Next, a glorious combo of maths, metals, and microbial ecology. This one is supervised by Denis Patterson and @blindmath.bsky.social, also at Durham. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

About time! 🦭🦈🐬🐋🐳🐟🐠🐡🦐🦞🦀🦑🐙🪼🦪🪸

The Trust's Early Career Fellowships offer a three-year salaried post for researchers at the beginning of their academic career to undertake a significant piece of research. Interested? Apply here: www.leverhulme.ac.uk/early-career... Closing date: 19 February 2026, 4pm

Born #OnThisDay in 1850 was mathematician Sofia Kovalevskaya, who made significant contributions to several fields of mathematics. She was the first woman to be awarded a PhD in mathematics and one of the first women to work as an editor at a scientific journal. #WomenInSTEM

Fabian was quicker :) But yes, we have an open postdoc position in bacterial bioenergetics and membrane biology, using on B. subtilis as the model. Come join us! @cbcb-newcastle.bsky.social is a great place to work, and we are a friendly, international lab. Visa+IHS fees covered. #microsky

Our research scientist Núria Ros-Rocher won the 1st prize @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social microscopy contest with this beautiful choano colony www.zeiss.fr/microscopie/... 🥳 C. flexa might not yet be a genetic model, but it is now at least a calendar model, which counts for something. I think.

If you work on corvid ecology, behaviour, cognition, or conservation, this might be useful for you 👇 I’ve just published CORVIDATA in Scientific Data 🐦 doi.org/10.1038/s415... (1/4)

Mosses love to decorate with slime molds. Northwest Territories, Canada. #slime #fungifriends #myxo #moss #bryophyte #botany

Microbes whose lifestyle is tuned to geological timescales 🤯

Are you a long-time fan of Archaea, an extremophile-phile, or are you simply curious? Either way, we have good news. We’re delighted to announce the 2026 EMBO Workshop on Archaea, 6–10 July. Sign up: meetings.embo.org/event/26-arc... We look forward to seeing you in Cambridge, UK. Please repost!

French natural philosopher and mathematician Émilie du Châtelet was born #OnThisDay in 1706. Her 'Institutions de Physique' caused debate throughout Europe, and her translation of Newton's 'Principia Mathematica' is still considered the standard translation in France. #WomenInSTEM

In yet more devastating news, the VC has confirmed her plans to cut 80% of academic staff from Essex Pathways, our foundation year department. This would effectively close down all our existing foundation year programmes through the back door. But it's not a done deal yet. Please share urgently.

Thursday of Thought Gridogram 2025-12-11 was No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man. — Heraclitus (c. 500 BC) Heraclitus’ doctrine has be been formulated as panta rhei, “everything flows” Today is Friday Book Club ▶️ gridogram.com #PhilSky

This is a great tool for estimating the impacts of air cleaners in nat vent UK schools. Unlike most air cleaner selection tools which just size on clean air delivery rate CHEPA also considers the energy aspects depending on local climate.

For avoidance of confusion, that’s just about all academic staff, excluding Heads of Dept and- of course - Senior Management Team.

I am looking to hire a postdoc to work with me on fluid-structure interactions in complex and active fluids. Ideally the candidate will have a strong background in numerical/asymptotic analysis and fluid mechanics (complex fluids / LCs even better). www.mathjobs.org/jobs/list/26...

Flagellar length control in Chlamydomonas is a paradigm for organelle size regulation. In poster 163 at CellBio2025 Sunday Dec 7, I present work by Hiro Ishikawa using a synthetic biology approach to test a length-sensing model based on diffusion of kinesin in flagella

Excited to share that Li Shen and I are recruiting for a fully funded PhD studentship (UK home rates). If you’re interested in the principles of pattern formation and machine learning, this could be a great fit. Full details here: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Still time to apply for this opportunity. We're looking for a student with a background in physics or engineering and an interest in marine biology or ecology or a biologist/ecologist with an interest in biophysics. Please forward to any interested students and repost. Thanks!

‼️🚨🗓️ CONTAMCALENDAR 2026 🗓️🚨‼️ Excited to say the ContamCalendar is back for its fifth edition! We’ve created a fresh new design, folding out for an A3 monthly spread. It’s our best yet, we hope you’ll love it 🗓️🦠🧫🍄 Get yours here ➡️ www.contam.club ⬅️

Feeding the juveniles #CarrionCrows #corvids #CorvusCorone #giftsofthecrow

Understanding the relationship between #foraminifera & their #symbionts can help corals phys.org/news/2025-09... Specific host - #algae relationship, yet flexible bacterial #microbiome, in diatom-bearing foraminifera: Elsa Girard et al. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #Protists #Microbes #Diatoms

Reflections on a meeting @royalsociety.org on Historical Perspectives of Women in Science. What has changed from the elections of the first women FRSs to now? #womeninSTEM occamstypewriter.org/athenedonald...

