molecular modeller & bioinformatician, counterculture nostalgist, punk & indie rock appreciationist
Joined February 2013
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8 Jan 2025
@CrossCountryUK with the 18.18 leicester service to Hinckley cancelled, will you add additional stops for the 18.50 service?
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8 Jan 2025
Nil information available at Leicester Station. 18.50 still shown as running. Rumours of replacement bus service. And it's effing cold here.
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19 Jun 2023
‼️TWO DAYS‼️
Get those posters, placards & cold drinks ready for our pickets 🪧☀️
Management have walked out of negotiations & left us no choice. Here’s why we’re striking in defence of cruel wage deductions ➡️ tinyurl.com/mshn3bfd
RT if you too say NO to wage theft ✊
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15 Apr 2023
The human ability ChatGPT emulates absolutely best, an makes it so amazingly humanlike, is plain bullshitting.
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10 Mar 2023
By picking on David Attenborough and Gary Lineker, the BBC has effectively declared war on Leicester.
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4 Feb 2023
sigh
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Ralf Schmid retweeted
13 Jan 2023
Now that #ChatGPT has been shown to produce inane documents indistinguishable from those produced by actual associate deans, vice presidents and other administrators at universities, will these people lose their jobs?
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25 Oct 2022
Very happy to see this paper finally out in @embojournal
Congratulations to everyone involved!
Want to have the short version? 🧵
The E3 ubiquitin ligase RNF115 regulates phagosome maturation and host response to bacterial infection embopress.org/doi/10.15252/e…
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Ralf Schmid retweeted
The UK #HigherEd annual pay 'increases' in REAL TERMS
2010 -3.8%
2011 -5.0%
2012 -2.9%
2013 -2.6%
2014 -0.8%
2015 -1.2%
2016 -1.5%
2017 -1.7%
2018 -1.2%
2019 -1.5%
2020 -2.1%
2021 -1.4%
2022 ~-7.1% (avg of Q1-Q2)
That's a ~28.4% decrease
#EnoughlsEnough #UCUrising
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22 Jun 2022
Stansted airport. People with cold symptoms >>> people wearing masks. What could possibly go wrong.
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2 Jun 2022
what is your personality type?
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17 May 2022
#pleasuresofmarking not sure whether the "ATP-synthase asymmetrical monetary gamma subunit" will make up for recent HE pension and salary cuts.
16 May 2022
Let them eat cake
A government minister has suggested that people struggling with the cost of living should take on more hours or move to a better-paid job.
Read more: trib.al/2ygvWaw
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9 May 2022
.@USSEmployers institutions combine the worst of both worlds: public sector pay increases and private sector pensions.👇
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9 May 2022
If only salary is was comparable to the private sector eh? 🙄 I seem to recall our salaries get compared to the public sector often.
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12 Apr 2022
I may be a little biased here, but I can strongly recommend our MSc in #Bioinformatics
Any of our postgraduate courses take your fancy?
For more info 👇
le.ac.uk/cls
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1 Apr 2022
It is vital that the chair of the USS JNC notes that UUK’s cuts are not necessary and recognises her role in remedying the current situation and ensuring a fair outcome for members of the USS scheme. Sign the petition today #OneofUsAllOfUs speakout.web.ucu.org.uk/uss-…
🚨‼️ BREAKING: USS trustees have confirmed that the basis for cuts has disappeared, as assets hit £88bn.
We need you to urgently:
❌ Lobby your VC to ask UUK to revoke the cuts: ucu.org.uk/article/12114/Ema…
📝 Sign the emergency petition to the JNC chair: speakout.web.ucu.org.uk/uss-…
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26 Mar 2022
In his reply👇to an Open Letter, @UniversitiesUK @USSEmployers CEO @AlistairJarvis writes:
"It is regrettable that a @UCU proposal was formally tabled at the JNC so late in the day..."
🧵documenting the impressive quantity of bad faith & mendacity packed into Jarvis's words. 1/
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