Soapbox Science’s 2024 speaker call is NOW OPEN! We are looking for scientists in all areas of STEM to take their research to the streets. Find out more, look for your nearest location and apply here: soapboxscience.org/apply-to-speak…

The viewership of Hallmark Christmas movies show it's dominated by older Republican-voting women. It shows the power of the "kids moving back home" fantasy has with the Trump-voting woman. The irony is that it's their votes driving their kids off. salon.com/2023/12/11/mag…

COP28 is now on the verge of complete failure. The world desperately needs to phase out fossil fuels as quickly as possible, but this obsequious draft reads as if OPEC dictated it word for word. It is even worse than many had feared. It is “Of the Petrostates, By the Petrostates

Possible dream PhD for ecologist/ornithologist/conservation biologist interested in rare species populations and their conservation? Working with Natural England and UK RBBP. Plus some great fieldwork opportunities. See below and tinyurl.com/sbydbpdw for application details

Please cite this paper. Ten more, and it will actually boost my h-score 😀

If you haven't read any Dickens (and Dickens is GREAT) this is 99p on Kindle at the moment. You know the story, it's only short, and it's Christmas. Treat yourself. "Marley was dead: to begin with." amzn.eu/d/eUMTfiK

Amazing job. We have our own ocean going boat (the Prince Madog), so you can teach/research aboard ship as well as from land.

We're recruiting a PhD student to continue our research on developing soil amendments for cocoa plantations: "Towards net-zero chocolate: carbon and nutrient budgets for compost use on cocoa farms" research.reading.ac.uk/foodbiosystems…

SBS Christmas party! What a lovely occasion and a great job by our talented ECRs organising Secret Santa, quizzes and even a crystal growing competition (my personal favourite)! And the singing…well, it was fab…school choir anyone!?!

Do share and spread the word, this is a really interesting role, a great funding scheme, and a very collegiate committee. Applications welcome from around the world, especially from the countries where the Challenge Funds spend their money (#LMIC and #UMIC countries)!

Record numbers of children are homeless, and people are freezing to death on the streets. ALL politicians must make ending the homelessness crisis a priority ahead of the next election. Add your name to the petition now: 38d.gs/reaa

We are looking for a computational postdoc (36months) to work on our Wellcome funded grant to understand the how heat stress associated with climate change can affect off-spring health in mammals. jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?i… deadline: Jan 11th 2024. Do get in touch:)

OMG. I assumed people were wildly misinterpreting this when they said the archives would be destroying the physical copies after a digital copy was made. But nope: 'The consultation is seeking views on keeping hard copies for about 25 years'. Scholarly opinion: This is bananas.

Louise Johnson Ah, you see, 'our history' is only the Rich & Famous. It neatly encapsulates their reading of the role of history as a brainless celebration of the rich & famous, and not a contestation about belonging and rights.

#AdventBotany Day 17 by guernseylib The Gilded Canopy by Sandra Knapp and Bob Press NHM Press 2005. Three of my favourite things are combined in this treasure of a book, the magnificent legacy of national museums, beautiful architecture and botanical art. 1/4

Can the clone size patterns across preleukemic HSCs present at leukemia diagnosis inform us about the levels of selection operating long before cancer onset? Read our preprint to find out! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

There's a perfect thread here about the Cost Allocation Spiral that will cause a cascade collapse in Britain's universities if we're not very careful. Couldn't put it better myself. 👇

Genetic variation of morphological scaling in Drosophila melanogaster go.nature.com/3N7sw1t