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Dr Cara Croft

@caracroft.bsky.social
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Senior Lecturer and Group Leader @ Blizard Institute, QMUL: Alzheimer’s, Parkinson's, AAV // Travelling, turtles, & tea. Views my own. #FirstGen #WomenInSTEM www.qmul.ac.uk/blizard/all-staff/pr…

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Dementia Research Team - Centre for Preventive Neurology QMUL @qmuldementia.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
🚨 New pre-print! 🚨 Dr. Avi Chandra and Ben Jacobs study dementia genetics in underrepresented populations. 🧬✨ In 51,000+ British South Asians, they show APOE influences dementia risk, underscoring the need for equitable care. Read more: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
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The contribution of Apoliproprotein E genetic variation to dementia risk in British South Asians
INTRODUCTION Understanding the genetic basis of dementia in diverse populations is essential to ensure that efforts to predict, prevent, and treat dementia are equitable. The strongest genetic risk fa...
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Sherry Pagoto, PhD @drsherrypagoto.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Viewpoint in JAMA details the consequences of the proposed cuts to NIH: ❌15% reduction in new therapies ❌reduction in life expectancy by 83M life years in the US = $8.2T ❌loss of $51B in economic output annually All to save $20B annually. The math ain't mathin.' jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Cutting the NIH—The $8 Trillion Health Care Catastrophe
This JAMA Forum discusses the recent budget cuts to National Institutes of Health (NIH), the effects of these cuts on scientific research and health of individuals in the US, and the prospects for cha...
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Dementia Researcher @dementiaresearcher.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Join NIHR DeNPRU-QM at Queen Mary as a Research Assistant to support dementia & neurodegeneration policy research. 18-month role, apply by 6th May @denpru-qm.bsky.social www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/job/research...
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Research Assistant: Equitable health and social care
Join NIHR DeNPRU-QM at Queen Mary as a Research Assistant to support dementia & neurodegeneration policy research. 18-month role starts after 6 Aug 2025.
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Adam Smith @betterresearch.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Thrilled to share our latest publication in Alzheimer’s & Dementia: a global survey on experiences and perceptions of sexism in dementia research careers. Grateful to my incredible co-authors for their collaboration on this important topic. alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Experiences and perceptions of sexism in dementia research careers: A global cross‐sectional survey
INTRODUCTION Sexism is prevalent in academia and is a crucial factor driving women out of the academic workforce. However, sexism in dementia research remains underexplored. This study aimed to unde.....
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Women in Neuroscience UK @womeninneurouk.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
🔬Women in STEM: Breaking Barriers & Building Equality👩‍🔬✨ How does sex & gender impact research? What career challenges do women face & how can we overcome them? Join us for an expert panel on April 2, 1-5 PM at the Rosalind Franklin Institute @rosfrankinst.bsky.social @caracroft.bsky.social (1/2)
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
A metric that reflects reality and the @bluesky platform as the preferred one to transmit science publications with collegial communication
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Seb Walsh @sebwalsh.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Reality check on AD biomarkers from @cdufouil.bsky.social at DPUK conference In MEMENTO, minimal variability of BBMs explained by clinical factors. And BBMs add little predictive ability beyond standard demographic/neuropsych tests What happens when outcome = people instead of PET scans!
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
99% of new medicines developed by the pharmaceutical industry depend on NIH research jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Comparison of Research Spending on New Drug Approvals by the NIH vs the Pharmaceutical Industry
This cross-sectional study examines National Institutes of Health and pharmaceutical industry investments in recent drug approvals.
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Dr Cara Croft @caracroft.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Hang it in the louvre. I marched for science in 2017 threatened in Trump's first term. Scientists again marching in 2025 to save science under its most threat in modern day history. It's simple SCIENCE = CURES NO FUNDING = NO CURES
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Prof Sheena Cruickshank @sheencr.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Excellent from @kityates.bsky.social on how we should not be complacent about threats to science in UK and what we can do to stand to for science!🧪
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The populist right is damaging US science. The UK could be next.
What we should be doing now to insulate UK science against the populist anti-science agenda
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Charles Marshall @charlesmarshall.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
What symptoms do people tell their GP about when they are developing dementia? Lots of non-cognitive symptoms - and in a highly diverse population we can see that it is culturally influenced. Recognising this is key to equitable diagnosis alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Early presentations of dementia in a diverse population
INTRODUCTION Improved recognition of non-cognitive presentations of dementia could reduce inequalities in dementia diagnosis, particularly if sociocultural factors influence help-seeking for cogniti...
