Andrew Kennard @askennard@qoto.org

@askennard Solidego (aka goldenrod) seed head, photographed yesterday in one of the few remaining patches of prairie near me

#introduction post! My name is Sonia Roberts (she/her) and I'm a postdoc at Northeastern University developing knitted sensors that could be used to make soft, fully knitted robots. My PhD work was on legged robots running around in the desert -- and if you've ever gone on a beach run, you know why that's hard. I have also done some science and technology policy work. I like to learn about what's going on in other fields so I try to follow a lot of academics in different areas!

@lightweight @explorergrace @pablo @weka @robert_p_king I've got a science paper somewhere that poses the same question, and then puzzles over why evolution has overlooked one possible mechanism. Many bacteria and protists scoot about in water by using ATP (the currency of cell energy) to move their flagella (hairs). It's not clear (at least not to the authors of this paper) why a stationary bacteria having its flagella moved by the water couldn't run this pathway in reverse and make itself ATP.

Great to see a #ScienceMastodon #biophysics community self-assembling! For the occasion, I learned to build my first bot for this budding community: @bioRxiv_biophys will toot #bioRxiv biophysics posts.

#introduction Hello #sciencemastodon I am a cell biologist running a research group in the UK focused on membrane traffic and cell division in human cells. I aim to post mainly about science but also music, running and cycling.

Hashtags:
#cellbiology #microscopy #imageanalysis #membranetraffic #mitosis #cytoskeleton #cancer #academia #statistics #openscience #Rstats #igorpro #datascience #raspberrypi #generativeart #music #running #cycling

CS, and AI/ML in particular, have become a weird sort of attention economy. Twitter benefited prominent scientists who could get a lot of traction by talking about their work. The prominent scientists will still have followers. Others still have a chance of being overheard.

I've been on a low-effort, low-stakes quest to find whiteboard markers that aren't disappointing. So far, the Chisel-Tip Pentel Markathon Pump Dry Erase Markers are doing well. I've been using them for over a month with no frustration. Tentative recommendation.
https://www.amazon.com/Pentel-Markathon-Marker-Assorted-MWL6SXBP4M/dp/B09K3KXTMB
#moa

this site is so weird. how do I know how many internet points I won? how do I know what to be outraged about? I feel like I could just put it down at any moment and go to bed at a reasonable hour, and then check it again tomorrow if I felt like it, in a healthy way. what the fuck

Many aspects of #climate impacts on #health are still under the public radar. For instance, #globalwarming is moving habitats of invasive #disease vectors like mosquitoes more and more northward.

In an warmer world, which seems inevitably now, chances of newly emerging of infectious diseases outbreaks will increase. This map shows the ongoing spreading of invasive Aedes mosquitoes in #europe. And yes, they settle in.

She's off to the vets tomorrow. Hoping for better looking bloods, a clean ultrasound and, all going well, spaying being done.

#mastocats #siberiancat

(not getting a better picture today, she's in a "no cameras, please" mood and blapping me for any photo attempts)

A spooky specimen from the London Natural History Museum: a fish forever entombed inside a pearl! This fish, perhaps a pearlfish, known to parasitize bivalves, tried to make a home in a pearl oyster and died. The oyster dutifully set about encasing it in nacre (mother of pearl, a form of aragonite). Natural pearls are fairly rare, and are essentially an immune response by bivalves to encase a foreign object and protect themselves from infection. #clamfacts

After a couple of days on #Mastodon I’m very impressed & excited to be part of this growing community! #mastodonmigration

My only humble suggestion is that it needs more #tardigrades aka "water bears."

Tardigrades have survived every mass #extinction on Earth since they evolved about a 1/2 billion years ago. There are ~1,300 known species. And millions of years from now, they won’t even notice we’re gone.

(Please boost) Hey is there anyone on fedi that currently or has ever in the past worked as a librarian? Could you comment
1. An average day at work
2. Education requirements and what school is like
3. Average pay
4. Bonus: experiences with being autistic/neurodiverse, chronically ill or disabled in any way.

I’m sick of struggling to find work that accommodates my disabilities, I want stability but not at the cost of my well-being.

I have a funded PhD position on a super-cool project on Indigenous Quantitative Methods at @MUNGeog in St. John's, NL. It has a legit funding package. Please spread the word!
@cricketcrocker @algoriphagus @native4data @indigenous_sts
https://civiclaboratory.nl/2022/11/02/phd-position-in-indigenous-quantitative-methods/

My University is now recruiting studentships on our MRC DTP Programme in Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research (IBR)!

These are fully funded, 4 year (1 year MSc + 3 year PhD) Studentships. Aim is to do cross-discipline work in biomedical science. Great for maths/physics/CS grads to do biomed or for bio/chem grads looking to branch out.

https://www.findaphd.com/phds/program/medical-research-council-funded-dtp-in-interdisciplinary-biomedical-research/?i369p3939

#introduction

Hi there new mastodon and fediscience friends! I'm Anna. I work in #MolecularEcology and #ConservationGenetics. I use #DNA (from threatened species, museum specimens, #eDNA, #sciencepoop...) to study wildlife and inform #conservation and management. I post sciencey stuff, and also share my #CameraTrap and #WildOz pics… oh and maybe pics of my rescue dogs sneak in too :)

hello mastodon world! (this is a mammoth... but close enough :-)