If only the UK had massively subsidised the green economy with retraining for wind & solar and 100% home insulation instead of massively subsidising polluting but profitable oil and gas and warmongering ... meme via Neil McEvoy
Isabel N Christie PhD
@izzynchristie.bsky.social
Neuroscience I Glia I Imaging I Steminist Wellcome Trust Career Development Researcher izzynchristie.wordpress.com UK Glia Network co-founder University of Sheffield
Home from holiday to lots of negative peer review! Grateful to the reviewers for giving up their precious time 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 Its the best thing about #science, we learn, we grow, we improve But wow it hurts 😞🤒🤕😣
Another #renewable first for Scotland. Cars are now being charged by the power of the ocean. We have so many solutions. Implement them. #ActOnClimate #ClimateCrisis #Climate #energy #renewableenergy #greennewdeal
#Spain combination of high solar irradiance, large available land, and aggressive #renewable auction programs has made it one of Europe's fastest-growing solar markets. #Solar regularly sets the marginal price in Spain's electricity market — meaning that when the sun shines, prices fall toward zero.
"The academic structure … makes planning for a family feel like an impossible luxury." In this Working Life, two postdocs share how, as women in academia, having children can feel impossible—and how talking about it makes them feel less alone. https://scim.ag/46uBWgD #InternationalDayOfFriendship
Fascinating paper on the progression of women in academia. 👩🏻🔬 ⚛️ 🧪 #AcademicSky docs.iza.org/dp18477.pdf?... Here's an excerpt from the conclusion:
Half the planet is having a massive fight about how to correctly interpret an Ancient Greek poem but go ahead, close some more humanities departments.
Changing gas stove/hob to electric can help asthmatics as much - or more - than drugs - study #airpollution Story by @drgaryfuller.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Replacing gas stove can help asthmatics as much as some drugs, US experts find
Team in Ohio finds swapping to electric has ‘very large’ impact, despite study being scaled back by Trump cuts
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Movement Disorders Fellowship at the University of Cambridge building clinical and research expertise in Parkinson’s, Lewy body dementia and related disorders. www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/job/assistan...
Assistant Research Professor: Movement Disorders
University of Cambridge seeks a Movement Disorders Fellow to build clinical and research expertise in Parkinson’s, Lewy body dementia and related disorders.
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The face of an ant under an electron microscope. Fascinating.
Mitch McConnell hasn’t been seen or heard from in 6 weeks(!) in the hospital. Yet he still has a job, still getting paid, and getting unlimited world class healthcare. The man who voted against a living wage, against universal healthcare, and against guaranteed paid leave—is now getting all three.
Our paper is out in this week's issue of Cell! Personally, I think our cover submission by @drawimpacts.bsky.social was more exciting 😅 www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
A prostaglandin prevents macrophages from clearing toxic neutrophils in aging organs, according to new Science research in mice. Learn more in a new #SciencePerspective: https://scim.ag/4fdUVBc
Tidying up aging organs
A prostaglandin prevents macrophages from clearing toxic neutrophils in aging organs
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Congratulations to Professor Wang on winning the Fields Medal (Nobel Prize for Math). Only the 3rd woman in history to win. And she won for a preprint article! We have some ways to go in biology before preprints receive this level of impact and recognition.
Quanta Magazine@quantamagazine.org · 2w agoHong Wang, who proved the three-dimensional Kakeya set conjecture, has just won the Fields Medal, making her the third woman in the award’s 90-year history to receive math’s highest honor. Read our profile: www.quantamagazine.org/hong-wang-wi...
UK households free to install plug-in balcony #solar panels from end of August www.theguardian.com/money/2026/j...
UK households free to install plug-in balcony solar panels from end of August
Law change means renters and flat owners may be able to cut bills as energy costs soar amid Iran war
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Pisa Family time, loving holiday life ❤️ #WomeninSTEM #mothersinscience #familyfun #summerholidays #Italy #Tuscany
@ryanairofficial.bsky.social shocking scenes at Gate 49, flight to Milan. Stansted. Mother and child refused entry to flight at 10pm. Vicious, vindictive staff behaviour. All witnesses shocked and disgusted. Complaints coming soon
Never flying with Ryanair again. I just witnessed the most inhumane situation at Stansted airport. Staff were were rude and aggressive with a mother waiting to board her flight. She was refused entry to the flight. After an aggressive flight attendant demanded £60 for a child's suitcase
the most realistic scene in Jurassic Park is when two scientists make a questionable decision — traveling to an undisclosed location with a strange man — on the promise of three years of modest funding
"Sometimes, the most useful thing to do is not to stop the tears, but to notice what they might be telling us about a person—and about the work lives we share." #ScienceWorkingLife https://scim.ag/4gJ46e3
Science is not truth. Science is finding the truth. When science changes its opinion, it didn't lie to you. It learned more.
The first work of the #FalconeLab is finally out!!! 🤩 A story of #astrocytes from evolution to disease. Thanks everyone who made this possible! Varicose projection astrocytes: Conserved reactive cells in brain pathology | #ScienceAdvances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @towsonu.bsky.social
Please share! This fully-funded postdoc position at the UCLA La Kretz Center allows candidates to design their own projects in California conservation, and offers mentorship from both academics and conservation practitioners. drive.google.com/file/d/1K2Qi...
LKC 2027 Postdoctoral Fellowship.pdf
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After a busy and productive academic year, I am well excited to spend some time with these cracking people! #schoolsout #summerhols #familytime #priorities #WomeninSTEM #mothering #mothersinscience
Plaque-associated oligodendrocyte proteostatic failure underlies myelin loss in Alzheimers disease https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.08.737318v1