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@jack_d_barber

10 months

girl dinner

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1 year

finding out some people measure their agar when they're pouring plates??? im at the laminar flow cabinet pouring on instinct alone, just tossing agar in like there's a rat pulling my hair

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@jack_d_barber

11 months

me putting my e coli in the 30°C incubator before leaving work for the weekend

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@jack_d_barber

1 year

Woah, didn't see this coming! Brilliant end to an amazing week - congrats to the other prize winners and thanks to both @MicrobioSoc and my old and new friends for making #MicroBio23 absolutely unforgettable 😄

Microbiology Society

@MicrobioSoc

1 year

Congratulations to our Annual Conference 2023 #MGen Poster Prize winners, Robeena Farzand, Jack Barber, Kasia Parfitt, Gabriel Astorga and Sam Williams! #Microbio23

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@jack_d_barber

17 days

aberdeen has its moments

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@jack_d_barber

2 months

this is the kind of rage triggered by the sight of an anti-racism poster in @UoABioSci . given that management have yet to demonstrate this is an anti-racist school, its not difficult to see why postgrads here have told me they dont feel safe in our communal spaces @aberdeenuni

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@jack_d_barber

10 months

asking my friends if they have institutional access to a paper and can send me a pdf

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@jack_d_barber

10 months

caught this wee guy growing at 4°C @ContamClub

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@jack_d_barber

2 years

learned a lot at #MicroEvo22 but the key take-home is that bioRxiv is actually pronounced "bio-archive" ?? not "bio-rrr-ksiv"🤔 ?? wtf

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@jack_d_barber

9 months

the e coli i left at the back of the incubator for 5 weeks

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@jack_d_barber

2 years

This is a lifeline that @UCUPostgrads and students across the country have been fighting for, but with the possibility of inflation reaching >18% in early 2023 we need stipends that increase on the regular or we'll be in the same place in just a few months.

UK Research and Innovation

@UKRI_News

2 years

NEW: We're increasing our minimum student stipend by 10% from 1 October 2022. Full details:

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@jack_d_barber

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exited to be joining @UKHSA over the summer thanks to the @UKRI_news Policy Internship scheme! looking forward to joining the team and working at the intersection of research and health policy

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@jack_d_barber

6 months

my e coli every 20-30 minutes

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@jack_d_barber

2 months

i've been surprised and overwhelmed by the unsolicited support received from so many delegates at #Microbio24 regarding the vandalism of these posters in my department and the hope that @UoABioSci will decide to take a stand against this overt racism in our communal spaces ❤️

Jack 🦠

@jack_d_barber

2 months

this is the kind of rage triggered by the sight of an anti-racism poster in @UoABioSci . given that management have yet to demonstrate this is an anti-racist school, its not difficult to see why postgrads here have told me they dont feel safe in our communal spaces @aberdeenuni

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@jack_d_barber

21 days

i actually dont think its defamatory to support your queer colleagues and students

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@jack_d_barber

2 months

heading to #Microbio24 - hopefully i get some good photos on the way down the beautiful east coast to edinburgh 🌊☀️

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@jack_d_barber

10 months

cant wait for their cameos

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@jack_d_barber

2 years

Disappointed to see our #DecolonisingSBS poster has been torn down from the notice board in my building's break room... I'd have hoped if someone took issue w/ it they'd have reached out to have a conversation with us instead of just binning something PhD students spent money on.

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@jack_d_barber

1 month

deliberately contaminating my plates so i can make it onto @ContamClub calendar 2025 wish me luck

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@jack_d_barber

8 months

beautiful! growing at 4°C on Lb + 50ug/mL rifampicin @ContamClub

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@jack_d_barber

1 year

me when my 'twitter-free' supervisor told me he has a private account and can in fact see all my tweets

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8 months

this appeared in the lab overnight 😍

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1 year

The Telegraph

@Telegraph

1 year

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@jack_d_barber

1 year

no fuckin way 🤯

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@jack_d_barber

24 days

state of @UoABioSci at the moment 😭 member of staff throwing accusations of defamation at a colleague for posting in support of our dept's trans community 💀

Greta Bocedi

@BocediGreta

25 days

#1 I write in support of the trans community @UoABioSci . Know there are a lot of people that are supportive and not ok with the transphobic views that are circulating. We should all speak up - yes, we should all speak up that transphobia is not acceptable…

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@jack_d_barber

1 year

Kind of awkward to get an email from @aberdeenuni - which spent £35,000,000 on a new teaching building to boost its league table rankings - saying that "no university could offer [staff] a pay award based on current levels of inflation"...

