If you are 30 and over, be weary of how you speak to those younger than you. Do not allow your pessimism in the world to pollute the imagination of those that come after you. Allow the youth to dream big and fight for things that you will not see in your lifetime.

Announcing a special drive for admission to PhD in Biology (Ecology and Evolution) at IISER Pune. To apply: iiserpune.ac.in/education/admi… Last Date to Apply: 04-July, 2024 Online Interviews: 10-July, 2024. Please spread the word.

*** Many Congratulations Parul Johri for winning the prestigious SMBE Early-Career Excellence Award this year! smbe.org/smbe/AWARDS/Fa… Parul Johri is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology and the Genetics Dept. at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 🧵

Honored to receive this, thank you OfficialSMBE and thanks to my fantastic mentees and mentors and all round inspiring people I was lucky to work with over the years! So much fun to dig into things together. 😊

New study! We demonstrate a transatlantic flight for Vanessa cardui butterflies. An incredible feat for insects! Read the full paper here: nature.com/articles/s4146… #insectmigration #butterflymigration #PhyloMigrationLab Institut Botànic de Barcelona CSIC

I have said it before & I will say it again: well-established faculty in the field reaching out to provide unsolicited, generous kudos & advice to first authors of papers (or posters) they read & liked is one of the least onerous & most effective 'pay it forward' acts in science

Fun initiative from the National Centre for Biological Sciences communications team and the Tinkle team. Watch out for the upcoming comics in this series!

The comic highlights the huge role that school and college teachers play in lighting a spark and nurturing the flame of science. This was crucial for me, and I wish all kids find at least one such teacher in their life!

So proud to have been chosen to serve OfficialSMBE as president-elect. The society has inspired me in so many ways. I am glad to be granted the chance to promote its values. Thanks members! #SMBE2024

New paper alert! we report on host selection of parasitoid wasps, important biocontrol agents in agriculture! Making a healthy choice: Tactical host selection behaviour of a parasitoid wasp - Sasidharan - Ecological Entomology - Wiley Online Library resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ee…

Happy to share a fantastic work from Harshith C Y part I of his PhD thesis, now in Cell Reports. We report a stepwise signalling cascade involving two different peptides in rice wound-responses. Rice activates growth very quickly post-wounding unlike dicots cell.com/cell-reports/f…

We are delighted to share our work on the role of small-peptide signalling in rice wound responses, now published in @cellrep. We have uncovered the involvement of signal relay between PEPs and PSK peptide hormones.

Many of you are aware that Prof. Priyanga Amarasekare, a minority faculty member and award winning scientist, has been the subject of disciplinary actions by UCLA. Priyanga has decided to share her experience and defend herself publicly: pamarasekare.org

After reading Priyanga’s account please consider joining us in signing a petition to the California Assembly and California Senate to conduct an external investigation of UCLA’s mistreatment of Priyanga: chng.it/L7wbnXWqLW

You can also write to your state and federal representatives. here is list of contacts and a template letter: docs.google.com/document/d/1dj…

What do you do when an advance copy of your first book arrives at your doorstep? Obvious! Set the unopened package aside for two days, and unveil it for a secret picnic reading in the local cemetery! The beautiful cover (plus more inside) is by artist Elizabeth Jean Younce.

Super excited that the final version of our paper on mutation rate plasticity and oxidative stress is out now at PLoS biology! This paper shows how mutation rates are a highly dynamic trait shaped by genotype, community composition and abiotic factors. 1/8 journals.plos.org/plosbiology/ar…

Visualizing Science! I'm holding a series of free, online workshops, thanks to Johns Hopkins University. All are welcome! I plan to have fun with Danielle VanBrabant, Damond Kyllo, and Amey Zhang to introduce visualization topics and challenges. No art experience is necessary.

We are delighted to announce the launch of the official #SMBE2025 website: smbe2025.org Key dates can be found on the website.  We would like to remind you that the portal for submitting symposia proposals will be open on September 20th, 2024. SMBEmeetings

Happy to share 1st part of Avik Kumar Pal's fantastic PhD, now out in Nature Communications. We describe a chromatin remodeler's role in rice genomic imprinting and endosperm development. Vivek Hari Sundar generated soft tools. National Centre for Biological Sciences TIFR India pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39242590/