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Looks like a fun PhD option, GPS tagging eagles at @utu.fi.

A rare opportunity to experience the grandeur of the Alte Aula of Universität Heidelberg, on the occasion of the award of the Lautenschläger prize to Jan Lohmann of @cosheidelberg.bsky.social Thanks @ulrichschwarz.bsky.social @jekely.biologists.social.ap.brid.gy for letting me tag along!

Friends. I have news. This coming Monday will be my last day at NIH. Serving the public good and the American taxpayer has been an honor and a privilege - truly! And I will miss it every day. But I have mixed emotions, because what comes next is exciting. I […] [Original post on mstdn.science]

Soon to start the next #staygrounded trip 🚄🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 , for @dfg_public to Kassel 🇩🇪 , to review an ambitious #circadian PhD training 🎓 programme. 🧵

RE: https://mastodon.online/@neuroinformatics/115643481413121555 I'll be coordinating the "Animals in Motion" track of this summer school, returning to London in August 2026. Apply to join us for some hands-on learning and collaboration on open-source tools for video behavioural analysis […]

‘#Trust always plays a role, including in #science.’ Professor by special appointment in Societal Trust and @facultyofphilosophygroningen researcher Leah Henderson argues for the importance of evidence-based science. According to Henderson, ‘trust is the cement that holds society together.’ As […]

Paper for the #Drosophila community on a food recipe that rears dozens of species. This was a full team effort, with key contributions from UG, MSc, and PhD students! 👩‍🎓🎉 Plus an #infection observation re: Diet x #Microbiota 🦠 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #EvolBiol #AcademicSky #SymbioSky 1/4

Now published as version of record at @elife.bsky.social ! Layers of Immunity: Deconstructing the Drosophila effector response. The tools are now deposited in the VDRC (link ⬇️) elifesciences.org/articles/107... shop.vbc.ac.at/vdrc_store/d... #Drosophila #IDsky #SymbioSky #Infection #Immunology

RE: https://neuromatch.social/@manisha/115628208797903145 it has been an extremely good time and a labor of love to keep this small ship afloat together. I'm so proud to be one of the group of people that has chosen to hang around here. We never have had a firm "brand" or focus, and never […]

After 3 years initiated by @flybrain using the #flywire, I finally did a pathway analysis via #codex, gosh it is totally addictive, and the Youtube tutorial is so easy ! Why didnt I find time to run this..oh well! I just need to dig a bit more on genetic line fetching now.. #drosophila […]

Listening to @pluralistic interview at Today In Focus https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2025/nov/24/enshittification-how-we-got-the-internet-no-one-asked-for-podcast

@academicchatter And all of this led to a blogpost on Slowing down as a (role) model. About train travel and sustainability, slow academia, and bein an imperfect role model. Post here […] [Original post on akademienl.social]

I enjoyed this paper people from the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (not sure if they are here?), which should lead us to rethink academic travel. I´m leading part of an international project, which is excellent for science, networking, and inspiring , but has also meant a lot of […]

And more on long distance train travel: - Plan long layovers and few train changes. Sounds obvious but a lot of the search engines will give you the fastest option, which may mean 8 trains rather than 2. The trip to Cluj had a 2 h 10 min layover in Munich, which meant 1) no stress when the […]

Centralised platforms shape the conversation to serve their interests. Mastodon returns power to you. Here connections are authentic, communities set their own rules, and your voice isn’t for sale. Help to power the servers, tools, and communities making […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@thejapantimes/115585080411152865 #Climate change mitigation is cheaper than #adaptation, but we need both 👇. It's rarely 'either/or' in this space, almost always 'both/and'. Which begs the question of how to pay. After ending #fossilfuel subsidies (innovations like […]

When you hear the sound of breaking glass from around the corner and a hushed "oh no". #chemistry #chemiverse #lablife

RE: https://biologists.social/@kofanchen/115373287506464717 Just a gentle reminder the deadline is fast approaching for this PhD application, but the same research theme is also open for CSC application see details for […]

RE: https://biologists.social/@flypapers/115569259745171322 I am very happy to be part of this work with my old UCL mate Simon Lowe and James Jepson, showing that sleep and habituation are linked! #drosophila #sleep #habituation

RE: https://mastodon.social/@koen_hufkens/115548080799464389 “That all means the end of agriculture in the UK and across Europe, drought and monsoon failure in Asia and Africa, lethal heat and humidity,” said Hare. “This is not a good place to be. You want to stay away from that.”

