This is the best. Early career researchers, sign up for this course! You will not regret it.

IceLab@icelabumu.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Join IceLab Camp! An international 2 ECTS course for early career researchers wanting to explore interdisciplinary science. The course is free & brings you to the forests of northern Sweden for creative thinking, teamwork and proposal writing. #PhDLife #PostdocLife #ECRchat #ComplexityScience

This is how we do science! Wrote a piece on our way of launching collaborations in science, check it out 👇

IceLab@icelabumu.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Seeing science in a new light: take your time! Five participants talk about their experiences at IceLab Camp. www.umu.se/en/feature/g... @umeauniversitet.bsky.social #complexity #complexsystems #researchschool #multidisciplinary #researchculture

Teaching at @icelabumu.bsky.social Camp (multidisciplinary research proposal workshop for early career researchers) last week. One night planned electrical work in the town of Granö afforded us rare dark skies. Here you see three students enjoying the light show. Amazing. #northernlights #photosky

A fascinating lecture on terraforming ecosystems! You can find it online here: www.umu.se/en/icelab/ne... It was very rewarding to organize @icelabumu.bsky.social's first public lecture - it certainly won't be the last! #complexsystems #sciencecommunication #bioengineering

Ricard Solé

Watch Ricard Solé's public lecture: Terraforming Ecosystems, part of IceLab's 15 year celebrations.

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IceLab@icelabumu.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Can we push ecosystems away from the brink of collapse? According to @ricardsole.bsky.social we can help life do just that with an interdisciplinary, #complexsystems approach guiding ecosystems towards recovery. Watch IceLab's 15-year anniversary public lecture: www.umu.se/en/icelab/ne...

NOW SEEKING POSTDOCS - the 6th call for IceLab Multidisciplinary Postdoctoral Fellows funded by Kempestiftelserna is open! Apply now for 3 fellowships with six exciting research projects to choose from: www.umu.se/en/work-with... @umeauniversitet.bsky.social #postdoc #scisky #postdocfellows

Are you an early career researcher who wants to learn what it takes to collaborate across boundaries and launch interdisciplinary projects that get funded? Join me, @grocherros.bsky.social + @mrosvall.bsky.social in @icelabumu.bsky.social CAMP in September! #PhDSky #SciSky #PhDCourse #Complexity 🦋

IceLab@icelabumu.bsky.social · last yr.

IceLab Camp: FREE #TRAINING for #PhD students and #Postdocs eager to explore science across boundaries! Learn how to ask questions, craft interdisciplinary research proposals & have fun doing it. September 23–26 near Umeå Apply by June 9 www.umu.se/en/icelab/ca... #complexsystems #complexityschool

Simple neuroscience-based hack for anxiety: 🌿go & be in a place with plants & trees for 15 mins 🌳You'll inhale plant oils(phytoncides) from foliage 📉your stress hormone(cortisol) will drop significantly Many of our brain pathways evolved to motivate us to forage for plants-they're still very active

Need a break from bad news? Work? Take a breather and enjoy the best Slow TV Sweden has to offer - watch moose migrate live. Check it out! #älgvandringen

Jesper Enbom@jesperenbom.bsky.social · last yr.

Fin text i Guardian om Den stora Älgvandringen. Kul de även låter medieforskare kommentera slow television. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Did you know that a tree's sense of the length of a day has a genetic component - and that that can be tweaked to extend its growing season? No? Neither did I until I chatted with Bertold Mariën and @treesandgrowth.bsky.social about their work. Read: www.umu.se/en/news/adju...

Adjusting trees’ internal clocks can help them cope with climate change

Study shows adjusting trees’ internal clocks could help them cope with climate change

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IceLab@icelabumu.bsky.social · last yr.

