Sam Giles

Fossil fish palaeobiologist | @RoyalSociety Research Fellow | Academic Keeper @LapworthMuseum | #QueerInSTEM | 🏳️‍🌈 | currently mostly migraines |she/her/hers

[Sam Giles @GilesPalaeoLab]

Update: here's a primer and best practice suggestions for discussing toilets and periods on #geology and #geoscience fieldtrips. It's released under a CC-BY-4.0 license, so please share widely with students and staff and adapt as necessary. https://t.co/LqBWyEFVZK

[Sam Giles @GilesPalaeoLab]

As we gear up for field teaching season, I have a question for #geology and #geoscience Twitter. Do you talk to your undergrads about going to the toilet in the field, and specifically about having a period on fieldwork?

[Sam Giles @GilesPalaeoLab]

Those five are all gone but I have four new ones today.

[Sam Giles @GilesPalaeoLab]

I’ve got five codes to the other place. Let me know if you want one.

[Sam Giles @GilesPalaeoLab]

I’ve got five codes to the other place. Let me know if you want one.

[Sam Giles @GilesPalaeoLab]

@StarkeyStardust @seis_matters Will DM!

[Sam Giles @GilesPalaeoLab]

@blueb311 @seis_matters I’ll DM you one 👍

[Sam Giles @GilesPalaeoLab]

@palaeo_neil @Friedman_Lab @TJNear giant grouper!

[Sam Giles @GilesPalaeoLab]

@Friedman_Lab You spelled ‘too many fishes’ wrong

[Sam Giles @GilesPalaeoLab]

Please get in touch if you have any questions. Closing date is 5th September, and both positions are available to start as soon as possible. Relocation expenses are available.

[Sam Giles @GilesPalaeoLab]

Job alert: I’m hiring two postdocs! The first is a 24 month position looking at the first anatomical radiation of ray-finned fishes during the mid-late Palaeozoic; the second is a 33 month position looking at macroevolutionary trends in ray-finned fishes during the Palaeozoic 🐟

[Sam Giles @GilesPalaeoLab]

Job 2: 33 month Royal Society funded position using existing occurrence databases and building a specimen-level occurrence database to investigate macroevolutionary trends in ray-finned fishes through the Palaeozoic. Details and apply here: https://t.co/EfWKIlqFv6).

[Dr Natasha Dowey @DrNatashaDowey]

Are you involved in PhD admissions? Do you advertise projects or assess candidates?

Check out this paper, the latest publication from our Equator project. Doctoral recruitment is often biased against students from marginalised backgrounds- we propose changes to improve equity:

[Sam Giles @GilesPalaeoLab]

@Friedman_Lab @reallyoldfish 🤓

[Ben Fernando @space_quakes]

📢New paper alert!!

We analysed PhD recruitment processes in the geosciences, and developed recommendations for making the process more equitable.

Now out in @NatureGeosci: https://t.co/R1D5oEuZRp (1/3)🔨🌋☁️

[Sam Giles @GilesPalaeoLab]

@justin_isip @NHM_Explorers @ReedEcolNet That picture 😍

[Justin Isip @justin_isip]

Had a great time at the @NHM_Explorers Summer Social presenting my PhD research and connecting folks with the @ReedEcolNet as their new partnerships officer. Also great to reconnect with my Equator Research School folk! Exciting news to come, watch this space 👀👀

[Kai or Aurie 🍉 @kkaineus]

Please RT! I'm looking to get short statements from queer marine scientists & biologists (& related fields) about their experiences being queer in their fields. Any level of experience or career is okay, anonymous statements are possible. DM me here on Twitter or email me!

[living morganism 🌱 @ok_girlfriend]

a weighted blanket isn't enough, I need whatever is happening here

[Sam Giles @GilesPalaeoLab]

@LMSBOSSY My migraines are a lot better on the injections - I just can’t eat food now 😬

[Sam Giles @GilesPalaeoLab]

Aimovig is generally working really well at reducing my migraines to a manageable level, but annoyingly I’m suffering from a rare severe side effects. My doctor is having me try out a medication to counter it… and one of it *its* side effects is severe headaches 🤦