If you need a strategy just to take your annual leave, something is wrong.

Five ways academics can protect their annual leave

Organisation and communication will ease the way for university staff to book guilt-free time off and prevent burnout

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📣 Registration is now open for experts to review the First Order Draft of the Working Group I contribution to IPCC’s Seventh Assessment Report. Interested experts can register until 25 Sept 2026 🔗 https://bit.ly/4vi25cq The review starts 10 August until 2 October. More 🔗 https://bit.ly/WGI7Fod

@carbon8.bsky.social wrote a nice summary of the review paper on marine archaeal lipids as marine paleoenvironmental indicators: eos.org/editor-highl... 🔗 to the review in the Editor’s Highlight in @eos.org and my post quoted below. @agu.org #AGUPubs #TeamArchaea #GDGTs #isoGDGTs 🧪 ⚒️ 🌊 #PaleoSky

The Definitive Guide to the TEX86 Paleothermometer - Eos

A new review article summarizes our knowledge of how microbial lipids archived in marine sediments record ancient ocean temperatures and outlines challenges and next steps for the TEX86 proxy.

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Dr. Nina Davtian (she/her/hers)@ninadavtian.bsky.social · 4w ago

I re-up the 🔗 to my new co-authored review paper on marine archaeal tetraether lipids, aka #GDGTs, as marine paleoenvironmental indicators, with the 2nd int’l GDGT workshop mug and my name highlighted in the author list: doi.org/10.1029/2025... #AGUPubs #TeamArchaea #isoGDGTs 🧪 ⚒️ 🌊 #PaleoSky (1/2)

INQUA 2026 Funding Opportunities are now open: For Early-Career Researchers (ECR) and Developing-Country Researchers (DCR) looking to expand your international research experience. Offers funding to help you build collaborations, develop new skills, and advance Quat science worldwide.

New opportunity: fully funded PhD position within the Cluster of Excellence HUMAN ORIGINS Investigate experimentally the evolutionary significance of transformative Stone Age techniques in this project on cognitive demands, and explore the probability of their success. Deadline: 15 September 2026.

Queens’ College intends to appoint a Junior Research Fellow (JRF) from 1 October 2027 in Archaeological Science. Deadline to apply: 25 September 2026 www.queens.cam.ac.uk/about-us/vac...

Labs typically have robust safety procedures to protect researchers – yet when it comes to being pregnant, many chemists discover there is a lack of clear, accessible guidance. Join us next month to hear more & discuss what’s needed moving forward: @rsc.org www.chemistryworld.com/webinars/wor...

Working safely through pregnancy: a conversation for chemists and lab leaders

How safe is the lab when you're pregnant? Join our conversation on 9 September

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Building on previous work looking at STEM role models, Jessica Gladstone at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and her team evaluated the implicit messages in 422 bestselling children’s science biographies. #ChemSky www.chemistryworld.com/news/the-gen...

The genius narrative isn’t inspiring – science biographies for children may send a demotivating message

Analysis of over 400 children's books finds ideas around early interest in science and innate ability could turn young readers away from science

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Our podcast is a model of what it looks like to place African voices at the centre of the #TaungChild fossil discovery, says Justin Pargeter in this SAJS review. 📖 Read the review & listen to all episodes of HERI's Unburied Season 2 FREE here: www.heriuct.co.za/news-content...

Analysing the ratio of oxygen-18 to oxygen-16 present in shell layers enabled the researchers to determine the temperatures limpets were exposed to at various points in their lives. #ChemSky www.chemistryworld.com/news/chemica...

Chemical analysis of limpet shells reveals mechanism behind deep-sea migrations

Concentrations of barium, manganese and oxygen isotopes in shell layers provide evidence of where limpets live at different life stages

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🌟 A reminder that Round 2 of the HSDS Grants Programme is still open 🌟 The Grants Programme offers grants up to £25,000 to advance heritage science data research across the UK. Applications close on 30 September 2026. To find out more visit: hsds.ac.uk/deposit-data...

Heritage Science Data Service@hsds-update.bsky.social · 2mo ago

💡 HSDS Grants Programme Round 2 NOW OPEN 💡 Got heritage science data that deserves a wider audience? Ready to build cutting-edge digital tools for research? We can help. ✨ 🔓 Theme 1: Generate Datasets (up to £25k) 🖥️ Stream 2: Build virtual research environments (up to £15k) Visit buff.ly/oU5RGiJ

We're hiring an associate/full professor in paleoanthropology in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University - As Katie Hinde says - come join our science party in the desert!!

One of the things @chemistryatyork.bsky.social has been thinking about in terms of inclusion, has been making laboratories more neuroinclusive. In this article, our EDI lead, Dr Julia Sarju, explains more. @york.ac.uk www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Building a neuroinclusive lab

Nature Reviews Chemistry - Chemistry laboratories are abundant with sensory stimuli. This Comment explores the impact of sensory overload on scientists working in these environments and offers...

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What gives me hope: Not everyone falls for misinformation and the heating market in Germany has shifted dramatically despite all the toxicity around the topic.

