Interested in doing Bayesian phylogenetics? We're looking for a postdoc! 11 days left to apply!

What a better way of celebrating #WorldBiodiversityDay2024 than this? Join us for some great science and a lot of fun! Proudly organized by the Biodiversity Program Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE) - CarranzaLab del Campo Lab Butterfly Diversity & Evolution Lab Sergi Valverde🌍 Librado Lab, Castresana Lab & Metazoa Phylogenomics Lab

A fully funded PhD fellowship is available in my lab to work on the evolution of visual systems in mosquitos (sc-genomics + comparative genomics). The application deadline is Thursday, 23rd of May. For details and to apply, visit warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/… Please apply and RT.

DToL has recently publicly released a reference genome for the Pine Hoverfly which will hopefully help with bringing back the species to Britain. Have a read using link below.

darwintreeoflife.org/news_item/pine…

Saving the worst bit for last. Just need to write this introduction and then we're good to go!

If a person in your party's in a pickle and been petrified
Don't use the person as a petrified pickle press

The Oomen Lab UNB Saint John is officially funded by CFI / FCI NSERC / CRSNG & nb_innovation!🥳

We're recruiting fully-funded MSc & PhD positions in marine fish ecology/evolution/genomics.🐟🧬

Mentoring philosophy & more information: rebekahoomen.com/join.html

Please RT!

We've launched a new funding award to support researchers of Black, Bangladeshi and Pakistani heritage in the UK to stay in research and advance their careers.

💰 £200,000 per researcher
🗓️ Up to two years
✅ Apply by 18 June

Find out more ⤵️
wellcome.org/grant-funding/…

For this month's (belated) group of the month, I'm talking about a personal love of mine, the Loricifera! This recently discovered, rare phylum of astoundingly beautiful minibeasts is always a joy to discuss
blog.annelida.de/2024/04/15/gro…

When I spoke to the receptionist at the GP in Norwegian today, she replied to me in German!
Is that... progress on my accent or not? I don't know

OK, I'll comment. 🧵

For reference, this is discussing my new, user-friendly phylogenetic artifact identification software, BOSTIn!
github.com/JFFleming/BOST…
Preprint will come *nebulously soon* (probably in a few months), alongside a GUI, but I am still on the hunt for pre-Alpha usability testers!

So... I am aware that follwing a photo of mild academic shitposting I now have 120% more followers on this site than last night.
I'm going to apologise in advance - this account is solid 33% divisions of academia, anime/tabletop rpg memes and venting about current events.

Absolutely great time over the last few days at Earth BioGenome Project Norway 2024! Some really exciting talks have left me with a mind fit to brimming with different new ideas!

Scientific Achievement Unlocked! My science has been covered in The New York Times by Carl Zimmer! He did a wonderful job highlighting these two recent papers that independently contribute to our understanding of the extreme radiation tolerance of tardigrades. nytimes.com/2024/04/12/sci…

A highly contiguous genome assembly of the European bison generated using PacBio HiFi reads and trio binning. People interested to generate haplotype assemblies for species that went through population bottlenecks may want to check this out: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

慶応大学研究所と大手広告代理店が連携協定 社会課題を解決へ｜NHK 山形県のニュース www3.nhk.or.jp/lnews/yamagata…