Dr Michelle @Drosmel@qoto.org

#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

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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

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