Dr Michelle @Drosmel@qoto.org

4-year funded PhD studentship available in our lab! re: compartmentalised synaptic plasticity in the mushroom body. Please spread the word, and email me for informal enquiries
https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/white-rose-bbsrc-dtp-compartmentalised-synaptic-plasticity-underlying-associative-memory/?p160927

Unsolicited advice on thesis or mentorship committees. Many people approach these as if they need to *prove* that they are on track. So they only show the things that are working.

I think this is the wrong approach.

Your committee is presumably a group of experts, who are committed to your success. Show them what is not working and get their help. Tell them where you want to be in 6 months and get their advice on how to get there.

#AcademicChatter #Mentoring #GradSchool

Brown University has open faculty positions:

Neuroscience Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track)​: For full consideration, applications should be submitted by January 2, 2024.
https://apply.interfolio.com/132440

Assistant, Associate or Full Professor in Computational Brain Sciences: Consideration of applications will begin on November 13, 2023.
https://apply.interfolio.com/132928

See more openings:
https://www.brown.edu/carney/open-faculty-searches

#neuroscience #fedihire

hey all!! i need your help.

my instance permanently shut down with zero warning and my last backup was from september, but didn't realize following exports weren't included in the archive.

please boost to hopefully help me find my followers

Inactivating negative regulators of cortical branched actin enhances persistence of single cell migration. https://journals.biologists.com/jcs/article-abstract/doi/10.1242/jcs.261332/336525/Inactivating-negative-regulators-of-cortical #Morpholino

Ash eruption at Sicily's Etna volcano, taken yesterday (6 Dec).

Photo: Fernando Famiani

#volcanoes #geology #Sicily #Etna

@kofanchen @albertcardona We have worked very hard over the past 6 months in Cambridge Genetics Fly facility to reduce the impact of energy and water usage on reusing glass. New washing machines and a new post autoclave soak have dramatically cut our water and energy. Many of the places we provide food for outside the Department are now switching to glass from plastic and we have the potential to service more folks.

I now added to our lab webpage a description of our approach to #publication, please have a look.
https://www.cos.uni-heidelberg.de/en/research-groups/gaspar-jekely/our-approach-to-publication

Please share, reuse, criticize as you see fit. We are constantly evolving our thinking on the issue.

#OpenScience #publication #science #openaccess #opensource

📣🔎 We are looking for a PhD candidate!

Topic:
Primary Cilia and Renal Ciliopathies as part of our work within #Theracil

Please apply via 📧 to me (you will find the address on our webpage) or via DM.

#Ciliopathies #Cilia #CysticKidneyDisease #NPHP #ADPKD #Nephrolab
@UniKoeln @CECAD
@cilia

https://www.kidneyresearchcenter.org/

Join the 20th edition of the Italian Drosophila Conference in Milan, March 6-8, 2024!

Keynote speakers will be Florence Besse (IBV, Nizza) and Aurelio Teleman (DKFZ, Heidelberg).

Abstract submission and registation: https://www.ifom.eu/events/xx-drosophila-conference-2024/

Milan is a vibrant city and a great destination, easy to reach via the city airport (LIN).

Please redistribute!

via:

Erika Donà (CNR-Institute of Neuroscience), Simona Polo (IFOM) and Thomas Vaccari (Uni Milan).

Research Technician

Kent State University

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/kent-state-university-27778-research-technician/?feed_id=66825

#ScienceJobs #hiring #research
Kent, Ohio #UnitedStatesUS #ResearchTechnician
https://jobrxiv.org/job/kent-state-university-27778-research-technician/?feed_id=66825

#Molecular_rulers for high-resolution #microscopy.

#PCNA

https://phys.org/news/2023-12-molecular-rulers-high-resolution-microscopy.html

Protip:

"I include two guest lectures from my university’s librarians: one on literature searching and reference management, and one on “deep reading”. University librarians are, in my experience, eager to help with teaching; I strongly recommend involving them in a writing course (or, for that matter, in any other course)."

https://scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/2020/05/26/steal-this-updated-syllabus-for-scientific-writing/

Probably my best catch this year from Bluesky.

//

John Penniman
@historiographos.bsky.social

I will never recover from this student email.

“Good Afternoon Professor Penniman,

Hope you had a great break! I was wondering if it would be acceptable to use sources from the late 1900’s for our final paper (I found an interesting paper from 1994). I there a cut off date of publication? See you tomorrow,”

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#academia #paper #science #research

Check out this great new study led by Katie Schretter, investigating fighting female fruit flies -- who headbutt, shove & fence each other to guard prime egg-laying territory -- to ultimately better understand aggressive behavior in humans. https://www.janelia.org/news/fighting-fruit-flies-help-researchers-understand-why-we-stay-angry