what happens when you analyse 20 ecological characteristics, species traits and socioeconomic variables of >300 invasive alien fish species?

The profile of the typical invasive fish.

Find out in our new paper! 🐠🐟🐡👇
ecologicalprocesses.springeropen.com/articles/10.11…

Gopi Krishnan is an absolute star. His recent article in SciTales: scitales.ccmb.res.in/how-to-turn-yo… has been adapted by geetanath valluri for The Hindu. And this is one of top days, I can proudly recommend research labs to start more #popsci websites + other initiatives.

My senior PhD Scholar Gopi Krishnan wrote a nice article as part of his PhD work in the SciTales in our webpage, The Hindu Science picked up the story written well for its readers. Great! CCMB CSIR, India Somdatta Karak !

Have you ever imagined your act of freeing your exotic pets into the environment might be actually damaging the ecosystem? Gopi Krishnan writes for SciTales on the rise of invasive fishes, and the role of aquarium hobbyists in it.
scitales.ccmb.res.in/how-to-turn-yo…
CSIR, India

1/3 Love plants? Intrigued by traits? Want to delve deeper into plant community dynamics? Come work with us!

The Community and Functional Ecology Lab at the Laboratory for Conservation of Endangered Species (CCMB, Hyderabad) is hiring (see media + next tweet).

Please RT.

This 👇is the reason why we should call the issue #biological #invasions (i.e. the process) rather than #invasive #species (i.e. the outcome). We also say ‘climate change‘ rather than ‘temperature’.

Let’s rethink our terminology and use proper terms.

July 2023.
The importance of character development in scientific research. J Cell Science
The latest in rather interesting trilogy of articles by Martin Schwartz (this one with Alpha Yap). All worth reading and re-reading. Brilliant read !
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/13…

Was great to catch up with several 🐟🐡🐠 colleagues for a meeting on #invasive #species at CCMB

thehindu.com/news/national/…
Thanks to Dr.G.Umapathy for the invite and his team Gopi Krishnan Manu Shivakumara Manisha Ray | মনীষা রায় for organizing a really productive meeting!

This year Molecular Phylogeny Workshop is happening at NISER Bhubaneswar from Nov 1-6, 2023. If you want to learn the basics of molecular phylogenetics and its applications, please do apply!

If you are an experienced ecologist, an aquatic expert, NGO that works in environmental sustainability or a science journalist, this meeting will excite you all. Join us; register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

A classic test of self-control can carry complex cultural biases | Analysis trib.al/OsHl9xd

Don't publish for the sake of publishing.
Only publish to move science forward.

Quality over quantity. Even if everyone pushes you into the opposite direction.

Bird nests made from anti-bird spikes! 🤯 Even for me as a nest researcher, these are the craziest bird nests I've ever seen. Today my paper came out on this rebellious behaviour. And it's like telling a joke...

A thread. 🧵

What was the most valuable lesson you learned while completing (or not completing!) your PhD?

Often, I have been asked why people do not collect and make money from the plastic in the river, I tell them it is a hard & expensive task to do . Yesterday, I challenged myself- got into the water for one hour to see how much of the recyclable plastic waste I’d be able to gather

As a professor, pursue the careers of your PhD students and postdocs instead of pursuing your own.

I know it may sound strange and even provocative. But in fact it is how it’s supposed to be.

Unfortunately, a personal gain is the biggest motivation for many professors. More…

we want inclusivity in this workshop, and so far our applications are all but diverse. Please send me names of creative scientists that are #WomenInSTEM #DiversityinSTEM #MinoritiesInSTEM #STEMInclusion #LatinXinSTEM #BlackandSTEM #DisabledinSTEM #NativeinSTEM #QueerInSTEM
PLZ RT

Indian #Science system should do better than this. nature.com/immersive/d415…

So many calls about China, about what that means for India, about XBB, about 3rd waves, about new mandates, about travel bans, about vaccine boosters- thought best to get views out to summarise the current situation. Long thread, be warned 🙂 1/n

Some suggestions as you go about phrasing an email to request a summer/winter internship -
1. Address them as Dr. So & So - avoid the Sir/Maam suffix.
2. Give them a succinct description of your academic journey so far - state possible research experiences thus far, if any.