Extraordinarily confusing animal
North America’s Wasp Mantisfly, Climaciella brunnea, is not a wasp, nor a mantis, nor a fly, but a species of lacewing.
Seminar starting now over zoom! Featuring @NicoleCRust #neuroscience
My #introduction. I run a small not-for profit research organization that depends on writing grants and publishing papers for its success. I guess you call that a #laboratory and I’m the PI. We study somatosensation, primarily in the #drosophila larva. Our main focus has been on pain and #nociception. We also study parasitoid wasps and larval defenses against them. I’m also into #cycling and #sailing and I once did a #seabattical in the #Caribbean. Current post is at #IndianaUniversity.
Postdoc job offer: insect monitoring using Deep Learning (Denmark)
Any hints on how to hold the position relative to content in a rapidly changing Google Docs document with many simultaneous edits by multiple people?
There are nearly identically phrased questions online without an answer, unfortunately.
Fully-funded #scholarships for #African students to pursue full-time #Master’s degrees at Cambridge, UK:
The Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program
Here comes the #Introduction. I am a postdoc original from #Colombia interested in #insects, #evodevo #genetics 🧬 and #patterning.
I work with butterfly 🦋 color patterns as a model to study #wnt #signaling, #generegulation, and #morphological evolution. Connecting the #genotype to the #phenotype is the goal!!!
I am a #Latina, working at GWU, in DC. #FirstGen
Done tons of #CRISPR experiments in different species of #Lepidoptera
📰 "Muscles that move the retina augment compound eye vision in Drosophila"
by 🔬 Lisa M Fenk, Sofia C Avritzer, Jazz L Weisman, Aditya Nair, Lucas D Randt, Thomas L Mohren, Igor Siwanowicz, Gaby Maimon
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36289333/ #Drosophila
Lots of CPU glue in use, getting new processors with more cores. Thanks so much @SDF for your commitment to the #fediverse.
Bonus: spot the Easter egg.
Hey science journalists, we've got two 12-month (parental cover) reporter positions open with Nature in London - more info & application at https://careers.springernature.com/job/London-Reporter-or-Senior-Reporter,-Nature/866455301/
From the developers channel at IRC, a #mastodon instance owner reports:
23:33 <deleted> load average: 374.45, 189.91, 108.87
23:33 <deleted> epic
The wave remains strong. What a week.
#Introduction:
I am a climate scientist with interests in better understanding historical changes in climate and extreme weather. Also think about future climate-related risks, among other topics: http://www.edhawkins.org
One key approach in this research is using citizen science to recover millions of lost weather observations, such as: http://www.WeatherRescue.org
I dabble in climate dataviz too, including the Climate Stripes: http://www.ShowYourStripes.info
All scientists are often wrong. The advantage of youth is that you are not stuck in fixed ways of thinking about things, as can happen when you get older.
Playing god with #beetles: "An explanation for unexpected population crashes in a constant environment" by Johnson et al. 2022 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ele.14110
"Most of the time, populations can be described as fluctuating randomly around a weakly-stable equilibrium. However, some populations experience unexpected population crashes... ecological #blackswan events. These crashes, however rare, have outsized consequences for conservation and management"
"we use mechanistic models and flour #beetle microcosm experiments to derive a novel mechanism of population crashes... can occur when stochasticity occasionally ‘pushes’ population density into a regime where overcrowding is severe."
Curiously: "Obviously, only females can oviposit. Less obviously, females are far more voracious egg cannibals than males—using industrial die to perform an egg mark-recapture experiment, Sonleitner (1961) found that #Tribolium castaneum females ate 19 times as many eggs as males."
There's even an #iNaturalist project collecting out of season bees
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/out-of-season-bees
... which includes this observation of an Andrena cineraria mining #nativebee from the Cambridge Botanic gardens https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/138977895
Meet the Silver-studded Blue (Plebejus argus). This butterfly has an incredible relationship with ants!
As a caterpillar, it attracts ants by producing sugary liquid & amino acids from a special gland & pores. In return, the ants look after the caterpillar, protecting it from predators & even allowing it to shelter inside their nest. The caterpillar pupates inside or near to the nest, with a protective swarm of ants surrounding the newly emerged butterfly until its wings have fully expanded.
Hello People! #introduction
I am a Post-doc wrapping up its PhD at the Max-Plank Institute for Cell Biology and Genetics. I am currently working on #CellBiology, studying liver architecture establishment during mouse #development. #DevBio
I mainly use microscopy and cell culture to understand how cells establish their polarity and contribute to overall tissue organization. I'm interested in #ImageAnalysis and always looking forward to learning more on this topic.
RT @NatRevNeurosci
Attractor and integrator networks in the brain — a Review by Mikail Khona & Ila Fiete
@KhonaMikail @FieteGroup
We recently found lower blood oxygenation and #neurovascular function in the #hippocampus compared to #neocortex, which might explain why the hippocampus is sensitive to hypoxia and affected early in Alzheimer’s disease: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-23508-y. 2/4
Hey people! Time for an #introduction! I lead a research group at the University of Sussex, UK. I’m interested in how the #brain controls its #blood flow, and what happens in the brain when there is a slight disruption in this energy supply, as happens before people develop symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease. We image neurons, glia and blood vessels in mouse brain to try to understand what they do in different situations and when they go wrong. 1/4
How does the brain work? Someday, we'll figure it out.
Group Leader, MRC LMB, and Professor, University of Cambridge, UK.
#neuroscience #Drosophila #TrakEM2 #FijiSc #CATMAID #connectomics #vEM
Born at 335 ppm.
Brains, signal processing, software and entomology: there will be bugs.