And that's why you don't use AI to do your literature review.

24 new species found in ocean zone eyed for battery metals mining Researchers pulled 24 tiny new creatures from a deep abyss in the central Pacific Ocean, some with long, spindly legs and others with more squat, compact bodies. Some appeared to feed on the sediment…

24 new species found in ocean zone eyed for battery metals mining news.mongabay.com/2026/04/24-n... 🧪🦑🌎

Western researchers awarded $21.5M in CFI funding - Western News Western-led projects are receiving $21.5 million from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI funding) for brain imaging, corrosion and other research.

Researchers at #WesternU are receiving more than $21.5M from @innovation.ca for projects tackling challenges across the country, from preventing material degradation to advanced imaging that can better understand brain diseases, infections and cancers.

Endothelial insulin resistance induced by adrenomedullin mediates obesity-associated diabetes Insulin resistance is a hallmark of obesity-associated type 2 diabetes. Insulin’s actions go beyond metabolic cells and also involve blood vessels, where insulin increases capillary blood flow and del...

The hormone adrenomedullin disrupts insulin signaling in blood vessel cells, contributing to systemic insulin resistance in obesity-associated type 2 diabetes, according to a 2025 Science study in mice. https://scim.ag/3MkFr2r #ScienceMagArchives

1/5 L'océan couvre 71 % de notre planète, mais reste largement méconnu. Face à l'urgence climatique, Citizens of the Sea transforme les navigateurs en véritables sentinelles de la biodiversité. Une alliance entre science citoyenne et haute technologie. 🌊🔬

Tracking the #phenology ⏰ of #riverine #insect 🦟 🐜 communities using #eDNA 🧬🌐🌍.

Out now by Eva Cereghetti et al. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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Don't forget! the PISCeS #eDNA conference is coming up. Abstracts and registration are open.
#academicsky #environmentalDNA 🧪

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Heritability of intrinsic human life span is about 50% when confounding factors are addressed How heritable is human life span? If genetic heritability is high, longevity genes can reveal aging mechanisms and inform medicine and public health. However, current estimates of heritability are low...

An analysis of twin cohort data suggests that human life span is far more heritable than previously believed. The findings in Science show that once deaths from external factors are accounted for, genetics may explain ~50% of how long we live.

Learn more: https://scim.ag/3ZEhLZR

U.K. physics community braces for deep funding cuts Research council to slash funding for particle physics, nuclear physics, and astronomy by 30%, prompting alarm across the research community

Physics and astronomy researchers in the United Kingdom have reacted with alarm to news that key government funding for particle physics, nuclear physics, and astronomy will be slashed by 30%. https://scim.ag/46cn06Q

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"Peer review has been the cornerstone of scientific inquiry for centuries and is considered the backbone of scientific quality and rigour."

A new article from @conphysjournal.bsky.social takes you through some key tips on how to write a constructive peer review: oxford.ly/3NEZjhj

RFK Jr. is the last person I would seek advice from on this. Ignoring him was a good call.

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"One email at a time, one informational interview after another, I became comfortable, confident, and strategic in building my network of mentors."

One mentor isn’t enough, wrote Erika Moore in this 2021 Working Life essay. https://scim.ag/49hp8fS #NationalMentoringDay

Astronomers capture breathtaking first look at a planet being born WISPIT 2b, a gas giant forming around a young Sun-like star, has been directly imaged for the first time inside a spectacular multi-ringed disk. Still glowing and actively accreting gas, the planet of...

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Found this on my windshield a couple of weeks ago when I was at Chapters on Bayer's Lake. The anti-vaxx crowd rehashing a debunked talking point about aluminum preservatives. Because sepsis is a better alternative, apparently.

#ACCESS2025 Has wrapped up. Had some fun conversations about high-sensitivity eDNA markers for Atlantic Salmon. ^_^

Inhibition is one of the main confounding factors in eDNA work due to increased risk of false negatives (Type II Error). I found diluting samples does not work well as it over-dilutes the samples. We've been using Recombinant Albumim (RA) as of late. #eDNA

I can now add "extracted DNA from dog food" to my CV. #eDNA

I think Synergel for library check gels is my new addiction.

#NGS

Hello there,

I'm with the Marine Gen Probe Lab at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, Canada and we do a lot of #eDNA detection work in freshwater lakes around the province, especially within the Petite Rivière. My job is processing samples and optimizing methods.

Cheers, everyone. 🐟🧬

Let's all agree right now that Melon Husk should never, ever, ever be allowed to buy this platform.

When you have three multiplex PCRs to do, each one takes three hours, and your third machine decides to stop working so you spend 3 hours longer than planned on your work.

My day yesterday.

Note: we have a Main Lab space with our gDNA samples and a Clean Lab space with no gDNA (minus qPCR positives kept under quarantine). The Main Lab is where the contamination risk is.

For a previous experiment we put out several of these devices around our laboratory space to determine if we could gather detectable levels of fish DNA from the air (i.e. is aerial contamination of eDNA samples a risk).

The answer was yes for at least Atlantic Salmon and Atlantic Whitefish.

Do you like coastal science and cozy little towns in New Brunswick but never seem to enjoy them together? Well, do we have a solution for you!

The upcoming ACCESS-BoFEP joint conference in St. Andrews!

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NOTE: la conférence sera en anglais seulement.

Vous-voulez attendre une petite conférence á propos les sciences des estuaires et côtières dans Canada atlantique ? Aussi, est-ce que vous aimez les petites villes du Nouveau-Brunswick ?

La conférence jointe entre ACCESS et BoFEP est un solution parfait !

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We didn't hear about this in time to join in (MGPL at Dalhousie) but we'll keep an eye out for future opportunities.

Lab Instructor, Biology (5 Month Term) - Cape Breton University The Department of Biology in the School of Science & Technology at CBU invites applications for a Full-Time Limited Term…

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5-month Full Time position as a Lab Instructor at Cape Breton Universty available now.

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I knew about passive water filters (e.g. Wilder Lab kits, see here: www.wilderlab.co.nz) but hadn't heaed of anything passive for air. So this is promising.

Canadian politics in one shot.

Okay. Now that THAT'S out of my system, I recently discovered you can still manage to overload a MiSeq v2 flow cell when you load at 6pM (low diversity library). And that's even with a 20% PhiX spike-in.

Time to check the qPCR standards!