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@jack_d_barber

10 days

interesting choice for my department to aim this communication at PhD students calling out transphobia and not members of staff harassing students and colleagues online. says a lot about what they consider appropriate conduct and what they do not 🤔

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@jack_d_barber

2 months

great to see decolonising microbiology is on the agenda at #Microbio24 with @Leighann_Sherry - more of this please @MicrobioSoc !

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@jack_d_barber

1 year

If you didn't get to see my poster (P314) yesterday, you haven't missed your chance - it's up until 2pm today and I'll be around for the rest of the conference so say hi or drop me a line if you want to chat 🤠 #MicroBio23

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@jack_d_barber

9 months

live updates as the situation unfolds

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@jack_d_barber

2 months

im going to be networking so hard #Microbio24 wont know what hit them 🔥 if you have experience or interest in areas of global health equity (esp within HICs), connecting microbiology/AMR and inequality, or doing decolonising work, please reach out! would love to connect!

Microbiology Society

@MicrobioSoc

2 months

Only three days to go until Annual Conference 2024! We look forward to seeing you Monday 8 April–Thursday 11 April 2024 in Edinburgh! Check out the full programme on our website: 👈 #Microbio24

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@jack_d_barber

3 months

my department is organising an EDI workshop led by a transphobic "activist". the deep-rooted culture of transphobia here really does come from the top down

Josh Pizzuto-Pomaco

@joshpizpom

3 months

LGB activist @SimonFanshawe has been invited to lead a workshop at @aberdeenuni School of Biological Sciences on 'diversity by design.' Fanshawe, 67, has come under criticism by trans rights activists after being elected Rector of @EdinburghUni last week

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@jack_d_barber

1 year

@TomKnightSynBio god-tier microbiology challenge: just pour all the broth back into the bottle and reuse the plates and broth while avoiding all contamination

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@jack_d_barber

1 year

found this... thing? in our cupboard just now and it... uhh...

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@jack_d_barber

10 months

me at 10:34pm trying to remember if i set up the overnight cultures i need for tomorrow

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@jack_d_barber

1 year

i'll be honest. when you're thinking about your future career path as a phd student, universities treating their staff like shit is a real turn-off

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@jack_d_barber

1 year

Very excited to be presenting my PhD work so far at #MicroBio23 next week! If you're interested in the fitness cost of antibiotic resistance, come along to my poster P314 on Monday/Tuesday 🦠💰 @MicrobioSoc

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Jack 🦠

@jack_d_barber

2 years

Pleased to see @UoABioSci now encouraging seminar speakers to spend a little bit of their talk sharing their social justice work if they so wish... and proud to be part of the group of PGRs pushing for our department to demonstrate they value that kind of work 😍 #DecolonisingSBS

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@jack_d_barber

9 months

the world when i set out the exact number of plates i end up pouring

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@jack_d_barber

1 year

swearing allegiance to this King 🙏

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@jack_d_barber

6 months

tomorrow (14th december) at 12:00 on elphinstone lawn there will be a vigil to remember those who have died in gaza. please share widely because unfortunately an email to staff and PGRs in SBS about this event has been rejected by our departmental mailing list

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@jack_d_barber

4 months

spotted a eukaryote at work today

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@jack_d_barber

11 months

this came to me in a dream

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Jack 🦠

@jack_d_barber

3 months

new #DecolonisingSBS poster up to replace the one ripped down. hopefully this one lasts longer

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@jack_d_barber

1 year

researchers in germany rn

Research.Table

@Research_Table

1 year

Die Eckpunkte des #WissZeitVG sind gerade vom @BMBF veröffentlicht worden. @AmreiBahr @AKellerGEW @HRK_aktuell . @starkwatzinger möchte Ende 2023 oder Anfang 2024 Novelle beschließen. Ein Gesetzesentwurf soll noch vor der Sommerpause eingebracht werden.

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@jack_d_barber

1 year

back in the lab and i'm realising this has done a number on my imposter syndrome. if i'm lucky that'll last me a solid couple of days 🙏

Jack 🦠

@jack_d_barber

1 year

Woah, didn't see this coming! Brilliant end to an amazing week - congrats to the other prize winners and thanks to both @MicrobioSoc and my old and new friends for making #MicroBio23 absolutely unforgettable 😄

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@jack_d_barber

9 months

i think my personal hell will be eternally working in a closed non-air conditioned room at an anaerobic chamber in 32°C heat while the new phd student at the bench behind me is processing his dog shit samples

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@jack_d_barber

10 months

getting a whiff of the e coli waste liquid bottle ive been cooking in my cupboard for the past three months

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@jack_d_barber

2 months

someone once told me that your organisation's culture is defined by the worst behaviour it is willing to tolerate. what does this say about @UoABioSci ?

