Dr Hannah Franklin

Postdoc at the Crick 👩‍🔬Member of the Patani Lab exploring the role of astrocytes in ALS 🧠 Equity in STEM campaigner 📣 Communicator 🍎 Foodie 🌍 Traveller

[Dr Hannah Franklin @neuroblonde]

Thank you @NatureHumBehav for giving @emmarubyfrancis and I the platform to share the challenges faced by UK PhD "students" and propose solutions for stakeholders to consider.

Read our🧵below and access the article here🔗 https://t.co/21Pd77DPcL

[Dr Emma Francis @emmarubyfrancis]

NEW Correspondence published in @NatureHumBehav today by Hannah Franklin @neuroblonde and I:

UK PhD Students’ Call to Action Amid The Cost-of-living Crisis

Link to access here -> https://t.co/dKt63ZN40g (1/5)

[Dr Rebecca Casterton (@rcasterton.bsky.social) @r_casterton]

@theacademinist is back for 2024! Tune in on Friday as @emmarubyfrancis & @neuroblonde share their inspiring story of how they brought about a stipend increase for thousands of UK PhDs.
Plus they tell us: how to get politicians to listen to you?🤔⬇️

[Dr Hannah Franklin @neuroblonde]

Thank you @r_casterton @theacademinist for giving @emmarubyfrancis and I the platform to share our experience navigating the nationwide campaign to break down barriers to academic careers and what we have learned along the way. We hope you enjoy the episode!

[The Academinist @theacademinist]

📢COMING FRI!📢We're SO excited for you to hear our chat with @emmarubyfrancis & @neuroblonde. In 'Cost of PhDing: Part II', they share their experience leading the successful campaign to increase @UKRI_News PhD stipends, plus insight on taking the discussion to government. ⬇️🔊

[Dr Hannah Franklin @neuroblonde]

@itsamazingjames @JosefKittler Wooo!! Congrats James. Let’s celebrate soon!

[Dr Hannah Franklin @neuroblonde]

It’s Dr Neuroblonde now! 👩‍⚕️Yesterday I successfully defended my PhD! 🎓 Immense gratitude to my incredible examiners @SelinaWray and @krista_rantanen for their insightful questions and making the Viva so enjoyable. Thank you @PataniLab @uclbbk_mrcdtp. Let the next chapter begin!

[Queen Mary UCU @qm_ucu]

That is taking so much work to get the plight of PhD students taken seriously is absolutely horrifying. That these two are willing to take on that work a source of awe. Thanks SO much @neuroblonde & @emmarubyfrancis!

Everyone else: there's a call to write to your MPs. DO IT.

[Dr Aislinn Bowler @AshBowler]

Fantastic work by @emmarubyfrancis and @neuroblonde on improving conditions for PGRs. Hopefully there are changes coming 🤞

[Benedict Greenwood @Ben_M_Greenwood]

Well done @emmarubyfrancis and @neuroblonde 🙌 I will contact my MP today - other PhD students reading this please do so too!!

[Dr Hannah Franklin @neuroblonde]

@emmarubyfrancis and I wanted to share some updates on recent progress we’ve made towards improving conditions for current and future UK PGRs. Read 🧵 below.

[Dr Emma Francis @emmarubyfrancis]

Update #2: Hannah Franklin @Neuroblonde and I have had a busy few months. Alongside writing up our PhDs, we continue to push forward with our campaign to improve conditions for UK PGRs. We have taken further steps to raise these issues with relevant stakeholders (1/10)

[Dr Hannah Franklin @neuroblonde]

Fantastic new paper from my colleagues in the @PataniLab shedding new light on the complex underpinnings of ALS. Give it a read!

[The Francis Crick Institute @TheCrick]

A team of researchers has found that the mechanisms of ALS, a type of motor neurone disease, are more complex than previously thought, with many proteins and mRNA molecules seen in unexpected places in cells.

@ojziff | @harleyinthehood | @PataniLab | #MND https://t.co/WS3X2mhEI2

[Dr Hannah Franklin @neuroblonde]

@louisewren @AMRC Congrats Louise! They are very lucky to have you 😊

[UK Dementia Research Institute @UKDRI]

Huge congratulations to Prof Siddharthan Chandran, who has been appointed as the new Director of the UK DRI!🎉

We are delighted to welcome Prof Chandran into his new role👏🙌

Find out more👉https://t.co/ikNgEdj0T0

[Dr Hannah Franklin @neuroblonde]

🚨 UK PhD crisis campaign update 🚨

Read our thread below (and see a cute pic of @emmarubyfrancis and I at Westminster after a productive meeting).

Our priority post article publication is raising awareness and building connections with those in positions to action change.

[UCU Postgrads @UCUPostgrads]

Important work by @emmarubyfrancis and @neuroblonde covered by @resfortnight below - read their original article here https://t.co/TlbBUHFPZB

[Dr Hannah Franklin @neuroblonde]

Thank you @ResFortnight for reporting on our recent article @emmarubyfrancis @NatureHumBehav.

“We need to look more closely at how well the current system and government’s own support measures are helping students and what changes need to be made,”

[Research Fortnight @ResFortnight]

PhD students have called for more action from funders and universities to address the cost of living crisis. @emmarubyfrancis @neuroblonde @PandemicPGRs @UCUPostgrads https://t.co/ScolBkkWkO

[Nature Human Behaviour @NatureHumBehav]

The cost of living crisis in the U.K. hits PhD students hard, and more must be done to support PhD students financially. This Correspondence from Emma Francis & Hannah Franklin discusses challenges and solutions for this urgent problem.

https://t.co/1WknN0NqfY

[Dr Hannah Franklin @neuroblonde]

@drwillscotton Congrats Will!

[Dr Hannah Franklin @neuroblonde]

@alice_quinton @emmarubyfrancis Alice, thank you for sharing and being part of this movement! Academic research should be not only feasible, but sustainable, for all who wish to contribute. We can, and must, do better👊

[Dr Hannah Franklin @neuroblonde]

@NatureHumBehav @emmarubyfrancis The current infrastructure is unsustainable and not only halts research excellence and innovation, but creates a massive diversity issue. Academic research should be an option for all, not the few. Let's do better. We must keep this conversation going to ensure action is taken.

[Dr Hannah Franklin @neuroblonde]

Thank you @NatureHumBehav for giving @emmarubyfrancis and I the platform to share the challenges faced by UK PhD "students" and propose solutions for stakeholders to consider.

Read our🧵below and access the article here🔗 https://t.co/21Pd77DPcL

[Dr Emma Francis @emmarubyfrancis]

NEW Correspondence published in @NatureHumBehav today by Hannah Franklin @neuroblonde and I:

UK PhD Students’ Call to Action Amid The Cost-of-living Crisis

Link to access here -> https://t.co/dKt63ZN40g (1/5)

[Dr Hannah Franklin @neuroblonde]

Thank you Nick Petrić Howe for inviting me to share my thoughts on this week’s @NaturePortfolio article on my great-aunt #RosalindFranklin. She was a formidable woman beyond the science. An advocate for equality, a mountaineer, and devoted to her friends and family.

#DNADay

[nature @Nature]

This week on the Nature Podcast: How Rosalind Franklin’s story was rewritten
https://t.co/hjf7oqTp5Z