Mel Lacey
Associate Professor at Sheffield Hallam University. Pedagogy Editor for Access Microbiology. Here for the molecular microbiology, HE pedagogy and outreach... and a side of crafting. All views, and typos, are my own. She /her.
- Reposted by Mel LaceyMy first book, Darwin and the Queer Origins of Life, will be published by Yale University Press on 11 August (UK) and 8 September (US). Please help spread the word! 🙏 UK: yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300... @yalebooks.bsky.social 🏳️🌈📚🐵 US: yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300... @yalepress.bsky.social 🏳️⚧️ 🗃️🦋
- Check out our most recent publication. New undergraduate students use of social media forms an integral part of their studies, with different groups being used for different functions @dave-thesmith.bsky.social @sheffieldhallamuni.bsky.social doi.org/10.1042/ETLS...
- Reposted by Mel LaceyGame Changer: Exploring the Role of Board Games in the Lives of Autistic People link.springer.com/article/10.1... #BoardGames #Autisim #GameBasedLearning
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- Happy to share our latest research about undergraduate students as role models for new scientists. shura.shu.ac.uk/36347/1/Lace...
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- Reposted by Mel LaceyDo dogs really understand words or are they just responding to inflection & body language? This 2018 study using fMRI brain-mapping says they *DO* understand our words. I'll explain, but first, let's acknowledge the adorable participants, 12 dogs who were trained at home to retrieve two objects.
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- Erin Brady shared how in depth qualitative analysis of students' experiences can be shared through stories #ukstemconf25 My take homes: 1) Longitudinal interview data is awesome 2) need to be careful tell students the stories of other, as we speak from own lens 3) stories let students feel seen
- Dylan Jones gives an holistic view of decolonising the BMS curriculum #ukstemconf25 May take homes: 1) listening to students is essential 2) staff are onboard 3) lack of diverse medical images is massive issue
- Becky Barnes et al taking about how to support students with exams #ukstemconf25 My take homes: 1) evaluation of exam skills is key 2) mock exams are really useful 3) give students expalmars of exam answers of different grades 4) what are students doing with all the exam questions they request
- First subject talk of the day #UKSTEMConf25. Chris Love talking about student self support. My take homes 1) transitioning to HE requires different study skills 2) students can be taught self evaluation & study skills theories in an accessible way 3) this can be scaffolding into to subject module
- Super excited for the #LSTeachingInnovationAwards #UKstemconf25
- Innovative work from Holly Matthews et al in using card cards to teach health and safety #ukstemconf25 My take homes: 1) These card games are awesome 2) and an open resource figshare.edgehill.ac.uk/articles/edu... figshare.edgehill.ac.uk/articles/edu... figshare.edgehill.ac.uk/articles/edu...
- @annajkirkham.bsky.social starts the lab skills strand with her work on integrating videos into labs. #ukstemconf25 My take homes are: 1) videos of lab skills can be used by students at different times 2) ask students what videos they'd find helpful 3) film students are great at making videos
- Kathryn Dudley next up talking about barriers to uptaking a BMS placement #UKSTEMConf25 My take homes: 1) accessibility of BMS placements is important 2) funding is key 3) travel and cost is a close second 4) those with disabilities and those who are carers are less likely to apply
- Great first subject talk #UKSTEMConf25 by Sam Johnson. Using the self-efficacy framework to better understand first year students to better. My take homes: 1) mastery is success as well as practice 2) stress is important 3) students need skills/ framework to manage stress and time management
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- Check out our latest paper: doi.org/10.53761/fh6... We co-designed our MSc programme to embed AI skills, confidence and ethical understanding. This couldn’t have happened without our amazing student co-authors: Dami, Skye, Charlie and Chinenye @dave-thesmith.bsky.social @nigelfrancis.bsky.social
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- Super proud to be part of the ##UnravellingBiofilms workshop at the #FoFD @festofdebate.bsky.social. We were chats to folks about sewage fungus, river pollution and our hopes for the Don and her catchment... whilst crafting! #Crochet #NeedleFelting #SciArt @sheffieldhallamuni.bsky.social
- They've grown up so fast.... and now the nest is empty 😔. They did really well though, 6 fledglings from 8 eggs
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- Babies!
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- This is a lovely and well considered @microbiologysociety.org paper introducing and comparing three different citizen science projects. I'd strongly recommend a read for those thinking of starting a #CitizenScience project as well as folks interested in #PublicEngagement and #Outreach
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- Super proud of this paper with @dralisongraham.bsky.social @mdillonphd.bsky.social et al. In this work we reflected on how to make a conference session more accessible, did those things @microbiologysociety.org 🦠👩🏫 and the evaluated the session - and we made a difference 🥳🥳 doi.org/10.1099/acmi...
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- Your girl has eggs! We've called her Greta
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- I am currently obsessed with the great tits building a nest in my garden 🪹 🐦
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- We had an absolute ball running our Water Quality Live Lab at @riverdonproject.bsky.social Faethm exhibition with @weareopus.bsky.social @hiveit.co.uk @hallam-biosci-chem.bsky.social and @sheffieldhallamuni.bsky.social. Shout out to @amycartergordon.bsky.social, that girl knows how to throw a party
- Happy science week! To start us off here are some pictures from our public engagement event last week 'the Nature of Science' #BSEW25 #PublicEngagemnt #Outreach #SciComm
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- Check out this lovely #pedagogy paper in #AccessMicro @microbiologysociety.org The lovely @mdillonphd.bsky.social et al. share their digital card game, which teaches how the immune system responds to different microbes. Solid 10/10. doi.org/10.1099/acmi...
