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I was at this symposium, which was held at Korea University 24-28 July, and can add a bit of information.
The first arXiv preprint came to light during the conference. One of the attendees, a KU professor, knew Kwon just well enough to be able to call him.
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Science inequity rooted in ‘moralised’ worship of ‘hard work’ timeshighereducation.com/new… via @timeshighered
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Fascinating paper that attempts to quantify privilege experienced by white, able-bodied, heterosexual men (WAHM) in STEM. In each of 6 areas, they were the most privileged, and >>50% of the privilege was unexplained by any factors other than being WAHM.
science.org/doi/10.1126/scia…
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The facts:
@JimBethell had a meeting with Randox and Owen Paterson. Randox was awarded over £500m in contracts without a tender. Lord Bethell discussed the awarding of contracts on WhatsApp and then deleted the WhatsApps so we can't know what he said.
theguardian.com/politics/202…
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a) An UG degree in geography or related geoscience
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I am very much looking forward to the 10 years Advanced Energy Materials birthday party. Honoured to be invited along with two other amazing ladies Yang Shao Horn @EELabMIT and Pooi See Lee: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/jour…
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Thinking about no-deal Brexit, I'm reminded of @davidallengreen's point that the poll tax fury and rioting only started when the bills arrived.
ft.com/content/1db9b923-317c…
He quoted Ivor King and Antony Crewe:
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Jensen and co-workers (@titiricigroup, @PhysicalAlan, @ImperialChemEng, @MRI_QMUL, @STFC_Matters) studied diglyme #Electrolytes with neutron scattering and EPSR to understand how they improve the performance of Na-ion #Batteries onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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We are deeply sympathetic to all students affected by this change in policy in relation to A level awarded grades.
If, following the Government announcement, applicants’ revised grades mean that they meet the terms of their original offer, we will guarantee them a place.
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Local mobility in electrochemically inactive sodium in hard carbon anodes after the first cycle - Journal of Materials Chemistry A pubs.rsc.org/en/content/arti…
@acjensen and @PhysicalAlan to blame for muons.@emiliaikolsson did the modelling. @handishanim and Heather made samples.
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📯Postdoc alert: come work with me and my fantastic colleagues @PASzilagyi and @cjoneschemistry on framework materials as solid-state conductors. Deadline 10 Nov.
We have a postdoc position available in a #collaborative #MaterialsChemistry project @Chemistry_QMUL @QMULSEMS @QM_SBCS Pls get in touch if you or someone you know is interested bit.ly/2MyMVMw @PASzilagyi
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The very fact that some parents are so ill-informed as to believe children may become gay by being told about gay relationships is a demonstration in itself that parents do not know best. Educating children is not the problem. Educating the parents is the real challenge.
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GOT IT!! just got the letter from the home office that my citizenship application has been accepted! So happy 😄🥳! Thanks a lot to my colleagues who really supported me! GE I'm in! #BritishCitizenship
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Colleagues at other institutions may find it interesting to hear that in a meeting with staff yesterday our VC Colin Bailey is reported as saying: “Deduction for action short of a strike is nuts, that’s just wrong”.
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I hereby resign as external examiner of Philosophy Politics and Economics at the University of Oxford in solidarity with the #ucustrike No longer will the future Lords and oligarchs of this rainy fascist-leaning island benefit from me rubberstamping their undergraduate ideas.
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Retweet if you think @UniversitiesUK should have written back to @AtheneDonald before writing an article for The Times.
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Are there any other jobs where you are not actually given the resources to achieve primary indicators of performance? Seems to be a fundamental conflict at the heart of academic research.
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So it seems that Alistair Jarvis found time this week to write an opinion piece for the Sunday Times but not to write a reply to @AtheneDonald and @ChurchillCol. #Rude