🏴‍☠️ Nate 🌻

@NatJohLit

2 months

New #DecolonisingSBS poster put up in the Zoology tearoom on Monday. The last was vandalised, like many before it. This one is about hope, who could argue with that message?

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@jack_d_barber

11 months

when i was getting interviewed for my phd the panel asked if id read any interesting papers recently and i panicked and started talking about how wombats make square poos

Craig Kaplan

@TriggerLoop

11 months

Did a wombat design this

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@jack_d_barber

10 months

@duncan_ng

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Jack 🦠

@jack_d_barber

3 months

many questions remaining: how could someone so unfit to speak on equality be invited to run this? will this be dropped or will the university DO something about the culture of transphobia permitted to fester in SBS? & why do students have to perform so much of the heavy lifting?

Josh Pizzuto-Pomaco

@joshpizpom

3 months

After significant backlash by students and staff within the School, the event featuring @SimonFanshawe has been cancelled. (Repost due to spelling error)

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Jack 🦠

@jack_d_barber

2 years

I think about this quote every day 🥲

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@jack_d_barber

2 months

so many people at #microbio24 going round looking at peoples lanyards and asking if their name is "delegate wifi"... is there a gas leak

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@jack_d_barber

2 years

The number of new master's students in my department is down by over 70% from ~85-90 last year to just ~25 this year. The impact of the cost-of-living crisis on research and researchers is already showing; the failure of universities and funders to support us has consequences.

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@jack_d_barber

1 year

folks 👉👈 is it against h&s regulations to kiss your e. coli goodnight?? 😳 asking for a colleague

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@jack_d_barber

2 years

Forbidden ice lolly 🥵

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@jack_d_barber

1 year

anyway i told them to just learn r and never approach me with such disgusting questions ever again... one student cried but ultimately i think it was a learning experience for him

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@jack_d_barber

2 years

Big day today 😜

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@jack_d_barber

2 years

🤯 Thrilled to have been able to co-chair a panel session with Erin Brown and @ClaireHodgy today on the experiences of EDI advocates in STEM and the challenges of pushing for EDI in science ✨ Feat. the incredible @afropuffz , @TheLabAndField and @Helen_Gray_ 👏 #eastbio22 #EDI

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@jack_d_barber

1 year

all i want for christmas

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@jack_d_barber

2 years

Laminar flow cabinet thought of the day: streaking in a microbiology lab means something very different to streaking in any other kind of lab 💭😳

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@jack_d_barber

2 years

Accidentally carmelised some glucose media in the autoclave the other day and as a guy who works with E. coli it's most definitely the best-smelling mistake I've ever made 🍪😤

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@jack_d_barber

5 months

finally made it to the big apple ✨

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@jack_d_barber

2 years

So lads... 🤔 we doing pyramid scheme... or selling PhD-boy bathwater on etsy...?

Dr Addy Lowe

@adriana_lowe

2 years

NERC just sent an email out recognising that the cost of living increase means its PhD stipend isn't sufficient to live on. Their solution isn't to increase it, it's to suggest students start selling Avon and sign up to clinical trials... @ARIES_DTP @UKRI_News @NERCscience

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@jack_d_barber

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so im getting set up at my internship and my line manager said i should meet the team next tuesday because monday is something called a "bank holiday". anyone heard of this before? "bank holiday"...?

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@jack_d_barber

6 months

ya boi will be presenting a poster in oxford january 9-11th 🫡🫡 @MEEhubs

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@jack_d_barber

9 months

recapturing a sense of childlike whimsy by playing with the snow in the -80°C

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@jack_d_barber

2 years

Wildlife in Cromarty 😳 #SBSCromarty @UoABioSci

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@jack_d_barber

11 days

think this is probably the single most common myth about AMR ive encountered when engaging with the public 🤔

Jessica Blair

@JessicaMABlair

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Come on @BBCNews this is an important story about a debilitating recurrent infection - please get the science right. People don’t become resistant to antibiotics, bacteria do.

