Still really excited that I am featured in the latest edition of ‘Voice’ magazine! My time as an observer on the RSC’s Inclusion and Diversity Committee really has made such a difference to my goals and outlook on my future career.

Me: being a grumpy, writing gremlin. One of @MOFsoton’s students: gets me lemon iced tea 🥰 summer students @UoSChem_ChemEng @unisouthampton are the sweetest!

@fabulouslylaura This is the cutest thing ever 🥰 you shall have to have reunions with this duck!

@ZJAyres I’ve been in the same rut as you for a while 😅

@musamiau It previously had some DMF in there so I definitely wouldn’t recommend eating it 😂

@LauraGrose5 Congratulations, Laura! Best of luck for the future 😊

One of the best things I have done to help alleviate some of the crippling imposter syndrome I have. PhDs are a hard journey and there is ZERO point in suffering in silence. I really recommend any higher education people embrace this! 👩🏽‍🔬 #WomeninSTEM @unisouthampton @SoCoBioDtp

@drbecki_n @UoS_CHEP @johaszczyn Friday just got a little better 😎

I’ve decided halogen-lithium exchanges are my new favourite reactions purely based on colour 🍎🍊 #chemistry #phdlife @UoSChemistry

@MOFSoton Josh and myself send lots of good wishes ❤️ can’t wait to see you post Easter with some goodies

@ZJAyres Congratulations! What an exciting time 🥰❤️

@ZJAyres @sotonbiosci @sotonbsps Thanks so much! I think it’s hard in an academic setting (I don’t have enough experience elsewhere to comment) to engage openness and attendance on mental well-being activities, so I really hope engaging with smaller activities will help build up support networks 🤞🏼

@DrCBrew Tbf he does look like he’d be a strong asset in your future leaders endeavours. I’d vote him in no questions asked, I’m sure your feeding time keeping would have been a great reference. Best of luck to you 🤞🏼

@MOFSoton Agreed. The number of people I know who use academia (and I quote) ‘necessary evil stepping stone’ to get to industry. It’s a shame it’s that way but industry does seem shiny and nice

So proud to have been a part of this! It’s important to talk and to build a supportive network during your PhD: round 2 of mine has certainly been more successful because of it. Hopefully this can become a widespread practice everywhere @unisouthampton @UoSDocCollege 👀 👩🏽‍🔬🧪🧬

Really recommend any PGRs who will be presenting at some point to practice here- I’m horribly anxious and it helps to have constructive feedback from people who aren’t your peers. Plus the team are so lovely 🥰 still think I need to work on my presentation face…

@drbecki_n @TomkinsKate It makes it significantly less scary when you present to people who are nerdy 😎

@MOFSoton Will definitely pop in to see you, Darren! All your students will be so excited to see you and bring some pre Christmas cheer 😎