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Kirsty Grainger @kirstygrainger.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

OOOOH this is a great job. I know I know people who would be amazing at this. And lots of people who know someone who would be amazing at this. Send it to them! Exec Director of Science at the Natural Environment Research Council (part of @ukri.org). fa-evzn-.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

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Executive Director of Science

Executive Director of Science | NERC | Band X

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Dr Isabel Sassoon @iksassoon.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Really valuable and interesting perspective on teaching and learning in the age of generative AI www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYZI...

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Heriot-Watt Inspiring Learning New Year Lecture 2026 by Helen Beetham

YouTube video by Heriot-Watt Learning and Teaching Academy

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PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · 21/01/2026

#Women are underrepresented in academia, especially in #STEMM fields, top institutions & in senior positions. Analysis of millions of biomed & life science articles reveal that female-authored articles spend longer under review than comparable male-authored ones @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4658FZN

Evolution of the median time under review of articles with female first authors, male first authors, female corresponding authors, and male corresponding authors.

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Royal Statistical Society @royalstatsoc.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Data wrangling is undervalued, and the consequences can be huge. Rosemary Tate & Roger Halliday call for a culture shift in data science, including “data amnesty” & editorial reform. Read more on our Real World Data Science site: realworlddatascience.net/foundation-f... #DataQuality #RWDS

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Why We Should All Be Data Quality Detectives – Real World Data Science

Data serves as the foundation of our work. So why isn’t its quality given the prominence it deserves?

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Dr Isabel Sassoon @iksassoon.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Shana tova’ - Happy New Year 🍯🍎

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Dr Isabel Sassoon @iksassoon.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

#academicSPAM another example for the collection, following up on something "sent" to me on the 10th of March. Signed off with "A brief confirmation from you—regardless of your decision—would be greatly appreciated and will help us avoid further follow-ups. "

I’m reaching out as a follow-up to our previous email, to which we have yet to receive your response. We understand that there could be several reasons for the delay, such as:

A busy schedule
No manuscript ready for submission
The journal may not align with your current research focus
Our message may not have reached you at the right time
A decision not to respond

While any of the above might be the case, we cannot know for certain unless we hear directly from you.

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Dr Isabel Sassoon @iksassoon.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

...on the topic of #academicSPAM this is one of many that purport to an email on the 10th of March. I wonder if the phrasing used in these even works?

The Journal sent the following message on the 10th of March, 2025. You either did not receive this message or are intentionally not responding (I apologize if I am mistaken).

Kindly request your immediate attention to this email and respond within 24 hours to avoid the unnecessary email communications or maybe spam.

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Royal Statistical Society @royalstatsoc.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

📣Our Real World Data Science platform is back The world of data science has been a dizzying place lately, so we paused to take stock. Now we’re back - ready to rejoin the conversation with renewed clarity & purpose Read our editor's blog & call for ideas realworlddatascience.net/the-pulse/ed...

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Dr Isabel Sassoon @iksassoon.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Back to #parkrun after a few weeks of university open day visits (requiring a different type of stamina 😂)

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Becca Harrison @beccaeharrison.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Last year we ran a survey on UK HE redundancies. Based on 349 responses, the UNIVERSITIES DEGRADED REPORT uncovers awful conditions, targeting of marginalised groups, & far more cuts than estimated. People's stories matter. We can hold leaders to account. Please share widely tinyurl.com/48nzf7ew

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Universities Degraded: Staff Experiences & Employer Practices of Redundancies in UK Higher Education

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Conducted between August and October 2024 and publicised mainly by members of the University and College Union (UCU), the ‘Survey for UCU Members on HE Redundancies’ invited response...

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Derek Groen @whydoitweet.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

We don't win awards very often, but we won a Policy Impact Award the other day for our work :). www.brunel.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

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Senate House opens the doors to Brunel's brightest ideas

Brunel Research Showcase and Impact Awards

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Dr Isabel Sassoon @iksassoon.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

The dept of computer science at Brunel University of London was recently awarded #AthenaSwan silver! Proud to be part of the team - read about it in the press release www.brunel.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

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Brunel's Department of Computer Science awarded Athena Swan Silver

The department has been awarded Athena Swan Silver Award by Advance HE, in recognition of the department

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Dr Isabel Sassoon @iksassoon.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Not read the article but how exactly are universities being irresponsible over public money? Is this informed by actually looking at how much universities and their staff do? 😡

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Rob 🏳️‍🌈 @rotster.net · 13/04/2025

Universities call in clowns to stave off circus?

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Dr Isabel Sassoon @iksassoon.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Another Saturday brings another #parkrun. This one is #40 🏃‍♀️

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Armando Iannucci @aiannucci.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Today is Day One of humanity’s Idiolithic Era.

