Me after writing one paragraph of my paper (which I’ll likely delete later)

Me (failing to write) to my colleague (also failing to write): 'how's the writing?'

How is your article not written when you've tried everything from announcing you'll write it, to telling people you'll write it, to complaining about having to write it?

Egrets, I’ve had a few

🌊🌡️ Fish are feeling the heat of climate change bit.ly/blog183sau

Saved papers you plan to “read”

Shiny new project.
Do you have the time?
No: --> Don't do it.
Yes: --> No you don't.

Not gonna lie, I've seen some people go dressed as Justin Bieber to a conference 😅

What is your opinion about conference attire? Should everyone always be dressed fancy?

Give us your hot conference fashion takes in the comments below 👇

🚨Hot off the press🚨
Collaborative article between 🇿🇦and 🇩🇪 on #OneHealth by linking environmental, animal and human health in South Africa's largest river basin, the Orange-Vaal River basin, as case study. National Research Foundation of South Africa SAIAB NWU Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management NWU_WRG Springer Nature

It's #MicroscopyMonday , so let's take a look into the 🔬!

A dinosaur bone in transmitted light under polychromatic polarization microscope.

Credit: 'Dinosaur bone' by Michael Shribak - Part of the 2022 UChicago Science as Art competition.

Pretty little nuggets
#Amblyomma #sylvaticum

Apparently DALL-E thinks it knows how I go about my fieldwork sampling polychaetes......and it's correct. This is exactly what happens, minus the afro. #wormwednesday

#OnThisDay in 1960 Nelson Mandela publicly burnt his pass book, which black South Africans were forced to carry during apartheid to control their movements. From that day on he never carried one again.

Scientists refuting the bizarre claims of companies is my favourite part of the day 😂

Since when is a herbal tea packed with bacteria?! 🤷‍♂️

Oh and what are 'friendly bacteria'?!? 🤔

When striped pyjama bottletail squids (Sepioloidea lineolata) mate, they do it by grabbing each other faces with their arms, which looks rather goofy.

Weekend plans but hopefully more than one sentence results from it all :D

#AcademicTwitter I would be happy!😂 #phdlife #phdvoice

Are you a #gradstudent or #postdoc fascinated by developmental biology? Join us in October for this two-week lab-intensive course — Comparative Developmental Biology at the MBL.

Applications due June 20. go.mbl.edu/CDB

#Sunfish have a unique adaptation for staying afloat! 🌊

Instead of a swim bladder like most other fish, sunfish have a layer of jelly under their skin that makes them neutrally buoyant, meaning they neither sink nor float in the water!

#twooceansaquarium #capetown