Mehwaesh

Citizen of nowhere. Personal views

[Mehwaesh @Mehwaesh]

@KatherineFree Lovely to meet you too!

[Mehwaesh @Mehwaesh]

@nomhossain I managed to contact my family this morning using Skype credit. So worrying for everyone.

[Mehwaesh @Mehwaesh]

@senjutisaha @yogihooda88 @nazifatabs_open Congratulations!

[Naomi Hossain @nomhossain]

Please, in your busy day today, spare a moment to remember the 1,134 workers who were killed and the thousands more who were maimed and traumatized so we could have disposable clothing. #RanaPlaza ⁦

Forgetting Rana Plaza | From Poverty to Power https://t.co/Qv7nkXOIFH

[AMRC @AMRC]

Wonderful news that @NICEComms has recommended artificial pancreas use for many with type 1 diabetes. Huge plaudits to AMRC members @DiabetesUK and @JDRFUK, whose backing of research into this tech has been instrumental to this amazing progress 🎉

https://t.co/BTh4Yrp6fM

[Carol Bewick @BewickCarol]

Are you coming to our @amrc #EssentialResearchManagement event today? Can’t wait to see your faces…and of course hear what my colleagues have to say @CMManville @Mehwaesh and Holly

[Mehwaesh @Mehwaesh]

@SimonRKerridge @Stephen_Curry Hi @SimonRKerridge Your DMs aren’t open. Please could you DM me and I can send you a code. The codes get taken up by bots if we post them publicly. Thanks!

[Gemma E Derrick @GemmaDerrick]

This piece from Monday and is more relevant now. Overlooking the importance of research culture is like stating "I dont care if you bleed, as long as you produce excellent science". The REF2028 PCE criterion might catch some HEIs out and that is good enough reason to include it

[Mehwaesh @Mehwaesh]

@Stephen_Curry Hi Stephen, I have two invite codes if any of your followers want them.

[Amitav Ghosh @GhoshAmitav]

In the climate space, Professor Saleemul Huq was one of the most important voices from the global south, tireless in his advocacy of climate justice. His death, at a time when voices like his are most needed, is a tragic loss.

https://t.co/eTVxGUyo7x

[Mike Shanahan, PhD @shanahanmike]

Terrible news. Saleem was one in a million. A wonderful colleague and friend, and an inspirational leader and teacher. My thoughts are with his family and the many, many people whose lives he touched through his decades of work on climate change.

[Mehwaesh @Mehwaesh]

If any mutuals want a code for bsky 🔵 (Twitter alternative), please DM me.

[Mehwaesh @Mehwaesh]

. @NMRPerrin kicking off the final event for @AMRC’s Festival of Partnerships. Looking forward to insightful sessions on how research charities can partner effectively.

[Mehwaesh @Mehwaesh]

@KhizM

[Sara Wahedi @SaraWahedi]

I just experienced one of my first ‘full circle’ moments.

I bought this bottle of water on my train to Dublin and noticed the name - Tipperary.
Almost immediately, I began humming a tune. I searched “Tipperary song” on Google and learned that it was an old wartime song during World War 1.

There’s a backstory to this.

When my mother, brother and I arrived to Canada as refugees from Afghanistan, we didn’t know a word of English. My mother, having to work 3 jobs, entrusted us in the care of a Norwegian-Canadian woman named Marit. Other than her routine 5 am hug, I barely saw my mother throughout my childhood.

Marit was uncommonly kind to everyone she met. She was also dedicated to her church. While my mother focused on ensuring we maintained our Dari and Islamic values as children, Marit would also bring us to church on Sundays, welcoming us to her community. She always told us that Christians are brethren to the Muslim faith - we knew nothing but solidarity and respect as children.

Marit’s husband, Merrill, was Irish. It was a routine practice of his to sit on the porch of his house, staring blankly into the forest behind their suburban home, with a pipe in his mouth. “It’s a long way to Tipperary..” He would hum.

He would raise his arms like a conductor’s baton and usher my brother and I to join in.

Within a few months, you could mistake us for an Irish choir.

Now, at 28, I’m in Northern Ireland heading to Dublin, having just won an award as ‘Entrepreneur of the Year’ for my work dedicated to my country of origin, Afghanistan.

My brother smiled solemnly to himself yesterday while we walked around Belfast. I asked him what he was thinking about.

“Wouldn’t it have been amazing if Merrill was with us right now?” My throat closed tightly.

I guess it really is a long way to Tipperary.

[Anirban @bhalomanush]

“We first sent to a Nature journal, and within 24 h, they rejected it as an incremental contribution. I started learning English only at university, so I had to look up the meaning of the word incremental!”

Katalin Karikó, in 2021, on her paper that led to a Nobel Prize today.

[Kevin Mitchell @WiringTheBrain]

Nobel for Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissmann! For development of mRNA vaccines! So well deserved! 👏

[Mehwaesh @Mehwaesh]

@HaseenaAtomBum I’ve been signed off by the physio and am now working with a trainer. Practising DB presses and focussing on form with the bar (correctly spaced out grip, etc.). Hoping it will equalise eventually

[Mehwaesh @Mehwaesh]

@HaseenaAtomBum I tried it for the first time last week. Did a few wonky reps. Think it’s the muscular imbalance on my injured side

[Mehwaesh @Mehwaesh]

@BewickCarol @SheepDriveLDN @CommsLivery At least you weren’t sheepish!