Pawel Burkhardt @pawelburkhardt@qoto.org

We published a new preprint on the mechanism of hydrostatic pressure sensation in marine #zooplankton.
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.02.28.530398v1?ct=ct
Click on the toot to see a thread about our findings. 1/9

The EvoDevo Emerging Systems series is now complete: 13 articles on emerging experimental organisms, highlighting the importance, the challenges, and the appeal of exploiting the unique features of each species.

http://biomedcentral.com/collections/emsy

Thanks to all the authors, to my fellow editor Chiara Sinigaglia, to reviewers, EvoDevo editors and staff for this collaboration, which spanned the difficult years of the covid pandemic.

Neuro-evo conference at HHMI Janelia on May 15-18, 2023.

Application deadline: January 27, 2023

Apply here: https://www.
janelia.org/you-janelia/confer
ences/neuro-evo-a-comparative-approach-to-cracking-circuit-function-iii

"this meeting will bring together neuroscientists working on a broad diversity of animal models in an effort to compare circuits across phyla as a means to crack their function."

#NeuroEvo #Janelia #HHMI #conference #science #neuroscience #DevBio #connectomics #connectome

#TasteReceptor cells detect chemicals in food & drink, but this Primer examines a new #PLOSBiology suggesting that they may also be involved in #immune surveillance like their counterparts in the intestine Paper: https://plos.io/3iBdwfS Primer: https://plos.io/3CTwZiW

I am very happy to announce that our lab will soon move to the University of #Heidelberg to join the Centre for Organismal Studies (COS)
https://www.cos.uni-heidelberg.de/en
#COS

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Folks looking for a curator position (anthropology, invertebrates, vertebrates). The American Museum of Natural History seeks a Curator in the area of Conservation Science. See
https://careers.amnh.org/postings/3488

#anthropology, #invertebrates, #vertebrates, #MuseumJob, #curator #ecology #evolution #conservation #museums #NaturalHistory

Are you an #editor with expertise in #neuroscience? Come join our team!
This might be the right next step for you -we are looking for our next Neurobiology Section Manager, key position in the @PLOSBiology team
To apply (considered upon receipt) https://plos.io/3kh5ARD
#careers

📢 New faculty search at UC Berkeley: Assistant Prof in Conservation Science! 📢

ESPM is a highly interdisciplinary department and this search has an intentionally broad concept of conservation science.

Details at: https://aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF03613

pls boost!

🌏 🐻 🌲
#jobs #ecology #conservation

Great paper by Laura Piovani on high-quality cell atlases of oyster and polyclad flatworm larvae. Interesting new insights into cell-type diversity, young and old cell-types and evolution. Shell gland transcriptomes make oyster larvae look young. It was a pleasure to collaborate with Telford Lab et al. on this project. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.01.04.522730v1

#newpaper #ciliates #neuroscience

Our [https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.12.20.521225v1 |first paper on the behavior of Paramecium], a unicellular swimming organism that spikes! We look at what happens when it hits a little pillar. Often, it simply slips along it, but it sometimes does an “avoiding reaction”: it briefly swims backward, then changes direction. This is triggered by an action potential. We found that this reaction is often delayed: the organism slides on the obstacle, then withdraws.

I cannot keep this to myself. There is a website (radio.garden) where you can listen to radio stations all over the world for free. No log in. No email address. Nothing.

When the site loads, you are looking at the globe. Slide the little white circle over the green dots (each green dot is a radio station) until you find one you like.

I have been listening to this station in the Netherlands and it absolutely slaps. I have no idea what they're saying but the music is fantastic.

This is worth reading under the Christmas tree! I was touched by the stories of @DrAnneCarpenter and @LashuelLab who both shrunk their lab following health issues. Perhaps science, as well as scientists, would be better off if we all ran smaller labs?

https://elifesciences.org/collections/1926c529/sparks-of-change?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic

“What is new is the intense variability. We farmers are used to weather, but it has become extreme.”—Grøtte, farmer

“My father always read the weather signs. In the autumn, he could see how the winter would be. But in the final years of his life, he was a worried man. Because the signs weren't right any more.”—Guttorm, herder

“We must change everything from our eating habits to how we build our cities. If not–this is just the beginning.”

https://www.nrk.no/chasing-climate-change-1.14859595

#ClimateChange #GlobalWarming

The historic MBL Physiology Course is now accepting applications! If you're interested in learning more about the course and the application process, be sure to join us on Friday, January 13 at 9 AM PT for a virtual open house (https://berkeley.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIlc-6gpjgjEt3OkOiHp6MCLgLm1HQiPOX6).

More info about the course is available here: https://www.mbl.edu/education/advanced-research-training-courses/course-offerings/physiology-modern-cell-biology-using-microscopic-biochemical-and-computational-approaches