kelly oakes
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science journalist | [email protected] | she/her
Joined February 2009
RT @Martha_Rosamund: A lesser-known quirk of unconscious bias - our tendency to appoint women and people of colour as leaders in difficult…
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RT @JoeriRogelj: What makes a good #NetZero pledge? Many things but picking three: 1) focus on reductions then removals (& separate them o…
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when i started co-sleeping with my son at four months it completely saved my sanity, now i’m back at (paid) work it's what enables me to string a sentence together
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come for the argument that women in healthcare should be offered the COVID vaccine, stay for the devastating takedown of attitudes towards breastfeeding in the UK
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@easternblot i always find this period so tricky to balance! you don't want to intrude over the xmas break, but you also don't want to email on Jan 2 needing to speak in the next couple of days
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if I get the chance I will be interpreting the “you should wait until you've stopped breastfeeding” guidance very literally
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all my earworms these days are made-up songs and Julia Donaldson books
Q: Who is the best-selling British author of the last decade? A: Julia Donaldson (and it’s not even close) Profiled a national treasure - and my 3-year-old’s favourite author - for @gdnlongread
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@maggyvaneijk i only recently realised how many playgrounds there are near us... it's like i was somehow blind to them before and now i've entered the matrix
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Listening in to this with a sleeping baby on me - one of the advantages of #ukcsj20 being online
Starting the 'Changing Language of Climate' session @dpcarrington talks about how the Guardian moved to language of climate crisis in May. You can still sign up:
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@climatemegan nearly two months! that is where we are at - fast asleep on me and wide awake as soon as I try to put him anywhere else
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here is the story, from this time last year - credit should also go to @mattsreynolds1 who commissioned and edited
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