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Dr Michelle Ann Kline

@michelleakline.bsky.social
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anthropologist in a psych dept | American in the UK | she/her | doing my best to be inclusive

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Brunel Psychology @brunelpsy.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
1/ 📢 We’re hiring at Brunel Psychology! We have ✨TWO sparkling ✨ new permanent roles in Clinical Psychology as we grow our clinical provision, including our new MSc in Clinical Psychology launching this September. Come and help shape what we’re building 👇 @brunelgradschool.bsky.social 🧪
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Centre for Culture and Evolution @brunelcce.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
1/ Important retraction news 👇📰 A recent article using “national IQ” data to claim that a country’s “national intelligence” causes economic growth has been retracted @rebeccasear.bsky.social was among those who raised concerns - a good example of the importance of responsibility in science 💪 🧪
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Retraction Note: Beyond GDP: national intelligence quotient as a catalyst for sustainable socioeconomic welfare - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - Retraction Note: Beyond GDP: national intelligence quotient as a catalyst for sustainable socioeconomic welfare
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Brunel Psychology @brunelpsy.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
📣 NEXT WEEK All welcome!
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Centre for Culture and Evolution @brunelcce.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
🎥 Introducing Brunel Psychology’s new YouTube channel 🤩 because obviously what the internet needed was academics doing 40-minute deep dives. You’re welcome. Daniel sits down with Brunel’s @aiyanakoka.bsky.social to talk religion, gods and why humans are so committed to meaning-making 🧠✨
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"Is society better without religion?" - Dr Aiyana Willard | Ask A Psychologist
YouTube video by Psychology @ Brunel
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Dr Lora Adair @loraadair.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
97% of r@pists walk free in the UK. Survivors don't. Let's change that! This petition calls for free civil legal support for survivors, creating a real route to accountability where criminal justice often fails - and helping prevent repeat harm over time. therightwordsproject.org/petition-fre...
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Petition - Free Civil Legal Support for Survivors of Sexual Violence
Support free civil legal support for sexual violence survivors. Help create a fair, accessible path to justice when the system fails to act.
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Centre for Culture and Evolution @brunelcce.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Ayesha Ali as Sekhmet the Egyptian lioness of war and healing 🦁🔥🩸 @aiyanakoka.bsky.social as Inanna the Sumerian goddess of love/war and fertility 🌹🗡️✨ @michelleakline.bsky.social as Brigid the poet & smith 🛠️📜 @loraadair.bsky.social as Hekate, the Greek goddess of magic, crossroads & the night 🌙🗝️
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Centre for Culture and Evolution @brunelcce.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
The Spirits and Sources folks attended the Goddess Conference last week 🧙‍♀️🪬🧚 lots of fieldwork 🏞️🔍, participant observation and ethnography 🧑‍🤝‍🧑📋🖊️, and community building 🌐🤝🏘️ as well as embodied experience 🙏💃🌀 @brunelpsy.bsky.social @brunelgradschool.bsky.social
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Centre for Culture and Evolution @brunelcce.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
🧵 1/ CCEs @michelleakline.bsky.social , @nicolewen.bsky.social and Nachita Rosun all contributed to ….“Meet A Field Guide to Cross-Cultural Research on Childhood Learning” 📣💪🤩 edited by the lovely @sheinalew.bsky.social
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A Field Guide to Cross-Cultural Research on Childhood Learning: Theoretical, Methodological, Practical, and Ethical Considerations for an Interdisciplinary Field
This volume addresses the critical gaps in developmental research on childhood learning by advocating for a more inclusive and cross-cultural approach. Recent studies highlight a concerning over-relia...
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Tim Waring @twaring.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
@michelleakline.bsky.social @ehbea.bsky.social @ehbea2025.bsky.social @durhampsych.bsky.social @durhamanthropology.bsky.social @eslr.bsky.social @bjjbarrett.bsky.social @nataliabdutra.bsky.social @rebeccasear.bsky.social @acerbialberto.com @nicolewen.bsky.social @iyadrahwan.bsky.social ‪
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Tim Waring @twaring.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
New 2 year post-doc position on cultural adaptation in complex environmental management.
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Post-Doctoral Position on Cultural Adaptation in Forest Management
The University of Maine seeks a post-doctoral researcher for a two-year project on human cultural adaptation in forest management, requiring a strong quantitative background and experience in modeling.
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 07/07/2025
'Vacations.' The word is 'vacations.'

