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Dr Caragh Whitehead

@cwhitehead.bsky.social
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Busy mother of two trying to balance life while working as a Research Technician in Plant Biology (CNAP) at University of York.

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Dr. Raven the Science Maven @ravenscimaven.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
I would like to partner with meteorologists that fit with my vibe to give a national weather forecast on my platform every week. Is this doable? Do you all have any recommendations?
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York Festival of Ideas @yorkfestofideas.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Hello Bluesky! We're excited to be here! The 2025 Festival will take place from 31 May to 13 June under the theme of 'Making Waves'. Sign up to our mailing list to find out more! confirmsubscription.com/h/i/A2342A3C...
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Tori Herridge @toriherridge.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Once upon a time, in the late 1800s, people in Japan got really into breeding mice. Coloured mice. Patterned mice. Even mice that danced. They became known as Japanese Fancy Mice, and that caught the attention of researchers in Europe and America, who imported them for study. 2/n
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Psychout Student-Run Magazine 🧠 @psychoutyork.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Hello BlueSky! We are Psychout, the student run-magazine from the Psychology Department at the University of York. Please follow us as we need new friends after migrating from Twitter 🙂 See our back issues here: www.york.ac.uk/psychology/n...
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Psychout Student Magazine - Psychology, University of York
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George Penney @georgepenney.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
🧵Spotted on a Midday Walk on an Isolated Beach in Aotearoa New Zealand: In the distance, two grey-haired people get off their bikes, shuck their clothes by a driftwood log and scamper into the surf naked, their laughter ringing over the water. Gulls calling overhead. (1)*
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Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Do you own a very lovely dolly? Were you in the library last week? Has your lovely dolly been much quieter than usual these last few days? If you can answer YES to all three questions then we might have your dolly and she really wants to go home! Collect from the main desk.
A doll wearing a dress and pink boots with buns in her hair
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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
If you have been affected by the fires in LA, or are concerned about your ability to keep precious Drosophila strains going during the latest funding crisis, we will host your strains as a backup. Please email me. Please amplify. If you are also able to host fly strains, add your name as well.
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Jonathan Lambert @jonlambert.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Scientists -- I'm looking to talk to researchers about how all this uncertainty around paused grant reviews and a potentially massive freeze on federal funding is affecting you and your research plans. DM, email or reach out on signal.
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Sabine Clarke @sabineclarke.bsky.social · 18/10/2024
Please circulate this great opportunity to do a PhD at Kew Gardens and the Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity at York! The student will look at the history of marginalised individuals who made knowledge about fungi in the early 20th century.
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LCAB PhD studentships - Currently recruiting
Women and biodiversity: gender and the making of the Kew Fungarium, 1900-1950
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Dr Caragh Whitehead @cwhitehead.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
I feel for all American scientists. It must be such a worrying time.
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Dr Caragh Whitehead @cwhitehead.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
If you went to college/university 1. what was your career goal? 2. your initial major? 3. Did you change majors, and to what? 4. what do you do now? 1. Forensics 2. Psychology with Biology 3. Genetics (Human) 4. Research Technician in Plant Science.
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Sarah McIntyre @sarahmcintyre.bsky.social · 23/10/2024
Cover reveal! 🥳 Here’s the SIXTH book in our highly-illustrated series, launching next March, ‘Adventuremice: Mice, Camera, Action!’ Co-authored by Philip Reeve and me, designer: Katie Bennett at Kreative Cupboard, publisher: @dfbstoryhouse.bsky.social 🐭 @philipreeve.bsky.social #Adventuremice
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Jamie Blaza @jnb-lab.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
If international people are keen to come to the UK then York would love to host them for a Newton Fellowship: royalsociety.org/grants/newto... We have brilliant centres for structural biology, chemical biology, parasitology, haematology, atmospheric science, and much more
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Lego Lost At Sea @legolostatsea.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Today's mystery object. Does anyone know what these are? We've picked up quite a few from the north coast of Cornwall in recent days. About 1½" deep and 1¼" in diameter.
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Dr Caragh Whitehead @cwhitehead.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
First plants sown of 2025. It was great to be back in the glasshouse after being stuck in front of a computer the past week.
