Dr Callum Portman Ross 🎉🎊
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Made it! Dr Portman Ross, four years later the PhD is DONEEEEEE
Thank you
@PaulHoskisson
and
@IanDEALidbury
for a fantastic afternoon of all things green tea, staph and directed evolution!
Very lucky to have been the final
@foster_lab
PhD student!!
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An angry Monday morning story in a 🧵
@PandemicPGRs
@UCUPostgrads
@AcademicChatter
So
@sheffielduni
pay their PGRs quarterly, ridiculous in itself, meaning PGRs get their stipend in four payments in the year and have to budget for three month periods 1/6
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A lil bio and life update!! I’ve got my first post-PhD job, for which I’m moving down to London and my viva date has been confirmed for September!! 🥂
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My first IRL poster!! Come find me at poster B016 in the main hall this evening
@MicrobioSoc
#Microbio22
@foster_lab
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Won a branded lab coat on the
@NEBiolabs
spinner!! And I’m excited for all my PCRs to start working when I wear it!!
#Microbio22
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I really didn’t know what I was missing out on
#microbio22
was the perfect first conference! Massive thanks to everyone
@MicrobioSoc
for organising such an amazing week and all the awesome ECRs that made it the coolest week!! 🧫🔬
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A very happy me after a COVID secure first unit!! Happy that long overdue guidance changes for risk assessing donors have finally came into effect 🏳️🌈
@GiveBloodNHS
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Guess which tortured academic just submitted all 253 pages and 53k words of their thesis 👉🏻👈🏻
Thanks
@foster_lab
and
@DiMeN_DTP
for everything!
(I can’t say I was expecting the captcha to be that challenging)
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I didn’t think today could keep going downhill after three job rejections including because of quote “a personality clash”… but.. the gorgeous barista isn’t at work 🥲
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Thank you all for all the well wishes after the viva, I might amend the “it takes a village to do a PhD”- I reckon it takes a large multi city community inc everyone in Sheff
@DiMeN_DTP
and beyond ❤️❤️
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Logged onto my first ever
@MicrobioSoc
conference while zooming through Somerset, so excited for a week of the coolest science 🧫 and (virtually) meeting all you wonderful scientists 🧑🔬 (thanks to
@GWRHelp
for hosting at 125 mph)
#Microbio21
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THISSSS!! I’m looking at you academia, even do 8 online interviews then invite 2 or 3 best candidates to site and pay the expenses for those that don’t get the role!!
@AcademicChatter
If you’re doing in-person interviews that require candidates to come to you, you really should be paying for the travel.
No, “the opportunity” is not enough in return.
If it matters enough to meet people face to face, it matters enough to pay for it.
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Happy pride London 🏳️🌈😍🥰
THE BEST TIME inc. doggos
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I was far too easily persuaded to put the tree up this year, but in the words of the security guard in Asda: “it’s been a sh*t year”
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Let’s play how many thesis corrections can you do on a 4hr 30 min train!!! (WFT)
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I’m just a funemployed boy 🏳️🌈with a 🚲 wanting my silly little iced coffees (that turn into lil drinks) on the common with oomfs 👉🏻👈🏻
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This Sunday I will be joining the next intake of staff
@LhouseLabsUK
in Milton Keynes to support essential testing in the UK
#lighthouselabsuk
🦠
@SheffieldMBB
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This is effectively me this evening compiling all of my recent tweets into a coherent letter to send to my MP and students union. Lets take the fight to them
@PandemicPGRs
#postgradsmatter
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First class Biomed degree from the
@Uni_of_Essex
its been a dream,
@DiMeN_DTP
&
@sheffielduni
I’m so excited to be joining you in October 🎓
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Pride Run (something something taking ⬇️ to a park) 🏳️🌈🥰
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I might be a *teensy* bit biased but
@DiMeN_DTP
@The_MRC
is the best!! 30 fully funded studentships with unique opportunities to get funding suited to you during the PhD!
Looking for a PhD opportunity?
@The_MRC
DiMeN DTP studentships for Oct 2021 are going live!
We will have 75 projects tackling the major healthcare challenges facing our population.
Follow us as we make announcements and keep an eye on our website:
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Change from thesis writing, Four days of microbiology in Cancún 🧫
Let’s go
#bacterialcell23
@Fusion_Conf
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I am 23 year old PhD student and joined the board of
@soarcommunity
last May, it’s an honour to work with such talented staff and board members, bringing together different experiences to support an amazing cause
#youngtrustees
#phdchat
#ThisIsWhatATrusteeLooksLike
🪞 Being able to see yourself in a role matters.
📢 So this
@TrusteesWeek
we need the 3% of trustees under 30, aspiring young trustees & champions to share their stories.