FAST COMPANY Article: 

While retirement typically occurs, after
completing a career and saving and investing for it, a new trend is emerging among Gen Z career professionals
called "micro-retirement." Micro-
retirements involve taking a one to two- week break from work every 12 to 18 months.
Gen Z is using micro-retirement to avoid burnout, find greater fulfillment in their work, and enhance their overall well-being. However, it's not just Gen-Z:
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jericho jennifer nelson @henkaipantomime.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
reposting with alt text
text 1 is superimposed over text 2, Instagram story style 

text 1: 
Academic friends-these recently posted humanities lecturer positions at Columbia are in fact scab positions designed to replace graduate teaching opportunities and mitigate labor power amongst students. Quite literally, applying to these positions will directly impact me and my colleagues who are still awaiting teaching appointments/funding for the coming year. Please do not encourage students or colleagues to apply to these positions. Happy to take DMs on this and discuss

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Lecturer in Discipline

Columbia University

The Columbia College Core Curriculum invites applications for positions at the rank of Lecturer in Discipline for the 2025-2026 academic year.

We are looking for experienced instructors to teach the Core courses Art Humanities, Literature Humanities, Music Humanities, or Contemporary Civilization. As the cornerstone of undergraduate general education at mbia, the Core is required for all Columbia College students and includes students from

main.hercjobs.org
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Dr Michelle Ann Kline @michelleakline.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
I keep coming up on this with student essays. The refs are made up, or it cites real papers for things that have nothing to do with the evidence in the papers.
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Wataru Toyokawa @watarutoyokawa.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
【🚨ACE Seminar Alert🚨】We're excited to have Dr Ryutaro @uchiyama.bsky.social joining from Singapore on Tuesday 29th July at 7pm in Tokyo (6pm in Singapore/12am in Berlin)! You can sign up for the mailing list to get the zoom link by sending a blank email to ace-seminar+subscribe@googlegroups.com
Title:
Motor–environment exploration in the human developmental niche

Absract:
In real behavioral ecologies, adaptive learning requires simultaneous exploration of both motor control and environmental task structure ("world model"), each presenting its own form of open-ended search complexity. We know much about each of these learning domains, but relatively little about their joint exploration space. I propose that this dual motor–environment exploration is crucial for understanding the human evolutionary niche. Human agency prolifically shapes environments that in turn shape our learning trajectories, presumably yielding a reciprocal (niche-constructive) feedback loop that couples mental structures to environmental structures and vice versa. Dual motor–environment exploration helps illuminate the explore–exploit landscape of this deeply collective, near-eusocial epigenetic milieu. It also offers unique computational and teleological perspectives on phenomena like cultural learning, social cognition, and behavioral creativity – complementing the population-level stochastic mechanisms proposed by cultural evolutionary theories.
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Dr Michelle Ann Kline @michelleakline.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
This quote is fire (male practice in the 1840s = medical doctors, as contrasted with local female healers)
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Lorentz Center @lorentzcenter.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Are you working at the intersection of the humanities/social sciences and the natural/technological sciences? Apply now for the NLTG 26/27 – a unique 5 month residency for interdisciplinary research teams at NIAS and organize a workshop at the Lorentz Center. nias-lorentz.nl/nltg-theme-g...
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Paolo Crosetto @paolocrosetto.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Springer-Nature launched a series of "Discover" journals that closely mimic MDPI titles -- sharing *identical* journal names, and likely similar business model. What is going on, and why researcher will - as always - fall for it? A 🧵 the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/post...
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Springer Nature Discovers MDPI – The Strain on Scientific Publishing
Home page for the paper ‘The Strain on Scientific Publishing’ by Mark A Hanson, Dan Brockington, Paolo Crosetto and Pablo Gomez Barreiro
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Will Gervais @willgervais.com · 15/06/2025
I asked chatGPT for quotes from the very fake book "Pipes, Pipes, Pipes: The Hipster Tobacconist Snowboarder's Guide to Tidyverse Code" by Will Gervais. It happily provided a quote about how snowboarding is like coding, as well as code for a deranged halfpipe. Thanks, chatGPT!
The title is "Pipes, Pipes, Pipes: The Hipster Tobacconist Snowboarder's Guide to Tidyverse Code", I believe the author is Will Gervais. I'm hoping for one quote about how snowboarding is like coding, and one batch of code to draw a halfpipe in ggplot()

Certainly! Here's a quote that captures the essence of how snowboarding relates to coding:

> “Snowboarding is like coding: you start with a plan, but the real joy comes from adapting to the terrain as you go.”

