Women in Biology RHUL

Fantastic speaker lined up for our RHUL Women in STEM @RoyalHolloway @RHULBioSci @RHULWiB, Dr Eleni Hadjicosta @nariaa, talking about Grad Medicine & PCOS #WomenInSTEM #PCOS

Congratulations to Dr Sofia Castelló y Tickell (@SofiaAtSea) who has been named a 2024 prize recipient of the @SciCommAwards given by @theNASEM in partnership with @schmidtsciences! Sofia won in the Research Scientist: Early Career category 🏆 nationalacademies.org/awards/excelle…

Various things can make you proud as a PhD supervisor, but few are more rewarding than watching the graduation of a student who has faced more difficulties than most. Congratulations Dr @SaharAkbarivala, deserving @UoLondon @RoyalHolloway @RHULBioSci PhD holder! 10 years...💪👏👏

Graduation @RoyalHolloway, always a great occasion to celebrate our students' achievements. Very proud of my tutees Kate Calliss (top graduand in @RHULBioSci AND the uni overall), Nikoleta Koleva (best Biochemistry project); & #RareDiseaseDay coordinators Ash Adnitt & Grace Hagon

Why are women cited less than men? #Bibliometrics wp.me/p4m9em-cVD

#OTD 1945 Lorna Iris Scott (1895-1894) became a Fellow of the @LinneanSociety. She studied botany at Royal Holloway College under Margaret Jane Benson FLS (1859-1936). An account of Lorna’s life and achievements can be read here: eghammuseum.org/lorna-scott-an… thanks to @EghamMuseum

Fieldwork season is here! As part of a research project I'm running in collaboration with @ProjectOrchard, I’ll be spending the next year collecting bees, beetles, butterflies, and soil cores from dozens of urban orchards in and around London! Supervised by @ElliLeadbeater1 🪲

It takes women almost 15 years longer than men to progress to full professorships at top UK universities on average, says study timeshighereducation.com/news/women-tak… via @paddywjack

Discover outstanding #WomenInScience and #WomenInSTEM like @celiaKconsult, @eirini_kaiserli, @Saunders_Lab, and @YoselinBenAlf! Hear their insights in our #Lectures & #Interviews playlist: shorturl.at/xBCKM 🌱💡 #PlantScience #IDWGS

Congratulations @hana_merchant for passing your PhD viva today with Minors! Thank you to @rwriesch1976 and Mike Scantlebury for acting as Examiners! Thank you @London_NERC_DTP for the funding, and @moleratsarego for the co-supervision. @RHULBioSci

Women in Botany: creating a rich data resource on plant genera named to honour women, supporting research and recognition for their core role in science - publication from @SvMering @SandyKnapp @SiobhanLeachman et al. bdj.pensoft.net/article/114408/

1/4 - I've been busy making some engagement resources for the GenePools eDNA x Citizen Science project - I hope they might be useful for others too 😊->

The Disabled Women in Academia panel event brings together women with disabilities in academia at different stages of their careers. They will reflect on their journeys; what support is available and what still needs to be done in academia to empower women with disabilities. 1/2

Sexism in academia is bad for science and a waste of public funding We just published this paper in Nature Rev. Mater. (2023) today. doi.org/10.1038/s41578… An open access link is given under this link rdcu.be/dr6Pp

Massive congratulations to @RHULBioSci's Prof @ElliLeadbeater1 who has been awarded @ERC_Research Consolidator Grant to study the ecology of animal cognition! 🐝 🪰 👏👏👏 #ERCCoG royalholloway.ac.uk/about-us/news/…

💥New: Female researchers are less influenced by journal prestige - will it hold back their careers? @schmal_w #AcademicPublishing #ResearchEvaluation wp.me/p4m9em-cGP

Study finds female academics less likely to win prizes, even when the award is named after a woman phys.org/news/2023-11-f…

This summer, I traveled to northern Norway with @Huawei @HUAWEI_TECH4ALL to discover how AI is helping safeguard its ecosystems against a hook-nosed, humpbacked alien invader... 👽 Watch the video to learn more! @ReservaYLT @IntoTheWildPod @RHULWiB @RHULBioSci @NatGeoEducation

Maria Sybilla Merian travelled to Surinam in 1699 to study and draw caterpillars, producing 'Metamorphosis of the Insects of Surinam' the 1st book to picture the life cycle of #insects on their host plants. 7 insects are named after Merian #womeninSTEM #ALD23 #WomenArtists

Miriam Rothschild was a @RoyEntSoc member for 70+ years and its 1st female president. An expert on fleas, she complied 'An Illustrated Catalogue to the Rothschild Collection of Fleas'. She also worked as a codebreaker at Bletchley Park during WWII #womeninSTEM #ALD23