GaryFoster (@Prof_GD

GaryFoster

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GaryFoster

@Prof_GD_Foster

Retired Prof in Molecular Plant Pathology: enjoys life voraciously: enjoys beer: enjoys family & 2 dogs even more than beer(!) L'pool FC through thick & thin

Bristol (origins Norn Iron)

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Joined August 2012

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GaryFoster
@Prof_GD_Foster
Apr 30
When I appeared on hit BBC podcast #Uncanny on my time in Alanbrooke Hall QUB that was weird enough. But now a band has many an album based on it all & Room 6:11 You can listen to the album from the link below tinyurl.com/3zv8j574 Come on @danny_robins time for the movie🎥
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GaryFoster
@Prof_GD_Foster
Apr 16, 2024
Many academics/ scientists should bear this in mind.
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GaryFoster
@Prof_GD_Foster
Aug 25, 2024
Since I retired I brought all the thesis home from my office and built a “thesis tower” in my home office. The names and dates bring back so many memories. The highs and lows, the laughter and tears of all those amazing students I had the honour to supervise
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GaryFoster
@Prof_GD_Foster
Apr 1, 2021
The embargo is lifted. Apologies to every author/editor who will now have to rewrite every science & Irish history book. New evidence reveals that Irish Potato Famine was caused by the virus Potato virus X & not the oomycete Phytophthora infestans, rewriting science & history
GaryFoster
@Prof_GD_Foster
Nov 17, 2022
As I cleared out my office in work I just couldn’t bare to throw out the hard bound thesis produced by wonderful students over the years. So they’ve all come home with me. This is just one of the “thesis” mountains I’ve built.
GaryFoster
@Prof_GD_Foster
Mar 20, 2020
My best friend during my PhD, my drinking buddy and my rock, my best man at my wedding died on Wednesday of a heart attack when self isolating. I need no sympathy. We were life twins and lived life to the full. Just do me a favour and hug all your loved ones tonight.
GaryFoster
@Prof_GD_Foster
Mar 14, 2018
1. Double student numbers, no increase in staff, did I complain~NO 2. Told to lecture over lunch & to 6~NO 3. Work unpaid on numerous Saturdays for Open Days~NO 4.Dealing with TEF/REF/KEF~NO 5. When they tried to steal pensions from my younger colleagues~ did I complain~HELL YES
GaryFoster
@Prof_GD_Foster
Nov 16, 2020
I’m surprised we’ve lasted this long. My amazing other half who has been on frontline as a doc against COVID since Feb started feeling unwell Fri. Swab test Sat, sadly a positive today. She has been PPE-ed from head to toe, there is no such thing as COVID secure.
GaryFoster
@Prof_GD_Foster
Jun 14, 2020
GaryFoster
@Prof_GD_Foster
Aug 12, 2021
Yep.....
GaryFoster
@Prof_GD_Foster
Nov 11, 2021
Dear Students @ucu strike a thread👇 I missed you terribly during lockdown, I hated going on strike over last few years, & the last thing I wanna do now is strike again. I love teaching you all, it has been my passion, my life. Any current or past students will testify to this
GaryFoster
@Prof_GD_Foster
Mar 13, 2020
Let’s be very very clear. Without vaccinations, the herd immunity approach is that we, as a civilised society have agreed that the weak, the old, the infirmed, as well as random healthy people die Leaving those that have been infected and survive. How did we come to this
GaryFoster
@Prof_GD_Foster
May 19, 2021
One for @BristOliver There’s so few laughs in maths. So I send him all I can.
GaryFoster
@Prof_GD_Foster
Mar 11, 2018
Been called a militant, never been on strike in my life. My VC says it’s complex issue only he understands, spent my life analysing data! Been accused of just striking for money, I’m an old fart, my pension is safe. This is academia’s future~strike with me tomorrow @Bristol_UCU