This reflects the dynamic and adaptive nature of both activities.

Additionally, to draw a halfpipe using `ggplot2` in R, you can use the following code:

```r
library(ggplot2)
library(dplyr)

# Create data for the halfpipe
halfpipe_data <- tibble(
  x = rep(seq(0, 100, length.out = 100), 2),
  y = c(sin(seq(0, 2 * pi, length.out = 100)), -sin(seq(0, 2 * pi, length.out = 100))),
  group = rep(c("Top", "Bottom"), each = 100)
)

# Plot the halfpipe
ggplot(halfpipe_data, aes(x = x, y = y, group = group)) +
  geom_line() +
  coord_flip() +
  theme_minimal() +
  labs(title = "Halfpipe Design", x = "Length", y = "Height")
```

This code creates a simple representation of a halfpipe using sine functions to simulate the curved shape. You can adjust the parameters to refine the design further.
ggplot graph showing a wasp-shaped figure 8, labeled "Halfpipe Design"

y-axis is length, x-axis is height
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Dr Michelle Ann Kline @michelleakline.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Come visit our FANTASTIC group @brunelcce.bsky.social with one of two Wolfson fellowships. The first is a 1y (or flex visits over 2y) fellowship *including relocation costs for scholar + family* DEADLINE SEPT 4: royalsociety.org/grants/royal...
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Royal Society Wolfson Visiting Fellowship | Royal Society
The Royal Society Wolfson Visiting Fellowships provide an opportunity for talented international research leaders to undertake a flexible 12-month period of sabbatical leave in a UK university or rese...
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Dr Michelle Ann Kline @michelleakline.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
My reading treat for this work week...
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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Scholarship for Durham University Students £15,000 for a full-time student from the North East of England and from a lower income household to study full-time for a STEM taught Masters degree for the year 2025-26. Durham people please spread the word! Application form 👇
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Dr Michelle Ann Kline @michelleakline.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Wow all those people reading his dissertation must have been super honest 🫶
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Nancy Kelley @nancymk.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
My friend Claire deserves to be able to go about her day to day life in peace. We *all* do. There is *nothing* feminist, and *nothing* good in this obsessive transphobic cult.
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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences just published a paper which argues that East Asian psychology evolved to cope with cold winters, and that ancestral climate may have "plausibly stunted" the development of East Asian & other populations around the globe. Sounds vaguely familiar, for some reason...?
Screenshot of a paper titled Arctic Instincts? The late Pleistocene Arctic origins of East Asian Psychology by David Sun, published in Evolutionary Behavioral SciencesThe widely discussed sociocultural problems bottlenecking the flourishing of East Asian civilization (excessive levels of conformity, self-suppression, emotional repression, maladaptive introversion, brutal grinding work culture, harsh upbringing methods, social rigidity, social judgment, image obsession, risk aversion, high anxiety, tense urgency, lower Openness, stifled creativity, etc.) that have historically been misattributed to Confucianism or rice farming, are highly likely to be primarily aspects of paleolithic Arcticism that became maladaptive/mismatched in non-Arctic Holocene environments and the modern world, and were present in the population long before Confucius or the adoption of agriculture. It is worth exploring if ancestral ecological/climatic adaptation and modern maladaptation also negatively affect other societies around the world, as this may be the missing causal factor behind underdevelopment and longstanding sociocultural challenges in many nations.
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Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
📢 CES launches Advancing Cultural Evolution (ACE) Course Design Awards! 🎉 $4000 award + global impact for your cultural evolution course materials. Course must be college/grad level with 10+ hrs content. Application link: vuw.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... #CulturalEvolution #Education #Grants
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Qualtrics Survey | Qualtrics Experience Management
The most powerful, simple and trusted way to gather experience data. Start your journey to experience management and try a free account today.
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Abbey Page @abbeyepage.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
📣 New paper by myself @djsmith90.bsky.social and colleagues published today in @royalsociety.org Proc B 📣 Grandmothers are often seen as key carers, but this isn’t always the case. We explore why in Agta forgers reflecting on the implications of demography for evolution of grandmothering 👵🌍
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Demography of grandmothering: a case study in Agta foragers | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Grandmothers are often presented as key carers due to low costs and high inclusive fitness returns. Empirically, however, grandmothers are not consistently important. Understanding the factors that pr...
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Dr Michelle Ann Kline @michelleakline.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
😭 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article....
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Migrants already in UK face longer wait for permanent settlement
People will typically have to live in the UK for 10 years before applying for the right to stay indefinitely.
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Not that other guy, that's for sure @neogliberal.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Protip: Prolific doesn't allow add-ons and task bars. If all your open response questions are actually embedded as images, participants can't copy paste, and this probably (?) will reduce AI responding.
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Dr Michelle Ann Kline @michelleakline.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
For fun I am going to share the worst AI response I received in this study. Subtweeting myself 1/n (FYI - I do have ethical approval to share direct quotes without attribution, participants through Prolific cannot be identified by me or anybody, and this is DEFINITELY AI, as you will see.)
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Dr Michelle Ann Kline @michelleakline.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Today is a writing day for me, but instead of writing all morning I have had to sort through the data I collected via Prolific to exclude AI-based responses 👎-- a thread 1/n
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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 10/05/2025
I think about this comic at least once a week
- I want things to be different 
- *smashes everything*
- oh no
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Sheina Lew-Levy @sheinalew.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
I'm THRILLED that our book is out. This book, with other 60 contributors from across the globe (!!!) is a love letter to the science we want to do, and a how-to guide for how to do it. Please read it and share it!
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European Commission @ec.europa.eu · 08/05/2025
Choose Science. Choose Europe. A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open. With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond. Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF
A graphic for the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA), showing a historical portrait of Marie Skłodowska-Curie overlaid with an image of four young researchers walking down a hallway. The European Commission logo is in the top left. Text reads: "Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions – €404.3 million to support postdoctoral researchers”
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A. M. Vincent @vincent.northsky.social · 05/05/2025
FOR A STUDENT WHO USED AI TO WRITE A PAPER