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Celeste Karch @karchlab.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
In January, we were closer than ever before to finding life changing treatments for Alzheimer’s disease. The funding stoppage has slowed this progress.
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Trump Administration Stalls Scientific Research Despite Court Ruling
Using an arcane law, officials have effectively delayed funding from the National Institutes of Health, leaving medical studies in jeopardy.
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MaRtiNA Hallegger @martinahallegger.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Great opportunity for clinicians to gain early-career experience in a fully-funded, translational medicine programme in Oxford. If you know anyone interested, please share this link. There is a wide range of projects, including mine. Deadline Fr 14 March 2025 www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/g...
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DPhil in Biomedical and Clinical Sciences (Oxford-GSK) | University
About the courseThe DPhil in Biomedical and Clinical Sciences (Oxford-GSK) aims to address an unmet need among clinicians for training in data science and translational medicine. The course provides
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Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Signature tally now closing in on 3000. Please keep discussing, sharing and signing to put as much pressure on the Royal Society to respond as possible. forms.gle/AuYvuWqytx8K...
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Open letter to the President of the Royal Society – time to stand up for your values
If you wish to show your support for the letter below regarding apparent inaction by the Royal Society in the face of breaches of its code of conduct by Elon Musk FRS, please sign below. I invite anyo...
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Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Tally just ticked past 1900 signatures. Please keep spreading the word about the letter & asking people to sign. It's important to make the Royal Society aware (at their meeting on 03 March) just how much the scientific community wants them to speak up for their values. forms.gle/SfsDemyS8QhP...
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Open letter to the President of the Royal Society – time to stand up for your values
If you wish to show your support for the letter below regarding apparent inaction by the Royal Society in the face of breaches of its code of conduct by Elon Musk FRS, please sign below. I invite anyo...
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Meredith Wadman @meredithwadman.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
‘Wrecking ball’: RFK Jr. moves to fire thousands of health agency employees | Science | AAAS brought to you by @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...
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‘Wrecking ball’: RFK Jr. moves to fire thousands of health agency employees
Supervisors deliver bad news across NIH, CDC
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Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Biopharma companies and CEOs are keeping their heads down at their own peril. They should speak up about what’s happening to the NIH and other science agencies before it’s too late. Silence gives consent. And no one should consent to this.
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Stand Up And Be Counted
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Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Members of the U.K. and international scientific community are invited to sign to show their support: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Open letter to the President of the Royal Society – time to stand up for your values
If you wish to show your support for the letter below regarding apparent inaction by the Royal Society in the face of breaches of its code of conduct by Elon Musk FRS, please sign below. I invite anyo...
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Prof Jenny Rohn @jennyrohn.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
On this celebratory day of women and girls in science, let’s reflect that the US National Science Foundation has put the words “women” and “female” (but not “men” and “male”) on the list of forbidden words that will get your grant slated for the reject bin.
A poster about the national day, 11 Feb
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Dr Duncan Robertson @duncanrobertson.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
If flagship AI messes up cheese facts, maybe we shouldn't let it take over the running of the US Treasury quite yet eh. BBC News - Google remakes Super Bowl ad after AI cheese gaffe www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Google remakes Super Bowl ad after AI cheese gaffe
Its Gemini tool wildly overestimated global gouda consumption in ad that was meant to show off its capabilities.
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Dementia Research Team - Centre for Preventive Neurology QMUL @qmuldementia.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Introducing Prof. Charles Marshall, who leads the dementia team at the CPN, is a Consultant Neurologist, and is a Clinical Director for the NHS London Dementia Network. Watch this video to hear about his research interests, as well as the excitement and challenges in current dementia research!
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Dementia Researcher @dementiaresearcher.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
🔬 @alzheimerssoc.bsky.social & UK Dementia Trials Network are improving access to clinical trials. They need input from people with dementia & their carers. 📝 Share this survey & help shape the future of research! www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/uk-dementia-...