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@jack_d_barber

1 year

already done with universities "the only thing holding you back from fixing your mental illness is yourself 💖" thing... "heres a link to breathing exercises you can do while we cut your pay, increase your workload and continue to systemically marginalise you x"

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@jack_d_barber

6 months

1/2 sickening to see an email about the importance of #TransAwarenessWeek from my department's management after they have repeatedly shown they are comfortable presiding over the culture of transphobia that infects this department from the top down

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@jack_d_barber

19 days

transphobia and anti-Black racism go hand-in-hand

John Baird 🐶🐶

@JohnB_Aberdeen

19 days

@Charlie3002t @JMJTravis @PaulCaplat @UoABioSci OK, you can't answer, Charlie. And adult human female can't 'literally mean anything' - perhaps that's poor wording on your behalf, but it's preposterous. And biological woman can be defined - I've just done it. I will though do you the service of defining a human female.

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@jack_d_barber

1 year

Powerful prize lecture this morning from @iruka_okeke discussing who continues to be at the periphery of global health and wider microbiology research - "Knowledge about the Global South is in the Global South." @MicrobioSoc #MicroBio23

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@jack_d_barber

8 months

me when people ask how the phd is going

canadianjacs

@canadianjacs

2 years

@NatGeo Photographer @joelsartore Horsfield’s tarsier at Taman Safari Indonesia. Elongated limbs allow tarsier to jump between branches, covering distances about 40x its body length, while large pads at tips of its long, thin fingers & toes make for an impressive grip.

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@jack_d_barber

2 years

Dora the Explorer but it's 12 PhD students on a hill outside of Inverness #SBSCromarty @UoABioSci

Feli Pamatat

@FeliPamatat

2 years

Looking for clues... Or taking 2 1/2 hours instead of 1 for the scavenger hunt. #sbscromarty

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@jack_d_barber

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member of staff: trans women are autogynephillic men same member of staff: wHo Is TrAnSpHoBiC iN tHiS dEpArTmEnT!!!?? TeLL mE!!! me:

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1 year

media prep monday morning

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@jack_d_barber

8 months

first demonstrating session of the new semester... ive inhaled so many fruit flies

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@jack_d_barber

7 months

very excited to launch a series of posters for #DecolonisingSBS - we're looking for new members to join and contribute to the many exciting things we've got planned for the coming year, so reach out to one of our members if you're based in @UoABioSci and are interested!

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@jack_d_barber

4 months

making one (1) expense claim

𝗱𝗮𝗻𝗻𝘆🫧💚

@beyoncegarden

5 months

name something harder than this😭

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1 year

only streaked like this because i didnt realise i didnt have enough plates... but it turned out 🤌🥵

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1 year

me rummaging through the autoclave waste bag to find those plates i "didn't need any more"

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@jack_d_barber

2 years

If ever there was a good time for nuclear annihilation, within the next 48 hrs would be great 👌 #SBSCromarty @UoABioSci

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4 months

how it feels to say "its going" when people ask how the phd is going

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2 years

Linear regression 🤌

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1 year

smol 💙

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@jack_d_barber

2 years

10 minutes trying to get the vending machine to take my money and

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@jack_d_barber

10 months

firing up my laptop after a holiday

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@jack_d_barber

2 years

in charge of music for our friendsgiving tomorrow and I've accidentally made a playlist with over 8 hours of one-hit wonders 😳 can't even edit it down because they're all BANGERS 🙏😩

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@jack_d_barber

2 years

I think @aberdeenuni dodged the @PayGapApp bot this #InternationalWomensDay , but regardless in 2020 women's median hourly pay was 20.2% lower than men's at the uni. Most recent numbers I can find 🧐

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@jack_d_barber

2 years

Supervisor floated the idea of me overseeing an honours project the other day... still trying to decide whether I'm happy just sabotaging my own future or whether to ✨diversify✨

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@jack_d_barber

8 months

7 different types of bin in this lab alone now what is rishi sunak doing about THAT

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@jack_d_barber

24 days

@BocediGreta @UoABioSci needs to be said greta 🔥 especially when we're at the stage students are raising concerns about their own safety in this department

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@jack_d_barber

2 years

Demonstrating in the Science Teaching Hub this afternoon but they won't let me wear my badge 😞

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@jack_d_barber

5 months

i'll be presenting my poster during lunchtime today at #MEEhubs2024 oxford hub - if you're interested in my work on how population dynamics affect the cost of antibiotic resistance, come chat!

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@jack_d_barber

2 months

if youre anti- anti-racist, what does that make you? 🤔 #DecolonisingSBS

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