Dr Michelle @Drosmel@qoto.org

My former employer, Rebus Foundation, a Canadian open education charity is hiring for several roles

- Director of Programs
- Program Operations Manager
- Marketing and Communications Manager

The jobs are remote. As in actually remote. You don't have to be in Canada to apply, though they can only offer healthcare benefits to those in Canada.

https://rebus.foundation/work-with-us/

Have you been considering accessing FlyBase using a script? PLEASE READ 'Best practices for getting bulk data from FlyBase: alternatives to web-scraping' before you start: http://flybase.org/commentaries/2024_08/ecitizenry.html

Using a script can overwhelm our server capacity and even crash FlyBase, making it unavailable to others. The above commentary details many alternatives to using a script to scrape FlyBase.

Tardigrades can enter a suspended state called cryptobiosis to survive extreme heat, cold, pressure or radiation. A new study of tardigrades preserved in amber suggests this ability evolved about 300 million years ago and let them survive the Permian extinction & isn't science fun?!?!?!?! https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/tardigrade-fossils-reveal-when-water-bears-became-indestructible/

Postdoctoral Position - Computational Biologist

German Cancer Research Center

Postdoctoral position for a Computational Biologist at German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) Heidelberg

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/german-cancer-research-center-27778-postdoctoral-position-computational-biologist/?feed_id=79960

#immunotherapy #machine_lear...
https://jobrxiv.org/job/german-cancer-research-center-27778-postdoctoral-position-computational-biologist/?feed_id=79960

Tools
"We developed a highly sensitive assay for detecting protein–protein interaction using chimeric receptors comprising two molecules of interest in the extracellular domain and interferon alpha and beta receptor subunit 1 or 2 (IFNAR1/2) in the intracellular domain."
#Immunology
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2318190121

well, i've been laid off.

gonna sit here for a bit and lick my wounds. and i've got some runway but i'd like to get back into a job pretty quick.

if you're hiring for a linux admin/ops-heavy SRE role, i've been poking computers and networks professionally for a decade. hit me up.

How do you spot a predatory journal?

Predatory journals prioritise financial profits at the expense of research integrity. Published articles can be of lower quality and sometimes full of incorrect or misleading information.

If you are looking for a safe place to publish your research, watch the video on the link below by The Royal Society.

https://zurl.co/KnSd

#TheRoyalSociety #Research #Ethical #Publishing #Authour #Journals #ResearchIntegrity

Research Technician I - Alexander Lab

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/cold-spring-harbor-laboratory-27778-research-technician-i-alexander-lab/?feed_id=79204

#ScienceJobs #hiring #research
https://jobrxiv.org/job/cold-spring-harbor-laboratory-27778-research-technician-i-alexander-lab/?feed_id=79204

Wild Horse Rescue event and fundraiser, pictures of a freestyle rider and wounded #veterans guiding donkeys or burrows.

One must imagine Don Quixote happy.

The NIH panel on postdocs proposes to shorten the eligibility period for K99 to 3 years down from 5 years.

I understand their motivation is reducing the training period for successful faculty, but I think an unintended consequence is it is going to reduce scientific innovation. If you have to show you are on a successful trajectory that early, people are going to choose safe projects.

https://acd.od.nih.gov/documents/presentations/12152023_Postdoc_Working_Group_Report.pdf

#NIH #AcademicChatter