Immigrant land mammal with her cat and her hamster. Keen on brains, sleep, memory and dementia. Digital Health Lecturer at UoBristol. PhD in medicine. She/her.
Dec 19, 2022 • 16 tweets • 4 min read
You know how Santa is from Finland? Here's some pictures of him. Here Santa is sat on a pile of children's skulls from his hunting trip. Legend has it the hill he lives on in Lapland, called Korvatunturi, grew from the children's skulls. A short festive🧵with Santa photos 1/n
Here, Santa is spanking a child who has been naughty. He did not spare the whip. Since Christians took over the whole Christmas thing they have kept quiet about Santa's pagan past. He was a bit of a nasty elf.
I think everyone I know who works in a vocational profession is happier for it. None of them are failures, no one lacks imagination, they are, on most part, people doing what they love. Coming from a small industrial town majority of my friends there aren’t academic. They work in
May 13, 2019 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
I'm gonna go on a bit of a rant here ABOUT A DATE because I just remembered something that annoyed me to no end 4 years ago and I didn't rant about it at the time so I'll do that now while I am waiting for my coffee to brew. So first: Yes, I went on a date once! [thread]
I actually went on a few dates with this person but it was this one date that set something off. Somehow we got onto the topic of #TheMoomins. Now I am Finnish, Moomins are Finnish, I feel strongly about this one. All Finns do. Even if we don't we do when we talk about them with
Mar 30, 2019 • 18 tweets • 3 min read
How to talk to a PhD student in their final few months of the PhD? I don’t know but I’ll thread what I like and don’t like... here we go [1/many]
1 Ask how I am doing and how I am going. Don’t ask how my thesis is coming along. If you’re not my supervisor or a colleague working on similar stuff about to give advice, I don’t want to discuss it with you.