Dr Justine Rudkin
@ScouseMicrobe
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Lecturer of Bacteriology, Uni of Glasgow. Nasal Microbiome, S. aureus, Mucin, Host-Pathogen Interface. Editor, Access Microbiology. @scousemicrobe .bsky.social
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Contracts are signed, so I'm absolutely thrilled to announce that I will be moving to the University of Glasgow in the new year to start my own research group as a Lecturer in Bacteriology in the School of Infection and Immunity 🥳🍾
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Reviewing a manuscript and have absolutely zero issues with it. None. Its well written. The figures are good. The work is interesting and useful. The data is available. Conclusions have not been over sold. What to say? I feel like they aren't getting value out of my peer review!
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That's a wrap on an 11-year Postdoctoral career! 6 fixed term contracts, 4 groups, 3 universities. It's been a slog, but it's prepared me for the next step, PI-ville.
Thank you to my
@ModMedMicro
colleagues for my leaving gift to help with the Oxford to Glasgow sunshine deficit
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I tied the knot with my favourite person, in my favourite place and it was just so much fun 🥰
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Today should have been our wedding day! Rather poetically the wedding of two microbiologist has been taken down by a virus. Here is looking back to more carefree times when we had jumped through all the paperwork hoops and gotten our marriage licence 💚👰🤵
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@lundpa
If it's a well documented collection, make the database available to see if anyone wants anything? Some new PIs might be able to home parts of your collection and it could help kick start their research
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What an absolute belter of a week for women in microbiology! Fantastic to have such brilliant role models to show us the way 😁👩🏾💻👩🏽🔬🏆 Congratulations ladies 👏🏼👍🏾
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The new Wellcome Trust Early Career grants have a 3 year post-PhD cap!?! I thought we were moving away from this nonsense?! Big jump up to the Mid-Career Development awards which are for 8 years funding and competing against people who are within 3 years of permanent posts 😭😡
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We finally smashed that two body problem 😅
📢 Excited to announce that I'll be
@UofGlasgow
bound in February. Hired as a lecturer in bacteriology to set up my own research group. 🏴🦠🧫🧬
#NewPI
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First up at
#Microbio21
Martin Maiden gives a nod to the members of his group over the years and how longevity of lab teams has been key to the type of work they wanted to do. Stability for postdocs is good for them and good for science 👍🏽
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Fully funded 3-yr PhD position
@UofGlasgow
@UofG_micro
(UK students)- Friend to Foe: Colonisation as an Entry Point for S. aureus Infection
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Exciting things happening at Microbiology Society publishing. The innovative Access Microbiology launches a new open research platform, which is completely free for the first 12 months. It's the place to send your smaller pieces, null data, and replication studies.
We are delighted to announce that
#AccessMicro
has launched as an innovative open research platform and is now open for submissions. Find out how the platform offers a new service to our community.
#PublishingForTheCommunity
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Today I should be in a
@MicrobioSoc
professional development session on fellowship writing. Instead I'm part of a team working to validate antibody lateral flow assays for COVID-19. Keeping me busy and out of the snack cupboard at home 🤭
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Start the new year with an application to come do a PhD with me. Closing date end of the month.
#Glasgow
#phdchat
#microbiology
Fully funded 3-yr PhD position
@UofGlasgow
@UofG_micro
(UK students)- Friend to Foe: Colonisation as an Entry Point for S. aureus Infection
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@Prokaryota
Difficult to lyse cells and no access to a bead beater? Resuspend cells in water/PBS and give them a quick blast (5 secs) in the microwave to burst them open. Not sure I would use this for expensive genome/RNA seq, but for PCR, RT-PCR etc is works a treat.
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Delighted to have been elected onto the
@MicrobioSoc
Publishing Committee as the ECM representative. Thank you to the ECM Forum members who voted for me 👍🏻 Excited to continue working with this tour de force of Early Career Microbiologists!
