Have you ever wondered why certain Chinese names for countries sound so different from what you'd expect? Why Ruidian 瑞典 (Sweden), Ruishi 瑞士 (Switzerland), Xila 希臘 (Greece) or Moxige 墨西哥 (Mexico)? Well, because they are not from Beijing Mandarin! A quick 🧵: 1/

Find attached the joint statement of the PhDnet, Max Planck Postdocnet, and the section representatives of the MPS Max Planck Society on the @BMBF_Bund proposition #WissZeitVG

Beggiatoa are so pretty, all those grains inside the filaments are elemental sulfur, deposited by the bacteria. They glide by secreting some substances through pores on the filaments, and always make me feel existential.

Found an old sketch of a silly joke I had to finish :)

I was recently interviewed by Deutschlandfunk about the #WissZeitVG, and below you can hear part of my interview (in German). 75% of Max Planck Society postdocs are from outside of Germany. It is very important that our voices are heard. #IchbinHanna deutschlandfunk.de/wissenschaftsz…

when did people start prefacing every bullet point in a peer review response with "thank you for this correction/advice/suggestion"? it's nice to be thanked, but every paragraph is a bit jarring...

looks promising, hope to try this out soon

Will be advertising a 2yr ERC-funded postdoc on sex chromosomes and DNA elimination Biological Sciences | University of Edinburgh soon. Please RT and get in touch if interested. More information coming soon!

Great paper on scientific life. Must read by Paul del Giorgio (not in twitter?) aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

had to read the abstract a few times to wrap my head around this - really cool biology! great example of an intriguing negative result

People who study non model organisms when the human pangenome is published.

Every so often, this incident comes up on social media and everybody has a laugh at the ignorant biologist that didn't know basic math. I think this case illustrates something very toxic about the way many of us think about a life in science.

How hard is it to do science in a language that’s not your first language? We quantified the severity of #languagebarriers for non-native English speakers when reading/publishing papers and attending/presenting at international conferences. doi.org/10.1371/journa… 1/9

How did UGA codon translation as tryptophan evolve in certain ciliates? A critique of Kachale et al. 2023 Nature biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #bioRxiv