There’s a frequent perception among recent entrants to drug discovery world that if we could just find drug candidates faster, this will be a useful accelerant to the overall process. The issue is: this thinking is mostly (but not entirely) incorrect. 🧵 1/
❗️UPDATE! The child on the right has just been accepted to a PhD at UCL to study molecular mechanisms & therapeutics in lung fibrosis! 🧬🔬🫁#ProudMom#Momademia#WomenInScience
I was 1st gen for University & PhD, but my daughter isn’t! 😍#IStartedSomethingGood
Big milestone for the lab…our 1st PhD thesis done, awarded, & bound 📘! Congrats 🎉 again to Dr McCarthy on her achievement & starting our collection!
(Yes, I did bring my thesis in to keep hers company until the next one; looking at you 👀 @Want_Fiona) #PhDone#WomenInScience
Why did the ducklings cross the road? 🦆
To get to the wide range of resources and study spaces, of course. 📚📝
We loved our special guests at George Green this week. Happy Friday everyone! ⭐️
@UniofNottingham#BeastsofUoN
This is Digby. Today he did something amazing and helped save a young woman who was thinking of taking her own life on a bridge over the M5 near Exeter (thread👇)
🎉Congratulations to Dr Caitlin McCarthy for successfully passing her viva! Many thanks to examiners Dr Sarah-Anne Martin and Dr Tim Fenton @TimFenton10! Caitlin is our lab's 1st PhD awardee; and whoa, did it get exciting! #PandemicPhD#CovidScholar#WomenInScience 🍾💊🧬👩🔬
Like so many people, watching some #FridayNightDinner tonight.
It's so bloody good, no matter how many times you watch it, and so many of the jokes only work because of Paul Ritter's brilliance.
Bloody cancer. Shit on it.