Predator amoeba🦠 C.owczarzaki is both chemotactic and chemokinetic. Our simulations indicate that even just the latter is beneficial to predation. Great work by Sonyia Quick @jasonbains.bsky.social (his second paper!) et al. A serendipitous collaboration with the Gerdt lab. doi.org/10.5967/sh2f...

Jackdaw and juvenile crows roost. #corvids #crows #jackdaw

My alma mater, Leicester University, is dissolving its Geology Department leading to the loss of 14 staff. Palaeo is being completely axed, despite Leicester's long and storied history in this area (and its current strengths). Please sign this petition!!: www.change.org/p/save-geolo...

Marine #phytoplankton need move up/down in the #ocean to access light & nutrients. Study of the effects of nutrient availability in 9 species reveals that phytoplankton have evolved multiple mechanisms that impact gravitational sinking in response to starvation @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4iaJFoV

Not to be missed!

Snow in the Toon. #students #newcastle

Still time to apply for this opportunity. We're looking for a student with a background in physics or engineering and an interest in marine biology or ecology or a biologist/ecologist with an interest in biophysics. Please forward to any interested students and repost. Thanks!

now i've seen everything... 😱 don't care what anybody says but #protists are cognitive

Our preprint is out! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Peter Skovorodnikov and I are excited to present FERAL: a new video-understanding toolkit that maps raw video directly to behavior, no pose estimation required. It works across species, from lab to field, and even in collective systems. (🧵1/n)

Still time to apply for this exciting PhD opportunity. Join us to study🔬 bloom forming toxic dinoflagellates 🦠 International students must enquire by: Dec 8th Final deadline: Jan 5th Please repost/share! #PhD #biophysics #ActiveMatter #microswimmers #algae #plankton #ecology

If antibiotics aren’t helping, go back to your doctor, don’t wait it out. Use antibiotics only when prescribed, finish the course, don’t save leftovers, and never share them. Smart use = slowing #AMR. #vanessacarteramr.bsky.social #WAAW www.bbc.com/news/article...

Born #OnThisDay in 1914 was actress and inventor Hedy Lamarr. As well as acting in 30 films, during the Second World War she co-developed a frequency-hopping guidance system for American torpedoes, the principles of which are used in Bluetooth and WiFi technologies today. #WomenInSTEM

If you believe either that Franklin discovered the double helix, and / or Watson and Crick stole her data, ask yourself how you know this. Then take a read of this article.

What about the 1926 Madelung (hydrodynamic) formulation of quantum mechanics? That doesn't require imaginary numbers either.

Frost forms hexagonal columns on a wooden rail in this microphotograph by Gregory B. Murray. fyfluiddynamics.com/?p=25392

Born #OnThisDay in 1867 was Marie Skłodowska–Curie, the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the only woman to win twice and the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two disciplines: Physics for her work on radioactivity, and Chemistry for her discovery of radium and polonium. #WomenInSTEM

interested in mechanobiology and physics of living systems? this is the conference for you! Join us 9-12 June in Heidelberg! with @nicolettapetridou.bsky.social @xaviertrepat.bsky.social Enrique Rojas & Alba Diz-Munoz Registration OPEN www.embl.org/about/info/c...

I am invariably making other plans when life happens

🚨Fully funded PhD opportunity: Physics, biology & ecology of toxic dinoflagellate blooms 🦠. Join us to investigate how motility and mixotrophy influence bloom formation, using experiment🔬and modelling ♾️. #microswimmers #plankton #biophysics #ecology #PhD pls RT iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...

Looking for an AMR-themed PhD project? Join us to investigate antibiotic tolerance in Staphylococcus aureus through a fully funded MRC DTP PhD studentship starting in September 2026. This project is close collaboration with @kateduncan.bsky.social and @mycobacterium-ncl.bsky.social.

(1/2) A new study from EMBL researchers and their collaborators provides unprecedented insights into the cellular architecture of over 200 species of plankton – tiny but ecologically critical marine organisms – using ultrastructure expansion microscopy. Learn more: www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

📢 Postdoc position: Cell Biology of Cyanobacteria in my group, as part of the Excellence Cluster "Microbes for Climate" (M4C) in Marburg, Germany. More information at shorturl.at/wNnDT (see Project 2) 🔗Apply at shorturl.at/VsEDl 📅Deadline: Nov 16, 2025 Please repost. #Postdoc

We are looking for: PhD Student (starting as Research Assistant) and Postdoctoral Researcher in Stem Cell Biology and Mechanobiology. Please RT💕 🔗 About our lab: renew.science/principal_in... 🎓 PhD position: jobportal.ku.dk/phd/?show=15... 🧪 Postdoc position: jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...

We are hiring! Interested? Apply here: go.mbl.edu/AS1887

Even more biased: I'm excited about the project 'Turbulent Partners: Unravelling Host-Virus Coevolution in Dynamic Environments' with Adam Monier and Daniel Kattnig. Drop me an email if interested! www.exeter.ac.uk/v8media/rese...