Dr Michelle @Drosmel@qoto.org

Nominations are open (until Dec 13) for the Larry Sandler Award, presented each year to an outstanding recent graduate who has completed a PhD in an area of Drosophila research. They'll present the Larry Sandler Memorial Lecture at the conference's opening session.

https://genetics-gsa.org/drosophila-2025/awardsfinancialsupport/#larry-sandler-award
#Dros25

📰 "Maintenance of niche architecture requires actomyosin and enables proper stem cell signaling and oriented division in the Drosophila testis"
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39620974/ #Actomyosin #Myosin

Letting a little Simlish into your life can be a good thing. Fresh from the press, I'll be adding this to my store at http://Lewiswork.etsy.com later today. #thesims4 #gaming #sims4

Our new preprint is out - please share!
 
We asked: How can we make CRISPR knockouts *in vivo* more efficient? Along the way we set up an assay that enables visualization of CRISPR cutting with 100s-1000s of sgRNAs over entire chromosome arms in living animals.
 
Grab a ☕ and let’s dive in. 🧵 1/n
#CRISPR #geneediting
 
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.26.625385v1

I'm sure this Science story on how systematic reviews are threatened by paper mills is good, but the illustration by Sara Gironi Carnevale is great

https://www.saragironicarnevale.com/

Story: https://www.science.org/content/article/systematic-reviews-aim-extract-broad-conclusions-many-studies-are-peril

Hi everyone! 👋 We're a small open hardware company based in Wales, making and selling open science hardware over at https://labcrafter.co.uk 🔬

#openscience #oshw #opensource

Nice! @AlexandraGallant has a sale going on her itch shop, everything is 25% off or get all the zines/comics for $12 including a comic about growing tomatoes, a comic about getting revenge with HTML, a zine about LiveJournal icon design and some other fun things like Little Beasts, animal art/comics zine.

https://itch.io/s/140518/black-friday-sale

Our #preprint list is now up on FocalPlane. This week we focus on research in #bioimageanalysis. Drop us a message if we’re missing any preprints that you’ve been reading or writing!
https://focalplane.biologists.com/2024/11/29/microscopy-preprints-bioimage-analysis-7/

Act now to stop millions of research papers from disappearing
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03842-z
Digital preservation is not keeping up with the growth of scholarly knowledge. Recognizing its causes is the first step to securing records everywhere for future generations.

Too late! Springer has already put everything behind a paywall to stop people from reading it!!!

Just over 2 weeks left to apply for this wonderful tenure track position in my department!

The opening is broadly oriented toward biodiversity, field ecology, conservation, mostly on aquatic ecosystems. It’s a 3 years tenure-track position with a high probability of receiving tenure.

More information via:
* Internal link in French: https://jobs.unamur.be/emploi.2024-10-21.2675887723
* Or in English version: https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/284721

#JobOpportunity #PhD #Ecology #Conservation #Belgium #tenure #WildlifeConservation

The School of Biological Sciences in Cambridge is excited to recruit an Associate Professor or G11 Professor in the area of evolutionary genomics (https://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49389/). The post is part of our drive to build on our successful cross-department research theme in Functional and Evolutionary Genomics (https://www.bio.cam.ac.uk/research/functional-evolutionary-genomics). We welcome applications for those with a research focus in any aspect of evolutionary genome biology.

📢 Faculty Job Alert!

We're hiring Assistant (tenure-track) & Associate Professors in AI, Cybersecurity & Programming Languages in our section, 🇩🇰.

🔗 Learn about us: https://acp.sdu.dk

📝 Apply: https://fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1001/job/2274/

⏳ Deadline: 1 Feb 2025

#AcademicJobs #ResearchJobs

Postgraduate opportunities in the Hodge Lab at Bristol University:
A fully funded BBSRC PhD on circadian rhythms and ageing
https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/funded-phd-swbio-dtp-circadiageing-clock-excitability-circadian-rhythms-and-healthy-ageing/?p174737
Wellcome Trusted funded PhD for health professionals
https://gw4-cat.ac.uk
MRes opportunities in my lab
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/phys-pharm-neuro/study/postgraduate/

“I hate cats."
Death's face became a little stiffer, if that were possible. The blue glow in his eye sockets flickered red for an instant.
"I SEE," he said. The tone suggested that death was too good for cat haters.

Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters