Professor of Molecular Medicine @UniNorthants researching neurodegenerative & neuromuscular disorders. I like RNA. 🔬
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Prof. Karen Anthony retweeted
“For towns like #Northampton, #highereducation… is a practical engine of economic resilience and civic wellbeing.”
See the Guardian for our Vice Chancellor’s letter about the value #universities bring to individuals and communities.
theguardian.com/education/20…
Prof. Karen Anthony retweeted
Figures show that reports of salmonella cases have increased in the region. Giving her expert view on this to @itvanglia News (West) was #UON's Dr Alexandra Woodacre.
itv.com/watch/news/catch-up-…
📺 6mins 40secs. Expires around 7:45pm tomorrow.
#salmonella #publichealth
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Professor Karen Anthony/@Weekademia introduces the many applications and capabilities through #UON’s NAIF (Northampton Advanced Imaging Facility/microscopy) at today’s Technological Transformations in Health and Social Care event.
#FuellingInnovation
Prof. Karen Anthony retweeted
We’ve got Prince William on royal duties still Bladdered
Watkins showing a personality while steaming
Youri talking out his arse pretending to be sober
Mcginn shitting on the city
Rogers being told off for swearing
Unai absolutely wankered
Martinez doing Martinez things
I fucking love this club 💜🩵
Prof. Karen Anthony retweeted
Villans
Only one Villa team have broken the glass ceiling in our European history, we know their names, immortal in the history of our great club.
Many of us have tried and failed to to bring a magical European trophy back to Villa Park.
I remember that night against Atletico Madrid, glorious failure on the night. I've never heard Villa Park so loud. The Holte lead the way, and young Villans in K3, K4, K5, you have the chance to do something special and louder. You can and you must.
Make this grand old stadium stand for 90 minutes and never relent for one damn second.
But the Holte End is one fourth of the jigsaw.
Trinity. We need you.
North. We need you.
Witton (sorry Doug). We need you.
Bayern Munich. Beaten.
PSG. Beaten.
Atletico Madrid. Beaten.
Anderlecht. Beaten.
Athletic Bilbao. Beaten.
Barcelona. Beaten.
Inter Milan. Beaten.
Ajax. Beaten.
Celtic. Beaten.
A handful of clubs have those scalps.
The special sauce in every win? You, Villans. YOU.
Every one of those wins, the noise rivaled anywhere at any time.
We face admirable foe and a special football club that I know very well. A club who believed in miracles and miracles came true for them.
Our players need our voices, our songs, our heart and soul on Thursday. Every stand. Every Villan, old or young.
Remember when you walked into Villa Park for the first time? The joy, the tears, the pride, holding the hand of your Mom or Dad or excitedly shephereded in by your big brother or sister or best mate?
Let the memory of them be your guide tomorrow night.
Sing for Spinksy, Birchy, Alan McInally, for Gary Shaw, for Brian Little, for Paul McGrath and for John McGinn.
To the players and staff, we know how good you are, and we ALL want you to walk into the pantheon of greats that adorn our halls.
As someone once said..
"The lows just make the highs higher. We are at the heart of English football, we have a majestic name, a decorated past, we serve as a shining light among our peers, we are Aston Villa ".
I believe.
We believe.
Villa believes.
UP THE FUCKING EUROPEAN VILLA!!!!
🤖 Made with AI
Prof. Karen Anthony retweeted
This is one of them moments that I would pay a serious amounts of money to relive for 5 minutes. It’s incredible unhealthy how much I’m addicted to this goal
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Prof. Karen Anthony retweeted
Aston Villa woke up one morning a few weeks ago and decided they were the best team in the country.
Prof. Karen Anthony retweeted
INCREDIBLE END TO THE GAME 🔥
Emi Buendia wins it for Aston Villa in the 95th minute!
