Myself and @immunoah.bsky.social are looking to hire a postdoctoral scientist to build a next-generation high-throughput high-resolution light sheet microscope for imaging entire cleared organs/tissues and to further develop live & fixed tissue clearing methods.
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there's a principle in livestock breeding (we are where we are) that if you select for a particular characteristic, you inevitably select against all other qualities.
If the police and Home Office select for terrorism legislation as theatre, they inevitably select against it as serious law.
"it is especially forbidden [...] to declare that no quarter will be given" --Hague Convention of 1907
This is true.
Climate Change is one of those things that now needs a lot more activism than research.
People are afraid of disability and chronic illness
They can’t comprehend getting sick and never getting better
They tell us to try harder
They blame it on lifestyle choices
They label us expendable and tell themselves they’ll be the exception
No one is the exception.
It can happen to anyone.
I’m looking for a post doc (up to five years) interested in phylogenetics and earth systems - please spread the word!
tbh i dont hear paranoia about being shot, I basically hear even white brits saying its just not worthwhile to go to the US so a crazy immigration guy can block their entry and keep them in a small room for 12 hours before being deported
This made me cry with despairing laughter. We’re on the brink of worldwide recession and devastating conflict and this is the priority? It’s as if an entire political class has just given up. The government barely any better.
"We have an excellent stickpile of weapons, sir."
"Don't you mean stockpile?"
"I do not."
🇺🇸 John Bolton on U.S. easing sanctions on Russia for lower oil prices:
"I think they drank a lot of vodka in the Kremlin when they heard that news. This is an absolute gift to the Russians."
Another day, another stupid Excel chart.
"we didn't plan for them actually fighting back" is such a stupid bully approach to the whole thing
Ever wondered how a eukaryotic transcription factor finds its specific DNA motif in the vast genome? In this preprint, we directly measured the dynamics of this search process in living cells, revealing a cooperative mechanism mediated by disordered regions. 1/10 doi.org/10.64898/202...
Two things here.
One, you don't sit there and whine about media coverage and headlines if things are going well.
Two, the administration is just outright saying that they fully expect Ellison to use CNN to be a Trumpist propaganda organ.
State run media coming soon
Palantir CEO promises that his technology will reduce educated women's economic and political power newrepublic.com/post/207693/...
Phylogeny of the 284 species of plants included in Conservatory data set. Conservatory uncovered ~2.3 million conserved non-coding DNA sequences across 284 plant species from 72 families including eudicots, monocots, gymnosperms, and algae. Illustrations by Professor Madelaine Bartlett.
Hiding in plain sight! 2.3M conserved non-coding sequences traced back 300M years across 284 plant species
Ground-breaking study out in First Release @science.org from labs of @madelaineb.bsky.social, @idane.bsky.social & Zach Lippman
▶️ doi.org/10.1126/scie...
▶️ www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/news/hiding-...
Wait, what now?
Map of Iran overlaid across Europe. It's effing huge. Germany, Austria, Poland, the balkkans, loads of Eastern Europe.
The problem with how we draw maps is that countries near the equator appear 'small'. Iran overlaid on Europe.
Imagine trying to dominate an area this size with just air power or contemplating putting troops in when it's spent forty years preparing to fight exactly the kind of war that results.
How can we tap into the enormous functional diversity of microbes on this planet?
Join us at EMBL Heidelberg (8–10 Dec 2026) to learn about ongoing efforts to decode gene function and organisation in human gut microbes, and present your science.
We do that as well - the requirement to review our own outputs is what seems unusual.
The 2026 National Science Foundation budget is $8.75 Billion.
We get asked to rate and review our own outputs for REF. This is in addition to being asked to explain in each category why we're proposing the output in the first place - so it's redundant as well as a cheap way to ensure at least one "4*" in the system…
ARTIC are hiring! Postdoctoral opportunity in metagenomics at the University of Birmingham
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Pretty sure what's described in this article is against the REF2029 code of practice (e.g. section 13).
Interested to see if there are any teeth to the CoP.
2029.ref.ac.uk/guidance/sec...
Sheffield Hallam’s new plan to save cash:
🔸 All teaching-focused staff to be employed by a subsidiary firm
🔸 All non-REF staff to be moved to a pension scheme with a lower employer contributions
#UKHE
When this is all done we should have a tax on everyone who said they had had enough of experts...
lmao let’s goooo
Just stumbling around trying to figure out how the world works.
