I have an MRC-funded PhD project available (www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...) on how warming will change the problem of AMR. Join a small and friendly group (padpadpadpad.netlify.app/about) in (sometimes) sunny Cornwall. 🧪🦠 #microsky Please share the ad below with anyone who may be interested.

Very good stuff from Sadiq Khan at the Labour Irish society event. He said there are two reasons he loves coming to Labour Conference. “One is the reception at the Labour Party Irish Society reception. “The second is to get away from all the Sharia Law in London”

We're looking for a new postdoc on our new BBSCR grant (Graham Taylor/Tim Guilford/Cait Newport). See link below! my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

let me share a little story about a remarkable wasp that I encountered yesterday in our local deserts I stumbled across her, and scrambled to get a few crappy photos .... but then realized that she had a burrow, perhaps a better photo op was possible ?? here she is at her burrow entrance.

Time for the world to install a gigawatt of solar power capacity 2004: A year 2010: ~ a month 2015: ~ a week Now: A day ourworldindata.org/data-insight... 🧪

Elon Musk has damaged science in the U.S., and here he is this weekend undermining democracy in the U.K. Yet @royalsociety.org still has him as a Fellow. If "a Fellowship of the world's most eminent scientists" doesn't stand up to fascism, something is very, very wrong.

So you know how there's a running gag about trying to run old school Doom or Wolfenstein on things never intended to run video games? This guy has managed to code a web server that runs from a disposable vape 🤯 bogdanthegeek.github.io/blog/project...

Feeling seen by the Oxford Uni job portal

It suggests early ankylosaur armour could have been used to show off to mates, like a peacock's tail feathers. Later ankylosaurs might have moved to more functional armour as more advanced predators evolved. Discover what else this amazing ankylosaur reveals 👇 (4/4) www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...

MIT’s NANDA initiative found that 95% of generative AI deployments fail after interviewing 150 execs, surveying 350 workers, and analyzing 300 projects. The real “productivity gains” seem to come from layoffs and squeezing more work from fewer people not AI.

I am obsessed with this plant. A species of cucumber, it fruits up to 90cm UNDERGROUND. Why does it do this? Because the only animals known to eat them are AARDVARKS 🤯 THAT'S RIGHT, THIS IS AN AARVARK CUCUMBER. And I got my hands on a specime for the @perfect-specimen.bsky.social 🌿🎙️🧪

There was definitely a Wendy's in Dublin (on Grafton St I think near whats now Burger King) in the (early?) 90s. Along with Dunkin Donuts it didnt last. www.rte.ie/news/busines...

Rare as hen's teeth: an Assistant Curator job, with our fantastic team at National Museums Scotland! Closing date 24th August #museums #museumjobs careers.nms.ac.uk/job/748553

Thread. Can’t wait til there are black-box phylogenetic/popgen programs written with this showing up in papers for review. 🧪

An ongoing Academic (Research and Teaching) position in Genomics, here at Monash University in Melbourne. Closing in a little over a week! Please share widely! Lecturer/Senior Lecturer level (similar to Assistant Professor). careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...

What a cool use of fatty acids, stable isotopes and mixing models!

The UK did have one standout product that was considered globally valuable- universities- and unilaterally decided to stop providing the product because it was more important to be xenophobic than successful

How is it’s still “normal precautions”?

NEW: An Irish tourist visiting the US was jailed by ICE for 3 months after overstaying 3 days due to medical issue. Thomas agreed to be deported, but instead went to federal prison where he recounted horrific conditions + no medical care. “Nobody's safe from the system if they get pulled into it"

Hiring/Seeking a *permanent* programmer in ecological modelling at my lab @unibonn.bsky.social. We mechanistically model plant communities, island biogeography, species range dynamics, eco-evolutionary feedbacks, diversity gradients, tropical forests, vascular epiphytes. Pls rt! shorturl.at/Bzzdt

Someone is going to kill me: Bees, all of them. Salmon. Orca.

You can also follow us here on Bluesky for additional info about each specimen with links to further videos and articles we couldn’t fully cover in the episode :)

Of course they created their own journal at MDPI to publish this. Read the whole thread, but this is another reminder that MDPI sucks ass and you should not publish with them. 🧪

En 2014, Evelyne Dhéliat présentait un faux bulletin météo, celui de 2050. En 2025, avec 25 ans d’avance, ce bulletin devient la réalité.

New paper: in which we get grumpy with GenAI / LLMs polluting the human corpora of text rendering many cultural analyses void. Open access with @healyke.bsky.social @adamdkane.bsky.social @rcorreia.bsky.social doi.org/10.1007/s442... ping @edzitron.com might be of interest?

