Tania Mendonca

How do cells sense and manipulate the extracellular matrix around them? To answer this and other #cell-#matrix questions, we’ve built a new instrument called OptoRheo 🧵 (1/10)… biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh…

Please fill out the Home Office’s survey on whether or not the UK should extend the pathway to ILR to 10 years. The consultation closes at 23:59 TONIGHT - this is your chance to fight against this unfair plan. ukhomeoffice.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_1y…

@ManlioTassieri Happy Birthday 🎂

🎌 Greetings from Kobe, Japan — land of the rising sun and early birthdays! Today I turn 53… 8 hours ahead of schedule 🤣 Maybe I picked the wrong time zone — it’s aging me faster 😅 But hey, the views are spectacular. Wish me #HappyBirthday! #53InStyle #JapanVibes 🇯🇵🌸🎂

2) There are still many basic unknowns. For example does this enigmatic sheath provide chromosomes with biophysical/biomechanical properties... biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Awesome work from @TaniaVMendonca & a brill multi-disciplinary team @AmandaWrightUoN @Neil_Kad @ManlioTassieri

If you love chromosomes (who doesnt!) then I ho ho hope you enjoy reading about our latest work on BioRxiv, relating to the chromosome periphery (CP) - the least understood chromosome compartment. 2 Stories - see below...

Visa costs for researchers and innovators to move into the UK are up to seventeen times higher than the average, according to new analysis commissioned by the Royal Society and undertaken by @fragomen, undermining our ability to attract global talent to work in academia and industry. Read more: royalsociety.org/news-resources…

To me a future in UK academia is looking more and more untenable. I don't know what lies ahead but there will have to be some big career decisions in the next year theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

@NargessKGharibi Congratulations Nargess!

Postdoc training should not only develop your research skills, but also teaching, mentorship, management and leadership skills. Delighted to have been awarded the Associate Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy #AFHEA.

A great opportunity for anyone looking to pursue a phd - to be part of Jenny's team working on truly exciting and super-multidisciplinary science.

I hope the prime minister is aware that salaries of postdoctoral researchers have reached such a low level in this country that this law would make it impossible for UK scientists to employ international experts It would be a huge own goal!

I have two masters degrees from top British unis, including one that won a prestigious award. I’ve lived here for years. My visa is up in two years and I won’t qualify under these rules. I feel sick to my stomach right now. After everything I’ve done, it’s still not enough.

@YanlanMao Happy Birthday!

A birthday present to myself - a new office to celebrate a new decade for me and a new decade of the Mao Lab! Don’t you just love the orange velvet armchairs?! We all deserve an office you actually want to spend time in!

@RepairingFlies Almost there Jack 💪🏽! Good luck!

@kathryn_green97 Well done!! 🥂🥳

And just like that, thesis submitted! ✅ #PhDone

@MartinGarlovsky Good luck pal! 🍀

Marie Curie submitted! I now adhere to all superstitions and welcome advice for votive offerings. Good luck everyone!

@HamzaYassin3 Oh wow! Congratulations Hamza!!!

We are getting closer to an unbelievable day! If you told me about 15 years go I was going to have a book coming out, (as the King of the dyslexics); I would of laughed in your face and told you that is a good joke. But alas, it’s actually going to happen in under a week.

@sorayacaixeiro @UniofBath @BathPhysics @TheGatherLab @r1cc4rd0 Yes please do!

@sorayacaixeiro @UniofBath @BathPhysics @TheGatherLab @r1cc4rd0 Congratulations!

Celebrating passing the life in the UK test by buying stationary and not checking my emails. 😄

@MerryLabNotts Congratulations Cathy! You're a fantastic mentor to young ECRs

A sparkly thing! Delighted to receive this, partly because of who made the nomination (a person of whom I’m in awe) and because this is a school where I’ve been openly critical of leadership in the past. Hopefully this means a more collegiate way forward to a positive future!