⚠️Calling ECRs looking to advance your career and transition to research independence⚠️
We've launched an ECR travel bursary to support you to come to Aberdeen to workshop and develop your fellowship proposals!
Get in touch asap to develop ideas:
www.abdn.ac.uk/sbs/blog/ear...

In 2025 the MSL funded a workshop on the identification of land snails at the Central University of Kerela, India. Image shows three students using microscope to identify land snails at the workshop.

🐌Become an MSL member!🐌
Membership gets you:
⭐Our journal - Journal of Molluscan Studies
⭐Our bulletin - The Malacologist
⭐Society meetings
⭐Likely coming this year… exclusive funding
🙏Please support us to advance molluscan research & education!🙏
malacsoc.org.uk/membership/

Congrats @djsnails.bsky.social!! Check out this lovely thread outlining the first pre-print from Danielle Jordan's PhD work 🐚🐌🐚and official first Sleight Lab output 🥳
For any keen beans who want to join us on our mollusc journey, I'm advertising a PhD position: sleightlab.com/phd-vacancy-2/

🔔 Please share 🔔 I have two open developmental biology/genetics/evo-devo PhD project vacancies for October 2026 start.

1 = 🐚 🐌 🔬(embryos!!)
⏱️📆 DEADLINE 15th DEC 📆⏱️ (competition)
sleightlab.com/vacancies/

2 = 🦪 🐌 🧬
⏱️📆 DEADLINE 14th JAN 📆⏱️(fully funded)
sleightlab.com/phd-vacancy-2/

🎄 Day 1 of the 24 Days of Development ✨🧬
This study shows how different fixation methods (PFA vs. TCA) change what researchers can visualize in chicken embryos using HCR or IHC. 🔍🐣🔬 doi.org/10.1016/j.yd...

Please share mollusc friends 🐌🐙🐚🦪
Now the World Congress of Malacology 2025 is over 😢time to plan for the next mollusc meeting😀
The Molluscan Forum!
⏰Wed 5th Nov 2025
🏟️Natural History Museum
⚠️Deadline for applications = 19th Sept
Follow link for more information
malacsoc.org.uk/molluscan-fo...

@uniofaberdeen.bsky.social is looking for a new Principal - please send visionary leaders our way!
abdn-future.co.uk