Now I let it fall back
in the grasses.
I hear you. I know
this life is hard now.
I know your days are precious 
on this earth.
But what are you trying
to be free of?
The living? The miraculous 
task of it?
Love is for the ones who love the work.
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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
To reiterate one of my academic themes for 2025: It’s a real problem that students feel incapable of operating without genAI, particularly given that they do worse with it. I don’t care if slackers slack, but if insecurity x manipulation shields well-meaning students from their education, I care.
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Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Don't forget to put in your application for our 2025 awards!
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Aiyana Koka Willard @aiyanakoka.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Jumping a fire for Beltane in Glastonbury with @loraadair.bsky.social and @michelleakline.bsky.social. #BestFeildsiteEver
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BehavEcolPapers @behavecolpapers.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
The demographic drivers of cultural #evolution in #bird song CurrentBiology
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The demographic drivers of cultural #evolution in #bird song
Merino Recalde et al. analyze over 100,000 great tit songs to study how demographic factors and processes like turnover, immigration, and age structure shape vocal culture. Their findings reveal complex interactions between these processes, advancing our understanding of how population dynamics influence cultural evolution in animal communities.
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Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Co-first authors 😝
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Dr Michelle Ann Kline @michelleakline.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
I could not resist a Kickstarter for wool spun from sheep living on London's City Farms. YES there are sheep in London, and YES I plan to visit them while wearing whatever I knit with this 😘 www.kickstarter.com/projects/137...
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London City Farms Yarn project
10 London City farms and Ossian knitwear have joined forces to produce a London wool from urban dwelling sheep.
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Dr Michelle Ann Kline @michelleakline.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
👏👏👏👏👏
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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
@heidicolleran.bsky.social starts her #ehbea2025 plenary with a manifesto to get behind: bring more demography into cultural evolution, and more ethnography into demography
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Abbey Page @abbeyepage.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Thanks 🤩 Paper just accepted today 👀 and can’t wait to explore the many unanswered questions about reproductive and child rearing overlap further ❤️
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Dr Michelle Ann Kline @michelleakline.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
My students can't even get AI to pass their 1st year essays, soooo...
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Dr Michelle Ann Kline @michelleakline.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
I shall henceforth be known as Snow White because a robin landed on my hammock while I was reading and also I am pasty AF after such a long dark and damp English winter.
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the witch from snow white and the seven dwarfs is holding a red apple in her hand
ALT: the witch from snow white and the seven dwarfs is holding a red apple in her hand
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Dr Michelle Ann Kline @michelleakline.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
My reward for doing all the paperwork this week
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Dr Michelle Ann Kline @michelleakline.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
If you're one of my US colleagues and unfamiliar with the UK funding landscape - there are many trusts and foundations with a myriad of funding schemes. Lots include ways to folks to visit from abroad - worth a look if your funding is subject to right-wing politics & you need another option.
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