Johanna Fish

MChem (Hons), AMRSC 👩🏽‍🔬 | PhD student in Biological Sciences at the University of Southampton | SoCoBio DTP 🧬 | Endless love for animals

[Johanna Fish @J_A_Fish]

Still really excited that I am featured in the latest edition of ‘Voice’ magazine! My time as an observer on the RSC’s Inclusion and Diversity Committee really has made such a difference to my goals and outlook on my future career.

[Johanna Fish @J_A_Fish]

Me: being a grumpy, writing gremlin.
One of @MOFsoton’s students: gets me lemon iced tea 🥰 summer students @UoSChem_ChemEng @unisouthampton are the sweetest!

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@fabulouslylaura This is the cutest thing ever 🥰 you shall have to have reunions with this duck!

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@ZJAyres I’ve been in the same rut as you for a while 😅

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@musamiau It previously had some DMF in there so I definitely wouldn’t recommend eating it 😂

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Peach foam 😍 #phdlife #Chemistry

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@LauraGrose5 Congratulations, Laura! Best of luck for the future ���

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One of the best things I have done to help alleviate some of the crippling imposter syndrome I have. PhDs are a hard journey and there is ZERO point in suffering in silence. I really recommend any higher education people embrace this! 👩🏽‍🔬 #WomeninSTEM @unisouthampton @SoCoBioDtp

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@drbecki_n @UoS_CHEP @johaszczyn Friday just got a little better 😎

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I’ve decided halogen-lithium exchanges are my new favourite reactions purely based on colour 🍎🍊 #chemistry #phdlife @UoSChemistry

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@MOFSoton Josh and myself send lots of good wishes ❤️ can’t wait to see you post Easter with some goodies

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@ZJAyres Congratulations! What an exciting time 🥰❤️

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@ZJAyres @sotonbiosci @sotonbsps Thanks so much! I think it’s hard in an academic setting (I don’t have enough experience elsewhere to comment) to engage openness and attendance on mental well-being activities, so I really hope engaging with smaller activities will help build up support networks 🤞🏼

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@sotonbiosci PGRs: there’s a coffee morning this Friday! Come meet and chat with your peers and have a warm beverage 😊 if you’re feeling ‘it’s all good’ when you’re feeling anything but, it really does help to have others around you to talk to for your mental well-being 😌

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@DrCBrew Tbf he does look like he’d be a strong asset in your future leaders endeavours. I’d vote him in no questions asked, I’m sure your feeding time keeping would have been a great reference. Best of luck to you 🤞🏼

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@MOFSoton Agreed. The number of people I know who use academia (and I quote) ‘necessary evil stepping stone’ to get to industry. It’s a shame it’s that way but industry does seem shiny and nice

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So proud to have been a part of this! It’s important to talk and to build a supportive network during your PhD: round 2 of mine has certainly been more successful because of it. Hopefully this can become a widespread practice everywhere @unisouthampton @UoSDocCollege 👀 👩🏽‍🔬🧪🧬

[South Coast Biosciences DTP @SoCoBioDtp]

Delighted to announce @SoCoBioDtp's new reflexivity initiative to support PhD student wellbeing is published in eLife. Read more here https://t.co/kM0mNtwYS9 and the our ambitions to embed reflexivity into post-graduate research programmes both nationally and internationally.

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Really recommend any PGRs who will be presenting at some point to practice here- I’m horribly anxious and it helps to have constructive feedback from people who aren’t your peers. Plus the team are so lovely 🥰 still think I need to work on my presentation face…

[The Doctoral College @UoSDocCollege]

@J_A_Fish is now presenting on ‘Dissecting signalling pathways using PROTAC chemical probes’

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@drbecki_n @TomkinsKate It makes it significantly less scary when you present to people who are nerdy 😎

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@MOFSoton Will definitely pop in to see you, Darren! All your students will be so excited to see you and bring some pre Christmas cheer 😎