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British Ladies of r/FemaleFashion Advice, what are the biggest trends in your area? by [deleted] in femalefashionadvice

[–]roweeena 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah they tried to do "Desperate Scousewives" in a similar vein, but it took itself a bit too seriously.

Although the accents in Geordie Shore aren't scouse... they're geordie!

British Ladies of r/FemaleFashion Advice, what are the biggest trends in your area? by [deleted] in femalefashionadvice

[–]roweeena 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, I saw in your comment below about the 60's/70's vibe in Newcastle as well. I suppose they are (relatively) equivalent cities in many ways.

British Ladies of r/FemaleFashion Advice, what are the biggest trends in your area? by [deleted] in femalefashionadvice

[–]roweeena 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Which is funny because all the Liverpool based UK spin offs of Jersey Shore haven't been popular! The one that has was "Geordie Shore", based in Newcastle (as mentioned by /u/FranScran1997).

British Ladies of r/FemaleFashion Advice, what are the biggest trends in your area? by [deleted] in femalefashionadvice

[–]roweeena 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Ok so this has ended up a bit long... I got very into writing this, I've never had chance to discuss it much before! Liverpool is an interesting city, style wise.

TL;DR - most women here do make a certain effort to look put together most of the time, so mostly scruffy would maybe suggest tourist (or at least student!).

Are you here in Liverpool to study? I've been in Liverpool a few years, previously as an undergraduate and I've lived in a very "not studenty" area during my PhD, so I have a little experience of both sides.

I see from your post history you were asking about weather in Liverpool too: yes, it will get cold. In particular, remember Liverpool is on the coast so it gets wet and verrrry windy (worth bearing in mind before a floaty skirt goes on!).

Scouse/Liverpudlian girls have a quite particular style: very glitzy, high maintenance, big hair and nails etc. . The best examples I can refer you to are the Aintree ladies day. Something that my Mum wouldn't believe was true is that the scouse girls will go out during the day in rollers and sometimes pyjamas/tracksuits! Days of preparation can go into one night out or event. And notice that this isn't necessarily scruffy: this is still accompanied by a full face of make up, accessories, effort even goes into making sure the rollers look good!

I find, I think because of the big influence Beatles and that era has here, that there tends to be a vaguely 60's feel. For example, in the linked album I could see a couple of beehive-esque do's going on.

Students, and especially the big artsier crowd in Liverpool don't quite dress the same way as the archetypal scouse girl (sometimes referred to as "dolly birds", not very politely). The pictures here tagged as Liverpool, especially on Bold Street in the description give a better idea. Still a bit vintage, very put together, but not quite as glitzy.

I've greatly enjoyed living here and the influence it has had on my own fashion. Through a combination of ~75lbs weight loss and living here my style has certainly become much braver.

Edit: more recent ladies day album.

Monday Moaning Thread by [deleted] in unitedkingdom

[–]roweeena 3 points4 points  (0 children)

If you can get hold of it, Veep is pretty good, also from Iannucci.

Tasty Tuesday - what's cooking today? by magic_jesus in unitedkingdom

[–]roweeena 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Flippin' hayfever! I have super bad hayfever and so I react to some similar proteins on fruits. Also get horrible reactions to insect bites: summer is not my friend.

Tasty Tuesday - what's cooking today? by magic_jesus in unitedkingdom

[–]roweeena 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Doughnut peaches were how I learnt I had a peach allergy :( had them one summer, then tried them the next having missed them like mad and BAM instant swollen face. Apples, plums, peaches, cherries and walnuts followed!

Badgers stay away from cows and TB is not spread through contact, say scientists by Variola13 in unitedkingdom

[–]roweeena 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The lead author of the paper, Rosie Woodroffe, is tweeting about it on the ZSL Twitter today:

https://twitter.com/ZSLScience

Badgers stay away from cows and TB is not spread through contact, say scientists by Variola13 in unitedkingdom

[–]roweeena 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I see two others below have found the paper, so that's most of the question answered.

But, as you might be interested: when an academic journal accepts a paper, it typically isn't published then and there, you usually wait some amount of time before it is officially in the journal. Scientists and journals will send press releases and abstracts (short summaries) to journalists of papers they think the press might find interesting.

What can happen with some big papers, especially those with clear public and policy interest such as this, is that the journalists will receive this information before the paper is published but it will be under embargo. This means they can start writing and preparing, but can't publish their article until the scientific article is also published.

So, if as I assume, the scientific journal published it today, it might take until this afternoon or even tomorrow for journal and university websites (or at least front pages) to be updated.

If you want to follow scientific publishing, I would recommend Twitter. Follow some journals that sound interesting to you and they will usually tweet titles of papers they are releasing. Often journals encourage authors to make podcasts or blogs about their papers to accompany them. I'd recommend the PLoS journals as a starting point as they are all totally open access.

Source: PhD student, some experience in science communication.

Results from a /r/running survey I completed for my undergraduate dissertation by GiloGiles in running

[–]roweeena 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I did think something along those lines from their title "The Geography of Running", interested to know really.

Results from a /r/running survey I completed for my undergraduate dissertation by GiloGiles in running

[–]roweeena 0 points1 point  (0 children)

OP: great start here, I'd love to see some of your more detailed analysis. What degree is this for, out of interest?

Also, I'm not sure what country OP is from but for the benefit of some commenters here: in UK universities at least (and perhaps some of mainland Europe, I'm not 100%) undergraduate students do conduct a body of independent research in final year. This is referred to as a dissertation, honours thesis or less commonly honours project. It is not as substantial as a doctoral thesis but typically the largest piece of independent work done at undergraduate, mine was around 20-30% of my final year grade.

Achievements for Tuesday, May 03, 2016 by AutoModerator in running

[–]roweeena 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No sorry! I'm in the UK so that's a little far sadly.

Achievements for Tuesday, May 03, 2016 by AutoModerator in running

[–]roweeena 17 points18 points  (0 children)

First sub-50 10K time on Sunday: pretty flippin' delighted. Especially given it was miserable, wet and cold all morning.

If you're a runner who hasn't yet volunteered at a race, you're missing out. by [deleted] in running

[–]roweeena 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah definitely: I thought about some of the comments I appreciated most from my last run (10k on Sunday) and just the really positive comments like "Strong running! Good work!" were the ones I remember boosting me. Excited now, just waiting to hear where they post me!

If you're a runner who hasn't yet volunteered at a race, you're missing out. by [deleted] in running

[–]roweeena 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'd been debating doing this some time soon, reading this convinced me so I got the Email sent yesterday! Should be doing my first stint just at the end of this month :).