Dr Isabel Sassoon
@iksassoon.bsky.social
Data scientist & Senior Lecturer. Royal Statistical Society Fellow. SFHEA. Views are my own.
OOOOH this is a great job. I know I know people who would be amazing at this. And lots of people who know someone who would be amazing at this. Send it to them! Exec Director of Science at the Natural Environment Research Council (part of @ukri.org). fa-evzn-.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Executive Director of Science
Executive Director of Science | NERC | Band X
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Really valuable and interesting perspective on teaching and learning in the age of generative AI www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYZI...
Heriot-Watt Inspiring Learning New Year Lecture 2026 by Helen Beetham
YouTube video by Heriot-Watt Learning and Teaching Academy
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#Women are underrepresented in academia, especially in #STEMM fields, top institutions & in senior positions. Analysis of millions of biomed & life science articles reveal that female-authored articles spend longer under review than comparable male-authored ones @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4658FZN
Data wrangling is undervalued, and the consequences can be huge. Rosemary Tate & Roger Halliday call for a culture shift in data science, including “data amnesty” & editorial reform. Read more on our Real World Data Science site: realworlddatascience.net/foundation-f... #DataQuality #RWDS
Why We Should All Be Data Quality Detectives – Real World Data Science
Data serves as the foundation of our work. So why isn’t its quality given the prominence it deserves?
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#academicSPAM another example for the collection, following up on something "sent" to me on the 10th of March. Signed off with "A brief confirmation from you—regardless of your decision—would be greatly appreciated and will help us avoid further follow-ups. "
...on the topic of #academicSPAM this is one of many that purport to an email on the 10th of March. I wonder if the phrasing used in these even works?
NEW POST: "Reblog: How To Convince Students To Use Effective Study Strategies?" by @drckt.bsky.social www.learningscientists.org/blog/2023/6/...
Reblog: How To Convince Students To Use Effective Study Strategies? — The Learning Scientists
I’m currently preparing teaching for the upcoming academic year. One focus for me has been student self-regulated learning and time management skills. So, as I’m developing resources for students and...
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📣Our Real World Data Science platform is back The world of data science has been a dizzying place lately, so we paused to take stock. Now we’re back - ready to rejoin the conversation with renewed clarity & purpose Read our editor's blog & call for ideas realworlddatascience.net/the-pulse/ed...
Back to #parkrun after a few weeks of university open day visits (requiring a different type of stamina 😂)
Last year we ran a survey on UK HE redundancies. Based on 349 responses, the UNIVERSITIES DEGRADED REPORT uncovers awful conditions, targeting of marginalised groups, & far more cuts than estimated. People's stories matter. We can hold leaders to account. Please share widely tinyurl.com/48nzf7ew
Universities Degraded: Staff Experiences & Employer Practices of Redundancies in UK Higher Education
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Conducted between August and October 2024 and publicised mainly by members of the University and College Union (UCU), the ‘Survey for UCU Members on HE Redundancies’ invited response...
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We don't win awards very often, but we won a Policy Impact Award the other day for our work :). www.brunel.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
Senate House opens the doors to Brunel's brightest ideas
Brunel Research Showcase and Impact Awards
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The dept of computer science at Brunel University of London was recently awarded #AthenaSwan silver! Proud to be part of the team - read about it in the press release www.brunel.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
Brunel's Department of Computer Science awarded Athena Swan Silver
The department has been awarded Athena Swan Silver Award by Advance HE, in recognition of the department
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On hunger as a weapon of war, a murderous attack on a Jewish museum - and the blindness of hatred. Latest column www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
A biblical hatred is engulfing both sides in the Gaza conflict – and blinding them to reason | Jonathan Freedland
Israel starving Palestinians, two killings at a Jewish museum: both are atrocities. But vanishingly few can see it, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
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Not read the article but how exactly are universities being irresponsible over public money? Is this informed by actually looking at how much universities and their staff do? 😡
Zach Elsbury@zachelsbury.eurosky.social · last yr.Letting unis go bust will be popular with voters right up until the economic and societal affects hit them square in the face. This is exactly why outsourcing politics to focus groups and those who cannot adjust from campaigning to governing is disastrous.
Another Saturday brings another #parkrun. This one is #40 🏃♀️
KLAXON 🚨: Indie SAGE has come out of retirement to release a new short report standing up for diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in the sciences! DEI is not just the right thing to do, it *improves* the quality of the science. Please read and share. independentsage.org/wp-content/u... 1/2
Chilly but sunny #parkrun wonderful event as always 😊
Sunny #parkrun makes for a great start to the weekend and a welcome distraction from everything else 🏃♀️#academiclife
Instead of using ChatGPT, why not just get a family member to lie to you while they set fire to a tree?
In a first for any research council we know of, EPSRC shared their data with us and the Alan Turing Institute to delve into what it shows about equity and diversity in application processes. 📖 Read about our findings: rss.org.uk/news-publica...
Today's university slashing and burning is Edinburgh, where about 10% of the budget will be cut. There'll be another case every single day until UK govts actually do something. A country so stupid it actively trashes one of things it's good at and famous for. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Edinburgh University to seek £140m in savings
Unions said the plans would result in "devastating cuts" and called for Edinburgh University to use some of its assets instead.
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As predicted here for many months, the number of universities now making active redundancies has now risen to 90. It rise to 100 very soon. qmucu.org/qmul-transfo...
UK HE shrinking
This is a live page of all the redundancies, restructures, reorganisations, and closures taking place across the sector at the moment. Solidarity to all. This sector is vital to the country’s…
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Frustratingly sad state of affairs www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The Guardian view on campus cuts: academics pay a high price for Westminster’s mistakes | Editorial
Editorial: The government should not stand aloof as a crisis unfolds in our universities. A new settlement is needed
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