Studying Zymoseptoria tritici & its interaction with wheat at many levels: plant pathology, pathogen genomics, metabolomics, microbial ecology & more. UKRI FLF.
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A follow up: New blog post on Imposter Syndrome, why I've always found it hard to discuss, and how to fight it! quietscientistblog.wordpress…
A new blog post on Imposter Syndrome, why I've always found it hard to discuss, and how to fight it!
quietscientistblog.wordpress…
A follow up:
New blog post on Imposter Syndrome, why I've always found it hard to discuss, and how to fight it!
quietscientistblog.wordpress…
An informative start to session 2 - @PierreBuscaill, @jessiana_lee, @lderevnina, and @quietscientist are telling us about 'The journey from post-doc to PI: reflections from early career principal investigators'. 💼
Shout out to @williamkay for all his hard work on this!
Latest publication from the Fones lab Exeter! "Long-term survival of asexual Zymoseptoria tritici spores in the environment" now out in @bmc biology! bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/ar…
Latest publication from the Fones lab Exeter! "Long-term survival of asexual Zymoseptoria tritici spores in the environment" now out in @bmc biology! bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/ar…
SWBio PhD projects are now available to apply to!
Check out the 'Agriculture and Environment' theme to find some based in, or co-supervised by, the Fones lab and our awesome collaborators at @UoEBiosciences, Bath, Rothamsted and beyond:
swbio.ac.uk/agriculture-and-…
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As well as improving our daily lives, university research contributes £54 BILLION to the UK economy and supports 121k jobs across the UK📈
If we want to be a country fit for the future, the government must make research funding more sustainable👇
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🚨Preprint alert🚨
Super happy to share the preprint of one of my PhD chapters in #Zymoseptoria now on BioRxiv:
“Host specialization defines the emergence of new fungal plant pathogen populations”. biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… 🧵👇[1/8]
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You are looking for a PostDoc position or know someone who is? We are looking for someone to join our team at @ETH_en Zürich for a project on phage-host interactions of Pseudomonas aeruginosa 🦠🧬👇🏼
Isobel and others: all the best, you can do great things - probably with a better work-life balance than typical of academia. You've got this :)
When a system has 100 brilliant people and only 5 places for them, then being one of those 5 HAS TO involve luck. The other 95 are good enough, too. Just less lucky. If you are one of those 95, you are still brilliant. You may also achieve More outside of academia 6/
Instead, too many treat postdocs as consumable items on research grants, making use of them and then discarding them and justify this to themselves by pontificating about how competitive academia is, boosting their own egos in the process. 5/
It is incumbent on successful academics to help postdocs understand the system they are fighting, provide real, meaningful mentorship and help explore routes to pursue their interests and use their talent inside or outside academia. 4/
I KNOW my career was strongly influenced by extreme good luck, getting a long term postdoc that made it possible to balance my career and family life, the good will of people who happened to be able to give me a leg up, all sorts of factors outside of myself. 3/
Anyone who suggests academia is a pure meritocracy from a position of success is just unwilling to confront their own privilege and the role of luck in their lives. Yes, academia is competitive. Yes, you have to be excellent and work hard. But those things are *not enough*. 2/