Dr Michelle @Drosmel@qoto.org

what if I told you tiny leaf-hopper insects

make even tinier soccer ball particles

to coat themselves and keep the rain off?

(and we can use that to do cool bio-inspired material science)

nature is amazing
we should fund science

https://entomologytoday.org/2024/02/22/leafhopper-brochosomes-water-repellent-nanoparticles-inspiring-future-materials/

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ... says of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation products that "it is very easy to be blinded to the essential uselessness of them by the sense of achievement you get from getting them to work at all."

#HitchhikersGuide #DouglasAdams #quotes #quote #bot

Sir Wobbles occupying the dog bed. “Yeah, this is much more spacious than the cat bed. I approve.” #Catsofmastodon

Ein Freund von mir sucht im Raum #kiel einen Network Engineer:

https://osimaritime.com/jobs/systemadministrator-m-w-d/

Er baut für eine Kanadische Firma den neuen deutschen Standort auf. D.h. man kommt dort an eine Stelle, wo man noch ein paar Dinge mit gestalten kann, auch über den lokalen Standort hinaus.

Außerdem, das kann ich sicher sagen, kriegt man jemanden als Chef, der mit IT-Menschen umgehen kann.

Bei Interesse kann ich vor einer formellen Bewerbung einen Vorab-Kontakt herstellen.

Allerdings ist der Job im Defense-Sektor, was die üblichen Nachteile (Security Clearance, eingeschränktes Remote Work) mit sich bringt.

#fedijobs

The new issue of @genomeresearch is now live. Follow the link to new research on single-cell CRISPR barcoding, Drosophila immune response enhancers, and more! https://tinyurl.com/Genome-Res-36-5

Y'all already heard that Canada has decided that Canadian citizen can pass, retroactively, from parent to child for more than one generation -- so that if your parent, or grandparent, or great-grandparent was Canadian, you can get Canadian citizenship. (And if you didn't know that, look at https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/dual-citizenship-eh-under-new-law-millions-of-americans-may-now-also-be-considered-canadian and https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/canadian-citizenship/become-canadian-citizen/eligibility/already-citizen.html)

But the NEW news is, Canada is moving citizenship applications from transgender USians to the top of the queue. So -- if you're trans, you have Canadian ancestry, and you think that you'd like to be Canadian, get that application in!

More about the trans part: https://www.cicnews.com/2026/05/canada-is-fast-tracking-citizenship-certificates-for-trans-americans-0575258.html

EDIT, 14 May 2026: Many folks have posted to me to clarify that there isn't special processing specifically for trans US citizens. Instead, anyone can apply for "urgent" processing, and there are many reasons why an application might be considered urgent. Applicants need to explain why they need urgent processing. (It's not like there's a check-box to say "trans in US".) But trans people with Canadian ancestry have applied for, and received, urgent processing of their citizenship applications.

Postdoc (m/f/d) in Silviculture and Forest Ecology

4 days left to apply!

1.5 year posting. University of Freiburg

https://uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00004965/ #Forestry #PlantScience #Botany

Day of the Mother. #grickledoodle #mothersday #hiddenpeople #puzzleagent #horror #cartoon #art #drawing #funny #humor

New Paper Day!
A hyper specific investigation of how Ameloblasts get incorporated into enamel as it forms, and what this does.

Enamel Tubules and Spindles: Enter and Exit the Amelocyte | Calcified Tissue International | Springer Nature Link
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00223-026-01522-w

#Teeth #anatomy #microscopy

Fun idea from the Motors and Filaments meeting. Chat to attendees and figure out who you can write in each box.

My exceptional coworker Rich Quan is still fighting our employer for the right to work from home in order to better care for his 96-year-old father who has advanced Alzheimer’s. If you haven’t, please let the NYT know you think they should support employees with caregiving responsibilities at the following link! https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/tell-the-new-york-times-to-stop-being-heartless-and-let-rich-quan-work-at-home

#unions #labor #laborRights

Meet Vivi, our second #cat who we adopted last Sunday.

She likes sausage.

#catsOfMastodon #cats

Happy 100th Birthday to a true icon of wildlife conservation, filmmaking and television — Sir David Attenborough, the great communicator. After a lifetime spent exploring and revealing the wonders of our natural world, David continues to inspire us, reminding us how deeply connected all living things are and why every species matters. An important message we all need to carry forward.

Sir David Attenborough - have a wonderful 100th birthday.

Are you an MSc student looking for a thesis topic? Interested in Greenland/Antarctica atmosphere and ice sheet processes? Background in meteorology, geography, earth science or physics (or other quantitative discipline?

Then do I have the project for you...
I have just updated my list of open research ideas here:

https://sternaparadisaea.net/thesis-projects/

But I'm particularly at thsi stage interested in finding candidates to work on field data, satellite data, machine learning and parameterisation development and evaluation.
#MScThesis #AcademicChatter #Greenland #Antarctica #ClimateChange #Meteorology #Wx #Glaciology #MachineLearning #ClimateModelling

#Askfedi Could the fediverse hivemind help me find someone who speaks #Tigrinya and who can translate a page of text? I've written a master's thesis and would like the abstract in Tigrinya. I can pay for the job, or donate to a charity of your choice. #Boosts welcome!

If anyone has a job for a micro biologist with lab experience in or near #Berlin or knows someone who knows someone, please let me know. Also, please share this post, thank you kindly.

#Jobs #biology #science #FediHire #FediHired

( reposted with added ALT from @jjacobsson )

Exploiting my long-suffering graphic artist father,
@Chasm49,
for uncompensated labor and just wanted to share some of his cool concept sketches. Things'll get significantly simplified for business card purposes, but how groovy is this?