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Emily Hornett

@bolinabug.bsky.social

Evolutionary geneticist interested in natural selection, diversity drivers & response to environmental change Insect-microbe interactions | genomics | environmental stress | colour patterns | Wolbachia | symbionts | male-killing | ladybird | butterfly

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Royal Entomological Society@royentsoc.bsky.social · last yr.

Do you know a young person with an interest in insects? 🦋 The Douglas Boyes Fund aims to provide people aged 14-18 with access to entomology equipment, fostering their passion for insects and inspiring them to engage and share their interest with other young individuals 🔽

Douglas Boyes Fund - Royal Entomological Society

The Douglas Boyes Fund has been established in honour of Douglas Boyes (1996-2021), an esteemed entomologist specialising in Lepidoptera. The Fund aims to provide young people aged 14-18 with access…

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Matthew Collins@matthewcollins.bsky.social · last yr.

Have/nearly have a PhD? ≤7 years post-doc experience? Working outside UK? Not a UK citizen? BA & Royal Society offering 2-yr Fellowships for early career researchers to come to the UK! 💷 Includes: Research expenses £12k Relocation up to £8k 🗓️ Deadline: Mar 18, 2025 (17:00 GMT) #ResearchFunding

International Fellowships 2025

The International Fellowships Programme enables researchers to work for two years at a UK institution with the aim of building a globally connected, mobile research and innovation workforce.

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Willem van Schaik@wvschaik.bsky.social · last yr.

The UK is very much open for business, and so is the rest of Europe. You will have to suffer a pay cut, but instead you get high-quality healthcare, no shootings and, if you choose wisely, no fascists in government.

Harmit Singh Malik@harmitmalik.bsky.social · last yr.

If only some university/ research institute/ philanthropy in the world had the courage, they could hire some very amazing scientists who are going to blaze new trails in science (if they can get a chance). And I’m sorry for not defending tenure in academia & government more vociferously in the past

D. Allan Drummond@dadrummond.art · 2y ago

A favorite commission this year, a dividing cell with an extra detail. Colleagues of a retiring researcher commissioned me to add the specific structure she worked on—the spindle pole body—to the sculpture. Here it is close up, in sterling silver embedded in the bronze nuclear membrane. 🔬#SciArt

A dividing budding yeast cell in steel, bronze, and silver, with apatite gemstones for the chromosomes. The sculpture rests in my hand, a physical cutaway view with many cellular structures visible. Closeup of the sculpture, centered on the spindle pole body, a tiny structure looking like a stack of pancakes from the side, embedded in the long curved nuclear membrane, tethering the spindle (a splayed bundle of silver branches each terminating in a jewel chromosome). The spindle structure is polished silver, lodged in the polished bronze of the membranes and surrounded by bronze endoplasmic reticulum, mitochondria, and other structures.
Prem Sikka@premnsikka.bsky.social · 2y ago

Thames Water diverted millions of pounds pledged for environmental clean-ups to pay bonuses & dividends 187 criminal convictions since 1989, routinely dumps sewage in rivers/seas, neglects investment. Protected by successive govts, customers fleeced. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Revealed: Thames Water diverted ‘cash for clean-ups’ to help pay bonuses

Exclusive: UK’s biggest water company assessed risks before cutting back on cost of environmental work, investigation shows

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Anthony Ricciardi@ecoinvasions.bsky.social · 2y ago

Quote: "It is very hard to interpret big data in ecology in meaningful ways if you do not know anything about who the organisms are and what they do in the environment." onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

A place for natural history in the 21st century

Natural history provides an important basis for observing interactions between organisms in their environments. Biotropica recently inaugurated a new paper category called “Natural History Field Note....

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Ferris Jabr@ferrisjabr.bsky.social · 2y ago

I was deeply disappointed by the lack of nature/science/climate/enviro on many major end-of-year book lists—so I decided to make my own! Introducing: ✨🎁📚 The 2024 Holiday Gift Guide to Nature & Science Books ✨🎁📚 Please share: Let's make this go viral in time for Black Friday / holiday shopping!

A collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are Atlas Obscura Wild Life, Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party, Every Living Thing, Alien Earths, Becoming Earth, and Deep WaterA collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are Frostbite, The Inner Clock, How to Kill an Asteroid, The Great River, The Last Fire Season, and Hoof BeatsA collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are The Serviceberry, Not the End of the World, Nature's Ghosts, Meet the Neighbors, The Light Eaters, and Our MoonA collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are Turning to Stone, The Weight of Nature, What If We Get It Right?, Waves in An Impossible Sea, The Tree Collectors, and Why We Remember
Shaun Cross@shauntcross.bsky.social · 2y ago

Been waiting a while for this cool story to come out. Detecting viruses from museum #drosophila samples >100 years old! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Sequencing RNA from old, dried specimens reveals past viromes and properties of long-surviving RNA

Recovery of virus sequences from old samples provides an opportunity to study virus evolution and reconstruct historic virus host interactions. Studies of old virus sequences have mainly relied on DNA...

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