RE: https://biologists.social/@flypapers/115567844178791206 Very cool research from my UCL labmate Simon Lowe, he will give a talk at Southwest fly meeting at 2:30pm on December 17th! Please contact Prof James Hodge @drfly if you want to attend in person #drosophila #neuroscience #sleep […]

350 jobs on the line at CSIRO. This is despicable. Well done to Pocock for rightfully pointing out that “In opposition, Labor called for better funding, yet in government they are delivering cuts.” The hypocrisy. WTF are Labor doing? #CSIRO #auspol […]

Se on talvi nyt. 🌨️ Vintern är här, hoppeligen för att stanna 5-6 månader. 🥳

We’re still an absolute skeleton crew of 14 people, competing with teams sometimes 100x as large as ours. To get to our humble team size was only possible through the less than 1% community members who donate to Mastodon, a handful larger donations, & EU grants, all of which we are forever […]

Hi! Today is my first official day as the Executive Director of Mastodon, replacing @[email protected] as CEO. I joined the Mastodon team more than 5 years ago, mostly working for Mastodon in the evenings on top of a 120% day job. I was the driving force behind the incorporation of the […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mellifluousbox/115569615176946969 I am passing the torch to @mellifluousbox, who will be the new Executive Director. Felix has been involved with #mastodon since 2020 and has been instrumental in evolving the organization, raising funds, and growing the team to get […]

A short description of how our lab automates #opendata deposition: "Automating Linked Open Data Publication" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QL8JewqoXTs #openscience #fair

Very good opportunity at University of Leibniz (Hannover), with six open-topic positions available (5 years, progressing to ongoing). https://www.uni-hannover.de/en/jobs/id/8122/ #academicchatter #getfedihired #fedijobs

I find to my surprise that these two wasps are (almost certainly) the same species! Quite a lot of variation in the propodeum structure. They look even more different in real life, the photos blur the differences a bit.

@ucu is this true? "Strikes suspended as University of Nottingham makes promise over compulsory redundancies -" Nottinghamshire Live https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/nottingham-news/strikes-suspended-university-nottingham-makes-10646789

Characterising the immune repertoire of a global crop pest Myzus persicae mahansonresearch.weebly.com/blog/phd-stu... #Drosophila #Evolution #Immunity #Aphids 4/4

Cryptic fitness consequences of a selfish X chromosome mahansonresearch.weebly.com/blog/phd-stu... #Drosophila #Evolution #Immunity #SelfishGene #Stress 3/4

WE ARE RECRUITING PHD STUDENTS!!! We have three(!) funded PhD studentships advertising presently. If any of these are of interest, please reach out! Thread below with links to more information on each project. #Drosophila #Evolution #Immunity #SelfishGene #Aphids Thread with links below 🧵 1/4

Evolutionary mechanisms underlying differences in the innate immune response to infection mahansonresearch.weebly.com/blog/phd-swb... #Drosophila #Evolution #Immunity #EvolBiol #Infection #HostPathogen 2/4

“data show an increase of 10% in submissions & 23% in funded projects from female applicants with the lottery-first approach compared to a previously used procedure. Additionally, the lottery-first approach was estimated to have 68% lower economic costs compared to single-stage peer review approach”

Some hashtags #博士生 #留学 #读博日记 #博士生日常 #PhDstudent #研究生 #硕士生 #海外研究生 #AcademicChatter #PhDchat #Drosophila #Aphid #Immunity #InsectImmunity

中国国家留学基金委和英国埃克塞特大学合作奖学金（博士生项目） There is still time to apply for this China Scholarship Council PhD opportunity. www.exeter.ac.uk/study/pg-res... Interested students please email at the email in the advertisement below. Thanks for circulating! #Drosophila #Aphid #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon/115503024028215175 Shout out to Claire* and Eugen for doing the frontend on this, I got pulled away to work on other things and so they pushed it over da finish line and added a whole new AsyncRefresh feature on top. #fetchallreplies is for all the small […]

"Respiratory analyses show that woodpeckers actively exhale with each bill strike of the substrate, resembling the ‘grunting’ behavior that human athletes use to stabilize their core and enhance force output. These effects persist at high tapping frequencies, indicating that individuals take […]

#ukhighereducation "Raising costs for overseas students won’t help cash-strapped universities | The Observer" https://observer.co.uk/news/opinion-and-ideas/article/raising-costs-for-overseas-students-wont-help-cash-strapped-universities

Just got a reviewed preprint published @eLife : https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.108049 Based on this experience, publishing at #elife is the best publication process I had so far: transparent, fast, thoughtful reviews and editorial consideration. If it's also easy to waive the APC fees for […]

Motor learning mechanisms at #sfn25 Due to political developments, the US have become a much less welcoming and hence dramatically less attractive place for academic conferences. This year, nobody from our research group was interested in attending our otherwise regular meeting of the Society […]

is #biorxiv down? or slow?

The thing I love about this is that I inherited from Dutch family a few RELX + SHELL shares. RELX (Elsevier) always outperformed oil + I always meant to sit down and work out if it was coincidence (return v. sensitive to buying/selling dates) And now @hansonmark.bsky.social has done it for us. Wow

Some new people here, so an intro post 🥳 Hi, I'm Tapani 👋 I collected 100 litres of Ugandan insects and still haven't got them sorted. Lots of new wasp species on the way, some day. Posts in English / svenska ⤵️ / suomeksi ⤵️

@bonfire is doing some of the most interesting work on the open social internet, and they're doing it in the most exhilarating ways. I am delighted to be even a little bit involved in the work they have planned: https://www.wrecka.ge/sparks-fly-up/

Two PIs of our ZooCell network, Detlev Arendt and Gaspar @jekely are featured in a new BBC documentary on the "Secrets of the Brain"! They spoke about early brain evolution and showed #zooplankton collection and behaviour during a field trip in Ischia in Italy […]