Universities are not about the accumulation of knowledge, hoarded like gold ducats in a locked vault. Humanity’s collective knowledge is a living thing; it circulates through society like blood; it must constantly be transmitted and renewed. That is what we do.

In our latest commentary piece we highlight that AI has likely already poisoned the well of online data used in culturomic studies that aim to understand shifts in the cultural zeitgeist link.springer.com/article/10.1... 🌐 @yodacomplex.bsky.social

In about a week we (Biological Sciences @ Monash Uni in Melbourne, Australia) will be opening a search for 3 (!!!) permanent academic positions (40% research, 40% teaching, 20% service) at Lecturer/Senior Lecturer. 1 Genomics, 2 Ecology. Please share, email me, DM, follow, send carrier pigeons…

New research from MIT found that those who used ChatGPT can’t remember any of the content of their essays. Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn. arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...

🙂APPLY NOW - We are seeking a Senior Collections Lead to manage our Collections Management, Care & Conservation teams. 🦋Closes Sun 22 June. www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51272/ @camunivmuseums.bsky.social @camzoology.bsky.social

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Bit of a super-specific journo request, but if anyone out there is studying banana weevils or pest management in fruit crops, let me know! 🧪

Fully funded PhD available with me and @npwsireland.bsky.social looking at islands off Ireland as monitoring stations for migratory birds. You'll be based at SBES in University College Dublin. Deadline is 30th June. More details here tinyurl.com/2p9pe97j

Thrilled to share our new paper in @science.org describing our discovery that bacteria can switch from competitors to bonafide predators when resources run dry—arming nanoscale “spears” (T6SS) to stab & consume neighbours. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #MicroSKy #Microbiology

My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy. Details found here👇 www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...

📢WE'RE HIRING📢Could you be our new Senior Collections Lead? Would you enjoy working with one of the UK's most important natural history collections? Apply by 22 June to look after our amazing Collections Management, Care & Conservation team. @camunivmuseums.bsky.social www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51272/

A female Western Gull was recorded riding 150km in a garbage truck from San Francisco to a compost facility in Central CA, probably to forage. TWICE. An innovator, an icon, a genius. This is one of my favorite @waterbirdsociety.bsky.social papers I've ever handled as managing editor #ornithology

Rhynchites caeruleus. These small, shiny beetles are currently easy to observe. They initially appear black to our eyes, but upon closer inspection, they remind me of liquid metal.

🚨New paper alert!🚨 We show that hummingbird beaks have changed in shape & size since around WWII, driven by the rise of commercialized feeders! 🧵 📄 Paper: dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb.... #ornithology #evolution #GlobalChangeBiology

New paper! "Heat limits scale with metabolism in ectothermic animals" with collaborators not on Bluesky afaik. Along with some ongoing related papers with JF Arnoldi and Nick Payne this one is definitely one of my favourite papers to work on. 1/n besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

The new Brazilian world map is a thing of beauty. Not just because it inverts the N-S axis and doesn’t use Mercator projection, but because it highlights Brazil’s geopolitical priorities in a very simple, visual, way: BRICS, the Lusophone world and the Amazon

Godspeed everyone involved. But remember: while you _can_ evacuate a person or persons, it’s usually more desirable to evacuate the buildings or regions.

Sorry – error in the job ad means that the original link is dead. And instead of just updating the page, someone decided to create a whole new one! 🧪🌍 www.swansea.ac.uk/jobs-at-swan...

Come and work with us at Swansea Bisociences! Teaching Fellow in Terrestrial Ecology Starts 1st of September 2025 🧪🌍 www.swansea.ac.uk/jobs-at-swan...

Good to hear. My own institution @tcddublin.bsky.social are long overdue abandoning that cesspit.

They were already doing this for some of their courses last year. The Irish course is completely ruined, the real human voices have been replaced with AI ones which have their pronunciation all over the place, and in many cases make up sounds that don’t exist in any Irish dialect. It’s awful.

A rare carnivorous caterpillar—previously unknown to biologists—stalks spiderwebs for food whilst dressed in the remains of its prey, a new Science study reports. This new species, dubbed the “bone collector,” is found only on a single mountainside on the Hawai’ian island of Oa’hu. scim.ag/3GBDcV7

We are hiring a chair/professor in our Ecology and Environmental Modelling group at @uniofstandrews.bsky.social. Scotland is a lovely place to work, and my colleagues are fantastic! Reach out if you are interested in joining the CREEM family ☺️ vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/I/...