There have been some developments following engagement like mine (and many others) and there is now a “Joint Statement by The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society’s President and Executive Director on Conducting TMS Events in Orlando”, Florida as announced here, and found here.

As you may be aware, the US can be united in providing freedom right now, but there is certainly something quite heterogenous about the experience of freedom across different states. Specifically, in Florida the Governor and a number of other legislators are using LGBTQ+ people, and their rights, as a…

Hopefully a quick one to reflect on something that happened over on https://sciencemastodon.com/explore today and highlights some of the privacy and safety risks of the Fediverse. The Administrator of ScienceMastodon posted a network graph to show connections of users on the instance. I’ve make sure it’s blurred in this screenshot…

If you are on social media presently, you might be aware that there is a storm brewing about Research Fish, which traces itself in part due to the Innocently Curious Professor Christopher Jackson: For those who are not in the UK system…

Professional titles are not used equally in academia, specifically women and other minoritized academics are often stripped of their titles on purpose or by accident. …

If you are fortunate enough to be offered a faculty job, you might want to consider what you can negotiate. I can’t offer an exhaustive list, but hopefully I can share a few ideas of things you might want to consider. …

Many areas of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Maths) are hyper masculine and reward people for bad behaviour. Many of the environments we work in are, at present, hostile and unforgiving of difference. I can share that there are islands of hope and people are making strides to fix things…

It’s that time of year again, well, with a few more days added on for good measure, that I celebrate getting that bit older. This year has been a rollercoaster through the mist, with the underpinning oppression of the global pandemic on all our lives. …

Today is my last day. Not my last last, of course, but my last day at Imperial College London. Which in some ways does risk making it my last day. This prompts some personal reflection. As an academic, we wed a huge amount of our identity to our professional life…