Where do these cells come from? Since I can't use this technique to measure electrical activity from an actual human heart in the lab, we make our own!
As you can see here, I was shook. I mean, we make heart cells from scratch and they start beating! WILD.
Here's THE BEST PART
Okay so boom, we make these heart cells (healthy or diseased)
I record their electrical profile, so we know what looks healthy & what doesn't
THEN, I add the (potential) therapy we're developing to the cells & measure its effect on their electrical profile
The diseased heart cells will beat irregularly (like in arrhythmia), & if our therapy does what we want it to do, it should restore a healthy, normal rhythm.
If it doesn't, back to the drawing board. #thatsscience
That's basically part of my thesis work in a nutshell.
2/Our findings suggest that student evaluations of teaching seem to measure *conformity with gendered expectations* rather than teaching quality
A cause for concern given the integration of SET data into performance profiles, and management and organisation of teaching practice
3/Before I go on, in terms of the necessarily binary reporting, it is very important to say here that we recognise the ‘pluralities inherent in gender(s)’ that complicate simple binary approaches to gender (Weerawardhana, 2018, p.189), and we do discuss this in the paper
On important background, in March 2020 the IOC recognised harassment and abuse as a current human rights challenge, and in particular recognised that LGBTQI+ athletes are at “particular risk of harm and structural discrimination”
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The IOC now recognise female eligibility regulation *as an organisational violence issue* and as systemic discrimination
[I'll do another tweet thread on this later, drawing on my own research on this]
I want to address a narrative that we see around women’s sport and inclusion (particularly from those who seek to exclude trans women & women with sex variations from women’s sport), and how this narrative is part of a bigger pattern that functions to keep women small
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I have been hearing more frequently the narrative that women's sport apparently exists as a 'protected category' so that women can win (because, on this account, without it no woman will ever win again)
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This is:
a) *not* the reason why women's sport exists as a category,
and b) it is *not* true that no woman will ever win again.
This narrative is profoundly paternalistic and keeps women small.