I'M Never Gonna Be Good Enough For You, Am I? - Legally Blonde GIF Alt: I'M Never Gonna Be Good Enough For You, Am I? - Legally Blonde GIF

Me to all of my senior male “colleagues” in my sub-field.😕

Reviewer crisis? I just got 3 invitations to review in 15 minutes from a single (reputable, but Elsevier) journal. All completely outside my interest/expertise.

I'm an AE & though I find getting reviews a bit harder than 10 years ago, this behaviour makes me think we have an editor crisis too.

This absolutely reflects my experience of the closed boys club at the top of academia, but it's still so disgusting to read it spelled out so clearly.

"...As long as male academics believe that women (in general) are less qualified for professorships than men, every step toward increasing the proportion of female professors will be seen as a threat to meritocracy."

"Most importantly, we uncovered a silent standpoint: the belief that women are generally less qualified for full professorships than men..."

The Silent Standpoint: How Professors Explain Gender Disparities in Academia Based on 77 qualitative interviews with professors in higher education, this article explores the interviewees' opinions on how gender disparities in academia should be explained. We show that male p...

Fascinating & disturbing article on why women don't make full professor. The authors interview male & female professors at the top in decision making roles. They find that, fundamentally, the male gatekeepers just don't think women are good enough:

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

A message from Tuna Acisu asking for help maintaining cherry blossom record in Kyoto Japan.

A figure showing the cherry tree record since 812 from world in data.

A 1200+ year climate record is at risk. Do you know know anyone in Japan who could help? See below.

ACDC 2026 Abisko The summer school will take place at Abisko Scientific Research Station, Northern Sweden 16 - 29th of August 2026. The topic is "Climate and Landscapes".

I am teaching at the ACDC "Climate and Landscapes" summer school in Abisko in August! Looking forward to visiting the much fabled Abisko field station! Application deadline April 15th... www.atmos.washington.edu/~david/acdc_...

No, we won't.

Please don't say she should say no or change jobs. She is junior, with limited power to say no and leaving would just add to the drain of brilliant women from research. This is the real impact of tight turnaround calls @ukri.org Happy #IWD2026

On the back of being quoted I was contacted by a research administrator at a different Uni. She wants to stay anonymous. She has worked on this call all weekend. She didn't feel able to say no. Nor did the researchers. Unlike them she will not benefit in any material way if her Uni wins this money.

The playbook is always the same: control women, protect power.

This International Women’s Day, we want a system that actually protects us. We’re fighting back for Nina, for Liv, and for every woman the courts have silenced.

Join the movement 👇
https://goodlaw.social/33094f

As more GiveToGain posts appear a reminder that it is a made-up theme by a for-profit company which makes money from theme based goods but has no charitable donations on its accounts for the past 10yrs

The UN #IWD2026 theme this is: Rights. Justice. Action.

www.unwomen.org/en/get-invol...

Of course someone has been expecting this - all the veneer of an open call with none of the reality. The EDI requirements vs the call structure is cognitive dissonance in the extreme.

For what it's worth this is my full quote. I would love to understand from @ukri.org why this call has been restricted to 4 weeks (with no advanced warning) going against it's own EDI commitments. The response so far doesn't explain why only 4 weeks nor why not 8 weeks.

Job losses at research-intensive universities double in two years - Research Professional News Exclusive: Scale of redundancies revealed branded a “disaster” for UK research capacity

Job losses at UK research-intensive universities double in two years.

Exclusive: Scale of redundancies branded a “disaster”.

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

I would like an email auto response plugin that automatically scans for LLM content then replies and deletes. If you expect me to read something is it too much to ask that you actually write it?? 🤬🤬

GitHub - Art-n-MathS/PlotToSat: PlotToSat can extract time-series from Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 at multiple to thousands of plots (circular regions) PlotToSat can extract time-series from Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 at multiple to thousands of plots (circular regions) - GitHub - Art-n-MathS/PlotToSat: PlotToSat can extract time-series from Senti...

📢PlotToSAT on-site workshop at ForestSAT conference (@forestsat.bsky.social)!
Includes demonstration of new feature of extracting time-series at multiple regions defined in .shp & GEE intro.
Check the details here: carlos-alberto-silva.github.io/silvalab/For...
Github: github.com/Art-n-MathS/...

The fast and the focused: Balancing timely and accurate classification of deforestation and degradation drivers using remote sensing Identifying drivers of deforestation is crucial for developing targeted conservation and land management strategies, and satellite data provide a long time series of data to understand deforestation d...

Although multi-year data was useful for slow growing land cover, we found that single images from the year following loss can provide high quality information across almost all drivers of deforestation- evidence for rapid and accurate monitoring.

>>Paper here journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

In our latest paper, led by Amandine Debus (& with Emilie Beauchamp) we test how long we need to wait to get good classification of drivers of deforestation in Cameroon, using our previously developed deep learning model Cam-ForestNet, which detects drivers of deforestation tailored to Cameroon.

There is a tension between using satellite data for fast vs accurate monitoring. Monitoring drivers of deforestation with satellite data can help targeted interventions and management, but if long time series of data are needed for classification, the wait can make findings too late to be useful.

🚨3 Lectureships in Biology 🚨

Come join us in Bristol @bristolbiosci.bsky.social!

We are looking for new collegues working across a broad spectum of topics in biology, including ecology & environmental change. Get in touch if you have Qs!

Apply here by 8 March: www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

It's like Mandelson and Starmer watched and learned from the Tory VIP Lane:

💷 Privileged access ✅
💷 Personal benefit ✅
💷 No competition ✅

Mandelson benefitted financially through his stake in Global Counsel.

New chatbot ‘outperforms PhDs on literature reviews’ Cheap research round-ups by ‘hallucination-free’ OpenScholar model preferred by experts, says Nature study

So have we just given up understanding that the purpose of a literature review is not the production of writing, but rather the production of knowledge about a subject?

www.timeshighereducation.com/news/new-cha...

You won't want to miss this! Keep your calendars free and hopefully see you in Switzerland in October 🌳🍁🌐🧪

Three weeks on. Still no response.

We've got ISSUES. Literally.

We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do?

arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563

A 🧵 1/n

This is a great group to get involved with. Particularly looking for ECRs and people based outside the Uk to apply. But everyone welcome!

ah I misunderstood your point. But I agree with this.

I'm not sure that's true - pretty much all the colleges admit student for all the subjects taught at Cambridge. There are some subjects at Cambridge that are rarer in state schools (for example Classics) and that's reflected in admissions stats: www.undergraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/sites/defaul...