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
“‘It’s very easy to assume that science is going to change organically towards equality — and what this study shows is that that’s not happening…It is an ‘important reminder for us that we need to stay vigilant in working towards equality in science’” @crsugimoto.bsky.social 🧪 #AcademicSky 👩🏽‍🔬
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Who’s quitting academia? Data reveal gender gaps in surprising fields
Even in scientific areas in which women are well represented, they are up to 40% more likely than men to leave research within 20 years.
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Dr Caragh Whitehead @cwhitehead.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
What are some handcrafts you know and how did you learn? 1) knitting - my gran. 2) embroidery - my gran. 3) weaving - my mom. 5) tapestry - my mom 4) candelwicking - school. 4) sewing - my mom/school 5) cross stitch - school. 6) crocheting - self taught.
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Dr Zoë Ayres @zjayres.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Still a hill I will die on: unpaid internships are classist, and whilst you might *think* you are "helping students gain experience" all you are doing is widening the gap between those that can afford to and those that cannot.
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Dr Caragh Whitehead @cwhitehead.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
I hope there is a special place in hell for people who make their employees redundant just before Christmas. It's been about a month of rumours but my husband (and co-workers) heard today that they don't need to return on Monday. #merrychristmas
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Soni Lacefield @lacefieldlab.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
We are looking for a Lab Technician to join our team and become a member of a dynamic biomedical research lab at Dartmouth College, conducting experiments to address topics concerning meiotic and mitotic cell cycle regulation. Job posting here: lnkd.in/eWWVANtQ
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Ferris Jabr @ferrisjabr.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
~32,000 yrs ago a ground squirrel in Siberia stashed some fruit in a burrow, which was later buried & frozen. In the 2000s scientists unearthed the fruit & cultivated its tissue It grew into this: a Pleistocene ancestor of the narrow-leafed campion (Silene stenophylla) 📷/Study tinyurl.com/3esvztuv
A small, gangly plant grows in a pot of soil. Its base is covered in pairs and rosettes of slender, dark green leaves. Its thin, wiry stems are topped with delicate white flowers, each with five petals, some of which are bent down like the feathers of a shuttlecock. Photo from: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1118386109
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Dr Caragh Whitehead @cwhitehead.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
A great way to spend an afternoon in winter is to visit the glasshouse to act like a bumblebee and do some pollinating 🐝
A white poppy flower against the background of a blue sky.A group of white poppy flowers illuminated by glasshouse lights.
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Dr Caragh Whitehead @cwhitehead.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Post you from a different era 1996, school prom, Cape Town.
Photo taken in 1996 of a girl in a long green velvet dress standing in a garden before going to a school prom.
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Dr Caragh Whitehead @cwhitehead.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Great to see a starter pack for the University of York. Unfortunately, not any Biology staff on it yet.
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Dr Caragh Whitehead @cwhitehead.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Beautiful, if somewhat fresh, morning walk to work.
The sun is just beginning to rise over the trees. Orange glow in a blue sky.
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Dr. Kerryane @drkerryane.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
This #CitizenScience project could use some volunteers and who doesn't love woodpeckers?? Identify video with wildlife or focus on videos we know have wildlife. Or focus on woodpecker behavior. Your choice! This is "entry level" citsci, perfect for students. 🦉🧪🌎🍎 www.zooniverse.org/projects/elw...
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Woodpecker Cavity Cam | Zooniverse - People-powered research
Help researchers explore the world of woodpecker nest cavities and the animals that use them!
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Maite Colinas @maitecolinas.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
That’s a smart strategy for pathway discovery #plantscience #natprod www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Multiplexed perturbation of yew reveals cryptic proteins that enable a total biosynthesis of baccatin III and Taxol precursors
Plants make complex and potent therapeutic molecules, but difficulties in sourcing from natural producers or chemical synthesis can challenge their use in the clinic. A prominent example is the anti-c...
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Dr Caragh Whitehead @cwhitehead.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
Robin really enjoys watching David Attenborough documentaries. Tonight she was catching up on "Asia". Interestingly our other cat Sunny, is not interested in TV at all.
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Dr Caragh Whitehead @cwhitehead.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
Making the move over... happy to so many familiar faces. It feels like home already.
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Ines Hahn @exdrososcientia.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
📢 PhD Alert! Join us for an exciting PhD project in gorgeous York 🧠 🔬 You will be based in the Hahnlab (sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/hah…) in gorgeous York & work with an interdisciplinary team of researchers. Happy to chat! Apply here: lnkd.in/es-nY8uD #PhDposition
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