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

KLAXON 🚨: Indie SAGE has come out of retirement to release a new short report standing up for diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in the sciences! DEI is not just the right thing to do, it *improves* the quality of the science. Please read and share. independentsage.org/wp-content/u... 1/2

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Dr Isabel Sassoon @iksassoon.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Chilly but sunny #parkrun wonderful event as always 😊

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Dr Isabel Sassoon @iksassoon.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Sunny #parkrun makes for a great start to the weekend and a welcome distraction from everything else 🏃‍♀️#academiclife

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Good Squiddance @squidfromspace.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Instead of using ChatGPT, why not just get a family member to lie to you while they set fire to a tree?

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Royal Statistical Society @royalstatsoc.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

In a first for any research council we know of, EPSRC shared their data with us and the Alan Turing Institute to delve into what it shows about equity and diversity in application processes. 📖 Read about our findings: rss.org.uk/news-publica...

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Today's university slashing and burning is Edinburgh, where about 10% of the budget will be cut. There'll be another case every single day until UK govts actually do something. A country so stupid it actively trashes one of things it's good at and famous for. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Edinburgh University to seek £140m in savings

Unions said the plans would result in "devastating cuts" and called for Edinburgh University to use some of its assets instead.

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

As predicted here for many months, the number of universities now making active redundancies has now risen to 90. It rise to 100 very soon. qmucu.org/qmul-transfo...

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UK HE shrinking

This is a live page of all the redundancies, restructures, reorganisations, and closures taking place across the sector at the moment. Solidarity to all. This sector is vital to the country’s…

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Dr Isabel Sassoon @iksassoon.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

New paper alert! This paper introduces "Critical-Questions-of-Thought (CQoT)", a novel method to enhance Large Language Models' (LLMs) reasoning by using critical questions from argumentation theory at test-time, thus giving the models "more time to think". 🧵 #research #genAI #explainableAI

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Dr Emma Norris @emmajnorris.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

I've started a Brunel University of London starter pack go.bsky.app/QWo9ohQ Please let me know anyone that's missing and I'll add 👍

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PHD Comics @phdcomics.com · 10/12/2024

Meetings

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Prof. Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Louder for those in the back. Plus, it inevitably reproduces every kind of social bias, leading students to parrot racist and sexist tropes.

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Dr Isabel Sassoon @iksassoon.bsky.social · 26/10/2024

Another Saturday and another #parkrun . A healthy antidote to all that is going on in the world.

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Prof Ben Britton @bmatb.expmicromech.com · 09/10/2024

Dr Jess Wade has written, and worked on this, quite extensively and provides clarity for many of the arguments that put us into this position, and clarifies our complicity: "I don't understand how scientists and engineers have been okay with it for so long." 🧪 elifesciences.org/interviews/f...

Text: What are the main challenges women face in STEM?
Historically, academic careers hasn't been very compatible with having caring responsibilities (for example children or looking after elderly parents), which are often taken on by women. Moreover, systemic bias is an ongoing problem. Women (and people of colour) are less likely to get a big research grant or a fellowship, and they are less likely to be nominated for an award, and their papers are less likely to be accepted or cited in leading journals. Although academia knows this – and the data backs it up – we still use grants, awards, and citations as a proxy for scientific excellence. These figures of merit ultimately determine whether someone becomes a professor. It's like we have this really broken system that perpetuates this privilege: the more privileged you are, the more opportunities you'll get, and those opportunities make you even more privileged..."

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Posit @posit.co · 04/04/2024

Reproducible Medical Manuscripts in Quarto 📚🩺 @minecr.bsky.social shared invaluable insights during her webinar for R/Medicine: www.youtube.com/watch?featur... Learn more on the Quarto blog: quarto.org/docs/blog/po... #RStats #QuartoPub #Quarto

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R/Medicine: Quarto for Reproducible Medical Manuscripts

In this webinar, Mine Cetinkaya-Rundel, Professor of the Practice of Statistical Science at Duke University, presents a new capability in Quarto that provid...

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Mercedes 🤦‍♀️ Bunz @mrsbunz.bsky.social · 29/02/2024

Come work with us! Our Department of Digital Humanities 🧮📝 @kingsdh.bsky.social looks for 12 (!) new Lecturers/Senior Lecturers who are experts in fields such as Digital Methods, Computational Creativity, Digital Labour, Digital Economy etc. Help spread the word! 👉 www.jobs.ac.uk/enhanced/lin...

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Mercedes 🤦‍♀️ Bunz @mrsbunz.bsky.social · 14/02/2024

Interested in data and in contributing to an experimental data governance project for a Serpentine art exhibition with Holly Herndon & Mat Dryhurst? We are looking for a 'Data Trustee in-training' from humanities, sociology, law, data science .. 👉 proud-paprika-325.notion.site/Data-Trustee...

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