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How many hours animals sleep? Depend on what they eat and how much they weigh. Small animals sleep more than larger ones. Carnivores sleep more than herbivores The largest herbivores - elephants - sleep only 2 h. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

For those who need a kind reminder… you are very valuable!

Our setup to work with ants and similar-sized insects is published in Insectes Sociaux (online version) @Dr_AntzZ @Docteur_Drey. It's cheap and easy to build and most important, very useful for long-term experiments (up to 270 days!) link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Application deadline extended to July 30. Please forward this ad in your circles. :)

You’re at #SMBE23? Interested in #denovomutation rates, #speciesdiversity, or #cichlids? Come to my poster no. 1 (!) in session 18 in the castle prison tomorrow! [1/3]

Five productivity Feynman strategies: i) Stop trying to know-it-all. ii) Do what you get the most pleasure from. iii) Don't worry about what others are thinking. iv) Have a sense of humor and talk honestly. v) Make mistakes and learn.

Do not use your energy to worry. Life is too short to worry about stupid things. Have fun. Fall in love. Regret nothing, and don't let people bring you down. Study, think, create, and grow. Teach yourself and teach others.

Please RT: Open Rank (Assistant/Associate/Full) Professorship in Ecosystem Ecology available in our department at University of Basel

Science: If you don't make mistakes, you're doing it wrong. If you don't correct those mistakes, you're doing it really wrong. If you can't accept that you're mistaken, you're not doing it at all.

So Oxford Nanopore discovered something a few days ago - and it has to do with light. And they posted this image (sorry, too good not to share off the community). Yes, that’s 469% increased output. So, we decided to give it a shot and …

Would you like to read the book of the badger? Mark Blaxter, Programme Lead at Wellcome Sanger Institute, explains how the Darwin Tree of Life project is building an open access library of life which leads to a better understanding of life, health and disease.

Please RT! Come join my research group in Bonn LIB & Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn on an European Research Council (ERC)-funded PhD position to study population dynamics of the fascinating germline-restricted chromosome of songbirds. You can DM Yifan Pei and me for questions. 8101202752.karriereportal.cloud/job/2024-01-Ph…

Minimap2-2.27 released with new presets for accurate Nanopore reads and Illumina Complete Long Reads (both recommended by vendors), along with a few minor features and bug fixes. Output alignment identical to v2.26 except the value at a custom tag. github.com/lh3/minimap2/r…

Very Happy to have successfully defended my PhD last Monday! 💪🏼🐜

Thanks for the feature EMB ECOPs network! My work on MSP and conservation is with the MSP4BIO_Project which I am working on at Flanders Marine Institute - VLIZ , happy to connect with other ECOPs!

We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher in Computational Genomics to join our team. Please check out our lab webpage for details: spfeiferlab.org/positions/

Brad Efron's 13 rules for giving a really bad talk (from efron.ckirby.su.domains/other/2013Thir…) Thanks to Robert Grant for finding this gem

Nicolas Svetec, David Begun, and I wrote a review article about de novo genes. If you are interested in this topic please take a look at this final open-access version Annual Reviews annualreviews.org/content/journa….