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Black In Neuro @blackinneuro.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
🚨 Exciting news! 🚨 The Black in Neuro Mentorship Program 2025 is coming soon! 🌟 Interested in being a mentor or mentee? Scan the QR code to fill out an interest form or reach out via email. Let’s build the future of #neuroscience together! 💜 #BlackInNeuroMentorship #Mentorship #PhDSky #BlackInSTEM 🧪
A dynamic flyer announcing the Black in Neuro Mentorship Program 2025, featuring a vibrant purple and white background. The Black in Neuro logo is positioned in the top left corner. The flyer displays "Coming Soon" with a pink microphone below it, followed by a purple box that reads "Black in Neuro Program 2025!" In the bottom left, there is text that reads "Scan the QR code to fill out an interest form or contact us via email at MENTORSHIP@BLACKINNEURO.COM." To the right of the text is an arrow pointing to a QR code.
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Ruth Dobson @drruthdobson.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
A lovely review of some of the things that we have done over the past 7 years @preventiveneur1.bsky.social It’s been a real privilege and joy to do this with our team. Huge thanks to Bart’s Charity for the belief and support. www.bartscharity.org.uk/our-news/gro...
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Ground-breaking research at the Centre for Preventive Neurology
In 2017, we funded the Preventive Neurology Unit, which has since expanded to become a Centre - the first of its kind in the UK.
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The Science of Parkinson's @scienceofpd.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Interesting: Researchers report α-synuclein deposits in the kidneys of 10/11 patients with #Parkinsons & 17/20 patients with chronic kidney diseases; Notably, in 7 cases of the CKD cases had synuclein inclusions in their spinal cord, midbrain & amygdala www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Dr Cara Croft @caracroft.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
One week left to get your applications in for this exciting PhD studentship fully-funded for students eligible for UK fees. Deadline: 31st January 2025 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Understanding selective vulnerability to Lewy body pathology in Parkinson’s disease at Queen Mary University of London on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Understanding selective vulnerability to Lewy body pathology in Parkinson’s disease at Queen Mary University of London, listed on FindAPhD.com
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Dementia Researcher @dementiaresearcher.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
The ALBORADA Drug Discovery Institute at University of Cambridge is seeking a Research Associate to work in Cell and Molecular Biology. Closing date: 10th February www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/job/research...
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Research Associate: Cell and Molecular Biology
The ALBORADA Drug Discovery Institute at University of Cambridge is seeking a Research Associate to work in Cell and Molecular Biology
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
I am extremely excited to announce that for the first time ever, Skype a Scientist is offering mini-grants to support IRL science communication!! Communicating science out in our communities is critical. We want to enable others to get their projects off the ground! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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SCIENCE IRL: Community SciComm mini-grant
Skype a Scientist is offering $300-1,000 mini-grants to support boots-on-the-ground science communication. The Science IRL mini-grants will support projects that put either 1) important science messa...
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Dr Cara Croft @caracroft.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Science is everywhere! Very cute #STEM snooker waistcoats 🤩 at the Masters 2025 🎱 #womeninSTEM
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Paresh Malhotra @pareshmalhotra.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
JOB ALERT FOR NEUROLOGY TRAINEES. On www.oriel.nhs.uk now. Academic Clinical Lecturer post in Dementia & Neurodegeneration @imperialbrains.bsky.social. Research can cover any aspect of the above. Please repost and feel free to contact me if interested (am at ABN SIG meeting today).
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Dr Cara Croft @caracroft.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
I see the academic overachiever vibes from Twitter are popping up here. Amusing. Like the good old days. "I declined some grants that were offered funding should I still put them on my CV?" Might start adding where I declined to send my manuscripts to CNS journals 🫠🤪 #academia
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Dervis Salih @dervissalih1.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Our new paper is online: Human longevity and Alzheimer’s disease variants act via microglia and oligodendrocyte gene networks. academic.oup.com/brain/advanc... @uclbrainscience.bsky.social @uclqsion.bsky.social
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Dementia Researcher @dementiaresearcher.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
The next round of Race Against Dementia Fellowships open for application on the 13th January. Find out more, ask questions and get top tips on applying in our livestream - 27th January 12 noon GMT youtube.com/live/gB5NzRS...
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Dr Cara Croft @caracroft.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Want to join my lab for a 4 year fully funded PhD looking at selective vulnerability in Parkinson's disease using spatial transcriptomics? 🔬 🧠 👩‍🔬 👨‍🔬 🥼 UK students only Deadline: 31/1/25 ⏲️ #synuclein #parkinsons #transcriptomics #alzsky #neuroskyence www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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High-resolution spatial transcriptomics to understand selective vulnerability to Lewy body pathology in Parkinson’s disease at Queen Mary University of London on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - High-resolution spatial transcriptomics to understand selective vulnerability to Lewy body pathology in Parkinson’s disease at Queen Mary University of London, listed on FindAPhD.c...
