Listening to @pluralistic interview at Today In Focus

https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2025/nov/24/enshittification-how-we-got-the-internet-no-one-asked-for-podcast

@academicchatter And all of this led to a blogpost on Slowing down as a (role) model.

About train travel and sustainability, slow academia, and bein an imperfect role model. Post here […]

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I enjoyed this paper people from the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (not sure if they are here?), which should lead us to rethink academic travel.

I´m leading part of an international project, which is excellent for science, networking, and inspiring , but has also meant a lot of […]

And more on long distance train travel:

- Plan long layovers and few train changes. Sounds obvious but a lot of the search engines will give you the fastest option, which may mean 8 trains rather than 2. The trip to Cluj had a 2 h 10 min layover in Munich, which meant 1) no stress when the […]

Centralised platforms shape the conversation to serve their interests.

Mastodon returns power to you. Here connections are authentic, communities set their own rules, and your voice isn’t for sale.

Help to power the servers, tools, and communities making […]

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RE: https://mastodon.social/@thejapantimes/115585080411152865

#Climate change mitigation is cheaper than #adaptation, but we need both 👇. It's rarely 'either/or' in this space, almost always 'both/and'. Which begs the question of how to pay.

After ending #fossilfuel subsidies (innovations like […]

When you hear the sound of breaking glass from around the corner and a hushed "oh no".

#chemistry #chemiverse #lablife

RE: https://biologists.social/@kofanchen/115373287506464717

Just a gentle reminder the deadline is fast approaching for this PhD application, but the same research theme is also open for CSC application see details for […]

It was pretty surprising at the time when I first noticed sleep level in Nca mutants can be modified by daylight length! Which leads to my research focus on visually driven #sleep
Part of this investigation are preprint here:
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.30.685496v1

RE: https://biologists.social/@flypapers/115569259745171322

I am very happy to be part of this work with my old UCL mate Simon Lowe and James Jepson, showing that sleep and habituation are linked! #drosophila #sleep #habituation

RE: https://mastodon.social/@koen_hufkens/115548080799464389

“That all means the end of agriculture in the UK and across Europe, drought and monsoon failure in Asia and Africa, lethal heat and humidity,” said Hare. “This is not a good place to be. You want to stay away from that.”

RE: https://biologists.social/@flypapers/115567844178791206

Very cool research from my UCL labmate Simon Lowe, he will give a talk at Southwest fly meeting at 2:30pm on December 17th! Please contact Prof James Hodge @drfly if you want to attend in person #drosophila #neuroscience #sleep […]

350 jobs on the line at CSIRO. This is despicable. Well done to Pocock for rightfully pointing out that “In opposition, Labor called for better funding, yet in government they are delivering cuts.” The hypocrisy. WTF are Labor doing?

#CSIRO #auspol […]

Se on talvi nyt. 🌨️

Vintern är här, hoppeligen för att stanna 5-6 månader. 🥳

We’re still an absolute skeleton crew of 14 people, competing with teams sometimes 100x as large as ours. To get to our humble team size was only possible through the less than 1% community members who donate to Mastodon, a handful larger donations, & EU grants, all of which we are forever […]

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I am passing the torch to @mellifluousbox, who will be the new Executive Director. Felix has been involved with #mastodon since 2020 and has been instrumental in evolving the organization, raising funds, and growing the team to get […]

A short description of how our lab automates #opendata deposition:

"Automating Linked Open Data Publication"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QL8JewqoXTs

#openscience #fair

Very good opportunity at University of Leibniz (Hannover), with six open-topic positions available (5 years, progressing to ongoing).

https://www.uni-hannover.de/en/jobs/id/8122/

#academicchatter #getfedihired #fedijobs

I find to my surprise that these two wasps are (almost certainly) the same species!

Quite a lot of variation in the propodeum structure. They look even more different in real life, the photos blur the differences a bit.

@ucu is this true?
"Strikes suspended as University of Nottingham makes promise over compulsory redundancies -" Nottinghamshire Live
https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/nottingham-news/strikes-suspended-university-nottingham-makes-10646789

@adapalmer tag the paper here
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jacs.5c12501

Characterising the immune repertoire of a global crop pest Myzus persicae
mahansonresearch.weebly.com/blog/phd-stu...

#Drosophila #Evolution #Immunity #Aphids

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Cryptic fitness consequences of a selfish X chromosome
mahansonresearch.weebly.com/blog/phd-stu...

#Drosophila #Evolution #Immunity #SelfishGene #Stress

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WE ARE RECRUITING PHD STUDENTS!!!

We have three(!) funded PhD studentships advertising presently. If any of these are of interest, please reach out! Thread below with links to more information on each project.

#Drosophila #Evolution #Immunity #SelfishGene #Aphids

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