🔁RT this post with a picture of yourself/a young person who inspires you with
#ThisIsWhatATrusteeLooksLike
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Historically ukri have managed to get away with so much because they can outlast the most tenacious PGRs, but I have a feeling this is only the beginning
@UKRI_News
#AcademicTwitter
#AcademicChatter
PGRs are making daily requests to
@UKRI_NEWS
to engage with our community’s highly reasonable and evidence-led requests. UKRI continue to demonstrate a callous lack of willingness here
We are therefore calling all PGR’s to boycott ResearchFish this year
#BoycottResearchFish
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Really scary costume this year! 🎃👻
More than 25,000 people in the EU die every year from antibiotic resistant infections. Finish your prescribed course and don’t take them unnecessarily!
@TheUrgentNeed
@NHSEngland
#AntibioticResistance
#nhs
#halloweencostume
#halloween2018
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Variegated monstera and carnivorous plants on a train…. It’s giving new chapter (soft launch) 🚀 🌱 🧫 🏙️
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Who’s more excited? Me meeting Grogu or Grogu meeting the fish? 🐠
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Jollye will be joining the family tomorrow and I AM ECSTATIC about being able to look after her until she’s ready to be a full time support dog!
#supportdogs
#dogswithjobs
#fosterdog
#assistancedogs
@supportdogsuk
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Sheffield PGRs, if affected by late payments please fill this out:
TR/DL:
⁃Paying PGR in 3 months chunks is ridiculous
⁃
@sheffielduni
maybe the payments team could check for students registered at different times??
⁃Join a Union
@ucu
6/6
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I’m trying to do work but have a serious situation with a dog that thinks it’s a cat 🤷🏼♂️
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First time seeing everyone since 2019 thanks
@DiMeN_DTP
@TheCrick
@turinginst
for an amazing showcase of quantitative skills!
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First week back back in the labs done. Everyone is working so hard to keep each other safe!
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First talk at a conference! Thanks
@Fusion_Conf
for letting me step in last minute
Massive congratulations to
@callumjpr
for giving such an amazing final presentation of
#Bacterialcell23
! We all hope you enjoy your holiday!
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Crisp Sheffield morning for
#NEPG2021
Excited to hear about amazing research from acros the north of England! Come find me on virtual poster NEPG73 with a
#betterposter
about novel interacting partners of PBP2a a resistance determinant in
#MRSA
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This weekends adventures included our round three of
#SheffieldHalfMarathon
!! With supporters all the way from Somerset 💕🌸 Did they add new hills this year?
Thanks to everyone all along the route and the amazing first aid and marshalling teams!
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Students who have taken leave of any kind, perhaps due to the pandemic, illness, or the Cost of living crisis have the distinct pleasure of repeatedly not being paid by
@sheffielduni
on time 2/6
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Fantastic afternoon with the wonderful
@supportdogsuk
Excited to be onboard and looking forward to the home visit!!
#supportdogs
#dogsoftwitter
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Attending the branching out from academia talk
@NEPGconference
#NEPG19
with these wonderful people from the
@DiMeN_DTP
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These job applications/interviews/thesis (and resulting cycle of motivation and no motivation), they’re trying to murder me
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Someone is growing up! Jollye had her first training session in her jacket today!
@supportdogsuk
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ALSO ALSO!! Spot my first time shiny new addition making it’s lil camp debut at Manch Pride 🏳️🌈 excited to see y’all 👋
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Travelling into
@sheffielduni
by bike is all well and good until you realise you forgot your towel but it’s okay cos
@BetterPoints
rewards for sustainable travel from my PhD three years are £20 of Amazon and £10 Decathlon towards a new cycling rucksack 🚴🏼
@CycleSheffield
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Excited about the
#dimendiversity
event this afternoon, I know the whole team have worked so hard to organise what is going to be an eye opening event
@DiMeN_Diversity
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Is he, you know? 🏳️🌈💅🏼
(someone tell him he will be a scientist one day)
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Fantastic conference a massive well done to the organising committee! I am also really pleased to have won first place in the posters!!
Congratulations to everyone who submitted a poster to
#NEPG2021
, especially to our winners
@CallumR2017
@InaSusnoschi
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Hungover Sunday brunch spread and park afternoons 🥰😋
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Hiding from ⚽️ with some RW&RB (and Iggy the fish)
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Take this Oct 1st payment, PGRs haven’t been paid since July 1st and are under significant pressure to manage their money due to CoL, with the crucial
@UKRI_News
uplift not being paid until November, the October payments are as important as ever. 3/6
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Sending virtual hugs to fellow DiMeN buddy
@CallumR2017
hope your first shifts goes okay! ❤️❤️ 😃
#phdlife
#NHSheroes
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Excited to be joining
@BrilliantClub
to
#HelpDisruptedLearners
as part of their awesome tutoring programme this year! Way to go and make my Monday morning inbox AMAZING!
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A lifeline for UKRI funded students, but part of a longer fight for PGRs across the country.