🕒🌲 New study in npj Biological Timing and Sleep led by IceLab multidisciplinary postdoc Bertold Mariën reveals that adjusting trees' internal clocks can help them better cope with climate change. Read more: www.umu.se/en/news/adju... Unspool 🧵for main findings 👇 #PlantScience #ClimateAdaptation

Stepping away into nature helps with the overwhelm, whether it's your job, hectic family life, the news. I'm so lucky to live in a place where stepping into nature looks like this. Last night at a lake near Umeå. #auroraborealis #lifeinUmeå #viltroxf16mm18z #northernlights #photography #photosky

When things are too busy and the world seems to be burning down...take a break. Seriously work is non-stop, the news is 💩 and I had no time for this ice dip and sauna session. There's never time though - so I just took the time. First time I dipped my head. I needed this.. #isvak #umeå

Movies you've watched more than six times, gifs only.

a man holding his head with the words one does not simply walk into mordor above him

ALT: a man holding his head with the words one does not simply walk into mordor above him

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Joanna Bagniewska@joannabagniewska.com · last yr.

Movies you've watched more than six times, gifs only.

So I did this today: banged out a couple hundred words of a pitch while managing lab, sent it to the opinion page editor at the newspaper my parents still somehow get in print, and got back a "yes" in, I absolutely kid you not, under 15 minutes

CantlonLab@cantlonlab.bsky.social · last yr.

Join us! Science Homecoming helps scientists reconnect with communities by writing about the importance of science funding in their hometown newspapers. We’ve mapped every small newspaper in the U.S. and provide resources to get you started. Help science get back home 🧪🔬🧬 🏠 sciencehomecoming.com

Huh, this was quoted in the NYT. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u...

Will Ratcliff@wcratcliff.bsky.social · last yr.

I am reeling from the cuts at NSF- a close friend and colleague, who was an outstanding PO and absolute asset to the evolutionary biology community, was just fired. This is simply because he COULD be- he was still in the 2 year probationary period after changing jobs at NSF. Goddamn it.

Inside the lobby at NSF…

Listened to this this morning on John Oliver. It's in my head. The power of music and poetry and humor to process hard things is awesome. Everyone should sing this at protests...

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis@kendrawrites.com · last yr.

John Oliver played the Hostile Government Takeover and I'm not not saying you could leave it on your legislators voice mails youtu.be/9rgHC9P7FjI

Our double waffle maker at work for my fika week! Doesn't look super appetizing here but they are nice and crunchy and thin. Which are your favorite waffles - Swedish, Belgian (Liege or Brussels), or the American style? I'm team crunchy all the way. Even better with #västerbottenost + #hjörtronsylt

IceLab@icelabumu.bsky.social · last yr.

#FridayFika and @gabbybeans.bsky.social and Hugo Harlin served up Valentine's waffles and some fikabröd in IceLab this afternoon. Nice and crunchy, with raspberry jam and strawberries. Love to all the #science and #waffle lovers out there!

A friend of mine has a personal contact with Alabama representatives and will send a personal message regarding #NIH #indirect funding cuts. She is looking for personal stories of the effects of science funding cuts on individual people, particularly if they are in Alabama! Share, I'll pass them.

an older man with a beard and mustache says tell me everything

ALT: an older man with a beard and mustache says tell me everything

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Maybe now is the time to start up a collection of research that seemed 'pointless' to some and wound up being generally valuable to many people. Gila monsters and ozempic, bacterial warfare against viruses and CRISPR... fundamental curiosity in understanding our world - SCIENCE - needs protecting.

Mark Cuban@mcuban.bsky.social · last yr.

This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen. Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !” globalnews.ca/news/9793403...

“I think it’s going to destroy research universities in the short term, and I don’t know after that.” Story by @by-cjewett.bsky.social on the new NIH policy that will shrivel support for research. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/u...

Deep Cuts to Medical Research Funds Could Hobble University Budgets (Gift Article)

Grants from the National Institutes of Health come with additional money for overhead. Proposed funding cuts would leave colleges with large budget gaps.

