Vanessa Higham

When they say the immigration policies of the 1950s, 60s and 70s, you know they mean the White Australia policy.

Long Covid > more blood Tau > increase chance of Alzheimer's. Nice study followed people before/after infection, plus 2 years later, and a control group that managed to avoid getting infected (how?). Not surprising to those of us who've been following the story - terrifying all the same #Covid 🧪⚕️

Ever wonder what the carbon footprint of your research is?

This latest #GENETICS study presents a systematic life-cycle assessment of the #carbondioxide #emissions generated by a graduate student in a #Drosophila neuroscience lab. buff.ly/hU7pzvs

2026 International Day of Women and Girls in Science Join UNESCO on 11 February 2026 for a global event celebrating women in science and shaping a future where science and gender equality advance together

A massive shout-out to all women and girls in science, you make science and the world better! www.unesco.org/en/articles/...

Thanks to some great comments and suggestions, we've updated TADA!

Read it here: ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

Transferable, Available, Documented, Annotated.

Angry and Alone: How Social Experience Shapes Female Aggression in Flies at Newcastle University on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Angry and Alone: How Social Experience Shapes Female Aggression in Flies at Newcastle University, listed on FindAPhD.com

We're advertising a PhD project on how social isolation influences aggression in flies. Based at Durham, co-supervised by @clarahowcroft.bsky.social . Despite what the ad says, this is also open to international applicants! Any questions, shoot me a msg! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Size matters. Among the great apes, human penises are unusually large. Why? Check out our new open access paper in @plosbiology.org led by @upama.bsky.social. Link here: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

And read the lay article in @theconversation.com here: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Hot off the press! New paper in Biology Letters (@royalsocietypublishing.org) showing that heatwaves impair female but not male fertility in burying beetles 🐞🌡️

Huge congratulations to Izzy (@izzygrieve.bsky.social) on her first first-authored paper! 🥳🙌

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Avoid Covid to preserve your brain

Schematic representation of fitness landscapes. (A) Orange lines show maximum (dashed) and average (dotted) fitness of a population on a narrower peak (yellow circles), blue lines show the same for a wider peak (blue circles). (B) Trajectory of a population in a periodically changing environment with respect to a given fitness landscape (solid arrow) and with respect to an unseen other fitness landscape (dashed arrow). (C) Hypothetical “trapping” of the population in variable environments.

One of the most-viewed PNAS articles in the last week is “The variability of evolvability: Properties of dynamic fitness landscapes determine how phenotypic variability evolves.” Explore now: https://ow.ly/XouU50XWiiV

For more trending articles, visit https://ow.ly/AiXL50XWi81.

‘Blindsided’: father of Port Arthur massacre victims says NSW hunting bill will take a ‘jackhammer’ to gun control Walter Mikac, who lost his wife and two daughters in the 1996 shooting, warns that Labor-backed Shooters party bill will weaken national firearms agreement

No. No Just no. We do not want guns in Australia and governments should resist the lobbying #AusPol
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Could be treated as a complement to this paper finding that most LLMs tested (9 out of 10) had a tendency to over-generalize clinical trial results in summaries.

(Claude was a repeated exception, for whatever reason).

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"Any book worth banning is a book worth reading."

Isaac Asimov

Abandoning the vision of liberal arts education is at the heart of how fascism has come knocking.

Scientists speaking of abandoning humanities have not learned the core lessons of our history - and by our history I even mean THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE. Science is never separated from society.

An important piece on #AI generated #preprints and why it's important to consider their impact on scientific ecosystem.

Some other important considerations related to this that are not covered in the article 👇

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#AI4Science #AI4Research #ScAISci #SciSci

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We are searching for an associate or full professor (Canada Excellence Research Chair) in Biodiversity Genomics at the University of Guelph! 🐟🌿🦠🐜🐸🐝

Applications are due October 6 2025.

careers.uoguelph.ca/job/Guelph-C...

#AcademicJobs #EvoBio

Harvard University lays off fly database team The layoffs jeopardize this resource, which has served more than 4,000 labs for about three decades.

FlyBase, a Drosophila database, will lose a third of its team in early October because the Harvard grant that covered the employees’ salaries was canceled. Scientists warn that losing FlyBase could devastate fly research.

By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social

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Winter Harvest Check out Winter Harvest - <p>When her beloved daughter Kore vanishes, Demeter is distraught. Suspecting betrayal and mistrusting of her family, she searches across the world, unable to come to terms ...

🇬🇷 Greece- Ioanna Papadopoulou, Winter Harvest

A retelling of the myth of Demeter and Persephone that focuses on the pain and violence done to the women in classical myth (god, Zeus is such a fucking asshole)

A reminder you/your lab can support FlyBase at Cambridge through the following link. Every bit helps. Please share if you yourself can't donate.

www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...

We can't go back in time, but we can change our directory going forward. If you don't mask, you can do so from now on. Kindness is one (pretty important!) way to fight fascism, and i can't think of any kinder act than protecting each others' health.

There is, of course, no such thing as "PhD level intelligence". PhD level stubbornness ("I'm going to finish this if it kills me") or PhD level sunk cost fallaciousness, sure.

A PhD is awarded for the creation of *new* knowledge. Which is one thing that LLMs are incapable of doing.

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Additional needs The British Academy has set aside specific funding to support any additional needs that applicants and award holders may require. This funding would be in addition to the amount already requested for ...

So you'd like a research grant from @britishacademy.bsky.social but you've got an additional need that makes that difficult? Well we still believe in equality, diversity, inclusion, and so there is a fund you can apply to for help with that www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/addi...

Details : Postdoctoral Fellow, Paleoecology : The University of Melbourne Careers at The University of Melbourne

Rare Australian post-doc for a palynologist/paleoecologist with statiistical skills! jobs.unimelb.edu.au/en/job/91951...

Now seems a good time to mention that I haven't yet filled a postdoc position in phylogenetic methods. If you just lost your job, need something temporary, and know something about bioinformatics/statistics/evolution, talk to me.

Newton International Fellowships | Royal Society This fellowship is for non-UK scientists who are at an early stage of their research career and wish to conduct research in the UK.

If you're a non-UK scientist who wants to come to the UK for a postdoc, this year's Newton Fellowships are now open. You'll need a lab to host you (which could be me, but truly, could be any PI, so get in touch with someone you'd like to work with!)

royalsociety.org/grants/newto...

Associate Professor in Animal Ecology with specialization in Evolutionary Ecology - Uppsala University Associate Professor in Animal Ecology with specialization in Evolutionary Ecology , Department of Ecology and Genetics, Uppsala University

📣 We are recruiting! Please spread the word!

We look to hire an associate professor in animal ecology, specializing in evolutionary ecology. Apply by Feb 7 2025. Come join us in Uppsala, Sweden!

Application page and contact info 🔗👇 #ecology #evolution #job

www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

Super interesting article by Martin Picard