Lonsdale - trailer | The Royal Society

Maggie Aderin-Pocock meets Jocelyn Bell Burnell and Judy Armitage to discover the fascinating stories of Marjory Stephenson and Kathleen Lonsdale, the first ...

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Great fun to be in the House of Lords this evening with fellow @ukyoungacademy.bsky.social exec group member @smeekings.bsky.social, to celebrate 25 years of the @royalsociety.org's pairing scheme between scientists and policy makers. Lovely to meet so many interesting people from both spheres!

I'm also in this WhatsApp group. #UKYoungAcademy new members induction this morning includes a prize for most interesting hobby- making an early bid for supremacy here.

Cllr Emily Kerr 💚@emilykerr36.bsky.social · 2y ago

OK, I've just started a WhatsApp group with some friends about how to build a replica iron-age roundhouse. I think it is my most niche WAG ever. Also have one about best way to heat large volumes of water above an open fire. What's everyone else's nichest WAG?

Meet Dr. Sophie Meekings, a speech neuroscientist studying what happens in your brain during a conversation. Despite growing up deaf and not taking science A-Levels, Sophie’s passion for language led her to a PhD in neuroscience. #SmashingStereotypes #BSW25 youtube.com/watch?v=YwGr...

Meet Sophie, Speech neuroscientist | #SmashingStereotypes

YouTube video by British Science Association

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Now in its 6th year, our #SmashingStereotypes campaign for #BSW25 is back! We're spotlighting remarkable individuals in diverse STEM careers who are breaking barriers -because there's no 'typical' path to STEM success! Read the full story! www.britishscienceassociation.org/news/bringin...

Bringing back Smashing Stereotypes for its sixth year for British Science Week 2025

The British Science Association (BSA) is thrilled to announce the return of the highly-anticipated ‘Smashing Stereotypes’ campaign for this year’s British Science Week – celebrating the diverse people...

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Home for the holidays and sharing my old room with my parents' replacement children:

Doing some UK Young Academy work on the train and feeling very lucky to be part of such a broad organisation filled with experts on cool things I didn't even know it was possible to be an expert in 🥰

I really like the idea of interviews on "current status and future challenges in brain imaging". I do NOT like that 14 of 15 interviews are with men. Who is missing from this list? We have lots of amazing neuroimagers who aren't men. #neuroskyence www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Current status and future challenges in brain imaging: Insights from leading experts

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really the social media experience peaked with Beebo and has been downhill ever since

It's garden season again bitches 🌱

This sign clearly had a very specific backstory and I need to know what it is: