Stuart Nattrass

New paper with @CheMichael7 and @KEHplantsci, in which we find that current uni #LeagueTables indirectly punish unis for #WideningParticipation efforts and suggest a way to prevent that from happening Michael has the slightly longer version in this thread 👇 but I would add...1/

@StatsForBios @DaniRabaiotti @nephilidsrule @macinteresting there are also narwhals and beluga who we dont have direct evidence for but can guess have menopause based on indirect evidence nature.com/articles/s4159…

@StatsForBios @DaniRabaiotti @nephilidsrule @macinteresting very past tense for menopause person. humans are the only primate - african elephants were a no, asian elephants were a maybe but since i last checked they've been upgraded to a yes pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31638893/

@CheMichael7 having just sat here and drawn far too many cubes, neither of the above, but closer to two. i draw the front square, then all of the top including the back line before doing the side. i don't draw the lines "behind" the cube by default, only fill them in after the fact if i need

How do you start when drawing a cube?

@Samellisq @DanFranksRsrch @CetaceanMike @DarrenPCroft unironically this may be the high point of my research career

The thrill of finding a citation to a paper you co-authored while casually reading about a fictional battle between a killer whale and a sea snake is new to me. But I like it. @StuNattrass @DanFranksRsrch @CetaceanMike @DarrenPCroft

@RoblerRun @minakimes he was still shite this week

@minakimes Jimmy is 4th among all qbs in epa/play the last 5 years. What now Mina?

No one is "castrating" (weird) Jimmy G. We're criticizing him for his actual play--the turnover-worthy throws, inconsistency outside the numbers, etc. The win/loss framework is so tired.

This job sounds great, and Jon is a delight to work with

I have been playing around with #Townscaper, a neat little building...toy? game? thingy?...which recently ported to mobile, and spent probably too much time thinking about these odd little towns on the water, which meant that eventually a little weird fan comic came out. 1/11

@Thairyn you can tell how excited i am for you by the fact i managed to typo your name

@Thairyn YES THYRN! When is the ritual burning of all the draft versions, and do I bring marshmallows to cook in the fire?

@DrCDArmstrong you can only ever add modules in batches of 4 now. im sorry but i dont make the rules

@BeingSharp @jim_dickinson I don't like assuming what students want without asking them tbh. But also worth noting that were they informed, it wouldn't have been only a choice between "live and study in hull" or "live in hull study in York" and many may have chosen other options entirely

Doubtless it will end up being a hell of a lot more complicated than this. But if it turns out that York has recruited more students than there is space to live in York during clearing, and houses them 40 miles away in Hull because Hull has undershot and has spare rooms...

@rpatz9 @DrJoGrady She said 2-3 hours, which is routinely the time it takes by public transport, depending on traffic/transfer times. I wouldn't call that at all disingenuous. Obviously it can be shorter if you've got specific door to door transport on, but 2-3 hours is a fair estimate

@StuNattrass @DrJoGrady We are finalising (free of charge) transport arrangements for our students who will be based in Hull, and will be providing them with more information about this imminently" It's not ideal, sometimes life isn't. I just think it's disingenuous to suggest York is 3hrs from Hull

York students to be housed 2-3 hours away in Hull. An absurd proposal which will cause huge disruption to education. This situation requires student quota legislation, but government too busy legislating to fix a ‘free speech’ problem that doesn’t exist. yorkpress.co.uk/news/19577810.…

@rpatz9 @DrJoGrady the public bus is over 2 hours one way too because it has to crawl through other towns on the way - I've had the misfortune of having to use that bus to commute and its awful

@rpatz9 @DrJoGrady Add on half an hour from York station to the uni, and another half hour for the same trip at Hull's end since they are being housed at the uni there which is similarly nowhere near the station.

@BeingSharp @jim_dickinson its not really been an active choice though has it? Like "you can come to live and study in York oh btw you have to live miles away but you've committed now" is very different from actually knowing that when you make your choice and deciding "yes this is best for me"

@jim_dickinson Actually perhaps an efficient market if students would rather commute to York from Hull rather than study there?

This week @LivUni will celebrate Wellbeing Week. Senior managers will pay lip service to caring about staff while threatening 32 sham redundancies. Please read this open letter on the brutal impact on the well-being of our colleagues. #FightForHealthJobs hls47.medium.com/the-reality-be…

🚨PRESS RELEASE🚨 UCU announces a global boycott of the University of Leicester. The university also faces a marking & assessment boycott that begins today. @leicesterucu @DrJoGrady @DavidHarvieUCU Full story here: ucu.org.uk/article/11533/…

BMJ response is not pulling many punches