Jessica Allen-Hyttinen 🫁

MRC-DTP PhD Student @UCL • She/Her • I tinker around with lungs and drink a lot of iced lattes (not at the same time) #ADHDinSTEM 🇬🇧🇫🇮🏳️‍🌈

[Jessica Allen-Hyttinen 🫁 @JessIsPipetting]

Hi #AcademicTwitter! In honour of #ADHDAwarenessMonth I’m going to make my first real personal tweet. I’m a PhD student in research science & I was recently diagnosed as an adult with ADHD. It’s the best thing that could have happened to me. Here’s why (thread):

[Jessica Allen-Hyttinen 🫁 @JessIsPipetting]

@HarrietCannon Very true! Thought it might be nice to have assured, dedicated funding available so disabled PGRs don’t have to spend half their degree time fighting for the right to do their job safely & comfortably. But that was simply too outlandish 😅

[Jessica Allen-Hyttinen 🫁 @JessIsPipetting]

@HarrietCannon 2/2: Apparently disability accommodations are the uni’s responsibility & they won’t set aside funds for specialised equipment/support, which host labs often can’t afford. So no point trying to encourage apps from disabled students if there’s no help once they’re through the door!

[Jessica Allen-Hyttinen 🫁 @JessIsPipetting]

@HarrietCannon 1/2: Recently my UKRI-funded program got a pot of money to be used solely for EDI/‘widening participation’ strategies. I asked if any of it could be earmarked for supporting disabled researchers who are often driven out of lab-based HE research due to unmet accessibility needs…

[it's professor laina to you. @mynameisalaina]

I told my partner he should call his thesis "How much rho could a rho-GEF GEF if a rho-GEF could GEF rho?" but he said no.

[Daniel Gould, MD, PhD @DJGould94]

Me at 15: "I'm going to change the world"

Me at 28: "I'm going to change the font in this manuscript, but nothing too crazy"

[Roshan Patel @roshanpateI]

Life hack: give yourself 8 to 12 hours of alone time in the morning to mentally prepare for the day.

[Jessica Allen-Hyttinen 🫁 @JessIsPipetting]

After almost 3 years of dodging that virus that’s been going around, including many near-misses, she finally found me 😅 covid is not fun at all - you heard it here first!

[Dr Meming @Dr_Meming]

Final year PhD students

[David Ho @_david_ho_]

How can we get Elon Musk to buy Elsevier?

[Reviewer 2 @GrumpyReviewer2]

#AcademicTwitter #AcademicChatter

[ely kreimendahl @ElyKreimendahl]

sorry i’m turning this in last minute. I had weeks to do it, but can’t function without the fear of god inside me

[Seann Walsh @seannwalsh]

Finding out Boris might be back reminds me of when we first found out you could get covid more than once

[Azure Biosystems @AzureBiosystems]

Looking for a last-minute Halloween costume?

[Stepan Hlinka @stepanhlinka]

13 free websites that are so useful they feel illegal to know:

[Maarten van Smeden @MaartenvSmeden]

If I throw my paper into a forest, I can claim on my CV that I have submitted to Nature

[Dr Meming @Dr_Meming]

'I can't wait for the weekend!'

Me on a weekend:

[OpenAcademics @OpenAcademics]

Where on the map are you today?😂 #AcademicTwitter

[Ian Ford @ij_ford]

Liz Truss says they've shown the 'depth and breadth of talent in the Conservative party' and it's hard to disagree with that

[ely kreimendahl @ElyKreimendahl]

well well well if it isn’t me writing all the things from last week’s to-do list on this week’s to-do list