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- Come and join us in kicking off #BSW25 and #SheffieldScienceFestival with our lovely friends @sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social. Our adult only evening event is all about nature and Science, with more than a little bit of art thrown in
- Join us Thurs 6 March at the Millennium Gallery to kick off British Science Week! Explore the science of colour—from fluorescent microscopy revealing nature’s beauty to chemical reactions shaping beer’s hue and taste 🍺 @sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social @hallam-biosci-chem.bsky.social Find out more ⬇
- Had a lovely time chatting with @domismithson.bsky.social about open peer review, especially around my role as pedagogy editor for #AcessMicro @microbiologysociety.org #MicroSky #OpenResearch @sheffieldhallamuni.bsky.social @hallam-biosci-chem.bsky.social
- I'm an editor and reviewer for @microbiologysociety.org journals...then my free labour benefits ECR microbiologists getting grants to attend conferences, which is an idea I can get behind
- Between 2019 and 2023, researchers paid $8.968 billion to make papers open access. Imagine what else could be done with this money if it wasnt paid to for profit publishing companies... 👉 arxiv.org/abs/2407.16551
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- 📢 Come see the wonderful @professor-dave.bsky.social talking about his journey and insights into chemistry as part of @dodoscientist.bsky.social Catalysing Diversity seminar series. This is a hybrid event so join online or visit @sheffieldhallamuni.bsky.social details below ... please share 📢
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- Had a lovely Saturday afternoon taking part in the @rspb.bsky.social Big Garden Bird Watch. We saw fewer birds than last year, but it was a bit windy and our robins were being very territorial.
- We did and we had a ball. @domismithson.bsky.social was an amazing host and I used the word hierarchical a lot 😆 @hallam-biosci-chem.bsky.social @sheffieldhallamuni.bsky.social
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[Not loaded yet] - Myself and Rachel had a lovely time discussing our citizen at @openresshef.bsky.social this afternoon. Hosted by the lovely @jenniad.bsky.social with inspiring talks from Andrea Jimenez and Jill Edmondson. @hallam-biosci-chem.bsky.social @sheffieldhallamuni.bsky.social
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- Lovely work by @dave-thesmith.bsky.social @nigelfrancis.bsky.social & Sue Jones. Thoughtful piece about gen AI it's uses in HE along side it's impacts. I'm a particular fan of the well considered recommendations to educational institutes #AcademicSky #Pedagogy @sheffieldhallamuni.bsky.social
- The lovely @microbiologysociety.org has joined BlueSky, which is very exciting and I've added them to my "Microbiology Education and Outreach folks" starter pack. If you or anyone you know would also like to be added please let me know. go.bsky.app/QYgSwS6at://did:plc:aykihv222o7anvao3s33cocx/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lao4nnydtm26
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- In lieu of anything of note to say about work, I'm going to show you all the blanket me and the 9 yo crocheted for her grandad's (my dad's) christmas pressie.
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- Really enjoyed presenting with @dave-thesmith.bsky.social our work around how students are using digital spaces for learning #SocMedHE24. Lots of the work was undertaken by wonderful student researchers Sophie and Iosif @sheffieldhallamuni.bsky.social @socmedhe.bsky.social
- Excited for my first #SocMedHE24 conference. Welcoming start by Liz Mossop @sheffieldhallamuni.bsky.social, @suebecks.bsky.social and @dralison.bsky.social. With a thought provoking keynote by @amltaylor66.bsky.social @socmedhe.bsky.social
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- @kelly-cp.bsky.social brainchild Unravelling Biofilms: biocultural surfaces has reached the public vote of the Royal Society of Biology's BioCraft Competition! #SciArt #MicroSky #Crochet @hallam-biosci-chem.bsky.social If you'd like to vote, please do! www.surveymonkey.com/r/LKNVSWQ
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- My favourite picture from the other place. The wonderful @kelly-cp.bsky.social winning the #AccessMicrobiology poster prize at last years @MicroSoc annual conference. Her awesome yarn-based poster was made in collaboration with Sheffield craft groups #UnravellingBiofilms #sciart #MicroSky #crochet
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- I have never identified so strongly as a middle-classed woman of a certain age 😆
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- She is sooooo pretty
- The 300th (!) installment of Molecule of the Month explores newly-revealed atomic details of one of the wonders of the biomolecular world: the Flagellar Motor pdb101.rcsb.org/motm...
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- Very proud to be part of @riverdonproject.bsky.social 🏞🐟🦫 Over the summer we wrote this article on the Rights of Nature, the role of universities and interdisciplinarities. Had a lovely time writing it with Alban and the team @amycartergordon.bsky.social doi.org/10.3351/ppp....
- I never felt good enough to be an academic. How could I balance being a mum and short-term jobs, fighting for papers. I chose family. I would 100% have left academia, but I got a temp job at Sheffield Hallam and saw women bossing it whilst working part time It's hard to be what you can't see.
- Reposted by Mel LaceyPLEASE SHARE: The second (and final) application cycle for the Improving Research Community Builder Awards is now open! Find out more here: www.orben.group/improving-re... Deadline: 14 January 2025
- Top folks with a top project, would recommend
- Reposted by Mel LaceyReally keen to build a global list of #biology #bioscience #biomedical educators, including those from underrepresented and/or marginalised backgrounds - keep suggesting who should be included! go.bsky.app/9Zgp5isat://did:plc:t23qew7kn2dxjh3r7bfmnc7z/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lb2s5jsogh2f
- So proud of our first year students and their amazing #SciArt. They all did awesome work and here's the technicians winner (flower) students winner (heart) and horary mention (snowflake). [Oral microbes on blood agar]
- 📢 📢 📢 12-month Lectureship in Biochemistry and Analytical Science at Sheffield Hallam University Please share: bit.ly/LectBiochemA...
- Happy belated #EqualPayDay folks
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