Fantastic fruit fly filled open day at UEA. In one of the happy places when I get to talk people’s ears offs about all the fruit flies and what we can do🪰🍎🦠 #Research #Medfly #Drosophila

www.cam.ac.uk/news/women-s... Out of 86 scientists in GCSE & equivalent exam board specifications, just 1 is a woman. The study found a "compelling correlation" between this and the STEM subjects girls study at KS5. Need to change things up! #WomenInSTEM #ScienceEducation #InclusiveEducation

Happy #AdaLovelaceDay!! The world’s first computer programmer. Helped lay the foundations of programming, allowing for R, Python, and MOST IMPORTANTLY, an awesome role model for #WomenInStem ✨✨. I’ll always think of her when enjoying everything I’ve learnt and can do through coding! #RStats

🚨 Two funded PhD positions at UEA, both starting Oct 2027 🧬 Engineering gene drives to suppress medfly (deadline 30 Nov) biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/eng... 🪰 Why do medfly mothers coat their eggs in antimicrobial peptides? (deadline 16 Dec) aries-dtp.ac.uk/studentships...

Happy #AdaLovelaceDay!! The world’s first computer programmer. Helped lay the foundations of programming, allowing for R, Python, and MOST IMPORTANTLY, an awesome role model for #WomenInStem ✨✨. I’ll always think of her when enjoying everything I’ve learnt and can do through coding! #RStats

Super exciting funded PhD opportunity, with a great group of supervisors! #FundedPhD #PhD #Research

Philip Leftwich @philipleftwich.bsky.social · 3w ago

📢 PhD alert! Funded 4-year PhD with @aries-dtp.bsky.social at @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social. Medfly mothers coat their eggs in antimicrobial peptides. #CRISPR, #microbiome sequencing: aries-dtp.ac.uk/studentships... 📅 Deadline: 16 Dec 2026 🎓 Start: 1 Oct 2027 #PhD #FundedPhD@aries-dtp.bsky.social

📢 PhD alert! Funded 4-year PhD with @aries-dtp.bsky.social at @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social. Medfly mothers coat their eggs in antimicrobial peptides. #CRISPR, #microbiome sequencing: aries-dtp.ac.uk/studentships... 📅 Deadline: 16 Dec 2026 🎓 Start: 1 Oct 2027 #PhD #FundedPhD@aries-dtp.bsky.social

Cloaks and Daggers: Fitness Effects of Ceratotoxin Antimicrobials In A Global Fruitfly Pest | Aries

Professor Tracey Chapman, School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia – contact me Dr William Nash, UEA Dr Phil Leftwich, UEA Dr Emily Fowler, UEA Dr Lucy Friend (RA), UEA In all species…

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Finally checking out the physical copy of Andy Field’s new book version. It’s full of cats and lots of delicious visualisation! ♥️ #RStats

When choosing themes for a Quarto page, is there a way to check whether the palette is colour blind friendly? I’m having fun going through all the themes, but I want to make sure it’ll actually work for everyone #Rstats #Quarto

Is open research a virtue that early career researchers can’t afford? Here’s how to make open practices work for you from your very first project – without adding hours to your week: https://ow.ly/cSZw50ZFHzy #Highered #Academicsky

Open research won’t slow your career down – it’s the smartest way to build it

Is open research a virtue that early career researchers can’t afford? Here’s how to make open practices work for you from your very first project – without adding hours to your week

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Why grouping intralocus and interlocus phenomena under one umbrella of “sexual conflict” is a mistake. Insightful paper from @imprintedgene.bsky.social, @andygardner.bsky.social y.social, Tracey Chapman, and @jennyperry.bsky.social yperry.bsky.social. royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

Sexual conflict and sexual pleiotropy

Abstract. Natural selection might favour brightly coloured males and drab females. A male and a female might disagree about whether to mate. Such tensions

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I’m going to rewatch this about explaining stuff to an LLM before the next time I’m about to have a fight with one. Good vid by Nathan Doan

Was really impressed with the picture of a Medfly that the 5yo (×4+4) drew today. What an artist! Would you be able to tell if I didn’t say?? #Medfly #Tephritid

Fantastic and fan girling over today’s wordle word. I’m sure is specifically referring to the lovely @posit.co and definitely not the actual definition :)! #RStats

Touching grass and finding my happy place. Just some pics of me and the fellas that I’ve met out on the streets lately.

