🚀 Join our DNA Methylation in Ecology & Evolution course! Explore cutting-edge techniques like BS-seq, EM-seq using Illumina , Oxford Nanopore , & PacBio data. Unlock the secrets of methylation data and its ecological and evolutionary impact! Check it out: physalia-courses.org/courses-worksh…

Help needed (2nd try)! Transcription Factor Q: if you worked on a TF, how many peaks did you(!) get in ChIP-Seq or related techniques? If you worked on many TFs please enter the average number of peaks. Comment for TF name & species if you like! RTs highly appreciated!

The IWRS Graduate Student Research Awards are open to submissions! 💸2 x $2,000 USD 📅October 31 deadline 🪲Support for projects on #invertebrate #sentience and #welfare ℹ️INFO HERE: insectwelfare.com/small-meeting-…

🚨 17 PhD positions available, including 2 in Leicester, to work on different aspects of insect biology as part of the MSCA-DN INCITE project! 🐞🔬 Interested? Apply now and help spread the word! researchjobs.cz/job/europe-17-…

A team of scientists UoN Life Sciences UoN Medicine and Health Sciences have uncovered how the parasite that causes malaria orchestrates cell division, which is key in enabling the parasite to transmit disease - published @PLOSBIOLOGY - Rita Tewari David Guttery Zeeshan ow.ly/PvPE50TBke6

Doing good science is 90% finding a science buddy to constantly talk to about the project.

PhD opportunity on epigenetic consequences of pollution in freshwater wild fish populations! For Sept 2025 start, in collaboration with the Angling Trust and Environment Agency! #Fieldwork #MolecularGenetics #Epigenetics #Pollution #FreshwaterFish tinyurl.com/yk5mbm63

🌟 Interested in DNA Methylation? Join our DNA Methylation in Ecology & Evolution course with Dr Hollie Marshall Alex de Mendoza and James Ord. to learn about techniques like BS-seq and EM-seq, using data from Illumina, Oxford Nanopore, and PacBio. 🔗physalia-courses.org/courses-worksh…

THREE MONTHS TO GO! We offer funded fellowships to allow postdocs to travel to undertake a research project. Each year we make one award for researchers coming to a UK institution and one to a researcher working outside the UK. Deadline is 26th Feb 2025! fsbi.org.uk/pitf/

We’re offering 3 fully funded PhD positions to explore: 1) Neuron diversity in ctenophores 2) Vision in mosquitos 3) paediatric brain tumour 💡 Projects combine experimental & computational approaches. ⏳ Deadline: Early January. 🌟 Apply now: findaphd.com/phds/?Keywords… Please RT!

I find it extremely funny when people refer to academics as "elites" since a huge number of academics are making less money than a manager at McDonald's.

Please RT - Funded #PhD opportunity in my group studying nanoplastic particles and their ecological and evolutionary significance in replicated whole ecosystems. With Howbeer Muhamadali Tom McDonald and Steve Morris Defra UK as case partner. Deadline Jan 8th findaphd.com/phds/project/a…

Biologists, stop putting UMAP plots in your papers! UMAP is a powerful tool for exploratory data analysis, but without a clear understanding of how it works, it can easily lead to confusion and misinterpretation. Link to Simply Statistics blogpost below.

Finland downgrades MDPI and Frontiers journals – will others follow suit? timeshighereducation.com/news/finland-d…

WHY DOES THE EPIGENETIC CLOCK TICK? While money has been poured into developing therapies to reverse the epigenetic clock (Altos Labs 🤑), why the epigenome changes with age at all is unclear. In Nature Aging today, we suggest a potential driver: somatic mutations.

🚨 Last chance! Only 1 seat left for our DNA Methylation course with Dr Hollie Marshall Alex de Mendoza and James Ord 👇

ETH Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 in Switzerland Open for those who completed PhD in last 2 years in any subject. You need to write your fellowship project and identify a Mentor in ETH Zurich. Details at grantsoffice.ethz.ch/funding-opport… Apply by 1st March 2025

🚀 What a great week! 🧬 Huge thanks to Dr Hollie Marshall James Ord and Alex de Mendoza for delivering an amazing course on DNA Methylation in Ecology & Evolution! 🙌 Shout-out to our attendees whose engagement and curiosity made every session both enriching and enjoyable! 💡✨

Bumblebees are already overlooked in planning law. The #PlanningandInfrastructureBill could destroy even more of their habitats, with no duty to replace them. Nature needs your help, please write to your MP. Our friends @Natures_voice have made it easy: ow.ly/6ZaI50W1oCm