I bloody love #Birmingham! Great to see all the Ozzy tributes and just how vibrant the whole city feels. And still so very friendly 🥰

Vegetarian and vegan diets and cancer incidence: a systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective studies - European Journal of Epidemiology Several studies have suggested that vegetarian and vegan vs. non-vegetarian diets are associated with lower cancer risk overall, however, results for specific cancer sites have been less consistent. W...

Tiens un papier intéressant sur les diètes végétales (végétarien et végétalien):

Vegetarian and vegan diets and cancer incidence: a systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective studies

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Enjoying my daughter studying 'The Great Gatsby' for Higher English as I can astound her by still remembering which quotes I used for A level nearly 40 years ago 😆 I still love that book...

This Turin Egyptian Museum photo shows a small, dark-blue, core-formed, round glass jar which tapers in at the shoulders below the neck. It has yellow, white, and light blue festoon decoration around the main body. There is a single yellow trail just below the neck of the jar. There is a dark-blue circular glass lid, the top of which is adorned with two dark-blue duck heads with yellow bills. There is a yellow trailed stripe on the top of each duck’s head, and indents for their eyes. The jar is displayed on a clear round base against a grey background. Dimensions: 7.6 cm x 9.6 cm. Core-forming is one of the earliest glassmaking techniques. It was formed by wrapping molten glass around a sandy core. Coloured glass rods were then wrapped around the surface of the vessel while it was still hot, and dragged with a pointed tool across the surface to produce festoon patterns. The vessel was left to cool and the core was removed.

A 3,500 year-old Egyptian glass cosmetic jar with two little duck heads! 🦆❤️

It belonged to a lady called Merit. Glass was a relatively new material at that time, so it would have been a precious possession.

From Merit’s beauty case, Theban tomb TT8. 📷 Museo Egizio, Turin.

#Archaeology

We asked experts about the most responsible ways to use AI tools – here’s what they said Use AI as a brainstorming partner and organizer, but don’t outsource your judgment

I'm still trying to get on with - and not annoyed by - AI so this was a good read www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

I use it and very quickly get turned off by the tone and the volume of what comes back!

All the measures proposed are fixing multiple other issues too! #ResearchIntegrity

"We encourage all researchers to leave a paper trail that demonstrates their hard work, including publishing protocols and releasing any analytical code."

Enjoyed reading the NERQ paper on RI training with strong ethical focus - it's very different to what we do in the UK (to my knowledge)...micro-learning on 'Philosophical Ethics 101' for trainers would be useful for me to appreciate it better I think

doi.org/10.1007/s409...

#ResearchIntegrity

Why women have to queue for the toilet – and what it says about how cities are designed Even when both sides occupy the same area, men’s facilities can serve more users.

Why women have to queue for the toilet – and what it says about how cities are designed share.google/xP52EAmTXJFZ...

Stop letting students avoid the microphone Andrew Routledge explores why universities still let students opt out of speaking, and what a better model looks like Andrew Routledge explores why universities still let students opt out of speaking,...

Last week on Wonkhe: Andrew Routledge explores why universities still let students opt out of speaking, and what a better model looks like

Positionality statements are relevant for all research Madeleine Pownall and Sebastian Cordoba make the case for reflexivity and positionality statements as important in all kinds of research Madeleine Pownall and Sebastian Cordoba make the case for reflexivity...

Last week on Wonkhe: Madeleine Pownall and Sebastian Cordoba make the case for reflexivity and positionality statements as important in all kinds of research

Art and Architecture in Neolithic Orkney: Process, Temporality and Context

There's all the arguing about the feasibility of open access monographs (REF!) and it's easy to forget the joy for the interested lay reader (in this case, me) in finding the book you'd LOVE to read is not £££ but just...free to download pure.uhi.ac.uk/en/publicati...

There is a lot of scarlet elf cup about at the moment. I love it, but its colour feels not very springlike 😅

Lab morale got you down? Try a handbook Documents that lay out a research group’s ethos and practical guidelines are becoming increasingly popular in the academic community.

Documents that lay out a research group’s ethos and practical guidelines are becoming increasingly popular in the academic community

go.nature.com/3OzPt0h

Literally nobody wants this...nobody...

Why are grievances on the rise in UK universities? Formal complaints have shot up in recent years, albeit from a low base. But where some see the inevitable effects of redundancies, hybrid working and an overdue crackdown on poor conduct, others perce...

Thinking about this in the context of Research Culture and research misconduct cases too...

www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/why-ar...

After a period of inactivity, we are reactivating this account as a primary channel for connecting with the research community.

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Tiny snowdrops just starting to flower at the base of a tree

The happiness I felt at seeing these first signs of spring was directly proportionate to the shittiness of the week. So it was immense 🤩 Getting outside is recommended...

Margam park Roman villa find could be 'Port Talbot's Pompeii' The largest Roman villa ever found in Wales lies less than a metre under Margam Country Park.

Well this was major excitement for a Monday (to someone who lived in Swansea for 20+ years) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Excited to see how it progresses!

15 requests for anyone researching Research Integrity training I have been blogging my reading of research papers on Research Integrity training since 2020. I would file this area of research under “Education”, a social science, so it is important …

I used to blog my reading of papers on #ResearchIntegrity training and here's my little inexpert grumble (as a practitioner) about people who write about Research Integrity training (or possibly any sort of training!) researchintegritytraining.wordpress.com/2022/02/02/1...

The 5 stages of the ‘enshittification’ of academic publishing Academic publishing now shows the same decline that has hit social media and online marketplaces.

Reading “The 5 stages of the ‘enshittification’ of academic publishing”
theconversation.com/the-5-stages...

"In research workplaces, especially universities, some honest yet unacceptable research practices are superficially frowned on while others are tolerated or even encouraged as occupational realities. For example, while a student may be criticised by a supervisor for wrongly applying a fixed-effects model in a meta-analysis of complex health services interventions, other poor practices, such as lack of data sharing or failure to report negative findings,4 may be ignored due to perceived administrative demands on researchers. Finally, overhyping of results or salami slicing may even be incentivised and rewarded via the overesteeming volume of research output and impact for the researcher(s), team(s), department and organisation"

Been reading about "Questionable Research Practices" - this paper made me ponder if these should be differentiated from "honest yet unacceptable" practices? And how we might improve "cultures of indifference and tolerance"...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

#ResearchIntegrity #ResearchCulture

I broke my toe doing exactly that a few years back! These things should be PADDED

"Remember that peer review is not meant to crush souls"

Really liked this constructive summary for improving peer reviews
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Dreading going back to work? How to ease the post-Christmas return Career coaches and leaders share practical advice for managing anxiety and overload after the break.

Just leaving this here...
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Im thinking about how I manage time and energy... definitely will be making adjustments in 2026!

Spread the joy! Like hope, it feels like a radical act right now...

Wow! Absolutely gorgeous 😍 Thanks for sharing

A very delicate, finely-detailed mixed-media illustration looking down through winter trees passed a herd of deer towards a wooded valley and golden winter sunrise

Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar
Window 20
‘Winter Sunrise’
Artist: SR Badmin

Cover of the Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper

It's time ☺️

Such gorgeous work! I get to visit Ouseburn twice a year and your pictures bring back such happy memories - it's a wonderful place 😊

Yes! Ugh it's like a super creepy person...although possibly more creepy is now you can choose a personality for it? (Although maybe that's not new, just me not noticing)