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Breakfast cheesecake 🤤 Living my best life in lockdown 🔒
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Today was my last
@MicrobioSoc
meeting as part of the Early Career Committee 😢 Four fantastic and productive years of working with engaged peers, and the truly wonderful and supportive MicroSoc staff. Thank you all, and see some of you over on the Impact and Influence team 🙋🏻♀️
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MicroSoc annual conference cancelled. Well done to
@MicrobioSoc
on this hard decision. With the Society's 75th anniversary being marked at this years event, this would have been a heart breaking choice for everyone who put in years of work into this event.
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3rd date set 👰🏻🤵🏻Licence renewed ✅ Dress fits again 😅. Role on 6 weeks 🥰 🤞🏼
Today should have been our wedding day! Rather poetically the wedding of two microbiologist has been taken down by a virus. Here is looking back to more carefree times when we had jumped through all the paperwork hoops and gotten our marriage licence 💚👰🤵
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Microbial Genomics is looking for early career members (PhD/postdoc) to join a Board of Reviewers. An opportunity to learn about peer-review from the other side! For information on how to get involved and learn vital skills, take a look at the news story:
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Baptism of fire for day 2 in Glasgow with a presentation at the school away day🔥 But first time seeing it written down- Dr Justine Rudkin, Lecturer 😁🤩
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First post-holiday email is a rejection for a job application 👍🏼Think I'll just head back out into a field to drink wine out of a tin mug
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Access Microbiology hitting the big time with this endorsement 🥰 This platform has been boldly leading the way in scientific publishing without much fanfare (compared to say the Elife updates). Feels great to be seen 🤩
Open Science and transparent peer review are great to make science more open and honest.
@MicrobioSoc
has a wonderful platform called Access Microbiology, which does exactly that. It will also accept replication studies and negative results.
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That's it- we are fully vaxed 🥳
Now if only my post-covid immune system would "calm-down calm-down" and stop attacking me, I could pretend this whole sorry episode didn't happen 😝
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Been in Oxford for 20 months and finally bought myself a set of wheels. My first bike since I was 12. Cue terrifying cycle home alone when it wouldn't fit in the car 😬 Road riding and navigation- not my strongest skill set 😖 Regretting choosing to live up Headington Hill 🚴
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Prepacked salads for >2500 delegates over 4 days= huge plastic waste problem 🤔
#FEMS2017
#singleuseplastic
#waste
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One immediate outcome from my involvement with
#ECRForumUKRI
.......I finally joined a union
@ucu
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Two marathon running microbes- Snowdonia Marathon Eryri 2019
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We are hiring! Lab based RA position looking at how and why some people get sick when others don't
I will be at MicroSoc next week if anyone wants to chat about it. Please retweet and share with your contacts
#jobfairy
#Microbio22
#ecrchat
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Giving my project student the full PCR experience. From zero bands on Friday to too many bands today 🙈😂 They shall be a PCR troubleshooting pro 💪🏼
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Deadline fast approaching for this postdoc position. Come work with us on within-host evolution of S. aureus, and ambitious projects like Bugbank
Recruiting a molecular microbiology Postdoc for a combination of wet and dry lab work. Advert is out with very broad requirements to attract plenty of applicants. Get in touch if you're interested
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Early Career Microbiologists- Join us for the
@MicrobioSoc
#ECMForum
summer conference in Birmingham, June 14th and 15th 2018.
#youngscientist
#microbiology
#professionaldevelopment
#networking
#careeradvice
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@Prokaryota
Oooofff I hear ya! I once spent weeks trying to get a PCR to work, including redesigning the primers. Turns out, the master mix didn't have DNTPs in it. This was in my 6th year of postdocing so should have been an easy thing for me to spot🤦🏽♀️
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@SGriffin_Lab
I was down at a nurses' strike picket line yesterday. They had huge public support, with lots of honks and a big trailer full of goodies given by passersby. Hopefully they have enough backing to go all the way on this one 💙
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Time to face the reality of abortion in Ireland and stop exporting vulnerable people abroad for medical care!
