Izzy Jayasinghe

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Izzy Jayasinghe@ijayas· 13d

This is like the best meme

Tom Hiddleston saying, “Right. Better find a helpful geoscientist, then”

Izzy Jayasinghe@ijayas· 23d

Hey Siri, show me a system that looks to filter out the scientific discoveries of women with seniority. The paper confirms the hostility many of us feel is baked into the editorial & peer review community (sitting behind a veil of anonymity) that prefer to see papers led by women thrown out.

Excerpt from the paper:

Gendered effects in peer review
At Science and Science Advances, manuscripts with women corresponding authors make up a gradually declining share from submission to review to acceptance (20.9% → 20.8% → 19.7% → 17.9% and 22.3% → 21.4% → 21.3% → 20.1%, respective-ly; Fig. 2B). Accounting for available covari-ates via multiple logistic regression reveals a small but statistically significant association with corresponding author gender in being sent to review or accepted after review (B =
-0.08, P < 0.001 for sent to review; B = -0.13, P
= 0.011 for accepted; tables S8 and S11).

% plot of women’s representation among first authors (solid symbols), corresponding authors (open symbols), and among first-round peer reviewers (crossed symbols) over the evaluation process. Red line and symbols indicate the journal Science, blue indicating Sci Adv. all lines generally trending down from Submission stage, through editorial and peer review stages to acceptance stages.

Izzy Jayasinghe@ijayas· Jun 23

Also, the lack of colourful language and imagination. Upright sauce bottles work as well as inverted once with a sphincter. Let me send you the T-shirt.

The torso of a white man wearing a white T-shirt bearing a cartoon of a ketchup bottle and worlds “Fair shake of the sauce bottle”. The label on the bottle looks like Heinz ketchup but reads Dead Horse

Izzy Jayasinghe@ijayas· Mar 17

Along the way, we developed a suite of tools that will make expansion microscopy more quantitative & (hopefully) more usable, including (i) a nanoscale calibrant of the expansion factor - a natively expressed protein nanocage shared by Prof David Baker's lab that reports local under-expansion 2/

Izzy Jayasinghe@ijayas· Mar 17

🚨New paper out today in @acs.org ACS Nano, showing how expansion microscopy can visually quantify the cell surface receptor turnover mediated by signalling & receptor organising machineries on the surfaces of endosomes, some of the smallest organelles in cells. 🧪 🔬 1/ pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

A surface rendered view of an endosome. The endosome surface is rendered in blue with dimples on it. In specific regions of the endosomal surface, clusters of proteins are seen as aggregates of blobs, coloured in yellow and red.

Izzy Jayasinghe@ijayas· Nov 10

One of the real highlights of working in @singmolsci.bsky.social is that the view into the campus comes truly alive in the spring. The downside is that campus outside the window comes truly alive in the spring just as ALL OF THE ARC grant deadlines come around and I cannot go outside 😭

Courtyard surrounded by glass buildings views from a high vantage point on a clear sunny day. At the centre, is a purple jacaranda drew blooming.

Izzy Jayasinghe@ijayas· Nov 5

Make sure to stand *exactly* in the same shape as the diagram on the body scanner.

Person in medical gown standing in front of a millimeter wave body scanner facing a drawing of a man with long arms

Izzy Jayasinghe@ijayas· Oct 28

The miners are also quite charming if you cover your ears.

A miner bird sitting on a flower that is shaped like a bird

Izzy Jayasinghe@ijayas· Oct 17

Also, a friend just recently found this hilarious Google search suggestion about a certain institution🤭

Screenshot

Google search result for:
university of manchester ethics tool

Result:
Did you mean: university of manchester ethnic stool

Izzy Jayasinghe@ijayas· Oct 11

🤖 If you use LinkedIn, please be aware that they automatically use your profile to train their GenAI. To turn off, go to Settings > Data Privacy > Data for Gen AI improvements.

Screenshot of LinkedIn’s menu: “How LinkedIn uses your data”. Near the bottom, is the option to turn off “Data for Generative AI improvement”, shown with a red arrow.

Izzy Jayasinghe@ijayas· Sep 21

Science outreach, particularly celebrating science from the lens of EDI was a lifeline for me in surviving academia. These days I am convinced inspired by the members of my dept who have a real passion for this. So, it’s just pure joy.

Group photo of ten people smiling. In the background, a tv screen with colourful pictures. In front of the group a table with small objects and a microscope.

A dark room with an arena on the floor where there are three wheeled robots are lined up at the boundary. Outside the arena, a few people talking.

Izzy Jayasinghe@ijayas· Aug 31

Our* olive oil sourdough has made its feeling about neoliberalism holely clear. *Courtesy of a Bourke Street Bakery, Sydney.

An oblong sourdough loaf with three fresh slices on a breadboard next to the stovetop. The slices have lots of holes in them.

Izzy Jayasinghe@ijayas· Jul 21

Essay mills shamelessly advertising on the academia feed. CC @keithwilson.eu

Izzy Jayasinghe@ijayas· Jul 15

Congratulations to Tayla Shakespeare & Raj Seehra who passed their PhD defences over the past 2 weeks 👏 ! Both of them members of our lab in Sheffield, 2021-2025, developing & applying new methods in expansion microscopy 🔬. 📷 here together with postdoc Tom & technician Michael on the special day. 1/

Selfie of four smiley people. Left to right: Tom, newly minted doctors Tayla and Raj, and Michael.