@tntsports & @discoveryplusUK
Prof. Karen Anthony retweeted
Having a PhD means you can find the word “unfortunately” in an email faster that the search function
Prof. Karen Anthony retweeted
"It’s not about chasing a title...it's about giving something back and doing something positive for society as a whole.”
Science students and academics had a VIP visitor recently, when @sarah_bool, MP came to campus to find out about their #research.
northampton.ac.uk/news/membe…
Prof. Karen Anthony retweeted
Why is @nature is seen as a top journal? It's because many scholars cite papers Nature publishes in their own publications.
By making clear that citations are not based solely on merit, and thus debasing them, Nature is undermining a basis for its claim to prominence.
The editors at @Nature must be living in an alternate universe to think this is going to help the credibility of science in any way. Just say no.
Prof. Karen Anthony retweeted
Research from an international team – including @UniNorthants academic Professor Andrew Williams – into the history of child health have used local archives to uncover new detail into the origins of English paediatric hospital care.
northampton.ac.uk/news/uon-a…
Prof. Karen Anthony retweeted
Journals can’t find peer reviewers. Preprints aren’t taken seriously. Garbage papers slip through peer review. Meantime, AI is slowly taking over.
Nature describes the current situation. I highly recommend reading the article.
📍 The summary (+ my comments):
1. We are facing a SIGNIFICANT overload on reviewers. Fatigue is epidemic. Few scientists have time for much peer review. As a result, manuscript turnaround times are chaos. They’re unpredictable and painfully slow.
2. Grant and facility proposals demand massive peer review too. They push the system even further.
3. Review quality is decreasing. Rigor is inconsistent. Technical aspects are poorly assessed.
4. Gatekeeping and bias are very real (we all know how manuscripts are rejected due to competition & jealousy). It causes a growing dissatisfaction among scientists.
5. Paid reviewing does NOT automatically improve the acceptance rate. Trials show mixed results. For example, acceptance rates barely increased from 48% to 53% for Critical Care Medicine. The quality of PR remained the same. But for Biology Open, the PR process has become much faster. In either case, paid reviews are very hard to scale business-wise.
6. Distributed Peer Review is becoming more popular. Some funding agencies now require applicants to review peers’ proposals. But to to eliminate bias in it? I don’t know.
❗ There’re no simple solutions.
As a careful observer, I think that the complex picture is evolving along the following trajectory:
AI-assisted peer view (AI pre-screening, AI PR-assistant, AI audition of peer reviews)
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Community reviewing
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Some form of compensation
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Involvement of wider community in PR lists (not only most recognized scientists)
What’s your view on it?
Prof. Karen Anthony retweeted
To Ozzy. Thank you for the joy. 🖤
Birmingham Forever.
To those wishing to lay flowers, may we suggest outside The Crown in Birmingham might be a respectful place? If you can't... donations to Acorns, Cure Parkinson's & Brum Children's Hospital seem apt
bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn0qq5ny…
Prof. Karen Anthony retweeted
Must. Resist. Overwhelming. Urge. To. Scratch...
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Luke Girvan from Back & Body Medical is one of the speakers at today’s Northamptonshire Innovation Ecosystem event.
Today is all about #FuellingInnovation for county businesses/organisations and Luke talks about what tech and treatments they’ve introduced at their clinic.
Prof. Karen Anthony retweeted
🏴 ENGLAND WIN 🏴
After five incredible days of cricket, we come out on top at Headingley 😍👏
Test cricket. Wow.
#ENGvIND
Prof. Karen Anthony retweeted
From athlete safeguarding to the value of green spaces, and from pharmaceuticals to gene therapy - the @UniNorthants @UON_Science annual #PALS Research Symposium put local research with global impact under the microscope...🔬🧬
bit.ly/4jTWxz8
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Great news! @UniNorthants has been ranked among the top 50 UK universities for overall student satisfaction, in the latest data revealed by @compuniguide 👏
Check out the full story here 👉 bit.ly/44clKzX
#UON #University #Northampton
