Alex Holmes @aomholmes.bsky.social · 10/12/2024good morning from Harrogate at the @britpharmsoc.bsky.social #Pharmacology2024 meeting 151 5
Reposted by Alex HolmesBrian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 07/12/2024Today’s poem is called ‘Needles’. 201700298 1.7K
Reposted by Alex HolmesThe Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 22/11/2024sorry colleagues for cancelling all meetings in the next four days i just need more headspace to contemplate the potential dimensions of this hog 518915 189
Reposted by Alex HolmesAlex Holt @alexjholt.bsky.social · 21/11/2024We've had some utterly amazing people on Science & Sorcery who are definitely worth your follows! Also me! 😅 go.bsky.app/2G8kbG3 5165 16
Reposted by Alex HolmesJess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 20/11/2024cis folks: one thing to know is that while there are orgs helping trans folks, the needs rn HUGELY exceed the funding they have available. want to help trans people? a real material thing you can do is donate to these orgs, especially the smaller orgs 28658 86
Alex Holmes @aomholmes.bsky.social · 19/11/2024I’ve just come back on here to 1.1k followers which has taken me a bit by surprise! For anyone new, I’m Alex - I’m a lecturer in higher education focused on pharmacology teaching and scholarship 👩🏻🏫 👋🏻 060 6
Alex Holmes @aomholmes.bsky.social · 19/11/2024I’m going to keep on wearing my THICK COSY SOCKS 010 1
Reposted by Alex HolmesRobin Hayward 🌳 🏳️⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 19/11/2024To the tune of Pink Pony Club: 🎶 Thick cosy socks! 🎶 131 3
Alex Holmes @aomholmes.bsky.social · 18/11/2024Happy #LGBTQSTEMday I hope you all stumble into some bisexual lighting and experience Queer Joy today 🎉🏳️🌈 150 5
Reposted by Alex HolmesVeronica Lewis, M.Ed. 👩🦯 @veron4ica.com · 17/11/2024I have low vision and I rely on alt text and image descriptions to provide context about images on platforms like BlueSky. If you don’t know how to write #AltText yet, I have several guides on my website that can show you how— take the #AltTextChallenge! veroniiiica.com/how-to-write... (1/10)veroniiiica.comHow To Write Alt Text And Image DescriptionsThe ultimate guide on how to write alt text and image descriptions for the visually impaired, written by someone with low vision who uses alt text 18120481269 2K
Reposted by Alex HolmesShaun O’Boyle @shaunoboyle.bsky.social · 15/11/2024A reminder that the wonderful @prideinstem.bsky.social has created two starter packs of LGBTQIA+ People in STEM: part 1: go.bsky.app/BFc4wgf part 2: go.bsky.app/Cw9bRYZ 2218994 189
Reposted by Alex HolmesRoma Agrawal @romatheengineer.bsky.social · 13/11/2024Excited that @hanasciart.bsky.social and my mentoring scheme for marginalised science writers is open for applications! Info here: www.sciencewrite.co.uk Deadline 3 Jan 25. Please share widely🪻sciencewrite.co.ukScienceWrite 11720 20
Reposted by Alex HolmesRachel Honeyghan-Williams, PhD 🐝 @sciwithrach.bsky.social · 11/11/2024Getting ready to hit the stage for An Evening of Unnecessary Detail @fotsn.bsky.social !! On a quest for the smallest brain... There will be SCALE BARS 📏🤏🧠 #SciComm #Neuroscience #Comedy 0213 21
Reposted by Alex HolmesBrian LaRossa @brianlarossa.com · 21/10/2024Seeing some of the new arrivals posting about Bluesky being boring. I hate to break it to you, but if you find Bluesky boring, that's 100% your fault, because the only person working behind the scenes here to make it not boring is… you. Here's some of the “work” that I've done and recommend… 🧵 51828196 828
Reposted by Alex HolmesPride in STEM @prideinstem.bsky.social · 07/11/2024For new followers, we have put together a Starter Pack of LGBTQIA+ people in STEM. If you like to join it, please let us know - we still have room on this one or we can start a second one. And if you are on it and at any point it is unsafe to be do get in touch! go.bsky.app/BFc4wgf 5013081 130
Reposted by Alex Holmesfranz @franzanth.bsky.social · 22/10/2024Chiquitita, tell me what's wrong 19647133 647
Alex Holmes @aomholmes.bsky.social · 23/10/2024this actually is true it’s either a fun little caramel iced latte or it’s a nihilistic coffee and water set up 120 2
Alex Holmes @aomholmes.bsky.social · 23/10/2024the perfect cup of tea is secretly a cup of coffee (no milk no sugar) 150 5
Reposted by Alex HolmesHana Ayoob @hanaayoob.co.uk · 22/10/2024Next week @acescicomm.bsky.social & I are bringing a #NerdyLooks challenge back & we'd love for you to join in! Each day we will put together a nerdy outfit inspired by a different colour of the rainbow & share a photo here! Join in as much or as little as you want 1/3 65115 51
Alex Holmes @aomholmes.bsky.social · 22/11/2023The best part of being an academic is disappearing from my office to sit in on different sessions going on - todays agenda is the the Reimagine Aging network 010 1
Reposted by Alex HolmesMark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 16/11/2023🧪 Scientist? 🟦 New to BlueSky? 👀 Wanna find posts by other people in your area and use the right hashtags in your own posts? 📃 Here’s a regularly-updated list of 190 science-related feeds and their hashtags. #AcademicSky #PhDSkydocs.google.comBlueSky Science-Related FeedsSheet1 Likes,Name (Click to visit feed),Tags,Contact to ask to be added to contributor list 11,<a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ftnzzw4cnon2pzpw7i5m2xu7/feed/aaaiqnkwsgsz6">#AI&HCI</a>,#HCI,... 714180 141
Reposted by Alex HolmesIzzy Jayasinghe @ijayas.bsky.social · 15/11/2023A shocking description 👇🏾 of how women are being let down by scientific research communities in India. This is of course only mirroring many of the trends that we know exist everywhere else too. The 📊 showing conferences where women are outnumbered or excluded entirely leaves one absolutely appalled. 22213 22
Reposted by Alex Holmes🌈 Dr Ross Brooks @rossbrooks.co.uk · 01/11/2023Queer Planet. Narrated by the brilliant Sue Perkins. UK premier on Sky Nature, Sunday 26th November at 9pm (GMT). I'm delighted to have been involved in the making of this groundbreaking nature doc - do catch it if you can! 🌈🐧 #QueerInSTEM 08930 89
Reposted by Alex HolmesIzzy Jayasinghe @ijayas.bsky.social · 23/10/2023📢 Sharing this showcase of amazing🔬 images acquired by women who are experts in wide-ranging microscopy techniques. Special thanks to Drs Krystyna Gieniec, Valentina Rodríguez, & Jessica Richardson for organising this to boost the visibility of our colleagues 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 www.edi.unsw.edu.au/get-involved... 095 9
Alex Holmes @aomholmes.bsky.social · 23/10/2023I was excited to spend this week with minimal teaching preparing and planning and thinking but it’s taken me 3 hours just to reply to emails from over the weekend so we’ll see how that pans out 🙃 000 0
Alex Holmes @aomholmes.bsky.social · 04/10/2023First bluesky post and first lecture as a lecturer all in the same couple hours - must be a big day 070 7
