Alix Mackay

“It’s time to shift Industrial Biotechnology from the niched to the norm” Liz Fletcher from @IBioIC at #IBioIC22 ♻️ 🌱 🌍

Crikey. Metered dose inhalers are responsible for a huge proportion of NHS Scotland’s carbon emissions- more than NHS fleet. Thought-provoking insight from Scottish Government’s Wendy Rayner at #IBioIC22 nhssustainabilityaction.co.uk

“For those of you selling into the NHS, you’re going to start getting questions about carbon footprint and plastic use” - Wendy Rayner from Scottish Gov explaining how serious NHS Scotland is about sustainability at #IBioIC22 photo: net zero hospital @NHSOrkney @IBioIC

Wow - absolutely fantastic presentation at #IBioIC22 by @RitaCruz of @IngenzaLtd on the development of a microbial vaccine, its pre-clinical efficacy against coronavirus variations AND how they’ve innovated the scaling process along the way to reduce waste and energy 🙌🏻

Great insight from John Arthur of the @ukCPI Medicines Manufacturing Innovation Centre into their Grand Challenges to reduce API waste, energy consumption, medicines waste in trials and completely innovating oligonucleotide production to reduce solvent use #IBioIC2022

Fantastic session on talent at #IBioIC2022 - thank you to all the speakers for their insight into how to fill skills gaps, what science candidates are looking for in a company and the valuable role of apprenticeships @skillsdevscot @singular_talent @CRiverLabs @TU_NHC

An absolute masterclass in how innovation starts with asking the right questions by Gustavo Pardo founder of Circular Coffee Scotland at #IBioIC22 plus fascinating insights into how coffee waste can become packaging, fuel, shampoo and even bricks!☕️ ♻️ @coffee_circular @IBioIC

What an inspiring presentation from @KennedySandy on #verticalfarming - I loved the bit about diversifying the role of VF beyond leafy greens to ingredients that are essential to supplements and beauty products #IBioIC2022 @IntelligentGS 🍃 🍃 🍃

“The Scottish Government is very clear that industrial biotechnology is one of Scotland’s key strengths” - @Ivan_McKee MSP opening the #IBioIC2022 conference and announcing new targets for the National Strategy for IB given the fantastic growth of the sector @IBioIC @LifeSciScot

Thank you so much @nick_sheridan and @BBCRadioScot for sharing our story about The Heroes of Telemark and our honour of being the first female team in the world to retrace their steps. This is what it looked like for 10hrs a day with 300kg of kit 💪🏻#FWCHOTladies @ForcesWivesChal

@FordKiernan1 Gin??!!?! Now we’re talking 🤩

Gin’n’Tonic weather!

@recruit4spouses @ForcesWivesChal Thank you for all your support RfS - what an incredible journey and privilege to retrace this mission 🙌🏻

Pole position @ForcesWivesChal great article 🙌🏼👏🏻 digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/894/reade…

@BearGrylls Thank you @BearGrylls! my 10 year old quoted your NGU mantra in his motivational note to me and it helped so much! What an absolute honour to retrace the steps of these amazing men 🙌🏻

Well done ladies! Huge respect and what an achievement…. In the footsteps of Special Forces and local heroes standing against overwhelming odds.

🤩🤩🤩 thank you so much Sir @RanulphF - what a boost as we set off…

The women of the @ForcesWivesChal have set off to train for their #HeroesofTelemark trek across Norway. Defence Minister @LeoDochertyUK said: “Best of luck to FWC on this amazing endeavour; they show terrific courage and energy and are a testament to the Defence community.“

We’ll be joined by Alix Mackay who is one of the @ForcesWivesChal HOT Ladies - The World’s First Female Team to retrace the Heroes Of Telemark mission. If you have any questions for Alix before our live Q&A please comment below.

My double life as a military wife... I'm VERY excited to say that in March I'll mostly be doing this 👇🏼 forceswiveschallenge.org/worlds-first 💪🏼❄️🇳🇴 #FWCHOTladies @ForcesWivesChal

@ForcesWivesChal Yay! I looked for these last week and what a gorgeous model 😍

FWC sweaters up for grabs. Made from organic cotton and recycled polyester. All proceeds go to helping us to deliver more events so get your hands on one now, in time for cosy season! Link below 👇🏽 forceswiveschallenge.org/fwcshop

Final year science students & grads looking for a job outside the lab... I made this for you over on IG 🙂 search for life sciences marketing academy @StrathChem @SIPBS_Strath @SULSAtweets @skillsdevscot @IBioICskills

A very wet and windy #Schiehallion @ 1080m today - and definitely no view! Can’t wait for Ben Nevis in a few weeks with you gorgeous #FWC girls! ⛰🌧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿@ForcesWivesChal