New preprint from my PhD is out! We show that loss of miR‑219 disrupts neural border gene programs and prevents neural crest specification. Excited to finally share it 🚀 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #xenopus #miRNA #genomics

MicroRNA miR-219 is required for neural border and neural crest development in Xenopus neurulas

Neural crest (NC) multipotent stem cells give rise to many tissues including most of the peripheral nervous system, pigment cells and the craniofacial mesenchyme and skeleton. During gastrulation and ...

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Help please science people! Is this worryingly off? Amplification of V1-V9 of 16S rRNA. It should amplify at 1465 bp, but has amplified at > 1500 bp… 0.8% gel, 90V for 60 mins, DNA samples of Medfly tissues. I think am too naive to know if it is ok… Thank you! #PCR #MolecularBiology #Microbiome

Very excited about this. With @eivimeycook.bsky.social we have cooked up a course that has the perfect blend of supercharged AI tool use, while making sure we deliver clear, reproducibile code!

Physalia-courses@ONLINE@physaliacourses.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Do you want to bring your R skills to the next level? 📈 Join our online course with @philipleftwich.bsky.social & @eivimeycook.bsky.social Learn reproducible workflows, Quarto, GitHub, ggplot2, data.table, AI-assisted coding, and more through hands-on research-focused exercises shorturl.at/mymBy

As it is #Caturday, I throw it back to a lovely video of my cat enjoying a licke lix in his favourite jumper.

Sundays POV if you’re a really cool person.

Epic day with BIO/ENV peeps fossil hunting on Happisburgh coast. An ankle bone? was found (I didn’t find it). #fossils

New paper! 🐦🦠 Social Structure and Interactions Differentially Shape Aerotolerant and Anaerobic Gut Microbiomes in a Cooperative Breeding Species doi.org/10.1111/mec.... A 🧵

Out today is our paper 'Genomic history of early dogs in Europe', in which we uncover the identity of the dogs that lived in Europe before agriculture—during the Paleolithic & Mesolithic periods: doi.org/10.1038/s415.... A thread ⬇️ (10) @biouea.bsky.social @crick.ac.uk @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social

I'm afraid there'll be much, much more of this going forward. Prospective students and parents should check very carefully before applying to university courses that may not exist by the next autumn, and may be closed even while they're on them. www.itv.com/news/central...

Nice read on page 26 of issue 93 of the @gensocuk.bsky.social magazine… Jokes aside, it was really lovely to reflect on the studentship I did with the Genetics Society back in the summer of 2022. It really gave me the confidence to believe that becoming a researcher was actually within reach!!

Nice wrap to the CEEC Rebellion today, was grateful to have received Runner up for Best Talk also. Brilliant couple of days, thank you to the organisers! #CEECRebellion2026

UEA CEEC@ueaceec.bsky.social · 7mo ago

#CEECRebellion2026 closing remarks 👇 Thank you to Dr. Gabrielle Davidson for closing two fantastic days of talks and discussions. 🏆 Best talk: Paula Gardner & Katie Millar Ending the day with posters 🖼️ and pizza 🍕 @drgdavidson.bsky.social @katiemillar.bsky.social

#CEECRebellion2026 closing remarks 👇 Thank you to Dr. Gabrielle Davidson for closing two fantastic days of talks and discussions. 🏆 Best talk: Paula Gardner & Katie Millar Ending the day with posters 🖼️ and pizza 🍕 @drgdavidson.bsky.social @katiemillar.bsky.social

Nice wrap to the CEEC Rebellion today, was grateful to have received Runner up for Best Talk also. Brilliant couple of days, thank you to the organisers! #CEECRebellion2026

UEA CEEC@ueaceec.bsky.social · 7mo ago

#CEECRebellion2026 closing remarks 👇 Thank you to Dr. Gabrielle Davidson for closing two fantastic days of talks and discussions. 🏆 Best talk: Paula Gardner & Katie Millar Ending the day with posters 🖼️ and pizza 🍕 @drgdavidson.bsky.social @katiemillar.bsky.social

Really enjoyed the opportunity to share some (in my opinion) cool stuff on Medflies and their microbiota… Thanks to the CEEC organisers for the opportunity. #Medflies #Tephritids #Microbes #Microbiota

UEA CEEC@ueaceec.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Now speaking 👇 🦠🐛 Katie Millar explores how gut microbes influence the development and reproduction of the Mediterranean fruit fly, with implications for new pest-control strategies. 🔗 www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour... @katiemillar.bsky.social #CEECRebellion2026

Now speaking 👇 🦠🐛 Katie Millar explores how gut microbes influence the development and reproduction of the Mediterranean fruit fly, with implications for new pest-control strategies. 🔗 www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour... @katiemillar.bsky.social #CEECRebellion2026