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Just a bridge. In Umeå. In January. On a cold sunny morning. Temperatures have been higher than normal and these crisp wintery days have been harder to come by. Drip drip drip goes the rain outside! Bring back the snow and the cold! #photosky #lifeinUmeå

I must admit I was not mentally prepared for the total upheaval of this second T#€%p term - cutting aid, science funding, DEI initiatives, all the people put on leave, this is chaos and so damaging not just in the short but also long term. Carl Zimmer does a great job here summarizing some of it

Carl Zimmer@carlzimmer.com · 2y ago

American science and medicine has been thrown into chaos and uncertainty over the past week. Here are some stories to get up to speed. 1/12

This was a nice release from work stress today! Josephine at IceLab is so good at finding ways of pushing us all out of our grooves. Joint poetry writing as a little bit of whimsy and release. I liked the bat poem until it took a dark turn... see below!

IceLab@icelabumu.bsky.social · 2y ago

What happens when you ask a bunch of computational life science researchers to write poems together? At today's #FridayFika in IceLab Josephine Solowiej-Wedderburn brought cranachan in to share in honor of Robert Burns day tomorrow, and led us in a creative poem writing exercise. Unspool the 🧵 👇

Quick plug for my fantastic friend @anapineda.bsky.social. We went to university together and she was by far the most talented, organized and diligent student in our biology degree. I believe students are STILL passing around photocopies of her class notes. She's here to help you focus + write! 👇

Ana Pineda, PhD@anapineda.bsky.social · 2y ago

TODAY is the last day to join The Thriving Scientist and get as a BONUS our virtual writing retreat. A special event about storytelling and how to sprinkle it all around your papers and proposals ✨ Interested? All the info 👇🏼 https://buff.ly/4h3nJLa #ECRchat #NewPI #AcademicSky #AcWri

Interesting to see that the news wins over social media as a way to come across information in science in Sweden. Even more so in Finland, and comparable in Denmark and Norway. I wonder why this is the case in the Nordics? I'll be sharing this preprint with my #scicomm #phd students in April! #tisp

Niels G. Mede@nielsmede.bsky.social · 2y ago

New #preprint! We surveyed 71,922 people in 68 countries to find out: Where do they come across information about #science? How do they #communicate about it? We also tested country factors like #AcademicFreedom and #PressFreedom and identified interesting patterns 🔎 ➡️ osf.io/preprints/os... 🧵 1/10

Now publicly available: the #TISP dataset. It contains 71,922 survey responses on public perceptions of science, science communication, and climate change attitudes in 68 countries. Published in @natureportfolio.bsky.social’s #ScientificData: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 📊

Ah, I just saw this. Love it. Perhaps I can hop on board a bit late - I guess here it is now the 20th and so should go with #Primary for #JanuArty - let's see what is in my photography treasure chest.

ThatAnxiousArtist@whitneyyoh.bsky.social · 2y ago

Day 19 of #Januarty is liquid. I have to admit, I already took a peek and, this prompt is flowing. My feed is a river of awesome art. I’m gonna go make myself some coffee to go with it. Cheers 🥂 ☕️

How's it going 2025? A snapshot from today The kids need ice skates at school. I tear the house apart searching for them. No skates. My six year old informs me I don't care about him and points at me with disdain when a friend asks why he forgot his skates. The skates are in my husband's closet.

Five PhD positions available in IceLab! Come and join a new research school in a fantastic environment. The five projects are multidisciplinary and you can choose from questions in ecology, immunology, environmental science and plant science tackled with computational tools. #PhD #scisky

IceLab@icelabumu.bsky.social · 2y ago

🔎 for a #PhD in #computational science applied to living systems, with a #complexity angle? Do you want to work in a fun, supportive and academically stimulating environment in a city that experiences real winter and is close to nature? 5 #fundedphd available in IceLab! icelab.se/opportunitie...

So I was today years old when I realized why my computer seems to always be in dark mode lately. I think it's because it is based on the amount of daylight outside. And there is very little of that right now. Pretty sure that also explains my slow brain... #thelongnight #winterishere #lifeinUmeå