Izzy Jayasinghe@ijayas· May 29

We can always go back to reprint request cards if PMC fails.

An example of a reprint request card - an A5 shaped sheet with the top half with a form and the bottom half with the format of a postcard.

Izzy Jayasinghe@ijayas· May 2

FML. Just waking up to these results. What’s wrong with these people?!!

Map of council election results across the midland of England. Counties mostly colored teal (for Reform).

Izzy Jayasinghe@ijayas· Apr 29

What an excuse! This was seen a dog-loving part of Sydney. Somehow, I doubt the owner is coming back for it. Spotted by @jessgifkins.bsky.social

Photograph of a wire fence and a sign mounted on it that reads,

“Unlawful dumping of waste is an offence under the Protection of the Environment Operations
Act 1997
Penalties apply”

A bag of dog 💩 hanging next to the sign.

Izzy Jayasinghe@ijayas· Apr 21

Absolute scenes out here in Sydney harbour.

Izzy Jayasinghe@ijayas· Feb 19

Sending all the hugs from the Gulf of Sydney

Map of the Gulf of Mexico with the writing “Gulf of Sydney”

Izzy Jayasinghe@ijayas· Feb 7

This photo is courtesy of eduroam at the Brisbane airport 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾

View out from an airport terminal to the tarmac on a sunny day. The tail section of a nearby plane visible from behind an air bridge.

Izzy Jayasinghe@ijayas· Jan 12

A fascinating 2023/24 study of publishing timelines over 140,000 academics in STEMM showing discipline & country-specific attrition of academic careers from the publication of first paper. The probability of continuing after 19y just 38-43%. Interactive maps at: public.tableau.com/app/profile/... 🧪

A colour-encoded world map showing American, European, & Oceanian countries coloured for the Kaplan-Meier probability of women staying in science (across all disciplines) and cohort starting from year 2000, across the subsequent 19 yrs.

Izzy Jayasinghe@ijayas· Jan 4

A delayed new year post with much gratitude for everything & everybody in our lives. 2024 was a busy first year after returning to 🇦🇺 & loving this gorgeous city of Sydney. Whilst we miss so many of our friends back in 🇬🇧 we hope to see each of you again, hopefully soon. Wishing everyone a happy 2025!

Selfie of me and @jessgifkins.bsky.social taken from a high vantage point looking over the Sydney harbour, harbour bridge, and city skyline

View of Sydney harbour from the north side, with the harbour bridge on the left and the city skyline on the right. Lots of sail boats in the water in front of the bridge and city.

Photo taken from a seaside hill with @jessgifkins.bsky.social sitting on the grassy bank overlooking the eastern Sydney coast on a cloudy day.

Lengthwise view of the light rail platform in Sydney central with a big rainbow painted along the platform.

Izzy Jayasinghe@ijayas· Dec 16

Out of office on. Heading north. 🦘

View out of the car driving up a country road. Sunny blue skies.

Izzy Jayasinghe@ijayas· Dec 14

Just say it, Kiri.

Izzy Jayasinghe@ijayas· Nov 24

All of the users of this app who arrived here a year ago and gave up on distributing invite codes are now like this. Tell me I’m wrong.

Car swerving meme. On the motorway sign going straight: “Twitter is useless and my time is better focused on work, life etc”. On the off ramp, “Mass migration of Tweeps to the new app”. The car swerving to the off-ramp: “Me”.

Izzy Jayasinghe@ijayas· Nov 23

Good morning from Canberra, the capital city of Australia.

A broken piano sitting in front of a tree in a park.

Izzy Jayasinghe@ijayas· Nov 15

Saturday morning crossword hack with ChatGPT is going well. 🤨

ChatGPT dialogue:

Me:
A four letter word for something a vacuum cleaner sucks up, second letter is o

GPT: The answer is dirt.

Me: Second letter of the word is o

GPT: A four-letter word for something a vacuum cleaner sucks up, with the second letter being "o," is dust.

Me: Try again

GPT: A four-letter word for something a vacuum cleaner sucks up, with the second letter "o," could be foam.

Izzy Jayasinghe@ijayas· Nov 12

Dear Nature Portfolio, This is a bit rich coming from you especially just weeks after your editors ghosted me after I raised concerns about the revisions (or lack thereof) of a paper that I reviewed for one of your flagship journals. IT WILL BE A WHILE BEFORE I SUBMIT MORE OF MY WORK.

Email text saying:

Dear Izzy Jayasinghe,
It's been some time since you last submitted your work with us, and you may already be working on your next piece of research. With this in mind, we're pleased to share some interesting tools that may expand your knowledge and support you in the next step of your career.
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We hope you will consider submitting again with Nature Portfolio.

Izzy Jayasinghe@ijayas· Nov 8

Ending the week feeling like a total failure (whilst in grant writing mode) but full of gratitude to the shining sun and this beautiful city I now call home #Sydney

View of harbour with lots of sail boats on the water, sun and blue sky shining off the water. In the foreground, a grassy bank and the branches of a leafy tree

Izzy Jayasinghe@ijayas· Oct 30

Here in 🇦🇺 , we are going to be joining our academic friends doing it tough around the globe. Some big Aus unis looking at mass layoffs to offset the losses from international student caps that our Labour govt is proposing to bring in. Way to desalinate the biggest industry that’s not about mining.