In 2019, I convinced my department that student evaluations of teaching (SET) were not only unreliable gauges of efficacy, but that they would also put us in legal liability if used to decide merit/promotion. If your promotion depends on SET, please take note. A thread. 1/8

Are you involved in PhD admissions? Do you advertise projects or assess candidates? Check out this paper, the latest publication from our Equator project. Doctoral recruitment is often biased against students from marginalised backgrounds- we propose changes to improve equity:

What Earth will look like in 250 million years according to plate tectonics theory

Just submitted before the holidays... Check out our new preprint on the #evolution of #multicellularity in #cyanobacteria biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Great collaboration between Berlin, Bristol and Seville Prof Sanchez-Baracaldo Joanne Boden Mercedes Nieves-M Enrique Flores García

Scientists drilled deeper into mantle rocks than ever before, recovering a geologic trove that could hold clues to help decipher the pivotal steps that ignited the first sparks of life. I'm thrilled to share my first feature for Quanta Magazine: quantamagazine.org/deep-beneath-e…

Yesterday I payed off my student loan, whilst I’m pleased, it’s worth highlighting what a ridiculous and frankly shameful situation student loans have become. A🧵 below on how student loans have become a money making racket, its long term problems and alternatives:

Wow! researchers have found a nitrogen-fixing organelle, which they’ve nicknamed the "nitroplast," in a marine alga. Using intracellular imaging and proteomic evidence, this discovery sheds light on the evolutionary shift from endosymbiont to organelle. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Please RT! Looking for bioinformatics technician to study how diversity of heterotrophic metabolisms shapes ocean C cycle. Part of ccomp-stc.org. Collaborative, open, team science. Opportunity to gain research experience before graduate school. careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/clie…

Does anyone know why biological experiments are often done with 3 replicates as opposed to 4, 5 or 6? Looking for studies that show 3 is the magic number 🦠

We are thrilled to announce the publication of our paper in Science Advances: “Direct interaction between marine cyanobacteria mediated by nanotubes”. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Some really useful advice to share with students for any kind of fieldtrip!

I'm hiring a postdoc, for bioinformatics work on amino acid substitution models. I think they are key for understanding biophysics of selection on proteins, mutation patterns, and ancient life, as well as improving phylogenetic methods. evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldir/…

Some great insights into how RuBisCO has evolved and changed through time, with potential impacts on the efficiency of oxygenic photosynthesis through time!

Proud to be working with some of these role-models, congratulations!