apinae @apinae@qoto.org

Want to study bumblebees in the Arctic? The impact of global warming on pollinators? There's an open PhD position in Richard Gill's lab at in London https://www.gillinsectresearch.com

The PhD ad is a PDF: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/grantham-institute/public/dtp/2023-projects/2023_52_DoLS_Gill.pdf

"Our knowledge of how interaction networks, such as plant-pollinator relationships, are being
affected by climate change remains in its infancy. This is primarily due to us having a limited
understanding of the underlying mechanisms determining how plant and pollinator
populations respond to climatic variation."

"This project will study an Arctic plant-pollinator community located in Lapland (Sweden) by
taking advantage of a unique phenology transect spanning an elevational gradient."

#pollinators #phd #academia #bumblebees #entomology #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming

Amazing how little I can find about all events in #Iran #Iranprotests , tips who to follow?

Day 1 on Mastodon

Day 7 on Mastodon

#Twitter Migration

New molecular clues on neurodevelopmental disorder similar to Angelman syndrome

Angelman syndrome is a genetic disease that causes a developmental delay, alterations in speech and balance, intellectual disability and sometimes, seizures. To date, researchers had identified mutations in the HERC2 gene, which encodes a ubiquitin ligase enzyme that plays a key role in the nervous system.

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-11-molecular-clues-neurodevelopmental-disorder-similar.html

The benefit of attending academic talks online and not back in person is you can shout at arseholes when they speak arseholery. I’ve heard it’s frowned upon if you attend in person #academicchatter

Online Anti Bullying Training

https://anti-bullyingalliance.org.uk/tools-information/free-cpd-online-training

The following online training courses are available:

#Bullying #CPD #Free #UK #UnitedKingdom

Hashtags are great and should also be used liberally -that's how we find stuff we're interested in, across the fediverse. HOWEVER, Hashtags fuck with screenreaders, so please use them at the end of your post, in a hashtag block, not scattered throughout. (I just learned this recently).

#accessibility #CW #AltText #AntiRacism

@EverydayMoggie
Try reading the following out loud:

Hashtag screenreaders for the hashtag blind and hashtag VisuallyImpaired read every hashtag HashTags out loud and so it's hard for people with hashtag VisualImpairment to get the sense of the post because it's being constantly interrupted by well-meaning hashtag accessibility hashtag allies.

Easier to read with a block of hashtags at the bottom:
#screenreaders #VisuallyImpaired #blind #allies #Hashtags #accessibility

📢 Please RT
Join our #fly neuroscience lab.

4 year fully funded #phD fellowship to study how animals make decisions during conflicting situations. #neuroscience #drosophila

Deadline 20th Jan
Get in touch with questions.

https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/mibtp/pgstudy/phd_opportunities/neurosciencebehaviour2023/conflictingoptions

HELP NEEDED: Please help me help everyone find Australian #climate and #energy advocates, communicators and educators on this hairy elephant app.

Can you please

1. Boost this post (boosting is just the mastodon name for a retweet)?
2. Reply with the full @username@server
handle for everyone you know who fits that category?

This way lots of people can add to the list, so I can get a reasonably full one. As ever in this space, it'd be great to avoid the list being all white men so if you can turn your mind to that, it'd be wonderful.

Like Santa, I'm making a list and checking it twice. I'll also make it public.

#scicomm #climatecrisis #Australia

So many people are having a bad first experience with Mastodon because they're using the official app which is lacking features, doesn't allow image uploads randomly, has random slowness, and doesn't give you easy access to the two most active feeds where you can find people (Local and Federated).

Please switch to Metatext, Tusky, or Tooot for a better mobile experience (or even use a browser).

Out of the >15k users that joined this week, over 11k are on the official apps.

Small #FediTip: if you encounter a message or thread that is in any way useful to you, bookmark it straight away.

Since the fediverse doesn't have full text searches, it will be very difficult to find that particular thing again a few days later. Especially if you cannot remember who posted it or it has no hashtags.

Periodically review your bookmarks to do something with them and you should be set.