Rona J Strawbridge

@rjstrawbridge.bsky.social

Senior Lecturer in Mental Health (genetics of cardiometabolic disorders and severe mental illness). Enthusiastic about cycling, x-country skiing, food and wine

Spend your summer studying in Glasgow 🌍 The @uofgshw.bsky.social at the University of Glasgow is running two courses as part of the International Summer School this June–July. With guaranteed accommodation, credit-bearing courses, and the chance to experience Scottish culture,

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I understand that there are lots of automated emails... but when a request to review a paper first arrives friday 4.30pm and the reminder arrives at sunday 4.30pm, there is a high chance I'll say no on principle (a healthy work-life balance means ignoring work over the weekend).

Todays pondering: how many hours does the average acadaemic waste on formating manuscripts for journals (by waste, I mean fixing stuff that is not mentioned in the author instructions/reformatting for a new journal after a rejection)?

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Baszucki Foundation Chancellors Fellowships

Chancellors Fellowships are 5-year fellowships, designed to support talented early career researchers to develop into a leading research-active academic at the University of Edinburgh.

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Hub for Metabolic Psychiatry @hubmetpsych.bsky.social · last yr.

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Day 1: "we appreciate everyone has really heavy work loads". Day 2 (from someone present in the meeting on day 1): "in advance of your presentation, please provide an overview of the topic, addressing these 6 points, so we can best advertise it".

I started working with genetics during my undergrad in 2000. None of my training (including self-directed learning in data sciecne) has equipped me for installing software on our computer cluster. No bioinformatics support available. Very frustrated and very much stuck!