@wellcometrust
@sheffielduni
follow suit and support the researchers you fund!!
NEW: We're increasing our minimum student stipend by 10% from 1 October 2022. Full details:
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First ever mammoth night shift but go
#team4
#lighthouselab
it was amazing... now to bed 💤
Sending virtual hugs to fellow DiMeN buddy
@CallumR2017
hope your first shifts goes okay! ❤️❤️ 😃
#phdlife
#NHSheroes
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Attending the 2018
@HEFestival
with
@Pearson_UK
fantastic debate on the funding behind university with Lord Willetts and Lord Adonis
@Uni_of_Essex
@EssexSU
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The runner 🏃the support 🪧 and the medal 🥇 a lovely damp weekend (Edinburgh we are IN you)
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Jollye had fun this morning meeting everyone from the lab in Krebs Cafe
@SheffieldMBB
@supportdogsuk
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Shout out to whoever has that speaker on Downing Street 😂🤩
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A workforce not being paid on time and having to miss payments for rent and utilities because they are exploited during a cost of living crisis?
@BBCSheffield
@BBCNews
@Wonkhe
@Independent
@guardian
@SheffieldStar
@TheTab
@GillFurnissMP
@_OliviaBlake
@PaulBlomfieldMP
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Libraries and wet labs, dry labs field labs ... it goes on... POSTGRADS MATTER
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Let’s go for a nice lil bike ride he said….
-longest climb
-puncture through tyre
-train home
-£150 for new tyres (inc consolation cafe lunch)
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@FelixJBerrios
I’m Callum (he/him)
Molecular Micro (always trying to add a medical micro spin too)
Coffee/plants/cycling/pancakes/cake/hiking
My partner and I foster support dogs in training which is some of the coolest volunteering ever!
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Excited to be attending the
@NEPGconference
as my first conference with
@DiMeN_DTP
@sheffielduni
#nepg19
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A fantastic final talk in the weekly seminar series by Marisa Gomez! And a massive thank you to
@Keenan__Lacey
for organising such a fantastic interdisciplinary series. Has been the perfect opportunity to get up to speed with everything S aureus in the past few weeks!
Join us TODAY at 3pm Eastern Time (8pm GMT) for the Virtual S. aureus Seminar Series with Marisa Gomez from
@CONICETDialoga
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YES yes yes YES
Sir Patrick Vallance KCB has been appointed Minister of State (Minister for Science) in the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
@SciTechgovuk
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Straight into twelve hour night shifts in fact! Way to GOOOOOOO team 4, some of the most interesting and wonderful people I’ve met
@LhouseLabsUK
@dbkell
Not commenting on the politics or the numbers but its impressive what's been achieved day on day. Many of the students and post-docs involved have come straight from university lockdowns and put in huge work but no one seems interested in their hard work.
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Me with a tote bag, big coat and a suitcase heading to Newcastle in November? It means it’s time for this years
@NEPGconference
#NEPG2022
Come and see my talk in tomorrows’ microbiology session to learn about MRSA and green tea 🍵🧫
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Students wait for the notification of payment which they don’t receive, Having been completely missed off the payments, PGRs have to contact a team who have an email waiting time of 10-15 days or phone lines open 10-1 daily to arrange to be paid for the next 3 months 4/6
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Important to highlight how serious the circumstances to take leave of absences can be as well, by missing students who have taken LOA you are target minorities and vulnerable groups
@ucu
@UCUPostgrads
Do better
@sheffielduni
- you are financially punishing vulnerable students for taking leave of absences (which are only taken in serious circumstances) and providing no communication or avenues for support.
@ucu
@UCUPostgrads
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Midday coffee with the fish! (Sadly they can’t come to vote later)
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Absolutely storming 1st draft thesis corrections atm. Keep forgetting what time it is. Only remembering lunch at 3:30 and really enjoying the reward of crossing out each page as I finish it..
In unrelated news it’s coming up to a year since a certain referral got sent off
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#StaphGBI2021
#Florey2021
hosted by
@FloreyInstitute
start today and its going to be awesome! In preparing for the conference we wanted to show attendees roles, it serves as a really lovely visualisation of how important students are!
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Where’s he going? (Enjoying being PhD free this morning) let’s go
@taylornation13
)
@northernassist
any travel recs for today? Are you the getaway train?
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@ZJAyres
We were just saying we are so excited to hear you speak tomorrow and know you will be amazing 💕💕💕
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I started the
@nature
masterclass course on scientific writing today too, an excellent resource providing structure and opportunities in uncertain times!
#wfh
Really pleased this training is coming in useful, less than 24 hours after the codes were send out! Our publications page will be overflowing in no time:
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Bank holiday weekend at home for Mum’s birthday, tories obliterated, dunster castle, steam train, pupper in the sea and 🌞🕶️
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In person 3D networking with the sequencing pros
@microbesNG
#Microbio22
(in the most lovely venue)
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