Macro image of an adult phylloxera along with many smaller offspring insects. Source: https://agriculture.vic.gov.au/biosecurity/pest-insects-and-mites/priority-pest-insects-and-mites/grapevine-phylloxera

Project title: Exploring the genomic basis of virulence in grape phylloxera The successful candidate will receive: • A $37,000 p.a (tax-free) scholarship up to three and a half years • Training in Australia’s first integrated agricultural systems biology research centre, AgriBio • Professional development programs • International travel opportunities For enquiries and to apply, please forward a covering letter, your curriculum vitae (please include evidence of research writing) and academic transcripts to: Kendra Whiteman, Higher Education Manager, Agriculture Victoria Research (kendra.whiteman@agriculture.vic.gov.au)

📣 Fully funded PhD position -- help protect Australia's wine industry!

🍇 My team at Agriculture Victoria is looking for a keen student to study the genomics of virulence in phylloxera, a nasty insect pest of grapevines.

Reach out to me for more info, or contact the email in the attached flyer.

Still casting the net wide for this one — please pass onto anyone looking for a PhD project in insect genomics

Very excited by this project, and it'll be the first PhD student I've ever supervised! (Don't let that put you off...)

Please send to anyone interested in doing a PhD in entomology, genetics, genomics or anything agricultural.

Macro image of an adult phylloxera along with many smaller offspring insects. Source: https://agriculture.vic.gov.au/biosecurity/pest-insects-and-mites/priority-pest-insects-and-mites/grapevine-phylloxera

Project title: Exploring the genomic basis of virulence in grape phylloxera The successful candidate will receive: • A $37,000 p.a (tax-free) scholarship up to three and a half years • Training in Australia’s first integrated agricultural systems biology research centre, AgriBio • Professional development programs • International travel opportunities For enquiries and to apply, please forward a covering letter, your curriculum vitae (please include evidence of research writing) and academic transcripts to: Kendra Whiteman, Higher Education Manager, Agriculture Victoria Research (kendra.whiteman@agriculture.vic.gov.au)

📣 Fully funded PhD position -- help protect Australia's wine industry!

🍇 My team at Agriculture Victoria is looking for a keen student to study the genomics of virulence in phylloxera, a nasty insect pest of grapevines.

Reach out to me for more info, or contact the email in the attached flyer.

And videos work on Bluesky now! #rstats

Illustration showing rows in a dataframe getting grouped, then adding a new column

Illustration showing rows in a dataframe getting grouped, summarized, and ungrouped

Illustration showing rows in a dataframe getting grouped, summarized, and ungrouped

Note from the blog post showing links to download all these videos

More helpful (at least for me) resources from the blog archive: Seven (7!) tidyexplain-esque animations (downloadable and CC-licensed) showing how {dplyr}'s mutate(), summarize(), group_by(), and ungroup() all work together #rstats #dataskyence www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2024/04...

Great to see so many scientists suddenly joining Bluesky — a lot of plant researchers if my new followers are anything to go by. Perhaps I’ll start to post occasionally? Realised I’m very bad at social media (very boring, no style) but might be worth sharing the odd paper here and there

An orchid bee (I think Euglossa sp.; Colombia). Some species of these bees are crazy beautiful. Males (like this one) collect aromatic organic compounds (from flower oils, sap, etc.) and mix them into special "perfumes" to make themselves appealing to female bees.

I think doubling the budget is pretty-much the bare minimum at this point. There's no sense running some schemes unless more people can be funded.

🚨 #DECRA #DE24 announcement:

❗️Outcomes announced publicly for Discovery Early Career Researcher Award 2024❗️

See ARC's RMS for list ➡️ rms.arc.gov.au/RMS/Report/D...

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For those asking, I've got no updates about when #DECRA #DE24 outcomes will be announced. My reasoning about why we might expect them any time now is👇

(Aside: All outcomes announcements this year were made between 11am and 12noon Canberra time. Such uniformity is unusual.)

Hello all! I’m hopeful our science community will start to reform over here 🤗

ARC schemes schedule Master Updated: 2023-07-28,Applications,Rejoinder,SAC meeting,Announcement,Duration (days),Days after applications close Name,Scheme,Open,Close,Open,Close,Start,End,Approx.,Actual,Rejoinder,SAC,Annou...

#DECRA #DE24:

Outcomes may be as early as mid-to-late Aug, 2–3 weeks before ARC projection (13–26 Sep).

Recent schemes were announced 2–3 weeks "early" including #FT23 yesterday. See records👇

#DE24 NIT-picking was 3 wks after #FT23, so on track for outcomes in ~3 wks.

Overheard

ARC fellowship applicant: 😃
Colleague: So sorry you didn't get the fellowship
A: Huh?
C: Erm, yeah, I saw the tweet
A: wtf?
C: That's how they're announced
A: *rage–sad* W.T.A.F?!

So sad. But it's in my DMs year in, year out.

Emails, ARC. Do emails. Please.

Call for info about #FutureFellowships NIT-picking:

Do you know of an **unsuccessful** (not funded) #FT23 app for which ARC requested edits to National Interest Test statement?

DM on Twitter & Mastodon or email ARC.Tracker.19@gmail.com🙏

Trying to understand what's expected for #DECRA NIT-picks.

This is SO real -- if you ever want to talk about organizing freelancers I'm working with the Freelance Solidarity Project (part of the National Writers Union) to change the industry. https://freelancesolidarity.org/ I think you maybe have my email but if not rose dot eveleth at gmail :) also hi!!!

Termites are cockroaches
Mosquitoes are flies
Butterflies are moths
Katydids are crickets
Ants and bees are wasps
Insects are a mess and they're all practically crustaceans

An orange fly with orange eyes. It is standing on a leaf.

Long-legged flies are tiny, colorful gems that prey on small insects including aphids, springtails, and leafhoppers. (Condylostylus sp.) 🧪

A phylogenetic tree of genes in the ecdysteroid kinase-like (EcKL) gene family, showing 13 subfamilies (named A–M)

Any fans of insects, gene family evolution or functional genomics on here yet? I've got a new preprint out that might be of interest... 🧪

https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.06.29.546846

What’s going on here then