Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@qoto.org

#Drosophila #Advent Day2: The other UK member of the melanogaster group is D. suzukii, or “Spotted Wing Drosophila” #SWD. A fearsome #soft-fruit #pest with a saw-like ovipositor https://academic.oup.com/jee/article/114/5/1950/6369578, Dsuz originated in the far east and has recently spread around the world https://academic.oup.com/mbe/article/37/8/2369/5821433, being first recorded in the UK in 2012 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/280066071_First_record_of_Drosophila_suzukii_Matsumura_Diptera_Drosophilidae_in_Great_Britain. Dsuz is very cold tolerant compared to its relatives, with a larger, darker, tougher over-wintering adult form https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ece3.6517

Wrapping up an Intro course with one of my favorite topics: Consciousness (C)!

I really like how @anilkseth parses the conceptual space of C in this essay (a precursor to his recent book, Being You):
https://aeon.co/essays/the-hard-problem-of-consciousness-is-a-distraction-from-the-real-one

There's:
C level (awake vs coma);
C content (awareness);
C self (that little person in our heads who is driving it all; free will).

On the topic of free will & the brain, do you know of references appropriate for early undergrads? (No Penrose please).

New job opening for a Research Fellow in Outbreak Analytics at MRC Gambia, joining the wider Epiverse initiative. Deadline 12 Dec: https://jobs.lshtm.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx?ref=MRC-MRC-2022-09

Our new review of engineering NK cells for cancer immunotherapy
@BiologyOpen@twitter.com
@Co_Biologists@twitter.com
#immunotherapy #NKcells #CARNK
https://journals.biologists.com/bio/article/11/12/bio059396/284640/The-prospect-of-genetically-engineering-natural

Lovely post by Darren Dahly on not being a 'real' statistician, but the importance of 'applied' statisticians, and why we need more of them: https://statsepi.substack.com/p/im-not-a-real-statistician-and-you. As a 20% statistician myself, I could not agree more!

Mondrian Crescent

I love it when train doors align at the end of a tunnel. The red tiles at Green Park station make this the ideal location to capture this moment.

It wasn't luck though, instead I froze the moving train with a fast shutter. It took ages to get it centred.

This final image resembles an abstract art painting by Piet Mondrian.

#art #mastoart #abstract #architecture #photography #potd #symmetry #london #underground #londonunderground #railway #mondrian #tiles #photo

2 open PhD positions and 1 technican position in Barcelona, at the Brain, Circuits and Behavior lab.

https://braincircuitsbehavior.org/

Deadline: December 20th, 2022.

Apply: https://braincircuitsbehavior.org/news-posts/open-position-animal-technician-ndfrp

PhD project 1:
"Circuit mechanisms of priors and learning during decision making"

PhD project 2:
"The neural basis of working memory history biases as components of statistical learning"

Technician:
https://braincircuitsbehavior.org/news-posts/open-position-animal-research-lab-technician

#neuroscience #neurobiologia #PhD #academia #science #ciència

The worst: Mole ponders how to deal with rejection and provides guidance on how to review a paper - "Be nice, please!"
https://journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/135/22/jcs260666/282115/The-worst
#cellbiology #research #J_Cell_Sci #peerreview

Grevy's #zebra is an #endangered species, with only around 2800 individuals left in the wild - so we were very lucky to spot this foal on one of our #CameraTraps.

#Ecology #Conservation #Research #CameraTrap #TrailCam #Wildlife #Nature #PricklyPearProjectKenya #Zooniverse #GrevysZebra

Time to introduce myself. Hello!

I'm an economist, writer and professional nerd. https://timharford.com/

I write books (The Undercover Economist, How To Make The World Add Up, etc).

I present "More or Less" on BBC Radio 4 and the BBC World Service.

My FT column is called "The Undercover Economist"; it's been running since 2005.

I also present "Cautionary Tales", a podcast about learning from other people's mistakes.

Nice to be here.

#Twittermigration #Economics #Writing #introduction

How big is the #compchem community around here? Prof Núria López at ICIQ is looking for #postdocs in sunny Tarragona. The group is really great, and the salary is quite competitive. More info: https://www.iciq.org/jobs-grants/position/project-researcher-ref-project-researcher-2022-35-nl/

Also, if you're curious about the research life and the chemistry community in Tarragona, I wrote about it a bit ago: https://www.chemistryworld.com/careers/fancy-a-job-in-tarragona-spain/2500271.article

#chemtoops #chemiverse #chemistry

This is just appalling. Another facet of being malnourished, starving and sleep deprived is that it massively impacts immune function and can cause immunodeficiency- givenwe are a in a tripledemic of RSV, flu and covid- this will not help these children either. Awful news. https://www.theguardian.com/education/2022/dec/02/school-leaders-report-rise-in-pupils-not-on-free-meals-going-hungry?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other