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Dr Cara Croft @caracroft.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
www.telegraph.co.uk/christmas/20... A few comments about our work on tau in naked mole rats with @psalmotoxin.bsky.social @moleratsarego.bsky.social and how we hope it will bring us closer to new dementia treatments. Part of #aruk christmas campaign #neuroskyence #alzsky #dementia
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How the cognitively resilient can swerve dementia
Scientists are looking at how DNA differences could protect people from dementia – and how this can help others
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Daniel P. Moriarity @dpmoriarity.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
"A study of federally funded research projects in the United States estimated that principal investigators spend on average about 45% of their time on administrative activities related to applying for and managing projects rather than conducting active research" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Cure MAPT FTD @curemaptftd.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Hello BlueSky. One of our cofounders, Linde Jacobs, is profiled in The New York Times today. It’s a moving snapshot of what an FTD family goes through. Help us fight for therapies that can cure dementia for under 60s. #ftd #aftd #dementia #tau #alzheimers #mapt www.nytimes.com/2024/12/22/h...
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A Woman With a Rare Gene Mutation Fights to Avoid Her Mother’s Fate (Gift Article)
A mutant gene is coming to steal Linde Jacobs’s mind. Can she find a way to stop it?
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Dr Cara Croft @caracroft.bsky.social · 19/09/2023
👋 #alzsky
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Ali Twelvetrees @dozenoaks.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Trying for a molecular and cellular neurobiology starter pack - happy to add folks and connect :) #neuroskyance #cellbiology go.bsky.app/PgEk7aF
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Dementia Researcher @dementiaresearcher.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
We're piloting a new service... 🧠 Introducing the Solutions Lab! Are you a #dementia researcher facing a career or research dilemma? Share your questions & struggles (anonomously if you prefer) and our panel of experts may be able to help! 💡 8k3qel8nuxc.typeform.com/to/qVUh0tVB
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Dementia Researcher Solutions Lab
Turn data collection into an experience with Typeform. Create beautiful online forms, surveys, quizzes, and so much more. Try it for FREE.
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Christophe 🔬 Leterrier @christlet.bsky.social · 20/09/2023
Youtube now has all talks and lectures from the 4th Annual Workshop in Advanced Microscopy and Biophotonics at Institut Pasteur Montevideo (2021): youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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Dr Cara Croft @caracroft.bsky.social · 19/09/2023
👋 #alzsky
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Ewan St. John Smith @psalmotoxin.bsky.social · 16/09/2023
Excited to advertise a 4-year PhD studentship, AstraZeneca funded: "Mining the microbiome: how do gut microbes modulate visceral pain?" Combining in vitro & in vivo approaches, we will further understanding of the microbiome-gut-brain-pain axis 😃 www.phar.cam.ac.uk/postgraduate... #neuroscience #PhD
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PhD Funding Opportunities | Department of Pharmacology
pipettes.png Information on all current research studentships vacancies can also be found on the Jobs page of our website. New studentships will be added soon. Mining the microbiome: how do gut micro...
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DrArchivalGenomics @ehekkala.bsky.social · 10/09/2023
To everyone serving on Grants, Recruitment, Tenure, Retention & Promotion committees this fall, please remember to check your bias and consider the obstacles women face. To all of the women who made it to full, I see you.
Slide from NSF program showing that lack of promotion to full professor for women in the sciences is systemic across fields.
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Anne Carpenter @drannecarpenter.bsky.social · 10/09/2023
Hey newcomers! You can find the folks you followed on Twitter with this tool (it’s imperfect but useful!) skeet.labnotes.org
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Find your Twitter/Mastodon follows on BlueSky
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Dr Cara Croft @caracroft.bsky.social · 10/09/2023
You do not receive enough recognition for your influential science #biorxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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You do not receive enough recognition for your influential science
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Dr Cara Croft @caracroft.bsky.social · 10/09/2023
👋 Neuroscientist interested in Molecular and cellular mechanisms of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's using in vivo, ex vivo, live imaging, AAV and 'omics approaches. New to the Blizard at QMUL as a Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor) so here for #newPI #WomenInSTEM #firstgen #neuroscience #neurosykence
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