#Scientists4Yes
#Together4Yes
#evidence4yes
#repealthe8th
#Itrustwomen
thanks to
@ScienceForYes
and
@NiamhTalking90
for the badge!
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Loving this....... nothing EVER has my name on it 😆🌪️
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I've just registered for the FREE
@MicrobioSoc
early career conference happening Sept 28th 29th. Looking forward to the science talks (obvs!) but also the fellowships and careers talks from early career peers
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First meeting of the new
@MicrobioSoc
Building Communities Committee today. Joining together the Publishing and Conferences panels to foster collaboration between two of the Society's biggest outputs, to better serve the memberships needs 👍
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En route to Belfast for
#Microbio19
, and not a moment too soon as I'm in desperate need of a new lunch bag!!!
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Yeah..........if you're an Early Career Microbiologist and want to learn how to peer review properly, then get experience via the Microbiology Society Reviewer Mentee scheme.
Classic Nature with an absolutely unrealistic example right at the start of an a̶d̶ ̶f̶o̶r̶ ̶u̶n̶p̶a̶i̶d̶ ̶w̶o̶r̶k̶ advice column for ECRs
p.s DON'T DO THIS
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Funding bodies could help out a lot, especially with lab based anxiety about missing months of lab work. Exentions of currently funded projects are needed
@wellcometrust
@BBSRC
@UKRI_News
@NERCscience
@The_MRC
@royalsociety
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Just over a week left to apply for this PhD position with me in Glasgow. Come study how Staphylococcus aureus transitions between the nasal and bloodstream niches
Fully funded 3-yr PhD position
@UofGlasgow
@UofG_micro
(UK students)- Friend to Foe: Colonisation as an Entry Point for S. aureus Infection
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Fantastic conference happening at Trinity College Dublin covering;
• Genomics to study antibiotic resistance and virulence
• Persistence in bacteria
• Microbiota in health and disease
• Gene regulation
• Microbial surfaces
*Abstract deadline THIS Thursday*
There are great opportunities for
@MicrobioSoc
#ECMForum
members to present or co-chair at the
#MicroMed19
focused meeting
@tcddublin
in October. Abstract deadline is THIS Thursday. Check out info here:
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Off to the Big Smoke for my first
@MicrobioSoc
Publishing Committee meeting........hope it is as friendly as the Irish Division committee😊
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Lectureship applications that want you to list your GCSE subjects and grades........are they serious?
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Everyone wish
@sligomicrobe
good luck- he is trying to get me up and running with R 🙈🙉🙊 Let's see if we still want to marry each other after this!
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My
@scienceirel
Starting Investigator Grant application has gotten through to round 2 😁. Reviewers comments are out today 🙈🙉🙊
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Let the Christmas food-fest begin 🤤👩🏽🍳🎄 No company means everyday is a stretchy waistband day 👍🏼
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Secures 3-year contract extension at work.........feels relief with some level of security 🤗
Estate Agent informs you that your Landlord is thinking of selling your home...........cue return of pit of stomach sickness 😵💫
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CORK SCIENTISTS! I need speakers for the Planet Earth category for the Cork
@pintofscienceIE
event in May. Anyone working in
#geoscience
#plantscience
#ecology
#environmental
#zoology
who are interested in speaking about science in a pub get in touch.
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Tomorrow is the day! Looking forward to heading to the School of Biosciences at the University of Birmingham for the inaugural
@MicrobioSoc
#ECMConf18
.
Months of planning with the
#ECMForum
team to bring together a jam packed schedule.....Hope to see plenty of faces there!
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Phew, my re-ballot papers arrived before I leave for Christmas tomorrow! Voted YES YES YES YES on all counts ❎
@OxfordUCU
@OxfordAntiCas
@ucu
#reballot
#UCUstrikes
✊🏼
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This conference always receives rave reviews. A friendly small meeting (no PIs!!!) where you get to hone your presentation skills, work on career development, and most importantly make connections with your peers- the people who will be your colleagues and collaborators for life!
