Dr Michelle @Drosmel@qoto.org

Fruit flies are covered in a waxy coating, but no one had checked whether this coat was genuinely waterproof.

Now Kamar Nayal & co have confirmed that this coat of wax is waterproof, protecting the insects from dehydration

https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/227/23/jeb249866/363254

Read the full research at https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/227/23/jeb247752/363249

Here is a rare and fantastic opportunity to come and work with us if you're an outstanding Earth system scientist!
(Pass it on if you know someone who might be interested.)
➡️ https://www.academics.de/jobs/full-professorship-w-3-earth-system-dynamics-universitaet-potsdam-potsdam-1094226#SPCoLCxFYXJ0aCBTeXN0ZW0gRHluYW1pY3M=

#Botanists of Mastodon: I am interested in doing a survey of a shrub here in Pōneke, in order to publish on it status; no one has surveyed it in this area since 1986. I am unfamiliar with best practices for doing a botanical survey.

Anyone have any good books or guides on how to do this well and thoroughly? Specifically, in two small parks - how do I lay out the ground, count plants, etc.

RT for reach if your followers are #academics or botanists.

#whiskerswednesday

Postdoctoral Fellow Position in Cellular Metabolism

Northwestern University

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/northwestern-university-27778-postdoctoral-fellow-position-in-cellular-metabolism/?feed_id=88757

#biochemistry #cancer #metabolism #metabolomics #neuroscience #ScienceJobs #hiring #research
https://jobrxiv.org/job/northwestern-university-27778-postdoctoral-fellow-position-in-cellular-metabolism/?feed_id=88757

Badger Cub - crochet for sale - £20 plus £5 p&p to anywhere in UK (worldwide postage TBA)
I am donating 25% of all proceeds from my crochet items through December to Thamra, a fantastic grassroots organisation in Gaza, providing seedlings, and Horticulture Therapy to the traumatised people of Palestine.
#Thamra #PalestineSolidarity #CraftForPalestine #CraftsForPalestine #ArtistsForPalestine #Wildlife #UKWildlife #Badger #EuropeanBadger #BadgerCub #StopTheCull #Craft #Crochet #Handmade

🎓 PhD Opportunity with me! 🚀

📢 Calling for aspiring bioengineers to join us!

Develop organotypic models to explore host-microbe dynamics due to metabolic signals. Work with tissue systems, biofilms, imaging, and mass spectrometry.

💡Get in touch, and apply here: https://www.cpm.qmul.ac.uk/cdt/applications/

#phd #organoids #bioeng #metabolomics #microbiology

We built this petition to help you let your representatives know that libraries continue to be an integral part of a healthy American community.

https://action.everylibrary.org/emailreps

FlyCROSS has received a great deal of mentor responses and have a large pool of experienced mentors from across the world, who specialize in numerous scientific areas, have experience in overcoming personal/professional challenges, are open to mentoring for science and beyond.

My latest plesiosaur paper, open access, with @leneliebedelsett and others.

I first started working on this fossil material in 2005!

Delsett, L.L., Smith, A.S., Ingrams, S., and Schneider, S. 2024. Boreal waterways: An Early Cretaceous plesiosaur from Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canadian Arctic and its palaeobiogeography. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 69 (4): 565–585.

https://www.app.pan.pl/archive/published/app69/app011482024.pdf

#paleontology #plesiosaurs #science

📰 "The sparse driver system for in vivo single-cell labeling and manipulation in Drosophila"
http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2024.12.02.626507v1?rss=1
#Drosophila

📰 "Optogenetically Induced Microtubule Acetylation Unveils the Molecular Dynamics of Actin-Microtubule Crosstalk in Directed Cell Migration"
http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2024.12.01.626286v1?rss=1 #Microtubule

📰 "BECLIN-1 is Essential for the Maintenance of Gastrointestinal Epithelial Integrity by Regulating Endocytic Trafficking, F-actin Organization and Lysosomal Function"
http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2024.11.28.625769v1?rss=1 #Actin

Highly-respected non-profit journals like @Dev_journal support scientific communities. Authors are proud to publish there.

But, when your paper is rejected by a glam journal, it is tempting to avoid re-review by sliding down commercial ecosystems

But wait! Look! Development say “we will also consider papers with reviewer reports from other journals.” Game changer!

Plus: rigorous and fair reviewing system that avoids excessive additional experiments.

https://journals.biologists.com/dev/article/151/23/dev204523/363248/Constructive-Critics-Development-s-approach-to

#DevBio

The next deadline to apply for a Travelling Fellowship of up to £3,000 is 31 January 2025. Find out how to apply at: https://www.biologists.com/grants/travelling-fellowships/
#grants #funding #travellingfellowships #biology