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🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 Four exciting job opportunities! [Please repost]: PhD, Bioinformatician, Maker & Postdoc - A 4 year PhD to discover...

🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 Four exciting job opportunities! [Please repost]:
PhD, Bioinformatician, Maker & Postdoc

- A 4 year PhD to discover hidden biodiversity (£22-24k tax-free; UK home fees) – Apply by May 19th. https://bit.ly/meiofauna

- Nextflow Bioinformatics Pipeline Developer – £34k-40k - Apply by May 21st. https://bit.ly/econextflow

- A maker/builder/engineer – £30-45k building tech to help pollinators. https://bit.ly/bhelpb

- A molecular/genomic postdoc – not yet formally advertised – email me.

Happy 1700000000-second Day Unix! (I.e., it was that many seconds since 1970-01-01-00:00:00 on November 14 2023 22:13:20 GMT)

Happy 1700000000-second Day Unix! (I.e., it was that many seconds since 1970-01-01-00:00:00 on November 14 2023 22:13:20 GMT)

We had a camera trap running for a week last summer in Tuscany... lots of fun to see what roams at night.Now to settle a debate with his...

We had a camera trap running for a week last summer in Tuscany... lots of fun to see what roams at night.
Now to settle a debate with his classmates, my (just barely turned) 7 year old wants to set up camera traps in our house at x-mas to figure out if Santa is real.
What strategy should I take?

R is stupid (or perhaps it's simply me)... it considers `_` to be a letter between `A` and `z`.

R is stupid (or perhaps it's simply me)...
it considers `_` to be a letter between `A` and `z`.

My Phd students & I just wrapped up two lovely and exhilarating weeks guiding our fresh MSc students on a journey from understanding the...

My Phd students & I just wrapped up two lovely and exhilarating weeks guiding our fresh MSc students on a journey from understanding the command line and the cluster to cleaning Illumina reads, assembling/annotating genomes, and performing a mini GWAS.

It's super gratifying to see the new students gain new powers. But holy crap it was really exhausting too!!

Globalisation fail...Solenopsis invicta fire ant population established in Sicily. (but that *would* reduce CO2 emissions of some of our...

Globalisation fail...Solenopsis invicta fire ant population established in Sicily.

(but that *would* reduce CO2 emissions of some of our field work...)

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2023.07.036

`git reflog` is incredible...you only learn about it when you really fuck up :smile: Basically it keeps track of all git commits you've...

`git reflog` is incredible...
you only learn about it when you really fuck up :smile:

Basically it keeps track of all git commits you've ever done locally. Even if they're disconnected from the repo, outside of any branch, and are otherwise lost due to rebasing

Exciting review of Apple's new thinghttps://daringfireball.net/2023/06/first_impressions_of_vision_pro_and_visionos

Exciting review of Apple's new thing

https://daringfireball.net/2023/06/first_impressions_of_vision_pro_and_visionos

Wait a minute - is ORCID telling everyone everyone's birthday? Last 4 digits are clearly my day and month and The odds of that being a...

Wait a minute - is ORCID telling everyone everyone's birthday? Last 4 digits are clearly my day and month and The odds of that being a coincidence are quite low!....

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3140-2809

Apologiess for the cross-platform message- This UK initiative wants more visibility (to constructively bring the UK to climate and...

Apologiess for the cross-platform message- This UK initiative wants more visibility (to constructively bring the UK to climate and biodiversity neutrality). Discussed in House of Commons today.

https://twitter.com/_OliviaBlake/status/1655970817136533505

http://zerohour.uk

4 year fully-funded PhD studentship in my lab (open to internationals). General theme pollinator health - but with a lot of flexibility....

4 year fully-funded PhD studentship in my lab (open to internationals). General theme pollinator health - but with a lot of flexibility. Apply by April 17th 5pm.
http://lido-dtp.ac.uk/apply/apply-icase-studentship/high-resolution-molecular-diagnostics-improve-pollinator-health

Maple bacon popcorn (!). What world do we live in???

Maple bacon popcorn (!). What world do we live in???

Our department is hiring two new research-focused academics - Apply by March 4th....

Our department is hiring two new research-focused academics - Apply by March 4th.
https://www.qmul.ac.uk/jobs/vacancies/items/8162.html
https://www.qmul.ac.uk/jobs/vacancies/items/8186.html

Well one great thing about shrinkflation is that you end up eating less junk food! #inflation #Brexit

Well one great thing about shrinkflation is that you end up eating less junk food! #inflation #Brexit

If you're a UK academic, and haven't yet signed up to #ALCS, just do it. And list your recent publications. https://alcs.co.uk...

If you're a UK academic, and haven't yet signed up to #ALCS, just do it. And list your recent publications.
https://alcs.co.uk

They're a non-profit who claim author royalty fees on your behalf for when people use or photocopy your papers. I expected nothings, but it surprisingly adds up to a decent chunk of change!

This AI stuff is magical right? So is there a way for me to just point it at the GitHub repo for my website and ask it to fix things and...

This AI stuff is magical right? So is there a way for me to just point it at the GitHub repo for my website and ask it to fix things and submit relevant pull requests?

@elk This is in part because it makes threads visible, and has just better overviews of everything!

@elk This is in part because it makes threads visible, and has just better overviews of everything!

Oooohh - https://elk.zone/ is a really nice alternative to the normal Mastodon User Interface. Makes it feel... almost twitteresque! @elk

Oooohh - https://elk.zone/ is a really nice alternative to the normal Mastodon User Interface. Makes it feel... almost twitteresque! @elk

Really cool paper by Eva Schultner & Jan Oettler & team identifying the potential mechanism through which queen ants control which...

Really cool paper by Eva Schultner & Jan Oettler & team identifying the potential mechanism through which queen ants control which females develop into queens vs workers
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rspb.2022.1784

We have a (somewhat scary) paper out today in @Mol_Ecol https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.16811 & ...

We have a (somewhat scary) paper out today in @Mol_Ecol https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.16811 & https://www.qmul.ac.uk/media/news/2023/se/-new-research-on-bees-shows-current-safety-tests-of-insecticides-are-inadequate.html