📢🚨Please share! We’re hiring! 📢🚨Have a strong interests in wildlife ecology and gut microbiome bioinformatics? 3 year Senior Research Associate for NERC Pushing the Frontiers grant. Apply here: vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/18.... Informal enquiries welcome! drgldavidson.github.io/ACMEresearch

A new paper in The Lancet, one of the world’s foremost peer reviewed medical journals, estimates that USAID prevented 91 million deaths across 133 countries over 20 years. The paper estimates that Elon Musk’s DOGE funding cuts to USAID will lead to 14 million deaths by 2030 (4.5 million children).

Excited to be a part of this new paper with Alphey Lab- out in pre-print. Multiplexing overrides resistance for #genedrive in Anopheles stephensi www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

This week, the capital of Evolution is Barcelona! Over 1900 evolutionary biologists are gathering for the biennial meeting of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology, coorganised with its Spanish sister #ESEB2025. Over 540 of us are on Bluesky! You can use these starter packs to connect: 1/n

Folks going to #ESEB2025 : To help people connect on Bluesky, I've started making starter packs. Here is a first one with the names that were available when I started. Ping me if you want to be included in the next one!

Let’s talk about career change. I loved listening to @minecr.bsky.social on The Test Set this week. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m... She intially trained as an actuary, determined that she didn’t love that, and decided to do a PhD in statistics.

A reminder you/your lab can support FlyBase at Cambridge through the following link. Every bit helps. Please share if you yourself can't donate. www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...

Devastating and idiotic. It is a no-brainer for the UK to provide emergency funds to host the entirety of FlyBase out of Cambridge and pick up the bill on these salaries. Every individual in FlyBase is an international treasure any country would be lucky to have.

FAQs on the #DecodeME #MECFS results www.decodeme.org.uk/faqs/

🚨New pre-print🚨 Natural DNA variation can slash CRISPR gene drive efficiency by up to 54% in Culex quinquefasciatus, a major West Nile virus mosquito vector. <10% mismatch at the target site disrupts copying. #GeneDrive #CRISPR (with Tim Harvey-Samuel and Alphey Lab) doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Out now in @molbioevol.bsky.social with Michelle Liu (co-first), Ryan Frost, Matthew Lindsay, Malak Bayoumi, Martin Brengdahl, @ruxmolnar.bsky.social and @aneil-agrawal.bsky.social, we evolved ~40% of the D. melanogaster genome under male-limited inheritance, ... academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...

Every time a new edition of this course starts, I get a little nervous. Even though it always gets great feedback, this is a labour of love, and I want everyone to get the confidence in statistics that is essential for good science. We start today, let’s go! #rstats

We are still looking for a motivated student to join us in the wonderful world of mosquito microbiome genomies! Funding unfortunately only for UK students for this one. If interested, please send CV & letter of motivation (email in image below) #MicroSky #MicrobiomeSky 💻🧬 🧪Please share widely😊 1/2

I'm really looking forward to delivering this talk about creating data for teaching and testing using the {messy} package for the @royalstatsoc.bsky.social Manchester Group! 📅 Thursday 10 July 2025 ⌚ 1 - 2PM BST 📌 Online (everyone welcome!) Register: rss.org.uk/training-eve... #RStats #StatsEd

⁉️Why are students at UEA supporting members of staff on strike? 📽️Watch this video to hear from the amazing students who came to join lecturers and professional services staff on the picket line. 📣Stop the cuts! #SaveUEA

As seen on LinkedIn😂 Learning R in 2025...

💬 “Europe and the UK have in general been very good at recognising the need for FAIR data and #metadata, so I would say we are in a very strong position.” 📄 #AI and life sciences: why #FAIR #data is essential 💻 🗃️ 🧬

"The authors also found that the effect size — the magnitude of the observed impact in the experiments — was, on average, 60% larger in the original papers than in the experimental follow-ups" www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A new gene drive in Anopheles gambiae - nice work from @sebaldv.bsky.social @nikiwind.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I'm really interested in connecting with people who teach or engage with open science in undergraduate education in the biosciences. If you have resources to share or want to connect please reach out! #highereducation osf.io/74x2e/

Introducing the brand new Starter Pack of staff, PhD students and related accounts, from the School of Biological Sciences, UEA. Follow us... #UEAScience go.bsky.app/PLSJXMz

New paper out! Assessing the ability of 4 RNA Pol III promoters to bias the inheritance of a gene drive element in Anopheles stephensi www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Check out our new study in An. stephensi: Variable gene drive efficiency across 4 Pol III promoters (but up to 99.8%) - building essential knowledge for next-gen drives. Key challenges remain - maternal Cas9 causes high rates of early somatic editing. #genedrive www.nature.com/articles/s41...

a short lecturer contract at UEA. vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/14...

Here's the always-updating British universities redundancy map, so you can keep up day by day. ☹️ goo.gl/maps/x1k3a6R...

