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We’re appointing 3 Associate Professors in:
🌱 Plant Sciences
🦉 Animal Behaviour
🔬 Molecular Cell Biology

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I did two different bits of science-ing today. Two different things. In one day. I feel 41 again.

Current status.

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Great (free) opportunity coming up this Tuesday for researchers who are interested in finding out more about outreach with children…

The MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships scheme is now open with a call deadline on 10 September 2025.

Come to Sheffield. It's nice and (sometimes) sunny.

This is deranged. We’re dragging *heat pumps* into the culture wars now?

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footnote:

True to my centrist dad form, I am a heat pump owner.

This couldn’t be further from where UK HE is heading. Looks great, TBH.

It does sound cool, tbh.

While waiting for my coffee to brew, I asked chatGPT to write a postmodernist critique of IPMs. It's magnificent.

The next call for the MSCA postdoctoral fellowships scheme opens soon. Come work with me if you're interested in anything related to biodemography and population ecology. And if you're not, consider coming to work with one of my many fine colleagues instead.

Bit if this. Bit of that. Might be OK. Or not.

The problem with having had a short stint in finance many years ago, is that in moments like this, I revert to reading about things like “Treasury basis trades” to understand how my personal finances will ultimately get screwed over again, which if you think about it, is not a very good use of time.

I’m considering placing reciprocal tariffs on my inbox. £2 for each message from that guy who emails me once a month to see if I want to buy his reagents. £10 for every email from an MDPI journal.

I first thought it was Dominic Cumming’s sticking his head through one of those face in the hole boards

It’s important to take pleasure in the small things in life, which is why I like to check the Tesla share price once or twice a day at the moment.

Today’s vibes.

The sad thing is that email and admin have taken over academic life so much that many of us have to squeeze in the poisoning of minds on evenings and weekends.

Basically the same number. We’re ecologists—we work on log scales.

Being invisible is quite appealing right now.

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That sounds like a fine journal.

I'll give you my em dash when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.