Writing my hardest thesis chapter and feeling so beyond defeated by this process - any fellow #PhD candidates have any tips to tackle the slump? Or tips to harness the powers of #ADHD for good? 🥺👉👈

A poster on 8.5 x 11 inch paper saga Fishtown fish facts: red lipped catfish or of ocephalus Darwini. Then a pic of that freaky fish with 4 limbs it rests on the ground and then the words “stg this fish real red-lipped batfish walk ocean floor with they flippers RLBF have RBF, not they fault RLBF have a bioluminescent lure that glows to attract dinner RLBF lipgloss is popping, RLBF lipgloss is cool, all the fish keep jockin, they chase RLBF after school RLBF got scales like armor and shine bright like a diamond Red-lipped batfish will teach you how to dougie, I can promise u that. @yaboyni Take a moment And and realize the moment You took has already passed Thank you See you next time

One of my neighbors has been putting up these fish facts posters. All kinds of different fish, marine, freshwater, deep, shallow, all kinds. This is a good one. “Stg this real fish” took me out. Good work, neighbor.

I’ve met so many amazing people on here (and the *other place*) who challenge the colonial project of gender, some in big ways, some just through your actions. I just want to say that I really appreciate you.

You are changing this world for the better.

I didn’t get the chance to take a photo with my poster at this last SRB meeting, so I improvised…
@reproductionsrb.bsky.social

Amazing work from @drdunnart.bsky.social documenting some changes in skull morphology seen in captive populations of fat-tailed dunnarts 💀

Katie Moon uses her experience with ancient DNA to identify species of native plants in sediment cores at Bolin Bolin. The findings will be used to support revegetation efforts lead by Wurundjuri research teams, elders and land managers 🧬🌳

Ella Farley with some of my favourite slides of the day so far to tell us about the role of Sonic Hedgehog signalling during formation of teeth (oral ectoderm)

For her PhD project, @georgia-bennett.bsky.social looks at whether SIRT1 overexpression can protect oocytes against the oxidative stresses associated with aging 🐭 🧬

Dorthea Hansen takes dunnart stem cells from pouch to Petri dish 🧫 - her PhD is looking at improving reprogramming methods for induced pluripotent stem cells in dunnarts

Dr. Valeria Ramirez Castañada kicking us off remotely by sharing about the importance of advocating for language diversity in science, to avoid homogeneity in culture and to broaden the ways we can make and share observations. 🌍

Super excited to hear about all the work being done by my friends and colleagues today at our School of Biosciences Showcase! Challenging myself to share a bit more today 💪🤓

Fancy a postdoc?

We currently have an Expression of Interest open for a Social Media Editor at Marine and Freshwater Research.

🧪🐟📖

www.publish.csiro.au/mf/Expressio...

Suggestion; instead of posting : “Well people should just—“

Go do it.

Don’t tell others to do it.

Get off your ass and take action. Organize. Build infrastructure to make it happen. Find other efforts you can join already doing that work.

A photograph of a velvet worm - an orange and purple-patterned invertebrate composed of many soft segments and tiny spined legs. The velvet worm has long, segmented antenna and a pair of organs on its head which squirt glue for prey capture.

A photograph of a velvet worm - an Blue and yellow-patterned invertebrate composed of many soft segments and tiny spined legs. The velvet worm has long, segmented antenna and a pair of organs on its head which squirt glue for prey capture.

Introducing New Zealand's latest Bug of the Year- the magnificent Ngāokeoke / Velvet Worm!

NZ has two genera: one lays eggs (Ooperipatellus, 1st photo) and another gives live birth (Peripatoides, 2nd). They also deposit sperm which burrow through their partner's skin, but that's another story! 🧪

definitely top middle today 🥲

Job alert! Lectuter in Evolutionary Biology out now

Job alert!

We seek to appoint a new Lecturer in Evolutionary Biology in the School of Biological Sciences, find out more at the link below!

www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

I’ve been feeling so defeated by some of my #ADHD quirks as I get to the pointy end of my #PhD. Is there anyone else out there who was diagnosed during their candidature? I feel like I never stopped playing catch up with the time I “lost” 🥺

Grid of images of phases of mitosis in different shades of blue

Really pleased with this mitosis watercolor. Analog #sciart ftw

Eat The Rich!
#digitalart #animalart #sciart

Reiterating my call to fellow federally-funded scientists: Call your reps, tell them how this hurts science and everything good that comes from science

(Also non-scientists, and scientists without federal funding! But the more of us who can directly speak to the impacts of these freezes the better)

Deextinction (not that I have a biased interest 🤭), the histories of in vitro fertilisation, importance of honouring and incorporating indigenous knowledge systems in western/institutional sciences. 🤓🫶

Big week for me legally releasing some of the hate in my heart ☺️ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

So this is complete bullshit. It was just a zookeeper with a microphone.