Albert Cardona @albertcardona@qoto.org

I will start recruitment soon, but for now, I'm looking for
- a lab manager who will build the new lab with me (namely the central pillar of my Dresden lab)
- a postdoctoral fellow interested in comparing tissue mechanics of organoids across species.
Please reach out to me. 3/

Introductory post: I'm an entomologist/evolutionary biologist that's interested in the evolution of Hymenoptera 🐝 🐜 , in particular gall inducing/ parasitic wasps. Currently I'm a Marie Curie fellow at the University of Edinburgh, using phylogenomics 🧬 , community ecology 💻 , and morphological taxonomy 🔬 to figure out who's who, and who eats who in tritrophic systems consisting of 🌹 -> 🌹gall wasps->their natural enemies.

Our gigantic pub on the arthropod associates of 155 North American cynipid oak galls is now freely available! We report rearing records from 527,306 galls representing 201 different oak gall types collected from 32 oak tree species in US + Canada.

https://zoolstud.sinica.edu.tw/Journals/61/61-57.html

#introductions: Hi, I'm a junior #professor in Neurocognitive Developmental Psychology, doing #research on #attention, #emotion and #social #development using #psychology and #neuroscience methods such as #eye-tracking and #EEG. I'm also an #OpenScience enthusiast and a #MotherInScience

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Committed to publishing quality research software with zero article processing charges or subscription fees.

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#introduction

Just wanted to share a link to our #LongCOVID mechanisms, risk factors and recovery review that's just come out in Experimental Physiology. It was such a pleasure to work with so many excellent scientists on this - most of whom I haven't yet bumped into on mastodon.

https://physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/EP090802

I love turkeys—wild ones for watching, not eating—but they feel too daunting to draw (leaves and feathers are so much easier than birds 😬), so here’s a Thanksgiving #NorthernCardinal for those of you in the U.S…and a regular old cardinal for those of you elsewhere 😄
#birdlovers #birding #wildlife #art #aroundmyyard #draweveryday #drawing #sketch

#introduction

I am enjoying reading lots of different introductions over the last days so I will hop on the train as well and introduce myself! 👋

I am a PhD student at the #neuroscience for motivation, action, and desire lab working with @nbkroemer 🧠

I am broadly interested in #decisionmaking and in my PhD I am incorporating a metabolic perspective to understand how the #gutbrainaxis influences neural communication, motivation and effort. 🏋️‍♂️

Many psychiatric disorders come along with both motivational and metabolic alterations so the gut-brain perspective might help us to better understand and treat disorders like #depression #anhedonia 🎯

Mostly here for all the diverse science 💡🤩

#fmri #cognitiveneuroscience #dopamine #ghrelin

If you're like me, then you were really happy to learn about Mastodon's enthusiastic support for image descriptions, and you were really eager to join in.

Then you went to actually write something and realized you have no idea how to present visual information in a way that is helpful/enjoyable to those who are #VisuallyImpaired or #Blind.

I found this guide really informative: https://uxdesign.cc/how-to-write-an-image-description-2f30d3bf5546

Of course, I'd also love to hear any additional tips y'all might have!

#Accessibility

Hi! #introduction:

I'm a former #neuroscience postdoc who found herself too much of a generalist to stick to a specific research topic. I need the bigger picture! Still, I'll be forever fascinated by the 🧠 #brain, #connectomics, #neuroimaging, #neurobiology, #evolution, #cognition 🤩

I am now R&D manager at SAIA-Agrobotics.com, a #startup combining #greenhouse #horticulture, #ai and #robotics to fundamentally change greenhouse #automation 🌱🤖.

+ #reading #gardening good #food #cinema #nature

I have a #PhDposition open on Climate Change effects on plant-enemy interactions starting early 2023! If you are interested in #PlantInsect #Interaction and #PlantPathogen #Interactions, and how they are altered by #ClimateChange have a look! https://apply.refline.ch/273855/1408/pub/1/index.html

The position is within our #BugNet project, will be co-supervised by Eric Allan and in close collaboration with @rr_junker and Jake Alexander.
#Job #PhD

@jobsecoevo

Are you interested in the effects of insect herbivores and pathogens on plant communities and ecosystem functioning? We are looking for collaborators to establish an exclusion experiment in their area and join our global network #BugNet!

We offer an exciting research community with many great scientists and the involvement in publications! Check out bug-net.org and contact us if interested. Please forward to interested scientists!

#SLFDavos #AllanEcology #insects #pathogens #communityEcology

Living in deer tick country in the US, am happy to see this Lyme vaccine go into Phase III trial! Hopefully will participate. https://www.aamc.org/news-insights/lyme-disease-rise-why-there-still-no-vaccine

Our lab has a new PhD opportunity in collaboration with Olena Riabinina and Melissa Bateson ! If you or someone you know would like to investigate how stress affect bumblebee brains and behaviour please get in touch and apply: https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/the-effect-of-stress-on-pollinator-behaviour/?p150422
#phdpositions #bee #pollination #animalbehaviour

I think most Structural Biologists have always suspected this was the case - wonderful to see that Team Phenix have dug into to this and fleshed it all out.

"AlphaFold predictions: great hypotheses but no match for experiment"

http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2022.11.21.517405v1?rss=1

#StructuralBiology #Science #Alphafold #crystallography #CryoEM

Hi. We are a #neuroscience lab at the Research Centre of the CHUSJ at the University of Montreal, Canada. We study synaptic integration and plasticity rules for dendritic spines and the formation of memories in the neocortex. Happy to be in #sciencemastodon #neuroscience

Are your streets for cars or for people? Just because the answer is cars right now, doesn’t mean you can’t change that if you really want to. This #TelAviv transformation before & after between 2016 and 2021 is well documented by #schlijper’s great photography. #StreetsForPeople #streetdesign #cities #urbandesign #urbanplanning #urbanism #peopleplaces #streets #people

📢THREE (!) new tenure-track or tenured Origins-of-Life faculty positions at Purdue.

"Applications are welcomed from astrobiology, evolutionary biology, self-replicating and evolutionary systems, and synthetic biology."

Spread the word!🙏

https://careers.purdue.edu/job/West-Lafayette-AssistantAssociate-Professor-IN-47906/961948400/