Come and work with us, We are looking for a new group leader at Turku Bioscience @turkubioscience.bsky.social. Åbo Akademi University invites applications for a fixed term position as Head of Research in Bioscience (Principle Investigator). abo.rekrytointi.com/paikat/?o=A_...

Big new blogpost! My guide to data visualization, which includes a very long table of contents, tons of charts, and more. --> Why data visualization matters and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful. www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/salonis-gu...

Sarah Anne Johnson, WWSOSR (detail) (pigment print with oil paint, 2020) 📸🎨

If you run across a gen A.I. slop 🤖💩 diagram in an academic journal, I’d love to know about it! Please fill out this form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Slop in journals is illuminating about journals’ quality control. And journals would like you to forget their mistakes. #AcademicChatter

Interested in Zebrafish brain imaging? We released a 3D printed mold that's is super helpful for us. Check it out Customizable FDM-based zebrafish embryo mold for live imaging www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Work by Marcela and Jaakko in the lab

- A postdoc to work on cancer extravasation (4-year project). - A postdoc help in completing Filopodia-related lab projects (2-year). - Multiple Marie Curie postdoc positions that will open in the fall. - We will open a 5-year position to cover my teaching (70% research and 30% teaching).

The FPbase spectra viewer just had it's biggest software refactor in 6 years. It *should* be largely invisible to the end user (hopefully just faster and less buggy). Please let me know if you find any issues as you use it! www.fpbase.org/spectra/

Please read our statement, share it with your networks, and support us if you can. www.python.org/sponsors/app... psfmember.org/civicrm/cont...

What’s on your pod playlist these days? I highly recommend “Lost Women of Science”, an excellent look into unknown women who devoted their lives to science & opened doors to important discoveries. #STEM #podcasts #STEMinist Also give @lostwomenofsci.bsky.social a follow! www.lostwomenofscience.org

Today is June 25. On this date in 1903 Marie Curie defended her doctoral thesis on radioactive substances at Université de la Sorbonne in Paris, becoming 1st woman in France to receive a doctoral degree. Image shows the thesis cover.

Are you looking for a postdoc? I will be looking for 2-4 people after the summer to join the lab !! Do not hesitate to reach out and disseminate !!

Let's talk about a party—where drugs don't hit the dance floor but finely tune #EpithelialMechanics by hitting actomyosin cortex! 🧬💊 Here's our guide to doing drugs 🧵

a little pick me up lol for the academics in the room

My lab students: *express frustration that if they started in lab knowing what they knew now, they would have gotten their work done so much faster* Me: "Soooo.... you went into a training experience, and got trained????" Them: "...yes good point." #win

JK Rowling reacts after John Oliver debunks claim 900 medals have been ‘lost’ to trans athletes

We wrote an opinion with simple, practical advice for building data exploration workflows in quantitative cell biology with @guijacquemet.bsky.social and @hanna09.bsky.social . I hope you find it useful!

You won’t want to miss this one of a kind conference! Register today 👇🏼

A website has been started in response to the orders to take down references to women’s accomplishments in government offices. We are not going to let them erase us this time. womenrefusingtobeerased.org

If anyone happens to need it this week for...reasons...this is the best graphic on the complexity of human sex determination I've ever seen. I use it in an undergrad course on gene regulatory mechanisms. Shoutout to @unamandita.bsky.social! www.scientificamerican.com/article/beyo...

Women are under-represented at senior levels in #academia globally, & across all #science 🧪 disciplines, as shown by these "scissor-shaped curves" ✂️ So how can we ever achieve #gender #equality? We discuss various strategies in this #Cell Commentary #WomeninSTEM www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... 🧵 1/

TIL Word has activated --without telling anyone- AI-powered features by default. It's called "Connected Experiences" and you can deactivate it in "Privacy" in a Mac or "Trust Center" in a PC. Absolutely outrageous. What the hell.