The
#ECMForum
Summer Conference is back and will be taking place in-person this July.
Find out more and submit your abstract:
#ECR
#ECMConf22
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New Year, New Me!
Just kidding, I still can't remember my passwords and can't log into my computer 👍🏼
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@Emily_Baughan
I'm not doing any more outreach or public engagement work. It is not in my contract and I am not paid to be an ambassador for the university encouraging more young people into the HE pipeline.
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Important career progression slide which stops me panicking when I feel so behind and unaccomplished comparing my work as an individual to that of a whole group. Also good to see 12 years spent as a postdoc.
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This was an insane project to work on! The pressure to get the work flow right with such precious samples, and the speed with which everything had to happen may have induced pipetting related nightmares 😵 High fives to the massive team involved 🙌🏼
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Love this thread- looking for a postdoc who can independently Google, bakes good brownies, and hasn't been so broken by the system that they are willing to carry on and adequately deliver this project to publication somewhere 🤣
My dream when I am finally a PI is to advertise for postdocs using witheringly plain language instead of the normalised false exceptionalism.
Not soon enough can I tweet 'looking for serviceable postdocs of modest talent and existent motivation levels'. It's what keeps me going.
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CALLING ALL FINAL YEAR PhD STUDENTS! This will be such a fantastic session at next year's annual conference.........get your applications in to present your thesis in 5 minutes as part of the
#FlemingShowcase
at
#Microbio20
.
We are launching a call for abstracts from final year
#PhD
students to submit a five-minute thesis for our
#FlemingShowcase
at
#Microbio20
. Find out more about your chance to present your work in front of world-renowned scientists:
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Haven't managed to tweet all day from the
#ECMConf19
-The talks have been too engaging. Definitely the best scientific session of any conference I've EVER been to. Talks were diverse and current, and the speakers were on top of their game- You guys smashed it!
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Great news to finish a Monday on..............PG Cert in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education completed and PASSED! 👩🏽🏫👩🏽🔬👩🏽🎓😁
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I just applied to mentor science interested 16-18 year olds from disadvantaged backgrounds with
@in2scienceUK
. COVID-19 will have reduced educational opportunities for this groups of kids. Lets help ensure they don't slip through the net! Sign up here-
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MicroSoc members- Sick of prizes always going to the same kind of people? Get involved in the review panel and drive the change you want to see! The opportunity is open to all career stages including ECRs
#ECMForum
#EDI
We are asking members to volunteer to join our Prize Award Panel, which will judge nominations for the 2022 Prizes and 2023 Prize Medal. In this blog, Dr Jerry Reen from
@UCC
talks about his experience on last year’s Prize Award Panel.
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One day I shall learn to control my urge to get involved in everything 🙈 Until then I shall see my fellow
@UKRI_News
#ECR
forum members at the induction events! Hope it is as productive as
@MicrobioSoc
ECM forum has been 🤞🏼
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Remember to register for the
@MicrobioSoc
"Why Microbiology Matters" celebration event
It is free for society members, and promises to be an uplifting few days with Prize Lectures, Fleming Showcase, and the Young Microbiologist of the Year competition.
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Wrapping up a fantastic
#ECMConf19
with a visit to the Guinness Storehouse. A well earned pint for 4 of our fabulous invited speakers. Thanks everyone.......see you at next year's event :-)
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Absolutely delighted to get through the
@UCCResearch
internal short listing process for
@scienceirel
SIRG applications. Only 12 applicants can be put forward, so I wasn't getting my hopes up. Now to write the next grant application 😄👩🏽🔬
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My take homes for this morning's
#ECRForumUKRI
- the system is stacked against you and is engineering in this way at all levels. Systematic change is required but it will be a complex and slow process. We are engaging with ERCs to include your voices
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MicroSoc are running focus groups to discuss the impact of the pandemic on early career progression and what support we need. There are some spaces left for 1st-yr PhDs and senior postdocs to participate. See your ECM Forum Update email (sent yesterday) to sign up.