What happened? Lots of people showed up on Blue sky today

Open code and software encourages collaboration between code users, developers and researchers. What are your experiences with sharing your code and software? #OpenResearch #Research #OpenCode #OpenSoftware

🚀 Got your sights set on an Independent Fellowship? Our 2025 Independent Fellowship Support Scheme is now open—offering tailored support for fellowship applicants. We’re a dynamic, friendly department in one of the world’s best cities to live and work 🌍✨ 🔗 Curious? tinyurl.com/49k2fe76

Uber are a terrible company, and I hope we can support local businesses instead... www.bbc.com/news/article...

We're on strike tomorrow at UEA. Nearly 200 jobs are currently targeted for redundancy. Over 600 staff will have been cut since 2023 if these redundancies go ahead. Fewer staff = heavy workloads, poor morale, more stress & burnout & bigger classes. We can't do more with less @uea-ucu.bsky.social

There is power in coming together and acting as a collective in moments of crisis, and we need to act together to support all our colleagues who are ‘at risk’ of redundancy. Join us on the picket this Weds 26th. #SaveUEA www.timeshighereducation.com/news/uea-sta... @ucu.org.uk

Really excited to see this book published today which includes a chapter from me on Belonging within the Biosciences. I'm looking forward to getting my hands on a hard copy of the whole publication! @biouea.bsky.social #belonging #biology #studentbelonging

🚩Nadine Zubair, UEA UCU co-chair, writes for the BBC: 📣"We will use our strike day to celebrate staff, to remind the employer that we are the university, that we matter, and that we have a clear and unified voice." ✊Join us on Weds 26th March. #SaveUEA www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The PCR machine in the corner called "Bess" that has outlived every contender machine brought into the lab for over 25 years.

🪲Know someone working with insects based in the UK? 🦟 Please share the RES Insect Welfare Survey with your colleagues and students! 🙌🏽 www.royensoc.co.uk/news/res-wel... @hau-entomology.bsky.social @unirdgento.bsky.social @insectneurolab.bsky.social @gmrc.bsky.social @royentsoc.bsky.social

We’re taking strike action at UEA next Wednesday, like many other UCU colleagues across the UK facing similar threats of redundancy. Please give our UCU account a follow & support our strike action next week 🌹💪

🔔 Reminder! The RES Insect Welfare Survey is live! 🦗 If you work with insects in the UK, share your views on ethics and welfare. www.royensoc.co.uk/news/res-wel... Deadline: April 1st⏳ #InsectResearch #EthicsInScience #InsectEthics @royentsoc.bsky.social @dipteristsforum.bsky.social

🚨RES Insect Research Ethics Survey🪲 The Royal Entomological Society needs your input on UK insect research ethics and welfare! Help shape future resources by taking our survey: www.royensoc.co.uk/news/res-wel... #InsectResearch #InsectWelfare #EthicsInScience #Entomology #RESurvey

Whenever @gsoh31.bsky.social writes about university troubles for us a the @financialtimes.com , it gets a large and very engaged bunch of readers - a dreadful situtation - the par on consultants dictating course provision is horrendous www.ft.com/content/0ec7...

What is striking about this article is the support it details for previous mass job losses in Dundee. Redundant workers were helped, hugely, by local campaigns. There is literally *nothing* being offered to redundant university staff anywhere and it is wrecking lives + will wreck communities

Powerful essay by Siddhartha Mukherjee on how Covid pandemic destroyed the idea of health as a public good and made it into a private responsibility "The deeper message is that we’re all on our own, fighting our private battles. I fear we will come to regret it" www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/o...

Gene-edited non-browning banana could cut food waste, scientists say www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

🔹The University of Bristol ReproducibiliTea journal club is looking for new organiser(s)🔹 If you are an ECR or postgraduate student based at the Uni. of Bristol and would like to become an organiser, then please contact the UKRN LNL ([email protected])

Great to see so many of our Institutional Leads and Local Network Leads together in Cardiff yesterday. Lots of discussion, ideas, plans and bright Welsh sunshine. Huge thanks to Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Culture for hosting us. #collaboration #openscience #reproducibility

I am thrilled to present the Mosquito Cell Atlas! We analyzed 367K nuclei from 19 tissues in male & female mosquitoes, creating a comprehensive resource for vector biology & infectious disease research. Plus we made some surprising discoveries! 🦟🧵 biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/n

Today in depressing news - I had an exchange with a student who was deeply surprised that ChatGPT gets facts wrong. I feel like I have tried to extensively and constructively lead discussions on the need to fact-check outputs and be "in charge" - but clearly I need to do more or vary approaches.

Dominant fitness costs demonstrate the difficulties in producing a gene drive - even with highly effective homing rates. New paper in collab with Alphey Lab parasitesandvectors.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

The Guardian view on campus cuts: academics pay a high price for Westminster’s mistakes | Editorial

Dominant fitness costs demonstrate the difficulties in producing a gene drive - even with highly effective homing rates. New paper in collab with Alphey Lab parasitesandvectors.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....