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Making plans to attend the Canadian Society for Chemistry meeting in Ottawa? Consider staying after the meeting to attend the 16th Canadian Chemical Crystallography Workshop!

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Do trees have internet? Well, they have a means of rapid communication that allows information exchange between plants, exchange of nutrients and more! Check out this cool phenomenon in our latest #YouTube short! #scicomm #sciants #stem #science youtu.be/aXQ1IwS6Xd0

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Role-playing exogenous secondary growth in today’s #BI111 class!

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NOAA Cuts Leave Wind Chimes As Sole Predictor Of Approaching Hurricanes

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In my continued series of what the animal world can teach us about resistance and fighting fascism, we focus on #fossilfriday

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Excited to share our recent paper, which is one of the first phylogenomic analyses of copepods 🧪 TLDR: the order Harpacticoida should be split, with 2 families forming their own new order—Canuelloida doi.org/10.1016/j.ym...

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Annual biology-button-making marathon session to prepare for tomorrow’s #BI111 active learning exercise on secondary growth in plants! #SciArt

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Resting hawk face #birds

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Absolute unit (Common raven) #birds 🌿

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Why do Ford’s PC candidates expect to get the job, when they won’t show up for the interview? It’s a shame that our democracy is such a pain in the ass for Doug. #onpoli

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RNA xkcd.com/3056

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I want to see more scientists engaging with their communities offline. One way we can do that is with street art. Street art is a technique best learned from other people out in the world, but zoom is the next best thing. Join me Monday evening for A beginner’s guide to street art lu.ma/53ks8h33

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Many species experience years of very high reproductive output and we have lots of theories about why -- but does the phenomenon also happen across communities of different species? Find out February 26 @ 9 am PT (noon ET) LTER recent synthesis results lternet.edu/events/lter-...

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Exciting new paper by Jens Ulrich & Risa Sargent: "Urban landscapes with more natural greenspace support higher pollinator diversity." esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Very happy to team up with Dr. Lawrence Goodridge on this Perspective piece advocating for Indigenous privacy rights and genomic data governance in wastewater-based surveillance. Absolute pleasure to work with Dr. Julio Licinio, EIC of Genome Psychiatry.

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We need to roast google with their own results until they get rid of ai generated answers. Forget telling me to use a different search engine (I already do) or to use -ai for every fricking search, google made a problem & they need to solve it. See this thread for more examples of how it sucks

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Beyond thrilled - I’ve been awarded an NSF CAREER grant! I get to continue making scientific discoveries, training the next generation of researchers, & sharing knowledge about the scientific enterprise with the general public. This support is much needed, personally & professionally…let’s GOOO!!!

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High-resolution, high-throughput analysis of Drosophila geotactic behavior #Drosophila

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A “bright” spot in this week - a confocal image of the adult fat body in #Drosophila taken by @isaiahwill.bsky.social 🤩 #FluorescenceFriday

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Hello Buffalo friends! It’s rally for science time! March 7, 2-6PM, Niagara Square! Sign up below and please spread the word! www.eventbrite.com/e/stand-up-f...

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Awkward Date

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This was supposed to be a post about my lab's first funding of the year, a diversity supplement to fund our amazing research technician. The award never arrived. Now it's a post about the value of diversity and trying to persevere in these dark times. devinenilab.org/news/diversi...

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Outreach funding opportunity, sponsored by the Fly Board: Non-profit programs anywhere in the world that introduce middle school, high school, or college students to Drosophila research are eligible to apply! The number of students that this funding would impact and financial need will be considered

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zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/action/oidcS... Paper born out of frustration trying to identify sex of Andean species by their plumage in fieldwork has finally been published, showing it isn’t the birds that aren’t dichromatic, but my eyesight that is poor

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Wilfrid Laurier University: Tenure Track faculty position at the Assistant Professor level in Physical Chemistry https://chempostingscanada.blogspot.com/2025/02/wilfrid-laurier-university-tenure-track.html

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Come work with me!

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PLOS has issued a statement on recent US Executive Orders and scientific integrity. We are determined to stand firmly behind our mission, our values and our principles, and against any attempt at censorship or undermining of the core principles of scientific inquiry. plos.io/3D4O8cH

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Recently completed your #PhD using #Drosophila in a European lab? Apply for the European Drosophila Society best thesis prize! 🏆🪰 Deadline: 28 Feb 2025. Prize = €1000 & keynote presentation at the EDRC in Alicante @edrc2025.bsky.social! Info here: europeandrosophilasociety.org/eds-best-phd...

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February beach vacation to Canada's most southern landpoint! Point Pelee National Park is a different kind of stunning this time of the year!

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A Brief History of Kids Today Have Too Much Freedom 🧵

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A hormone-to-neuropeptide pathway inhibits sexual receptivity in immature Drosophila females #Drosophila

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(To the tune of "Eleanor Rigby") 🎵 Barbara McClintock Spends all her days counting genes in kernels of corncobs (It's all transposons) ... All these purple kernels Where do they all come from? 🎵

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Your Friday #ornithology read: White-throated Sparrows will overturn all of your assumptions about the differences between bird sexes.

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Not sure how long these signs would last in an actual biology department.

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Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

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Come work with me! #sparrows #microbiomes #reproduction

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Our bryophyte curator (Wayne Lampa, MOR) went through his collections a few years ago and painstakingly rehydrated and photographed every one of them, redried them, refiled them. You can see them all on the portal: bryophyteportal.org/portal/collections/list.php?collector=lampa&comingFrom=newsearch

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Experimental evolution of evolvability | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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“I'm not the President. I don't pay lip service to the Constitution or my love of country. I live it. It's in the very core of my soul. For these reasons, I resign my position as the Director of the NIH Executive Secretariat effective at midnight, February 28, 2025. Semper Fidelis”

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Pictures have been teaching doctors medicine for centuries − a medical illustrator explains how #GraphicMedicine (related) theconversation.com/pictures-hav...

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The constant onslaught against science and human dignity in recent weeks has been very difficult. I'm proud to be part of the data-backed resistance. wapo.st/4i20QaY

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Early voting done! 🤞

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If there a google docs somewhere outlining which NIH/NSF panels have been cancelled/postponed verses which have met? I feel like this would be good information for any applicants.

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