We seem to have hit a nerve with this one and I'm completely blown away by the response. Close to 100,000 views in 24 hours for an academic paper on tabloid framing and the German heating law. I suspect it's because so many countries are watching the same playbook unfold at home.

Jan Rosenow@janrosenow.bsky.social · last mo.

NEW RESEARCH: One German tabloid coined one word. "Heizungshammer" spread to 1,100+ articles and helped to effectively kill Germany's heating law. We analysed 333 BILD articles to trace how tabloid framing became legislation. Out today, open access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

1000 evaluators given identical resumes & told candidate used AI. Only difference on resumes was candidate’s name: Emily vs James. Study found women using AI are evaluated as less competent than men who use AI...To evaluators, women’s AI use signaled inability, while men’s AI use signaled initiative

David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · last mo.

Women’s use of AI is perceived as a sign of incompetence, while men’s use of AI is seen as an indication of initiative. 🤦🏻‍♂️

'“I couldn’t believe it when I heard the news,” said Richard J. Roberts, who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1993, on recently announced proposals to cut about 20 per cent of posts at Sheffield’s renowned chemistry department where he took his undergraduate degree and PhD'.

University of Sheffield’s Nobelist brands chemistry cuts ‘insane’

Genetics pioneer Richard J. Roberts criticises plans to cut posts at ‘brilliant’ department that launched his scientific career

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First they came for the languages. In the hope that no one would have the words to say what was happening. 1/9🧵

University of Aberdeen's plans to cut modern language degrees were 'rushed' - review

The University of Aberdeen says it accepts there were "missteps" in its process in 2023.

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Today's the day! The heat has relented and Reform finally have their chance to persuade King's Lynn and West Norfolk' Council to turn their back on climate action I'll be live-tweeting from the debate

Heatwave halts Reform bid to scrap climate emergency

A council debate on scrapping West Norfolk's climate emergency was postponed after extreme heat made the chamber unusable

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🎉 A positive tipping point: sales of new electric cars just overtook petrol car sales in the UK for the first time. This @carbonbrief.org analysis shows that demand for EVs has grown consistently over the last 12 months. 👉 Read the analysis: www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-...

The consequences of failing to tackle climate change are already here. Bus drivers. Teachers. Millions working through extreme heat. Time to get the drive to net zero back on track. @drjogrady.bsky.social on Sky News

🏺Collisions of peoples/ancestries through the medieval period in Sicily. journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Genetic histories of individuals from multi-faith medieval Sicily

Medieval Sicily, located at the intersection of Europe, North Africa and the Near East, experienced successive political and religious transitions under Byzantine, Aghlabid, Fatimid, Norman, and Swabi...

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Because apparently this needs to be said: don‘t take research $ from an oil company, and if you do definitely don’t let them write your papers

ProPublica@propublica.org · last mo.

NEW: This is the story of how one of the most influential climate papers in history came to exist thanks to one of the companies most responsible for causing the climate crisis — and one with a financial stake in the technologies described in the paper. w/ @drilledmedia.bsky.social

The first molecular evidence of Homo naledi from at least 20 individuals shows that none are male. I've taken a deep dive into how the paleoproteomics works, what it says about naledi relationships, and why this result is less surprising than it sounds. www.johnhawks.net/p/the-first-...

The first molecular data from Homo naledi

Protein data from the Rising Star cave system show the known sample of this species is entirely female.

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🚨First-ever protein study of Homo Naledi teeth led by HERI’s Dr @palaeoprotpalesa.bsky.social finds zero male markers in 23 samples - suggesting all individuals analysed were female. A major step forward in studying sex differences in extinct species. 🔗 www.heriuct.co.za/news-content...

🚨We are recruiting! 🚨 (Senior) Research Associate in Organic Geochemistry. The successful applicant will join the OGU to elucidate the source of specific microbial membrane spanning lipids, including brGDGTs and brGMGTs. [Deadline 8th July 2026] www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

++BREAKING++ Leading climate scientists in the UK have written to senior editors in broadcast media - and OFCOM and IPSO: "To express our concern about recent media coverage of extreme weather, climate change and net-zero and to urge you…to inform public audiences of the scientific links"

“We’ve only had 114 years to do something, let our kids sort it out!”

'Gemma Derrick...said the decision not to take account of maternity and paternity leave in the REF’s volume measure takes the UK’s four higher education funding bodies “out of [step] with every serious funding agency in the world when it comes to reasonable adjustments”.' 1/3

Research Professional News@resprofnews.bsky.social · last mo.

Lack of adjustments for parental leave in REF draws criticism. Funding bodies say move will “significantly” reduce the burden of the 2029 Research Excellence Framework. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...

PROTEIN ANALYSIS OF HOMO NALEDI FOSSILS FINDS ZERO MALE MARKERS Analysis of the South African's Rising Star Cave fossils reveals a genetic singularity: a sex-specific burial site from a non-human species or an isolated population over hundreds of thousands of years. www.york.ac.uk/chemistry/ab...

First-ever protein analysis of Homo naledi fossils finds zero male markers

New analysis of the South African's Rising Star Cave fossils reveals striking genetic singularity: either a sex-specific burial site from a non-human species or an isolated population over hundreds of...

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