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The elation of finally finding the historic strains in the minus 80 that you've been searching for, and still having all your fingers intact 🥶
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The diversity of Eukaryotes is astounding, and I always forget about it! Thanks
@_jamiemcgowan
for reminding me of these understudied branches of life
#ECMConf21
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Only way to beat the heat to keep your RNA preps intact.......move your bench into the walk-in-fridge 🥶
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Can microbiota be used to predict risk of pre-term birth?
#FEMS2017
#LoveIrishResearch
#corkmicrobiome
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Loads of positions available for Early Career Microbiologists. You get to build a network with engaged go-getting peers, influence the direction of the society, and tap into the wider society for support and mentorship. Truly my favourite role in my career. DMs open for questions
At a time when
#microbiology
has been thrust into the spotlight, you could help shape the Society’s future. We have vacancies across our Council, Committees and Divisions. Find out more about the roles available and how to apply:
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My first month as a PI has flown by.
Here is my summary of the first 30ish days
Baptism of fire giving a presentation on my second day to the entire school at the away day 🔥. Great way to meet lots of people though. Hope I spoke clearly 🫨
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We are holding the 3rd ECM conference in Glasgow. Promises to be a lot of fun- registration is open. Abstract submission coming soon.
Careers, professional development, and scientific sessions.......A bargain for £50! Come join us 👩🔬👨🏿🔬👩🏽💻👨🏾💼
The Early Career Microbiologists’ Forum (ECM) Summer Conference will take place at University of Strathclyde, Glasgow on 25–26 June 2020. Find out more:
#ECMConf20
#ECR
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#Microbio21
session on Brexit impact on research- UK are eligible for EU funding schemes but it's costing a lot of money. So, use it or lose it! Success rates need to improve to show it is value for money and avoid triggering questions over our paid in membership.
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I grew up in a situation were debt meant hiding from people knocking on your door for payment. Debt of any kind makes me anxious and there is simply no way my 18 yr old self would have gone to uni if it meant acquiring this level of debt regardless, of what "type of debt" it is
David Willetts didn't spend a penny to go to university.
It's a bit rich for him to lecture students about the fees he's made them pay.
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Come and join us in Dublin, June 20th-21st 2019 for a conference with a difference. We have a jam packed schedule of great research talks from ECM members, plus career development and publishing sessions. All completely ECM peer led! Get your abstracts in.
The Early Career Microbiologists’ Forum Summer Conference is back for its second year and abstract submission is now open:
#ECMConf19
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Zoom meetings suck......but when its a Zoom meeting with
@rls_organizing
and 4000 workers from all over the world, all honing our organising skills and training in the importance of semantics, well then its kinda cool ✊🏽
#WorkersRisingEverywhere
#O4P
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First up at
#ECMConf21
is
@MattHutchings10
. Career decisions made around rock n roll- I stayed in Norwich because I didn't want to leave the band!
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Spectacular views from the top of Yr Wyddfa 🏔️ 🏴
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The hugely successful MicroSoc Early Career conference is back for another year! Join us online for science talks, fellowship advice, and the ever popular non-academic careers session.
#ECMForum
#ECR
#phdchat
We are delighted to announce that the Early Career Microbiologists’ Forum (ECM) Summer Conference will be returning this summer! The event will take place digitally from 28–29 September 2021 and more details are available online.
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First academic day of 2021, powered by chocolate milk 🤎
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What a lovely way to spend a Friday evening, at the opening of the
#BacterialWorld
exhibition
@morethanadodo
. The giant E. coli on the ceiling is magnificent!
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So much data in today's talk from
@jay_salsa
. Super work all the way from genome sequence to function studies 🤩
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Liam Reynolds talking about using wastewater as a surveillance for fecal contamination and AMR genes in Dublin Bay. Project rerouted to study SARS-CoV-2- the pandemic providing research opportunities for some ECRs 💪🏼
#ECMConf21
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