@GilesPalaeoLab

Fossil fish palaeobiologist | @RoyalSociety Research Fellow | Academic Keeper @LapworthMuseum | #QueerInSTEM | 🏳️‍🌈 | currently mostly migraines |she/her/hers

 Birmingham, England
birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/gees/giles-sam.aspx
Joined March 2018
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Update: here's a primer and best practice suggestions for discussing toilets and periods on #geology and #geoscience fieldtrips. It's released under a CC-BY-4.0 license, so please share widely with students and staff and adapt as necessary. drive.google.com/file/d/15mL…
Sam Giles@GilesPalaeoLab22 Oct 2019
As we gear up for field teaching season, I have a question for #geology and #geoscience Twitter. Do you talk to your undergrads about going to the toilet in the field, and specifically about having a period on fieldwork?
10%In student handbook
13%In lecture
44%Informally/in the field
33%Never
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Those five are all gone but I have four new ones today.
Sam Giles@GilesPalaeoLab13 Oct 2023
I’ve got five codes to the other place. Let me know if you want one.
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I’ve got five codes to the other place. Let me know if you want one.
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Job alert: I’m hiring two postdocs! The first is a 24 month position looking at the first anatomical radiation of ray-finned fishes during the mid-late Palaeozoic; the second is a 33 month position looking at macroevolutionary trends in ray-finned fishes during the Palaeozoic 🐟
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Job 2: 33 month Royal Society funded position using existing occurrence databases and building a specimen-level occurrence database to investigate macroevolutionary trends in ray-finned fishes through the Palaeozoic. Details and apply here: edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/…).
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Please get in touch if you have any questions. Closing date is 5th September, and both positions are available to start as soon as possible. Relocation expenses are available.
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Are you involved in PhD admissions? Do you advertise projects or assess candidates? Check out this paper, the latest publication from our Equator project. Doctoral recruitment is often biased against students from marginalised backgrounds- we propose changes to improve equity:
Ben Fernando@space_quakes4 Aug 2023
📢New paper alert!! We analysed PhD recruitment processes in the geosciences, and developed recommendations for making the process more equitable. Now out in @NatureGeosci: doi.org/10.1038/s41561-023-0… (1/3)🔨🌋☁️
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📢New paper alert!! We analysed PhD recruitment processes in the geosciences, and developed recommendations for making the process more equitable. Now out in @NatureGeosci: doi.org/10.1038/s41561-023-0… (1/3)🔨🌋☁️
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Had a great time at the @NHM_Explorers Summer Social presenting my PhD research and connecting folks with the @ReedEcolNet as their new partnerships officer. Also great to reconnect with my Equator Research School folk! Exciting news to come, watch this space 👀👀
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Please RT! I'm looking to get short statements from queer marine scientists & biologists (& related fields) about their experiences being queer in their fields. Any level of experience or career is okay, anonymous statements are possible. DM me here on Twitter or email me!
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a weighted blanket isn't enough, I need whatever is happening here
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Aimovig is generally working really well at reducing my migraines to a manageable level, but annoyingly I’m suffering from a rare severe side effects. My doctor is having me try out a medication to counter it… and one of it *its* side effects is severe headaches 🤦
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As we enter school summer holiday period, I did an interview reflecting on the realities of working part-time in academia. 'The problem is not with me being unprepared to do unpaid overtime, the problem is with academia for routinely expecting it' nature.com/articles/s42004-0…
I was once asked, “If you worked 55 h a week before, why, at 80% contract are you not happy to work 44 h a week?” It doesn’t work like that! If I’m only being paid for 30 h, and every hour is absolutely precious and precisely calculated to make my family work, then 30 h is all I can give. The problem is not with me being unprepared to do unpaid overtime, the problem is with academia for routinely expecting it.

ALT I was once asked, “If you worked 55 h a week before, why, at 80% contract are you not happy to work 44 h a week?” It doesn’t work like that! If I’m only being paid for 30 h, and every hour is absolutely precious and precisely calculated to make my family work, then 30 h is all I can give. The problem is not with me being unprepared to do unpaid overtime, the problem is with academia for routinely expecting it.

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‘We’re going to dock half your wages even though teaching isn’t mentioned in your contract because it’s a career development opportunity ☺️’
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Getting strong ‘If I can’t see you, you can’t see me’ vibes from this mysterious statue in New Street station, as if you’re playing hide and seek with a three year old
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For #FossilFriday I’m going to indulge myself by spending some time segmenting this deliciously noisy CT scan. There’s a whole 3D skull in there, honestly 🤩
Tomographic slice through a CT scan. The bone is a dark grey against a slightly lighter grey sediment, but there is a lot of noise and artefacts making the boundaries difficult to see

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the UK media: universities need to stop luring students into degrees where they’ll receive poor-quality teaching that does nothing to improve their prospects UKHE: good news! we did brilliant teaching so our students did brilliantly 😃 the UK media: this is inexplicable
A headline from the Telegraph reading: “Graduates inexplicably outperform their A-level results with first-class degrees: A quarter of students who achieved three Ds at sixth form go on to get top-class honours, prompting fears of grade inflation”

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Many many thanks to the track defect in the Cheltenham area for waiting until after I was on a train out of Cheltenham to develop; here’s hoping I can still catch a train on to Manchester later 😬
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